Best Novel The Dark Between the Stars – Kevin J. Anderson – TOR (23 FEB 2015 interview) Trial by Fire – Charles E. Gannon – BAEN (2 MAR 2015 interview) Skin Game – Jim Butcher – ROC Monster Hunter Nemesis – Larry Correia – BAEN Lines of Departure – Marko Kloos – 47 North (Amazon)
Best Novella “Flow” – Arlan Andrews Sr. – Analog magazine November 2014 One Bright Star to Guide Them – John C. Wright – Castalia House Big Boys Don’t Cry – Tom Kratman – Castalia House
Best Novelette “The Journeyman: In the Stone House” – Michael F. Flynn – Analog magazine June 2014 “The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale” – Rajnar Vajra – Analog magazine July/Aug 2014 “Championship B’tok” – Edward M. Lerner – Analog magazine Sept 2014 “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium” – Gray Rinehart – Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
Best Short Story “Goodnight Stars” – Annie Bellet – The Apocalypse Triptych “Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer” – Megan Grey – Fireside Fiction “Totaled” – Kary English – Galaxy’s Edge magazine, July 2014 “On A Spiritual Plain” – Lou Antonelli – Sci Phi Journal #2 “A Single Samurai” – Steve Diamond – Baen Big Book of Monsters
Best Related Work Letters from Gardner – Lou Antonelli – Merry Blacksmith Press Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth – John C. Wright – Castalia House “THE HOT EQUATIONS: THERMODYNAMICS AND MILITARY SF” – Ken Burnside – Riding the Red Horse Wisdom From My Internet – Michael Z. Williamson “Why Science is Never Settled” Part 1, Part 2 – Tedd Roberts – BAEN
Best Graphic Story Reduce Reuse Reanimate (Zombie Nation book #2) – Carter Reid – (independent)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) “The Lego Movie” – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller “Guardians of the Galaxy” – James Gunn “Interstellar” – Christopher Nolan “The Maze Runner” – Wes Ball
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) Grimm – ” Once We Were Gods” – NBC The Flash – “The Flash (pilot)” – The CW Adventure Time – “The Prince Who Wanted Everything” – Cartoon Network Regular Show – “Saving Time” – Cartoon Network
Best Editor (Long Form) Toni Weisskopf – BAEN Jim Minz – BAEN Anne Sowards – ACE/ROC Sheila Gilbert – DAW
Best Editor (Short Form) Mike Resnick – Galaxy’s Edge magazine Edmund R. Schubert – Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show Jennifer Brozek (for Shattered Shields) Bryan Thomas Schmidt (for Shattered Shields)
Best Professional Artist Carter Reid Jon Eno Alan Pollack Nick Greenwood
Best Semiprozine Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show Abyss & Apex Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine
Best Fanzine Tangent SF On-line – Dave Truesdale Elitist Book Reviews – Steve Diamond The Revenge of Hump Day – Tim Bolgeo
Best Fancast “The Sci Phi Show” – Jason Rennie Dungeon Crawlers Radio Adventures in SF Publishing
Best Fan Writer Matthew David Surridge (Black Gate) Jeffro Johnson Amanda Green Cedar Sanderson Dave Freer
The John W. Campbell Award Jason Cordova Kary English Eric S. Raymond
Jesus Christ -- they nominated "looks like FORTRAN to me" ESR? What for? Worst identification of a programming language?
There is the small minority who pushed for the inclusion of systemd in the first place. A small number of fanatics went off and tried, unsuccessfully, to fork Debian in to the failed Devuan distro.
I make no judgement on whether Devuan has failed, I see the same level of activity on their mailing list as usual.
My problem with Devuan is that I don't understand what they're trying to do.
From Jaromil's recent "Devuan @ CCC camp, 15 august" announcement: "Devuan is a fork of Debian which removes its new dependency on systemd. "
But Debian doesn't have a depencency on systemd. So what is the fork for?
systemd is the default init system in Debian Jessie. Think about that. The default. If something is the default that implies there are alternatives. And there are. Debian Jessie has a dependancy on the "init" package which in turn depends on "systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart", so no, Debian does not depend on systemd.
Many of its problems actually can't be fixed; they're inherently broken by their very nature. Its use of binary logging is a perfect example of this. The only way to fix binary logging is to not use it at all.
50MWhr is big for a battery, but it's not exactly impressive on an electricity generation scale. Right now France is consuming 45.78 GW, 44.54 GW of which is nuclear.
So one 50MWh battery would last about 4 seconds. You'd need 900 of 'em to power the country for an hour.
Furthermore, most of the drivers are foreign nationals, so the much of their income is repatriated to their home countries rather than circulating in the Saudi economy. From an economic/business perspective, this is insane.
Actually taking money out of the Saudi economy and sending it to somewhere that's probably more sane seems like a good thing to me.
'Freedom of speech' is an awesome and wonderful thing. But where do you draw the line?
It's simple: you don't. It's right there in the First Amendment: any speech is legal, as long as it isn't something along the lines of yelling "fire" in a theater.
i.e. what is the objective justification for banning them
Maybe you should RTFA?
I know some of you are upset because we banned anything today, but the fact of the matter is we spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with a handful of communities, which prevents us from working on things for the other 99.98% (literally) of Reddit. I'm off for now, thanks for your feedback. RIP my inbox.
You're either trolling or you've genuinely no idea how Debian actually works.
Those are the commands needed to convert a Debian Jessie system with pid 1 ==/lib/systemd/systemd to a Debian Jessie system with pid 1 ==/sbin/init and the sysvinit scripts.
Replacing sysvinit with upstart is left as an exercise for the reader.
The problem is many people WANT A FUCKING CHOICE OF WHAT INIT SYSTEM TO PUT ON THEIR COMPUTER TOO. Freedom to choose a component or other operating system is a good thing and should be maintained.
Then use Debian Jessie. YOU HAVE A FUCKING CHOICE OF WHAT INIT SYSTEM TO PUT ON YOUR COMPUTER.
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Whether the "puppies" spread their votes or not is irrelevant -- every No Award won by a simple majority.
Turns out there aren't that many puppies.
How many women did they nominate?
Jesus Christ -- they nominated "looks like FORTRAN to me" ESR? What for? Worst identification of a programming language?
There are still original FreeBSD 5.0 binaries that are still running and to which they no longer have the original source code.
No longer have the original source code? Who are these guys, Microsoft?
Japan has nuclear weapons?
Germany?
Finland?
South Africa?
1KW of installed solar produces nothing at night and less in winter than in summer.
1KW of install coal fired production works all day long, all year long.
Neither of these points bother me, though I'm going to have to get used to a few new commands.
You don't even need new commands, service, invoke-rc.d and so on still work.
systemctl status is great though.
There is the small minority who pushed for the inclusion of systemd in the first place. A small number of fanatics went off and tried, unsuccessfully, to fork Debian in to the failed Devuan distro.
I make no judgement on whether Devuan has failed, I see the same level of activity on their mailing list as usual.
My problem with Devuan is that I don't understand what they're trying to do.
From Jaromil's recent "Devuan @ CCC camp, 15 august" announcement: "Devuan is a fork of Debian which removes its new dependency on systemd. "
But Debian doesn't have a depencency on systemd. So what is the fork for?
systemd is the default init system in Debian Jessie. Think about that. The default. If something is the default that implies there are alternatives. And there are. Debian Jessie has a dependancy on the "init" package which in turn depends on "systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart", so no, Debian does not depend on systemd.
Many of its problems actually can't be fixed; they're inherently broken by their very nature. Its use of binary logging is a perfect example of this. The only way to fix binary logging is to not use it at all.
What is your problem?
50MWhr is big for a battery, but it's not exactly impressive on an electricity generation scale. Right now France is consuming 45.78 GW, 44.54 GW of which is nuclear.
So one 50MWh battery would last about 4 seconds. You'd need 900 of 'em to power the country for an hour.
(France chosen as an example 'cos I live here and the great Gridwatch site has the numbers)
3. Mayak, Chelyabinsk district, USSR 1957
Which, as you point out, has nothing to do with nuclear power.
Wind power is indeed cheaper. Source: US DOE 2015 interim reports.
Building new wind power plants is cheaper than building new nuclear power plants.
But if you've already got the nuclear power plants they're almost free to run.
In the States the minority often looks like a majority. That is how we [ took so long to get ] Obamacare.
Consequences of a coal plant event: severe
No, the consequences of normal operation of a coal plant is severe.
When you add up the number of them operating it's worse than Chernobyl and Fukushima combined.
There are multiple 50+GW battery installations in Japan,
50+ what? GW is a unit of power, not energy. How much energy do these magic batteries store?
A quick web search shows that in 2014 a 400MWhr system was described as "the biggest in the world".
Also, in 2013 METI were boasting about: "World’s largest battery storage system to be installed in Japan" for a 60MWhr system coming online in March 2015.
So your "50+GW" rubbish is not only meaningless, it's a flat out lie,
Furthermore, most of the drivers are foreign nationals, so the much of their income is repatriated to their home countries rather than circulating in the Saudi economy. From an economic/business perspective, this is insane.
Actually taking money out of the Saudi economy and sending it to somewhere that's probably more sane seems like a good thing to me.
Easier and more fun to hack ATM machines with some acetelyne.
The "whitey is not on the moon, he's just taking photos" argument.
P.S. This is GoreSat 1, the Republicans have spent decades trying to avoid it being launched.
What is wrong with you losers -- These photos are supposed to have been taken by GoreSat 1.
And Al Gore is fat.
That is all you need to know.
'Freedom of speech' is an awesome and wonderful thing. But where do you draw the line?
It's simple: you don't. It's right there in the First Amendment: any speech is legal, as long as it isn't something along the lines of yelling "fire" in a theater.
First amendment to what?
i.e. what is the objective justification for banning them
Maybe you should RTFA?
Don't get me wrong, like anyone I'd love a fiber connection for $50 a month but what does your average person need with that kind of connection?
Yesterday my son fired up the PS4 to play some silly game or other and the damn thing needed an update -- 5Gbytes!
Many big games hire actual economists to design and maintain a workable economy.
Which perhaps explains why game economies are crap?
One of the hard earned lessons from that is: always use text logs and configuration files in some type of XML-like extensible tag format.
"always use configuration files in some type of XML-like extensible tag format."
That's the lesson you learned? "XML-like"?
Bleurgh.
You're either trolling or you've genuinely no idea how Debian actually works.
Those are the commands needed to convert a Debian Jessie system with pid 1 == /lib/systemd/systemd to a Debian Jessie system with pid 1 == /sbin/init and the sysvinit scripts.
Replacing sysvinit with upstart is left as an exercise for the reader.
The problem is many people WANT A FUCKING CHOICE OF WHAT INIT SYSTEM TO PUT ON THEIR COMPUTER TOO. Freedom to choose a component or other operating system is a good thing and should be maintained.
Then use Debian Jessie. YOU HAVE A FUCKING CHOICE OF WHAT INIT SYSTEM TO PUT ON YOUR COMPUTER.