I'll tie my smartshirt (worn under the bodysuit made of liquid body armor) into the HUD on the powered exoskeleton, which I can use to assist a long and high launch of my micro spy planes as I wait for resupply by my GT Max Mini Helicopter. When I have picked out my target, I'll glide in (again wearing liquid body armor) using my Gryphon flying wing, pick off the guards using my Cornershot rifle, rescue the hostage using my Swiss Army Pen, slap an ultrasonic bandage over his wounds, and then...
Erm...
OK, I'm out of gadgets. Someone wanna find me a personal rocket pack capable of carrying two?
A gigawatt, while small in the scheme of things, is still a respectable power plant output. Many of the units that go up in the US are between 500MW and 1GW. Hopefully, in the next few years, we'll see nuclear plants coming online at the 1GW per reactor level (like we used to see), with two or three reactors per plant.
I've been running Vista as the primary OS since Beta 1, and have watched it improve significantly. That said, there's nothing at all compelling about it. There are some really nice things, to be sure, but nothing that tells me "YOU MUST RUN THIS EVERYWHERE NOW!" Much-improved Event Viewer, improved firewall, better IPv6 support, integrated WPA2 compatibility, better naming conventions for directories, and a few other things are outweighed by the overbearing security architecture and the apparent need of Microsoft to HTML-ize everything. There are times when this is good, but there are also a lot of times when tabbed dialog boxes are good. I don't want to click a link for every little thing, especially when it's going to open a very XP-looking dialog box anyway.
Size is also a major problem. On my notebook (2GB RAM), there is a pre-allocation of 2GB for the hibernation file and 2.6GB for the swap file, making for a 10.5GB 32-bit Vista installation and a 12.7GB 64-bit installation using Vista Enterprise. That's ridiculously large, as I can build up a complete Linux installation with OpenOffice and KOffice, some games, and an entire suite of security apps and utilities, and remain fairly easily under 6GB without much effort.
To be fair, the Merom architecture is a true dual-core architecture. The "quad-core" chip that Intel announced recently is simply glued together, and AMD's recent split design isn't terribly much better (though the two cores are linked by a dedicated datalink). AMD has a true quad-core design being prepped for next year, and Intel may have to follow suit, especially if AMD is able to show a decisive performance edge.
I solved the PDF lockup issue by installing the PDF Download extension. I have the option of downloading a PDF or opening it, in both cases happening outside of a tab. It's also saved me from numerous unintended PDF clicks (often documents from dynamic URLs).
Laser sights are perfectly legal. Even in California, a friend owns a couple of guns with laser sights. They're incredibly useful in monitoring for flinch during trigger pull.
In this case, the laser sight would enable someone with a spotting scope to monitor the aiming point from a few feet away, instead of what might be a very uncomfortable position over the shoulder of the person holding the gun.
They're capable of letting a firewall such as Sunbelt Kerio or Sygate (before it was killed by Symantec) monitor not only ports, but the actual applications, watching for suspicious traffic and alerting them so that they can determine if it's intended or not. If they open an application that goes looking for internet access and they don't see a reason for it (this has happened with some utilities that do version checks, for example), they know to block it until they can check to see if it's OK, usually by calling me. It happens more often that this is expected and useful traffic, but there have been at least one or two occasions where it has resulted in a malicious file being found.
It's much easier to train them to watch for unexpected firewall warnings than it is to explain how to construct an iptable rule or decide which snort rules are applicable to them.
Because iptables/ipchains does not provide for comprehensive traffic analysis. When combined with snort and squid, it is possible to get a more comprehensive package, but my parents are in no situation to be dealing with filtering through which snort rules they should or should not have, monkeying around with the format of what can be complex iptables rulesets, or trying to fine-tune the proxy configuration to allow access to their favorite sites.
Actually, the F-18 line will be only partially supplanted by the F-35. The new F/A-18E/F Super Hornets will be in service for a long time to come. Older Hornets will be retired eventually, though some may be sold to allies who cannot afford (and do not need) the newest possible planes.
Dr. William Gray, hurricane researcher out of Colorado State University, has suggested that his funding may have been cut due to his unwillingness to accept the common view of anthropogenic global warming, which he calls "grossly exaggerated." He suggests in the same interview that many of his colleagues who have been around for a long time have similar feelings and experiences.
Just another contrarian viewpoint because he's too stuck to see it? Or someone whose experience provides the nuances required to see that global warming is a house of cards?
According to the Mann "hockey stick" graph, one of the measurements (the light green line representing J. Esper, E.R. Cook, and F.H. Schweingruber (2002), "Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability") from 1300 to 1400 shows a rise from about -0.80 C to about -0.55 C (admittedly eyeballing it). From 1900 to 2000 is from about -0.4 C to +0.4 C. That's a ratio of 1.0:0.25, or about 4:1, from what looks to me like one of the sharper increases over a century (1350-1450 may have seen about a 0.5 C increase, but it's hard to say). A rise of 1000 times would mean that we would be dead, as the outside temps would be around 270 C. Even a rise of 100 times would put us at about 45 C.
As you said, spouting nonsense to confuse laymen is not valuable.
Ice cores tell you the temps at a particular location. You have to go looking for other sources (tree rings, sedimentary evidence, etc) to get reasonably accurate temps elsewhere to build up a good picture of the global climate.
While I'm on the fence regarding anthropogenic global warming, I appreciate the attempts by both sides to poke holes in the other's arguments, because even if it's done for propaganda purposes, it forces the side on the defense to provide better support for its argument. A few years ago, when the question of whether a change in solar output was responsible for global warming, there was a general attempt at refutation, accusing the anti crowd of trying to draw focus away. Yet a group of scientists took the notion and ran with it, looking for evidence of changes. That's what a good scientist does -- take a question about the theory at hand and find an answer to it, not act like a high priest and call all challengers blasphemers.
There have been a lot of interesting events in the last year, including evidence that solar output has not changed enough to have caused a significant portion of global warming, the surprisingly mild Atlantic hurricane season, and the recent announcement that from 1998 to 2005, methane levels in the atmosphere were essentially stagnant. When applied to forecasts related to anthropogenic global warming, you have evidence for, against, and ambiguous.
A lot of the ideas to deal with global warming are going to be good no matter what may be the final result. Lower- and zero-emission vehicles, expanded use of solar panels on homes, and the possible increase in use of nuclear power are all going to help to reduce the need for imported oil, destruction of mountains in the Appalachians for their coal, and keep down the price of home heating for those using natural gas. In the end, they may also save the planet.
Anything else is off the table? So if it were an option of decreasing from the current insanity to fifty years, you'd rather keep the laws in place now?
Get a job working for a contractor to a government (federal, state, or local -- doesn't really matter). You get all of the holidays, industry-standard vacation, hourly limits (if you're billable per hour), and a decent pay level. In random cases, you even get to work with technology more recent than ($currentyear-3). (I have a Merom laptop in front of me, a reasonably new desktop with DVD writer next to me, and we're working with the newest Opterons in our servers. The price? The Blackberry on my hip, but we've coordinated on-call schedules well enough that it rarely goes off.)
This kind of thing does happen occasionally. There's a Vietnamese man who allegedly hasn't slept since 1973, and I've heard stories from my mother (who used to work in a hospital) of the occasional stroke patient who would remain awake for days at a time before getting a couple of hours of sleep, and then doing it again.
Rejected 95-0? Probably not. But would it have been able to get 67 votes in favor of passage? Almost certainly not. I suspect that it wouldn't have gotten more than 30 votes in favor, due to the heavy union pressures against it at the time. Clinton's administration would have been dealt a severe embarrassment on the world stage, and the end-result would have been the same.
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The US Senate signaled in 1997 that it would reject ratification of the treaty by a vote of 95-0 before it was even signed (essentially symbolically) by Al Gore in 1998 . The Clinton Administration never even bothered to submit it to the Senate for a ratification vote, knowing it would never pass. The Bush Administration did little more than indicate that it would never submit it for ratification, because -- as before -- it would never pass.
If the warming preceded the CO2 rise, then the original cause of the warming was not CO2. This doesn't mean that there isn't a vicious cycle going on, but if so the picture gets dramatically more complex.
A recent research paper discovered that winds blowing in North Africa may be affecting the North Atlantic hurricane season depending on the amount of Saharan sand blown into the air over the North Atlantic. Lower quantities of sand often correlated with higher hurricane seasons, and higher quantities of sand often correlated with lower hurricane seasons. It may have affected this hurricane season, which has so far ended up less active than the 50-year average used by the forecasters at Colorado State University. Then again, you'll find some researchers pointing to an "unexpected" El Niño event. The more we look, the more complex we find things to be.
There are plenty of reasons to push ahead with some of the ideas to deal with global warming, including expanded use of solar and nuclear power. The centralization of power generation removes some of the impetus for international conflict (and not just with the US and other nations), and the lower carbon emissions mean cleaner air for everyone, something that's kind of hard to argue with. Calling the matter closed, though, is hasty and really sounds like an attempt by certain factions to end the debate by declaring themselves the winner.
There has been some growing unease about Mother Teresa and the practices that her order followed, including lack of proper medical hygiene in her hospices and baptism of non-Christians as they lay dying. There have also been allegations that her hospices allow excruciating pain to continue, on the basis that suffering is divine (as Jesus Christ suffered), and therefore more likely to get the patient into heaven. She did do some good things, especially in publicizing the plight of the downtrodden in Calcutta and similar cities, but that may have been counterbalanced by the suffering that she allowed.
Princess Diana, OTOH, was vocal about her chosen cause -- removal of mines in warfare and helping the non-military victims of them -- and raised millions for it, and much of it was directed to ease the suffering of the often-poor people who fell victim to old mines laid by any nation, without care for what side they favored or what religion they were. I don't label her a hero, but I also have my doubts about Mother Teresa.
Haven't you been reading? The farm problems are temporary, and due more to drought than anything else.:\
Don't forget that Britain has been called upon by Mugabe's government to finish paying the former landowners compensation because Zimbabwe cannot afford it.
XP will be available for 12 months following Vista's "general availability." That date is currently set as 30 January 2007, so XP will be available for shipment until at least 30 January 2008.
I'm not saying that they don't have the room -- Australia has plenty of that. I'm just saying that the efficiency isn't good compared to other technologies.
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No. I despise those things. When I'm typing, I don't want to have to turn my amps to 11 just to hear my music (well, when I do listen to music).
QUIET.
I need all of these.
I'll tie my smartshirt (worn under the bodysuit made of liquid body armor) into the HUD on the powered exoskeleton, which I can use to assist a long and high launch of my micro spy planes as I wait for resupply by my GT Max Mini Helicopter. When I have picked out my target, I'll glide in (again wearing liquid body armor) using my Gryphon flying wing, pick off the guards using my Cornershot rifle, rescue the hostage using my Swiss Army Pen, slap an ultrasonic bandage over his wounds, and then...
Erm...
OK, I'm out of gadgets. Someone wanna find me a personal rocket pack capable of carrying two?
A gigawatt, while small in the scheme of things, is still a respectable power plant output. Many of the units that go up in the US are between 500MW and 1GW. Hopefully, in the next few years, we'll see nuclear plants coming online at the 1GW per reactor level (like we used to see), with two or three reactors per plant.
I've been running Vista as the primary OS since Beta 1, and have watched it improve significantly. That said, there's nothing at all compelling about it. There are some really nice things, to be sure, but nothing that tells me "YOU MUST RUN THIS EVERYWHERE NOW!" Much-improved Event Viewer, improved firewall, better IPv6 support, integrated WPA2 compatibility, better naming conventions for directories, and a few other things are outweighed by the overbearing security architecture and the apparent need of Microsoft to HTML-ize everything. There are times when this is good, but there are also a lot of times when tabbed dialog boxes are good. I don't want to click a link for every little thing, especially when it's going to open a very XP-looking dialog box anyway.
Size is also a major problem. On my notebook (2GB RAM), there is a pre-allocation of 2GB for the hibernation file and 2.6GB for the swap file, making for a 10.5GB 32-bit Vista installation and a 12.7GB 64-bit installation using Vista Enterprise. That's ridiculously large, as I can build up a complete Linux installation with OpenOffice and KOffice, some games, and an entire suite of security apps and utilities, and remain fairly easily under 6GB without much effort.
Actually, his e-mail is right there in the post header, and it's a Yahoo address.
Maybe he's a Yahoo sysadmin where only he has access to his account, and no other does.
To be fair, the Merom architecture is a true dual-core architecture. The "quad-core" chip that Intel announced recently is simply glued together, and AMD's recent split design isn't terribly much better (though the two cores are linked by a dedicated datalink). AMD has a true quad-core design being prepped for next year, and Intel may have to follow suit, especially if AMD is able to show a decisive performance edge.
I solved the PDF lockup issue by installing the PDF Download extension. I have the option of downloading a PDF or opening it, in both cases happening outside of a tab. It's also saved me from numerous unintended PDF clicks (often documents from dynamic URLs).
Laser sights are perfectly legal. Even in California, a friend owns a couple of guns with laser sights. They're incredibly useful in monitoring for flinch during trigger pull.
In this case, the laser sight would enable someone with a spotting scope to monitor the aiming point from a few feet away, instead of what might be a very uncomfortable position over the shoulder of the person holding the gun.
They're capable of letting a firewall such as Sunbelt Kerio or Sygate (before it was killed by Symantec) monitor not only ports, but the actual applications, watching for suspicious traffic and alerting them so that they can determine if it's intended or not. If they open an application that goes looking for internet access and they don't see a reason for it (this has happened with some utilities that do version checks, for example), they know to block it until they can check to see if it's OK, usually by calling me. It happens more often that this is expected and useful traffic, but there have been at least one or two occasions where it has resulted in a malicious file being found.
It's much easier to train them to watch for unexpected firewall warnings than it is to explain how to construct an iptable rule or decide which snort rules are applicable to them.
Because iptables/ipchains does not provide for comprehensive traffic analysis. When combined with snort and squid, it is possible to get a more comprehensive package, but my parents are in no situation to be dealing with filtering through which snort rules they should or should not have, monkeying around with the format of what can be complex iptables rulesets, or trying to fine-tune the proxy configuration to allow access to their favorite sites.
Actually, the F-18 line will be only partially supplanted by the F-35. The new F/A-18E/F Super Hornets will be in service for a long time to come. Older Hornets will be retired eventually, though some may be sold to allies who cannot afford (and do not need) the newest possible planes.
Final predictions prior to the beginning of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season:
NOAA (22 May 2006)
CSU (31 May 2006)
Dr. William Gray, hurricane researcher out of Colorado State University, has suggested that his funding may have been cut due to his unwillingness to accept the common view of anthropogenic global warming, which he calls "grossly exaggerated." He suggests in the same interview that many of his colleagues who have been around for a long time have similar feelings and experiences.
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Just another contrarian viewpoint because he's too stuck to see it? Or someone whose experience provides the nuances required to see that global warming is a house of cards?
1000 times faster?
According to the Mann "hockey stick" graph, one of the measurements (the light green line representing J. Esper, E.R. Cook, and F.H. Schweingruber (2002), "Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability") from 1300 to 1400 shows a rise from about -0.80 C to about -0.55 C (admittedly eyeballing it). From 1900 to 2000 is from about -0.4 C to +0.4 C. That's a ratio of 1.0:0.25, or about 4:1, from what looks to me like one of the sharper increases over a century (1350-1450 may have seen about a 0.5 C increase, but it's hard to say). A rise of 1000 times would mean that we would be dead, as the outside temps would be around 270 C. Even a rise of 100 times would put us at about 45 C.
As you said, spouting nonsense to confuse laymen is not valuable.
Ice cores tell you the temps at a particular location. You have to go looking for other sources (tree rings, sedimentary evidence, etc) to get reasonably accurate temps elsewhere to build up a good picture of the global climate.
While I'm on the fence regarding anthropogenic global warming, I appreciate the attempts by both sides to poke holes in the other's arguments, because even if it's done for propaganda purposes, it forces the side on the defense to provide better support for its argument. A few years ago, when the question of whether a change in solar output was responsible for global warming, there was a general attempt at refutation, accusing the anti crowd of trying to draw focus away. Yet a group of scientists took the notion and ran with it, looking for evidence of changes. That's what a good scientist does -- take a question about the theory at hand and find an answer to it, not act like a high priest and call all challengers blasphemers.
There have been a lot of interesting events in the last year, including evidence that solar output has not changed enough to have caused a significant portion of global warming, the surprisingly mild Atlantic hurricane season, and the recent announcement that from 1998 to 2005, methane levels in the atmosphere were essentially stagnant. When applied to forecasts related to anthropogenic global warming, you have evidence for, against, and ambiguous.
A lot of the ideas to deal with global warming are going to be good no matter what may be the final result. Lower- and zero-emission vehicles, expanded use of solar panels on homes, and the possible increase in use of nuclear power are all going to help to reduce the need for imported oil, destruction of mountains in the Appalachians for their coal, and keep down the price of home heating for those using natural gas. In the end, they may also save the planet.
Anything else is off the table? So if it were an option of decreasing from the current insanity to fifty years, you'd rather keep the laws in place now?
Get a job working for a contractor to a government (federal, state, or local -- doesn't really matter). You get all of the holidays, industry-standard vacation, hourly limits (if you're billable per hour), and a decent pay level. In random cases, you even get to work with technology more recent than ($currentyear-3). (I have a Merom laptop in front of me, a reasonably new desktop with DVD writer next to me, and we're working with the newest Opterons in our servers. The price? The Blackberry on my hip, but we've coordinated on-call schedules well enough that it rarely goes off.)
This kind of thing does happen occasionally. There's a Vietnamese man who allegedly hasn't slept since 1973, and I've heard stories from my mother (who used to work in a hospital) of the occasional stroke patient who would remain awake for days at a time before getting a couple of hours of sleep, and then doing it again.
Rejected 95-0? Probably not. But would it have been able to get 67 votes in favor of passage? Almost certainly not. I suspect that it wouldn't have gotten more than 30 votes in favor, due to the heavy union pressures against it at the time. Clinton's administration would have been dealt a severe embarrassment on the world stage, and the end-result would have been the same.
The US Senate signaled in 1997 that it would reject ratification of the treaty by a vote of 95-0 before it was even signed (essentially symbolically) by Al Gore in 1998 . The Clinton Administration never even bothered to submit it to the Senate for a ratification vote, knowing it would never pass. The Bush Administration did little more than indicate that it would never submit it for ratification, because -- as before -- it would never pass.
If the warming preceded the CO2 rise, then the original cause of the warming was not CO2. This doesn't mean that there isn't a vicious cycle going on, but if so the picture gets dramatically more complex.
A recent research paper discovered that winds blowing in North Africa may be affecting the North Atlantic hurricane season depending on the amount of Saharan sand blown into the air over the North Atlantic. Lower quantities of sand often correlated with higher hurricane seasons, and higher quantities of sand often correlated with lower hurricane seasons. It may have affected this hurricane season, which has so far ended up less active than the 50-year average used by the forecasters at Colorado State University. Then again, you'll find some researchers pointing to an "unexpected" El Niño event. The more we look, the more complex we find things to be.
There are plenty of reasons to push ahead with some of the ideas to deal with global warming, including expanded use of solar and nuclear power. The centralization of power generation removes some of the impetus for international conflict (and not just with the US and other nations), and the lower carbon emissions mean cleaner air for everyone, something that's kind of hard to argue with. Calling the matter closed, though, is hasty and really sounds like an attempt by certain factions to end the debate by declaring themselves the winner.
There has been some growing unease about Mother Teresa and the practices that her order followed, including lack of proper medical hygiene in her hospices and baptism of non-Christians as they lay dying. There have also been allegations that her hospices allow excruciating pain to continue, on the basis that suffering is divine (as Jesus Christ suffered), and therefore more likely to get the patient into heaven. She did do some good things, especially in publicizing the plight of the downtrodden in Calcutta and similar cities, but that may have been counterbalanced by the suffering that she allowed.
Princess Diana, OTOH, was vocal about her chosen cause -- removal of mines in warfare and helping the non-military victims of them -- and raised millions for it, and much of it was directed to ease the suffering of the often-poor people who fell victim to old mines laid by any nation, without care for what side they favored or what religion they were. I don't label her a hero, but I also have my doubts about Mother Teresa.
Haven't you been reading? The farm problems are temporary, and due more to drought than anything else. :\
Don't forget that Britain has been called upon by Mugabe's government to finish paying the former landowners compensation because Zimbabwe cannot afford it.
You're right. Windows XP will be available for more than a few months afterward.
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XP will be available for 12 months following Vista's "general availability." That date is currently set as 30 January 2007, so XP will be available for shipment until at least 30 January 2008.
I'm not saying that they don't have the room -- Australia has plenty of that. I'm just saying that the efficiency isn't good compared to other technologies.