Biological terraforming of Venus is pretty much completely written off, mostly because:
1) It would have to float.
2) The products would have to float too, because if they fell to the surface the enormous temperature and pressure would cause them to revert back to CO2.
Not quite. The biggest loss is the 60% of the energy that is rejected as waste heat and which could otherwise be utilized with co-generation. Many large buildings and complexes, such as the City Center project in Las Vegas for example, utilize on-site natural gas turbines along with waste heat reclamation to achieve total energy efficiencies above 80%, as compared with less than 40% for traditional electrical generation.
Okay, they aren't instructions. I think that's perfectly clear. But what I asked was whether you are asserting that amendments apply simultaneously without any sequence whatsoever. So, just say "no obviously that would be stupid" and be done with it, unless it's not obvious to you exactly why that is stupid.
Good god, man. Don't you realize what you're proposing? Next thing you know someone will coin a new verb, "orientatation" from your new noun. And from there we're just another smart-ass/.'er away from getting another new noun, "orientatatate". I think you see where I'm going with this. Smug linguists would take over, innovating a cascade of new words that would fill the English language, only to eventually collapse into a recursive singularity of hypothetical new words. Spell-checkers would all overflow in endless loops. People who couldn't handle it would get to about the third or fourth "tatatata" and then pass out. The ones who could would eventually end up speaking one of those "click" languages. Moisture-vaporator translator bots would become obsolete. All because you couldn't follow the rules.
I can't even imagine what kind of personality it takes to have never found a single college class be educational.
Oh boy, I'll tell you exactly the type. It's the person who fucks up and attends a yokel school on full scholarship instead of signing away his soul borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to the ivy league, due to his family members being complete horses' asses unable to engage in any type of long-range planning whatsoever and unwilling to contribute to any kind of worthwhile education.
It's the person who spends every class surrounded by jocks and precious minorities with the IQ's of eggplants, interrupting class every five minutes to ask some dumb question. It's the person told by every one of his classmates that they are "just there for the piece of paper." It's the person who watches fraternities completely game the system by stealing copies of tests so that other members can memorize the questions and correct answers. It's the person taught by neo-con idiot professors whose only goal in life is to build the biggest guns possible for stealing natural resources from evil foreigners, and who spend more class time justifying this goal than actually teaching anything approaching enlightened subject matter.
Classes were certainly not uniformly bad, but the bad outweighed the good: architecture professors who didn't understand basic physics, logic professors who couldn't correctly decipher complex syllogisms, philosophy professors whose views on morality would make mobsters cringe. I have literally learned more from Slashdot than I did from college. The few good professors usually only lasted a few years, at most. The ones who remained were either brow-beaten or completely loopy due to the ridiculous bullshit they had to put up with just to do their jobs well.
I will be completely unsurprised when the higher education scam is the last card to fall in America's implosion of wasteful stupidity, after the mortgage, commercial real estate and personal credit debacles. Then again, I will be equally unsurprised if it never actually gets that far, due to the complete incompetence of our educational system being so well-hidden, near-universally-revered and unassailable, deep within the structure of America's faux economy.
"life with civilization" is a worthless metric. Ants have civilization. You could argue that algae do as well. All you're really saying is that we know as much about our past as we do about our future. This should be unsurprising, considering the relationship between knowledge of each with the other, and simple statistical odds.
Would make an interesting sales model for a self-replicating machine.
Buy it. Use it to make as many copies as you can in a set period of time. Then you have to re-sell it and send a percentage of the profits back to the originator.
Medium to big business is where you're going to find the highest proportion of commercial software.
I don't consider RedHat equivalent to "commercial" software, so that isn't really a consideration. In fact that's the reason I used the word "proprietary" instead of "commercial". I'm just talking about externally versus internally supported, open source software.
It's only the huge players like Google (for whom extensive in-depth in-house expertise and customisation is cost-effective) and the tiny players (where even hundreds of dollars matter) who are not going to be a good fit.
The exceptions prove the rule. There are plenty of medium to big businesses with in-house Linux support. But you're right, for most of them, the additional cost of outside support *in addition* is a minor consideration.
Big companies use software like Oracle. Oracle support will not even speak to you if you are running their software on an unsupported OS.
The vast majority of large "enterprises" that outsource Linux support only do so due to the structural flaws of an IT support system designed around inherent limitations of proprietary software.
Yes, we can see that you do things half-assed backwards.
Open Source software, unlike proprietary software, can be supported in-house better, more easily, and more cheaply than via outside support. Large "enterprises", at least those that take proper advantage of scale and hire competent engineers, have less of a need to pay for outside Linux support than your small "consulting gigs" do.
The vast majority of large "enterprises" that outsource Linux support only do so due to the structural flaws of an IT support system designed around inherent limitations of proprietary software.
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How do you know it's loaded? How do you know it's to your specifications?
He was applying for a government job, as an arms manufacturer.
Biological terraforming of Venus is pretty much completely written off, mostly because:
1) It would have to float.
2) The products would have to float too, because if they fell to the surface the enormous temperature and pressure would cause them to revert back to CO2.
Venus is an extremely harsh environment.
I believe the grant for powerplant research already went to the robot that eats people.
(It runs on a quieter, stirling engine.)
Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 7.2% in 1995
Not quite. The biggest loss is the 60% of the energy that is rejected as waste heat and which could otherwise be utilized with co-generation. Many large buildings and complexes, such as the City Center project in Las Vegas for example, utilize on-site natural gas turbines along with waste heat reclamation to achieve total energy efficiencies above 80%, as compared with less than 40% for traditional electrical generation.
The immigrant Jews?
Somehow I think he meant the immigrant Americans.
Okay, they aren't instructions. I think that's perfectly clear. But what I asked was whether you are asserting that amendments apply simultaneously without any sequence whatsoever. So, just say "no obviously that would be stupid" and be done with it, unless it's not obvious to you exactly why that is stupid.
( Oil | Corn | Stock | Gold ) prices ( rise | fall ) on ( Middle East sabre-rattling | earnings release | Lindsay Lohan arrest | natural disaster ).
Totally agree. Google calculator is one of the most awesome things ever.
I guess you never owned a British car.
Good god, man. Don't you realize what you're proposing? Next thing you know someone will coin a new verb, "orientatation" from your new noun. And from there we're just another smart-ass /.'er away from getting another new noun, "orientatatate". I think you see where I'm going with this. Smug linguists would take over, innovating a cascade of new words that would fill the English language, only to eventually collapse into a recursive singularity of hypothetical new words. Spell-checkers would all overflow in endless loops. People who couldn't handle it would get to about the third or fourth "tatatata" and then pass out. The ones who could would eventually end up speaking one of those "click" languages. Moisture-vaporator translator bots would become obsolete. All because you couldn't follow the rules.
Rules apply simultaneously.
You're arguing that the 18th and 21st amendments both apply simultaneously?
I can't even imagine what kind of personality it takes to have never found a single college class be educational.
Oh boy, I'll tell you exactly the type. It's the person who fucks up and attends a yokel school on full scholarship instead of signing away his soul borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to the ivy league, due to his family members being complete horses' asses unable to engage in any type of long-range planning whatsoever and unwilling to contribute to any kind of worthwhile education.
It's the person who spends every class surrounded by jocks and precious minorities with the IQ's of eggplants, interrupting class every five minutes to ask some dumb question. It's the person told by every one of his classmates that they are "just there for the piece of paper." It's the person who watches fraternities completely game the system by stealing copies of tests so that other members can memorize the questions and correct answers. It's the person taught by neo-con idiot professors whose only goal in life is to build the biggest guns possible for stealing natural resources from evil foreigners, and who spend more class time justifying this goal than actually teaching anything approaching enlightened subject matter.
Classes were certainly not uniformly bad, but the bad outweighed the good: architecture professors who didn't understand basic physics, logic professors who couldn't correctly decipher complex syllogisms, philosophy professors whose views on morality would make mobsters cringe. I have literally learned more from Slashdot than I did from college. The few good professors usually only lasted a few years, at most. The ones who remained were either brow-beaten or completely loopy due to the ridiculous bullshit they had to put up with just to do their jobs well.
I will be completely unsurprised when the higher education scam is the last card to fall in America's implosion of wasteful stupidity, after the mortgage, commercial real estate and personal credit debacles. Then again, I will be equally unsurprised if it never actually gets that far, due to the complete incompetence of our educational system being so well-hidden, near-universally-revered and unassailable, deep within the structure of America's faux economy.
"life with civilization" is a worthless metric. Ants have civilization. You could argue that algae do as well. All you're really saying is that we know as much about our past as we do about our future. This should be unsurprising, considering the relationship between knowledge of each with the other, and simple statistical odds.
Star formation is believed to end about 10^14 years from now, the total entropy of universe only affects events after that.
Assuming we don't get to all that hydrogen first.
Would make an interesting sales model for a self-replicating machine.
Buy it. Use it to make as many copies as you can in a set period of time. Then you have to re-sell it and send a percentage of the profits back to the originator.
It wasn't every 40th packet. It was every 40th IP address.
no, i'm not a salesman
Are you Fox Mulder?
The countries he points out are all in the same timezones so it's probably just their normal day starting.
He says in the video that it's five days of data.
Last I checked, RedHat's support is long term (yearly) and mostly unlimited. So, no, it isn't a huge problem.
Medium to big business is where you're going to find the highest proportion of commercial software.
I don't consider RedHat equivalent to "commercial" software, so that isn't really a consideration. In fact that's the reason I used the word "proprietary" instead of "commercial". I'm just talking about externally versus internally supported, open source software.
It's only the huge players like Google (for whom extensive in-depth in-house expertise and customisation is cost-effective) and the tiny players (where even hundreds of dollars matter) who are not going to be a good fit.
The exceptions prove the rule. There are plenty of medium to big businesses with in-house Linux support. But you're right, for most of them, the additional cost of outside support *in addition* is a minor consideration.
Big companies use software like Oracle. Oracle support will not even speak to you if you are running their software on an unsupported OS.
The vast majority of large "enterprises" that outsource Linux support only do so due to the structural flaws of an IT support system designed around inherent limitations of proprietary software.
Thanks for making my point.
You're assuming a link between rationality or responsibility and access to higher education which no longer exists.
I think you can see where this is going...
Yes, we can see that you do things half-assed backwards.
Open Source software, unlike proprietary software, can be supported in-house better, more easily, and more cheaply than via outside support. Large "enterprises", at least those that take proper advantage of scale and hire competent engineers, have less of a need to pay for outside Linux support than your small "consulting gigs" do.
The vast majority of large "enterprises" that outsource Linux support only do so due to the structural flaws of an IT support system designed around inherent limitations of proprietary software.
Apparently he thinks they sit around waiting for things to go wrong, like the typical Microsoft admin.
Most of our food doesn't need space. It needs fertilizer.