You forgot to mention all the environmental evils inherent in large scale cattle ranching. Each deer hunted that prevents a beef purchase makes you that much more of a treehugging longhair.
Because the Nevada Gaming Board is not susceptible to pay-offs
More likely: The cleverest programmers will go work for the casinos and get paid big bucks wile the inspectors sent around to check them will have gone through a one week training seminar while getting paid state government wages.
however the cells that are used in the Prius have been exhaustivly tested
I know the Civic Hybrid uses NiMH batteries and I'm pretty sure the stock batteries in the Prius are as well. My point was about the people putting their own Litium Ion batteries in a Prius, not the standard batteries.
Many environmentalists fail to factor in production into their calculations
And you have hit the proverbial nail directly on the head. From TFA:
converted two Priuses to get up to 230 mpg by using powerful lithium ion batteries
Now unless I'm quite mistaken, lithium ion batteries are excessively nasty to produce and must be carefully recycled. Even then there is some truly insidious waste. They also don't have much operating life, as anyone with a laptop more than a year old can tell you.
Calculating pi is a series of mathematical operations where you can't do the next one without the prior because you need the remainders. Supercomputers are super due to a heck of a lot of CPUs all working on different parts of a problem that can be broken into chunks. How exactly do you break a series of operations that depend on the priors into chunks for a supercomputer to rip through? So anyway, it looks like this calculating pi is a record in general, not for just a PC. It's a speed job for a single CPU.
Modders: parent is yammering about other countries moving ahead and buying this technology from other countries while it's AN ARTICLE ABOUT CALIFORNIA!
The voters here in Colorado were suckered into an initiative requiring the utility companies to get 15% of their power from renewable sources whether it made economic sense or not. Since it looks like this thing actually does then I hope someone from the local utility reads/.
A textbook perfect case of one division of a giant conglomerate looking out for another division. Does Toshiba have any fingers in the movie/music/whatever content business?
It's a 20 person architecture firm; what are the odds it's publicly traded??? It's more likely two or three partners, 13-15 junior architects and a few miscellaney administrative types like the questioner. Proprietorships / small partnerships don't waste a second thinking about S-B.
It would be better for both parties involved: people and Earth. It's nuts to still be here on this dirtball deathtrap (just ask any dinosaur). Meanwhile the planet itself doesn't really mind much about large meteor impacts that happen from time to time, Bruce Willis not withstanding. Given time the biosphere recovers even though individual species care quite a bit.
To further clarify: view everything as a project. From maintaining an existing server to buying a new one to being help desk guy, budget them as projects. Each activity can then be individually justified and dealt with in terms of balancing with each other.
First, ask the controller or CFO what the company uses for a standard method, such as internal rate of return or payback period. You don't want to walk into a presentation with numbers using method X when the management thinks in terms of method Y.
Daylight savings time is an idiotic solution to a non-existent problem
People (in general) feel better when waking up near / just after sunrise and getting off work while there's still a few hours of daylight left. People who feel better are happier in general and more productive at work in particular. In case you hadn't noticed, the rotational wobble of the Earth causes the same arbitrary hour of the early morning / late afternoon to be out of sync with this pattern in the opposite half of the year. So it isn't a non-existant problem. Sure, it's a problem created by the fact that we aren't hunter-gatherers anymore and instead operate on schedules, but it's a problem.
People also are even happier and more productive with a two to four hour nap in the afternoon. Where's that legislation is what I want to know.
But they weren't the TARGET of that attack. They were collatoral damage
BS - They were co-targets. Leasing a cargo plane and filling it full of explosives and fuel would have been better than a passenger plane for attack strength. Using a hijacked passenger plane full of regular civilians was an act of terror, not "collateral damage". Your attempt at apologizing for those animals fails.
Since when am I supposed to assume that their product does more than they claim it does? If the CrossOver website's main blurb says that it supports 30 productivity apps then I'm just supposed to know that all but old shareware programs work?
Then Napoleon ripped off Sun-Tsu who said that to discern the enemy's position while not giving away one's own is the pinnacle of military preparedness.
the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon and Pearl Harbor were not terrorist actions
The civilians riding on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon were quite terrorized, I assure you. And it's news to me that Pearl Harbor attacked on 9-11; what happened there?
Gotta meet that quota of 60 fresh, nonobvious patentable ideas a week!
The article submitter says this like it's some newfangled scheme freshly dreampt up by big bad Bill. It isn't. Around 100 years ago when Thomas Edison ran his lab it was a patent mill; hired inventors had to submit a weekly quota of patent applications.
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everyone on the earth jumped at the same time, we would move it something like... the width of an atom
Did he take into account that all the people aren't in one place?
AND save money on beef in the process
You forgot to mention all the environmental evils inherent in large scale cattle ranching. Each deer hunted that prevents a beef purchase makes you that much more of a treehugging longhair.
Because the Nevada Gaming Board is not susceptible to pay-offs
More likely: The cleverest programmers will go work for the casinos and get paid big bucks wile the inspectors sent around to check them will have gone through a one week training seminar while getting paid state government wages.
however the cells that are used in the Prius have been exhaustivly tested
I know the Civic Hybrid uses NiMH batteries and I'm pretty sure the stock batteries in the Prius are as well. My point was about the people putting their own Litium Ion batteries in a Prius, not the standard batteries.
Many environmentalists fail to factor in production into their calculations
And you have hit the proverbial nail directly on the head. From TFA:
converted two Priuses to get up to 230 mpg by using powerful lithium ion batteries
Now unless I'm quite mistaken, lithium ion batteries are excessively nasty to produce and must be carefully recycled. Even then there is some truly insidious waste. They also don't have much operating life, as anyone with a laptop more than a year old can tell you.
the XP "loading bar" still moves the same old speedM
Get a solid state hard drive. Texas Memory Systems if you have serious cash; Gigabyte iRam if you're on a budget.
Calculating pi is a series of mathematical operations where you can't do the next one without the prior because you need the remainders. Supercomputers are super due to a heck of a lot of CPUs all working on different parts of a problem that can be broken into chunks. How exactly do you break a series of operations that depend on the priors into chunks for a supercomputer to rip through? So anyway, it looks like this calculating pi is a record in general, not for just a PC. It's a speed job for a single CPU.
Doesn't anybody have a way to make large parabolic reflectors cheaply?
We could cover some old 8-foot satellite TV dishes with aluminum foil.
Modders: parent is yammering about other countries moving ahead and buying this technology from other countries while it's AN ARTICLE ABOUT CALIFORNIA!
The voters here in Colorado were suckered into an initiative requiring the utility companies to get 15% of their power from renewable sources whether it made economic sense or not. Since it looks like this thing actually does then I hope someone from the local utility reads /.
As long as they're pebble bed reactors, I'm all for it. The hugemongous three mile island style are white elephants in comparison.
the Blu-ray Disc Association, led by Sony
A textbook perfect case of one division of a giant conglomerate looking out for another division. Does Toshiba have any fingers in the movie/music/whatever content business?
It's a 20 person architecture firm; what are the odds it's publicly traded??? It's more likely two or three partners, 13-15 junior architects and a few miscellaney administrative types like the questioner. Proprietorships / small partnerships don't waste a second thinking about S-B.
It would be better for both parties involved: people and Earth. It's nuts to still be here on this dirtball deathtrap (just ask any dinosaur). Meanwhile the planet itself doesn't really mind much about large meteor impacts that happen from time to time, Bruce Willis not withstanding. Given time the biosphere recovers even though individual species care quite a bit.
To further clarify: view everything as a project. From maintaining an existing server to buying a new one to being help desk guy, budget them as projects. Each activity can then be individually justified and dealt with in terms of balancing with each other.
First, ask the controller or CFO what the company uses for a standard method, such as internal rate of return or payback period. You don't want to walk into a presentation with numbers using method X when the management thinks in terms of method Y.
Daylight savings time is an idiotic solution to a non-existent problem
People (in general) feel better when waking up near / just after sunrise and getting off work while there's still a few hours of daylight left. People who feel better are happier in general and more productive at work in particular. In case you hadn't noticed, the rotational wobble of the Earth causes the same arbitrary hour of the early morning / late afternoon to be out of sync with this pattern in the opposite half of the year. So it isn't a non-existant problem. Sure, it's a problem created by the fact that we aren't hunter-gatherers anymore and instead operate on schedules, but it's a problem.
People also are even happier and more productive with a two to four hour nap in the afternoon. Where's that legislation is what I want to know.
I encounter patients everey day, who have no clear recollection of their medical history
Probably safe to assume lithium.
But they weren't the TARGET of that attack. They were collatoral damage
BS - They were co-targets. Leasing a cargo plane and filling it full of explosives and fuel would have been better than a passenger plane for attack strength. Using a hijacked passenger plane full of regular civilians was an act of terror, not "collateral damage". Your attempt at apologizing for those animals fails.
Since when am I supposed to assume that their product does more than they claim it does? If the CrossOver website's main blurb says that it supports 30 productivity apps then I'm just supposed to know that all but old shareware programs work?
From Crossover's website:
CrossOver Office currently supports more than 30 of the most popular windows productivity applications
Well, that's quite an acheivement but 30 productivity apps isn't "a vast number of Windows programs".
Then Napoleon ripped off Sun-Tsu who said that to discern the enemy's position while not giving away one's own is the pinnacle of military preparedness.
the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon and Pearl Harbor were not terrorist actions
The civilians riding on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon were quite terrorized, I assure you. And it's news to me that Pearl Harbor attacked on 9-11; what happened there?
Gotta meet that quota of 60 fresh, nonobvious patentable ideas a week!
The article submitter says this like it's some newfangled scheme freshly dreampt up by big bad Bill. It isn't. Around 100 years ago when Thomas Edison ran his lab it was a patent mill; hired inventors had to submit a weekly quota of patent applications.
the speed of light is given in meters per second
So then if a second was made longer then a spaceship whose velocity was approaching C would be able to go faster than it does now! Sweet!