It actually is 21st century internet humor. The "gorilla warfare" gave it away for me. You get a cookie for at least considering it could have been humor, unlike the other responders.
Just trying to help. I presume you posted "the message" with the intention to be taken serious, else you wouldn't act so offended by jez9999 not taking you serious. I'm merely pointing out that your mode of communication is to blame for you not being taken serious. You really make yourself sound like a demoscene teenager trying to bluff yourself into a position of authority. People on this site are hidden behind the relative anonymity of their nicknames, so appeals to own authority don't work here. Even if you're an authority on a subject, you still have to explain the rationale of your arguments in terms that the plebs on this site will understand, else you're setting yourself up for ridicule. Most people don't need this to be explained to them because they have the ability to put themselves in the skin of a reader who doesn't have the same knowledge/skills/priority than themselves. It's slightly worrisome for an alleged User Interface expert to show such blatant lack of that skill... if you think communication skills are not important to you, then "grow the fuck up" (or give up trying to communicate).
The layout and shouty style of your last 2 posts (not to mention the rambling dump of superfluous information) ain't giving me a very good user experience. If this is a display of your professional skills, then I hope I'll never come across a man page written by you. Style aside, flooding people with random opinions is not the best way to convince others of your expertise. Neither is over-the-top hyperbole (Adobe Flash, really???) I'm not necessarily disputing you are what you claim you are - you could easily be a bona fide UI expert who just happens to be very drunk - but what I can tell you is that you seriously need to rethink your strategy to impress people, because you seem to be going out of your way to discredit yourself.
For gpgpu computing and you _require_ 64-bit float precision,
That's a bit of a gratuitous overgeneralization; over the last few years, nearly all the scientific softwares in my field have switched large parts of their core functionality to single precision because of the performance advantage, reserving double precision for where it really matters (accumulators and such).
If it would be Europe, they would explain it as "reducing greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time recovering some of the taxpayer's money that went into road construction". But since this is the USA, we can't slap taxes onto undesirable things because that's "socialism". Don't ask me why. It always puzzled me that they banned a lot of popular incandescent light bulbs, rather than slapping a tax onto them and investing the income in renewable energy. The bulbs would die out effectively, but you'd get to keep the infrastructure improvements. Slightly more on-topic, there are the plans to ban vehicles that don't meat certain fuel-efficiency standards. Why not leave people the Freedom (Which Is More Important Than Anything Else In Life) to buy them but simply tax them? Or much fairer and easier to implement, tax the fuel itself, or at least stop sponsoring it through tax breaks for the oil companies. Assuming the price increases are not too unreasonable and are ramped up gradually enough, The Market (In Which We Trust) will find its own way towards more fuel-efficient vehicles, with built-in exemptions for The Rich (Whose Privileges Shall Not Be Touched) who can afford to pay more in tax. But no, I live in confusion and ignorance. Freedom, especially for The Rich, and faith in The Market are all marks of The Devil, and its name is Socialism.
But I sorely digress. This thread being about the USA, yeah, your "make more effective use of tax dollars" sounds about right.
The International Business Times is a poor source for scientific news.
No kidding. There's no citation or link to a research paper, or mention of a conference where the researchers presented their findings. Not even a link to a university press release (not that that would count for much; those are often written by PR people who don't have a clue what they're talking about). All they have is "The scientists' work will be featured in the documentary Secret History: The Return of the Black Death". What it looks like is that the documentary makers explain how the archaeologists' findings are consistent with the long-known phenomenon of pneumonic plague, and that some medically/historically/journalistically challenged person mistook a summary of a documentary for "news".
If that's actually what was meant by it, then I take offense at the use of the word "efficiency". Churning out pages and pages of bad code is pretty much the opposite of efficient.
There are a lot of Audi TTs and few corvettes on the German market, where it is legal to drive that fast (at certain places). Add to that the "Deutsche Grundigkeit" and it doesn't seem a big surprise they added that spoiler. Conversely, IANAL, but I think if you were to sue Corvette in the US for loss of control at 120mph, you'd probably walk out of court with nothing but the speeding ticket of your lifetime.
Thank goodness these days are over and public figures who are trying to counteract America's slow slide into plutocracy aren't met with a hysterical "eeeeek socialism!!!" anymore...
Never mind that, already happened. What I'm waiting for is the distributed malware creators realizing they can't keep up with the ASICs and using the malware to attack the bitcoin network itself instead. It doesn't even need to be as spectacular as a true 51% attack; just having the ability to induce jerks in the bitcoin price opens the door to "insider financial speculation" and profit. In fact, there are good indications *that* already happened / is happening, too.
What is wrong with you? The word "soot" is right there in my first sentence. From this, it should be abundantly clear that I used "incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons" as a catch-all that also includes CO and soot, as well as various aldehydes and ketones, epoxides, PAHs,... Did you really expect me to fill pages with a complete listing of all possible incomplete oxidation products? The only products of a complete oxidation of hydrocarbons are CO2 and H2O; my catch-all is perfectly correct and commonly used. Your claim that it stands for unmodified fuel is plain wrong.
Bottom line: my asterisked paragraph does also apply to CO, soot, aldehydes and ketones, epoxides, PAHs,... and I fully stand behind my claim that there's no way a ~40mpg motorcycle can produce more CO2 than a ~27mpg car.
Willow bark extract: salicylic acid. Extremely bitter and acute stomach irritant. Not an effective analgesic by today's standards: even if you get someone to ingest an effective dose (as opposed to them concluding they prefer to keep their headache after the first taste), they're at risk of getting medically significant digestive tract disruptions.
Aspirin: acetylsalicylic acid. The acetyl group is covalently bound (not a buffer) and takes away the most undesirable effects of salicylic acid described above. Sold as a pain killer since the late 1800s. Most common serious side effects of long-term use is gastric bleeding, though the effect is still much weaker than for salicylic acid.
Buffered aspirin: an attempt to decrease absorption of aspirin in the stomach lining through formulation. Benefits are disputed.
Aspirin tablets with enteric coating or containing ascorbic acid (vitamin C): other attempts to decrease the impact on the stomach through formulation. More solid rationale than simply buffering, but benefits are the subject of ongoing debate nevertheless. Research on this is slow because the medical community has all but switched to ibuprofen for analgesic effect.
Sure, your motorcycle almost certainly produces more incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons, soot and NOx, which are linked to nasty things such as smog, asthma and lung cancer. There is, however, no way your motorcycle can produce more CO2 than that car. That would be a hard violation of the laws of physics, specifically the law of conservation of mass. For every atom of carbon entering your engine (or the car's engine), exactly(*) 1 molecule of CO2 exits you exhaust pipe. Your geek card, please.
(*)That is, almost exactly; some of the carbon exits under the form of incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons, but as said, that percentage is higher for your motorcycle, is negligible in this discussion, and most of those incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons are greenhouse gases themselves, and they get eventually converted to CO2 in the environment.
I'm not sure this is what you and GP are alluding to, but the elephant in the room here is the "metered internet" option. You know, like you get a higher electric bill if you use more electricity, a higher water bill if you use more water, like you used to get a higher phone bill if you would make more phone calls, and like the ISPs have higher costs if their customers consume more bandwidth. Ironically, a lot of US customers are vehemently against metered Internet, even though the current system amounts to some form of "socialism", and metered internet would be fairer and would arguably allow for more competition between providers, making internet cheaper for everyone except the few % bandwidth hogs. Incidentally, metered internet would also defeat all those whiny dissonant anti-net-neutrality arguments the ISPs are making.
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No, no, gorilla warfare. You know, the kind where you beat someone to death with a banana.
It actually is 21st century internet humor. The "gorilla warfare" gave it away for me. You get a cookie for at least considering it could have been humor, unlike the other responders.
Just trying to help. I presume you posted "the message" with the intention to be taken serious, else you wouldn't act so offended by jez9999 not taking you serious. I'm merely pointing out that your mode of communication is to blame for you not being taken serious. You really make yourself sound like a demoscene teenager trying to bluff yourself into a position of authority. People on this site are hidden behind the relative anonymity of their nicknames, so appeals to own authority don't work here. Even if you're an authority on a subject, you still have to explain the rationale of your arguments in terms that the plebs on this site will understand, else you're setting yourself up for ridicule. Most people don't need this to be explained to them because they have the ability to put themselves in the skin of a reader who doesn't have the same knowledge/skills/priority than themselves. It's slightly worrisome for an alleged User Interface expert to show such blatant lack of that skill... if you think communication skills are not important to you, then "grow the fuck up" (or give up trying to communicate).
The layout and shouty style of your last 2 posts (not to mention the rambling dump of superfluous information) ain't giving me a very good user experience. If this is a display of your professional skills, then I hope I'll never come across a man page written by you. Style aside, flooding people with random opinions is not the best way to convince others of your expertise. Neither is over-the-top hyperbole (Adobe Flash, really???) I'm not necessarily disputing you are what you claim you are - you could easily be a bona fide UI expert who just happens to be very drunk - but what I can tell you is that you seriously need to rethink your strategy to impress people, because you seem to be going out of your way to discredit yourself.
For gpgpu computing and you _require_ 64-bit float precision,
That's a bit of a gratuitous overgeneralization; over the last few years, nearly all the scientific softwares in my field have switched large parts of their core functionality to single precision because of the performance advantage, reserving double precision for where it really matters (accumulators and such).
And here I though I laid it on thick enough to cover Mt. Everest and be well clear of Poe's Law...
If it would be Europe, they would explain it as "reducing greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time recovering some of the taxpayer's money that went into road construction". But since this is the USA, we can't slap taxes onto undesirable things because that's "socialism". Don't ask me why. It always puzzled me that they banned a lot of popular incandescent light bulbs, rather than slapping a tax onto them and investing the income in renewable energy. The bulbs would die out effectively, but you'd get to keep the infrastructure improvements. Slightly more on-topic, there are the plans to ban vehicles that don't meat certain fuel-efficiency standards. Why not leave people the Freedom (Which Is More Important Than Anything Else In Life) to buy them but simply tax them? Or much fairer and easier to implement, tax the fuel itself, or at least stop sponsoring it through tax breaks for the oil companies. Assuming the price increases are not too unreasonable and are ramped up gradually enough, The Market (In Which We Trust) will find its own way towards more fuel-efficient vehicles, with built-in exemptions for The Rich (Whose Privileges Shall Not Be Touched) who can afford to pay more in tax. But no, I live in confusion and ignorance. Freedom, especially for The Rich, and faith in The Market are all marks of The Devil, and its name is Socialism.
But I sorely digress. This thread being about the USA, yeah, your "make more effective use of tax dollars" sounds about right.
If a philosophical joke whooshed clean over everyone's head, is it still a joke?
The International Business Times is a poor source for scientific news.
No kidding. There's no citation or link to a research paper, or mention of a conference where the researchers presented their findings. Not even a link to a university press release (not that that would count for much; those are often written by PR people who don't have a clue what they're talking about). All they have is "The scientists' work will be featured in the documentary Secret History: The Return of the Black Death". What it looks like is that the documentary makers explain how the archaeologists' findings are consistent with the long-known phenomenon of pneumonic plague, and that some medically/historically/journalistically challenged person mistook a summary of a documentary for "news".
Huh? Did anybody imply he was? Or is this some kind of joke about Americans being generally ignorant about historical backgrounds?
In what way is parent a troll? I would have modded it "insightful".
That should of course have been "sue Chevrolet", not Corvette.
/. is really not the site for people who make a lot of slips of the keyboard. >:(
Never trust a programmer who doesn't like programming (or calls it "anagonistic" and "masochistic").
If that's actually what was meant by it, then I take offense at the use of the word "efficiency". Churning out pages and pages of bad code is pretty much the opposite of efficient.
There are a lot of Audi TTs and few corvettes on the German market, where it is legal to drive that fast (at certain places). Add to that the "Deutsche Grundigkeit" and it doesn't seem a big surprise they added that spoiler. Conversely, IANAL, but I think if you were to sue Corvette in the US for loss of control at 120mph, you'd probably walk out of court with nothing but the speeding ticket of your lifetime.
Thank goodness these days are over and public figures who are trying to counteract America's slow slide into plutocracy aren't met with a hysterical "eeeeek socialism!!!" anymore...
Never mind that, already happened. What I'm waiting for is the distributed malware creators realizing they can't keep up with the ASICs and using the malware to attack the bitcoin network itself instead. It doesn't even need to be as spectacular as a true 51% attack; just having the ability to induce jerks in the bitcoin price opens the door to "insider financial speculation" and profit. In fact, there are good indications *that* already happened / is happening, too.
Even if not, an instructive example is that Tor incident that was on /. a few months ago. An interesting (or should I say "chilling"?) observation that was not in the summary is that Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum believed that the malware creators had a sufficient share of the Tor nodes in their hands to fatally compromise Tor's security. There are good reasons to speculate they didn't have a deeper motive than using Tor for controlling their botnet, but it's still food for thought, especially for those who believe (like me) that Tor was designed more with security in mind than Bitcoin...
Much better :)
What is wrong with you? The word "soot" is right there in my first sentence. From this, it should be abundantly clear that I used "incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons" as a catch-all that also includes CO and soot, as well as various aldehydes and ketones, epoxides, PAHs,... Did you really expect me to fill pages with a complete listing of all possible incomplete oxidation products? The only products of a complete oxidation of hydrocarbons are CO2 and H2O; my catch-all is perfectly correct and commonly used. Your claim that it stands for unmodified fuel is plain wrong.
Bottom line: my asterisked paragraph does also apply to CO, soot, aldehydes and ketones, epoxides, PAHs,... and I fully stand behind my claim that there's no way a ~40mpg motorcycle can produce more CO2 than a ~27mpg car.
...will it run in Wine?
Both you and GP are confusing things here:
Willow bark extract: salicylic acid. Extremely bitter and acute stomach irritant. Not an effective analgesic by today's standards: even if you get someone to ingest an effective dose (as opposed to them concluding they prefer to keep their headache after the first taste), they're at risk of getting medically significant digestive tract disruptions.
Aspirin: acetylsalicylic acid. The acetyl group is covalently bound (not a buffer) and takes away the most undesirable effects of salicylic acid described above. Sold as a pain killer since the late 1800s. Most common serious side effects of long-term use is gastric bleeding, though the effect is still much weaker than for salicylic acid.
Buffered aspirin: an attempt to decrease absorption of aspirin in the stomach lining through formulation. Benefits are disputed.
Aspirin tablets with enteric coating or containing ascorbic acid (vitamin C): other attempts to decrease the impact on the stomach through formulation. More solid rationale than simply buffering, but benefits are the subject of ongoing debate nevertheless. Research on this is slow because the medical community has all but switched to ibuprofen for analgesic effect.
Weeks of planning go into that, amirite?
... which cannot be said of your slashdot posts.
Sure, your motorcycle almost certainly produces more incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons, soot and NOx, which are linked to nasty things such as smog, asthma and lung cancer. There is, however, no way your motorcycle can produce more CO2 than that car. That would be a hard violation of the laws of physics, specifically the law of conservation of mass. For every atom of carbon entering your engine (or the car's engine), exactly(*) 1 molecule of CO2 exits you exhaust pipe. Your geek card, please.
(*)That is, almost exactly; some of the carbon exits under the form of incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons, but as said, that percentage is higher for your motorcycle, is negligible in this discussion, and most of those incompletely oxidized hydrocarbons are greenhouse gases themselves, and they get eventually converted to CO2 in the environment.
I'm not sure this is what you and GP are alluding to, but the elephant in the room here is the "metered internet" option. You know, like you get a higher electric bill if you use more electricity, a higher water bill if you use more water, like you used to get a higher phone bill if you would make more phone calls, and like the ISPs have higher costs if their customers consume more bandwidth. Ironically, a lot of US customers are vehemently against metered Internet, even though the current system amounts to some form of "socialism", and metered internet would be fairer and would arguably allow for more competition between providers, making internet cheaper for everyone except the few % bandwidth hogs. Incidentally, metered internet would also defeat all those whiny dissonant anti-net-neutrality arguments the ISPs are making.
US government agencies are too conservative to increase their efficiency, while conservatives are lambasting US government agencies' inefficiency...
Disclaimer: don't flame me bro, just playin' with words.