Waste can easily be recycled through breeder reactors. In all, breeder reactors also make the most efficient use of limited fuel. The uranium and thorium won't last forever after all. The problem with breeder reactors is that they well, breed fuel. They can make U-233 out of thorium-232 and plutonium 239 out of U-238. These bred fuels can be chemically separated from their substrate rather than centrifuged or diffused out. That means that the most efficient reactors for power also churn out loads of easy to recover bomb-grade fuel.
At this point in the day, I don't think it is much of an issue. NK has the bomb and who would we be more scared of having it than that? NK would probably be thrilled to eventually sell one to anyone who hates the USA badly enough and has cash on hand. The bomb genie is out of the bottle and banning breeders won't stop him.
The Apple DRM will be more carefully calibrated to what most people will actually tolerate in practice. The Windows DRM will implement every asinine idea that went through what passes for Jack Valenti's mind. I'm one of those people who have zero tolerance for DRM but it is still a no-brainer which one I could forced to live with more easily.
So what does the picture look like if places like China show every indication of being willing to take that time? What's more I don't think it takes 200 years worth of time. 20 or 30 years of solid results may very well suffice.
IP laws gone insane will kill research here if it goes on long enough. Our genetics research is crippled in all sorts of places by strategically held patents. Scientists can't share ideas the way they're supposed to because of non-disclosure, non-compete, and rest of the rest of muck. Science is the goose that laid the golden egg and corporates are running that sucker through a Tyson plant.
The other problem is one scientists have largely themselves to blame for. If there is one thing a certain variety of scientist can't stand, it is an interested layman. Since they can't be bothered to explain at least some of the value of what they do, antiscience politicians tend to get elected who then CUT THE FUNDING for basic research. The only other place to turn to then is the corporate world which brings us right back around to the first problem.
It may be Ad Hominem but MS has been caught Astroturfing numerous times. It may not be cricket to accuse any particular poster but it would be damned foolish to think MS doesn't do it.
It is pretty much a given here that most politicians are whores. I certainly don't see any altruism in a politician. Nonetheless, it is helpful to know just whose hand is up any particular politician's ass. Having a list of controllers like that DOES explain Barton's motives.
I still wonder why PC sound cards didn't emulate the amiga sound chip.
There wouldn't have been much point. The Amiga sound hardware was basically a set of 4 8-bit DSPs with about a 28Khz maximum sample rate. There were two DSPs per audio channel. With some trickery you could use both DSPs on one channel to simulate 14 bit audio. There were also some filters and a means to let one channel modulate the other. An SB16 could do most of the things this hardware could do. Most of the vaunted "Amiga sound" was due to good programming and the fact that competing machines of the era had either beeper sound or cut down synthesizer chips for audio.
There were (are?) tracker players that emulate the Amiga CPU+sound chip for playing the Amiga's audio library.
The ST did have a persistant niche for a while as a midi controller/composition tool. I'll agree with you that the Amiga was generally more advanced and had a better OS.
YOU are the one who is surrendering. I have more fear of my government than of Ahab the Ay-Rab. For that matter, I have more fear of say being run down by a reckless teenager than being blown up by said Ay-Rab.
Osama bin Laden is still walking around but somehow letting the government peruse my library reading habits without a warrant is going to help? There is NO foolproof way to stop terrorism. Put extra security on airplanes, fine. They'll attack buses. Put extra security on buses, fine. They'll attack the subways. Put extra security on subways, fine. They'll attack rush hour traffic. No matter how much the goverment takes away our liberties in the name of fighting terrorists a weak spot can always be found for a dramatic display. There will ALWAYS be some weakness the motivated few can exploit, even after every single one of our liberties have been stripped from us. Come to think of it, that is a pretty good motivation for an attack right there.
The correct answer is to track down the ones who do these things and very publically and very obnoxiously kick their asses. Everytime. That will get far more results than blanketing the country with cameras.
That DVD is clearly marked as containing the "unrated version" of the film. That is all the warning necessary to know that it isn't the theatrical version. I would much rather see the unrateded version and wouldn't look kindly on the prudes who can't handle it. Prudes should stay far away from anything in which Parker and Stone is involved.
I build myself a new machine every two or three years. When I'm ordering the parts, I get what was top of the line one year before that date. If you go newer than that then prices spike upward dramatically for very little increase in performance. I find that such a machine lasts three years if I'm keeping up with the latest and greatest in software. I consistently spend between $500 and $600 doing this. That isn't bad spread out over two or three years.
I also don't count on using much from my previous machine; usually just the hard drive and optical drives (which are used until failure or a format is forced on me). I have a floppy drive that goes clear back to my 486 days but everything else has been churned out. The floppy only gets used for firmware upgrades and will likely be chucked the next time I build.
You're mostly bang-on. I will point out that OS X can be quite happy in 256MB ram IF you won't be running Classic. I'll grant that OS X really likes ram and gets quite the increase in responsiveness if you go 1GB ram or more. It's just that an OS X box not running Classic is quite usable with 256MB.
The left are just as likely to pass laws limiting freedoms as the right are, they'll just have a different set of criteria for choosing the laws.
I'll grant you that. It's just that it is the Right's brand of bullshit that is prevalent these days. I wouldn't mind seeing that whole lot in Congress tarred and feathered and then escorted to the nearest set of train tracks.
So tell me again, how you can do all this on Linux and you can't on Windows Server?
My point is that Martin Taylor claims this capability is a Window Exclusive. I was calling bullshit. And yes Virgina, Windows servers have a reputation for being a little bitchy if multiple services are demanded of them. I wasn't saying it can't be done but keeping it all working properly places you squarely in the realm of competent system administration. Again, MS marketing likes to imply that super competent admins are needed for Linux but that any slobbering idiot can manage a Windows server. Neither are true of course but they'll do anything to "prove" that Linux is much more difficult to manage than Windows.
I too prefer not to overload functions. I'm only pointing out that I can add functions to a Linux box until I hit the limits of disk, processor, or memory and it will do it's job without complaining. The converse is also true. I can easily remove functions and the remaining ones continue to function (no I'm not talking about boneheaded things like yanking the database out from under a dynamic web site). For that matter, I can use a minimum of good sense and configure a Linux box however I please and it stays up and running. Martin Taylor claims that I can't do this without wailing and gnashing of teeth. This has not been my typical experience with Windows machines.
MS' own recommended strategy for servers is one box for each function. AD tree that's a box. An IIS server? That's a box. A SQL server? Yet another box.
I can and have run DNS, Samba, Apache, Netatalk, MySQL and others on the same machine and it just sits in the corner and does it's job. I think MS doesn't want to start throwing stones in this particular glass house.
It's tacky to reply to my own post but what the hey. I signed up for one of their "test drive" accounts and used a KDE desktop in Italy from my location in the American Midwest. The 800x600 (you can go larger) screen was responsive enough to surf with Konqueror, scribble around in the Gimp, play Gnome mines, and type some in OpenOffice without being frustrating. It wasn't quite up to the job of playing lBreakout overseas but I was impressed with it nonetheless.
They're basically simplifying and compressing the X protocol (can also serve up VNC and rdp). The desktop was in 16bpp color at least. I was quite impressed with it.
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Comets originate in the Oort cloud. Some purturbation sometimes sends one into the inner solar system which we then see as a comet.
You can right click on the panel itself anywhere where there isn't already an icon or a Window title and "Configure panel".
My point is that Al-Qaeda or someone like them could buy one from NK.
Waste can easily be recycled through breeder reactors. In all, breeder reactors also make the most efficient use of limited fuel. The uranium and thorium won't last forever after all. The problem with breeder reactors is that they well, breed fuel. They can make U-233 out of thorium-232 and plutonium 239 out of U-238. These bred fuels can be chemically separated from their substrate rather than centrifuged or diffused out. That means that the most efficient reactors for power also churn out loads of easy to recover bomb-grade fuel.
At this point in the day, I don't think it is much of an issue. NK has the bomb and who would we be more scared of having it than that? NK would probably be thrilled to eventually sell one to anyone who hates the USA badly enough and has cash on hand. The bomb genie is out of the bottle and banning breeders won't stop him.
The Apple DRM will be more carefully calibrated to what most people will actually tolerate in practice. The Windows DRM will implement every asinine idea that went through what passes for Jack Valenti's mind. I'm one of those people who have zero tolerance for DRM but it is still a no-brainer which one I could forced to live with more easily.
So what does the picture look like if places like China show every indication of being willing to take that time? What's more I don't think it takes 200 years worth of time. 20 or 30 years of solid results may very well suffice.
IP laws gone insane will kill research here if it goes on long enough. Our genetics research is crippled in all sorts of places by strategically held patents. Scientists can't share ideas the way they're supposed to because of non-disclosure, non-compete, and rest of the rest of muck. Science is the goose that laid the golden egg and corporates are running that sucker through a Tyson plant.
The other problem is one scientists have largely themselves to blame for. If there is one thing a certain variety of scientist can't stand, it is an interested layman. Since they can't be bothered to explain at least some of the value of what they do, antiscience politicians tend to get elected who then CUT THE FUNDING for basic research. The only other place to turn to then is the corporate world which brings us right back around to the first problem.
It may be Ad Hominem but MS has been caught Astroturfing numerous times. It may not be cricket to accuse any particular poster but it would be damned foolish to think MS doesn't do it.
It is pretty much a given here that most politicians are whores. I certainly don't see any altruism in a politician. Nonetheless, it is helpful to know just whose hand is up any particular politician's ass. Having a list of controllers like that DOES explain Barton's motives.
2000 will have security patches for four and half more years. It won't be gaining any new features but that isn't necessarily a downside.
I still wonder why PC sound cards didn't emulate the amiga sound chip.
There wouldn't have been much point. The Amiga sound hardware was basically a set of 4 8-bit DSPs with about a 28Khz maximum sample rate. There were two DSPs per audio channel. With some trickery you could use both DSPs on one channel to simulate 14 bit audio. There were also some filters and a means to let one channel modulate the other. An SB16 could do most of the things this hardware could do. Most of the vaunted "Amiga sound" was due to good programming and the fact that competing machines of the era had either beeper sound or cut down synthesizer chips for audio.
There were (are?) tracker players that emulate the Amiga CPU+sound chip for playing the Amiga's audio library.
Actually, the ST-as-a-platform lasted a bit longer in Europe than you think.
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The ST did have a persistant niche for a while as a midi controller/composition tool. I'll agree with you that the Amiga was generally more advanced and had a better OS.
It is for having both ends having pre-set images displayed for certain character sequences in text mesages, be they :-) or pwn3df46607
They shouldn't have a patent for that either. It's damned trivial and IM clients have been doing it for awhile.
YOU are the one who is surrendering. I have more fear of my government than of Ahab the Ay-Rab. For that matter, I have more fear of say being run down by a reckless teenager than being blown up by said Ay-Rab.
Osama bin Laden is still walking around but somehow letting the government peruse my library reading habits without a warrant is going to help? There is NO foolproof way to stop terrorism. Put extra security on airplanes, fine. They'll attack buses. Put extra security on buses, fine. They'll attack the subways. Put extra security on subways, fine. They'll attack rush hour traffic. No matter how much the goverment takes away our liberties in the name of fighting terrorists a weak spot can always be found for a dramatic display. There will ALWAYS be some weakness the motivated few can exploit, even after every single one of our liberties have been stripped from us. Come to think of it, that is a pretty good motivation for an attack right there.
The correct answer is to track down the ones who do these things and very publically and very obnoxiously kick their asses. Everytime. That will get far more results than blanketing the country with cameras.
That DVD is clearly marked as containing the "unrated version" of the film. That is all the warning necessary to know that it isn't the theatrical version. I would much rather see the unrateded version and wouldn't look kindly on the prudes who can't handle it. Prudes should stay far away from anything in which Parker and Stone is involved.
I build myself a new machine every two or three years. When I'm ordering the parts, I get what was top of the line one year before that date. If you go newer than that then prices spike upward dramatically for very little increase in performance. I find that such a machine lasts three years if I'm keeping up with the latest and greatest in software. I consistently spend between $500 and $600 doing this. That isn't bad spread out over two or three years.
I also don't count on using much from my previous machine; usually just the hard drive and optical drives (which are used until failure or a format is forced on me). I have a floppy drive that goes clear back to my 486 days but everything else has been churned out. The floppy only gets used for firmware upgrades and will likely be chucked the next time I build.
You're mostly bang-on. I will point out that OS X can be quite happy in 256MB ram IF you won't be running Classic. I'll grant that OS X really likes ram and gets quite the increase in responsiveness if you go 1GB ram or more. It's just that an OS X box not running Classic is quite usable with 256MB.
The left are just as likely to pass laws limiting freedoms as the right are, they'll just have a different set of criteria for choosing the laws.
I'll grant you that. It's just that it is the Right's brand of bullshit that is prevalent these days. I wouldn't mind seeing that whole lot in Congress tarred and feathered and then escorted to the nearest set of train tracks.
The problem is that the definition of "something wrong" will be drawn ever more widely by right wingnuts.
So tell me again, how you can do all this on Linux and you can't on Windows Server?
My point is that Martin Taylor claims this capability is a Window Exclusive. I was calling bullshit. And yes Virgina, Windows servers have a reputation for being a little bitchy if multiple services are demanded of them. I wasn't saying it can't be done but keeping it all working properly places you squarely in the realm of competent system administration. Again, MS marketing likes to imply that super competent admins are needed for Linux but that any slobbering idiot can manage a Windows server. Neither are true of course but they'll do anything to "prove" that Linux is much more difficult to manage than Windows.
I too prefer not to overload functions. I'm only pointing out that I can add functions to a Linux box until I hit the limits of disk, processor, or memory and it will do it's job without complaining. The converse is also true. I can easily remove functions and the remaining ones continue to function (no I'm not talking about boneheaded things like yanking the database out from under a dynamic web site). For that matter, I can use a minimum of good sense and configure a Linux box however I please and it stays up and running. Martin Taylor claims that I can't do this without wailing and gnashing of teeth. This has not been my typical experience with Windows machines.
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MS' own recommended strategy for servers is one box for each function. AD tree that's a box. An IIS server? That's a box. A SQL server? Yet another box.
I can and have run DNS, Samba, Apache, Netatalk, MySQL and others on the same machine and it just sits in the corner and does it's job. I think MS doesn't want to start throwing stones in this particular glass house.
It's tacky to reply to my own post but what the hey. I signed up for one of their "test drive" accounts and used a KDE desktop in Italy from my location in the American Midwest. The 800x600 (you can go larger) screen was responsive enough to surf with Konqueror, scribble around in the Gimp, play Gnome mines, and type some in OpenOffice without being frustrating. It wasn't quite up to the job of playing lBreakout overseas but I was impressed with it nonetheless.
They're basically simplifying and compressing the X protocol (can also serve up VNC and rdp). The desktop was in 16bpp color at least. I was quite impressed with it.
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