Nah, make everyone write a check every time they get paid at work. When the tax money no longer comes out before they get the check, and are forced to part with that money, then they will realize how badly we all are getting screwed.
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OT, but oh well...
It's worse than that, if you extrapolate it a bit (and this is admittedly streaching). Assuming GW Bush is succesfull in swatting the terrorist scumbags, future Democratic candidates have to run against Reagan defeating the Soviets, Bush 41 defeating Iraq, and Bush 43 defeating Taliban/Al-Queda/terrorists while Republicans run against Clinton's illustrious career of... something..., and before him you have Carter with double digit inflation. Makes the past 24 years of politics interesting reading at the very least.
There is a slow and unofficial move to make the whole telco backbone optical to the CO, with eventual optical switches in each CO. This gives you point to point CO switched connections. Hence, your DS3 just popped up to OC multiples.
Of course, don't expect this much before 2020 or so, but once we get there BW costs should really drop.
Just the ozone layer scatters gammas pretty well, so no high freq EM wave propogates well in water. Low freq does ok, but they can't carry any meaningful power load. Water is a very, very bad medium for energy weapons.
Just reading a book has no inherent value over watching a TV show. The argument is that an "average" good book is usually better than an "average" tv show. Now we can debate what "average" is, etc. We can get into debates whether Shakespeare is better read or watched. We can get into all kind of debates. What we end up with is that with a TV show you given someone else's view of a story, whereas with a book you craft your own view of the story. Sometimes the other person has a better view of that story and you are surprised and delighted, sometimes you have a better vision and are disappointed. Personally, book adaptions tend to disappoint me, but I have a rather extravagent imagination. Popular TV (ie, Friends and other top rated shows (I can't think of any others)) bores me- when I watch TV I tend to watch TLC, Discovery, and Sci-Fi channel. It all pretty much depends on the person and whether they want to craft a story to their own imagination or view that story through someone else's viewpoint.
Or something- I don't know if any of the above makes any sense.
Actually the Internet evolved from DarpaNet, which was built with mucho bucks from the gov. Internet2 is also being mostly funded by the gov.
The biggest reason that the gov is involved is because rich content companies are paying them to be involved. This pisses me off, and I'm a freaking conservative!
The protest is when Joe Sixpack can no longer time shift his TV shows when he is working late. Once they fuck with this, or go for pay per view broadcast, everyone will revolt. You think that all the congress-dudes will tolerate not being able to watch a taped bikini-clad Survivor?
Mod up. This actually gets discussed a lot everytime some yahoo tries to replace a map or a field paper doc with an electronic widget. You forgot batteries, though. Paper don't need no stinkin' batteries.
As for you e-book folks, well, I just disagree with you.
All of this emphasis on building online communities.... no wonder real life communities are going to shit. Think about it- how many people do you know online, now how many people do you know in your neighborhood, and how well in each group?
For those of you who have balanced lives, not bother replying telling me you do, I know that there are plenty of people who have satisfying online and real life interactions.
I'm pointing this out for the people who are immersing themselves in an artificial word, and probably don't even think about talking to their neighbors.
Yeah, some machine in Japan is going to render my video for me and get it back to my box quick enough so I have more than 5 FPS? I don't know what the hell this article is trying to achieve, but it isn't accuracy.
Distributed systems work on problems like Seti or cracking codes, not real-time game playing! 1000 times power? That would put the PS3 onto the supercomputer 500 list, wouldn't it? Or are they talking 1000 times graphics power- that would be enough for photorealistic VR, for God's sake. (Excuse me if I'm wrong, but my bullshit meter started hitting 100 around the 2nd paragraph and I couldn't make myself finish the article)
"We can't wait for Moore's Law"- then make it multiprocessor, jackass. If, for some stupid reason, they did make the thing distributed, you'll have millions of people/machines trying to do work on everyone else's machines, meaning it will be just as slow + all of the network latency. Either these people are dumb as shit (which I doubt) or they are just trying to bang the drum a bit for sales.
I went to the Sci site and took their personality test, or whatever they called it. Out of 9 categories I had one that was below the "under perfect conditions" line; the rest were much above that line. I am far from a perfect person, I have many flaws, and I answered as honestly as I could (some of their questions were sorta ambiguous, so I did the best I could), but if I got that high a score then I shudder to think whom they actually get in their doors and end up giving mucho money. Sad cases those gents/girls must be, and with their techniques I would be hard pressed to say it is anything less than a big mind rape. Christ, just the stuff they pulled after 9/11 should get them all thrown in jail!
The gov and the IRS need to grow some balls and just rip the shit out of these assholes. Their shit is already legendary
BTW, CoS, come get me and my mere pittance of equity, I'll be bankrupt by the time you file your first brief. What a bunch of psychopathic fucktards with a massive inferiority complex! Makes me wonder if they have to eat their own genitalia in some kinda initiation rite.
Just die! (Yeah, I'm pretty pissed off right now.)
The book "Firestar" by Michael Flynn had, among other things, a single stage to orbit (SSTO) machine. I'm not well versed in rocketry and orbital mechanics, but the book seemed plausible. The only problem was that it took several major companies in several different industries, all run by a parent company, to pull together the resources to build the thing; and it only had a 3-5% payload capability, which according to the book was right on the line for profitable flying. It was a pretty good read, but it also several other subplots totally unrelated to space travel (just so you know).
Either great subtle sarcasm, or a flaming idiot. Roswell really DID have aliens, also?
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If you people want to see how dumb this fuckhead is, go check his web link. Of course you could also figure out that this guy is a crackhead just by the "soft, aimless cowards" remark. Interesting that the US is the only country that has never been successfully invaded....
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And after reading your karma whoring, I still think you are an idiot. This movie was a magnitude better than your entire post.
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Jesus Christ on a stick!!!!!!!
I'm looking and looking to the point where my nose is only an inch from the monitor, then I see it!
Almost fell outta my chair.
Nah, make everyone write a check every time they get paid at work. When the tax money no longer comes out before they get the check, and are forced to part with that money, then they will realize how badly we all are getting screwed.
OT, but oh well...
It's worse than that, if you extrapolate it a bit (and this is admittedly streaching). Assuming GW Bush is succesfull in swatting the terrorist scumbags, future Democratic candidates have to run against Reagan defeating the Soviets, Bush 41 defeating Iraq, and Bush 43 defeating Taliban/Al-Queda/terrorists while Republicans run against Clinton's illustrious career of... something..., and before him you have Carter with double digit inflation. Makes the past 24 years of politics interesting reading at the very least.
There is a slow and unofficial move to make the whole telco backbone optical to the CO, with eventual optical switches in each CO. This gives you point to point CO switched connections. Hence, your DS3 just popped up to OC multiples.
Of course, don't expect this much before 2020 or so, but once we get there BW costs should really drop.
On their website they have a smaller sub called the nautilis (I think, my brain is failing after a very long week at work....)
Just the ozone layer scatters gammas pretty well, so no high freq EM wave propogates well in water. Low freq does ok, but they can't carry any meaningful power load. Water is a very, very bad medium for energy weapons.
Just reading a book has no inherent value over watching a TV show. The argument is that an "average" good book is usually better than an "average" tv show. Now we can debate what "average" is, etc. We can get into debates whether Shakespeare is better read or watched. We can get into all kind of debates. What we end up with is that with a TV show you given someone else's view of a story, whereas with a book you craft your own view of the story. Sometimes the other person has a better view of that story and you are surprised and delighted, sometimes you have a better vision and are disappointed. Personally, book adaptions tend to disappoint me, but I have a rather extravagent imagination. Popular TV (ie, Friends and other top rated shows (I can't think of any others)) bores me- when I watch TV I tend to watch TLC, Discovery, and Sci-Fi channel. It all pretty much depends on the person and whether they want to craft a story to their own imagination or view that story through someone else's viewpoint.
Or something- I don't know if any of the above makes any sense.
Actually the Internet evolved from DarpaNet, which was built with mucho bucks from the gov. Internet2 is also being mostly funded by the gov.
The biggest reason that the gov is involved is because rich content companies are paying them to be involved. This pisses me off, and I'm a freaking conservative!
The protest is when Joe Sixpack can no longer time shift his TV shows when he is working late. Once they fuck with this, or go for pay per view broadcast, everyone will revolt. You think that all the congress-dudes will tolerate not being able to watch a taped bikini-clad Survivor?
This would actually make me come back!
I promise to kill this guy. Actually, I promise to kill anyone who relates programming languages to sexual performance, just on principal.
If this is a 4/1 joke, I'm still inclined to smack him around for using stupid anologies and such.
If some woman related her stove cleaning prowess to sexual powers, I'd kill her, too.
(Note for repressive government, all mentions of "Kill" or "killing" is made in a fictitious manner to be funny.) (Welcome to unlimited liability.)
That's just Homer's reclino-potty with v2.0 upgrades!
Now show me the makeup gun with laser sights!
"Boss! Da plane, da plane!"
Sorry, had to!
:-p
Mod up. This actually gets discussed a lot everytime some yahoo tries to replace a map or a field paper doc with an electronic widget. You forgot batteries, though. Paper don't need no stinkin' batteries.
As for you e-book folks, well, I just disagree with you.
All of this emphasis on building online communities.... no wonder real life communities are going to shit. Think about it- how many people do you know online, now how many people do you know in your neighborhood, and how well in each group?
For those of you who have balanced lives, not bother replying telling me you do, I know that there are plenty of people who have satisfying online and real life interactions.
I'm pointing this out for the people who are immersing themselves in an artificial word, and probably don't even think about talking to their neighbors.
As unreality becomes more real than real.
Company X's chip run so hot, we now call them XXX!
*puts on fire protection*
Funny, "Science Grid" doesn't sound _that_ much like Skynet....
*grin*
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*duck*
Now that you mention it, I'm extrapolating how long until Norton Anti-Virus takes up 1.3 petabytes.....
For Windows- 2008
Everyone else- 12,234
*schwing!*
What this guy said.^
Yeah, some machine in Japan is going to render my video for me and get it back to my box quick enough so I have more than 5 FPS? I don't know what the hell this article is trying to achieve, but it isn't accuracy.
Distributed systems work on problems like Seti or cracking codes, not real-time game playing! 1000 times power? That would put the PS3 onto the supercomputer 500 list, wouldn't it? Or are they talking 1000 times graphics power- that would be enough for photorealistic VR, for God's sake. (Excuse me if I'm wrong, but my bullshit meter started hitting 100 around the 2nd paragraph and I couldn't make myself finish the article)
"We can't wait for Moore's Law"- then make it multiprocessor, jackass. If, for some stupid reason, they did make the thing distributed, you'll have millions of people/machines trying to do work on everyone else's machines, meaning it will be just as slow + all of the network latency. Either these people are dumb as shit (which I doubt) or they are just trying to bang the drum a bit for sales.
I went to the Sci site and took their personality test, or whatever they called it. Out of 9 categories I had one that was below the "under perfect conditions" line; the rest were much above that line. I am far from a perfect person, I have many flaws, and I answered as honestly as I could (some of their questions were sorta ambiguous, so I did the best I could), but if I got that high a score then I shudder to think whom they actually get in their doors and end up giving mucho money. Sad cases those gents/girls must be, and with their techniques I would be hard pressed to say it is anything less than a big mind rape. Christ, just the stuff they pulled after 9/11 should get them all thrown in jail!
The gov and the IRS need to grow some balls and just rip the shit out of these assholes. Their shit is already legendary
BTW, CoS, come get me and my mere pittance of equity, I'll be bankrupt by the time you file your first brief. What a bunch of psychopathic fucktards with a massive inferiority complex! Makes me wonder if they have to eat their own genitalia in some kinda initiation rite.
Just die! (Yeah, I'm pretty pissed off right now.)
Didn't John Katz say that he knew some Afghan guy who got on the 'net via a C64?
If true, which I highly doubt, I say make a PDF viewer just for that guy! I'd say he earned it, maybe open source it?
Just a thought.
The book "Firestar" by Michael Flynn had, among other things, a single stage to orbit (SSTO) machine. I'm not well versed in rocketry and orbital mechanics, but the book seemed plausible. The only problem was that it took several major companies in several different industries, all run by a parent company, to pull together the resources to build the thing; and it only had a 3-5% payload capability, which according to the book was right on the line for profitable flying. It was a pretty good read, but it also several other subplots totally unrelated to space travel (just so you know).
Either great subtle sarcasm, or a flaming idiot. Roswell really DID have aliens, also?
If you people want to see how dumb this fuckhead is, go check his web link. Of course you could also figure out that this guy is a crackhead just by the "soft, aimless cowards" remark. Interesting that the US is the only country that has never been successfully invaded....
And after reading your karma whoring, I still think you are an idiot. This movie was a magnitude better than your entire post.
Please shut you brain off and don't come back.