Of course.
If you had access crappy content slowly, you'd be royally pissed when it finally loads. Used to happen to me all the time on 14.4k dialup. At least if it loads quickly, I can write it off faster and go look for slightly less inept content.
This particular Honda Fit is not even properly assembled so it couldn't even bring a new set of tires for the dump truck. Did you miss the part where it was stated "and a tertiary goal is to be better than ZFS" The implication is that it will eventually be a ZFS replacement. My point is that they are so far behind and have accomplished so little to date, that will NEVER happen.
If they prove me wrong, good for them. I'm always on the lookout for a better tool or way to do things but I stand by my remark that this project is going nowhere fast.
That's a good question. After all, Intel was able to use their vastly superior fab capabilities to fend off AMD's enhanced tech for years until they released their Nehalem architecture to definitively take back the desktop CPU performance crown.
AMD made it easy to upgrade incrementally; not sure if the same would have been true of Intel as I've not had an Intel desktop in over 10 yrs.
Bought a Athlon X2 with nForce-based mainboard & DDR2 RAM in 2006. Maxed out the RAM & upgraded to Athlon II X4 in 2009 while keeping same mainboard. In 2011, bought new 990FX- based board to get SATA 3 / USB 3 & DDR3 RAM but kept the same 4-core CPU. Just last week, got a 8320 Black Edition 8-core at a good price and might soon get my first "AMD" videocard as an upgrade for my GeForce 9600GT.
Oklahoma has some fantastic wind & solar resources and adjoins the Texas Panhandle where there are many wind turbines and therefore a reasonable transmission infrastructure. Even if they didn't need the wind & solar, Texas can make very good use of it. They should be investing in those resources and they could probably get Texas to pay for a big chunk of it.
Each brewery will have to spend $13 million for drying and packaging?? HIGHLY doubtful, especially since the stuff is already being picked up several times a day.
If the regs go forward, what will happen is that it'll go to a centralized facility to be processed and the origin of each batch will be tracked there. That's job creation.
However, it will probably hurt some of the really small operations who can't fill a truckload on a regular basis or are remote. That'll be a pity since some of the little guys make some damn fine suds but this is hardly the death knell of brewing or the explosion of grain dumping.
"Lotus chassis"? Are you a time traveler stuck in limbo? Because the rest of the universe has moved on from 2010. The Model S body is a new design that Tesla cuts & stamps in its own factory. That may jibe with the longstanding Lotus philososphy of auto manufacturing but that does make the Model S a "Lotus chassis"
"Laptop batteries" While Tesla uses the same 18650 cells that are found in laptops, it's NOT a "laptop battery" - more details at: http://www.teslamotors.com/roa...
"and it is a TOY, not a car which can actually be used to go anywhere in the world" - define "anywhere"; it doesn't seem to have a problem in snowy Scandinavia. check out Bjorn Nyland's videos of long trips in his Model S - https://www.youtube.com/user/b...
"And idealists who know nothing about the real world of engineering embrace toys" - the NHTSA know a thing or two about engineering and they take pleasure in seeing just how well some "toys" stand up to mechanical stress & damage and they gave the Model S top marks.
"People who actually know something about vehicles know better" - Mercedes, BMW & Toyota who should know a thing or two about vehicles have all used Tesla's expertise in recent years. But, hey, what do they know, right?
"Reduced it's carbon footprint more than any other" - that's arguable. More likely the emissions have been shifted elsewhere since so much of the stuff North Americans buy comes from Asia and those container ships have horrible emissions thanks to the bunker fuel they burn. Even if I grant you that "reduced carbon footprint", it's still MUCH too high.
Get the per-capita emissions down to within 20% of the average advanced Western European country and then we'll talk.
Expanding fracking beyond what is now is a HORRIBLE idea; it sucks fresh water out of places that are already in short supply, emits large amounts of methane that have a much greater short-term GWP than CO2 and contaminates the water table.
Instead of repealing income taxes, just cut the defence budget to the $ equivalent of its lowest point during the Clinton administration; cut the DHS budget to 20% of its average since Obama took office and invest that money in job creation.
Solving the problem of nuclear disposal or reprocessing is required before you can build large numbers of new nuke plants which always cost much more and take longer than estimated. And efficiency measures at all levels should be a priority - and those kinds of new builds & retrofits would create millions of new jobs.
The lack of a carbon / emissions tax has hidden the depth of the problem from the average person. It's telling that most large corporations have been using an internal carbon tax for years - incl Exxon whose CEO has been calling for a carbon tax since 2009.
Slashdot Mirror
See below for the comment you likely intended to make before you had a Tourette's spasm
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
That should be Slashdotters, as in plural, sorry.
While I'm pleased to see a longstanding opensource project is alive & well, I'm not sure if it's really relevant anymore.
Slashdotter, what say you?
It used to be called Slashdotting.
Fortran & Lisp are both slightly older than COBOL; arguably Algol as well. :-D
COBOL as implemented is probably better than Plankalkul.
It's been about 30 yrs since I heard about her probably around the time of that video although I've never seen it before.
She's definitely a pioneer and very accomplished but the woman gave us COBOL for fuck's sake!!
I suppose but none of the ept content appeals to me
http://www.acronymfinder.com/E...
How do you figure that?
Of course.
If you had access crappy content slowly, you'd be royally pissed when it finally loads. Used to happen to me all the time on 14.4k dialup.
At least if it loads quickly, I can write it off faster and go look for slightly less inept content.
So you have to cut the groom out of the wedding photos after the divorce?
This particular Honda Fit is not even properly assembled so it couldn't even bring a new set of tires for the dump truck.
Did you miss the part where it was stated "and a tertiary goal is to be better than ZFS"
The implication is that it will eventually be a ZFS replacement. My point is that they are so far behind and have accomplished so little to date, that will NEVER happen.
If they prove me wrong, good for them. I'm always on the lookout for a better tool or way to do things but I stand by my remark that this project is going nowhere fast.
and they expect to be competitive with ZFS?? They have a LOT of work to do.
Right. Had forgotten about that, my bad.
Still very glad I never spent a penny on Dell hardware.
That's a good question. After all, Intel was able to use their vastly superior fab capabilities to fend off AMD's enhanced tech for years until they released their Nehalem architecture to definitively take back the desktop CPU performance crown.
They're not called ChipZilla for nothing.
AMD made it easy to upgrade incrementally; not sure if the same would have been true of Intel as I've not had an Intel desktop in over 10 yrs.
Bought a Athlon X2 with nForce-based mainboard & DDR2 RAM in 2006.
Maxed out the RAM & upgraded to Athlon II X4 in 2009 while keeping same mainboard.
In 2011, bought new 990FX- based board to get SATA 3 / USB 3 & DDR3 RAM but kept the same 4-core CPU.
Just last week, got a 8320 Black Edition 8-core at a good price and might soon get my first "AMD" videocard as an upgrade for my GeForce 9600GT.
"while technological advances have reduced the price tag for such an endeavour, lawyers will keep it expensive"
This is true of far too many things, beyond just the movie industry.
Nothing in the state song about sunshine? Tha's a pi'y
Meant to say "investing much more heavily in those resources and streamlining the process instead of introducing more obstacles"
Oklahoma has some fantastic wind & solar resources and adjoins the Texas Panhandle where there are many wind turbines and therefore a reasonable transmission infrastructure.
Even if they didn't need the wind & solar, Texas can make very good use of it. They should be investing in those resources and they could probably get Texas to pay for a big chunk of it.
Go look at the Congressional voting by region for that Civil Rights Act.
It was FAR more an issue of North vs South than of Republican vs Democrat.
Each brewery will have to spend $13 million for drying and packaging?? HIGHLY doubtful, especially since the stuff is already being picked up several times a day.
If the regs go forward, what will happen is that it'll go to a centralized facility to be processed and the origin of each batch will be tracked there.
That's job creation.
However, it will probably hurt some of the really small operations who can't fill a truckload on a regular basis or are remote.
That'll be a pity since some of the little guys make some damn fine suds but this is hardly the death knell of brewing or the explosion of grain dumping.
From the TFA:
So chill out, there are legit examples of gov't overreach but this isn't yet one of them.
And a lot of wind - currently closing in on 30% of electricity generation.
"Lotus chassis"? Are you a time traveler stuck in limbo? Because the rest of the universe has moved on from 2010.
The Model S body is a new design that Tesla cuts & stamps in its own factory. That may jibe with the longstanding Lotus philososphy of auto manufacturing but that does make the Model S a "Lotus chassis"
"Laptop batteries" While Tesla uses the same 18650 cells that are found in laptops, it's NOT a "laptop battery" - more details at:
http://www.teslamotors.com/roa...
"and it is a TOY, not a car which can actually be used to go anywhere in the world" - define "anywhere"; it doesn't seem to have a problem in snowy Scandinavia.
check out Bjorn Nyland's videos of long trips in his Model S - https://www.youtube.com/user/b...
"And idealists who know nothing about the real world of engineering embrace toys" - the NHTSA know a thing or two about engineering and they take pleasure in seeing just how well some "toys" stand up to mechanical stress & damage and they gave the Model S top marks.
"People who actually know something about vehicles know better" - Mercedes, BMW & Toyota who should know a thing or two about vehicles have all used Tesla's expertise in recent years. But, hey, what do they know, right?
"Reduced it's carbon footprint more than any other" - that's arguable. More likely the emissions have been shifted elsewhere since so much of the stuff North Americans buy comes from Asia and those container ships have horrible emissions thanks to the bunker fuel they burn.
Even if I grant you that "reduced carbon footprint", it's still MUCH too high.
Get the per-capita emissions down to within 20% of the average advanced Western European country and then we'll talk.
Expanding fracking beyond what is now is a HORRIBLE idea; it sucks fresh water out of places that are already in short supply, emits large amounts of methane that have a much greater short-term GWP than CO2 and contaminates the water table.
Instead of repealing income taxes, just cut the defence budget to the $ equivalent of its lowest point during the Clinton administration; cut the DHS budget to 20% of its average since Obama took office and invest that money in job creation.
Solving the problem of nuclear disposal or reprocessing is required before you can build large numbers of new nuke plants which always cost much more and take longer than estimated.
And efficiency measures at all levels should be a priority - and those kinds of new builds & retrofits would create millions of new jobs.
The lack of a carbon / emissions tax has hidden the depth of the problem from the average person. It's telling that most large corporations have been using an internal carbon tax for years - incl Exxon whose CEO has been calling for a carbon tax since 2009.