Just take a reality check man, microsoft and IBM license and cross license technologies as much as anyone. what the 'big evil' companies have done is esentially akin to contractually forcing every city in the Us to buy Microsoft TM brand water. at $40 a gallon, and they simply dump toxic waste in any water Not Wholly owned by Microsoft TM and Sue anyone who dares dig a well, because they've patented that process for water extraction.
Microsft is being headed by a guy who has a paranoid delusion that 'there can be only one' operating system. and even though micrsoft corp will in fact cross licence plenty of technology etc, they still run it like the IT world has to be a one ring circus, with no room for competition. to a certain extent, having a 'single' code base to run everything both has advantages and disadvantages, but having that entire codebase forever locked away by a company that will never release it to anyone else is of course a terrible shame. it means that in order for someone to compete they need to 'reinvent' the wheel first.
so yeah microsoft has in fact picked key technologies they don't share out to keep there flagship products safe, but other than that they would license just about anything for the right price.
i think you mean after 13.;) or in the case of some of us after 9. but i'm all for a rebellion of us serfs seing as how i'm revolting anyways.;)
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Since when have political parties meant anything about 'ideals';p the last president who did anything about making the federal gov't smaller was a democrat, who was totally not sticking to any of his party's political agendas other than in speaches , and a 'jobcorps' to provide votech training and geds for people who can't afford school and want a better carreer track.
politicians are trying to win a populatiry contest and programming to believe one party is left and the other is right is just part of the whole programming crap to make people vote without thinking about the people they're voting for.
Hey you know what if the canidate is the right man for the job i don't give a damn if he's republican democrat or some stupid party that has no elected officials. I need to know if he's capable of handling the job before I'll vote for him. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself for ever voting for someone who you knew nothing about.
the problem is, as i said, finding individual politicians who are actually going to make a difference is quite hard. even if you're getting involved at the primary level trying to pick a good canidate, most politicians are 'feeding' the whole party politics popularity game. and frankly, it was really hard to tell that clinton was really that 'different' until we were able to look at the hard data of what he actually managed to do with the power of the presidency.
Not to mention there are a lot of really powerful people who seem to think that america's continued deficit spending feeds an 'ever growing' economy. They dubbed it 'reganomics' back in the 80's 'tax cut' and 'spend.' Kinda short sighted. Even if say for instance constantly growing the amount of money 'borrowed' from the private sector annually was 'beneficial' to the economy, you wouldn't need to 'spend' that money to have a program of increased borrowing. is the 'increased' economic activity is Solely based on the outlays by the federal government it's 'phantom' economic growth. democrats had there big public works projects back in the day too... the difference here is that the democrats who lead those programs wanted to build an infrastructure that would lend itself to increased economic prosperity. the republicans who had these crazy schemes just wanted a flow of money to individuals they 'say' are going to make it all better:p and the thing is you can't really charachterize demos/vs republicans, because it's just a smoke screen, to keep you form worrying about what the politicians 'really' believe.
But i'll tell you what, 'sustained economic growth' is only realistic in an environment where the 'population' continues to grow, or where 'technologocial advancments' continue to increase productive capabilities, and only so long as the people who wind up maaking the decisions keep making the 'right' ones as what to build, etc.
Clinton put a lot more faith in the public sector than either bush did. and well, the dot com bust was partially fueled by the fact that clinton's policy freeded up a lot of capital from 'financing' an ever growing national debt burden, into 'financing' growing technologies. The people who were given that money in that trust didn't all use it right. But frankly, I'd rather live in a world where we're not so 'afraid' of ourselves that we need to doom our children to waking up each morning knowing they owe the federal government 20 years worth of there hard labor to 'finance' the national debt.
A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage my ass. Right now every 'working' american gives up to 1/4 of there economic production* to a MAMMOTH behemoth of a federal government that Everyone seems to want to 'increase' the size of, except one fluke guy from arkansaw who had the intellegence to see that it wasn't working.
they are playing with the minds of americans who are too dumb to look behind the scenes and see ultimately that nobody seems to really have the chaones to Just Make the government get back to what it's Supposed to be doing, which is of course, stepping back, and letting people live for themselves, make there own mistakes, and set there own rules in there own communities.
Frankly, no political party 'stands' for restoring that kind of a natural system of real econmics. america is 'selling out' to providing luxuries we can't afford to 'just about' everyone. consider what we consider poverty and a problem in this nation.. we consider 'poverty' having to get everything second hand. we consider 'poverty' having to make a choice between paying $1,000 a month for shelter, or paying for food. we consider it a 'problem' when an Act of God can cause people to Die. the real problem is that we're so wraped up in pointing blame that we completely screwed up the lived of millions of people in NO. All we had to do was have people check levies as often as the NEED to be and reccomend rebuilding them When they're weak! All we needed were people Willing to Take
you, my friend are clueless. Political party? that makes a difference how? none at all, what made the difference was not political party. What made the difference was the man himself. Clinton my friend actually tried to make things better, by trying to fix a horribly out of check system of government. By actually using the Check of the Presidenial Veto against the loose moraled Purse String of the legislative branch.
Clinton ran on "It's the economy Stupid!" And he did everything he could as president to do what he believed in. Bush believes that killing people dead makes em too dead for there relatives and friends and sypathizers to come after you again, and again and again He also beleives that borrowing money is the answer to everyones problems 'cause it makes a way for the rich to invest safely' and it also makes sure that the governemt can buy $500 hammars from his buddy for the millitary so his friend can contribute a couple million to his party so he can election after election by preaching to the 'religious' right.. And bush has lived up to his beliefs, by not just killing dead the peoples he could find who helped plan 9/11 but also settle the score with his daddy's arch nemesis, sadam husein, by sending countless thousands of american soldiers to there slaughter, just to make sure that anyone stupid enough to fuck with us would be killed dead. All while increasing the number of $500 hammers the military needed to order from his 'friend' so they could make up for really needing to spend loads of money to keep bush in office in the 04 elecion.
If you fear for our rights, then frankly you need to fucking start opening peoples eyes to the FACT that POLITACL Parties ARE A SHAM. politicians are Playing A popularity CONTEST. God damn, to fucking vote for a god damn president you should be required to fill in his god damned birthdate next to his name. If you're not competent enough to be able to do that without bringing in any papers or elecronic devices into the poll building then you're JUST FEEDING THE POPULARITY CONTEST That THREATENS OUR FREEDOM.
Think about it, it's 8 numbers you have to Learn and Memorize, for at least 5 minutes to make your vote count, It CHANGES every 4-8 years too! and on top of that they should Require that the canidates only place the date in a random section of a page of text filled with the 'policies' they claim to support. I realize people can still lie, and it's not a very high bar to set, and you can't really monitor that absentee voters didn't 'cheat' and have the date with them when they voted.. but think about it, Who can you imagine can vote NOW that Would Never Be able to vote again if we required something so simple?
Do you really want the people who honestly believe republicans are small govt (when they've spent more tax money over the past 50 years than democrats by more than 6%) http://www.bea.gov/ and democrats are all 'gay right, big fedral programs etc' voting? People who just get suckered in, by propaganda and have no care or concern to learn the truth?!? People who IGNORE the People WHO CARE and Try and tell them this stuff as RAVING NUTS??
Good God Man At Least Check The Statistics Before You Swollow The Party Line!
no, but they sell drugs to help achieve such an enlightend state. i'm sure AC had no need for any such drugs however.
a guy at the onion writes out the exact worst case scenario as a result of dubba becoming president, and it comes pretty much all true. I don't know if i'd be happy or crying if that happend to me.
Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited.
Implying that 'alternate browsers' such as Firefox and Opera, 'hide' data? Shenanigans! These other browsers don't 'hide' anything...you just have to know where to look.
See, 'deleting' the last 5% of your hard drives storage capacity worth in web history, especially when the 'user chooses to delete the history' impeedes the task of investigators.
IE doesn't delete it's history of 'cached' site visits, even if you tell it to (that just tells IE it can overwrite them, if it needs to), and on top of that it hides them in a protected system folder, and you need full administrator (eg: safe-mode reboot, administrator password required) to delete All the indexes and content...
So you see 2 browsers where you can ACTUALLY DELETE the history of sites you've been to without perfoming elaborate and complex tasks would of course impede criminal investigations.
Aparently we need to be producing more and more until there is nothing left to produce. hrm. nope, staying at home doesn't mean being 'unproductive.' sure, you're not going to be producing many sprockets from your living room, but there is more to life than meaningless reproduction. Of course, not everyone can handle living at home, doing what must be done around the house... taking care of the children etc.. but a person living at home can produce quite a bit. Just as an example, I know a guy who designs and makes wood crafts... he doesn't even have to 'cut' them anymore, he contracts that out to a small company with computerized fabrication capabilites that can cut out the wood, etc, all he does is assembles and paints them, and of course 'designs' the pieces... he makes quite a good bit, and he does go to quite a few craft shows, but those are primarily on the weekends, anyways..
even in your narrow minded view of a world where everyone has to 'produce' something 'material' in value there are many ways for a person to 'stay at home' during the weekdays and still have an income.
No the shielding (on modern batteries) is quite light, the issue to deal with is getting the entire system to consume as little power as possible, and generating as much power was possible from realatively small quantities of radioactive materials.
the 'original' RTGS were nearly the size of a AA battery, contained plutonium, and used the 'heat' from the plutonium to generate electrical current of a few milliwatts. today's technology is more like photovoltaics that are powered by radioactive gasses that only release beta radiation (and thus are easilly shielded) the radiation causes the silicon to create an electrical current, the problem they're facing now is fabricating the batteries, which require a full fledged silicon etching facility with pretty precise lithiography to genenerate a 'desired' shape to the silicon to 'increase' the surface area to about 160 times greater than a 'flat' surface. (and thus allowing 160 times the current to be produced) I doubht we'll see laptops using the technology, but i could imagine watches, or pdas possibly even cell phones designed to use such batteries..
Since this new generation only uses unregulated radioactive gasses we should be seeing them in pacemakers and other medical devices soon enough, and if they work well enough possibly other devices will start using them...
How much farther can geeks beat a joke into the ground?
there are some questions you don't want to have answered. trust me. the last time someone asked how far a geek could beat a dead joke intot he ground someone hypothosized the distant in light years.. i beleive they came ue with 31.337 light years into the ground, as how far a geek could beat a dead joke into the ground. It's funny, laugh! you insensitive clod! accept my pathetic humour that makes me giggle uncontrollably!!
1. maybe. 2. yes Resistance is futile. 3. no 4. maybe 5. yes 6. 0x06 7. yes 8. YES world domination! my company doesn't do enough to support my rise to supreme dictator!
I scored a 12. but i almost got a 13. darn not having a boss to complain about being a psychopath! BTW i find it ironic that your question six was a perfect fit for using an ACK to answer.
okay so with the gun store analogy, he stole a case of bullets from his employers and sold them out the back door to guy who later went on a 5 week killing spreed and murderd 5000 people.... do you still give him 15 months for being an accomplice to mass murder? Even if he said "i have a don't ask don't tell policy" to the murderer when selling the illicit goods? this guy knew what the e-mails were being used for. it didn't matter he just wanted some quick cash.. and he didn't care how much it cost other people.
well it wouldn't suprize me at all to find out that 'cheaper' sata controllers could only handle 150 MB/sec no matter how many channels they had. or even to check and find that that's actually the specification. i'm too lazy to check though, but there are cheap 100 megabit ethernet cards that can only do 100 megabits total, that means essentially if you're sending and recieving each is capped at ~45 mbit/sec. and also that even when you're 'jsut sending' sending you can never exceed 90 mbit because of packet overhead and verification packets coming back across the layer.
the real silver bullet is of course people seeking quality in there lives, and quality in there actions... and quality in there work. if you're just there for the money who cares as long as it 'works for you'
Also reliable software is dependant on reliable hardware. so it's not just the software industry that needs to focus on making sure there is enough quality in the jobs they do, it's the responsiblity of the people mass producing hardware too.
the reason ATA needed boosting was because 40/mbs *4 = 160 mb/s and while back then they only had 33mb/sec thruput drives(at least for mainstream users).. well, you get the point. it's the TOTAL thruput that counts. not just one single drive, and areal densites (the driving factor for 'speed boosts') is about to go up by leaps and bounds for the next XX years (however long the industry decides to 'milk' the fact that they can in fact 'increase' performance with higher density media etc)
what you don't seem to get is that hard drives haven't gone up in densinty in almost 5 years. and that's why 'performance' has been stagnat. the 'faster drives all the time' was due simply to running the head across the platter at the same speed as before, while Increasing the density.
if your rotate a disc with 10x the density of bits at the same RPM as modern discs, and move the head at the 'same' speed, thruput goes up by exactly 10 fold. unless you have some technical references to why they'd have to slow down the spin rate, or reduce the speed of the head, your point is not valid.
Hell, maybe something where the die-hard users become characters themselves.
you mean like userfriendly then perhaps;) the comment section is often used to draw inspiration for future strips, etc.. i'm sure some fo the characters there have been influenced by regulars etc;)
That's what a 'throw away' account like a hotmail acocunt is for, you simply stop reading it and it shuts down you only check it when expect an automated response form some website x that needed a valid e-mail etc... never have to click delete:p
but yeah, before yahoo's filter started catching 99% of all the spam instead of having 6-7 spams a week to delete, i'd have 100-200 pwer day. before that i had to manually try and use spamcop. that was even more than 1 second per spam, more like half a minute. yahoo eventually had to bump up storage, and then stop counting spam as storage space to 'deal' with the issue. how much money a year does yahoo spend storing spam? how much resource? not to mention all the bandwith and space they're using on the whole internet mail infrastructure spam is by no means 'free' and the sad thing this guy is getting 15 months for 'stealing' the list of addresses, not for spamming.
who says 30/MB second? that's the data rate of the 1.8 inch drive. i'm going to assume that a full 3.5 inch should be able to sustain 200-400 MB/sec depending on platter rotation. (200 MB/sec for 5400 rpm, and 400 MB/sec for 10k rpm) this is of course, only applicable for platters that have 10x the arial density, hitachi is currently only planning a drive that uses 2x the areial density, so it should only be 40-80 MB/second. of course... SATA II can only handle 300 MB/sec for all SATA 2 devices connected, and the sata Spec was only engineered around a theoretical peak of 600 MB/sec... and then you have the limitations of the FSB etc etc..
the reason why they're going 'slow' with the perpendicular technology is because well, they've been stuck at 100GB/platter for a loong time now and they want a good 5 step 10-30 year migration to the full 1 tb/platter configuration. so they can 'keep the upgrade cycle' going. fortunately, we already have UHDV taking a good 3.5 TB per 18 minutes so those 5 TB drives will be sure to be made obsolete whenever 400 TB (40 hours UHDV) rewriteable multi layer holographic media is designed for hard drive use (ie: near instant random data seek, multi point lasers to acheive HD comperable data thruput rates etc.)
What the heck are these guys doing that's going to require somewhere between 40,000 and 200,000 man-years of effort?
giving 20 gigs of 'free' e-mail storage to every living human being? just a guess.. maybe g-mail is coming out of beta, or out of the 'limited beta' into a normal beta..
nuclear power accounts for a signifigant (20% of all power consumed) portion of the power generation here in the states. but gp has a point, america is bringing on between 1-4 nuclear plants online a year(mostly 1), and starting in 2009 we're going to be 'decomissioning' reactors, since even with a 'pro' nuclear president we can only manage 4 sites a year being suggested... there are going to be some serious issues when the old plants start shutting down. No one wants a nuclear plant in there back yards, hell most people don't even know we're still building 'new' reactors. The regulations are harsh for building new plants, but that's why even bringing new plants online we've had no major nuclear accidents in ages... still, if electric companies aren't willing to build new nuclear plants... we're going to be screwed big time starting in 2009. hell even with the 'new' reactors that have been approved, the number of reactors that are 'online' hasn't changed since 1997. that's what happens when you only build one new reactor for each old one that someone decides to 'shut down' for saftey/operating cost reasons. Frankly, we need a long term storage site, and we need new reactors getting approved in states that currently have no nuclear generating capacity, and we need companies to bring more reactors online than they're shutting down. we could be relying on nuclear for a lot more than 20% of our electrical needs, but without a long term storage facility to ship the nuclear waste to, you have to build plants in remote locations where you can also sink the waste into deep pools. if you didn't have to store 40 years of waste on site. and then continue to pay to maintain the containment of that waste. well, power companies would gladly build more plants if they just had a site they could ship the waste to.
and the government has spent a bundle picking a site, it might not be perfect, but they should just build there already so the nuclear waste can be stored miles and miles away from anyone else. instead of in the remote outlying regions of major population centers. in temporary underwater contaiers
not that long ago overclocking a pentium 4 (the old prescot chip) to 4.0 ghz was an accomplishment, and it required 'extreme' cooling, over voltaging etc etc... If the chip wasn't 'designed' to run at those frequencies you couldn't run it at them if you had the entire system cooled to absolute zero.
The problem is that they planned on the 10ghz pentium 4's having 1000 Watts of thermal displacment. 1000 watts man, the marketing department wanted 10 ghz chips, so the engineers found a way to do it, and the way they came up with generated 1000 watts of excess cpu heat.
The chips intel is selling now are all using the same basic power/cooling requirements of the older designs (which even with extreme over cooling could barely get to 4.0 ghz) so yeah, intel could be selling a 6 ghz pentium 4 today, with the current designs, but it would require about a 2000 watt PSU, and a condenser/refidgerant based cooling system.
People don't want a computer to draw 10 times as much electricity to run twice as fast. intel's marketing department was telling the engineers how to do there jobs, so that's why we end up with a cpu design that is absolutely useless unless it's underclocked by 50% of what it was originally designed to run at...
but in general, there are regulatory bodies who are in charge of making sure the casinos are obying state law as per payouts. Having a 'centralized' server allows payout odds to more eaily be controlled, so as to allow the casinos to legally 'adjust payouts to keep payouts always at the legal minimum...' that is in BOTH directions.
Remember its not cheating to make sure that the machines are running 'in compliance with the law' if nevada law says your machines must pay out 92% of the money they take in, then this simply makes it easier to program the slots to make sure you're always averaging 92% payouts.
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Just take a reality check man, microsoft and IBM license and cross license technologies as much as anyone. what the 'big evil' companies have done is esentially akin to contractually forcing every city in the Us to buy Microsoft TM brand water. at $40 a gallon, and they simply dump toxic waste in any water Not Wholly owned by Microsoft TM and Sue anyone who dares dig a well, because they've patented that process for water extraction.
Microsft is being headed by a guy who has a paranoid delusion that 'there can be only one' operating system. and even though micrsoft corp will in fact cross licence plenty of technology etc, they still run it like the IT world has to be a one ring circus, with no room for competition. to a certain extent, having a 'single' code base to run everything both has advantages and disadvantages, but having that entire codebase forever locked away by a company that will never release it to anyone else is of course a terrible shame. it means that in order for someone to compete they need to 'reinvent' the wheel first.
so yeah microsoft has in fact picked key technologies they don't share out to keep there flagship products safe, but other than that they would license just about anything for the right price.
i think you mean after 13. ;) or in the case of some of us after 9. but i'm all for a rebellion of us serfs seing as how i'm revolting anyways. ;)
Since when have political parties meant anything about 'ideals' ;p the last president who did anything about making the federal gov't smaller was a democrat, who was totally not sticking to any of his party's political agendas other than in speaches , and a 'jobcorps' to provide votech training and geds for people who can't afford school and want a better carreer track.
politicians are trying to win a populatiry contest and programming to believe one party is left and the other is right is just part of the whole programming crap to make people vote without thinking about the people they're voting for.
Hey you know what if the canidate is the right man for the job i don't give a damn if he's republican democrat or some stupid party that has no elected officials. I need to know if he's capable of handling the job before I'll vote for him. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself for ever voting for someone who you knew nothing about.
You're wrong it's the server for Half-life AND Steam. I mean yes, it's still the server only, but it's for Steam as well!
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You asked to be corrected if you were wrong on any points
the problem is, as i said, finding individual politicians who are actually going to make a difference is quite hard. even if you're getting involved at the primary level trying to pick a good canidate, most politicians are 'feeding' the whole party politics popularity game. and frankly, it was really hard to tell that clinton was really that 'different' until we were able to look at the hard data of what he actually managed to do with the power of the presidency.
:p and the thing is you can't really charachterize demos/vs republicans, because it's just a smoke screen, to keep you form worrying about what the politicians 'really' believe.
Not to mention there are a lot of really powerful people who seem to think that america's continued deficit spending feeds an 'ever growing' economy.
They dubbed it 'reganomics' back in the 80's 'tax cut' and 'spend.' Kinda short sighted. Even if say for instance constantly growing the amount of money 'borrowed' from the private sector annually was 'beneficial' to the economy, you wouldn't need to 'spend' that money to have a program of increased borrowing. is the 'increased' economic activity is Solely based on the outlays by the federal government it's 'phantom' economic growth. democrats had there big public works projects back in the day too... the difference here is that the democrats who lead those programs wanted to build an infrastructure that would lend itself to increased economic prosperity. the republicans who had these crazy schemes just wanted a flow of money to individuals they 'say' are going to make it all better
But i'll tell you what, 'sustained economic growth' is only realistic in an environment where the 'population' continues to grow, or where 'technologocial advancments' continue to increase productive capabilities, and only so long as the people who wind up maaking the decisions keep making the 'right' ones as what to build, etc.
Clinton put a lot more faith in the public sector than either bush did. and well, the dot com bust was partially fueled by the fact that clinton's policy freeded up a lot of capital from 'financing' an ever growing national debt burden, into 'financing' growing technologies. The people who were given that money in that trust didn't all use it right. But frankly, I'd rather live in a world where we're not so 'afraid' of ourselves that we need to doom our children to waking up each morning knowing they owe the federal government 20 years worth of there hard labor to
'finance' the national debt.
A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage my ass. Right now every 'working' american gives up to 1/4 of there economic production* to a MAMMOTH behemoth of a federal government that Everyone seems to want to 'increase' the size of, except one fluke guy from arkansaw who had the intellegence to see that it wasn't working.
they are playing with the minds of americans who are too dumb to look behind the scenes and see ultimately that nobody seems to really have the chaones to Just Make the government get back to what it's Supposed to be doing, which is of course, stepping back, and letting people live for themselves, make there own mistakes, and set there own rules in there own communities.
Frankly, no political party 'stands' for restoring that kind of a natural system of real econmics. america is 'selling out' to providing luxuries we can't afford to 'just about' everyone. consider what we consider poverty and a problem in this nation.. we consider 'poverty' having to get everything second hand. we consider 'poverty' having to make a choice between paying $1,000 a month for shelter, or paying for food. we consider it a 'problem' when an Act of God can cause people to Die. the real problem is that we're so wraped up in pointing blame that we completely screwed up the lived of millions of people in NO. All we had to do was have people check levies as often as the NEED to be and reccomend rebuilding them When they're weak! All we needed were people Willing to Take
you, my friend are clueless. Political party? that makes a difference how? none at all, what made the difference was not political party. What made the difference was the man himself. Clinton my friend actually tried to make things better, by trying to fix a horribly out of check system of government. By actually using the Check of the Presidenial Veto against the loose moraled Purse String of the legislative branch.
Clinton ran on "It's the economy Stupid!" And he did everything he could as president to do what he believed in. Bush believes that killing people dead makes em too dead for there relatives and friends and sypathizers to come after you again, and again and again He also beleives that borrowing money is the answer to everyones problems 'cause it makes a way for the rich to invest safely' and it also makes sure that the governemt can buy $500 hammars from his buddy for the millitary so his friend can contribute a couple million to his party so he can election after election by preaching to the 'religious' right.. And bush has lived up to his beliefs, by not just killing dead the peoples he could find who helped plan 9/11 but also settle the score with his daddy's arch nemesis, sadam husein, by sending countless thousands of american soldiers to there slaughter, just to make sure that anyone stupid enough to fuck with us would be killed dead. All while increasing the number of $500 hammers the military needed to order from his 'friend' so they could make up for really needing to spend loads of money to keep bush in office in the 04 elecion.
If you fear for our rights, then frankly you need to fucking start opening peoples eyes to the FACT that POLITACL Parties ARE A SHAM. politicians are Playing A popularity CONTEST. God damn, to fucking vote for a god damn president you should be required to fill in his god damned birthdate next to his name. If you're not competent enough to be able to do that without bringing in any papers or elecronic devices into the poll building then you're JUST FEEDING THE POPULARITY CONTEST That THREATENS OUR FREEDOM.
Think about it, it's 8 numbers you have to Learn and Memorize, for at least 5 minutes to make your vote count, It CHANGES every 4-8 years too! and on top of that they should Require that the canidates only place the date in a random section of a page of text filled with the 'policies' they claim to support. I realize people can still lie, and it's not a very high bar to set, and you can't really monitor that absentee voters didn't 'cheat' and have the date with them when they voted.. but think about it, Who can you imagine can vote NOW that Would Never Be able to vote again if we required something so simple?
Do you really want the people who honestly believe republicans are small govt (when they've spent more tax money over the past 50 years than democrats by more than 6%) http://www.bea.gov/ and democrats are all 'gay right, big fedral programs etc' voting? People who just get suckered in, by propaganda and have no care or concern to learn the truth?!? People who IGNORE the People WHO CARE and Try and tell them this stuff as RAVING NUTS??
Good God Man At Least Check The Statistics Before You Swollow The Party Line!
no, but they sell drugs to help achieve such an enlightend state. i'm sure AC had no need for any such drugs however.
a guy at the onion writes out the exact worst case scenario as a result of dubba becoming president, and it comes pretty much all true. I don't know if i'd be happy or crying if that happend to me.
Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited.
Implying that 'alternate browsers' such as Firefox and Opera, 'hide' data? Shenanigans! These other browsers don't 'hide' anything...you just have to know where to look.
See, 'deleting' the last 5% of your hard drives storage capacity worth in web history, especially when the 'user chooses to delete the history' impeedes the task of investigators.
IE doesn't delete it's history of 'cached' site visits, even if you tell it to (that just tells IE it can overwrite them, if it needs to), and on top of that it hides them in a protected system folder, and you need full administrator (eg: safe-mode reboot, administrator password required) to delete All the indexes and content...
So you see 2 browsers where you can ACTUALLY DELETE the history of sites you've been to without perfoming elaborate and complex tasks would of course impede criminal investigations.
needs to be out in the world producing.
Aparently we need to be producing more and more until there is nothing left to produce. hrm. nope, staying at home doesn't mean being 'unproductive.' sure, you're not going to be producing many sprockets from your living room, but there is more to life than meaningless reproduction. Of course, not everyone can handle living at home, doing what must be done around the house... taking care of the children etc.. but a person living at home can produce quite a bit. Just as an example, I know a guy who designs and makes wood crafts... he doesn't even have to 'cut' them anymore, he contracts that out to a small company with computerized fabrication capabilites that can cut out the wood, etc, all he does is assembles and paints them, and of course 'designs' the pieces... he makes quite a good bit, and he does go to quite a few craft shows, but those are primarily on the weekends, anyways..
even in your narrow minded view of a world where everyone has to 'produce' something 'material' in value there are many ways for a person to 'stay at home' during the weekdays and still have an income.
Getting weggies is a social skill?
that's the only thing i learned at school that i would NOT have gotten at home.
No the shielding (on modern batteries) is quite light, the issue to deal with is getting the entire system to consume as little power as possible, and generating as much power was possible from realatively small quantities of radioactive materials.
the 'original' RTGS were nearly the size of a AA battery, contained plutonium, and used the 'heat' from the plutonium to generate electrical current of a few milliwatts. today's technology is more like photovoltaics that are powered by radioactive gasses that only release beta radiation (and thus are easilly shielded) the radiation causes the silicon to create an electrical current, the problem they're facing now is fabricating the batteries, which require a full fledged silicon etching facility with pretty precise lithiography to genenerate a 'desired' shape to the silicon to 'increase' the surface area to about 160 times greater than a 'flat' surface. (and thus allowing 160 times the current to be produced) I doubht we'll see laptops using the technology, but i could imagine watches, or pdas possibly even cell phones designed to use such batteries..
Since this new generation only uses unregulated radioactive gasses we should be seeing them in pacemakers and other medical devices soon enough, and if they work well enough possibly other devices will start using them...
They'll never improve over NES NFL Football!
How much farther can geeks beat a joke into the ground?
there are some questions you don't want to have answered. trust me. the last time someone asked how far a geek could beat a dead joke intot he ground someone hypothosized the distant in light years.. i beleive they came ue with 31.337 light years into the ground, as how far a geek could beat a dead joke into the ground. It's funny, laugh! you insensitive clod! accept my pathetic humour that makes me giggle uncontrollably!!
1. maybe. 2. yes Resistance is futile. 3. no 4. maybe 5. yes 6. 0x06 7. yes 8. YES world domination! my company doesn't do enough to support my rise to supreme dictator!
I scored a 12. but i almost got a 13. darn not having a boss to complain about being a psychopath!
BTW i find it ironic that your question six was a perfect fit for using an ACK to answer.
okay so with the gun store analogy, he stole a case of bullets from his employers and sold them out the back door to guy who later went on a 5 week killing spreed and murderd 5000 people.... do you still give him 15 months for being an accomplice to mass murder? Even if he said "i have a don't ask don't tell policy" to the murderer when selling the illicit goods? this guy knew what the e-mails were being used for. it didn't matter he just wanted some quick cash.. and he didn't care how much it cost other people.
well it wouldn't suprize me at all to find out that 'cheaper' sata controllers could only handle 150 MB/sec no matter how many channels they had. or even to check and find that that's actually the specification. i'm too lazy to check though, but there are cheap 100 megabit ethernet cards that can only do 100 megabits total, that means essentially if you're sending and recieving each is capped at ~45 mbit/sec. and also that even when you're 'jsut sending' sending you can never exceed 90 mbit because of packet overhead and verification packets coming back across the layer.
the real silver bullet is of course people seeking quality in there lives, and quality in there actions... and quality in there work. if you're just there for the money who cares as long as it 'works for you'
Also reliable software is dependant on reliable hardware. so it's not just the software industry that needs to focus on making sure there is enough quality in the jobs they do, it's the responsiblity of the people mass producing hardware too.
the reason ATA needed boosting was because 40/mbs *4 = 160 mb/s and while back then they only had 33mb/sec thruput drives(at least for mainstream users).. well, you get the point. it's the TOTAL thruput that counts. not just one single drive, and areal densites (the driving factor for 'speed boosts') is about to go up by leaps and bounds for the next XX years (however long the industry decides to 'milk' the fact that they can in fact 'increase' performance with higher density media etc)
what you don't seem to get is that hard drives haven't gone up in densinty in almost 5 years. and that's why 'performance' has been stagnat. the 'faster drives all the time' was due simply to running the head across the platter at the same speed as before, while Increasing the density.
if your rotate a disc with 10x the density of bits at the same RPM as modern discs, and move the head at the 'same' speed, thruput goes up by exactly 10 fold. unless you have some technical references to why they'd have to slow down the spin rate, or reduce the speed of the head, your point is not valid.
Hell, maybe something where the die-hard users become characters themselves.
;) the comment section is often used to draw inspiration for future strips, etc.. i'm sure some fo the characters there have been influenced by regulars etc ;)
you mean like userfriendly then perhaps
That's what a 'throw away' account like a hotmail acocunt is for, you simply stop reading it and it shuts down you only check it when expect an automated response form some website x that needed a valid e-mail etc... never have to click delete :p
but yeah, before yahoo's filter started catching 99% of all the spam instead of having 6-7 spams a week to delete, i'd have 100-200 pwer day. before that i had to manually try and use spamcop. that was even more than 1 second per spam, more like half a minute. yahoo eventually had to bump up storage, and then stop counting spam as storage space to 'deal' with the issue. how much money a year does yahoo spend storing spam? how much resource? not to mention all the bandwith and space they're using on the whole internet mail infrastructure spam is by no means 'free' and the sad thing this guy is getting 15 months for 'stealing' the list of addresses, not for spamming.
who says 30/MB second? that's the data rate of the 1.8 inch drive. i'm going to assume that a full 3.5 inch should be able to sustain 200-400 MB/sec depending on platter rotation. (200 MB/sec for 5400 rpm, and 400 MB/sec for 10k rpm) this is of course, only applicable for platters that have 10x the arial density, hitachi is currently only planning a drive that uses 2x the areial density, so it should only be 40-80 MB/second. of course... SATA II can only handle 300 MB/sec for all SATA 2 devices connected, and the sata Spec was only engineered around a theoretical peak of 600 MB/sec... and then you have the limitations of the FSB etc etc..
the reason why they're going 'slow' with the perpendicular technology is because well, they've been stuck at 100GB/platter for a loong time now and they want a good 5 step 10-30 year migration to the full 1 tb/platter configuration. so they can 'keep the upgrade cycle' going. fortunately, we already have UHDV taking a good 3.5 TB per 18 minutes so those 5 TB drives will be sure to be made obsolete whenever 400 TB (40 hours UHDV) rewriteable multi layer holographic media is designed for hard drive use (ie: near instant random data seek, multi point lasers to acheive HD comperable data thruput rates etc.)
What the heck are these guys doing that's going to require somewhere between 40,000 and 200,000 man-years of effort?
giving 20 gigs of 'free' e-mail storage to every living human being? just a guess.. maybe g-mail is coming out of beta, or out of the 'limited beta' into a normal beta..
nuclear power accounts for a signifigant (20% of all power consumed) portion of the power generation here in the states. but gp has a point, america is bringing on between 1-4 nuclear plants online a year(mostly 1), and starting in 2009 we're going to be 'decomissioning' reactors, since even with a 'pro' nuclear president we can only manage 4 sites a year being suggested... there are going to be some serious issues when the old plants start shutting down. No one wants a nuclear plant in there back yards, hell most people don't even know we're still building 'new' reactors. The regulations are harsh for building new plants, but that's why even bringing new plants online we've had no major nuclear accidents in ages... still, if electric companies aren't willing to build new nuclear plants... we're going to be screwed big time starting in 2009. hell even with the 'new' reactors that have been approved, the number of reactors that are 'online' hasn't changed since 1997. that's what happens when you only build one new reactor for each old one that someone decides to 'shut down' for saftey/operating cost reasons. Frankly, we need a long term storage site, and we need new reactors getting approved in states that currently have no nuclear generating capacity, and we need companies to bring more reactors online than they're shutting down. we could be relying on nuclear for a lot more than 20% of our electrical needs, but without a long term storage facility to ship the nuclear waste to, you have to build plants in remote locations where you can also sink the waste into deep pools. if you didn't have to store 40 years of waste on site. and then continue to pay to maintain the containment of that waste. well, power companies would gladly build more plants if they just had a site they could ship the waste to.
and the government has spent a bundle picking a site, it might not be perfect, but they should just build there already so the nuclear waste can be stored miles and miles away from anyone else. instead of in the remote outlying regions of major population centers. in temporary underwater contaiers
not that long ago overclocking a pentium 4 (the old prescot chip) to 4.0 ghz was an accomplishment, and it required 'extreme' cooling, over voltaging etc etc... If the chip wasn't 'designed' to run at those frequencies you couldn't run it at them if you had the entire system cooled to absolute zero.
The problem is that they planned on the 10ghz pentium 4's having 1000 Watts of thermal displacment. 1000 watts man, the marketing department wanted 10 ghz chips, so the engineers found a way to do it, and the way they came up with generated 1000 watts of excess cpu heat.
The chips intel is selling now are all using the same basic power/cooling requirements of the older designs (which even with extreme over cooling could barely get to 4.0 ghz) so yeah, intel could be selling a 6 ghz pentium 4 today, with the current designs, but it would require about a 2000 watt PSU, and a condenser/refidgerant based cooling system.
People don't want a computer to draw 10 times as much electricity to run twice as fast. intel's marketing department was telling the engineers how to do there jobs, so that's why we end up with a cpu design that is absolutely useless unless it's underclocked by 50% of what it was originally designed to run at...
Wasnt there a report and a website already out there that proved the casinos already have cheating software?
3 -Tue-1997/news/6110757.html
http://gaming.nv.gov/
I think that's the site you're looking for.
Or course there is software written to cheat on gaming.. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Sep-2
People have died for admitting to programming the cheating directly into the slot machines.
but in general, there are regulatory bodies who are in charge of making sure the casinos are obying state law as per payouts. Having a 'centralized' server allows payout odds to more eaily be controlled, so as to allow the casinos to legally 'adjust payouts to keep payouts always at the legal minimum...' that is in BOTH directions.
Remember its not cheating to make sure that the machines are running 'in compliance with the law' if nevada law says your machines must pay out 92% of the money they take in, then this simply makes it easier to program the slots to make sure you're always averaging 92% payouts.