For one thing, I resent you belittling the tragedy of the 3,000 innocent people murdered on 9/11
I find it rather interesting that Americans keep on raving about 3.000 that were killed in 9/11, but nobody in USA gives a damn about the 100.000 civilians killed in Iraq. Let's see.... For every American that was killed in 9/11, about 33 civilians have been killed in Iraq. Why aren't you outraged about that? If 9/11 was a "tragedy", what is Iraq then? A catastrophy? Humanitarian disaster?
People like John Ashcroft are working to make sure we don't lose 30,000 in wave after wave of attacks.
And what better way of achieving that, than by pissing off few hundred million muslims around the world by rampaging through the Middle-East?
Couldn't you also say that Ashcroft is busy protecting USA from alien invasion? And since aliens have not invaded USA, he's doing a great job!
Normal Americans disagree and that's why people like you who don't think we are in danger from terrorists lost the last election.
""Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
1. we are the "united states", so each state's laws on voting are different.
so fix the laws. If Finland can get it right, why can't separate states in USA get it right?
2. our population is about 58 times greater than Finland, so the magnitude of the election is larger.
Irrelevant. you may have more voters, but you would also have more people counting the votes and such.
3. your sample ballot looks like you are voting for one office? My ballot last week included about 30 different offices, plus two proposals. It covered 2 pages. I understand that some states have you voting on several pages worth of offices/proposals.
Local elections, presidental elections, EU elections and parliamentary elections are all separate here.
4. I would hate to have to hand tabulate our ballots, it would be very time consuming and tedious.
In Finland they are hand-tabulated, and the final results are available about 3-4 hours after the polling-sites close. I don't think that's unreasonable time.
Also, I think the statistic is something like 10% of Americans move every year, so keeping up with changes of address is a problem. And maybe 10% of Americans don't speak English very well?
I don't have any figures on how often Finns move. But we do have 5% Swedish-speaking minority and we have other minorities as well (Russian-speaking for example) and we don't have any problems.
In your system, how do you register, so they know where to send the letter? And what would happen if the letter never showed up?
I don't "register". When I turn 18 I automatically receive the right to vote. I don't have to "register" or anything of the sort, I'm automatically counted as a voter. Of course, I can choose not to vote, or I can place a "protest-vote" if I want to. The officials have my address and they then send me the letter. If I move, I let them know what my new address is (required by law), and they send the voting-letters there in the future. I haven't heard of cases where someone does not receive their letter.
The reason it runs so hot is because the system is designed to be as quiet as possible. I'm sure if you made the G5 fans blow at full blast constantly the temperature would not be nearly as hot.
And AMD-systems are the same. In my case (2.2GHz Athlon64) the fans automatically adjust their speed according to the temperature of the CPU. The system is very quiet and during high load, I can hear the CPU-fan spin up a bit. So the fans do not "blow at full blast constantly". So you have to find another reason for G5 running so hot, whereas A64/Opteron does not.
Could it be that G5 simply does run hotter than A64/Opteron does? Why is that so difficult to accept?
No it doesn't. it has a power-envelope of 89W. Which means that AMD requires MoBo and heatsink/fan-makers to design their products in such way that they can handle a CPU that dissipates 89W. The actual wattage of the CPU is way below that number. AMD just plays it safe and gives the CPU quite a large margin to play with.
"Da Vinci enthusiasts have reconstructed the automobile several times during the past century, but it's never worked. The device seemed destined to join the ranks of da Vinci's grandiose but flawed inventions - what one scholar called his "impossible machines."
AFAIK, da Vinci (and other inventors of the time) placed errors and flaws in the schematics of their inventions on purpose. The idea was that if someone stole the schematics, he couldn't make it work and claim it as his own. The original inventor would know about the flaw in the schematic, and fix it accordingly.
Your key mistake here is your use of the word "needs". The data I've seen indicates that the G5 draws an equivalent amount of power as comparable Intel and AMD systems. Also, the G5's in the x-servs are air cooled. I think they mostly liquid cool the dual 2.5 Ghz G5 just to keep the noise down.
uh-huh. If G5 runs so cool, then surely they could have kept the original cooling-system for the 2.5GHz model, instead of going for an complicated liquid-cooling system? Really, why did they move from heatsink/fan to liquid-cooling? AFAIK the original G5's were already quiet. And looking at reviews such as this seems to suggest that the G5 does indeed run very hot.
What makes you think that 970 requires less power/cooling that (for example) Opteron does? I mean, 2.5Ghz G5 needs frigging liquid-cooling, whereas even the fastest A64/Opterons manage just fine with regural heatsinks and fans.
that USA, leader in technology and "Leader of the Free World", can't get something like voting right! just how difficult can it be? In Finland it's pretty simple:
1. You receive a letter telling where you can vote 2. You go to the voting-site with that letter. 3. The officials check the letter and your ID. They then remove you from their list of voters and hand you the ballot. The ballot looks like this 4. You walk in to the booth, and write down the number of your candidate on the ballot. 5. You close the ballot so your vote is not visible, and the officials stamp the ballot. 6. You then drop the stamped ballot in to the ballot-box. 7. The ballots are counted manually with observers making sure everything is A-OK. The final results are available few our after the polling-sites close. 8. Results are decided by a direct popular vote. Then one getting the most votes wins. In presidental elections, if no candidate receives more than half of the vote, we will have a second round between the two candidates that got the most votes in the first round.
Related to voting: It's strictly forbidden to campaign right outside the voting-site. I was pretty shocked to see how in USA the people waiting in line to vote were handed pre-filled ballots with campaigners showing them "how they should vote".
Ximian people have never claimed that KDE was going away. That was the conclusion of others (less well informed).
Well, I remember some Ximian-folks post on/. and make claims that Gnome is Novells future, with KDE fading away. Hell, they spread the same FUD in the press as well!. Christine McLellan, the one spreading the "Gnome will receive improvements, KDE will not"-FUD came to Novell via Ximian.
I wonder what that means to those folks who claimed that "Novell is placing their bets on Gnome! KDE is going down!". Open mouth, insert foot, eh?
Well, the people who made those claims seemed quite often to be connected to Ximian... Either they were astroturfing/spreading FUD, or they didn't know what their company was doing.
the decision-makers are well aware of the costs of nuclear power, and most countries (as Sweden or Germany) are gradually phasing it out.
AFAIK, Sweden started to have second thoughts about it, although they are still bound by the decision to phase out nuclear power. It seems to be just too expensive. Luckily Finland made no such decisions, and we are busy building our fifth reactor as we speak (and some people have already started talking about a sixth reactor. An idea I wholeheartedly support).
It's funny, the Greens and other whackos oppose the building of additional reactors. Right now we are more or less dependant of imported energy. And large part of that comes from Russia, where it's generated by those inherintly unsafe Chernobyl-type reactors.
So the Greens advocate the status quo (with additional investments in solar and wind-power) where we get large part of our energy from Chernobyl-type reactors, instead of getting our energy from ultra-safe top-of-the-line reactors with latest technology that are located right here in Finland. it just boggles the mind!
Thermal: Lots of volcanos where you live? Maybe we should cap off all the geysors in Yellowstone.
you could use heat-pumps. They are quite common in Finland when it comes to heating up the house. Basically, they extract heat from the soil. And yes, it works even in Finland where there are no volcanoes, geysirs and the like. And it doesn't matter that the soil is frozen hard for large periods of time during the year.
there's ALOT of thermal energy tied up in the soil.
Yet, people of Ukraine are still living out their lives like they used. Regardless of the fact that worst nuclear disaster in the history of nuclear power happened right at their backyard.
Something like Chernobyl could NOT happen in a western reactor. The design of Chernobyl was inherintly unsafe, whereas western reactors are inherintly safe. Not only did Chernobyl have bad managers and ill-adviced experiments, the entire design of the reactor was flawed.
Chernobyl was the worst kind of nuclear-disaster you could have. And it resulted in few dozen direct deaths and a minor increase in cancer-rate in nearby areas. Hell, there are people living in Ukraine at this very moment, and they are not bothered by it! Nuclear energy has showed itself to be order of magnitude more safe than any of the other viable alternatives.
Actualy Chernobyl caused A LOT MORE than 31 deaths if you consider the number of cancer cases in all surrounding area caused by radiation exposure
I read a study a while back which said that cancer-rate in Ukraine had increased by a whopping 0.5% due to Chernobyl. And like it was already said, Chernobyl was a flawed design that was inherintly dangerous. Western reactors (like the ones that provide France with practically all of their energy) are designed so that if the reaction starts to get out of control, the reaction stops, making them inherintly safe.
France has ALOT of nuclear reactors, and they don't seem to have any problems with them. And besides, coal-plants release radioactive waste as well.
Looking at history of nuclear power, we can see that there has been one minor accident (Three-Mile Island) and one moe serious accident (Chernobyl). To me, that's one hell of a track-record! Compare that to sinking oil-tankers, blowing up natural-gas tanks, smog and radioactive waste from coal-plants, rivers being ruined by hydroelectric plants etc. etc.
live in western New York... south of Buffalo. My provider is Dobson/Cellular One. Coverage here isn't spectacular, but even if I'm within a couple hundred yards of a tower, my Nokia 3650 is sketchy.Even in NYC, where I'm assuming coverage is good, service was goofy.
I'm in Finland, and the reception is top-notch here. Zero problems with reception. And the last time I had problems with voice-quality was back when we still used analog NMT-phones (that was over 10 years ago).
I would assume that your reception-problems are due to your operator, since I have zero problems with my GSM-phone, even when I'm in undergrounp parking-halls or middle of nowhere.
Could it be the slow strangulation of bandwidth available for digital to make more room for GSM?
I'll have to stick by Theo on this one, there is a lot of whining about Nvidia binary drivers for their video cards, but that seems to be all it is, whining.
uh, there are open-source drivers available as well. And what do you suggest that Linux-folks should do? Deliberatly sabotage the kernel in such way that closed-source NVIDIA-drivers don't work?
"Here we have a shot of Luke Skywalker standing over the Great Pit of Carkoon, nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlacc. The creature is basically a gigantic mouth, with rows of inwardly facing teeth and a number of sticky tentacles that it uses to snare unsuspecting prey."
Oh come on! It looks like an anus! You know it, and I know it!
the bus on Athlon64/Opteron is better. On G5 (and Intel-land as well) all memory-access goes through the FSB. And that consumes ALOT of bandwidth. On A64 and Opteron, the CPU talks directly with the RAM, leaving the FSB (such as it exists on A64) entirely dedicated to I/O and the like. And that design reduces latencies as well.
I much rather have 800Mhz of the A64 than the 1+GHz FSB of Pentium IV EE or G5 (only of the faster models, however. Slower G5's have slower buses as well).
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I find it rather interesting that Americans keep on raving about 3.000 that were killed in 9/11, but nobody in USA gives a damn about the 100.000 civilians killed in Iraq. Let's see.... For every American that was killed in 9/11, about 33 civilians have been killed in Iraq. Why aren't you outraged about that? If 9/11 was a "tragedy", what is Iraq then? A catastrophy? Humanitarian disaster?
And what better way of achieving that, than by pissing off few hundred million muslims around the world by rampaging through the Middle-East?
Couldn't you also say that Ashcroft is busy protecting USA from alien invasion? And since aliens have not invaded USA, he's doing a great job!
""Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
so fix the laws. If Finland can get it right, why can't separate states in USA get it right?
Irrelevant. you may have more voters, but you would also have more people counting the votes and such.
Local elections, presidental elections, EU elections and parliamentary elections are all separate here.
In Finland they are hand-tabulated, and the final results are available about 3-4 hours after the polling-sites close. I don't think that's unreasonable time.
I don't have any figures on how often Finns move. But we do have 5% Swedish-speaking minority and we have other minorities as well (Russian-speaking for example) and we don't have any problems.
I don't "register". When I turn 18 I automatically receive the right to vote. I don't have to "register" or anything of the sort, I'm automatically counted as a voter. Of course, I can choose not to vote, or I can place a "protest-vote" if I want to. The officials have my address and they then send me the letter. If I move, I let them know what my new address is (required by law), and they send the voting-letters there in the future. I haven't heard of cases where someone does not receive their letter.
And AMD-systems are the same. In my case (2.2GHz Athlon64) the fans automatically adjust their speed according to the temperature of the CPU. The system is very quiet and during high load, I can hear the CPU-fan spin up a bit. So the fans do not "blow at full blast constantly". So you have to find another reason for G5 running so hot, whereas A64/Opteron does not.
Could it be that G5 simply does run hotter than A64/Opteron does? Why is that so difficult to accept?
No it doesn't. it has a power-envelope of 89W. Which means that AMD requires MoBo and heatsink/fan-makers to design their products in such way that they can handle a CPU that dissipates 89W. The actual wattage of the CPU is way below that number. AMD just plays it safe and gives the CPU quite a large margin to play with.
"Da Vinci enthusiasts have reconstructed the automobile several times during the past century, but it's never worked. The device seemed destined to join the ranks of da Vinci's grandiose but flawed inventions - what one scholar called his "impossible machines."
AFAIK, da Vinci (and other inventors of the time) placed errors and flaws in the schematics of their inventions on purpose. The idea was that if someone stole the schematics, he couldn't make it work and claim it as his own. The original inventor would know about the flaw in the schematic, and fix it accordingly.
uh-huh. If G5 runs so cool, then surely they could have kept the original cooling-system for the 2.5GHz model, instead of going for an complicated liquid-cooling system? Really, why did they move from heatsink/fan to liquid-cooling? AFAIK the original G5's were already quiet. And looking at reviews such as this seems to suggest that the G5 does indeed run very hot.
And looking here and here I can see this:
2.5GHz G5: 75-85C during load
2.2GHz Opteron: 48C during load
G5 runs cooler? Hardly.
What makes you think that 970 requires less power/cooling that (for example) Opteron does? I mean, 2.5Ghz G5 needs frigging liquid-cooling, whereas even the fastest A64/Opterons manage just fine with regural heatsinks and fans.
that USA, leader in technology and "Leader of the Free World", can't get something like voting right! just how difficult can it be? In Finland it's pretty simple:
1. You receive a letter telling where you can vote
2. You go to the voting-site with that letter.
3. The officials check the letter and your ID. They then remove you from their list of voters and hand you the ballot. The ballot looks like this
4. You walk in to the booth, and write down the number of your candidate on the ballot.
5. You close the ballot so your vote is not visible, and the officials stamp the ballot.
6. You then drop the stamped ballot in to the ballot-box.
7. The ballots are counted manually with observers making sure everything is A-OK. The final results are available few our after the polling-sites close.
8. Results are decided by a direct popular vote. Then one getting the most votes wins. In presidental elections, if no candidate receives more than half of the vote, we will have a second round between the two candidates that got the most votes in the first round.
Related to voting: It's strictly forbidden to campaign right outside the voting-site. I was pretty shocked to see how in USA the people waiting in line to vote were handed pre-filled ballots with campaigners showing them "how they should vote".
really, this is not rocket-science!
Well, I remember some Ximian-folks post on
I fail to see how Gnome is more "business-friendly" than KDE is. I really do.
I wonder what that means to those folks who claimed that "Novell is placing their bets on Gnome! KDE is going down!". Open mouth, insert foot, eh?
Well, the people who made those claims seemed quite often to be connected to Ximian... Either they were astroturfing/spreading FUD, or they didn't know what their company was doing.
AFAIK, Sweden started to have second thoughts about it, although they are still bound by the decision to phase out nuclear power. It seems to be just too expensive. Luckily Finland made no such decisions, and we are busy building our fifth reactor as we speak (and some people have already started talking about a sixth reactor. An idea I wholeheartedly support).
It's funny, the Greens and other whackos oppose the building of additional reactors. Right now we are more or less dependant of imported energy. And large part of that comes from Russia, where it's generated by those inherintly unsafe Chernobyl-type reactors.
So the Greens advocate the status quo (with additional investments in solar and wind-power) where we get large part of our energy from Chernobyl-type reactors, instead of getting our energy from ultra-safe top-of-the-line reactors with latest technology that are located right here in Finland. it just boggles the mind!
you could use heat-pumps. They are quite common in Finland when it comes to heating up the house. Basically, they extract heat from the soil. And yes, it works even in Finland where there are no volcanoes, geysirs and the like. And it doesn't matter that the soil is frozen hard for large periods of time during the year.
there's ALOT of thermal energy tied up in the soil.
Yet, people of Ukraine are still living out their lives like they used. Regardless of the fact that worst nuclear disaster in the history of nuclear power happened right at their backyard.
Something like Chernobyl could NOT happen in a western reactor. The design of Chernobyl was inherintly unsafe, whereas western reactors are inherintly safe. Not only did Chernobyl have bad managers and ill-adviced experiments, the entire design of the reactor was flawed.
Chernobyl was the worst kind of nuclear-disaster you could have. And it resulted in few dozen direct deaths and a minor increase in cancer-rate in nearby areas. Hell, there are people living in Ukraine at this very moment, and they are not bothered by it! Nuclear energy has showed itself to be order of magnitude more safe than any of the other viable alternatives.
I read a study a while back which said that cancer-rate in Ukraine had increased by a whopping 0.5% due to Chernobyl. And like it was already said, Chernobyl was a flawed design that was inherintly dangerous. Western reactors (like the ones that provide France with practically all of their energy) are designed so that if the reaction starts to get out of control, the reaction stops, making them inherintly safe.
France has ALOT of nuclear reactors, and they don't seem to have any problems with them. And besides, coal-plants release radioactive waste as well.
Looking at history of nuclear power, we can see that there has been one minor accident (Three-Mile Island) and one moe serious accident (Chernobyl). To me, that's one hell of a track-record! Compare that to sinking oil-tankers, blowing up natural-gas tanks, smog and radioactive waste from coal-plants, rivers being ruined by hydroelectric plants etc. etc.
I'd choose nuclear.
What's this then?
I'm in Finland, and the reception is top-notch here. Zero problems with reception. And the last time I had problems with voice-quality was back when we still used analog NMT-phones (that was over 10 years ago).
I would assume that your reception-problems are due to your operator, since I have zero problems with my GSM-phone, even when I'm in undergrounp parking-halls or middle of nowhere.
Ummmm, GSM is digital.
judge for yourself
uh, there are open-source drivers available as well. And what do you suggest that Linux-folks should do? Deliberatly sabotage the kernel in such way that closed-source NVIDIA-drivers don't work?
Disclaimer: I think Theo is an arrogant asshole.
"Here we have a shot of Luke Skywalker standing over the Great Pit of Carkoon, nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlacc. The creature is basically a gigantic mouth, with rows of inwardly facing teeth and a number of sticky tentacles that it uses to snare unsuspecting prey."
Oh come on! It looks like an anus! You know it, and I know it!
Well, this phone does more than your P800 does. Why the singled out handwriting-recognition, I do not know.
"Yep, that's handwriting. I have no idea what it says, though."
Regural x86 has 8 GP-register, AMD64 has 16.
the bus on Athlon64/Opteron is better. On G5 (and Intel-land as well) all memory-access goes through the FSB. And that consumes ALOT of bandwidth. On A64 and Opteron, the CPU talks directly with the RAM, leaving the FSB (such as it exists on A64) entirely dedicated to I/O and the like. And that design reduces latencies as well.
I much rather have 800Mhz of the A64 than the 1+GHz FSB of Pentium IV EE or G5 (only of the faster models, however. Slower G5's have slower buses as well).