I can see their time coming again as fuel bills rise
Something has to run the propellers on the thing - they don't spin for free. Airships are slow and inefficient compared to ocean liners or trains. They're like luxury cruise ships except in the air but not a substitute for basic (read: fast and cheap) distance transportation.
What does HD stand for in this context? Does it really mean high definition when they're putting out games like poker, chess, and sudoku, does it? WTF do you need high definition for that - prettier backs on the poker cards?
DDT is some deadly stuff, and I'm satisfied with the documentation that proves it
And how much of a problem is malaria where you live? It's all relative; malaria is a very serious problem in some parts of the world. Serious enough that the problems associated with some chemicals like DDT are mild in comparison. Spritzing dilluted DDT on the walls of a hut in a malaria prone area prevents a LOT of malaria infections and as long as no one licks the walls or drinks from the spray bottle then the risks are quite low of getting some problem from the DDT. Think about the other peoples' complete situation before you condemn viable solutions to bigger problems.
I can certainly understand why the GP was modded Troll, but why was the parent modded Troll as well?
The GP should be modded 'cynical' while the P should be 'naive'. While the first overgeneralized with a sweeping brushstroke, the second should only need a basic understanding of human nature to realize it's probably at least partly true.
The joke here, that no one got, is that "disease" is caused by viral and/or bacterial infections. All these other things are "disorders" and other types of medical problems but are not diseases.
I had to read this a couple of times before I came to the conclusion you must be joking - an excellent design for the absolute and immediate tyranny of the majority.
Maybe that would foster enough understanding by individuals
Hah hah hah hah! This was a good one too; Have you ever seen Jay Leno doing a bit called 'Jaywalking' where he asks the average citizen basic civics questions? Or better yet, have you ever read some website called Slashdot where people post wildly inflammatory comments without even reading whatever it is they're responding to?
While animals do taste great, meat is very inefficient in terms of how much energy goes into first growing the plants then growing the animal. It would be 10x more efficient to just grow soy beans and other high protein meat substitutes.
As it happens, I've not only read it, I re-read it periodically, and i'm also familiar with the debates
I could tell that after I read your journal entries, but not after just reading the original post. No offense meant when I picked out the lack of the Constitution's 'unreasonable' which I've seen so many people ignore when complaining about warrantless searches with which they disagree.
He neither states nor implies that all warrantless searches are illegal
He states it directly - read the message title straight through to the text: "It's a search without a warrant. Yes, it's a fourth amendment violation." He makes no mention of thinking it unreasonable and by leaving the word "unreasonable" out he implies he thinks the Constitution protects all searches unless there is a warrant. If he knows better, he can feel free to clarify his position in a new post. If you read his journal you'll see he comes across as a Libertarian so it's proabably an amazing day he'd support the ACLU's position. Although against my inclinations as well, I must agree with the ACLU that it's an unreasonable search. So in this case the original posting probably is a case of forgetting the word "unreasonable". Still, there are going to be plenty of people who read it who interpret it to mean that all searches need a warrant. Look at all the people who screamed about the wiretaps between US based phone numbers and phone numbers of terror suspects overseas as being unreasonable searches that need warrants.
Congrats - you're the first (of many) posts by people who have not read the entire Constitution. UNREASONABLE searches may not be conducted without a warrant, not ALL searches. It's up to the courts to determine after the fact whether someone's rights were violated with an unreasonable warrantless search, not slashdot armchair lawyers. Write to your congresscritters to let them know you think it is unreasonable so they can put pressure on the executive branch to not do the search in the first place.
It's first an architecture limit because in order to handle more than 32 bits' worth of memory the OS has to do 36 bit memory addressing in a 32 bit processor. This means paging the memory addresses used in any given running program. So that's where the licensing part comes in: Vista, being a desktop OS, doesn't include the license for all the extra code that deals with the memory paging.
For more info on how the memopry paging works with 32 bits to 36 bits, see page 15 of this Intel architecture doc. If it doesn't make sense, look up CPU registers and how they are used by an operating system.
why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Wrong - they most certainly do, in their own way. Type 'qi' with your keyboard language setting set to chinese and you will get a choice of characters all pronounced 'chee'. Otherwise chinese keyboards would have to be the size of a large room. It's also how chinese people type text messages on a cell phone's keypad. All modern educated chinese people use latin characters as easily as people who use it for their native languages.
In addition to 'life energy', the same pronunciation can also mean 'wife' or 'angry'. Ah, the wisdom of the ancient chinese...
Oh, and 'qi' can also be the number 7 although for how that ties in to the other three you'll have to ask a numerologiist.
I've been living in China for the past year and I can tell you Chinese parents have no bullshit alarms when it comes to anything that any huckster is selling to improve their one child's chances. A tiny percentage get into college and then a fraction of those are able to land college requiring jobs. Anything promising to give them an edge is bought up.
How much local privilege escalation vulnerabilities normal windows users worry about?
They probably don't worry about it at all because the vast majority of Windows users log in and run with an administrative level account in the first place.
meaning, you can find people with the necessary skills in other areas
What skills? A few people at the data center have mad skillz but most of them just need to know how to swap out tapes and failed hard drives and to not press the reset button until expressly told to do so. Most of the administration of the software, which is what needs the most training and skill, happens by people who are off site. Usually in India.
I read ebooks on my netbook, no $400 reader required. I just had to buy the netbook; did you have to buy your phone first? And a netbook costs less than an iphone if you shop around. Netbooks have FAR larger screens than readers and readers even have larger screens than the little iphone so what's your point?
I'm not even going to put a foot in the flamefest over whether solid state mass storage is cost effective or even reliable - I only ask you don't call some chips that just sit there a spinning disk.
More than 1/4 of Intel's revenue comes from miscellaney chips and motherboards that are not microprocessors. That's a big enough chunk it shouldn't be dismissed as not a core business.
That this bug made it through means someone should be looking for employment and indicates a problem with management and internal processes, not that they shouldn't make the product in the first place.
What makes Intel a hard disk vendor anyway? Yes, it is still a disk
It's solid state mass storage, where "solid state" = "chips". A disk is a spinning thingy which is completely different. Since Intel designs and make chips (see: "solid state" = "chips"), it is a perfect choice for them to make solid state mass storage devices out of chips.
Have I mentioned the relationship between "solid state" and "chips" and how "solid state" != "spinning thingy"?
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I can see their time coming again as fuel bills rise
Something has to run the propellers on the thing - they don't spin for free. Airships are slow and inefficient compared to ocean liners or trains. They're like luxury cruise ships except in the air but not a substitute for basic (read: fast and cheap) distance transportation.
Christianity is not based on carpentry. Or is it?
I don't know for sure but a lot of those wooden crosses are quite intricately carved.
What does HD stand for in this context? Does it really mean high definition when they're putting out games like poker, chess, and sudoku, does it? WTF do you need high definition for that - prettier backs on the poker cards?
It's sad that so long after this junk science myth was debunked that people continue to repeat it like a bad internet rumor.
Please see #10 at the very least, or preferably read the whole article when you have time.
Not much, but he feels good about it.
DDT is some deadly stuff, and I'm satisfied with the documentation that proves it
And how much of a problem is malaria where you live? It's all relative; malaria is a very serious problem in some parts of the world. Serious enough that the problems associated with some chemicals like DDT are mild in comparison. Spritzing dilluted DDT on the walls of a hut in a malaria prone area prevents a LOT of malaria infections and as long as no one licks the walls or drinks from the spray bottle then the risks are quite low of getting some problem from the DDT. Think about the other peoples' complete situation before you condemn viable solutions to bigger problems.
I can certainly understand why the GP was modded Troll, but why was the parent modded Troll as well?
The GP should be modded 'cynical' while the P should be 'naive'. While the first overgeneralized with a sweeping brushstroke, the second should only need a basic understanding of human nature to realize it's probably at least partly true.
The joke here, that no one got, is that "disease" is caused by viral and/or bacterial infections. All these other things are "disorders" and other types of medical problems but are not diseases.
viruses, bacteria and diseases?
Great - As if I didn't worry about my health enough... now there are diseases IN ADDITION to viruses and bacteria.
Maybe United States Law should be made a wiki?
I had to read this a couple of times before I came to the conclusion you must be joking - an excellent design for the absolute and immediate tyranny of the majority.
Maybe that would foster enough understanding by individuals
Hah hah hah hah! This was a good one too; Have you ever seen Jay Leno doing a bit called 'Jaywalking' where he asks the average citizen basic civics questions? Or better yet, have you ever read some website called Slashdot where people post wildly inflammatory comments without even reading whatever it is they're responding to?
While animals do taste great, meat is very inefficient in terms of how much energy goes into first growing the plants then growing the animal. It would be 10x more efficient to just grow soy beans and other high protein meat substitutes.
I know of a Cosmologist at Arizona State University
What a coincidence - I know a Cosmetologist at University of Pheonix.
As it happens, I've not only read it, I re-read it periodically, and i'm also familiar with the debates
I could tell that after I read your journal entries, but not after just reading the original post. No offense meant when I picked out the lack of the Constitution's 'unreasonable' which I've seen so many people ignore when complaining about warrantless searches with which they disagree.
He neither states nor implies that all warrantless searches are illegal
He states it directly - read the message title straight through to the text: "It's a search without a warrant. Yes, it's a fourth amendment violation." He makes no mention of thinking it unreasonable and by leaving the word "unreasonable" out he implies he thinks the Constitution protects all searches unless there is a warrant. If he knows better, he can feel free to clarify his position in a new post. If you read his journal you'll see he comes across as a Libertarian so it's proabably an amazing day he'd support the ACLU's position. Although against my inclinations as well, I must agree with the ACLU that it's an unreasonable search. So in this case the original posting probably is a case of forgetting the word "unreasonable". Still, there are going to be plenty of people who read it who interpret it to mean that all searches need a warrant. Look at all the people who screamed about the wiretaps between US based phone numbers and phone numbers of terror suspects overseas as being unreasonable searches that need warrants.
Congrats - you're the first (of many) posts by people who have not read the entire Constitution. UNREASONABLE searches may not be conducted without a warrant, not ALL searches. It's up to the courts to determine after the fact whether someone's rights were violated with an unreasonable warrantless search, not slashdot armchair lawyers. Write to your congresscritters to let them know you think it is unreasonable so they can put pressure on the executive branch to not do the search in the first place.
It's first an architecture limit because in order to handle more than 32 bits' worth of memory the OS has to do 36 bit memory addressing in a 32 bit processor. This means paging the memory addresses used in any given running program. So that's where the licensing part comes in: Vista, being a desktop OS, doesn't include the license for all the extra code that deals with the memory paging.
For more info on how the memopry paging works with 32 bits to 36 bits, see page 15 of this Intel architecture doc. If it doesn't make sense, look up CPU registers and how they are used by an operating system.
why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Wrong - they most certainly do, in their own way. Type 'qi' with your keyboard language setting set to chinese and you will get a choice of characters all pronounced 'chee'. Otherwise chinese keyboards would have to be the size of a large room. It's also how chinese people type text messages on a cell phone's keypad. All modern educated chinese people use latin characters as easily as people who use it for their native languages.
In addition to 'life energy', the same pronunciation can also mean 'wife' or 'angry'. Ah, the wisdom of the ancient chinese...
Oh, and 'qi' can also be the number 7 although for how that ties in to the other three you'll have to ask a numerologiist.
set off my bullshit alarms
I've been living in China for the past year and I can tell you Chinese parents have no bullshit alarms when it comes to anything that any huckster is selling to improve their one child's chances. A tiny percentage get into college and then a fraction of those are able to land college requiring jobs. Anything promising to give them an edge is bought up.
How much local privilege escalation vulnerabilities normal windows users worry about?
They probably don't worry about it at all because the vast majority of Windows users log in and run with an administrative level account in the first place.
meaning, you can find people with the necessary skills in other areas
What skills? A few people at the data center have mad skillz but most of them just need to know how to swap out tapes and failed hard drives and to not press the reset button until expressly told to do so. Most of the administration of the software, which is what needs the most training and skill, happens by people who are off site. Usually in India.
Meh, there are plenty of sites available to build your own hardened data center.
...on the iPhone, and no $400 reader required.
I read ebooks on my netbook, no $400 reader required. I just had to buy the netbook; did you have to buy your phone first? And a netbook costs less than an iphone if you shop around. Netbooks have FAR larger screens than readers and readers even have larger screens than the little iphone so what's your point?
A horse is a horse, even if someone is paid to tell you so.
Ah, but are they being paid to tell me an old nag will be the next Derby winner?
I'm not even going to put a foot in the flamefest over whether solid state mass storage is cost effective or even reliable - I only ask you don't call some chips that just sit there a spinning disk.
More than 1/4 of Intel's revenue comes from miscellaney chips and motherboards that are not microprocessors. That's a big enough chunk it shouldn't be dismissed as not a core business.
That this bug made it through means someone should be looking for employment and indicates a problem with management and internal processes, not that they shouldn't make the product in the first place.
What makes Intel a hard disk vendor anyway? Yes, it is still a disk
It's solid state mass storage, where "solid state" = "chips". A disk is a spinning thingy which is completely different. Since Intel designs and make chips (see: "solid state" = "chips"), it is a perfect choice for them to make solid state mass storage devices out of chips.
Have I mentioned the relationship between "solid state" and "chips" and how "solid state" != "spinning thingy"?