First, Microsoft holds no actual power (the ability to initiate force as a means to an end). Only government holds actual power. What Microsoft holds is market presence. Government may initiate force on behalf of Microsoft, but if Microsoft initiates force without the "blessing" of government, they are criminals.
Sure. If you redefine all your terms to coincide with your belifis, you can prove anything. However, most definitions of power don't say anything about the government. In fact, there are 16 diffrent definitions. Microsoft can certanly influence others, it can act effectively, etc.
Ah sure, they should just build two of them. Two for the price of one it sure would not be of course! But the E.U. and U.S. won't be good at sharing one. It's like kids - the only way to keep them happy is make sure they all get the same.
Heh, reminds me of a line from the movie Contact. "Why buy one, when you can have two at twice the price?"
Yes, there are bad chemicals in the world. But there are worse chemicals in worse configurations all over the planet. Just look at Borpal india. No nuclear reactions were going on, but 3000 people died. A lot of human industry is very dangerous, and Nuclear stuff isn't any worse then lots of other things, just more 'scary'.
Yeah, but all it would take is one meltdown and we suddenly have a disaster a few orders of magnitude larger than 9/11.
9/11 deaths: 3,000.
Chernobyl deaths: 44.
And the destruction of the WTC left toxic material around in the most densely populated location on earth. A simple melt down in an unpopulated location would be much less harmful then 9/11.
the moon has been retating around the earth for millions and millions and millions (billions?) of years. the only way that is possible is that the mass of the moon is in perfect balance with the distance it is from the earth and velocity that it is moving. if this was not perfect, it would have either floated away, or crashed into the earth years ago.
You absolutely do not know what you're talking about. Please, for the sake of humanity just shut up.
The reason the moon is moving away from the earth is because fo tidal drag slowing it down. The slower it gets, the larger the orbit needs to be. It dosn't matter how much something weighs, or how fast it's moving or whatever. It will always find some orbit. Some of the 'orbits' will take it so far out fo the gravitational well that they will be more affected by other things before completing them, and some orbits will have the thing crash into the earth, but there are plenty of stable orbits.
What the parent comment (and mine) were pointing out was that it wasn't what the article summary said. We're pointing out the humor that it said that the REACTOR (not reaction) would take produce more energy than it takes in. He-3 being part of the energy that is taken in, of course.
Yes, but that was obviously implied to anyone who knows anything about physics. you're pedantry is pointless and obtuse.
Do you bitch when people say "I ran to the store" when actualy, they drove?
Generally when we say energy is produced, we are talking about energy that can actually be used, as opposed to waste heat. Current Fusion reactors extract only a tiny amount of energy from the atoms, while at the same time creating tons of heat. Therefore, they produce much less energy then they take in, even without counting the energy in the atoms.
What we are talking about, is getting a reactor that output more total energy then the amount of not nuclear energy that's put in. In other words, if there may be more then 1000 times as much energy as a point of coal, but it doesn't matter if you need to burn 2000 pounds of coal to get enough energy to actual extract that energy. Or in the case with modern fusion reactors, a million tons of coal. Keep in mind that a lot of the energy will be useless heat after the reaction.
Given that most elevators are giant metal boxes, it probably won't be much of an issue.
But yeah. I can understand not wanting to hear someone in a library, or a movie theater. But an elevator? Would the above poster be upset about two people having a conversation in one?
The vast majority of SUVs go to people who will never take them off road, or drive through foot-thick snow. You think people drive Cadillac Escalades with 20" chrome rims are rugged outdoorsmen?
Also, most SUVs are front wheel drive, not 4wd. And you can get 4wd cars as well, such as the most Audis, the Mitsubishi Lancer, etc.
Intrestingly, I usualy use my cell phone as an alarm clock when I need to. But the thing is, I haven't needed to in years. I noticed I was already awake when the alarm went off pretty much all the time, so I just gave up on it. Since then, I've never overslept.
And what about Nuclear weapons? The machine gun? Bio-weapons? VX-gas? Surely there have been greater technological catastrophies then people yacking in the theater
Well, he's wrong. If they used hashing, then people would only have to change a few bytes of the files to get around the filter. In audio and video, this could be done without any notice at all. And it would require people to have a huge hash database on their computer. Tens of Megabytes at least, if not hundreds. It would make performance really slow.
So, watermarking? Well, so far all watermarks that have been tried have been broken, and it would be much easier to figure out how the watermark worked if you had a binary file sitting on your computer that checked it. Just disassemble to find out how it's checked (and once one person does, this everyone will be able to). Plus, you could always just zip+password any file anyway, to prevent watermark checking.
Of course, that doesn't mean they wouldn't try to include this stuff, but why would anyone ever download something so restrictive in the first place?
import java.io.*; public class Cvsr{ public static void main(String args[]){ File f = new File(args[0]);//first command line arg is initial folder recurse(f,args[1]);}//second command line arg is the new root static void recurse(File f, String root){ if(f == null){return;} for(int i = 0; i < f.listFiles().length; i++){ if(f.getName().equals("CVS")){ OutputStreamWriter os = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(f.getAbsolutePath() + "/Root")); try{ os.write(root); os.close(); } catch(Exception e){ System.out.println("error writing file " + f.getName() + "/Root"); } } else{recurse(f,root);}}}}
//wow. 16 whole lines. 3 from error checking, and 3 from the original import and class defs. Yes, java requires you to deal with errors. The horror. And I don't really see how putting everything inside one class is any different from having a bunch of variables at global scope. It's hardly 'forced object orientation'
Fortunetly they have been kept in check by our constitution, and the fact that we live in a democrazy where the majority are not religious zelots. They cant impose their will willy-nilly as they can in Saudi Arabia.
Libertarian? I don't think so. Most Slashdot commenters these days seem to be avowed members of the antiamerican, antisemitic, antiwar left (and rather shrill ones at that). If you don't believe me, try arguing that maybe, just maybe, deposing a brutal dictator that has been steadily murdering his own people for decades (and who, by the way, was a Soviet client long before he recieved any American support) wasn't such a bad idea after all. Or pointing out that Clinton himself was convinced up to the very end that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
So, Clinton is the archetypal libertarian now? That's news to me.
When I say "libertarian" i mean "the government stays out of peoples lives as much as possible" not "The government lies about WMD to launch a war of conquest costing billions of dollars and hundreds of American lives." or "Agrees with ESR". How exactly is going to war in iraq furthering the goals of Individual liberty in america?
There is nothing wrong with this IMHO. They can live in whatever way that they want, as long as they dont try and make me live like them in my own country. In this way, we can have peace forever, and everyone can follow whatever life they want.
You're wrong. There is something wrong with the way they treat women, and people in general. We should be respectful of other cultures, but at the same time you need to realize that some things are simply wrong.
Hmmm. Pizza and burgers or snails and haggis. Point, USA.
yeah, hamburgers definetly don't come from Hamburg, Germany. Frenchfries definetly don't come from france, or belgeum for that matter. And pizza definitely didn't come from italy. No way.
Pretty ugly you mean. I can't even tell a German woman from a man without a full physical. Same for a French woman and a gorilla. Dudes, get your bitches to shave their damn pits. Savages.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Most of the European girls around here (ISU campus) are pretty friggen hot, especially compared to the corn-fed Iowa women who mostly populate the state. I'm sorry, but American women are fat no getting around that fact.
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The "Dem" tech guy is actualy in the pocket of the republicans...
Where are the WMD?
Hey man, there were weapons of mass destruction related program activities!
First, Microsoft holds no actual power (the ability to initiate force as a means to an end). Only government holds actual power. What Microsoft holds is market presence. Government may initiate force on behalf of Microsoft, but if Microsoft initiates force without the "blessing" of government, they are criminals.
Sure. If you redefine all your terms to coincide with your belifis, you can prove anything. However, most definitions of power don't say anything about the government. In fact, there are 16 diffrent definitions. Microsoft can certanly influence others, it can act effectively, etc.
Ah sure, they should just build two of them. Two for the price of one it sure would not be of course! But the E.U. and U.S. won't be good at sharing one. It's like kids - the only way to keep them happy is make sure they all get the same.
Heh, reminds me of a line from the movie Contact. "Why buy one, when you can have two at twice the price?"
Yes, there are bad chemicals in the world. But there are worse chemicals in worse configurations all over the planet. Just look at Borpal india. No nuclear reactions were going on, but 3000 people died. A lot of human industry is very dangerous, and Nuclear stuff isn't any worse then lots of other things, just more 'scary'.
2. Use a computer model. This is why Saddam wanted Playstations.
Please. That's why playstations were not allowed to be imported under the embargo, but that's not why he wanted them.
Yeah, but all it would take is one meltdown and we suddenly have a disaster a few orders of magnitude larger than 9/11.
9/11 deaths: 3,000.
Chernobyl deaths: 44.
And the destruction of the WTC left toxic material around in the most densely populated location on earth. A simple melt down in an unpopulated location would be much less harmful then 9/11.
the moon has been retating around the earth for millions and millions and millions (billions?) of years. the only way that is possible is that the mass of the moon is in perfect balance with the distance it is from the earth and velocity that it is moving. if this was not perfect, it would have either floated away, or crashed into the earth years ago.
You absolutely do not know what you're talking about. Please, for the sake of humanity just shut up.
The reason the moon is moving away from the earth is because fo tidal drag slowing it down. The slower it gets, the larger the orbit needs to be. It dosn't matter how much something weighs, or how fast it's moving or whatever. It will always find some orbit. Some of the 'orbits' will take it so far out fo the gravitational well that they will be more affected by other things before completing them, and some orbits will have the thing crash into the earth, but there are plenty of stable orbits.
What the parent comment (and mine) were pointing out was that it wasn't what the article summary said. We're pointing out the humor that it said that the REACTOR (not reaction) would take produce more energy than it takes in. He-3 being part of the energy that is taken in, of course.
Yes, but that was obviously implied to anyone who knows anything about physics. you're pedantry is pointless and obtuse.
Do you bitch when people say "I ran to the store" when actualy, they drove?
Generally when we say energy is produced, we are talking about energy that can actually be used, as opposed to waste heat. Current Fusion reactors extract only a tiny amount of energy from the atoms, while at the same time creating tons of heat. Therefore, they produce much less energy then they take in, even without counting the energy in the atoms.
What we are talking about, is getting a reactor that output more total energy then the amount of not nuclear energy that's put in. In other words, if there may be more then 1000 times as much energy as a point of coal, but it doesn't matter if you need to burn 2000 pounds of coal to get enough energy to actual extract that energy. Or in the case with modern fusion reactors, a million tons of coal. Keep in mind that a lot of the energy will be useless heat after the reaction.
You don't think it'll still be expensive after being shipped in from the MOON
This is just weird. Is this the next Virtual Boy? Will it fit in a pocket? I guess we'll get to see.
Private companies can prosicute for fraud now? Is this new?
Given that most elevators are giant metal boxes, it probably won't be much of an issue.
But yeah. I can understand not wanting to hear someone in a library, or a movie theater. But an elevator? Would the above poster be upset about two people having a conversation in one?
The vast majority of SUVs go to people who will never take them off road, or drive through foot-thick snow. You think people drive Cadillac Escalades with 20" chrome rims are rugged outdoorsmen?
Also, most SUVs are front wheel drive, not 4wd. And you can get 4wd cars as well, such as the most Audis, the Mitsubishi Lancer, etc.
You can get a hydrolic pump jack for like $20/$30 that won't require much strength.
Intrestingly, I usualy use my cell phone as an alarm clock when I need to. But the thing is, I haven't needed to in years. I noticed I was already awake when the alarm went off pretty much all the time, so I just gave up on it. Since then, I've never overslept.
Getting out of bed, on the other hand...
Dosn't SPAM count as an invention?
And what about Nuclear weapons? The machine gun? Bio-weapons? VX-gas? Surely there have been greater technological catastrophies then people yacking in the theater
Well, he's wrong. If they used hashing, then people would only have to change a few bytes of the files to get around the filter. In audio and video, this could be done without any notice at all. And it would require people to have a huge hash database on their computer. Tens of Megabytes at least, if not hundreds. It would make performance really slow.
So, watermarking? Well, so far all watermarks that have been tried have been broken, and it would be much easier to figure out how the watermark worked if you had a binary file sitting on your computer that checked it. Just disassemble to find out how it's checked (and once one person does, this everyone will be able to). Plus, you could always just zip+password any file anyway, to prevent watermark checking.
Of course, that doesn't mean they wouldn't try to include this stuff, but why would anyone ever download something so restrictive in the first place?
import java.io.*; //first command line arg is initial folder //second command line arg is the new root
public class Cvsr{
public static void main(String args[]){
File f = new File(args[0]);
recurse(f,args[1]);}
static void recurse(File f, String root){
if(f == null){return;}
for(int i = 0; i < f.listFiles().length; i++){
if(f.getName().equals("CVS")){
OutputStreamWriter os = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(f.getAbsolutePath() + "/Root"));
try{
os.write(root);
os.close(); }
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("error writing file " + f.getName() + "/Root"); } }
else{recurse(f,root);}}}}
//wow. 16 whole lines. 3 from error checking, and 3 from the original import and class defs. Yes, java requires you to deal with errors. The horror. And I don't really see how putting everything inside one class is any different from having a bunch of variables at global scope. It's hardly 'forced object orientation'
Fortunetly they have been kept in check by our constitution, and the fact that we live in a democrazy where the majority are not religious zelots. They cant impose their will willy-nilly as they can in Saudi Arabia.
Libertarian? I don't think so. Most Slashdot commenters these days seem to be avowed members of the antiamerican, antisemitic, antiwar left (and rather shrill ones at that). If you don't believe me, try arguing that maybe, just maybe, deposing a brutal dictator that has been steadily murdering his own people for decades (and who, by the way, was a Soviet client long before he recieved any American support) wasn't such a bad idea after all. Or pointing out that Clinton himself was convinced up to the very end that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
So, Clinton is the archetypal libertarian now? That's news to me.
When I say "libertarian" i mean "the government stays out of peoples lives as much as possible" not "The government lies about WMD to launch a war of conquest costing billions of dollars and hundreds of American lives." or "Agrees with ESR". How exactly is going to war in iraq furthering the goals of Individual liberty in america?
There is nothing wrong with this IMHO. They can live in whatever way that they want, as long as they dont try and make me live like them in my own country. In this way, we can have peace forever, and everyone can follow whatever life they want.
You're wrong. There is something wrong with the way they treat women, and people in general. We should be respectful of other cultures, but at the same time you need to realize that some things are simply wrong.
Hmmm. Pizza and burgers or snails and haggis. Point, USA.
yeah, hamburgers definetly don't come from Hamburg, Germany. Frenchfries definetly don't come from france, or belgeum for that matter. And pizza definitely didn't come from italy. No way.
Pretty ugly you mean. I can't even tell a German woman from a man without a full physical. Same for a French woman and a gorilla. Dudes, get your bitches to shave their damn pits. Savages.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Most of the European girls around here (ISU campus) are pretty friggen hot, especially compared to the corn-fed Iowa women who mostly populate the state. I'm sorry, but American women are fat no getting around that fact.