The US has had a long history of being overly conservative on automotive equipment. A classic example is the amount of time that passed before aerodynamically shaped headlights were allowed on cars in place of flat faced sealed beams. Ever wonder why the headlights on a car such as this Mustang SVO or this Mercedes S-Class don't blend into the rest of the front end? Silly laws are why.
The fact that these aerodynamic lights performed their function correctly was irrelevant... they were different in form, and therefore banned in the US for many years after their first appearance.
Another good example can be found with catalytic converters. It's illegal for a muffler shop to remove it from your car, but it's perfectly fine to drive around with a totally inactive and rusted out one, or to buy a cheap made-in-Taiwan replacement that most likely does very little exhaust scrubbing compared to the (often pricey due to the exotic metal content) factory spec model. Catalytic converters are supposed to be about pollution control, but the actual laws regarding them have nothing to do with their functionality, and only with their apparent presence or lack thereof on a vehicle.
The pic of three letters given to this story reads "wts" and not "wtf". The last character is the archaic form of "s" when it is the last letter in a word.
Interesting you chose the number 4, since their are almost exactly 4 times as many people living in India compared to America.
There are way more people both searching for sex on the internet and having sex IRL in India than in America, based on nothing more than population numbers.
Doesn't that just prove his point? He's complaining that everything that isn't money-related is considered totally irrelevant, and you're replying that it's okay because it's from a site focused only on money-related matters to the exclusion of all else.
The award is called "person of the decade", not "profit-maker of the decade". All the things Synn mentioned are vital components of being a person.
The largest body of evidence for this is found in the striping of the ocean's floor. In the areas where rock material moves up from the mantle and solidifies, the molten rock aligns with the current magnetic field before it cools, and this alignment cannot be changed once the rock becomes solid. The entire ocean floor is banded with a north/south/north/south alignment pattern, implying the reversal is very consistent from a cosmological timescale perspective.
This reversal of the field occurs approximately every 800000 years, with a period of 1000-2000 years around the switch where the magnetic field is disorganized and significantly weaker than normal. This period has very big implications for lifeforms on Earth... obviously not enough to totally end life, but enough to kill lots of animals from various causes (extra solar radiation, messed up internal compass, disrupted migration patterns,etc.).
Heh. You're fighting a losing battle. 99% of the human population is unable to handle numbers with more than one significant digit.
This is just plain retarded. Phone numbers? Addresses? Weekly/monthly incomes? Prices in the store? Even mindless TV watching most likely involves at least 2 significant digits worth of channels to choose from.
(Actually, I just made up that 10^-5 number. I wonder what the real order-of-magnitude estimate is. Yeah, google knows, but it knows several estimates that differ by several OoMs.;-)
Pulling numbers out of your ass is even less accurate than dropping significant digits.
It's more fun to reply to interesting trolls... that wasn't really one of them.:)
I assume they didn't make a search link in the article to underline the fact this search spamming is pervasive beyond the confines of one (carefully chosen?) link.
The funny thing is, however, that NAT isn't entirely obsoleted by ipv6... because it is almost inevitable that ipv6 space will be almost as poorly managed as ipv4 space was in the beginning, we will probably still run out of ipv6 space sooner than we otherwise would. Of course, due to the sheer size of ipv6 space, I suspect that's not likely to happen in most of our lifetimes.
In most of our lifetimes? Per Wikipedia:
The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses—or approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10^9) people alive in 2006. In a different perspective, this is 2^52 (about 4.5×10^15) addresses for every observable star in the known universe.
It will take way more than poor management to use up all those numbers in any timescale with meaning to a human life.
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Why? Pick the computer you want based on its looks and hardware, and just visit The Pirate Bay for an install disc.
I don't see the appeal in the concept of work as the definition of life. That's what machines are for.
hot radioactive molten fluorides - in the region between 900-1700 C
That actually sound much scarier than some radioactivity from bits of metal. Plain 'ol fluorine gas at STP is already very nasty.
I wish you luck.
I should qualify the catalytic converter rant as being applicable in states without systematic vehicle exhaust inspections.
The US has had a long history of being overly conservative on automotive equipment. A classic example is the amount of time that passed before aerodynamically shaped headlights were allowed on cars in place of flat faced sealed beams. Ever wonder why the headlights on a car such as this Mustang SVO or this Mercedes S-Class don't blend into the rest of the front end? Silly laws are why.
The fact that these aerodynamic lights performed their function correctly was irrelevant... they were different in form, and therefore banned in the US for many years after their first appearance.
Another good example can be found with catalytic converters. It's illegal for a muffler shop to remove it from your car, but it's perfectly fine to drive around with a totally inactive and rusted out one, or to buy a cheap made-in-Taiwan replacement that most likely does very little exhaust scrubbing compared to the (often pricey due to the exotic metal content) factory spec model. Catalytic converters are supposed to be about pollution control, but the actual laws regarding them have nothing to do with their functionality, and only with their apparent presence or lack thereof on a vehicle.
instead they just do like any other company working in any country would do - play by the rules.
After all, very successful companies like Microsoft, Intel, and WalMart always play by the rules.
They are just trying to protect their jobs. Why pay ridiculous sums of money to go to college if you can just learn from Wikipedia?
Wikipedia isn't always accurate, but neither are college professors.
You know you're a nerd when your IQ is a larger number than your bench press. :)
but simply by spending more money than your opponent?
It's worked out well for the NY Yankees, and they seem pretty popular. ;)
The pic of three letters given to this story reads "wts" and not "wtf". The last character is the archaic form of "s" when it is the last letter in a word.
I'm sure you keep your abacus skills up to par then, right?
Interesting you chose the number 4, since their are almost exactly 4 times as many people living in India compared to America.
There are way more people both searching for sex on the internet and having sex IRL in India than in America, based on nothing more than population numbers.
Seeing as it's a closed source plugin that you can't fix yourself... what else can you do but complain about it?
It's also hard to argue that Flash on every platform other than 32-bit Windows is anything but badly coded software.
Doesn't that just prove his point? He's complaining that everything that isn't money-related is considered totally irrelevant, and you're replying that it's okay because it's from a site focused only on money-related matters to the exclusion of all else.
The award is called "person of the decade", not "profit-maker of the decade". All the things Synn mentioned are vital components of being a person.
You got whooshed... here's the joke:
http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
I played with Chrome OS and think it sucks as well. you can't do anything without an internet connection.
Google can't send you ads if you aren't online.
That was already mentioned in the first AC's post.
I should mention that compiz should be turned off to prevent graphical glitches when running this, as is common with many 3D apps.
Thanks for the link! I found these instructions to build fsv... worked for me on Ubuntu 9.04.
http://sectio-aurea.blogspot.com/2008/12/3d-file-system-viewer-building-fsv-on.html
Very cool! XD
The largest body of evidence for this is found in the striping of the ocean's floor. In the areas where rock material moves up from the mantle and solidifies, the molten rock aligns with the current magnetic field before it cools, and this alignment cannot be changed once the rock becomes solid. The entire ocean floor is banded with a north/south/north/south alignment pattern, implying the reversal is very consistent from a cosmological timescale perspective.
This reversal of the field occurs approximately every 800000 years, with a period of 1000-2000 years around the switch where the magnetic field is disorganized and significantly weaker than normal. This period has very big implications for lifeforms on Earth... obviously not enough to totally end life, but enough to kill lots of animals from various causes (extra solar radiation, messed up internal compass, disrupted migration patterns,etc.).
Heh. You're fighting a losing battle. 99% of the human population is unable to handle numbers with more than one significant digit.
This is just plain retarded. Phone numbers? Addresses? Weekly/monthly incomes? Prices in the store? Even mindless TV watching most likely involves at least 2 significant digits worth of channels to choose from.
(Actually, I just made up that 10^-5 number. I wonder what the real order-of-magnitude estimate is. Yeah, google knows, but it knows several estimates that differ by several OoMs. ;-)
Pulling numbers out of your ass is even less accurate than dropping significant digits.
Think of it as the linux version of the Mojave experiment.
People were told KDE4 was Windows 7
Back in 2004, I quit my job and went on a roadtrip on steroids.
... because you wanted to have the opportunity to road rage and 'roid rage simultaneously?
It's more fun to reply to interesting trolls... that wasn't really one of them. :)
I assume they didn't make a search link in the article to underline the fact this search spamming is pervasive beyond the confines of one (carefully chosen?) link.
The funny thing is, however, that NAT isn't entirely obsoleted by ipv6... because it is almost inevitable that ipv6 space will be almost as poorly managed as ipv4 space was in the beginning, we will probably still run out of ipv6 space sooner than we otherwise would. Of course, due to the sheer size of ipv6 space, I suspect that's not likely to happen in most of our lifetimes.
In most of our lifetimes? Per Wikipedia:
The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses—or approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10^9) people alive in 2006. In a different perspective, this is 2^52 (about 4.5×10^15) addresses for every observable star in the known universe.
It will take way more than poor management to use up all those numbers in any timescale with meaning to a human life.