Really! That's funny, because the gravitational lensing in the Bullet Cluster results seems to suggest otherwise. Or perhaps you can find a magic, "electric" explanation for gravitational lensing where sufficient mass isn't visibly present?
No-one has yet observed any dark matter, so it is just still a theory.
They haven't? Weird, because I'm pretty sure the Bullet Cluster is pretty damn close to direct observation of dark matter. Heck, in the wake of the BC results, even the MOND folks have had to admit that there must be at least *some* dark matter out there.
But now you're just moving the goalposts. The OP never brought up the issue of "usefulness", however you might define that. We're talking, here, about the existence of decentralized P2P networks. And they do exist. In the absence of a centralized IP broker, yeah, they'd be harder to join. But that's completely beside the point.
Further, such a system is different from a darknet, in that IPs could be published in any number of ways, because trust isn't a fundamental goal. People could publish their IPs on websites, in public forums, on usenet, whatever you like. And as such, even the IP information becomes decentralized, accessible from any common search engine.
Shame you didn't know about GNU screen at the time... makes working in a shell environment a real joy. As many multiplexed shells as you want, split screens, detach/reattach support... I couldn't live without it, especially when I'm doing development work on remote machines.
No, it doesn't, because you can always get IPs out-of-band. Usenet, RSS, plain ol' HTML, and the information can be distributed, there's no need for it to be stored in a central location. Meanwhile, once your client is up, it's up. It seeds itself with new peers, and you never need the centralized server again. So the network, as it exists today, is completely decentralized. It only becomes complicated when you want to join.
"that a large enough down payment is made that if a small drop in the home's value happens, it won't eliminate the collateral the mortgage was secured on. (currently minimum 5% downpayment)"
Uhh, what? 0% down loans are easily available in Canada, and have been for some time now. Or perhaps you just live in a different Canada than I do?
I haven't read such a misogynist comment on Slashdot since
Huh? I didn't see anything that was misogynistic. Dickish? Sure. But I don't recall a comment implying the poster possesses a hatred of women. This woman in particular, maybe, but not women in general.
Now, if the poster had said "Woman love to bitch, and that makes them cunts", *that* would've been misogynistic.
Tell that to Freenet. Or the old Gnutella network. Or any number of other completely decentralized networks.
The only thing you need to participate in those networks is a seed peer. Yeah, that requires a central server to get to, initially (though once you're there your host cache will start to populate, and you're set). But once you're on the network, it's completely decentralized.
'course, I'd only do this if you don't mind burning bridges in the local job market. 'round here, word gets around, and the last thing I'd want is a reputation for being an information-hoarding jerk. Not to mention what happens when your next prospective employer decides to perform a reference check...
Meh, that's typical of every specialized industry I know of. Law, medicine, computing, engineering, you name it. They all develop a specialized lingo that identifies the players from the outsiders. Pretty standard human behaviour, really... kinda reminds me of the old days of the guild.
That's only true in a non-competitive labour market. Any high-skill area where there is a reasonable level of competition, people will simply move to another company where they'll get treated better.
What does this mean for employees? Develop expertise. If your skills are in reasonably high demand, and you can't be easily replaced, the power weighs heavily on the side of the employee.
Incidentally, the paper is certainly interesting, though this letter certainly demonstrates that there's still skepticism in community regarding the role of HFCS in obesity and related diseases.
Thus, I think it's a bit early to declare HFCS an unmitigated evil. Should we all be trying to reduce our intake of caloric sweeteners? Absolutely. But I'm still skeptical that HFCS merits specific attention (though, admittedly, it also tastes like crap, which seems like a good enough reason to get rid of it:).
Not at all, and no need to get pissy. God forbid someone should ask for a citation during a discussion about nutrition, a topic *far* too rife with woo, IMHO.
Incidentally, I haven't read the study, so I'll reserve comment until I have the opportunity. But thanks for the link!
Ditto for my Myth box (though it's detector is, unfortunately, not perfect, depending on the show). Meanwhile, there's always just manual skip through the commercials 30 seconds at a time.
Hell, one of the very reasons I built a PVR is specifically so I *don't* have to deal with commercials.
Keeping up on whats what in recording hardware and maintaining a MythTV box
Huh? I set up my Myth system over a year ago... the first month or so involved some tweaking (I actually stepped on some bugs in XFS when using LVM-over-RAID), but after that, it's basically been an appliance.
What is this "maintaining" that you're referring to? And why would you need to keep up on "whats what in recording hardware" if you have a working system already built?
I think you're just seeing Ubuntu through coloured glasses. Your background has given you just enough knowledge to know about things like apt-get, and subsequently, your impressions as a user are skewed. I find myself in the very same predicament going to, say, Fedora... I expect things to work a certain way, not realizing there are GUI tools, etc, that make my job much simpler, all because my experience has taught me to not even bother looking for them.
A far more interesting experiment would be to take a Windows user, give them a five-minute tutorial on Ubuntu (ie, this is the program menu, etc), and then see how they fare.
I have, however, come to enjoy Vehicular Cycling and happily use major junctions without incident.
Bizarre... I've cycled using that style for *years* now, but had no idea there was a proper term for it in the cycling community. Thanks for the link! It will help further my advocacy efforts (I've long espoused the benefits of vehicular cycling to other would-be commuters who fear riding on the roads).
Well, that really depends. The body stores up immediate energy in the muscles in the form of glycogen. And according to Wikipedia (uncited), the body can store about 2,000 kcal worth of energy as glycogen. So, for short or even medium length trips, the energy to actually perform the activity will come from both consumed food and glycogen stores. This would be why, both before and after endurance activities, atheletes typically consume large amounts of carbohydrates. Before hand, it provides more available calories, both in food energy and in stored glycogen, and afterward it helps to replenish depleted glycogen.
As such, an athelete may feel the need to eat large amounts the day after an activity, as well.
Additionally, because atheletes tend to have greater gross muscle bulk, their bodies will naturally consume more calories, even at rest.
That said, on a regular day, I wouldn't expect an athelete to feel compelled to eat a great deal... other than out of habit.
Yeah, but no one even mentioned race conditions, here, and my understanding of the problem is that breaking down the BKL isn't an issue of finding race conditions. It's an issue of finding subsystems that take the BKL, but never release it... finding those should be a piece of cake (assuming you can exercise the codepaths).
When Flash takes out Firefox, it's because Flash is doing something wrong.
When Firefox takes out Xorg, it's because Firefox is doing something perfectly acceptable, and Xorg has a bug which causes said behaviour to cause a crash.
Do you understand the difference? Or do I need to use smaller words?
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Neither appears to be the case.
Really! That's funny, because the gravitational lensing in the Bullet Cluster results seems to suggest otherwise. Or perhaps you can find a magic, "electric" explanation for gravitational lensing where sufficient mass isn't visibly present?
No-one has yet observed any dark matter, so it is just still a theory.
They haven't? Weird, because I'm pretty sure the Bullet Cluster is pretty damn close to direct observation of dark matter. Heck, in the wake of the BC results, even the MOND folks have had to admit that there must be at least *some* dark matter out there.
But now you're just moving the goalposts. The OP never brought up the issue of "usefulness", however you might define that. We're talking, here, about the existence of decentralized P2P networks. And they do exist. In the absence of a centralized IP broker, yeah, they'd be harder to join. But that's completely beside the point.
Further, such a system is different from a darknet, in that IPs could be published in any number of ways, because trust isn't a fundamental goal. People could publish their IPs on websites, in public forums, on usenet, whatever you like. And as such, even the IP information becomes decentralized, accessible from any common search engine.
Granted, a lot of people (including myself) refuse to install the base gnome or kde libs, in which case that wouldn't be viable.
Yeah, because the hundreds of megabytes of disk space they take up is just too much...
Shame you didn't know about GNU screen at the time... makes working in a shell environment a real joy. As many multiplexed shells as you want, split screens, detach/reattach support... I couldn't live without it, especially when I'm doing development work on remote machines.
No, it doesn't, because you can always get IPs out-of-band. Usenet, RSS, plain ol' HTML, and the information can be distributed, there's no need for it to be stored in a central location. Meanwhile, once your client is up, it's up. It seeds itself with new peers, and you never need the centralized server again. So the network, as it exists today, is completely decentralized. It only becomes complicated when you want to join.
"that a large enough down payment is made that if a small drop in the home's value happens, it won't eliminate the collateral the mortgage was secured on. (currently minimum 5% downpayment)"
Uhh, what? 0% down loans are easily available in Canada, and have been for some time now. Or perhaps you just live in a different Canada than I do?
I haven't read such a misogynist comment on Slashdot since
Huh? I didn't see anything that was misogynistic. Dickish? Sure. But I don't recall a comment implying the poster possesses a hatred of women. This woman in particular, maybe, but not women in general.
Now, if the poster had said "Woman love to bitch, and that makes them cunts", *that* would've been misogynistic.
Tell that to Freenet. Or the old Gnutella network. Or any number of other completely decentralized networks.
The only thing you need to participate in those networks is a seed peer. Yeah, that requires a central server to get to, initially (though once you're there your host cache will start to populate, and you're set). But once you're on the network, it's completely decentralized.
'course, I'd only do this if you don't mind burning bridges in the local job market. 'round here, word gets around, and the last thing I'd want is a reputation for being an information-hoarding jerk. Not to mention what happens when your next prospective employer decides to perform a reference check...
Meh, that's typical of every specialized industry I know of. Law, medicine, computing, engineering, you name it. They all develop a specialized lingo that identifies the players from the outsiders. Pretty standard human behaviour, really... kinda reminds me of the old days of the guild.
That's only true in a non-competitive labour market. Any high-skill area where there is a reasonable level of competition, people will simply move to another company where they'll get treated better.
What does this mean for employees? Develop expertise. If your skills are in reasonably high demand, and you can't be easily replaced, the power weighs heavily on the side of the employee.
Incidentally, the paper is certainly interesting, though this letter certainly demonstrates that there's still skepticism in community regarding the role of HFCS in obesity and related diseases.
:).
Thus, I think it's a bit early to declare HFCS an unmitigated evil. Should we all be trying to reduce our intake of caloric sweeteners? Absolutely. But I'm still skeptical that HFCS merits specific attention (though, admittedly, it also tastes like crap, which seems like a good enough reason to get rid of it
Sorry, it's just that, when I disagree with what someone writes, I don't just "pull a wiki" and say "citation, please" - I do a bit of research.
:)
I wasn't the one making the claim, now was I?
Not at all, and no need to get pissy. God forbid someone should ask for a citation during a discussion about nutrition, a topic *far* too rife with woo, IMHO.
Incidentally, I haven't read the study, so I'll reserve comment until I have the opportunity. But thanks for the link!
Ditto for my Myth box (though it's detector is, unfortunately, not perfect, depending on the show). Meanwhile, there's always just manual skip through the commercials 30 seconds at a time.
Hell, one of the very reasons I built a PVR is specifically so I *don't* have to deal with commercials.
Keeping up on whats what in recording hardware and maintaining a MythTV box
Huh? I set up my Myth system over a year ago... the first month or so involved some tweaking (I actually stepped on some bugs in XFS when using LVM-over-RAID), but after that, it's basically been an appliance.
What is this "maintaining" that you're referring to? And why would you need to keep up on "whats what in recording hardware" if you have a working system already built?
I think you're just seeing Ubuntu through coloured glasses. Your background has given you just enough knowledge to know about things like apt-get, and subsequently, your impressions as a user are skewed. I find myself in the very same predicament going to, say, Fedora... I expect things to work a certain way, not realizing there are GUI tools, etc, that make my job much simpler, all because my experience has taught me to not even bother looking for them.
A far more interesting experiment would be to take a Windows user, give them a five-minute tutorial on Ubuntu (ie, this is the program menu, etc), and then see how they fare.
Use the Windows search tool, then rename from there?
Oh, and BTW, moving the goalposts is hardly an honest debate tactic.
I have, however, come to enjoy Vehicular Cycling and happily use major junctions without incident.
Bizarre... I've cycled using that style for *years* now, but had no idea there was a proper term for it in the cycling community. Thanks for the link! It will help further my advocacy efforts (I've long espoused the benefits of vehicular cycling to other would-be commuters who fear riding on the roads).
HFCS depresses production of the hormone that says "I'm full"
Citation needed. And please stick to actual scientific journals or studies, and not BS holistic faith healers.
Citation needed. And no, BS "holistic" faith healer websites don't count.
What he EATS THAT DAY fuels him
Well, that really depends. The body stores up immediate energy in the muscles in the form of glycogen. And according to Wikipedia (uncited), the body can store about 2,000 kcal worth of energy as glycogen. So, for short or even medium length trips, the energy to actually perform the activity will come from both consumed food and glycogen stores. This would be why, both before and after endurance activities, atheletes typically consume large amounts of carbohydrates. Before hand, it provides more available calories, both in food energy and in stored glycogen, and afterward it helps to replenish depleted glycogen.
As such, an athelete may feel the need to eat large amounts the day after an activity, as well.
Additionally, because atheletes tend to have greater gross muscle bulk, their bodies will naturally consume more calories, even at rest.
That said, on a regular day, I wouldn't expect an athelete to feel compelled to eat a great deal... other than out of habit.
Yeah, but no one even mentioned race conditions, here, and my understanding of the problem is that breaking down the BKL isn't an issue of finding race conditions. It's an issue of finding subsystems that take the BKL, but never release it... finding those should be a piece of cake (assuming you can exercise the codepaths).
When Flash takes out Firefox, it's because Flash is doing something wrong.
When Firefox takes out Xorg, it's because Firefox is doing something perfectly acceptable, and Xorg has a bug which causes said behaviour to cause a crash.
Do you understand the difference? Or do I need to use smaller words?