The phrase "shale oil" is both incorrect and misleading.
You don't actually have any oil until it's converted and extracted.
Under present circumstances, this is not very economical, is very wasteful of water if suing aboveground processing and produces a lot of waste that isn't easy to dispose of.
While Perot's share of the popular vote was impressive, he didn't win any electoral votes and his support across the political spectrum was very broad.
In short, even if Perot hadn't run, Bush still would have lost.
Unless my old MSI dual Pentium 2 board still works, I don't have anything left with AGP slots.
But I wouldn't be much of a challenge anyway, unless you're really, really bad at the game - I just never had the knack.
I could find you some real competition, a few guys who could frag like nobody's business but they've all moved on to the high-end long ago.
I'd be shocked if any of them had anything less than a Nvidia 8800GT in their weakest tower.
For most things I do, I could probably use my old ATI Rage (Pro? 128? ) from '98, if any of my old mainboards with AGP slots still work.
But there are the unexpected things that trip you up. Case in point - my 5 year old 19" LCD died without warning last week and I didn't have time to open it up to see if it was fixable.
Because I had something that absolutely needed to be done, I rushed out and bought the first affordable quality (I hope) monitor I could find - a Viewsonic 2231.
It wasn't until I was unpacking it that it occurred to me that 1) this was widescreen and 2) would the old video card support its 1920 x 1080 resolution.
Fortunately, everything was just fine in Windows 7 once I installed the monitor definition file from the incl CD ( and my Fedora Linux setup didn't need any config at all).
But if I hadn't upgraded the videocard a 2 years ago, I don't think any of my older ones would have supported the max / native resolution and LCDs usually look awful and blurry if you run at lower res.
It's good to know that Linux isn't being left too far behind. The games I usually play aren't too demanding on video cards made in the last 5-7 years so I tend not to notice but the high end gaming community is important and the more of them we can attract, the better for Linux overall.
Canada's Tom Harpur, a (former?) Anglican priest and a very educated man, has written extensively of what he calls the Pagan Christ, showing how many pre-existing myths, some of Egyptian origin, were woven into the stories about Jesus, the immaculate conception, etc.
If you've been following US politics for any length of time, it should be clear to you which party has the (far more) significant lack of scientific understanding and support among its SENIOR elected officials.
Also EVERY one of the Republican candidates except Huntsman now claim to firmly believe that global warming is a hoax, that the world has been cooling for 15 years and there are others (all Republicans as far as I've seen ) like Inhofe who have publicly stated that God won't let anything really bad happen to the world.
And which energy company do you trust to have the "moral resolve" to act like this?
Are you aware that tobacco industry shills STILL claim there is no link to lung cancer?
If there were a reasonable chance of a Quantum Fireball scenario, a conservative, reliability-conscious enterprise would have processes in place to mitigate the impact ( of course, nothing is foolproof) but certainly wouldn't be actively undermining their own safety so that some employees would get a bigger paycheck or bonuses.
The financial industry, at several levels, worked DILIGENTLY to undermine every thing they should have learned from a century of meltdowns with the collusion of banks, mortgage lenders, credit rating agencies, etc.
Going back to your scenario, imagine that a few decent sized shops had a drive-related, site-wide meltdown then EMC, Samsung, Seagate, Underwriters Labs and Tyco Fire Suppression got together to make a greater number of failure-prone drives, falsify reliability stats, reduce the effectiveness and visibility of the storage management products and install mitigation systems that would actually cause a chain reaction throughout any industry that used any of their products.
You completely left out the the MOST signficant part - the repackaging of marginal mortgages as AAA securities - some of which were resold over and over.
There was staggering greed and collusion among leaders in an industry that is supposed to be conservative about risk.
Loan defaults were the trigger but without those toxic collateralized debt objects, many of which had been sold overseas - again as SAFE investments, there would have still been something of a housing bubble bursting but certainly not a near-GLOBAL meltdown.
That didn't work so well for the Postal Service, did it. If you have fuckwads with clout and an agenda, except to finds their wads up in your business.
The healthcare outfit I'm currently working for is in the final stages of an SAP launch. We just came out of a 3-year hiring freeze; I'm guessing that, except for SAP drones, we're about to go back into another one.
This was always the Tesla plan as stated in a blog post by Elon back in 2006; the money he (hopes to) make from the luxury / niche premium vehicles will be used to fund development of more practical, everyday autos.
The reliability is fixable but the problem with incompressible data would need a redesign unless they have a way of quickly detecting such data and transferring immediately without compression.
Looking at the files I have stored on spinning disks, I estimate it to be 75% incompressible data.
I have an Athlon64 X2 3600+ I can throw together to test; it's the lowest I can go for a functional AMD machine but I'll have to scavenge for videocard and power supply and I'll try underclocking it - I don't think that mainboard will let me disable a CPU but I can try using processor affinity to force as many things as possible onto 1 CPU
What are your system specs? I've been running only on AMD desktops for 6 years and haven't seen anything like you describe. There have been issues but nothing that is dramatically different from the other browsers, except for memory hogging.
Right now I'm on a Athlon II X4 640, FF 10, a handful of addons, 100+ tabs spread across 15 windows and memory / CPU is running at 900MB / 6-15%.
Just a few hours ago, while still running FF9.01, the same tabs / windows were hogging about 2GB.
Did you ever watch the original series or the movies? Dr McCoy has fears about the transporter for many of the same reasons. And the episode The Enemy Within showed that, a (malfunctioning) transporter could technically clone a person.
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Even if you don't drink or don't like beer, this Discovery Channel special is both informative and entertaining http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8SdkufNBo
The phrase "shale oil" is both incorrect and misleading. You don't actually have any oil until it's converted and extracted. Under present circumstances, this is not very economical, is very wasteful of water if suing aboveground processing and produces a lot of waste that isn't easy to dispose of.
Conservatives Mislead Voters
While Perot's share of the popular vote was impressive, he didn't win any electoral votes and his support across the political spectrum was very broad.
In short, even if Perot hadn't run, Bush still would have lost.
Unless my old MSI dual Pentium 2 board still works, I don't have anything left with AGP slots.
But I wouldn't be much of a challenge anyway, unless you're really, really bad at the game - I just never had the knack. I could find you some real competition, a few guys who could frag like nobody's business but they've all moved on to the high-end long ago.
I'd be shocked if any of them had anything less than a Nvidia 8800GT in their weakest tower.
That's all? Two is clearly not enough; I guess they feel that, with only Nvidia as a competitor, the small Linux base isn't worth it.
For most things I do, I could probably use my old ATI Rage (Pro? 128? ) from '98, if any of my old mainboards with AGP slots still work. But there are the unexpected things that trip you up. Case in point - my 5 year old 19" LCD died without warning last week and I didn't have time to open it up to see if it was fixable. Because I had something that absolutely needed to be done, I rushed out and bought the first affordable quality (I hope) monitor I could find - a Viewsonic 2231. It wasn't until I was unpacking it that it occurred to me that 1) this was widescreen and 2) would the old video card support its 1920 x 1080 resolution. Fortunately, everything was just fine in Windows 7 once I installed the monitor definition file from the incl CD ( and my Fedora Linux setup didn't need any config at all). But if I hadn't upgraded the videocard a 2 years ago, I don't think any of my older ones would have supported the max / native resolution and LCDs usually look awful and blurry if you run at lower res.
It's good to know that Linux isn't being left too far behind. The games I usually play aren't too demanding on video cards made in the last 5-7 years so I tend not to notice but the high end gaming community is important and the more of them we can attract, the better for Linux overall.
Six years is a long time in the graphics world and AMD / ATI have had plenty of time to fix their broken stuff.
Canada's Tom Harpur, a (former?) Anglican priest and a very educated man, has written extensively of what he calls the Pagan Christ, showing how many pre-existing myths, some of Egyptian origin, were woven into the stories about Jesus, the immaculate conception, etc.
If you've been following US politics for any length of time, it should be clear to you which party has the (far more) significant lack of scientific understanding and support among its SENIOR elected officials. Also EVERY one of the Republican candidates except Huntsman now claim to firmly believe that global warming is a hoax, that the world has been cooling for 15 years and there are others (all Republicans as far as I've seen ) like Inhofe who have publicly stated that God won't let anything really bad happen to the world.
She also drank a lot of red wine and didn't quit smoking until she was 118 - somebody call the American Cancer Society.
And which energy company do you trust to have the "moral resolve" to act like this? Are you aware that tobacco industry shills STILL claim there is no link to lung cancer?
SHHHH!!! Don't destroy the dreams of the mainframe grandpas - that's just mean-spirited of you.
The financial industry, at several levels, worked DILIGENTLY to undermine every thing they should have learned from a century of meltdowns with the collusion of banks, mortgage lenders, credit rating agencies, etc.
Going back to your scenario, imagine that a few decent sized shops had a drive-related, site-wide meltdown then EMC, Samsung, Seagate, Underwriters Labs and Tyco Fire Suppression got together to make a greater number of failure-prone drives, falsify reliability stats, reduce the effectiveness and visibility of the storage management products and install mitigation systems that would actually cause a chain reaction throughout any industry that used any of their products.
You completely left out the the MOST signficant part - the repackaging of marginal mortgages as AAA securities - some of which were resold over and over. There was staggering greed and collusion among leaders in an industry that is supposed to be conservative about risk. Loan defaults were the trigger but without those toxic collateralized debt objects, many of which had been sold overseas - again as SAFE investments, there would have still been something of a housing bubble bursting but certainly not a near-GLOBAL meltdown.
Geeks can only know and learn what they can get access to. For all the reliability, power and throughput of mainframes, they're not what made the Web
That didn't work so well for the Postal Service, did it. If you have fuckwads with clout and an agenda, except to finds their wads up in your business.
Gosh, the financial outfits are sure really, really worried about losing money.
I guess that means they are naturally very, very careful
So explain to me just how the fucking financial crisis happened with all these cautious souls on constant watch.
The healthcare outfit I'm currently working for is in the final stages of an SAP launch. We just came out of a 3-year hiring freeze; I'm guessing that, except for SAP drones, we're about to go back into another one.
This was always the Tesla plan as stated in a blog post by Elon back in 2006; the money he (hopes to) make from the luxury / niche premium vehicles will be used to fund development of more practical, everyday autos.
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me
The reliability is fixable but the problem with incompressible data would need a redesign unless they have a way of quickly detecting such data and transferring immediately without compression. Looking at the files I have stored on spinning disks, I estimate it to be 75% incompressible data.
I have an Athlon64 X2 3600+ I can throw together to test; it's the lowest I can go for a functional AMD machine but I'll have to scavenge for videocard and power supply and I'll try underclocking it - I don't think that mainboard will let me disable a CPU but I can try using processor affinity to force as many things as possible onto 1 CPU
What are your system specs? I've been running only on AMD desktops for 6 years and haven't seen anything like you describe. There have been issues but nothing that is dramatically different from the other browsers, except for memory hogging.
Right now I'm on a Athlon II X4 640, FF 10, a handful of addons, 100+ tabs spread across 15 windows and memory / CPU is running at 900MB / 6-15%. Just a few hours ago, while still running FF9.01, the same tabs / windows were hogging about 2GB.
Did you ever watch the original series or the movies? Dr McCoy has fears about the transporter for many of the same reasons. And the episode The Enemy Within showed that, a (malfunctioning) transporter could technically clone a person.