Here's why you'd want it: you'd never need to add a codec. VLC plays videos in every codec known to man, and several known only to dolphins. That, and it's a damn good music player, *and* it supports playing videos in the framebuffer in linux.
Performance in linux has been degrading since about 7, before which I never had memory leaks. After firefox took up over 60% of my RAM for 7 tabs, I swapped to chromium and never looked back.
'The private sector is handling this exceptionally well.'
Complete bullshit. Since AT&T has regained its stranglehold of the bell south days, there's been no progress. My service is currently about 50$ a month for 8Mbit/512k ADSL. Not the worst of it. Broadband coverage is, in fact, receding in my area. Areas that used to have DSL available now no longer do. Entire regions are going dark permanently, with nothing faster than dailup available.
I doubt this is happening for that exact reason. Every monitor besides my DVI monitors that I've ever seen uses still uses VGA for fuck's sake. There'd be a an uproar if someone considered shipping a tower with only HDMI.
Besides, even if they did, I'm sure adapters would continue to abound.
No, but I think the roman empire was much better than the dark ages that followed. The (Foundation) Empire wasn't even despotic until the end. I re-read it today though and I do agree with you, particularly the bit about imperial culture needing to die due to the loss of vitality and all that.
Exactly why we should be tearing down the old reactors and putting up the new Generation III+ and IV designs.
Anyway, the whole FUD thing was that you were saying centuries, whereas a few decades would probably be the absolute maximum. Have you seen the area around chernobyl? It's brimming with wildlife due to the nearly 30 years of absence of humans. It's not going to be too long before the area is completely safe, and Fukushima wasn't nearly that bad- NYT is just trying to sell more papers through sensationalism methinks.
Nitpick: UNinhabitable. Inhabitable = can be inhabited. It makes you sound like nuclear disasters are teraforming the world.
Yes, that one particular example in particular struck a cord. Paraphrasing:
The signs of decline are everywhere, recently a nuclear power plant melted down in (some star system). Their viceroy's response? Nuclear power plants are hard to maintain due to the lack of nuclear engineers. So, train more engineers? Unthinkable. Instead they opted to restrict nuclear power.
Great series, depressing insight into the decline and fall of the modern-day Empire.
Making areas uninhabitable for centures? Hardly, that's just FUD. I mean, chernobyl wasn't even THAT bad, and that's basically as bad as nuclear disasters come, they had fucking radioactive lava. Even that was the distant exception- the USSR in the 80's was well past its prime, and Chernobyl was of exceptionally poor design being run by an unstable authoritarian regieme. Hell, two cities that were directly nuked during WWII are doing fine today with regard to habitability.
Besides, modern reactors don't have even these problems, I highly doubt that natural, unenriched uranium or thorium is going to cause any trouble at all with regards to habitability- it's basically in the state it was dug out of the earth in. Not to mention that half-decent designs with regards to fail safes basically can't melt down, and natural fissile materials generally can't go into a self-sustaining chain reaction.
Basically the reason why the other reply was so harsh is that this excuse is trotted out whenever someone says so much as the word radioactive, and it's so tired and so fallacious of an argument, many in the pro-nuclear camp have grown extremely weary of hearing it, day in, and day out. That is not an interesting/reasoned argument, that's the argument that is trotted out whenever someone who does not understand nuclear technology gets involved in the debate.
And? Such skewed numbers are expected & proper, the top 20% owns something like 80-90% of the US- I figure they should pay about 80-90% of the taxes in the US.
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Here's why you'd want it: you'd never need to add a codec. VLC plays videos in every codec known to man, and several known only to dolphins. That, and it's a damn good music player, *and* it supports playing videos in the framebuffer in linux.
Just what I was thinking, if only I had modpoints.
1990 called?! Did you warn them about... the 21st century?
Performance in linux has been degrading since about 7, before which I never had memory leaks. After firefox took up over 60% of my RAM for 7 tabs, I swapped to chromium and never looked back.
Scumbag slashdotters, complain about political news for not being news for nerds, complain about actual news for nerds.
'The private sector is handling this exceptionally well.'
Complete bullshit. Since AT&T has regained its stranglehold of the bell south days, there's been no progress. My service is currently about 50$ a month for 8Mbit/512k ADSL. Not the worst of it. Broadband coverage is, in fact, receding in my area. Areas that used to have DSL available now no longer do. Entire regions are going dark permanently, with nothing faster than dailup available.
Or running out of oil...
Goatse: now a verb!
Yes, smallest I've seen for 1080p is 3GB, and most are a good deal bigger.
That's not piracy, that's using your own equipment. The piracy win is that I can download Blueray disc rips that only take up 5GBs for a 1080p movie.
... they are.
I doubt this is happening for that exact reason. Every monitor besides my DVI monitors that I've ever seen uses still uses VGA for fuck's sake. There'd be a an uproar if someone considered shipping a tower with only HDMI.
Besides, even if they did, I'm sure adapters would continue to abound.
Die.
Looks like I offended someone. Gosh, you must have entered 6th grade to carry such esoteric knowledge!
No, but I think the roman empire was much better than the dark ages that followed. The (Foundation) Empire wasn't even despotic until the end. I re-read it today though and I do agree with you, particularly the bit about imperial culture needing to die due to the loss of vitality and all that.
I said nothing about being sold at existing prices, you seem to be under the impression that they'll die off completely or become a hobbyist thing.
We're not us. We're them living here.
Every. Single. One. Of. Us.
Bitch, please.
-Native Americans
Development? Power-users? Stallman? There's always going to be a subset of the computer using population that needs more than the latest iShiny.
Exactly why we should be tearing down the old reactors and putting up the new Generation III+ and IV designs.
Anyway, the whole FUD thing was that you were saying centuries, whereas a few decades would probably be the absolute maximum. Have you seen the area around chernobyl? It's brimming with wildlife due to the nearly 30 years of absence of humans. It's not going to be too long before the area is completely safe, and Fukushima wasn't nearly that bad- NYT is just trying to sell more papers through sensationalism methinks.
Nitpick: UNinhabitable. Inhabitable = can be inhabited. It makes you sound like nuclear disasters are teraforming the world.
Really? I thought the whole 30 millenium dark age would be a fairly bad thing.
Yes, that one particular example in particular struck a cord. Paraphrasing:
The signs of decline are everywhere, recently a nuclear power plant melted down in (some star system). Their viceroy's response? Nuclear power plants are hard to maintain due to the lack of nuclear engineers. So, train more engineers? Unthinkable. Instead they opted to restrict nuclear power.
Great series, depressing insight into the decline and fall of the modern-day Empire.
Making areas uninhabitable for centures? Hardly, that's just FUD. I mean, chernobyl wasn't even THAT bad, and that's basically as bad as nuclear disasters come, they had fucking radioactive lava. Even that was the distant exception- the USSR in the 80's was well past its prime, and Chernobyl was of exceptionally poor design being run by an unstable authoritarian regieme. Hell, two cities that were directly nuked during WWII are doing fine today with regard to habitability.
Besides, modern reactors don't have even these problems, I highly doubt that natural, unenriched uranium or thorium is going to cause any trouble at all with regards to habitability- it's basically in the state it was dug out of the earth in. Not to mention that half-decent designs with regards to fail safes basically can't melt down, and natural fissile materials generally can't go into a self-sustaining chain reaction.
Basically the reason why the other reply was so harsh is that this excuse is trotted out whenever someone says so much as the word radioactive, and it's so tired and so fallacious of an argument, many in the pro-nuclear camp have grown extremely weary of hearing it, day in, and day out. That is not an interesting/reasoned argument, that's the argument that is trotted out whenever someone who does not understand nuclear technology gets involved in the debate.
AC vs DC flamewars? Damn, slashdot must be older than I thought.
And? Such skewed numbers are expected & proper, the top 20% owns something like 80-90% of the US- I figure they should pay about 80-90% of the taxes in the US.
An understanding of sarcasm. You lack one.