? The Fed's books are already open and reviewed by accountants regularly.
Where are the m3 numbers?
The fed has been actively inflating America's way out of debt for years. It just hasn't told anyone yet - gotta wait until it'll do more good than harm.
I'm not the submitter, but I also want something like he describes. I happen to live on a road where we get a fairly large number of accidents during the winter - four this past season on my front yard.
I don't want to hack something up personally. I just want a plug-and-play webcam - it should require power only, after I've configured it. I'd put it in my window during storms and that would be it.
While hacking up solutions can be fun, they often don't make for low-profile, portable and ignorable devices.
As some of the data has refused to fit those theories, it has been interesting to watch the spin doctors morph AGW into what I think is a more likely and accurate way to put it - "climate change".
Oddly enough, that exact terminology change is covered in the documentary I mentioned. As well as the reasons behind it.
I find it laughable that AGW proponents absolutely _refuse_ to publicly tackle the core issue if AGW is indeed happening: and that is that there are TOO MANY PEOPLE on Earth already
Lucky for us, we don't have to guess about this. Sustainability has been modeled extensively, and we're generally expected to sort out the "sweet spot" in population around 8.4 Billion. We're just over 7 billion now. This is not the problem. Source.
instead it's all electric cars and inefficient solar and wind power instead of proven nuclear
You're taking the extreme end of the argument and presenting it as the central argument. I'm all for electric cars, solar and wind power, but I'm also all for huge deployments of nuclear. And nuclear is easier to deploy fast.
they are so short-sighted and materialistic that they cannot see the havoc they are sowing with their unabashed consumption of the very limited resources available on this little blue ball
No, I care deeply about healthy ecosystems. I also like consuming. I want energy available in massive amounts, cheap and plentiful, but with little environmental impact.
Fixing our current issues does not require some Luddite reversion, it requires intelligent, measured, and prompt application of technology. Unfortunately, it is my belief that this directly conflicts with vested corporate interests, and that is why we're even having this debate.
Well, yes, that is flamebait. Global warming was politicized long before Al Gore came along - however his success pushed it into the area of public conversation, and then it because more recognizable to a lot of people.
While I don't claim this piece is unbiased, it is _very_ informative on the politics behind global warming campaigning. It's also quite a few years old and possibly out of date, but certainly enlightening nonetheless. I recommend you have a look.
Oh, he knows its an environmental negative. But he is bound by law to do the most he can to improve sales and shareholder value, regardless of the environmental cost, social need or greater economic benefit.
And this is why capitalism* has failed.
* as practiced today through the legal construct of a corporation
ARM Holdings is just the licensing part of the processor design. Many companies actually manufacture chips based on the ARM designs, (which is part of the reason they are so cheap)
Other than being able to steer the technology, I'm not sure what apple would be able to do?
And having gone through large levels of painstaking kernel-level optimization based on best practices provided by both Valve and the community, I can honestly say that their dedicated Linux servers are Crap.
It annoys me too, because the big things that are annoying are things I could fix in half an hour with access to the source.
Also, the hand-drawn "Sorry" with a sad face next to each flight number will start to take on a somewhat patronising tone.
Patronizing? Really? I can't see how that would be patronizing at all. But then again, I'm a Canadian, and I'd just find that being apologetic in a friendly tone.
I'm 28, and while I probably fall into the category of "young whippersnapper", I'm already past my prime. My focus, my concentration, my alertness and generally my ability to think fast has gone down from 4-5 years ago. I'd like to believe that experience offsets this, but how much I'm honestly not sure.
Basically, I realize my mind isn't as sharp as it once was. I'm trying to make up for that. You seem to think that with age comes efficiency. With age comes experience and wisdom, nothing more.
The universe can't count in prime numbers. Thinking we can't keep time (a relative concept to begin with) better for than the universe can is somewhat silly.
But.. duh? I mean, there is a lot of stuff between these pulsars and us. Any change in the local matter density, nearby gravitational disturbances, and there is no reliable time out of a pulsar. We can't honestly think that there is no undetectable gravitational effects between us and every pulsar in the universe, do we?
Then again, I'm nowhere near being an astrophysicist.
The on-disk format of btrfs is locked, and it will likely be out of experimental within the year. While I certainly wouldn't recommend it today, depending on the project timeline it could be a contender.
Hostnames require DPI, thanks to http/1.1 - you can have (and do have) hosting companies out there with hundreds of thousands of hosts on a single IP address.
If they keep IP addresses or hostnames only, your likely to get lumped into all kinds of bad searches.
Not to mention that the people with sufficient technical knowledge to successfully evade being tracked down electronically (while still being online) certainly can't afford a month off work with only $10k as a prize.
Make it $100K (and available to Canadians), give me a $10k budget, and I'd probably blow my entire vacation allotment for the year on this.
In fact, I'll arrange be online for several hours a day, and you still won't find me.
So... out of curiosity, what would have been an appropriate response for a curious 10 year old? I mean, counseling actually strikes me as the appropriate response.
Granted, I know nothing of the circumstances. But I'd really know what you'd expect the school system to do. Expel the child? Have him arrested?
Fantastic point. Portal is a good example of that. The game was bundled, but for a 6 hour experience, it was amazing.
How to price a 6 hour experience, on the other hand, is a little tricky. I'm sure I would have been annoyed to have spent $60 on a 6 hour game, regardless of its awesomeness.
I read up quickly on the methods Canada takes on this, because we actually have - what I would consider - sane laws on this subject.
We limit individuals to a maximum $5000 donation. We limit corporations to a maximum $1000 donation.
Finally, and most importantly, we limit the amount any campaign can spend. For a major federal election, it has to do with the last cycle's vote pull. The major parties generally have gotten around $20 million as a cap for any election.
Contrast this with quotes I remember of saying that the 2008 presidential election in the states ran in excess of a billion dollars.
Just for reference, if you guys down there ever feel like fixing your shit.
Your statement, while a valid opinion, doesn't reflect the fact that the market dictates that $100 a ticket is acceptable for some bands. Just because you don't want to pay it doesn't mean other people won't.
Plus you're talking about the huge huge groups. Even moderately famous groups don't rent stadiums, they still play in clubs and theater venues.
gdb could stand some love, especially so that it can better be hidden behind a UI.
THIS.
Except for the second part of that.
I want debugging tools. My personal favorite would be a heap explorer - something that maps a core dump to pointers, so I can map out the entire content of memory in my core dump visually and walk through it sanely. For example - I could look through a core dump and say hey, the buffer overrun that appears to have caused this belongs to this piece of memory - which follows this peice of memory over here which makes me think that my block allocator chewed up stuff it shouldn't have...
Also - BETTER THREAD SUPPORT IN GDB. Debugging a threaded application is pure and absolute hell in gdb.
You're somewhat right - but I thought since all kinds of people are putting in their two cents, I may as well. A bit of context - my father is a professional musician, and I spend a lot of other professionals - from moderately recognizable artists on big labels to the 20 year olds working their ass off gigging in crappy bars with crappy patrons trying to do better.
There are two sides to the music business, and surprisingly most people know which direction the business is going. I've had extended conversations with managers that got this amazingly well. Oddly enough, this article doesn't get it.
The music industry is reverting to a performance-based system. You won't make money on CDs. You won't make money on music videos. The only people that don't want to admit this is the higher-ups in the labels, because that is the ONLY place where the labels make money. Artist make their money off of performance. Labels CAN still exist - in fact, they should. But they're an advertising and marketing company - and they should work for you like one. Why the hell does an advertising company want to STOP its content from being seen?
Once you admit that, then everything starts to get easier. Labels, CDs and videos exist only to promote performances - and the performances get easier. Better venues, higher cover charges, people actually there for your music instead of the beer.
Oh. And the article seems to make out that the labels are hurting. They're not, amazingly. Trying to solicit sympathy for the poor corporations that exist to exploit your creative works... why are you doing this? In other words, my comment to OK Go, tell your label that their restrictions on embedding are costing you performance revenue. And stop defending a multi-billion dollar industry that cannot seem to adapt to change.
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? The Fed's books are already open and reviewed by accountants regularly.
Where are the m3 numbers?
The fed has been actively inflating America's way out of debt for years. It just hasn't told anyone yet - gotta wait until it'll do more good than harm.
I'm not the submitter, but I also want something like he describes. I happen to live on a road where we get a fairly large number of accidents during the winter - four this past season on my front yard.
I don't want to hack something up personally. I just want a plug-and-play webcam - it should require power only, after I've configured it. I'd put it in my window during storms and that would be it.
While hacking up solutions can be fun, they often don't make for low-profile, portable and ignorable devices.
As some of the data has refused to fit those theories, it has been interesting to watch the spin doctors morph AGW into what I think is a more likely and accurate way to put it - "climate change".
Oddly enough, that exact terminology change is covered in the documentary I mentioned. As well as the reasons behind it.
I find it laughable that AGW proponents absolutely _refuse_ to publicly tackle the core issue if AGW is indeed happening: and that is that there are TOO MANY PEOPLE on Earth already
Lucky for us, we don't have to guess about this. Sustainability has been modeled extensively, and we're generally expected to sort out the "sweet spot" in population around 8.4 Billion. We're just over 7 billion now. This is not the problem. Source.
instead it's all electric cars and inefficient solar and wind power instead of proven nuclear
You're taking the extreme end of the argument and presenting it as the central argument. I'm all for electric cars, solar and wind power, but I'm also all for huge deployments of nuclear. And nuclear is easier to deploy fast.
they are so short-sighted and materialistic that they cannot see the havoc they are sowing with their unabashed consumption of the very limited resources available on this little blue ball
No, I care deeply about healthy ecosystems. I also like consuming. I want energy available in massive amounts, cheap and plentiful, but with little environmental impact.
Fixing our current issues does not require some Luddite reversion, it requires intelligent, measured, and prompt application of technology. Unfortunately, it is my belief that this directly conflicts with vested corporate interests, and that is why we're even having this debate.
Well, yes, that is flamebait. Global warming was politicized long before Al Gore came along - however his success pushed it into the area of public conversation, and then it because more recognizable to a lot of people.
While I don't claim this piece is unbiased, it is _very_ informative on the politics behind global warming campaigning. It's also quite a few years old and possibly out of date, but certainly enlightening nonetheless. I recommend you have a look.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html
Now back to our regular topic, which has nothing at all to do with any of this post...
Just out of curiosity, what is the browser breakdown here?
Oh, he knows its an environmental negative. But he is bound by law to do the most he can to improve sales and shareholder value, regardless of the environmental cost, social need or greater economic benefit.
And this is why capitalism* has failed.
* as practiced today through the legal construct of a corporation
I personally discovered this when my phone started insisting that I was living at my old apartment whenever I was at home.
My old place is halfway across town, and I moved nearly a year ago. Yet whenever you can see my access point...
ARM Holdings is just the licensing part of the processor design. Many companies actually manufacture chips based on the ARM designs, (which is part of the reason they are so cheap)
Other than being able to steer the technology, I'm not sure what apple would be able to do?
Revoke the licenses.
And having gone through large levels of painstaking kernel-level optimization based on best practices provided by both Valve and the community, I can honestly say that their dedicated Linux servers are Crap.
It annoys me too, because the big things that are annoying are things I could fix in half an hour with access to the source.
Also, the hand-drawn "Sorry" with a sad face next to each flight number will start to take on a somewhat patronising tone.
Patronizing? Really? I can't see how that would be patronizing at all. But then again, I'm a Canadian, and I'd just find that being apologetic in a friendly tone.
So what you're saying is "get off my lawn".
I'm 28, and while I probably fall into the category of "young whippersnapper", I'm already past my prime. My focus, my concentration, my alertness and generally my ability to think fast has gone down from 4-5 years ago. I'd like to believe that experience offsets this, but how much I'm honestly not sure.
Basically, I realize my mind isn't as sharp as it once was. I'm trying to make up for that. You seem to think that with age comes efficiency. With age comes experience and wisdom, nothing more.
The universe can't count in prime numbers. Thinking we can't keep time (a relative concept to begin with) better for than the universe can is somewhat silly.
But .. duh? I mean, there is a lot of stuff between these pulsars and us. Any change in the local matter density, nearby gravitational disturbances, and there is no reliable time out of a pulsar. We can't honestly think that there is no undetectable gravitational effects between us and every pulsar in the universe, do we?
Then again, I'm nowhere near being an astrophysicist.
Want strings? Here:
typedef struct __string {
char *ptr
int len;
} string;
Now you have strings. Shouldn't be to hard to add some wrappers around the n-series functions to make all your stuff "string safe". For example:
int stringcmp(string *a, string *b)
{
int x = strncmp(a->ptr, b->ptr, MIN(a->len, b->len));
if(!x)
return a->len - b->len;
else
return x;
}
C can do anything you want it to. It just depends on how much you care to do it. Me, I can live without strings.
The on-disk format of btrfs is locked, and it will likely be out of experimental within the year. While I certainly wouldn't recommend it today, depending on the project timeline it could be a contender.
Fun thing is, the summary is wrong too.
Hostnames require DPI, thanks to http/1.1 - you can have (and do have) hosting companies out there with hundreds of thousands of hosts on a single IP address.
If they keep IP addresses or hostnames only, your likely to get lumped into all kinds of bad searches.
Not to mention that the people with sufficient technical knowledge to successfully evade being tracked down electronically (while still being online) certainly can't afford a month off work with only $10k as a prize.
Make it $100K (and available to Canadians), give me a $10k budget, and I'd probably blow my entire vacation allotment for the year on this.
In fact, I'll arrange be online for several hours a day, and you still won't find me.
So... out of curiosity, what would have been an appropriate response for a curious 10 year old? I mean, counseling actually strikes me as the appropriate response.
Granted, I know nothing of the circumstances. But I'd really know what you'd expect the school system to do. Expel the child? Have him arrested?
Fantastic point. Portal is a good example of that. The game was bundled, but for a 6 hour experience, it was amazing.
How to price a 6 hour experience, on the other hand, is a little tricky. I'm sure I would have been annoyed to have spent $60 on a 6 hour game, regardless of its awesomeness.
Forgot to include a link:
http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/laws.html
I read up quickly on the methods Canada takes on this, because we actually have - what I would consider - sane laws on this subject.
We limit individuals to a maximum $5000 donation. We limit corporations to a maximum $1000 donation.
Finally, and most importantly, we limit the amount any campaign can spend. For a major federal election, it has to do with the last cycle's vote pull. The major parties generally have gotten around $20 million as a cap for any election.
Contrast this with quotes I remember of saying that the 2008 presidential election in the states ran in excess of a billion dollars.
Just for reference, if you guys down there ever feel like fixing your shit.
Your statement, while a valid opinion, doesn't reflect the fact that the market dictates that $100 a ticket is acceptable for some bands. Just because you don't want to pay it doesn't mean other people won't.
Plus you're talking about the huge huge groups. Even moderately famous groups don't rent stadiums, they still play in clubs and theater venues.
So... I'm not quite sure what you're arguing.
gdb could stand some love, especially so that it can better be hidden behind a UI.
THIS.
Except for the second part of that.
I want debugging tools. My personal favorite would be a heap explorer - something that maps a core dump to pointers, so I can map out the entire content of memory in my core dump visually and walk through it sanely. For example - I could look through a core dump and say hey, the buffer overrun that appears to have caused this belongs to this piece of memory - which follows this peice of memory over here which makes me think that my block allocator chewed up stuff it shouldn't have...
Also - BETTER THREAD SUPPORT IN GDB. Debugging a threaded application is pure and absolute hell in gdb.
Make that "spend time with a lot of other professionals". durr..
You're somewhat right - but I thought since all kinds of people are putting in their two cents, I may as well. A bit of context - my father is a professional musician, and I spend a lot of other professionals - from moderately recognizable artists on big labels to the 20 year olds working their ass off gigging in crappy bars with crappy patrons trying to do better.
There are two sides to the music business, and surprisingly most people know which direction the business is going. I've had extended conversations with managers that got this amazingly well. Oddly enough, this article doesn't get it.
The music industry is reverting to a performance-based system. You won't make money on CDs. You won't make money on music videos. The only people that don't want to admit this is the higher-ups in the labels, because that is the ONLY place where the labels make money. Artist make their money off of performance. Labels CAN still exist - in fact, they should. But they're an advertising and marketing company - and they should work for you like one. Why the hell does an advertising company want to STOP its content from being seen?
Once you admit that, then everything starts to get easier. Labels, CDs and videos exist only to promote performances - and the performances get easier. Better venues, higher cover charges, people actually there for your music instead of the beer.
Oh. And the article seems to make out that the labels are hurting. They're not, amazingly. Trying to solicit sympathy for the poor corporations that exist to exploit your creative works ... why are you doing this? In other words, my comment to OK Go, tell your label that their restrictions on embedding are costing you performance revenue. And stop defending a multi-billion dollar industry that cannot seem to adapt to change.