"Protein Folding should take precedence over pointless searches for noise-in-patterns." Yea so why are you wasting cycles posting on Slashdot? You should be doing nothing but working to buy more and more PCs to run folding at home and pay for the electricity to power them! Different people have different interests.
I can understand wanting a recite. It is proof that it came from that store. Target didn't need mine because I bought it with a Credit Card and they could look it up. So they had an electronic record. People ripe off stores with returns and exchanges all the time. It is fine of you feel that other stores have a better policy and shop there because of that better policy. I just don't feel that policy is to the level of evil. I will say one thing that I do like about Target and Sears better than Walmart and Best Buy. They don't treat me like a criminal. I am sick of Walmart and other stores demanding to check my recite when I leave their stores. Also the service at Target seems better.
They didn't need to keep Dos alive of stick in top of an NT kernel. They had Xenix but sold it to SCO. Actually a lot of DOS development was done on Xenix machines. OF course they could have just made a command line version of NT as well.
"They've not tried to integrate their speakers with their mice (Microsoft would find a way to do this!) " That really isn't a terrible idea. It could be sort of like rumble on a game controller. A speaker in a mouse could give you some tactile feed back when your pointer is over a window or when you click a button. Not a terrible idea and now it can not be patented since I posted it on Slashdot.
Microsoft can be sued for not playing WMA Play for Sure files! You can only buy music for a Zune from the Zune store. So even Microsoft doesn't support Microsoft's DRMd WMA files!
Of course you need receipt. How does Sears know you bought it at Sears. Some stores will take back anything like Walmart. But most will require that you prove you bought it from them. Craftsman tools are the exception since only Sears sells them. Now Target was pretty good. I needed to return a gift that I got my wife because her mother got her the same thing. I didn't keep the recite because I am dumb. I did pay for it with my credit card so they just looked it up by that and did the return for me. Sometimes data retention is a good thing.
The real problem is what do you do with that heat? Yes you could use it to deice the roads but in the summer when you have the most gain you have the least use for the heat. The heat of the road is like lost of other energy around use. Just not concentrated enough to be of much use. Yes parts of Texas can get down right chilly Even Dallas can get a bit nippy.
If it looked cool then the vast majority of people wouldn't look down on it. I guess that it does give you a prop but then a prop is just a prop. Being cool is like being funny. If you need the prop then you really aren't.
"Say you have a need to add another fax board(or whatever) to the virtualized x86 server, to find that they stuck some mission critical Virtual Environment on the Server and It CAN'T come down for another 2 weeks." That problem is actually pretty simple. 1. Is the hardware you need available as a USB or firewire device? If so use that to add it for now. 2. Migrate the none mission critical service to a different box. One of the great things about virtual servers is that you can move them pretty easily if need be. Or migrate the mission critical service to a different service. 3. Or just wait until you can bring it down.
"Because you're not supposed to do it, certainly not if you're 16 years old. But even if you're a 30 year old productive member of society you have to go stand outside, 25 feet from the entrance to any building, and endure the dirty looks of everyone else on the street." Well you can get much the same effect singing show tunes off key at the top of your lungs. I just don't see many teens doing that. I treat smoking like a lot of other stupid activities. If do not do it around me I don't care.
It is the nicotine that keeps people smoking. That is why I said that yes if my kids started smoking, decided that they wanted to stop, and then had trouble stopping. I never understood why smoking in this day and age is cool and rebellious. The Tobacco companies are about as republican and conservative as you can get. It would be like joining the Teen age republicans to be cool and rebellious.
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I agree but you wouldn't believe how people interpret specs! An example was when a type of document data was made "optional" in the spec I was working on. One of the vendors programs locked up if the data file had that data in it! They thought that optional they didn't need to handle it at all instead of just ignoreing it or not using it their export. Yes it was stupid on their part but without any reference program it become he said she said.
I hate smoking as much as anybody but an in school vaccination program for behavior modification? Just seems wrong to me. Maybe if my kid starts and wants to stop and is having problems but as a preventative measure? I would have to say no to that.
They will say that you better go look for it. It is a warranty not insurance. Craftsmen hand tools are top of the line and they stand behind them. You don't need any ID or proof of purchase. Just bring in a broken craftsman tool and they will replace it.
Yes Nov 11, 1918 was in many ways the philosophical start of WWII. The fact that Germany wasn't occupied and then the demands placed on it where terrible plan it left a Germany that seemed to have lost the war at the peace table and not in the field. Combine that with the Wilson not convicting the US that isolationism just wouldn't work anymore and you have the seeds of WWII. Well that an Wilson not convincing the European victors to try to work for a just peace. I am afraid that Wilson was a great man that nobody wanted to listen too.
"But the US Navy refused to build any sodium-cooled submarine reactors. Finally a Congressional committee hauled Admiral Rickover in to a hearing to testify as to why he wasn't making better use of taxpayer's money." The Seawolf was the second us nuclear sub. It was built with a sodium cooled reactor. It had a lot of problems and was replaced with a water cooled reactor. At the time water cooled reactors where a lot more mature and when you are in submarine there is very little room for error. While your post is interesting it doesn't fit in with the historical facts.
Of course that over 50 years ago. Technology does improve so liquid metal is probably a workable solution now. I don't know if I would use on in sub since the US has such experience with making water cooled reactors work well in a sub.
From a military point of view I would say 1931 is the start date since that is when Japan attacked China and that conflict continued until the end of WWII. The US was involved trying to end the war and or contain Japan. As I said 1939 is a very Eurocentric date since it ignores both Asia and Africa both of those conflicts where part of WWII. To be accurate December 7th 1941 is the day the US entered WWII, 1939 is when the war in Europe started, and 1931 was the start of hostilities that would become WWII. So no, I would say that 1939 is also a wrong date for the start of WWII. By your argument I would say that 1941 is a very valid date after all. It was then that the wars in the Pacific and Asia and the wars in Africa and Europe merged in to a global conflict. So I stand by the 1931 as the start of WWII.
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I have worked on industry standards before. Writing spec is just half the battle. You then have the problem with implementation. Every company will implement it in slightly different ways. You would be surprised on how many ways there are to read a spec! Then you get in a yelling match over who is actually doing it correctly. When you have a reference application to test with then you have less yelling.
The actually start date for WWII is actually pretty fuzzy. For the US it started on Dec 7 1941. For the UK, France, and many other nations in Europe it started in 1939. Other dates would be 1935 because that is when Italy invaded Ethiopia. Or even 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria. I would go as far as to say that you could put down Nov 11th 1918 as the start of WWII.
But your 1939 date is as Euro centric as the 1941 date is US centric.
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AVI is a just as proprietary as rm if not more so. With Helix you can have an FOSS program that can read rm files. Yes Mpeg would be more open.
"Apart from all the proprietary vendor lock-in bollocks, yeh it's a good idea. " Well yes but less you want to "Roll your own" it will be proprietary. MythTV+a Nokia Tablet+ some code could do a lot of it. Too bad the Nokia Tablet doesn't have an HD.
I wasn't a fan of Kurt Cobain but I knew that he died and how. So since I found out I think they did cover that well. I developed a real dislike for the news service back when I was about four or five when they refused to not interrupt soap operas to cover the later Apollo missions. So I don't think that news coverage was ever that great. The real problem is when the Democratic congress dropped the "equal time" law. At the time they felt that the news service was slanted in their favor so they wanted to make the best of it. Of course they where not ready for talk radio and the extreme right. What we have now is so many news sources "I will not call them services" that everybody can find someone that will tell you exactly what you want to hear. We will tend to think they are the "most honest" news source. In fact it tends to be the one that just matches our bias!
I hate to say it but I don't consider celebrities to be all that news worthy. If they are around long enough like Bob Hope they become culturally very interesting but those are few and far between. Frankly Kurt Cobain's death didn't make a lot of difference to the world sad as it was for his fans and family.
"1. Nuclear power is not carbon neutral. Uranium is mined, and nobody is running mining equipment on biodiesel, nor are they transporting it to power plants using biodiesel, ethanol, or even renewable generated electricity on electric locomotives. To be sure, the amount of carbon is extremely low per kWh of electricity generated, but very small > 0, even for very small cases of very small."
Solar power is not carbon neutral. Silicon is mined, and nobody is running mining equipment on biodiesel, nor are they transporting it to solar cell factories using biodiesel, ethanol, or even renewable generated electricity on electric locomotives. None of those factories use solar power for production of those cells. To be sure, the amount of carbon is extremely low per kWh of electricity generated, but very small > 0, even for very small cases of very small.
So point one is universal for solar, wind, and nuclear.
"2. As you know, nuclear proponents continually ignore the major immediate problem with nuclear power -- waste storage. Nobody wants more glass-encased nuclear waste in their neighborhood, and presently nobody wants some other neighborhood's nuclear waste being transported through their neighborhood. The nuclear industry has got to find technical and political solutions to these problems before society will embrace nuclear as a green solution. I'm not arguing that burning coal or oil is safer or cleaner than nuclear, just that any change to a status quo requires more than a slight or obscured imbalance, which is how the public currently perceives the status quo." On site fuel recycling would massively reduce the waste problem and is being used right now in the EU and Japan. As far as the public's fear. Well you can blame Greenpeace for that.
"3. What is Hubbart's Peak for uranium? I have no idea, but it surely must have one." Throw in Plutonium and Thorium and it is so far out in the future that it is actually likely that we will have working fusion by then.
"4. Which nations have substantial amounts of useful uranium? What would the balance of power be if those nations became the new Saudi Arabia of energy?" Well to name some of them Canada, Australia, the United states, Sweden, and many others. The US reserves are over 850 million tons. That is just what is currently known. And it doesn't count uranium that can be recovered from copper and Phosphate mining.
"5. Solar off-peak is simply not a problem, not for a long time. Peak demand is highly correlated with sunshine in most of the world -- solar could serve quite effectively as the peaking plant, relying on other types of generation for base load. Electric storage is just not a major issue for solar -- it might become one for wind but it wouldn't be that hard to operate other green energy plants in a negative correlation to wind, ie burn woodchips when the wind isn't blowing, but not when the wind is blowing."
Nope this is totally wrong. As dynamic power systems increase in percentage trying to key the grid stable is going to become more and more of a problem. woodchips????? yea to heat your home maybe but not of megawatts of power. Not only that do you know how many hours it takes to get a cold steam plant online? Hint it is more than one.
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I was wondering about that myself.
I had thought that we had gotten past you can catch AID from casual contact stage?
"Protein Folding should take precedence over pointless searches for noise-in-patterns."
Yea so why are you wasting cycles posting on Slashdot?
You should be doing nothing but working to buy more and more PCs to run folding at home and pay for the electricity to power them!
Different people have different interests.
I can understand wanting a recite. It is proof that it came from that store. Target didn't need mine because I bought it with a Credit Card and they could look it up. So they had an electronic record.
People ripe off stores with returns and exchanges all the time. It is fine of you feel that other stores have a better policy and shop there because of that better policy. I just don't feel that policy is to the level of evil.
I will say one thing that I do like about Target and Sears better than Walmart and Best Buy. They don't treat me like a criminal. I am sick of Walmart and other stores demanding to check my recite when I leave their stores. Also the service at Target seems better.
They didn't need to keep Dos alive of stick in top of an NT kernel.
They had Xenix but sold it to SCO. Actually a lot of DOS development was done on Xenix machines.
OF course they could have just made a command line version of NT as well.
"They've not tried to integrate their speakers with their mice (Microsoft would find a way to do this!) "
That really isn't a terrible idea. It could be sort of like rumble on a game controller. A speaker in a mouse could give you some tactile feed back when your pointer is over a window or when you click a button.
Not a terrible idea and now it can not be patented since I posted it on Slashdot.
Microsoft can be sued for not playing WMA Play for Sure files!
You can only buy music for a Zune from the Zune store. So even Microsoft doesn't support Microsoft's DRMd WMA files!
In other words you can sue anyone for anything.
Of course you need receipt.
How does Sears know you bought it at Sears. Some stores will take back anything like Walmart. But most will require that you prove you bought it from them. Craftsman tools are the exception since only Sears sells them.
Now Target was pretty good. I needed to return a gift that I got my wife because her mother got her the same thing. I didn't keep the recite because I am dumb. I did pay for it with my credit card so they just looked it up by that and did the return for me. Sometimes data retention is a good thing.
The real problem is what do you do with that heat? Yes you could use it to deice the roads but in the summer when you have the most gain you have the least use for the heat. The heat of the road is like lost of other energy around use. Just not concentrated enough to be of much use.
Yes parts of Texas can get down right chilly Even Dallas can get a bit nippy.
If it looked cool then the vast majority of people wouldn't look down on it. I guess that it does give you a prop but then a prop is just a prop.
Being cool is like being funny. If you need the prop then you really aren't.
"Say you have a need to add another fax board(or whatever) to the virtualized x86 server, to find that they stuck some mission critical Virtual Environment on the Server and It CAN'T come down for another 2 weeks."
That problem is actually pretty simple.
1. Is the hardware you need available as a USB or firewire device? If so use that to add it for now.
2. Migrate the none mission critical service to a different box. One of the great things about virtual servers is that you can move them pretty easily if need be. Or migrate the mission critical service to a different service.
3. Or just wait until you can bring it down.
"Because you're not supposed to do it, certainly not if you're 16 years old. But even if you're a 30 year old productive member of society you have to go stand outside, 25 feet from the entrance to any building, and endure the dirty looks of everyone else on the street."
Well you can get much the same effect singing show tunes off key at the top of your lungs. I just don't see many teens doing that.
I treat smoking like a lot of other stupid activities. If do not do it around me I don't care.
It is the nicotine that keeps people smoking. That is why I said that yes if my kids started smoking, decided that they wanted to stop, and then had trouble stopping.
I never understood why smoking in this day and age is cool and rebellious. The Tobacco companies are about as republican and conservative as you can get. It would be like joining the Teen age republicans to be cool and rebellious.
I agree but you wouldn't believe how people interpret specs!
An example was when a type of document data was made "optional" in the spec I was working on. One of the vendors programs locked up if the data file had that data in it! They thought that optional they didn't need to handle it at all instead of just ignoreing it or not using it their export.
Yes it was stupid on their part but without any reference program it become he said she said.
I hate smoking as much as anybody but an in school vaccination program for behavior modification?
Just seems wrong to me. Maybe if my kid starts and wants to stop and is having problems but as a preventative measure?
I would have to say no to that.
They will say that you better go look for it.
It is a warranty not insurance.
Craftsmen hand tools are top of the line and they stand behind them. You don't need any ID or proof of purchase. Just bring in a broken craftsman tool and they will replace it.
Yes Nov 11, 1918 was in many ways the philosophical start of WWII. The fact that Germany wasn't occupied and then the demands placed on it where terrible plan it left a Germany that seemed to have lost the war at the peace table and not in the field. Combine that with the Wilson not convicting the US that isolationism just wouldn't work anymore and you have the seeds of WWII. Well that an Wilson not convincing the European victors to try to work for a just peace. I am afraid that Wilson was a great man that nobody wanted to listen too.
"But the US Navy refused to build any sodium-cooled submarine reactors. Finally a Congressional committee hauled Admiral Rickover in to a hearing to testify as to why he wasn't making better use of taxpayer's money."
The Seawolf was the second us nuclear sub. It was built with a sodium cooled reactor. It had a lot of problems and was replaced with a water cooled reactor.
At the time water cooled reactors where a lot more mature and when you are in submarine there is very little room for error.
While your post is interesting it doesn't fit in with the historical facts.
Of course that over 50 years ago. Technology does improve so liquid metal is probably a workable solution now. I don't know if I would use on in sub since the US has such experience with making water cooled reactors work well in a sub.
From a military point of view I would say 1931 is the start date since that is when Japan attacked China and that conflict continued until the end of WWII. The US was involved trying to end the war and or contain Japan.
As I said 1939 is a very Eurocentric date since it ignores both Asia and Africa both of those conflicts where part of WWII. To be accurate December 7th 1941 is the day the US entered WWII, 1939 is when the war in Europe started, and 1931 was the start of hostilities that would become WWII.
So no, I would say that 1939 is also a wrong date for the start of WWII. By your argument I would say that 1941 is a very valid date after all. It was then that the wars in the Pacific and Asia and the wars in Africa and Europe merged in to a global conflict.
So I stand by the 1931 as the start of WWII.
I have worked on industry standards before. Writing spec is just half the battle. You then have the problem with implementation. Every company will implement it in slightly different ways. You would be surprised on how many ways there are to read a spec! Then you get in a yelling match over who is actually doing it correctly.
When you have a reference application to test with then you have less yelling.
The actually start date for WWII is actually pretty fuzzy.
For the US it started on Dec 7 1941.
For the UK, France, and many other nations in Europe it started in 1939.
Other dates would be 1935 because that is when Italy invaded Ethiopia.
Or even 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria.
I would go as far as to say that you could put down Nov 11th 1918 as the start of WWII.
But your 1939 date is as Euro centric as the 1941 date is US centric.
AVI is a just as proprietary as rm if not more so.
With Helix you can have an FOSS program that can read rm files.
Yes Mpeg would be more open.
"Apart from all the proprietary vendor lock-in bollocks, yeh it's a good idea. "
Well yes but less you want to "Roll your own" it will be proprietary.
MythTV+a Nokia Tablet+ some code could do a lot of it. Too bad the Nokia Tablet doesn't have an HD.
I wasn't a fan of Kurt Cobain but I knew that he died and how. So since I found out I think they did cover that well.
I developed a real dislike for the news service back when I was about four or five when they refused to not interrupt soap operas to cover the later Apollo missions.
So I don't think that news coverage was ever that great.
The real problem is when the Democratic congress dropped the "equal time" law. At the time they felt that the news service was slanted in their favor so they wanted to make the best of it. Of course they where not ready for talk radio and the extreme right.
What we have now is so many news sources "I will not call them services" that everybody can find someone that will tell you exactly what you want to hear. We will tend to think they are the "most honest" news source. In fact it tends to be the one that just matches our bias!
I wish I knew the solution.
I hate to say it but I don't consider celebrities to be all that news worthy. If they are around long enough like Bob Hope they become culturally very interesting but those are few and far between.
Frankly Kurt Cobain's death didn't make a lot of difference to the world sad as it was for his fans and family.
"1. Nuclear power is not carbon neutral. Uranium is mined, and nobody is running mining equipment on biodiesel, nor are they transporting it to power plants using biodiesel, ethanol, or even renewable generated electricity on electric locomotives. To be sure, the amount of carbon is extremely low per kWh of electricity generated, but very small > 0, even for very small cases of very small."
Solar power is not carbon neutral. Silicon is mined, and nobody is running mining equipment on biodiesel, nor are they transporting it to solar cell factories using biodiesel, ethanol, or even renewable generated electricity on electric locomotives. None of those factories use solar power for production of those cells. To be sure, the amount of carbon is extremely low per kWh of electricity generated, but very small > 0, even for very small cases of very small.
So point one is universal for solar, wind, and nuclear.
"2. As you know, nuclear proponents continually ignore the major immediate problem with nuclear power -- waste storage. Nobody wants more glass-encased nuclear waste in their neighborhood, and presently nobody wants some other neighborhood's nuclear waste being transported through their neighborhood. The nuclear industry has got to find technical and political solutions to these problems before society will embrace nuclear as a green solution. I'm not arguing that burning coal or oil is safer or cleaner than nuclear, just that any change to a status quo requires more than a slight or obscured imbalance, which is how the public currently perceives the status quo."
On site fuel recycling would massively reduce the waste problem and is being used right now in the EU and Japan. As far as the public's fear. Well you can blame Greenpeace for that.
"3. What is Hubbart's Peak for uranium? I have no idea, but it surely must have one."
Throw in Plutonium and Thorium and it is so far out in the future that it is actually likely that we will have working fusion by then.
"4. Which nations have substantial amounts of useful uranium? What would the balance of power be if those nations became the new Saudi Arabia of energy?"
Well to name some of them Canada, Australia, the United states, Sweden, and many others. The US reserves are over 850 million tons. That is just what is currently known. And it doesn't count uranium that can be recovered from copper and Phosphate mining.
"5. Solar off-peak is simply not a problem, not for a long time. Peak demand is highly correlated with sunshine in most of the world -- solar could serve quite effectively as the peaking plant, relying on other types of generation for base load. Electric storage is just not a major issue for solar -- it might become one for wind but it wouldn't be that hard to operate other green energy plants in a negative correlation to wind, ie burn woodchips when the wind isn't blowing, but not when the wind is blowing."
Nope this is totally wrong. As dynamic power systems increase in percentage trying to key the grid stable is going to become more and more of a problem. woodchips????? yea to heat your home maybe but not of megawatts of power. Not only that do you know how many hours it takes to get a cold steam plant online? Hint it is more than one.