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I mean, seriously you are so full of shit. I'm not going to waste my time picking your argument apart, just a few choice quotes:
17 labs on Earth working to weaponize Ebola
Woah, that's a precise number. Out of your magic 8 ball ?
Mendellian methods
It's called 'evolution'. And the radical terrorists don't believe in it, haven't you heard ?
give off neutrino emissions that make it glow like the sun to spy satellites
Learn the difference between neutrons and neutrinos. The latter are incredibly hard to detect (and currently at the heart of the 'faster than light' debate, but I digress), it takes a detector the size of a mountain.
SSD controllers haven't been exactly stellar in terms of reliability so far.
Yeah. This post is quasi a dupe of a few days ago where this eye opening message was posted.
I have converted most of my systems to SSDs for the system disk and now I'm scared. I'm sure there's an OCZ somewhere in there... Add to this the risk of mechanical failure and added complexity,and I'm really not sure I want an hybrid.
The first step in installing it was to compile the C compiler (supplied IIRC in PDP-11 assembler) and then compile the kernal, and then the shell and all the utilities.
I program embedded systems, and to get Linux on them we still proceed the exact same way... OK, there are powerful scripts such as BuildRoot that can do everything in 2 commands, but still...
Yes, particularly FF on Linux. It used to worked great, but in the last 6 months or so, after a few hours of use, FF maxes up my memory and CPU and starts crawling in molasses. Never had the problem before. A kill/restart fixes it but it's a PITA. Chrome is so much faster.
I wanted to rate you 'overrated' but here goes: data is not water or petroleum. It costs the same whether you use it or not, it's a fixed cost that depends only on the infrastructure.
Fair enough.
Let me add a little fun anecdote: at work a colleague started talking about Lady Gaga at lunch and, having no clue what he was talking about, I asked: "Who's Lady Gaga ?". Ensued one of those discussions where 2 alternate realities collide. I couldn't imagine anybody with such a stupid name so I was making fun of him for making it up. And he couldn't believe that in this day and age someone wouldn't know of Lady Gaga, so he thought I was pulling his leg and started getting pissed at me. And 10 colleagues around us where ROTFL.
Yes but what will be left of your hundreds of annual movies and TV series in, say, 50 years ? Only a handful of them. Then they will be called 'real art'. The rest is indeed "frivolous and trite" pop culture. We listen to Mozart now because very nearly ALL the others of his century have been forgotten. So one way to think about TV is that we might as well not waste our time with stuff that is worth forgetting, no ?
Personally I took the decision to eschew TV when I was 16 and that's one of the best 2 decision in my life.
Money is just a way to quantify resources, and we don't have the resources to give everyone all the healthcare that they want, when they want it. You have to ration it.
When having this discussion with people, I ask the following question: "Imagine that we invent a drug that cures you of everything and lets you live healthy till you are 120. Only problem is that it costs 10M$. Now what should be done?" Ban it (because it's not fair) ? Let only the rich who can afford it take it ? Set up a lottery ? I've noticed that many people shut down completely when thinking about it: they can't understand why the government cannot pay for a dose for everyone.
On a similar discussion some time ago somebody mentioned a drug that could bring back appetite in terminal cancer victims. And that the drug went from 1$ to 1000$ a pop _after_ being granted its patent !!! I'd like to find the source again.
Are you telling me that a government should fund every companies clinical trial at $10M a pop?
I'm sure he's telling you exactly that. Since Social Security [not referring to America here, but all those countries with sane medical policies] will eventually pay for every single use of that drug, it's in the gov best interest to have the drug as cheap as possible, which it will be if there's no patent on it, even if it means paying 10M$ for the clinical trial beforehand. Seems absolutely obvious to me.
There should be two kind of drug companies: those that run the trials and those that manufacture compounds. And keep them separate by law. And don't let them own any of that IP bullshit.
When a white wine is too young and leaves sharp bubbles in the mouth, I usually agitate it with a teaspoon for a while, the the horror of wine snobs. Makes it much mellower in a matter of seconds though...
You miss his point. It's not that some people think that Twilight is better than Lord of the Rings. It's that for people who only know Twilight, they will have their own hierarchy of which episode is better than the others. As for punching his snobby face, have a drink and cool off.
Not necessarily. I think one important point when dealing with website trolls and spammers is not to delete their messages, but display it only for them if you can log their IPs / username. This way they see their own messages, but nobody else can. Kind of hard to do when the attack is distributed, though.
Infamy ? It should be worse than that, like years in jail. But I'll go with infamy: I have a cousin who's a cop. I haven't been in touch with him in the last decade or so, but if I ever saw him on youtube do one tenth of what that asshole cop did, you can bet your ass I'd be insulting him on the phone right now, AND I'd be calling everyone in the family to make sure they know what an criminal asshole he is. I don't understand how asshole cops like this can live over this.
OK. Actually, thinking about the problem of 'putting a mirror on the plane', I think there are 'phase reversal mirrors' that can send back the beam exactly as it came (even through deformations, diffusion, etc), but I don't know if it can also amplify it.
The light is already too diffuse at this distance, so a mirror would be useless. And you'd need tracking optics anyway. And as long as you need tracking servos, you might as well put a real 15W laser on it and fire it back at the offender. Blind him for a week. I think that'd be a cheap, good and easy technical solution, and a good comeuppance as well.
There are tens of programming languages in common use, and they were designed in the 50s/60s/70s, so their designers are getting old... 2 in a week is just coincidence, but one a year (Backus, Grace Hopper, etc a couple years back) is no surprise.
I'm surprised that's the 1st mention of Dell. We are a science lab and a lot of people here want Linux hardware (on cloud servers, standard servers, desktop and laptops). We buy Dell for desktop and laptops, even though we install the distros ourselves (Ubuntu, Scientific Linux and Mandriva). There are some small issues but 99% of the hardware works. The remaining % is stuff nobody uses like fingerprint readers or smart card readers (not CF). I'm typing this on a Latitude E6410.
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I mean, seriously you are so full of shit. I'm not going to waste my time picking your argument apart, just a few choice quotes:
17 labs on Earth working to weaponize Ebola
Woah, that's a precise number. Out of your magic 8 ball ?
Mendellian methods
It's called 'evolution'. And the radical terrorists don't believe in it, haven't you heard ?
give off neutrino emissions that make it glow like the sun to spy satellites
Learn the difference between neutrons and neutrinos. The latter are incredibly hard to detect (and currently at the heart of the 'faster than light' debate, but I digress), it takes a detector the size of a mountain.
SSD controllers haven't been exactly stellar in terms of reliability so far.
Yeah. This post is quasi a dupe of a few days ago where this eye opening message was posted. ,and I'm really not sure I want an hybrid.
I have converted most of my systems to SSDs for the system disk and now I'm scared. I'm sure there's an OCZ somewhere in there... Add to this the risk of mechanical failure and added complexity
The first step in installing it was to compile the C compiler (supplied IIRC in PDP-11 assembler) and then compile the kernal, and then the shell and all the utilities.
I program embedded systems, and to get Linux on them we still proceed the exact same way... OK, there are powerful scripts such as BuildRoot that can do everything in 2 commands, but still...
Going to spend a winter in Antarctica...
Yes, particularly FF on Linux. It used to worked great, but in the last 6 months or so, after a few hours of use, FF maxes up my memory and CPU and starts crawling in molasses. Never had the problem before. A kill/restart fixes it but it's a PITA. Chrome is so much faster.
I wanted to rate you 'overrated' but here goes: data is not water or petroleum. It costs the same whether you use it or not, it's a fixed cost that depends only on the infrastructure.
Fair enough.
Let me add a little fun anecdote: at work a colleague started talking about Lady Gaga at lunch and, having no clue what he was talking about, I asked: "Who's Lady Gaga ?". Ensued one of those discussions where 2 alternate realities collide. I couldn't imagine anybody with such a stupid name so I was making fun of him for making it up. And he couldn't believe that in this day and age someone wouldn't know of Lady Gaga, so he thought I was pulling his leg and started getting pissed at me. And 10 colleagues around us where ROTFL.
Yes but what will be left of your hundreds of annual movies and TV series in, say, 50 years ? Only a handful of them. Then they will be called 'real art'. The rest is indeed "frivolous and trite" pop culture. We listen to Mozart now because very nearly ALL the others of his century have been forgotten. So one way to think about TV is that we might as well not waste our time with stuff that is worth forgetting, no ?
Personally I took the decision to eschew TV when I was 16 and that's one of the best 2 decision in my life.
Money is just a way to quantify resources, and we don't have the resources to give everyone all the healthcare that they want, when they want it. You have to ration it.
When having this discussion with people, I ask the following question: "Imagine that we invent a drug that cures you of everything and lets you live healthy till you are 120. Only problem is that it costs 10M$. Now what should be done?" Ban it (because it's not fair) ? Let only the rich who can afford it take it ? Set up a lottery ? I've noticed that many people shut down completely when thinking about it: they can't understand why the government cannot pay for a dose for everyone.
On a similar discussion some time ago somebody mentioned a drug that could bring back appetite in terminal cancer victims. And that the drug went from 1$ to 1000$ a pop _after_ being granted its patent !!! I'd like to find the source again.
Are you telling me that a government should fund every companies clinical trial at $10M a pop?
I'm sure he's telling you exactly that. Since Social Security [not referring to America here, but all those countries with sane medical policies] will eventually pay for every single use of that drug, it's in the gov best interest to have the drug as cheap as possible, which it will be if there's no patent on it, even if it means paying 10M$ for the clinical trial beforehand. Seems absolutely obvious to me. There should be two kind of drug companies: those that run the trials and those that manufacture compounds. And keep them separate by law. And don't let them own any of that IP bullshit.
I'm not a Ron Paul guy, but isn't it just remotely interesting that we went off the gold standard in August of 1971 and our wages peaked in 1972?
IANAE (Economist), I would say it's far more probable that the peak wages of 72 are related to the first petroleum crisis of 73.
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When a white wine is too young and leaves sharp bubbles in the mouth, I usually agitate it with a teaspoon for a while, the the horror of wine snobs. Makes it much mellower in a matter of seconds though...
You miss his point. It's not that some people think that Twilight is better than Lord of the Rings. It's that for people who only know Twilight, they will have their own hierarchy of which episode is better than the others. As for punching his snobby face, have a drink and cool off.
Not necessarily. I think one important point when dealing with website trolls and spammers is not to delete their messages, but display it only for them if you can log their IPs / username. This way they see their own messages, but nobody else can. Kind of hard to do when the attack is distributed, though.
the Occupy movement doesn't really have a tangible goal that is achievable in the short term
Pray tell me why taxing Wall St transactions should be an unachievable goal ?
Infamy ? It should be worse than that, like years in jail. But I'll go with infamy: I have a cousin who's a cop. I haven't been in touch with him in the last decade or so, but if I ever saw him on youtube do one tenth of what that asshole cop did, you can bet your ass I'd be insulting him on the phone right now, AND I'd be calling everyone in the family to make sure they know what an criminal asshole he is. I don't understand how asshole cops like this can live over this.
OK. Actually, thinking about the problem of 'putting a mirror on the plane', I think there are 'phase reversal mirrors' that can send back the beam exactly as it came (even through deformations, diffusion, etc), but I don't know if it can also amplify it.
The light is already too diffuse at this distance, so a mirror would be useless. And you'd need tracking optics anyway. And as long as you need tracking servos, you might as well put a real 15W laser on it and fire it back at the offender. Blind him for a week. I think that'd be a cheap, good and easy technical solution, and a good comeuppance as well.
Or the S2 for that matter
Have you received ANY update for your S2 ? I haven't. Or is it something that requires the devel toolkit and signing your firstborn to Samsung ?
There are tens of programming languages in common use, and they were designed in the 50s/60s/70s, so their designers are getting old... 2 in a week is just coincidence, but one a year (Backus, Grace Hopper, etc a couple years back) is no surprise.
I'm surprised that's the 1st mention of Dell. We are a science lab and a lot of people here want Linux hardware (on cloud servers, standard servers, desktop and laptops). We buy Dell for desktop and laptops, even though we install the distros ourselves (Ubuntu, Scientific Linux and Mandriva). There are some small issues but 99% of the hardware works. The remaining % is stuff nobody uses like fingerprint readers or smart card readers (not CF). I'm typing this on a Latitude E6410.
I said Flat Earth, not SpaceCube. Or was that RoundCube ? Come on, keep an illusion of seriousness in your memes.
It's being hotly debated at the moment...