Ok, we get your point. Melting floating ice masses doesn't directly change the water level. There's still a lot of ice in the Arctic, and more in the Antartic, resting on land masses. When that ice melts, it will raise the sea level. And once the ice is gone, the earth will absorb more of the sun's energy.
Basically... there's a reason why scientists believe that global warming will cause rising oceans.
Anyway, you are losing sight of the bigger picture. The problem is not so much that a few island nations will be wiped off the earth (bye Japan, Phillipinnes...) The problem is not even the threat of more tornados, or extreme weather patterns.
No, the problem is the domnio effect. Sure, it might be ok to just melt the Arctic. But once you do that, you're probably well on your way to melting the Antartic. And once that's done, you may have expanded the deserts in some other part of the world, which may release even more CO2 into the atmosphere. Guess what? That will cause some changes too.
There has to be a point, beyond which the dynamics of the climate system change so much, that it is no longer self-correcting. And we're going to find out just where that point is.
Hey, I do not believe in god You voted for a born-again christian.
believe humans are most likely to blame for global warming You voted for a former oil company executive who believes that "the jury is still out" on global warming.
recycle everything I can, ride my bike to work year round (even though I do own an SUV) You voted for a "free trade" booster who has opened the borders to more cheap disposable Chinese and Central american goods.
and, wait for it - voted for Bush. Twice. Wait, three times if you count the elder. Oh, and I have a PhD in biochemistry. There are many different reasons why people vote Republican. Some kind of sadism / masochism thing? Do you also hire someone to beat you with a whip?
Me? I am sick of entitlements. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are crooked, everyone knows that. The Republicans dole out as much pork as anyone.
Fast forward to the present, I am now stuck with a Democratic governor (Gregoire, Washington) who, despite promising not to, stuck me with the most bloated budget ever. A nice reminder of why I vote Republican at the national level. Take a look at the budgets coming out of our Republican-controlled congress. Neither party care about fiscal responsibility any more.
I'm not trying to be cruel here (unless you're... you know... into that...) but can you name even a SINGLE issue that you agree with W. on? And no, the balanced budget thing doesn't count, since he didn't actually do it!
The science says NOTHING conclusive concerning what part of global warming is natural and what part is due to human activity. Jury's still out on this one, at least to people who care about empiricism.
The only way to empirically find out "what part of global warming is natural and what part is due to human activity" is to keep pumping out CO2 and see what happens. That's what empiricism means.
We've only got the one planet, which means we're "committed to" whatever the hell happens to it regardless.
It makes a great test tube for your experiment, though, right? Jackass.
I've played MAME on 75 MHz power PCs. It wasn't a problem. Considering that most of these MAME consoles had CPUs slower than 1 MHz, even a clumsy emulator should be fine. And yes, you may also have to emulate the graphics coprocessors, but those were also pretty wimpy.
Protecting the commons (air, water) with regulations on private ownership is one thing. Protecting an industry's business model is quite another, and there's no reason for the law to be involved here. No reason at all.
Bottom line, no OS can handle either idiots (who continously click on the same damned E-mail attachements to get reinfected over and over) or major multi-taskers very well. They're not designed to be abused, when they are, they respond in ways that weren't anticipated.
Operating systems should be robust. That's the first principle of OS design.
I'm glad you had a good experience doing tech support, but if you knew a little more about the issues here, you'd quickly realize that neither "major multi-tasking" or idiots are a problem in a well-designed OS.
Linux and *BSD handle task switching very well (20 processes is nothing.) They also avoid hard disk drive head contention, something windows has yet to manage, even in XPee. (Try doing ANYTHING in windows while a large file copy is happening. Not gonna happen.)
As for email attachments, they are not a problem when privilege levels are correctly enforced. Unless you read your email as root, I don't think a linux system will ever have this problem.
...frankly Linux, the *BSDs, and even Solaris can't handle me. I'm still the only graduate of my University's CS dept. who managed to crash the Solaris lab machines without any root privledges, and I did it more than once. I even have to reboot my linux machines at least monthly.
Let me guess. Fork bomb? Yes, it's a problem with linux, but you are not the first to discover it. The importance is also minimized on single-user systems, where the only person the user is hurting is himself.
(For the real death, watch the growth of new non X86 system architectures, and the concomitant flowering of computer architecture. That Genie will not fit back in the bottle) Sure, it'll happen... once Duke Nukem forever is released.
They'll be lower impact, less common, so on, but Linux doesn't make you immune, it just makes you more secure. Using BSD basically does make you immune. They might have a new exploit discovered every 5 YEARS. Linux takes the less secure road, but it's still an order of magnitude better than windows in this respect.
W/r/t to email worms, wherever you have users dumb enough to run attachments, you will have e-mail worms. As I said - give the authors a reason to target Linux (a non-miniscule market share, for instance) and they will. That's definitely not true. Under linux, only root can screw up the system. The other users simply don't have the permissions to do it. The fact is, windows allows ordinary users to do dangerous things.
The fact that you don't know this makes me suspect that you're another clueless windows user trying to say "see, all OSes have the problems windows does." Sorry, brick-o, the rest of us realize that this is NOT THE CASE.
I guess it's cool that these guys did this, but I always saw Grand Theft Auto more as a single-player game. It's fun to go on a rampage and shoot at stuff. It's fun to drive around with the tank.
(Oh yeah. Then there were those missions you had to do. Since it was less fun than going on a rampage, I usually skipped that part:) )
If I played over the network, I would have to deal with people who cared about winning, and practiced the game-- i.e. gamers. NOT fun.
Anyways, what I was getting at is, you don't need an uber powerful computer just to watch/record tv. Playing Divx might take horsepower. I had priced out a computer with a low power Athlon XP, 2 tuners, monster hd, etc. I happened to score a 160gb drive on sale at Newegg, a PVR350 card, and a dvd burner (also on sale). So I built a Tivo for about $350, no monthly fees, expandable, and the most expensive item was the PVR350.
Actually, playing Divx should be no problem for the system you outlined. I have an old 500 MHz laptop (PIII core), and I have never had a problem with playing divxes. (Of course, I use *good* movie players like Crystal Player and VLC.) An athlon XP (not sure exactly what core revision that is) should have no problems whatsoever.
And, "Kano," why don't you try being a social worker in the ghetto for a month or two. Trust me, you will have a new understanding of the kinds of B.S. cops put up with on a day to day basis, "m'Lord."
Oh I forgot, you're too busy jerking off to Quentin Tarantino movies about how glamarous "thug life" is, and listening to rap music made by ex-cons. In your mother's basement.
The military and the police are different parts of the government. And the CIA and other spooks is yet another. They're not at all the same organization.
I'm starting to wonder what you have against the police, anyway. In my experience, cops won't hassle you unless they think you are doing something illegal. And even then, they might let you go. For example, on the fourth of July, I got stopped for setting off fireworks, but the cops let me go.
The only real exceptions are when politicians call in cops to suppress political demonstrations-- which is of course, bullshit-- or when there are corrupt cops, which does happen. Overall, though, I feel safer with a cop car around, than without it, despite the fear of getting a speeding ticket.
The fact that you seem to overly fear and distrust cops leads me to believe that you either have 1) little experience with the real world 2) some kind of problem with authority (teenage angst?) or, 3) are involved in something illegal
If you try hard enough, you should be able to get tv-like images out of your computer screen. There's nothing magical about how a TV displays images.
On the other hand, if you sit further back from the TV than from the computer monitor, as 99% of americans do, you probably think that the TV has "better quality." It's like an impressionist painting.
If the xbox had a decent CD drive, I might consider buying one to use as a movie player. As it is, I'll stick with my old laptop, which plays CD-Rs-- something that the xbox can't do-- and plays DVDs, without the need for a USB dongle, or hacks to un-cripple it.
Oh yes, and the xbox games are shite. The only decent one in the whole bunch is Halo. Damn shame about Bungie. Guess everyone's gotta go sometime.
Nobody said Intel stuff always works. The point parent was making is that chipsets for Intel CPUs are usually more stable than chipsets for AMDs.
For someone like me, who cares a lot about stability, and doesn't give a rat's ass about performance, Intel probably is the way to go! Gamers can make their own decisions. That's the beauty of the free market.
I'm glad AMD exists, because competition makes things cheaper-- but that doesn't mean I'm going to buy their stuff, if all they have to offer me is unstable VIA chipsets that aren't worth the silicon they're made out of.
Any board is obsolete on arrival. I guarantee, that if you look at what engineers at the motherboard company are working on, it will be better than what is on the shelves now.
What so bad about devfs? Based on the limited amount of kernel hacking I've done, devfs didn't seem that bad, although it is a little more complex than the old minor/major number system. What's your beef?
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Ok, we get your point. Melting floating ice masses doesn't directly change the water level.
There's still a lot of ice in the Arctic, and more in the Antartic, resting on land masses. When that ice melts, it will raise the sea level. And once the ice is gone, the earth will absorb more of the sun's energy.
Basically... there's a reason why scientists believe that global warming will cause rising oceans.
Anyway, you are losing sight of the bigger picture. The problem is not so much that a few island nations will be wiped off the earth (bye Japan, Phillipinnes...) The problem is not even the threat of more tornados, or extreme weather patterns.
No, the problem is the domnio effect. Sure, it might be ok to just melt the Arctic. But once you do that, you're probably well on your way to melting the Antartic. And once that's done, you may have expanded the deserts in some other part of the world, which may release even more CO2 into the atmosphere. Guess what? That will cause some changes too.
There has to be a point, beyond which the dynamics of the climate system change so much, that it is no longer self-correcting. And we're going to find out just where that point is.
That's not vague to me. It's very specific.
It makes a lot more sense than the strange assertion that seems to be involved with the IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message.
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Hey, I do not believe in god
You voted for a born-again christian.
believe humans are most likely to blame for global warming
You voted for a former oil company executive who believes that "the jury is still out" on global warming.
recycle everything I can, ride my bike to work year round (even though I do own an SUV)
You voted for a "free trade" booster who has opened the borders to more cheap disposable Chinese and Central american goods.
and, wait for it - voted for Bush. Twice. Wait, three times if you count the elder. Oh, and I have a PhD in biochemistry. There are many different reasons why people vote Republican.
Some kind of sadism / masochism thing?
Do you also hire someone to beat you with a whip?
Me? I am sick of entitlements.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans are crooked, everyone knows that. The Republicans dole out as much pork as anyone.
Fast forward to the present, I am now stuck with a Democratic governor (Gregoire, Washington) who, despite promising not to, stuck me with the most bloated budget ever. A nice reminder of why I vote Republican at the national level.
Take a look at the budgets coming out of our Republican-controlled congress. Neither party care about fiscal responsibility any more.
I'm not trying to be cruel here (unless you're... you know... into that...) but can you name even a SINGLE issue that you agree with W. on?
And no, the balanced budget thing doesn't count, since he didn't actually do it!
The science says NOTHING conclusive concerning what part of global warming is natural and what part is due to human activity. Jury's still out on this one, at least to people who care about empiricism.
The only way to empirically find out "what part of global warming is natural and what part is due to human activity" is to keep pumping out CO2 and see what happens. That's what empiricism means.
We've only got the one planet, which means we're "committed to" whatever the hell happens to it regardless.
It makes a great test tube for your experiment, though, right? Jackass.
You need
to stop pressing the retun key
As much as you have been.
It gets really annoying.
I mean it.
I've played MAME on 75 MHz power PCs. It wasn't a problem. Considering that most of these MAME consoles had CPUs slower than 1 MHz, even a clumsy emulator should be fine.
And yes, you may also have to emulate the graphics coprocessors, but those were also pretty wimpy.
Protecting the commons (air, water) with regulations on private ownership is one thing. Protecting an industry's business model is quite another, and there's no reason for the law to be involved here. No reason at all.
Exactly.
the firstest post... with the mostest.
Thanks for giving me 5 seconds of your life.
That's because you're a LIE-beral, isn't it?
Operating systems should be robust. That's the first principle of OS design.
I'm glad you had a good experience doing tech support, but if you knew a little more about the issues here, you'd quickly realize that neither "major multi-tasking" or idiots are a problem in a well-designed OS.
Linux and *BSD handle task switching very well (20 processes is nothing.) They also avoid hard disk drive head contention, something windows has yet to manage, even in XPee. (Try doing ANYTHING in windows while a large file copy is happening. Not gonna happen.)
As for email attachments, they are not a problem when privilege levels are correctly enforced. Unless you read your email as root, I don't think a linux system will ever have this problem.
Let me guess. Fork bomb?
Yes, it's a problem with linux, but you are not the first to discover it.
The importance is also minimized on single-user systems, where the only person the user is hurting is himself.
(For the real death, watch the growth of new non X86 system architectures, and the concomitant flowering of computer architecture. That Genie will not fit back in the bottle)
Sure, it'll happen... once Duke Nukem forever is released.
They'll be lower impact, less common, so on, but Linux doesn't make you immune, it just makes you more secure.
Using BSD basically does make you immune. They might have a new exploit discovered every 5 YEARS.
Linux takes the less secure road, but it's still an order of magnitude better than windows in this respect.
W/r/t to email worms, wherever you have users dumb enough to run attachments, you will have e-mail worms. As I said - give the authors a reason to target Linux (a non-miniscule market share, for instance) and they will.
That's definitely not true. Under linux, only root can screw up the system. The other users simply don't have the permissions to do it. The fact is, windows allows ordinary users to do dangerous things.
The fact that you don't know this makes me suspect that you're another clueless windows user trying to say "see, all OSes have the problems windows does." Sorry, brick-o, the rest of us realize that this is NOT THE CASE.
In Soviet Russia.... booze-hound, pick-pocket, robotic, shiny assed overloard welcomes YOU!!!
3 Navier-Stokes equation The answers to wave and breeze turbulence lie somewhere in the solutions to these equations
"The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, blowing in the wind."
I guess it's cool that these guys did this, but I always saw Grand Theft Auto more as a single-player game. It's fun to go on a rampage and shoot at stuff. It's fun to drive around with the tank.
:) )
(Oh yeah. Then there were those missions you had to do. Since it was less fun than going on a rampage, I usually skipped that part
If I played over the network, I would have to deal with people who cared about winning, and practiced the game-- i.e. gamers. NOT fun.
Just my $0.02
Anyways, what I was getting at is, you don't need an uber powerful computer just to watch/record tv. Playing Divx might take horsepower. I had priced out a computer with a low power Athlon XP, 2 tuners, monster hd, etc. I happened to score a 160gb drive on sale at Newegg, a PVR350 card, and a dvd burner (also on sale). So I built a Tivo for about $350, no monthly fees, expandable, and the most expensive item was the PVR350.
Actually, playing Divx should be no problem for the system you outlined. I have an old 500 MHz laptop (PIII core), and I have never had a problem with playing divxes. (Of course, I use *good* movie players like Crystal Player and VLC.) An athlon XP (not sure exactly what core revision that is) should have no problems whatsoever.
Who is the idiot who is modding this cretin up?
And, "Kano," why don't you try being a social worker in the ghetto for a month or two. Trust me, you will have a new understanding of the kinds of B.S. cops put up with on a day to day basis, "m'Lord."
Oh I forgot, you're too busy jerking off to Quentin Tarantino movies about how glamarous "thug life" is, and listening to rap music made by ex-cons. In your mother's basement.
Sorry, but YOU HAVE FAILED IN LIFE. Loser.
The military and the police are different parts of the government. And the CIA and other spooks is yet another. They're not at all the same organization.
I'm starting to wonder what you have against the police, anyway. In my experience, cops won't hassle you unless they think you are doing something illegal. And even then, they might let you go. For example, on the fourth of July, I got stopped for setting off fireworks, but the cops let me go.
The only real exceptions are when politicians call in cops to suppress political demonstrations-- which is of course, bullshit-- or when there are corrupt cops, which does happen. Overall, though, I feel safer with a cop car around, than without it, despite the fear of getting a speeding ticket.
The fact that you seem to overly fear and distrust cops leads me to believe that you either have
1) little experience with the real world
2) some kind of problem with authority (teenage angst?)
or, 3) are involved in something illegal
Whichever it is, I hope you will grow out of it.
If you try hard enough, you should be able to get tv-like images out of your computer screen. There's nothing magical about how a TV displays images.
On the other hand, if you sit further back from the TV than from the computer monitor, as 99% of americans do, you probably think that the TV has "better quality." It's like an impressionist painting.
If the xbox had a decent CD drive, I might consider buying one to use as a movie player. As it is, I'll stick with my old laptop, which plays CD-Rs-- something that the xbox can't do-- and plays DVDs, without the need for a USB dongle, or hacks to un-cripple it.
Oh yes, and the xbox games are shite. The only decent one in the whole bunch is Halo. Damn shame about Bungie. Guess everyone's gotta go sometime.
Nobody said Intel stuff always works. The point parent was making is that chipsets for Intel CPUs are usually more stable than chipsets for AMDs.
For someone like me, who cares a lot about stability, and doesn't give a rat's ass about performance, Intel probably is the way to go! Gamers can make their own decisions. That's the beauty of the free market.
I'm glad AMD exists, because competition makes things cheaper-- but that doesn't mean I'm going to buy their stuff, if all they have to offer me is unstable VIA chipsets that aren't worth the silicon they're made out of.
Any board is obsolete on arrival. I guarantee, that if you look at what engineers at the motherboard company are working on, it will be better than what is on the shelves now.
Deal with it.
What so bad about devfs?
Based on the limited amount of kernel hacking I've done, devfs didn't seem that bad, although it is a little more complex than the old minor/major number system. What's your beef?
20 amps along a 12 volt rail = 240 Watts.
So in a sense, you are still looking at wattage.
Small recommendation for the people here: don't cheap out on your analog components. You will be very unhappy if you do.