And this is why you'll never be president. Now, I'm all for not apologizing. I don't believe its our fault at all. However, escalation is a useless thing at this point. We put another couple of carrier groups into the mix. They move some of their ships closer. Someone else gets bumped and another round of bumper vehicles starts. Someone else decides to drop a conventional warehead on some civies. Then one side drops a nuke on a second tier target as a warning shot. And then I am dead because there was a moron in the hotseat who likes the idea of Nukleer Ritalyashion.
Now, as much as I like to criticize dubya, I think he has a cool enough head to wade through this shitstorm and still set up U.S. da bomb. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
There are two other witnesses that you're ruling out that I have yet to hear _ANY_ information about. I'm thinking that this is mostly because China isn't letting anyone examine the black boxen on the planes. If this incident can be cleared up and people really want to lay blame, then the plane's flight recorders, my other witnesses, should be able to clear up the incident without fail. Of course, this would require China to be cooperative, which I don't see happening.
Also, the flight recorders might not produce all of the detail necesary, but, I'm sure some of that data would at least shed some light on the matter.
It takes a really long time for the mutations to cause major advances in complex organisms, yes. Unfortunately, all of our studies on the subject have been done on Earth, not in the cold harsh, unprotected vaccuum of space. The one primary thing that changes when you shift to this environment is that there is no protection from radiation. For a fungus growing on the surface of a space station, the time it takes for that kind of change plundges drastically. The fact that a fungus is much less complex then, say, a human, will contribute to this too. So, really, it becomes a pretty incredible threat to people in space.
And to think, I wanted a chance to go to MIR. Oh well.
DDR-RAM is easily the next generation of memory technology if you look at the specs. RDRAM has problems with latency and production that SDRAM never had. And, if you make a chipset that uses dual channels(like the i840 chipset does with RDRAM) DDR will blow away anything Rambus has to offer with less heat, less latency and reduced cost due to more efficient production. However, if RAMBUS wins the lawsuits with Infineon and Micron, then they will be charging royalties for the technology. As far as I've read, they are charging higher royalties on DDR then they are charging for RDRAM. If that's the case, then prices for DDR will go up, and if they manage to get pushed higher then RAMBUS mem, who is to say which will be on top. I will never buy that RDRAM crap, but the sheep in the world probably will.
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And this is why you'll never be president. Now, I'm all for not apologizing. I don't believe its our fault at all. However, escalation is a useless thing at this point. We put another couple of carrier groups into the mix. They move some of their ships closer. Someone else gets bumped and another round of bumper vehicles starts. Someone else decides to drop a conventional warehead on some civies. Then one side drops a nuke on a second tier target as a warning shot. And then I am dead because there was a moron in the hotseat who likes the idea of Nukleer Ritalyashion. Now, as much as I like to criticize dubya, I think he has a cool enough head to wade through this shitstorm and still set up U.S. da bomb. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
There are two other witnesses that you're ruling out that I have yet to hear _ANY_ information about. I'm thinking that this is mostly because China isn't letting anyone examine the black boxen on the planes. If this incident can be cleared up and people really want to lay blame, then the plane's flight recorders, my other witnesses, should be able to clear up the incident without fail. Of course, this would require China to be cooperative, which I don't see happening. Also, the flight recorders might not produce all of the detail necesary, but, I'm sure some of that data would at least shed some light on the matter.
It takes a really long time for the mutations to cause major advances in complex organisms, yes. Unfortunately, all of our studies on the subject have been done on Earth, not in the cold harsh, unprotected vaccuum of space. The one primary thing that changes when you shift to this environment is that there is no protection from radiation. For a fungus growing on the surface of a space station, the time it takes for that kind of change plundges drastically. The fact that a fungus is much less complex then, say, a human, will contribute to this too. So, really, it becomes a pretty incredible threat to people in space.
And to think, I wanted a chance to go to MIR. Oh well.
DDR-RAM is easily the next generation of memory technology if you look at the specs. RDRAM has problems with latency and production that SDRAM never had. And, if you make a chipset that uses dual channels(like the i840 chipset does with RDRAM) DDR will blow away anything Rambus has to offer with less heat, less latency and reduced cost due to more efficient production. However, if RAMBUS wins the lawsuits with Infineon and Micron, then they will be charging royalties for the technology. As far as I've read, they are charging higher royalties on DDR then they are charging for RDRAM. If that's the case, then prices for DDR will go up, and if they manage to get pushed higher then RAMBUS mem, who is to say which will be on top. I will never buy that RDRAM crap, but the sheep in the world probably will.