Dude, in case you hadn't have noticed, more than 1/2 of the current national debt was from our President Bush and our Republican Party. That any Republican or so-called conservative can complain about a Democratic deficit with a straight face is beyond me, when our party has not produced a single balanced budget in 40 years and ushered in the mega-deficits under Reagan.
Republicans fail when it comes to budget cutting. Here's a hint. If you want to jack up federal spending to support two wars and doubling the defense budget, then taxes have to go up to pay for it. Choke on that with our 500B annual interest payment current administrations have to pay now.
If an asteroid were about to hit the earth, the USA would probably, in consultation with its NATO allies, and Russia, launch everything it had it. Anything else would really be just a matter of luck. The third world might get pissed off at not being included, but really, for something like this, the technological nations would just have to take a best shot at it.
Of course, she ended up telling the divorce court complete lies "he was abusive and hit me, I have to divorce him" and the court sucked it up and she ended up taking the house and the car, while I was admonished by the judge because "men like you are a bane to our society
It's wrong of course, to say, that, in a western culture. But, from strictly a game theory perspective, she has power over you because she makes more dough, and is going to claim you hit her, so you may as well hit her.
Then, if you really wanted to bury yourself, you could express your superiority for only beating her by pointing out in Islamic countries, the woman would not have even been allowed to be a doctor, and then would have been stoned to death for screwing. In African nations, she would have had her genitals mutilated and then been beaten to keep her from screwing, and then in China they have that 1 child policy and probably would have killed her, because she wouldn't be allowed to be a doctor because she might wind up screwing, so really, just slapping her around a little bit is no big deal, given what the rest of the world does, and the judge needs to be more tolerant of other cultures.
And if you really, really wanted to bury yourself, you could say that the whole white male christian culture of being nice to women is actually a minority viewpoint on the planet, and that, since white male christians were pretty much the planetary bad guys for the last 400 years or so, you could really say that wars are caused by men who don't beat their wives, and that really, you were just beating your wife for world peace, the same way John Lennon beat his women.
And, mindful of John Lennon beating Cynthia as he's writing All You Need is Love, you could really go all out and start singing your favorite Beatles song, and punch your ex-wife in the face in court, singing "Give Peace a Chance"...
The odds for life on Titan are bleak because it is so damned cold. How cold is Titan? Well, when your methane is liquid, as in, liquified natural gas, that's pretty damned cold. The other problem, I think, is a lack of oxygen. I think the basic blocks for life would be nitrogren, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and I think a splash of sulfur, plus some form of energy. When you really think about it, life is basically a set of chemical reactions that go against the grain of entropy and produce a set of molecules that arrange things in a higher energy state. Like, the outcome of most dead things is to easily burn.
Mercury is big metal blob and way too hot. Venus has too much carbon. Earth is nice. Mars is missing nitrogen. Jupiter / Saturn / Uranus / Neptune big hydrogen blobs. Pluto, other deep objects, are near absolute zero.
Maybe Jupiter's moon Europa might luck out.
But honestly, I would bet that if you included some terms in Drake's equation to allow for the probability of having all the elements in the right mix at the right distance from a star, then, it may well turn out that we are certainly alone in at least a 100 light year radius.
I mean, pizza is pretty good. I'm waiting for an assault rifle benefit. Like, if we make our sprint goals, everyone on the project team gets an assault rifle.
The Germans had great confidence in ENIGMA as well. But, the Allies could read it and it made us look stupid. Granted, cracking some of the current Allied codes would require a fundamental breakthrough in computing - like a proof that P=NP and the utility to solve these problems, but...
A lot of benchmarks out there actually used the gcc compiler, so Intel's shenaningans in this regard are somewhat irrelevant.
The most damning anti-AMD benchmarks are the scientific benchmarks based on some variants of STREAM. There, they just get killed by the Nehalems ability to issue more instructions per tick and also the ability to use faster memory. Professional "deciders" know this, and flocked to Nehalem. It's just the hot part right now.
The registration process that was patented involves transferring over new features to the registered user. Most shareware programs simply ship the whole shebang and the registration is just entered in as data. Conditional checks in the application then handle the data.
Ohhhhh now. As anyone who ever worked in production can tell you, a consumer product is done when beancounters or marketing say it's done.
the difference is between projects that cost $100,000 versus those that cost $1,000,000. All that $900,000 of stuff actually tends to give you the deeper q/a bench and everything else.
To wit, you would expect a multimillion dollar game like Madden Football to actually work, but not necessarily a cheaper knock off football. Sure, both may be superficially similar, but there's just more workmanship on the product because you'll tend to have better developers, more developers, and more time.
What we're looking at here is offshoring a lot of highly specialized work to essentially shops in the third world that have not the same level of expertise, and we get crap at a cheaper price. We compete in the west not by improving the quality, but, by making things cheaper themselves. So, we have less testing, less documentation, just code and ship and little for iterative development. Plus, we have more corporate style methodologies that reward the schedule more than the product. Pretty much, if you build stuff stupid, you get stupid stuff.
Maybe there will be a shakeout where we realize that consumer IT is much more demanding than corporate IT is, and that methodologies that work fine for corporate clients, like Agile / SCRUM, or Waterfall, don't really apply so much to consumer products. A consumer product is done when it is done.
What exactly is the downside to forcing a company to give refunds for the broken merchandise that it sells?
Well, the industry would say piracy. I might buy Call of Duty, then, said it was "broken", and returned it. Granted, this should be the norm, but the industry would see things differently. This is why the shareware model is nice. You can see if the game actually works before you pay for it.
Well, that's great. We'll get the CO2 balanced and spend the trillions to do that, deal with overpopulation, and then the Earth will open up a Siberian traps style lava flow and kill 90% of all life on the planet.
If they would have just threatened to waterboard the guy, and let him walk after he gave up the passwords, there would have been no harm, no foul, and no need to waste the taxpayers money putting a frazzled worker in jail.
We're all getting frazzled these days, and maybe we need to realize that, take a deep breath, and stop tossing everyone in jail and tearing people down left and right in all arenas, and try and claw our way back to being a civilized people.
Right now, I think we are all acting like animals.
AJAX is just client server fancied up a little bit. There's no real difference architecturally between a 1985 FoxPro application and a 2008 AJAX application, except that the AJAX application will be slower but scale to a million users and have prettier fonts and worse reporting.
Electrification of the USA was not mainstream in some areas until the 1950s. My late grandmother in law told me that she didn't get electricity until well after the war. Frankly, for her, it wasn't even really that big of a deal to have it.
Bottom line is, a lot of people didn't get electricity not because it wasn't provided, but because they just simply didn't want to have it. It's like, if they were content with life without it, why have it?
It's the same deal with broadband. Everyone keeps saying that broadband should be everywhere, but, really, does everyone want it? There's enough of a sense that when choosing a place to live, the availability of broadband is a consideration. If people are choosing to do without it, well, maybe they just don't need it as much as the corps we work for would make them think they need it.
For the most part, for many people, broadband is just entertainment.
If you can't get into the excitement of a concert, with a bunch of other people excited to see the same act you are, and be a part of that crowd.. then you've got some issues relating to other humans.
You know, its funny, but, I -get- that part of it. But I get much more of that by going to a Phillies baseball game or an Eagle's football game. I'm actually somewhat socially thwarted by being caught up in the whole roar of things was enormously fascinating to me. It's just amazing. At some point, I might actually even make a video game where you are sitting at Nuremberg during a Hitler rally, and I bet if I made it real enough, anyone playing it would be swept up in it and giving the old salute o' doom.
So I guess I could see that some people prefer seeing big live acts, but for me, I always preferred my live bands smaller and more local, and in smaller venues like bars and clubs. Like, for those in the new, Mr. Stress in his prime at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland was pretty much the tops for me.
I think it's been maybe 10 years since I've actually gone to see live music and I'm just drawing a blank as to why anyone else actually does go see live music. The whole idea of having to travel somewhere to get audio content, well, that's been lame since radio was invented and it gets lamer every year.
I'm sure that some people make a big deal out of going to see some band play live, but I don't see the point of that either. For me, going to concerts, going to movies, is just a waste of money.
I think its been maybe 10 years since I've actually gone to a movie and I'm just drawing a blank as to why anyone else actually does go to movies. The whole idea of having to travel somewhere to get video content, well, that's been lame since TV was invented and it gets lamer every year.
Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have. One big reason for this is that almost all IP addresses that Google uses (and there are a lot of them) are listed to their Mountain View, California address, so just looking at IP addresses (with IP WHOIS or IP-to-location databases) won’t help you figure out where their data centers are or how many they have.
In addition to this, Google usually seeks permits for their data center projects using companies (LLCs) that don’t mention Google at all, for example Lapis LLC in North Carolina and Tetra LLC in Iowa.
Since Google tends to be quite secretive about their data centers in general, the information we have presented here most likely isn’t 100% complete"
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I, for one, am also very hungary for chicken paprikash and Hungarian sausages and stuffed cabbages...
Dude, in case you hadn't have noticed, more than 1/2 of the current national debt was from our President Bush and our Republican Party. That any Republican or so-called conservative can complain about a Democratic deficit with a straight face is beyond me, when our party has not produced a single balanced budget in 40 years and ushered in the mega-deficits under Reagan.
Republicans fail when it comes to budget cutting. Here's a hint. If you want to jack up federal spending to support two wars and doubling the defense budget, then taxes have to go up to pay for it. Choke on that with our 500B annual interest payment current administrations have to pay now.
If an asteroid were about to hit the earth, the USA would probably, in consultation with its NATO allies, and Russia, launch everything it had it. Anything else would really be just a matter of luck. The third world might get pissed off at not being included, but really, for something like this, the technological nations would just have to take a best shot at it.
Of course, she ended up telling the divorce court complete lies "he was abusive and hit me, I have to divorce him" and the court sucked it up and she ended up taking the house and the car, while I was admonished by the judge because "men like you are a bane to our society
It's wrong of course, to say, that, in a western culture. But, from strictly a game theory perspective, she has power over you because she makes more dough, and is going to claim you hit her, so you may as well hit her.
Then, if you really wanted to bury yourself, you could express your superiority for only beating her by pointing out in Islamic countries, the woman would not have even been allowed to be a doctor, and then would have been stoned to death for screwing. In African nations, she would have had her genitals mutilated and then been beaten to keep her from screwing, and then in China they have that 1 child policy and probably would have killed her, because she wouldn't be allowed to be a doctor because she might wind up screwing, so really, just slapping her around a little bit is no big deal, given what the rest of the world does, and the judge needs to be more tolerant of other cultures.
And if you really, really wanted to bury yourself, you could say that the whole white male christian culture of being nice to women is actually a minority viewpoint on the planet, and that, since white male christians were pretty much the planetary bad guys for the last 400 years or so, you could really say that wars are caused by men who don't beat their wives, and that really, you were just beating your wife for world peace, the same way John Lennon beat his women.
And, mindful of John Lennon beating Cynthia as he's writing All You Need is Love, you could really go all out and start singing your favorite Beatles song, and punch your ex-wife in the face in court, singing "Give Peace a Chance"...
You probably still would have lost the house.
The odds for life on Titan are bleak because it is so damned cold. How cold is Titan? Well, when your methane is liquid, as in, liquified natural gas, that's pretty damned cold. The other problem, I think, is a lack of oxygen. I think the basic blocks for life would be nitrogren, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and I think a splash of sulfur, plus some form of energy. When you really think about it, life is basically a set of chemical reactions that go against the grain of entropy and produce a set of molecules that arrange things in a higher energy state. Like, the outcome of most dead things is to easily burn.
Mercury is big metal blob and way too hot.
Venus has too much carbon.
Earth is nice.
Mars is missing nitrogen.
Jupiter / Saturn / Uranus / Neptune big hydrogen blobs.
Pluto, other deep objects, are near absolute zero.
Maybe Jupiter's moon Europa might luck out.
But honestly, I would bet that if you included some terms in Drake's equation to allow for the probability of having all the elements in the right mix at the right distance from a star, then, it may well turn out that we are certainly alone in at least a 100 light year radius.
I mean, pizza is pretty good. I'm waiting for an assault rifle benefit. Like, if we make our sprint goals, everyone on the project team gets an assault rifle.
"Hey, here's this technology... we won't try and ruin your life if you use it."
So, uh, what's the good part?
The Germans had great confidence in ENIGMA as well. But, the Allies could read it and it made us look stupid. Granted, cracking some of the current Allied codes would require a fundamental breakthrough in computing - like a proof that P=NP and the utility to solve these problems, but...
What if the Chinese had it?
We would be screwed.
A lot of benchmarks out there actually used the gcc compiler, so Intel's shenaningans in this regard are somewhat irrelevant.
The most damning anti-AMD benchmarks are the scientific benchmarks based on some variants of STREAM. There, they just get killed by the Nehalems ability to issue more instructions per tick and also the ability to use faster memory. Professional "deciders" know this, and flocked to Nehalem. It's just the hot part right now.
You mean an engine using 60 year old technology?
There's no replacement for displacement!
then someone asked me to imagine a Honda with a GM V8....
The registration process that was patented involves transferring over new features to the registered user. Most shareware programs simply ship the whole shebang and the registration is just entered in as data. Conditional checks in the application then handle the data.
This patent isn't even relevant.
Ohhhhh now. As anyone who ever worked in production can tell you, a consumer product is done when beancounters or marketing say it's done.
the difference is between projects that cost $100,000 versus those that cost $1,000,000. All that $900,000 of stuff actually tends to give you the deeper q/a bench and everything else.
To wit, you would expect a multimillion dollar game like Madden Football to actually work, but not necessarily a cheaper knock off football. Sure, both may be superficially similar, but there's just more workmanship on the product because you'll tend to have better developers, more developers, and more time.
What we're looking at here is offshoring a lot of highly specialized work to essentially shops in the third world that have not the same level of expertise, and we get crap at a cheaper price. We compete in the west not by improving the quality, but, by making things cheaper themselves. So, we have less testing, less documentation, just code and ship and little for iterative development. Plus, we have more corporate style methodologies that reward the schedule more than the product. Pretty much, if you build stuff stupid, you get stupid stuff.
Maybe there will be a shakeout where we realize that consumer IT is much more demanding than corporate IT is, and that methodologies that work fine for corporate clients, like Agile / SCRUM, or Waterfall, don't really apply so much to consumer products. A consumer product is done when it is done.
What exactly is the downside to forcing a company to give refunds for the broken merchandise that it sells?
Well, the industry would say piracy. I might buy Call of Duty, then, said it was "broken", and returned it. Granted, this should be the norm, but the industry would see things differently. This is why the shareware model is nice. You can see if the game actually works before you pay for it.
Well, that's great. We'll get the CO2 balanced and spend the trillions to do that, deal with overpopulation, and then the Earth will open up a Siberian traps style lava flow and kill 90% of all life on the planet.
If they would have just threatened to waterboard the guy, and let him walk after he gave up the passwords, there would have been no harm, no foul, and no need to waste the taxpayers money putting a frazzled worker in jail.
We're all getting frazzled these days, and maybe we need to realize that, take a deep breath, and stop tossing everyone in jail and tearing people down left and right in all arenas, and try and claw our way back to being a civilized people.
Right now, I think we are all acting like animals.
AJAX is just client server fancied up a little bit. There's no real difference architecturally between a 1985 FoxPro application and a 2008 AJAX application, except that the AJAX application will be slower but scale to a million users and have prettier fonts and worse reporting.
There's been much cooler and more concise hand drawn clocks out there. This one takes a clever idea too far. Now it is annoying. I hate this clock.
Electrification of the USA was not mainstream in some areas until the 1950s. My late grandmother in law told me that she didn't get electricity until well after the war. Frankly, for her, it wasn't even really that big of a deal to have it.
Bottom line is, a lot of people didn't get electricity not because it wasn't provided, but because they just simply didn't want to have it. It's like, if they were content with life without it, why have it?
It's the same deal with broadband. Everyone keeps saying that broadband should be everywhere, but, really, does everyone want it? There's enough of a sense that when choosing a place to live, the availability of broadband is a consideration. If people are choosing to do without it, well, maybe they just don't need it as much as the corps we work for would make them think they need it.
For the most part, for many people, broadband is just entertainment.
If you can't get into the excitement of a concert, with a bunch of other people excited to see the same act you are, and be a part of that crowd .. then you've got some issues relating to other humans.
You know, its funny, but, I -get- that part of it. But I get much more of that by going to a Phillies baseball game or an Eagle's football game. I'm actually somewhat socially thwarted by being caught up in the whole roar of things was enormously fascinating to me. It's just amazing. At some point, I might actually even make a video game where you are sitting at Nuremberg during a Hitler rally, and I bet if I made it real enough, anyone playing it would be swept up in it and giving the old salute o' doom.
So I guess I could see that some people prefer seeing big live acts, but for me, I always preferred my live bands smaller and more local, and in smaller venues like bars and clubs. Like, for those in the new, Mr. Stress in his prime at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland was pretty much the tops for me.
I think it's been maybe 10 years since I've actually gone to see live music and I'm just drawing a blank as to why anyone else actually does go see live music. The whole idea of having to travel somewhere to get audio content, well, that's been lame since radio was invented and it gets lamer every year.
I'm sure that some people make a big deal out of going to see some band play live, but I don't see the point of that either. For me, going to concerts, going to movies, is just a waste of money.
Sorry. You fail at dating.
Dude, this is Slashdot : "Would you like to play dungeons and dragons with me..."
I think its been maybe 10 years since I've actually gone to a movie and I'm just drawing a blank as to why anyone else actually does go to movies. The whole idea of having to travel somewhere to get video content, well, that's been lame since TV was invented and it gets lamer every year.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/
"Google secrecy
Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have. One big reason for this is that almost all IP addresses that Google uses (and there are a lot of them) are listed to their Mountain View, California address, so just looking at IP addresses (with IP WHOIS or IP-to-location databases) won’t help you figure out where their data centers are or how many they have.
In addition to this, Google usually seeks permits for their data center projects using companies (LLCs) that don’t mention Google at all, for example Lapis LLC in North Carolina and Tetra LLC in Iowa.
Since Google tends to be quite secretive about their data centers in general, the information we have presented here most likely isn’t 100% complete"