For want of mod points... Very astute observations.
In the 70's they were positing "Global Cooling" with an impending Ice Age coming. In the late 80's it's now "Global Warming" with an impending melt-down of ice caps, etc.
Sorry, guys...you only know that climate changes. That is IT. Should we pollute less? Yes. Most definitely. Is CO2 a pollutant? Probably not, though it's probably a decent idea to cut back on things. If you think we're still burning dinosaurs...heh... Look at the subduction zones on the earth...they drag organic matter to be subjected to pyrolysis, much like the Karrick process or Thermal Depolymerization. Literally, those processes are doing the same thing as the planet is continuously doing and we're very likely to be burning a bit more recent plant and animal life in our cars right now. The only CO2 that might not be part of the main system would be the Coal we're burning...but it's adding back into the other system when we do it.
If you're not evaluating that aspect of the system as a whole, which is the planet Earth, you're NOT measuring what you need to to arrive at the right data for the theories in question. Seriously. If you don't have that as part of the theory, you don't have a workable theory.
Heh... I'd heard about Infogrames... They were one of the good companies in the 8-bit era and had produced some of the classics from the DOS days of the PC era.
In truth, if your license isn't re-instated by some action that actually is legal, you lose it forever, per contract law.
However I think the valid interpretation (which is why people merely seek coming into compliance with the terms...) for the GPL/LGPLv2 for reinstatement is to re-obtain a new copy and fully comply with the terms. What bit Actiontec and Verizon so hard was that they were in breach of the agreement AND was unwilling to try to reinstate it themselves.
ARM's everywhere. Look at most of your consumer electronics... Odds on, you're looking at an ARM in most of them. There's at least 1-2 ARMs in your X86 machines as well, doing tasks you wouldn't relegate to the X86.
Heh... In real life, there's a plateau, yes, where you will be the head badass in the world on a given thing you're trying to do. Unfortunately, there's almost always someone/something that is waiting in the wings to hand you your ass on a platter- and you're tried constantly by everything when you hit that plateau in most cases.
In the case of the ZeniMax Fallout franchise titles, they have increasing toughness monsters that start showing up more often as you get tougher. But, there's the piddly-assed monsters as well as some downright ball-busters in the mix that roam around from the very beginnings of the game. (Anyone ever trip across a Deathstalker as a lower than 10 level character without something like a rocket launcher, fat boy, autocannon, or other suitably HEAVY weapon? Heh... I HAVE- not hard in Vegas...just go to the mine 'too early' in the game... Something easily done from where you start out.)
The escapism in that game is placing yourself into a somewhat realistic futuristic post-nuclear-holocaust dystopia and trying to take manylevels in 'badass' as is possible, perhaps making yourself head honcho of the story in the end. I've not completed Vegas yet, but I've completed most of the differing endings in Fallout, including the one that gives you the path into the downloadable content- and then completed most of the DLC. Normally, I don't bother because of the damn grinding which makes me try to find the game on a decent discount and play it only when I've got a weekend or so to waste/kill on a game bender.
Heh... He just did. The cop that beat someone nearly so or to death, if he knows them, typically will be his "buddy" and in many cases, they'll cover for him/her. To most cops, you're a perp. Either one they caught red-handed or one that they haven't caught out yet. There's a reason that Professor Duane gave the lecture he did along with an LEO that's famous on the Internet:
Heh... I'm from Texas, where we have no presumption that we can't be recorded. If you're not committing a criminal act yourself, it's perfectly permissible to record anything that goes on (as the "one party in the conversation knowing" requirement is fufilled- and it HAS to be someone as part of the conversation doing the recording as otherwise it IS "wiretapping"...). It's not wiretapping like Mass and several other States have arrived at- and the law WASN'T to protect the people like it was related to them. It was to protect people like this guy filing charges on the lady. Seriously.
And the people saying that getting it to change is impossible- only if you abdicate your responsibility as a Citizen.
The government of this Nation at any of the divisions thereof is BY, FOR, and OF the People. If it doesn't serve the People at large, it'd better have a good reason to be there- and not the reasons that many of the Massachusetts laws on the books have, including this "wiretapping" law (If it were for "privacy", you would have it like the one that Texas and other States have...). If you're not standing up for yourselves, you get the government you richly and justly deserve.
They might be pulling numbers (It's actually theoretically possible...), but in the same vein, if they're capable of jamming out 250MW of output out of something that small, powering a neighborhood would amount to dropping one of these in every several blocks and periodically fuelling them. It'd be HARD to have blackouts or brownouts so long as you could keep the reactors fueled. Also worthy of note is that if they could get 10-50kw you could have a perfornance car/truck with one and power a whole house when it's not in service driving you around.
It wouldn't be an explosion like that, believe it or not. Breach the containment and the radiation would spike for a bit and drop back down. Thorium, while it's a potent radioactive fuel, doesn't burn in the same manner as Uranium or Plutonium- liquid salt Thorium reactors are perhaps the safest design other than a pebble bed for fission reactions. The main reason you don't see those right now is that people are all scared of "nuclear" reactors and when the decision gate was crossed for nuclear power in the 50's, we decided on building reactors that could be used to make bomb making materials- combined with trying to be "clever" and scale up the early military fission plants they used on Subs and Aircraft Carriers.
Actually, Google is about to turn on Mozilla. Microsoft WILL turn on them...it's not an "if" like it currently still is with Google..it's a solid "when".
Obama... It was started with Bush, but a President change doesn't place the current funding blame with the previous president like Obama and his supporters would like you to believe.
Heh... You can get "Oil" from other sources- just not as easily as you can pulling them from the ground...
All it takes is exposing organic matter (biomass, coal, etc...) to one of several differing pyrolysis processes and you get "Oil"- sweet crude. At efficiencies typically in the ballpark of 70-85%.
"1" presumes you'll find out about the attack before it's all said and done. Unfortunately, much of our capabilities are after-the-fact detections of attacks. A bit late to respond when they've hacked the SCADA and blew out a substation or a generator for a given power utility.
"2" depends on just how much damage they do to us as to whether we CAN respond with anything. Yes, we can respond with nukes...that's a poor response. And moreover, you're going to have a delayed response for any other kinetic type attack. They may be prepared for the response- even nukes.
Phone: Driven by the same infrastructure that the Internet is on. It's got vulnerable attack surfaces with the SCADA systems that power the HVAC that keeps the switches cooled. It's got vulnerable attack surfaces with the security stuff around it. If you think it's all air-gapped from the Internet, you'd be mistaken. Phone'll be as toast as the rest.
Radio: Talk about degradation of things. Sure, you can communicate with radio. Problem is, all the SCADA systems, phone systems, etc. that would get taken out via a loss of the Internet would NOT be able to use it. You can do voice communications, but your abilities are going to be majorly impaired.
And it's not the Internet that's of concern. The SCADA systems are attack surfaces that most of them aren't air-gapped from the Internet. This means you can take out generators. Do the wrong thing at the right places and you WILL plunge the nation into a blackout that'll take months to undo. Blow a generator at a power plant. Burn it up with wrong SCADA settings, something you CAN do. You'll spend 6-12 months replacing it because we don't make them in the US anymore. Offshoring and outsourcing. They're made in Europe and China these days.
Cyberwar's been upon us for a while now and we are and are not prepared for it in many ways. Mainly because of thinking like yours.
Heh... China's reason for being "sole source" on those is more because they're cheaper than anyone else. The second largest known deposit, nearly as big as China's is in the US- and the people that own the mine have gotten permits to start back up. Nice try, but no cigar.
It isn't always that way. The way your analogy describes...
If I hadn't had a divorce induced problem, the mail server I've had going for over a decade, self-hosted, would still be up (And will be up again when I get her out of MY house...). And it wasn't as difficult as many seem to insist on making it out to be. It's not for everyone, but it's not QUITE as bad as it's being made out to be. (And I've not been tripped up by the blacklists and I happen to HAVE 5 fixed IPs on a small business connection...)
Actually, it is, so long as you're talking about everything BUT Honeycomb. I'm not really happy about that...but pretty much only the tablets are not intrinsically FOSS (I couldn't have CM7 on my Nook and my Droid if it wasn't largely open sourced...)
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For want of mod points... Very astute observations.
In the 70's they were positing "Global Cooling" with an impending Ice Age coming.
In the late 80's it's now "Global Warming" with an impending melt-down of ice caps, etc.
Sorry, guys...you only know that climate changes. That is IT. Should we pollute less? Yes. Most definitely. Is CO2 a pollutant? Probably not, though it's probably a decent idea to cut back on things. If you think we're still burning dinosaurs...heh... Look at the subduction zones on the earth...they drag organic matter to be subjected to pyrolysis, much like the Karrick process or Thermal Depolymerization. Literally, those processes are doing the same thing as the planet is continuously doing and we're very likely to be burning a bit more recent plant and animal life in our cars right now. The only CO2 that might not be part of the main system would be the Coal we're burning...but it's adding back into the other system when we do it.
If you're not evaluating that aspect of the system as a whole, which is the planet Earth, you're NOT measuring what you need to to arrive at the right data for the theories in question. Seriously. If you don't have that as part of the theory, you don't have a workable theory.
Heh... I'd heard about Infogrames... They were one of the good companies in the 8-bit era and had produced some of the classics from the DOS days of the PC era.
In truth, if your license isn't re-instated by some action that actually is legal, you lose it forever, per contract law.
However I think the valid interpretation (which is why people merely seek coming into compliance with the terms...) for the GPL/LGPLv2 for reinstatement is to re-obtain a new copy and fully comply with the terms. What bit Actiontec and Verizon so hard was that they were in breach of the agreement AND was unwilling to try to reinstate it themselves.
If it was published or sold 1 year prior to now, it is irrelevant. It's invalidating prior art.
Reversing? And competing with IBM? Better be better at it than HP is right now.
ARM's everywhere. Look at most of your consumer electronics... Odds on, you're looking at an ARM in most of them. There's at least 1-2 ARMs in your X86 machines as well, doing tasks you wouldn't relegate to the X86.
Heh... In real life, there's a plateau, yes, where you will be the head badass in the world on a given thing you're trying to do. Unfortunately, there's almost always someone/something that is waiting in the wings to hand you your ass on a platter- and you're tried constantly by everything when you hit that plateau in most cases.
In the case of the ZeniMax Fallout franchise titles, they have increasing toughness monsters that start showing up more often as you get tougher. But, there's the piddly-assed monsters as well as some downright ball-busters in the mix that roam around from the very beginnings of the game . (Anyone ever trip across a Deathstalker as a lower than 10 level character without something like a rocket launcher, fat boy, autocannon, or other suitably HEAVY weapon? Heh... I HAVE- not hard in Vegas...just go to the mine 'too early' in the game... Something easily done from where you start out.)
The escapism in that game is placing yourself into a somewhat realistic futuristic post-nuclear-holocaust dystopia and trying to take many levels in 'badass' as is possible, perhaps making yourself head honcho of the story in the end. I've not completed Vegas yet, but I've completed most of the differing endings in Fallout, including the one that gives you the path into the downloadable content- and then completed most of the DLC. Normally, I don't bother because of the damn grinding which makes me try to find the game on a decent discount and play it only when I've got a weekend or so to waste/kill on a game bender.
Heh... It's certainly nothing worse than anything else the hedge funds do to try to "make a profit".
Heh... He just did. The cop that beat someone nearly so or to death, if he knows them, typically will be his "buddy" and in many cases, they'll cover for him/her. To most cops, you're a perp. Either one they caught red-handed or one that they haven't caught out yet. There's a reason that Professor Duane gave the lecture he did along with an LEO that's famous on the Internet:
Heh... I'm from Texas, where we have no presumption that we can't be recorded. If you're not committing a criminal act yourself, it's perfectly permissible to record anything that goes on (as the "one party in the conversation knowing" requirement is fufilled- and it HAS to be someone as part of the conversation doing the recording as otherwise it IS "wiretapping"...). It's not wiretapping like Mass and several other States have arrived at- and the law WASN'T to protect the people like it was related to them. It was to protect people like this guy filing charges on the lady. Seriously.
And the people saying that getting it to change is impossible- only if you abdicate your responsibility as a Citizen.
The government of this Nation at any of the divisions thereof is BY, FOR, and OF the People. If it doesn't serve the People at large, it'd better have a good reason to be there- and not the reasons that many of the Massachusetts laws on the books have, including this "wiretapping" law (If it were for "privacy", you would have it like the one that Texas and other States have...). If you're not standing up for yourselves, you get the government you richly and justly deserve.
They might be pulling numbers (It's actually theoretically possible...), but in the same vein, if they're capable of jamming out 250MW of output out of something that small, powering a neighborhood would amount to dropping one of these in every several blocks and periodically fuelling them. It'd be HARD to have blackouts or brownouts so long as you could keep the reactors fueled. Also worthy of note is that if they could get 10-50kw you could have a perfornance car/truck with one and power a whole house when it's not in service driving you around.
It wouldn't be an explosion like that, believe it or not. Breach the containment and the radiation would spike for a bit and drop back down. Thorium, while it's a potent radioactive fuel, doesn't burn in the same manner as Uranium or Plutonium- liquid salt Thorium reactors are perhaps the safest design other than a pebble bed for fission reactions. The main reason you don't see those right now is that people are all scared of "nuclear" reactors and when the decision gate was crossed for nuclear power in the 50's, we decided on building reactors that could be used to make bomb making materials- combined with trying to be "clever" and scale up the early military fission plants they used on Subs and Aircraft Carriers.
FTFY. Chrome nukes that supposition that you just made. Combine that with Chromebook and there's nothing at all accurate in your claims.
Actually, Google is about to turn on Mozilla. Microsoft WILL turn on them...it's not an "if" like it currently still is with Google..it's a solid "when".
Excuse me...aren't you guilty of the same thing right now?
Heh... You took my acerbic remark away from me there.
Obama... It was started with Bush, but a President change doesn't place the current funding blame with the previous president like Obama and his supporters would like you to believe.
Heh... You can get "Oil" from other sources- just not as easily as you can pulling them from the ground...
All it takes is exposing organic matter (biomass, coal, etc...) to one of several differing pyrolysis processes and you get "Oil"- sweet crude. At efficiencies typically in the ballpark of 70-85%.
"1" presumes you'll find out about the attack before it's all said and done. Unfortunately, much of our capabilities are after-the-fact detections of attacks. A bit late to respond when they've hacked the SCADA and blew out a substation or a generator for a given power utility.
"2" depends on just how much damage they do to us as to whether we CAN respond with anything. Yes, we can respond with nukes...that's a poor response. And moreover, you're going to have a delayed response for any other kinetic type attack. They may be prepared for the response- even nukes.
Heh...
Phone: Driven by the same infrastructure that the Internet is on. It's got vulnerable attack surfaces with the SCADA systems that power the HVAC that keeps the switches cooled. It's got vulnerable attack surfaces with the security stuff around it. If you think it's all air-gapped from the Internet, you'd be mistaken. Phone'll be as toast as the rest.
Radio: Talk about degradation of things. Sure, you can communicate with radio. Problem is, all the SCADA systems, phone systems, etc. that would get taken out via a loss of the Internet would NOT be able to use it. You can do voice communications, but your abilities are going to be majorly impaired.
And it's not the Internet that's of concern. The SCADA systems are attack surfaces that most of them aren't air-gapped from the Internet. This means you can take out generators. Do the wrong thing at the right places and you WILL plunge the nation into a blackout that'll take months to undo. Blow a generator at a power plant. Burn it up with wrong SCADA settings, something you CAN do. You'll spend 6-12 months replacing it because we don't make them in the US anymore. Offshoring and outsourcing. They're made in Europe and China these days.
Cyberwar's been upon us for a while now and we are and are not prepared for it in many ways. Mainly because of thinking like yours.
Heh... China's reason for being "sole source" on those is more because they're cheaper than anyone else. The second largest known deposit, nearly as big as China's is in the US- and the people that own the mine have gotten permits to start back up. Nice try, but no cigar.
It isn't always that way. The way your analogy describes...
If I hadn't had a divorce induced problem, the mail server I've had going for over a decade, self-hosted, would still be up (And will be up again when I get her out of MY house...). And it wasn't as difficult as many seem to insist on making it out to be. It's not for everyone, but it's not QUITE as bad as it's being made out to be. (And I've not been tripped up by the blacklists and I happen to HAVE 5 fixed IPs on a small business connection...)
Actually, it is, so long as you're talking about everything BUT Honeycomb. I'm not really happy about that...but pretty much only the tablets are not intrinsically FOSS (I couldn't have CM7 on my Nook and my Droid if it wasn't largely open sourced...)
It's not really analogous for the Java/Android story... If you wanted to reach for an analogy, it'd be Oracle suing Microsoft over .Net.
For Microsoft it wouldn't be. For Oracle, it would. :-D