We have 72 1U rack-mounted dual 1GHz PIII boxes running Red Hat 7.1. Most of which are sitting idle at the moment, although that will change in the near future.:)
I wonder where we would be on that Most-Powerful-Computer list.
The Fed governs how much money is in circulation. As they add more "dollars" inflation grows because there is no real value behind it.
Er, no. The amount of currency (ie, bills, coins) in circulation is irrelevant to inflation. Inflation is caused by too much money, which is a different thing, and the Fed doesn't create money, the banks do.
Let's say I put $1000 in the bank. Joe Sixpack decides he needs a new roof on the trailer and takes out a $500 loan. Now Joe has $500, and I still have $1000 that I could (theoretically) withdraw at any time. The money supply has inflated from $1000 to $1500.
The Federal Reserve controls how much lending goes on by adjusting the prime rate. If too much borrowing is going on, they raise the prime rate, which causes the banks to raise their rates, which causes people to borrow less, which slows down inflation.
Any white Christian who starts seeing those of other ethnicities or religions as "Them" is not only a poor excuse for a Christian, but ought to be considered as bad as the terrorists themselves.
Don't know if anyone saw it, but last night on CNN, the scrolling headlines at the bottom of the screen said that Jerry Falwell blamed "pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians" for the disaster. Jackass.
I believe you are prepared to deal with something like this... But think about the rest of the passengers: 99% would shut up and try to deal with it. Unless something happens like in the 4th plane: as soon as the passengers knew it could crash on a big building they did something.
Well, the assumption used to be that hijackers always just wanted something. Everybody be quiet, let the plane land, let them state their demands, etc, etc. After Tuesday, these assumptions no longer apply. I think it's going to be much harder to hijack a plane from now on.
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Has anyone seen any major wreckage from the 4th plane, such as the tail? If you look at other crash photos, this almost always survives. Unless of course, the plane was hit from the back by a missile which could disintegrate the back of the plane.
As my old man used to say: you're so full of shit your eyes are brown. There's almost nothing left of the plane that hit the Pentagon, and it wasn't hit by a middile. When the 737 went down in Pittsburgh a few years ago, it plowed almost vertically into the ground, and there was nothing left of it either. In other words, you have no idea what you're talking about, so STFU.
I disagree. I think, symbolically the best thing to do would be to rebuild the towers. If we don't, then we might as well admit to the terrorists that they won.
I dont feel like getting into a MS monopoly argument, so I am not going to say that MS isnt a monopoly, even though I believe they are not (and that the courts will eventually agree with me).
Um, AFAIK, the courts have already agreed that MS is a monopoly. What they are arguing about now is whether MS illegally used their monopoly position to crush other companies. (Duh.)
I disagree with that. I'm strongly opposed to school prayer or posting the 10 Commandments, etc. But we had a 'moment of silent meditation' every morning when I was in school, and I was never bothered in the least. There was no pressure to pray, and I usually just thought about what homework was due that day.:)
Get a clue. "Ursa Major" is a constellation made of many stars at vastly varying distances, none of which is 3 light years. The closest star (after the sun) is Proxima Centauri which is something like 4.25 light years away.
I find this humorous since the other theories of man and Earth's origin, such as the Big Bang Theory, Darwinism, etc., require an equal dose of blind faith and inconsistent and impractical arguments and ideas.
Actually, they require evidence in their favor, which they have. What's the evidence behind creationism again? I mean besides the Bible.
That's just one constant, doesn't mean that the changes in all the constants was that small.
Well, there's one problem. You can't just change the speed of light without mucking up other things. And if you change the speed of light to the degree necessary to make the universe be 6000 years old instead of the ~15 billion that it looks, then probably we wouldn't even be here to argue about it.
You might as well just invoke a miracle and be done with it
Up until now scientist had been swearing up and down that they do not change, whoops guess they were wrong again;)
At least they can admit they were wrong and correct the mistakes, something which religion has rarely managed to do.
Anyway lots of people have postulate large decays in light speed, not small ones.
Actually, they shouldn't treat them the same way paper is treated. The potential of e-books (above and beyond uses of paper books) is
1. easy to search
2. easy to cut and paste favorite passages
3. does not require much storage space
Advantages of paper books:
1. Don't need batteries
2. Don't have to worry about dropping it
3. If you lose it, it's no big deal
4. Don't have to worry about file format changing, so you can still read it in 10 years
4. is easily portable
How much more portable is a piece of electronic equipment that you have to put in a case, protect from water, dirt, being hit, etc?
This part really gets me suspicious: Columbus claims that the results directly contradict the Earth being flat. The Earth being flat is pretty "solid" these days. To find a direct contradiction in it these days would be a huge suprise and is very unlikely.
Bzzt. Columbus knew the earth was round. So did everyone else since the ancient Greeks. He just thought it was smaller than it is.
(P4): It said I was eaten by a grue, and I can't continue configuring it. What's a grue?
A grue is a sinister lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.
Back in the 1970's the same global warming scaremongers were telling us that a new global ice age was coming. Now it is global warming.
It's the same thing.:) Increased temperatures lead to more evaporation from the oceans; which leads to increased snowfall in the high latitudes; which leads to greater glacial coverage; which leads to more sunlight being reflected back into space; which leads (after a few thousand years) to an ice age.
It would be nice if usenet messages adopted HTML formatting.
Well, some newsreaders can display HTML messages. Of course, it's annoying to everyone else, it's bad etiquette, it'll get you flamed, and it makes you looks like an idiot. It's up to you.:)
usenet does not rate above the world wide web in terms of importance.
Depends on how you define "important". If I need the answer to a really tricky or obscure problem, the web is next to useless. Oh sure, I could go to google and do a search and hope that one of the 200 results that come up has something useful. But the best chance of finding an answer is to post to comp.whatever, where thousands of people can read my message.
Just this week I found the solution to a maddening problem I was having with a complicated MPI program. After searching the web (and finding nothing), I posted to comp.parallel.mpi. A fellow in the UK read it and sent me a mail saying he was having the same problem. We traded some info back and forth about what we had tried and what hadn't worked. A day later he had figured it out and sent me the info on how to fix it. If it wasn't for Usenet, I'd probably still be banging my head against the wall.
The difference between the web and Usenet is that when I post a question to a newsgroup, it gets distributed to the people who know how to help; but with the web, I have to go rummaging around trying to find a needle in a giant haystack.
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We have 72 1U rack-mounted dual 1GHz PIII boxes running Red Hat 7.1. Most of which are sitting idle at the moment, although that will change in the near future. :)
I wonder where we would be on that Most-Powerful-Computer list.
You'll pardon me if I think you're insane.
Mmmm, T'Pol.
Er, no. The amount of currency (ie, bills, coins) in circulation is irrelevant to inflation. Inflation is caused by too much money, which is a different thing, and the Fed doesn't create money, the banks do.
Let's say I put $1000 in the bank. Joe Sixpack decides he needs a new roof on the trailer and takes out a $500 loan. Now Joe has $500, and I still have $1000 that I could (theoretically) withdraw at any time. The money supply has inflated from $1000 to $1500.
The Federal Reserve controls how much lending goes on by adjusting the prime rate. If too much borrowing is going on, they raise the prime rate, which causes the banks to raise their rates, which causes people to borrow less, which slows down inflation.
Actually, there's a lot of creationists who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence against it, which is different.
Don't know if anyone saw it, but last night on CNN, the scrolling headlines at the bottom of the screen said that Jerry Falwell blamed "pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians" for the disaster. Jackass.
Well, the assumption used to be that hijackers always just wanted something. Everybody be quiet, let the plane land, let them state their demands, etc, etc. After Tuesday, these assumptions no longer apply. I think it's going to be much harder to hijack a plane from now on.
As my old man used to say: you're so full of shit your eyes are brown. There's almost nothing left of the plane that hit the Pentagon, and it wasn't hit by a middile. When the 737 went down in Pittsburgh a few years ago, it plowed almost vertically into the ground, and there was nothing left of it either. In other words, you have no idea what you're talking about, so STFU.
I disagree. I think, symbolically the best thing to do would be to rebuild the towers. If we don't, then we might as well admit to the terrorists that they won.
Actually, I have, and he said OK. You need a better job.
Um, AFAIK, the courts have already agreed that MS is a monopoly. What they are arguing about now is whether MS illegally used their monopoly position to crush other companies. (Duh.)
I disagree with that. I'm strongly opposed to school prayer or posting the 10 Commandments, etc. But we had a 'moment of silent meditation' every morning when I was in school, and I was never bothered in the least. There was no pressure to pray, and I usually just thought about what homework was due that day.
Well, I don't have a laptop, and I don't want one; and my 21" SGI CRT on my desk is pretty sweet. So:
Bottom line...to hell with those tiny cheap flimsy piexes of crap they call Liquid Crystal Displays. I want my desktop CRT!
Right on, brother. I am in total agreement. I only have one question: Who are Flock of Seagulls?
I thought that was the *problem*. :)
Get a clue. "Ursa Major" is a constellation made of many stars at vastly varying distances, none of which is 3 light years. The closest star (after the sun) is Proxima Centauri which is something like 4.25 light years away.
Actually, they require evidence in their favor, which they have. What's the evidence behind creationism again? I mean besides the Bible.
Well, there's one problem. You can't just change the speed of light without mucking up other things. And if you change the speed of light to the degree necessary to make the universe be 6000 years old instead of the ~15 billion that it looks, then probably we wouldn't even be here to argue about it.
You might as well just invoke a miracle and be done with it
Up until now scientist had been swearing up and down that they do not change, whoops guess they were wrong again ;)
At least they can admit they were wrong and correct the mistakes, something which religion has rarely managed to do.
Anyway lots of people have postulate large decays in light speed, not small ones.
And their evidence is.... what?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section2.h tml
Evolutionary theory also doesn't really make testable predictions.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/predict.h tml
Advantages of paper books: 1. Don't need batteries
2. Don't have to worry about dropping it
3. If you lose it, it's no big deal
4. Don't have to worry about file format changing, so you can still read it in 10 years
4. is easily portable
How much more portable is a piece of electronic equipment that you have to put in a case, protect from water, dirt, being hit, etc?
No, we lived out in the boondocks, so there wasn't any town to go make hell on. And anyway, I had homework to do.
Can I collect on your bet now please? :)
Bzzt. Columbus knew the earth was round. So did everyone else since the ancient Greeks. He just thought it was smaller than it is.
A grue is a sinister lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.
HTH.
It's the same thing. :) Increased temperatures lead to more evaporation from the oceans; which leads to increased snowfall in the high latitudes; which leads to greater glacial coverage; which leads to more sunlight being reflected back into space; which leads (after a few thousand years) to an ice age.
It would be nice if usenet messages adopted HTML formatting. Well, some newsreaders can display HTML messages. Of course, it's annoying to everyone else, it's bad etiquette, it'll get you flamed, and it makes you looks like an idiot. It's up to you. :)
Depends on how you define "important". If I need the answer to a really tricky or obscure problem, the web is next to useless. Oh sure, I could go to google and do a search and hope that one of the 200 results that come up has something useful. But the best chance of finding an answer is to post to comp.whatever, where thousands of people can read my message.
Just this week I found the solution to a maddening problem I was having with a complicated MPI program. After searching the web (and finding nothing), I posted to comp.parallel.mpi. A fellow in the UK read it and sent me a mail saying he was having the same problem. We traded some info back and forth about what we had tried and what hadn't worked. A day later he had figured it out and sent me the info on how to fix it. If it wasn't for Usenet, I'd probably still be banging my head against the wall.
The difference between the web and Usenet is that when I post a question to a newsgroup, it gets distributed to the people who know how to help; but with the web, I have to go rummaging around trying to find a needle in a giant haystack.