I particularly like the ramping up of the temperature a couple of times. Then he drops it significantly. That sounds like ramping it up so far that it's *uncomfortable*, and then needing a cooler burst to recover from your stupidity.
You don't believe that when thousands of military personnel and contractors are given diplomatic immunity that they suddenly stop being part of the military, do you? There are still thousands of US military in Iraq, most of them stationed, sorry "being diplomatic", in the US embassy complex (which is almost the size of the entire Vatican City State).
Citation needed? Would you believe the Governemnt's own Accountability Office in the Department of State? Try http://iraq.usembassy.gov/political-military-affairs.html and http://iraq.usembassy.gov/security-office.html for a start, found in about 10 seconds of googling.
And his "investment in clean energy" historically seems to just mean little more than handing out a billion dollars to businesses who had nothing but powerpoint slides. (And who had probably greased lobbyists palms with silver.)
He's no hero, he's just a businessman who's currently CEO of the biggest business in the world, one that answers to noone, and who's friendly with lots of other businessmen who only answer to him.
Wonderful! Google claims that's original - may I have that as one of my rotating usenet/email sigs? (And would you rather be credited by nick or by name?)
However, a light- or large-enough ball (such as a balloon) could easily be made to be positively buoyant in Tungsten Hexafluoride. (Even if a balloon would be excluded from being a "ball" as it is lacking the rigidity to keep its own ball-like shape, I'm pretty sure one could spray a small quantity of lacquer onto its surface such that it would keep its shape after being punctured, and then re-sealed with ordinary-pressure air inside. If that fails, just reach for a ball of aerogel...)
The strong force has no effect at such distances, it's only effective within nucleus-sized ranges (a few femtometres, several orders of magnitude smaller than an atomic radius). It's just the normal electromagnetic force that's required to keep solid objects from intersecting each other.
[mode=playing devil's avocado] Who told you that? You clearly believe them, but why did you believe them? Was there a time when you didn't think that way? [/mode]
Yes, I've just left the science of physics (and its associated sub-subject chemisty, and its associated sub-sub-subject biology), and entered the philosophical world of metaphysics. However, if you didn't notice I injected the word "believe" in the above questions, you'll ill-equipt to tackle some of the hard-line god-squad loonies who are assaulting everyone's intelligence. (And also see the definition of "theory" in the bill in question, for a demonstration why such word choice is important.)
However, their definition of theory is set up to deliberately dilute what it means, compared to what it means to a scientist, for example by uncluding the word "faith" to describe the metaphysics involved in adopting scientific principles. Likewise, to a scientist, "theory" has an inherant implication of being predictive (because experiments must be reproduceable, and therefore the verity of a theory implies a prediction that when a repeat experiment is performed, the outcome will support that theory).
Most modern biologists would consider viruses as non-living (heck - some of them are little more than crystals!). Therefore your question's ill-formed.
It's still broken in that in 10 seconds the upper one's estimate of "11 minutes" will magically change to "5 minutes" as the bandwidth available to it increases.
Sure, it also provides you with a bunch of other information that helps you work things out yourself, but the single thing that people most want - time remaining - remains bogus.
What's the global economy of *stuff* worth, though? I think the last figure I saw showed that 95% of the "global economy" was in fact just the value of bets about the future value or change of value of things that themselves might or not be *stuff*, rather than actually being *stuff*. In which case, the impact of this new *stuff* would be 20 times higher.
However, their premise is totally bogus, it seems to ignore even the most basic economic principles, such at laws of supply and demand. I don't know why I even clidked on the story, I knew it would wind me up...
Also, normally racks are small, with small fans that need to spin quicker in order to move the same volume of air per unit time. And fan noise is proportional to roughly the 5th power of the rotation speed. Half the diameter, quadruple the speed to keep up, and have 1000x the noise!
And that $1000 would be for a brand new system. The guy's penny-pinching, he'll be able to pick up stuff that's a year or two old for well under half price.
And $1000 seems absurd for something that just has to be a server. There's no need for a video card (or even a monitor), for a start, and not-needing a video card, its PSU can be rated at a lower wattage, so cheaper. The last time I bought 3 brand new servers, I paid 800e for *the lot*. Since then I've replaced 2 of them and upgraded the third for a cost of about 200e, as I've been buying old kit since then. My compute requirements haven't increased over time, there's absolutely no reason to upgrade those systems. And I pay money to heat my office most of the year, so the energy my servers burn reduces my heating bill.
As you can probably tell, I'm a host-it-yourself proponent.
When had clients across the water, the 2 hours on the ferry to the client, and sometimes the 2 hours back, could be turned into good billable hours. So my choice of ferry was purely related to convenience for me. What did I want to do with that time. If nothing, then I'd take a fast one; if something, then I may at least get a good solid session in, and a slow one would be fine.
If you're waiting for a batch job to complete, then you're dumb at scheduling - you should have made sue that you can fill that time with other useful things to do.
However, I presume that minecraft servers aren't batch processing, I presume Minecraft is interactive, so whoever-it-was's comments about batch processing was irrelevant. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Minecraft apart from seeing some screenshots that look like Wolfenstein 3D from the early 90s.)
> fried in vegetable fat they'd taste pretty good, in animal fat they'd be pretty horrid
Why did McDonalds put relatively expensive (compared to the price of vegetable oils) extracts from animal fats in the "vegetable" oil they fried their chips in, if it wasn't for the fact that frying chips in animal fat makes them taste awesome?
Thank you both for those links, I shall watch them both with interest. While downloading/Sugar: The Bitter Truth/ for later viewing, I watched/How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemic/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vr-c8GeT34 which was equally fascinating a thesis, and delivered exactly what it promised. It's shocking that the lies and corruption run so deep.
I'm not sure I can trust a WSJ write-up. Perhaps err.ee have covered it, but I don't see anything resembling that presently. I also don't know anyone with kids of school age here, so can't verify what the real implications are.
Certainly, being able to use the commonly-available equipment in order to perform tedious calculations is a more useful skill than being able to manually perform those calculations most of the time. However, the ability to detect an significant error in those calculations is vital, which means that some kind of mental arithmetic skills will always be necessary.
In Estonia, it's explicitly the law that they must carry the per-kg/per-l price on the shelf tag or item itself.
Which reminds me, I have some photos to send to the consumer protection board - those shelf tags can sometimes be hilariously wrong. Having said that, maybe I should send them to the supermarkets first, and see if they reward me with a free supermarket sweep. Blackmail's not below me, when there's the possibility of free food - do I look stupid?!?!
Indeed. And it seems as if the details he recounted in his screed (it's not a manifesto) about the case (such as the comment about wearing a tie) are in the official police record (which has been leaked), and which imply that there were definitely some untruths being told and covered up.
Slashdot Mirror
I particularly like the ramping up of the temperature a couple of times. Then he drops it significantly. That sounds like ramping it up so far that it's *uncomfortable*, and then needing a cooler burst to recover from your stupidity.
> Its a great show, and I enjoy it tremendously.
It's a dreadful show, and I enjoy it tremendously.
You don't believe that when thousands of military personnel and contractors are given diplomatic immunity that they suddenly stop being part of the military, do you? There are still thousands of US military in Iraq, most of them stationed, sorry "being diplomatic", in the US embassy complex (which is almost the size of the entire Vatican City State).
Citation needed? Would you believe the Governemnt's own Accountability Office in the Department of State? Try http://iraq.usembassy.gov/political-military-affairs.html and http://iraq.usembassy.gov/security-office.html for a start, found in about 10 seconds of googling.
And his "investment in clean energy" historically seems to just mean little more than handing out a billion dollars to businesses who had nothing but powerpoint slides. (And who had probably greased lobbyists palms with silver.)
He's no hero, he's just a businessman who's currently CEO of the biggest business in the world, one that answers to noone, and who's friendly with lots of other businessmen who only answer to him.
"I do not think, therefore He is."
Wonderful! Google claims that's original - may I have that as one of my rotating usenet/email sigs? (And would you rather be credited by nick or by name?)
Liquids are cheating!
However, a light- or large-enough ball (such as a balloon) could easily be made to be positively buoyant in Tungsten Hexafluoride. (Even if a balloon would be excluded from being a "ball" as it is lacking the rigidity to keep its own ball-like shape, I'm pretty sure one could spray a small quantity of lacquer onto its surface such that it would keep its shape after being punctured, and then re-sealed with ordinary-pressure air inside. If that fails, just reach for a ball of aerogel...)
The strong force has no effect at such distances, it's only effective within nucleus-sized ranges (a few femtometres, several orders of magnitude smaller than an atomic radius). It's just the normal electromagnetic force that's required to keep solid objects from intersecting each other.
> Reproducible, observable physical experiments define scientific fact.
[mode=playing devil's avocado]
Who told you that? You clearly believe them, but why did you believe them? Was there a time when you didn't think that way?
[/mode]
Yes, I've just left the science of physics (and its associated sub-subject chemisty, and its associated sub-sub-subject biology), and entered the philosophical world of metaphysics. However, if you didn't notice I injected the word "believe" in the above questions, you'll ill-equipt to tackle some of the hard-line god-squad loonies who are assaulting everyone's intelligence. (And also see the definition of "theory" in the bill in question, for a demonstration why such word choice is important.)
However, their definition of theory is set up to deliberately dilute what it means, compared to what it means to a scientist, for example by uncluding the word "faith" to describe the metaphysics involved in adopting scientific principles. Likewise, to a scientist, "theory" has an inherant implication of being predictive (because experiments must be reproduceable, and therefore the verity of a theory implies a prediction that when a repeat experiment is performed, the outcome will support that theory).
Most modern biologists would consider viruses as non-living (heck - some of them are little more than crystals!). Therefore your question's ill-formed.
Almost everything before the revelation of saint john has no objective evidence. And the revelation of saint john ain't exactly well supported either.
These guys:
http://www.humboldt.edu/arcatamarsh/
It's still broken in that in 10 seconds the upper one's estimate of "11 minutes" will magically change to "5 minutes" as the bandwidth available to it increases.
Sure, it also provides you with a bunch of other information that helps you work things out yourself, but the single thing that people most want - time remaining - remains bogus.
So, what's the value of the sun?
Do such statements even *make sense*?
What's the global economy of *stuff* worth, though? I think the last figure I saw showed that 95% of the "global economy" was in fact just the value of bets about the future value or change of value of things that themselves might or not be *stuff*, rather than actually being *stuff*. In which case, the impact of this new *stuff* would be 20 times higher.
However, their premise is totally bogus, it seems to ignore even the most basic economic principles, such at laws of supply and demand. I don't know why I even clidked on the story, I knew it would wind me up...
Also, normally racks are small, with small fans that need to spin quicker in order to move the same volume of air per unit time. And fan noise is proportional to roughly the 5th power of the rotation speed. Half the diameter, quadruple the speed to keep up, and have 1000x the noise!
And that $1000 would be for a brand new system. The guy's penny-pinching, he'll be able to pick up stuff that's a year or two old for well under half price.
And $1000 seems absurd for something that just has to be a server. There's no need for a video card (or even a monitor), for a start, and not-needing a video card, its PSU can be rated at a lower wattage, so cheaper. The last time I bought 3 brand new servers, I paid 800e for *the lot*. Since then I've replaced 2 of them and upgraded the third for a cost of about 200e, as I've been buying old kit since then. My compute requirements haven't increased over time, there's absolutely no reason to upgrade those systems. And I pay money to heat my office most of the year, so the energy my servers burn reduces my heating bill.
As you can probably tell, I'm a host-it-yourself proponent.
When had clients across the water, the 2 hours on the ferry to the client, and sometimes the 2 hours back, could be turned into good billable hours. So my choice of ferry was purely related to convenience for me. What did I want to do with that time. If nothing, then I'd take a fast one; if something, then I may at least get a good solid session in, and a slow one would be fine.
If you're waiting for a batch job to complete, then you're dumb at scheduling - you should have made sue that you can fill that time with other useful things to do.
However, I presume that minecraft servers aren't batch processing, I presume Minecraft is interactive, so whoever-it-was's comments about batch processing was irrelevant. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Minecraft apart from seeing some screenshots that look like Wolfenstein 3D from the early 90s.)
> fried in vegetable fat they'd taste pretty good, in animal fat they'd be pretty horrid
Why did McDonalds put relatively expensive (compared to the price of vegetable oils) extracts from animal fats in the "vegetable" oil they fried their chips in, if it wasn't for the fact that frying chips in animal fat makes them taste awesome?
Nowadays it's pretty crap, but there's always Orangina.
Thank you both for those links, I shall watch them both with interest. While downloading /Sugar: The Bitter Truth/ for later viewing, I watched /How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemic/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vr-c8GeT34
which was equally fascinating a thesis, and delivered exactly what it promised. It's shocking that the lies and corruption run so deep.
I'm not sure I can trust a WSJ write-up. Perhaps err.ee have covered it, but I don't see anything resembling that presently. I also don't know anyone with kids of school age here, so can't verify what the real implications are.
Certainly, being able to use the commonly-available equipment in order to perform tedious calculations is a more useful skill than being able to manually perform those calculations most of the time. However, the ability to detect an significant error in those calculations is vital, which means that some kind of mental arithmetic skills will always be necessary.
In Estonia, it's explicitly the law that they must carry the per-kg/per-l price on the shelf tag or item itself.
Which reminds me, I have some photos to send to the consumer protection board - those shelf tags can sometimes be hilariously wrong. Having said that, maybe I should send them to the supermarkets first, and see if they reward me with a free supermarket sweep. Blackmail's not below me, when there's the possibility of free food - do I look stupid?!?!
The closest to a good guy is Charlie Sheen!
Indeed. And it seems as if the details he recounted in his screed (it's not a manifesto) about the case (such as the comment about wearing a tie) are in the official police record (which has been leaked), and which imply that there were definitely some untruths being told and covered up.