An awful lot of "ifs" in your conclusions regarding the comparative crime rates between Australia & the US. I will note that you still have a lot of room to make up in the murder rate.
Perhaps the declining rate of crime in the US is due to the declining rate of gun ownership - see
You have a situation where a declining number of ammosexuals are stocking up on guns, driven by fear & paranoia that someone is coming to take them away. The rest of us just shake our heads & back away.
And yet the US continues to have an absolute murder rate 4 times higher than that of Australia. The only reason its murder rate has dropped more is because it was far higher to begin with! Logic fail indeed.
Of course, if you have a handgun in the house, you're twice as likely to die of homicide, and 11 times more likely to do from suicide. So you're increasing your own risk....
Murder/manslaughter is the one crime it's difficult to recover from being a victim of, so it seems to be a fair enough trade off, if the lack of guns makes what would've been a murder into an assault.
The US murder rate is still 4 times greater than that of Australia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... ) so clearly being awash with guns is not doing anything to reduce crime.
Changing a user's session to that? That's just cruel. I used CDE for a while on Sun workstations back in the late 90s, but ended up using fvwm on Linux, Gnome 2, KDE, icewm and now I'm an xfce bigot.
Open Motif was opensourced quite a while ago, you find it as libmotif4 and mwm in most distros. CDE was opensourced last year - the sourceforge page is http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Well, I sat down & listened to the talk (which apparently a lot of commentors did not) and sex was really only peripheral to the whole thing. It was more about the state of mind that people in the hacking community have, and the stresses and dangers that it has as a result. It spoke about mitigating some of that damage.
I have one of these - 5 inch e-ink screen, with the supplied firmware replaced with the OpenInkPort (http://openinkpot.org) stuff. Works well. Reads just about every ebook format there is. All the source code is open and can be compiled by yourself using a the cross-platfor environment IPLinux. You can even ssh into it from the USB connection (no wireless). I have over 2000 books and short stories loaded into a 2GB SDHC card that came with it.
I also have a Merlin HYGE0109B, with a 6 inch screen, but that's still running proprietary firmware, which only supports TXT and PDF. It gets a bit flakey when you have more than 64 books loaded. There is an OpenInkPort port in progress to this device, which is not complete yet.
Both these devices can be managed by the Calibre ebook manager, which runs under Linux, OSX and Windows (and there's also a port to FreeBSD, and possibly others)
The wireless access and ability to buy DRM'd books from one book store are not things I'm particularly interested in. I am aware that there are cracks for DRM'd epub books from B&N, as well as those using the Adobe DRM, but still, there's a bunch of classics out there, as well as independent publishers such as Baen. Visit Gutenberg.org, Feedbooks, to mention a few, and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I intend purchasing a unit with a 10 inch screen when they become more available at the end of this year, so I'm able to view PDFs without having to zoom in. This is a good size for textbooks and other puiblications utilising diagrams.
State Department employees who are Communists!" Sheesh, talk about fear-mongering. They should list where the patents are infringed, and let things get sorted out. Jackals.
You obviously don't understand routing. In order to have IP address portability like you want, all of the core routers on the internet would have to have an entry for each and every discreet IP address on the internet... 4 Billion+ addresses, lets say 16 bytes each, that's 64 GIGAbytes of RAM, just for the routing table!
Not to mention those addresses that are loud, obnoxious and well - indiscreet! ITYM discrete.
I have one of the Linux pcHDTV cards, and am fairly happy with it. Using the latest version of the software, it works OK on the three stations I can pick up (being in a bad reception area). They're KHOU (CBS), TBN (Urrk!) and UPN. CBS does its movies and some programs (such as CSI) in HiDef, whereas TBN is just plain DTV and UPN has funny blue borders around its 16:9 signal, making the actual program area 4:3.
Xine (pcHDTV's custom version 0.7) is a little flaky, occasionally wedging or segfaulting, but I think that's Xine's fault. I'm running this under RH9 with ALSA drivers so I can reliably use the SPDIF on my nForce MB. I'm using an FX5200 for thr graphics, with the output going to a InFocus X1 projector, with a virtual resolution of 1024x768 scaled by the projector to 800x600. It looks stunning on a projection screen (84" diagonal).
The sound is picked up as Dolby Digital by my home theatre amp, but isn't the full 5.1. I think that's dependent on the station, although I haven't checked the DTV code. Xine is set up to do the AC3 passthrough.
As always, these things will have to be fed data at a high rate in order to be completely utilised. I don't see current PC memory subsystems being able to do it, and as for a PCMCIA card, well forget it! You'll probably only ever see a tiny fraction of their claimed performance.
Not trying to nitpick, but how many truly positive monumental advances in the human condition were made by a government entity? Mass production? The Industrial Revolution? The cure for Polio?
You can get a mainframe emualtor (IBM 370 series here http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ They also have links to versions of various IBM OS's that you can download. Enjoy!
While Nvidia's OpenGL is pretty good, there are a few obscure corners used by our seismic applications that they don't seem to support. In particular, the facility to use colour indexed textures is not supported in their current driver. It was supported in the earlier drivers, but there's not support for the later cards and a bunch of other bugs to cope with as well. It just means 4 times the texture usage or using vertex programs for the same effect, but not all high end hardware appears to support the vertex stuff. From what we can tell ATI has their own set of problems. Sigh.
In the recent US/Australia exercises, the Collins class subs got close enough to US warships a number of times to be able to score a kill without being detected. Much of the hooha about their noise is disinformation.
I can only agree with this. I've been using Totalview on a number of platforms, Linux, AIX, Solaris & SGI boxes. It's quite decent, and understands MPI & PVM as well, which is highly useful for the sorts of stuff I'm doing. Get hold of it - its user interface isn't too bad either.
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An awful lot of "ifs" in your conclusions regarding the comparative crime rates between Australia & the US. I will note that you still have a lot of room to make up in the murder rate.
Perhaps the declining rate of crime in the US is due to the declining rate of gun ownership - see
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03...
You have a situation where a declining number of ammosexuals are stocking up on guns, driven by fear & paranoia that someone is coming to take them away. The rest of us just shake our heads & back away.
And yet the US continues to have an absolute murder rate 4 times higher than that of Australia. The only reason its murder rate has dropped more is because it was far higher to begin with! Logic fail indeed.
Of course, if you have a handgun in the house, you're twice as likely to die of homicide, and 11 times more likely to do from suicide. So you're increasing your own risk....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01...
Murder/manslaughter is the one crime it's difficult to recover from being a victim of, so it seems to be a fair enough trade off, if the lack of guns makes what would've been a murder into an assault.
The US murder rate is still 4 times greater than that of Australia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... ) so clearly being awash with guns is not doing anything to reduce crime.
Are the cocaine suppositories bitter before or after you use them? Enquiring minds....
The signups have been tracked by one guy - current total is some 9m. Check out http://acasignups.net/
After the startup glitches (your HuffPo link was from last year, and is well out of date) the site seems to be functioning OK.
Bringing hearing to millions!
Incorrect - the world has continued to warm. You need to update your knowledge, please see http://www.skepticalscience.co...
It'd help you to wander around that site - they're on top of recent developments and watch new papers as they come out.
In his case, when you look at the link, he's still wrong on a lot of areas. Dig around a bit more.
That would be the Richard Lindzen who has been consistently wrong about Global Warming?
http://www.skepticalscience.co...
Another link to back up the idea of increasing the mininum wage - http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/5601
I have a bunch of CDs that I've ordered, and the arrival rate is rather spotty over here in Oz....
Changing a user's session to that? That's just cruel. I used CDE for a while on Sun workstations back in the late 90s, but ended up using fvwm on Linux, Gnome 2, KDE, icewm and now I'm an xfce bigot.
Open Motif was opensourced quite a while ago, you find it as libmotif4 and mwm in most distros. CDE was opensourced last year - the sourceforge page is http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Well, I sat down & listened to the talk (which apparently a lot of commentors did not) and sex was really only peripheral to the whole thing. It was more about the state of mind that people in the hacking community have, and the stresses and dangers that it has as a result. It spoke about mitigating some of that damage.
Nope, not quite correct - all it takes is a belief that the end justifies the means. That way is the root of much evil.
I have one of these - 5 inch e-ink screen, with the supplied firmware replaced with the OpenInkPort (http://openinkpot.org) stuff. Works well. Reads just about every ebook format there is. All the source code is open and can be compiled by yourself using a the cross-platfor environment IPLinux. You can even ssh into it from the USB connection (no wireless). I have over 2000 books and short stories loaded into a 2GB SDHC card that came with it.
I also have a Merlin HYGE0109B, with a 6 inch screen, but that's still running proprietary firmware, which only supports TXT and PDF. It gets a bit flakey when you have more than 64 books loaded. There is an OpenInkPort port in progress to this device, which is not complete yet.
Both these devices can be managed by the Calibre ebook manager, which runs under Linux, OSX and Windows (and there's also a port to FreeBSD, and possibly others)
The wireless access and ability to buy DRM'd books from one book store are not things I'm particularly interested in. I am aware that there are cracks for DRM'd epub books from B&N, as well as those using the Adobe DRM, but still, there's a bunch of classics out there, as well as independent publishers such as Baen. Visit Gutenberg.org, Feedbooks, to mention a few, and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I intend purchasing a unit with a 10 inch screen when they become more available at the end of this year, so I'm able to view PDFs without having to zoom in. This is a good size for textbooks and other puiblications utilising diagrams.
State Department employees who are Communists!" Sheesh, talk about fear-mongering. They should list where the patents are infringed, and let things get sorted out. Jackals.
You obviously don't understand routing. In order to have IP address portability like you want, all of the core routers on the internet would have to have an entry for each and every discreet IP address on the internet... 4 Billion+ addresses, lets say 16 bytes each, that's 64 GIGAbytes of RAM, just for the routing table!
Not to mention those addresses that are loud, obnoxious and well - indiscreet! ITYM discrete.
I have one of the Linux pcHDTV cards, and am fairly happy with it. Using the latest version of the software, it works OK on the three stations I can pick up (being in a bad reception area). They're KHOU (CBS), TBN (Urrk!) and UPN. CBS does its movies and some programs (such as CSI) in HiDef, whereas TBN is just plain DTV and UPN has funny blue borders around its 16:9 signal, making the actual program area 4:3.
Xine (pcHDTV's custom version 0.7) is a little flaky, occasionally wedging or segfaulting, but I think that's Xine's fault. I'm running this under RH9 with ALSA drivers so I can reliably use the SPDIF on my nForce MB. I'm using an FX5200 for thr graphics, with the output going to a InFocus X1 projector, with a virtual resolution of 1024x768 scaled by the projector to 800x600. It looks stunning on a projection screen (84" diagonal).
The sound is picked up as Dolby Digital by my home theatre amp, but isn't the full 5.1. I think that's dependent on the station, although I haven't checked the DTV code. Xine is set up to do the AC3 passthrough.
As always, these things will have to be fed data at a high rate in order to be completely utilised. I don't see current PC memory subsystems being able to do it, and as for a PCMCIA card, well forget it!
You'll probably only ever see a tiny fraction of their claimed performance.
Not trying to nitpick, but how many truly positive monumental advances in the human condition were made by a government entity? Mass production? The Industrial Revolution? The cure for Polio?
....
Well, the Internet (via DARPA) for one
You can get a mainframe emualtor (IBM 370 series here http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ They also have links to versions of various IBM OS's that you can download. Enjoy!
While Nvidia's OpenGL is pretty good, there are a few obscure corners used by our seismic applications that they don't seem to support. In particular, the facility to use colour indexed textures is not supported in their current driver. It was supported in the earlier drivers, but there's not support for the later cards and a bunch of other bugs to cope with as well. It just means 4 times the texture usage or using vertex programs for the same effect, but not all high end hardware appears to support the vertex stuff. From what we can tell ATI has their own set of problems. Sigh.
In the recent US/Australia exercises, the Collins class subs got close enough to US warships a number of times to be able to score a kill without being detected. Much of the hooha about their noise is disinformation.
I can only agree with this. I've been using Totalview on a number of platforms, Linux, AIX, Solaris & SGI boxes. It's quite decent, and understands MPI & PVM as well, which is highly useful for the sorts of stuff I'm doing. Get hold of it - its user interface isn't too bad either.