Re:My ThinkPad had some trouble too.
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I'd be more tempted to blame that on a failing CMOS battery than 2010.
Got hit by this one myself
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SunPCi cards are essentially x86 PC blades designed to be plugged into a PCI slot on a Sun SPARC machine. I use a SunPCi III in the Sun Blade 1500 (SPARC desktop) I have on my desk to run software I have to run that requires Windows. This Monday, I fired it up and got told by the driver software that my system date was in the future because "I can't believe it's really" 2010 (the exact words of the error message!). Looking at the Sun forum message traffic, apparently *everybody* with a SunPCi III card is getting this. Sun's supposed to be working on a patch now. Right now the only workaround is to set your system clock back to 2009 when you fire up the SunPCi card (you can set it back to correct after it starts).
Exactly. Other posters have said that there have been leaked logs confirming that this was indeed the case. And they were warned--repeatedly--that if they *didn't* crash the node, they would almost certainly fall victim to the bug that in fact killed them, and were advised not to try it. But they did, the node didn't crash, the bug occurred, and they died.
Abu Dhabi is sitting on 7 TRILLION dollars of money, real cash, they made from oil trade. So, doesn't matter if Dubai is broken
Yes, it does. It matters a lot. Putting aside that you have exaggerated Abu Dhabi's reserves by a factor of about five (and that's including their sovereign investment fund, most of which is NOT cash and would be difficult to liquidate on a large scale on short notice), Abu Dhabi has no obligation to cover Dubai's debts. They may cover some of them, but they have already given indications that there a limits to how far they'll go.
It should be noted that Chernobyl was a) a design never used in the west because of its obvious safety flaws and b) then subjected to a testing protocol that in the west would've gotten the person proposing it locked up as a lunatic who was a danger to himself and others.
- No new nuclear plants have been built in 30-ish years.
In the US. Many places elsewhere have been building them right along.
- nuclear power still has the stigma of 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl attached to it. It'll be tough to get public opinion on that changed, especially with advances in fuel cell and solar technologies
Global Warming is changing a lot of opinions really fast among the environmentally-minded. Solar technology is still an order of magnitude too expensive/inefficient and still suffers severely from the lack of an adequate energy storage technology for the over half the time when it's DARK outside. Fuel cells can't be a primary energy source--the hydrogen has to come from somewhere, bunkie.
Baen's been smart about avoiding e-copy paranoia for a long time now. You can even browse some of the backlist online for free. Great folks; I'm always glad to do business with them.
If Diebold's voting machines were rigged to ensure that said regime rose to and remained in power, they're guilty of treason. Don't be a Bush/Cheney apologist.
If you ridiculously exaggerate the sins of your political opponents, you're only undermining your own arguments. Don't be a moron.
Yes, my internet and VOIP and cell all work when the power goes out.
I assume you have phone-company provided internet. That's almost enough to make me consider switching: the one bad thing I've had with my cable internet is that whenever there's a power outage, the network connection is *gone* (and yes, I know, because I have a UPS for my computer and networking equipment).
Jeez, we went around this particular block on the last Diebold story. Treason is strictly (and narrowly) defined in the constitution itself and no act Diebold has been accused of even comes close to matching that definition. You have to either be making war on the US or giving aid and comfort to those who are.
Um, no. Mere knighthood never got you into the House of Lords--that requires a title of nobility. Heredity titles are in fact being *evicted* from the House of Lords as an outdated relic: the movement is to turn the House of Lords over to the so-called "life lords"--those who were given a title for actually achieving something and will not pass their title on to their heirs.
Personally, I think we should get rid of the notion that everyone is qualified to vote. It may have worked back when the whole country was ten thousand people, everyone knew you, and your words actually meant something, but that's obviously not the case with 300 million people.
Actually, the notion that everyone is qualified to vote is relatively recent. Aside from extending the franchise to women and enfranchising freed blacks and such, there used to be qualification ostensibly more closely related to one's qualifications to vote: try googling on the terms "poll tax", "literacy test", "pauper's oath" and "property requirement". It's only been for the past fifty or sixty years that just anybody of age can walk into a polling booth and vote. One problem with setting qualifications for voting is that the qualifying process is so easy to manipulate. Ironically, it was the literacy test, the one you might think was the best measure of qualifications to be an informed voter, that was infamous for the worst manipulations to prevent blacks from voting. Another problem is the ethical question of whether it's fair to deprive people in possession of their basic faculties of a vote in how their own affairs will be conducted, regardless of their qualifications. I can certainly see the attractions of maintaining some minimum qualification to vote, but I can also see that the arguments don't all run one way.
I'm sorry, I used the wrong set of dimensions off the web site I used to get the dimensions of an Olympic-size swimming pools. The correct answer should be two hundred and fifty Olympic swimming pools.
Nope, not enough. Assuming the drop of water is 0.1 cm^3, your "bucket" would need to be the size of *two thousand* Olympic swimming pools to get approximately the same ratio.
Progress requires funding. Funding requires public interest.
You can't get this kind of funding through just "public interest." Funding for space travel requires the prospect of a profitable return. That is how cruise ship travel matured, this is how air travel matured, and it will be how space travel matures if it ever does.
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I'd be more tempted to blame that on a failing CMOS battery than 2010.
SunPCi cards are essentially x86 PC blades designed to be plugged into a PCI slot on a Sun SPARC machine. I use a SunPCi III in the Sun Blade 1500 (SPARC desktop) I have on my desk to run software I have to run that requires Windows. This Monday, I fired it up and got told by the driver software that my system date was in the future because "I can't believe it's really" 2010 (the exact words of the error message!). Looking at the Sun forum message traffic, apparently *everybody* with a SunPCi III card is getting this. Sun's supposed to be working on a patch now. Right now the only workaround is to set your system clock back to 2009 when you fire up the SunPCi card (you can set it back to correct after it starts).
Exactly. Other posters have said that there have been leaked logs confirming that this was indeed the case. And they were warned--repeatedly--that if they *didn't* crash the node, they would almost certainly fall victim to the bug that in fact killed them, and were advised not to try it. But they did, the node didn't crash, the bug occurred, and they died.
Yes, it does. It matters a lot. Putting aside that you have exaggerated Abu Dhabi's reserves by a factor of about five (and that's including their sovereign investment fund, most of which is NOT cash and would be difficult to liquidate on a large scale on short notice), Abu Dhabi has no obligation to cover Dubai's debts. They may cover some of them, but they have already given indications that there a limits to how far they'll go.
Indeed. Five nines reliability, works even in the event of a total power outage...who the hell wants that?
It should be noted that Chernobyl was a) a design never used in the west because of its obvious safety flaws and b) then subjected to a testing protocol that in the west would've gotten the person proposing it locked up as a lunatic who was a danger to himself and others.
In the US. Many places elsewhere have been building them right along.
Global Warming is changing a lot of opinions really fast among the environmentally-minded. Solar technology is still an order of magnitude too expensive/inefficient and still suffers severely from the lack of an adequate energy storage technology for the over half the time when it's DARK outside. Fuel cells can't be a primary energy source--the hydrogen has to come from somewhere, bunkie.
Baen's been smart about avoiding e-copy paranoia for a long time now. You can even browse some of the backlist online for free. Great folks; I'm always glad to do business with them.
"Stormwind, Azeroth. I work here. My name is Sir Lothar. I carry a mace."
Actually, Brahma is four-faced.
If you ridiculously exaggerate the sins of your political opponents, you're only undermining your own arguments. Don't be a moron.
I assume you have phone-company provided internet. That's almost enough to make me consider switching: the one bad thing I've had with my cable internet is that whenever there's a power outage, the network connection is *gone* (and yes, I know, because I have a UPS for my computer and networking equipment).
Jeez, we went around this particular block on the last Diebold story. Treason is strictly (and narrowly) defined in the constitution itself and no act Diebold has been accused of even comes close to matching that definition. You have to either be making war on the US or giving aid and comfort to those who are.
Um, no. Mere knighthood never got you into the House of Lords--that requires a title of nobility. Heredity titles are in fact being *evicted* from the House of Lords as an outdated relic: the movement is to turn the House of Lords over to the so-called "life lords"--those who were given a title for actually achieving something and will not pass their title on to their heirs.
Actually, the notion that everyone is qualified to vote is relatively recent. Aside from extending the franchise to women and enfranchising freed blacks and such, there used to be qualification ostensibly more closely related to one's qualifications to vote: try googling on the terms "poll tax", "literacy test", "pauper's oath" and "property requirement". It's only been for the past fifty or sixty years that just anybody of age can walk into a polling booth and vote. One problem with setting qualifications for voting is that the qualifying process is so easy to manipulate. Ironically, it was the literacy test, the one you might think was the best measure of qualifications to be an informed voter, that was infamous for the worst manipulations to prevent blacks from voting. Another problem is the ethical question of whether it's fair to deprive people in possession of their basic faculties of a vote in how their own affairs will be conducted, regardless of their qualifications. I can certainly see the attractions of maintaining some minimum qualification to vote, but I can also see that the arguments don't all run one way.
The battle-cry of the Gallic hotelier!
...*successful* terrorists are more likely to have engineering degrees--'cause the ones who don't blow themselves up trying to make the bomb.
I'm sorry, I used the wrong set of dimensions off the web site I used to get the dimensions of an Olympic-size swimming pools. The correct answer should be two hundred and fifty Olympic swimming pools.
Nope, not enough. Assuming the drop of water is 0.1 cm^3, your "bucket" would need to be the size of *two thousand* Olympic swimming pools to get approximately the same ratio.
You can't get this kind of funding through just "public interest." Funding for space travel requires the prospect of a profitable return. That is how cruise ship travel matured, this is how air travel matured, and it will be how space travel matures if it ever does.
At least, not unless the giant beer cans actually contain beer.
Nope. Just doesn't have the same impact.
Because it's nice for the shopper, not the store.
Yep, Palin is a pig, and I'm a moron. But remember, it's only Republicans that call people names!
Except that it doesn't work with the networking you have.