That's not my point. My point was the performance increase 64-bit processing gives was not enough to justify the increased cost of that chip. As another poster in this thread points out, if you have to use 64 bit processing for whatever reason, Sun's Sparq chips where even better. Then AMD released their 64bit CPU lines...
Perhaps I should have said significant? If I remember to get a half carat diamond faceted for cheap in the US, it's something like $150? Looks about right judging from this site.
You can get 1 carat certified G-white diamond round brilliant I1 for $430. It would cost $125 to get that faceted in the US. I'd say that's significant.
To get a stone faceted on a machine, it's about $45 to $90 per carat stone (depends on the stone's charactoristics and the cut complexity usually) in the US.
...and enough with the nanotube ring jokes. That's not what I'm talking about.
You see, nowadays, when you want to facet a gemstone into the shapes most people have come to expect in jewelry, one has to use abrasives to put the faces in the stone. Usually Silicon Carbide grit (9.5 hardness, usually for softer stones) or diamond (10 hardness, for harder stuff) on a spinning disk to grind into the stone. But this doesn't work for all gemstones, notably diamond. Trying to facet a diamond with diamond grit on a lap (the disk) will just cut gouges into your lap. They are not cheap.
So diamonds still have to be done the hard way: roughly shaping the stone by cleaving, then using 2 diamonds, one of poor quality, to rub the faces into the good diamond. If this stuff can be synthesized in different grits (particle sizes) for fairly cheap, then it can be used to facet diamonds with machinery rather than by hand. Much of a diamonds (and most other stones) value is actually from the labor put into faceting it. This is especially so for smaller stones. How cheap? Well, currently lapidaries are paying for synthetic diamond grit...
...or you could have norton which stupidly and automatically deletes the file the vbs is in and pops up a window saying repair successful. AKA your inbox.
Gstring - an advanced C++ library that not only includes an inovative version of the string datatype, but has lightning fast, built in parsing and search commands.
Gspot - a new and less expensive alternative to Starbucks coffee shops.
I went to a job interview recently for a sysadmin position at a state prison. One guy at the interview was a Sysadmin for the entire state system. After the interview, I began asking questions to get an idea about the facility and what my "real" responcibilities would be. Turns out, the guy designed the statewide system specifically opted to use only one firewall at the gateway to the backbone provider for the entire state system. When probed, he said if I really needed to I could cut the connection at the facilities router, but that was it. Oh, and every system was running Norton so everything was OK.
I was sitting there thinking, "What the bloody fsck happens when one of the internal machines gets infected with a new email virus that can spread over a lan through some exploit? If it's new there is a very good chance Norton won't stop shit until it's too late? How am I supposed to protect this place if another facility on the network gets hosed, starts to spread, and all I can do is pull the plug, which might get me fired?"
Needless to say, I didn't get the job after staring at him like he was a fscking idiot. Goddamn, at least get a router with IP and port blocking and give me permission to config it. The ability to kill drops on the internal switches would be nice, too...
"You could just collect the static charge that wind generates (that's where lightning gets its energy)."
Somehow, I doubt this would be feasable. Take a thunderstorm that is about 10 miles high, 10 miles wide, and 20 miles long. That's 2000 cubic miles of wind dynamics that generate that static. Now a lightning catcher might work, if you can figure out how to store the electricity generated. And if we can't figure out how to stash the juice from a wind plant, much less a lightning bolt. Then there is the issue of the bolt frying parts of your plant.
I had a similar experience. There is a relatively new coal fire plant outside of town (it has scrubbers, they say). During a hurricane, the company that maintains the local grid cut it off for the region. Despite the fact that the plant could easily power the city and surrounding counties, they could not because the grid was down. Result? They lost power, too. They say it was kind of odd being in a power plant where the lights where out.
Do you have proof of the low turnout or are you just speculating. I speculate if the media screwed up and declared the guy I didn't like the winner with the polls still oepn, if I hadn't voted yet, I'd carry myself to the voting booth with a fire under my ass.
However, there is the little problem of equal protection under the law. The law enforcement isn't supposed to enforce a law on one group of people and then let another doing the same thing or worse slide because of some trivial exception. IE: Race, religion, sex, etc. In this case it's political.
Difference: Bush said he would do something about it. I don't recall anything actually seriously being done other than Martha. How many years did it take for Ken Lay to even be indicted? Hell, Cheney himself has a few of these lawsuits barking up his tree internationally. I'll give you 2 guesses why he hasn't been charged yet.
As for Mr. Bush, he himself made his money via creative business manuvers. So much so he himself was investigated by the SEC. You get a cookie if you can figure out why the investigation was stopped cold. These guys aren't really any exception to the other polititians in Washington. Heck, Greg Palast points out in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" the Republicans got ahold of some real information for potential corruption charges against Clinton based on some shady business dealings with one of the big energy companies. Why didn't they go for the jugular? Well, the Repulicans aparently had their hands in the cookie jar as well and chose not to rock the gravy boat.
I'm just pointing out that doing anything beyond words is against thier best interests.
"OK.... We now have the Food and Drug Administration in charge of computer security?"
Yep, and now senior citizens can't buy cheaper windows and office licensces from Canada and other foreign countries. In addition, developement of generic OS and Office suites in the US is now effectively forbidden.
Ummm...loser pays won't work as soon as a corporation figures out that people will settle rather than risk having to pay 8 million in "lawyer fees" for a $150,000 infringment suit. Joe Blow and his $2000 local yolkal hometown lawyer are at a [sarcasm]slight[/sarcasm] disadvantage to Omni-sphinter Corp. with their 250 lawyers inhouse no matter what the evidence is. Then there are the little twists like bribes, "political donations," and little *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* agreements to worry about.
What modem do you have? Some software modems (aka winmodems) are recognized, but given a non-standard serial port name in/dev. Couple that with pppd frontend clients that are too stupid to look for them...
A little nosing through your/dev and the configs for your pppd frontend should get it working.
Cryobacteria. (Surprisingly there isn't much on the net on this)
Bacteria that can survive under extreme cold. If I remember correctly, some Cyanobacteria (bacteria with chlorophyll) made a living under a few inches of water ice near the polls of this planet.
Any preliminaries on the temperature of that ice on Titan? You can also add chemicals to water to keep it liquid (a la natural antifreeze some antarctic species use.)
Another thing to consider is volcanics. If Titan has Volcanic activity for whatever reason there may be life there similar to the chemical based life at the deep see vents on this planet.
For the record, they did find a shell of sarin and one of mustard. Pre-'91 if I remember correctly. The sarin one accidently went off in the faces of the troops disarming it and they didn't die (the article wasn't specific enough to say if they where hospitalized or not). Oh, and mustard gas has a maximum shelf life of about 13 years, I think. (AKA I can't find the link to the CDC info that gives the amount of time.)
It might be just me, but that doesn't seem to count as "mass destruction." But, it does give the administration's apologists (*cough* foxnews *cough*) something to screem at the rest of us about.
"If there is a convincing case to be made that Osama is not as estranged from the rest of the bin Ladens as they claim, then the entire picture Moore was trying to paint becomes clear, and the monstrosity meter is pegged. That, for me, is the argument Moore failed to make sufficiently well."
Well, I can point out that Osama isn't just the black sheep of the family. I suggest you look into WAMY, headed by 2 of Osama's relatives. For years they have been considered a terrorist or terrorist sponcering organization, except by the US. They where recently raided by the FBI, and you guessed it: Evidence found indicates they have "ties" to terrorist organizations.
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That's not my point. My point was the performance increase 64-bit processing gives was not enough to justify the increased cost of that chip. As another poster in this thread points out, if you have to use 64 bit processing for whatever reason, Sun's Sparq chips where even better. Then AMD released their 64bit CPU lines...
"Intel and HP developed the processor about 10 years, but the chip has been a flop due to delays, cost overruns and lackluster demand."
Maybe it's just me, but I thought it was because it cost $900 for a CPU that did about a much as a 1-2 Ghz 32-bit processor.
You forgot "-> spyware program silently reinstalls itself on next boot"
If memory servs me correctly, the human stomach has a neural net about as complex as the one in a jelly fish.
Perhaps I should have said significant? If I remember to get a half carat diamond faceted for cheap in the US, it's something like $150? Looks about right judging from this site.
You can get 1 carat certified G-white diamond round brilliant I1 for $430. It would cost $125 to get that faceted in the US. I'd say that's significant.
To get a stone faceted on a machine, it's about $45 to $90 per carat stone (depends on the stone's charactoristics and the cut complexity usually) in the US.
...and enough with the nanotube ring jokes. That's not what I'm talking about.
You see, nowadays, when you want to facet a gemstone into the shapes most people have come to expect in jewelry, one has to use abrasives to put the faces in the stone. Usually Silicon Carbide grit (9.5 hardness, usually for softer stones) or diamond (10 hardness, for harder stuff) on a spinning disk to grind into the stone. But this doesn't work for all gemstones, notably diamond. Trying to facet a diamond with diamond grit on a lap (the disk) will just cut gouges into your lap. They are not cheap.
So diamonds still have to be done the hard way: roughly shaping the stone by cleaving, then using 2 diamonds, one of poor quality, to rub the faces into the good diamond. If this stuff can be synthesized in different grits (particle sizes) for fairly cheap, then it can be used to facet diamonds with machinery rather than by hand. Much of a diamonds (and most other stones) value is actually from the labor put into faceting it. This is especially so for smaller stones. How cheap? Well, currently lapidaries are paying for synthetic diamond grit...
...or you could have norton which stupidly and automatically deletes the file the vbs is in and pops up a window saying repair successful. AKA your inbox.
Other possible projects:
Gstring - an advanced C++ library that not only includes an inovative version of the string datatype, but has lightning fast, built in parsing and search commands.
Gspot - a new and less expensive alternative to Starbucks coffee shops.
I went to a job interview recently for a sysadmin position at a state prison. One guy at the interview was a Sysadmin for the entire state system. After the interview, I began asking questions to get an idea about the facility and what my "real" responcibilities would be. Turns out, the guy designed the statewide system specifically opted to use only one firewall at the gateway to the backbone provider for the entire state system. When probed, he said if I really needed to I could cut the connection at the facilities router, but that was it. Oh, and every system was running Norton so everything was OK.
I was sitting there thinking, "What the bloody fsck happens when one of the internal machines gets infected with a new email virus that can spread over a lan through some exploit? If it's new there is a very good chance Norton won't stop shit until it's too late? How am I supposed to protect this place if another facility on the network gets hosed, starts to spread, and all I can do is pull the plug, which might get me fired?"
Needless to say, I didn't get the job after staring at him like he was a fscking idiot. Goddamn, at least get a router with IP and port blocking and give me permission to config it. The ability to kill drops on the internal switches would be nice, too...
"You could just collect the static charge that wind generates (that's where lightning gets its energy)."
Somehow, I doubt this would be feasable. Take a thunderstorm that is about 10 miles high, 10 miles wide, and 20 miles long. That's 2000 cubic miles of wind dynamics that generate that static. Now a lightning catcher might work, if you can figure out how to store the electricity generated. And if we can't figure out how to stash the juice from a wind plant, much less a lightning bolt. Then there is the issue of the bolt frying parts of your plant.
I dunno about your second idea.
I had a similar experience. There is a relatively new coal fire plant outside of town (it has scrubbers, they say). During a hurricane, the company that maintains the local grid cut it off for the region. Despite the fact that the plant could easily power the city and surrounding counties, they could not because the grid was down. Result? They lost power, too. They say it was kind of odd being in a power plant where the lights where out.
"The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire."
Yeah, 'cause we all know forests just spontainously explode like a bomb. Oh, and trees just cause pollution, good riddance.
Do you have proof of the low turnout or are you just speculating. I speculate if the media screwed up and declared the guy I didn't like the winner with the polls still oepn, if I hadn't voted yet, I'd carry myself to the voting booth with a fire under my ass.
I couldn't read the patent, your honor. Or the S&D order... Or the summons... Or the directions to the courthouse...
However, there is the little problem of equal protection under the law. The law enforcement isn't supposed to enforce a law on one group of people and then let another doing the same thing or worse slide because of some trivial exception. IE: Race, religion, sex, etc. In this case it's political.
Yeah, yeah, welcome to the real world, etc...
I'd rather try to outsource the polititians. You'd see some real effort to protect the labor force then.
Not to mention the PHB in charge would probably sick the lawyers on you for "hacking" his website.
Difference: Bush said he would do something about it. I don't recall anything actually seriously being done other than Martha. How many years did it take for Ken Lay to even be indicted? Hell, Cheney himself has a few of these lawsuits barking up his tree internationally. I'll give you 2 guesses why he hasn't been charged yet.
As for Mr. Bush, he himself made his money via creative business manuvers. So much so he himself was investigated by the SEC. You get a cookie if you can figure out why the investigation was stopped cold. These guys aren't really any exception to the other polititians in Washington. Heck, Greg Palast points out in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" the Republicans got ahold of some real information for potential corruption charges against Clinton based on some shady business dealings with one of the big energy companies. Why didn't they go for the jugular? Well, the Repulicans aparently had their hands in the cookie jar as well and chose not to rock the gravy boat.
I'm just pointing out that doing anything beyond words is against thier best interests.
"OK.... We now have the Food and Drug Administration in charge of computer security?"
Yep, and now senior citizens can't buy cheaper windows and office licensces from Canada and other foreign countries. In addition, developement of generic OS and Office suites in the US is now effectively forbidden.
Ummm...loser pays won't work as soon as a corporation figures out that people will settle rather than risk having to pay 8 million in "lawyer fees" for a $150,000 infringment suit. Joe Blow and his $2000 local yolkal hometown lawyer are at a [sarcasm]slight[/sarcasm] disadvantage to Omni-sphinter Corp. with their 250 lawyers inhouse no matter what the evidence is. Then there are the little twists like bribes, "political donations," and little *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* agreements to worry about.
"Ahem...unless you're rich. :-)" ...and you aren't pissing off someone richer than you.
What modem do you have? Some software modems (aka winmodems) are recognized, but given a non-standard serial port name in /dev. Couple that with pppd frontend clients that are too stupid to look for them...
/dev and the configs for your pppd frontend should get it working.
A little nosing through your
Cryobacteria. (Surprisingly there isn't much on the net on this)
Bacteria that can survive under extreme cold. If I remember correctly, some Cyanobacteria (bacteria with chlorophyll) made a living under a few inches of water ice near the polls of this planet.
Any preliminaries on the temperature of that ice on Titan? You can also add chemicals to water to keep it liquid (a la natural antifreeze some antarctic species use.)
Another thing to consider is volcanics. If Titan has Volcanic activity for whatever reason there may be life there similar to the chemical based life at the deep see vents on this planet.
Just a few ideas...
For the record, they did find a shell of sarin and one of mustard. Pre-'91 if I remember correctly. The sarin one accidently went off in the faces of the troops disarming it and they didn't die (the article wasn't specific enough to say if they where hospitalized or not). Oh, and mustard gas has a maximum shelf life of about 13 years, I think. (AKA I can't find the link to the CDC info that gives the amount of time.)
It might be just me, but that doesn't seem to count as "mass destruction." But, it does give the administration's apologists (*cough* foxnews *cough*) something to screem at the rest of us about.
"If there is a convincing case to be made that Osama is not as estranged from the rest of the bin Ladens as they claim, then the entire picture Moore was trying to paint becomes clear, and the monstrosity meter is pegged. That, for me, is the argument Moore failed to make sufficiently well."
Well, I can point out that Osama isn't just the black sheep of the family. I suggest you look into WAMY, headed by 2 of Osama's relatives. For years they have been considered a terrorist or terrorist sponcering organization, except by the US. They where recently raided by the FBI, and you guessed it: Evidence found indicates they have "ties" to terrorist organizations.
WAMY story broken... in England. (November 2001)
WAMY raided by FBI, terrorist ties found.
"Also, terrorism expert Jean-Charles Brisard implicated WAMY as an al-Qaeda financier in a 2002 report to the United Nations." (page 2)
Just a bit of info to chew on.