I credit my grandfather with my dim view of so called society.
He was one of the most brilliant men I ever personally knew.
My tour of duty in the US military working on RADAR showed me that the killing of local indigenous ppl by profiteers has been justified by said profiteers for a very long time.
Alot of the skippers are in the gang/drug/alcohol scene and forcing them to be in the class makes it more likely for problems to come up due to their "hobbies".
Most parents with rather that the hell raisers NOT be in the school, or put them in a kids at risk school away from the normal students.
I remember having to carry weapons to school just to keep some of the more violent ones from rousting me for my wallet.
The kids with issues/records need to be to be placed away from the normal kids because they just make it harder for the students and the teachers.
Alot of ppl want to bash the space critic here, but to be honest we got ppl living under bridges.
We got thousands dead from a storm in the former Burmese state.
And WW III is about to kick off over oil reserves in the middle east cause we still have to find things on earth to burn for power.
3 things down here on the ground should be addressed first.
1) a replacement for oil so WW III might be averted 2) world wide weather/tsunami/hurricane/volcano warning system 3) permaculture food sources for the 3rd world
Some jaded elitists feel the ppl under the bridges are not as good as them and deserve their fate, and I assume these same elitists feel the thousands dead in Burma are justified ?
I think not, and the billions going into space would be better spent stopping world war 3 down here.
WW III is coming, and it is not gonna be as fun and playful as WW I and II, the nukes are coming out to play.
The tens of millions dead will seem small by comparison.
It is like our leaders embrace the damned religious apocalypse.
If it is a long ways to any broadband, ie. out of range of a Wifi bridge via yagi antennas you might try having the neighbors setup a locustworld setup and you can share multiple dial ups via MESH topology Wifi.
Yeah this is dead on, you can still get stable performance out of Q6600 clocked to 3.4 ghz, and it will go to 3.6 ghz, but it is branded for just 2.4 ghz.
The new 45 nm cores supposedly go a little faster even.
You also get to up your bus speed, and other things as well if you cards can handle it.
It takes some tweaking if your flying blind, but reading some hardware sites you can just back it off a notch from their best and it works fine.
Well alot of new games have just been tired rehashes of the same old crapola, with new gfx effects is about it.
Except, the new games are speed code in Visual Studio and are massively resource intensive and require a Quad core to play it like Supreme Commander with anything more than about 5 armies on the screen it starts to crawl.
After years and years, nothing really ground breaking.
Same old same old, so I am not gonna upgrade my PC when I don't need the power.
Same deal for 90% of businesses, they don't need new systems if they do the work they need.
If you think it is bad now, it is about to get a lot worse, when PC's can be made for about $199.
With gas racing to $5/gal real or fake, it is making ppl have to spend money on gas they could spend on other things.
Also as the fuel goes up, so do all the goods, so the big contraction is coming just around the corner.
This has been happening for every wind and solar project in most countries.
I got some bad news for you sunshine.
I'd like to say you get to choose, between oil and solar, but the oil is running out as you will soon understand.
The natural gas and coal you got awhile if you are ok with the acid rain.
The 40% of the Mojave that I spoke of is enough for north America. I just gave an example of other places the system could be put instead and the Sonora was one of them.
But as a reactionary you jumped on it like I was saying the inhabited sections and all wildlife would sacrificed to the almighty solar panel god.
If you find yourself freaking out this easy, try asking your doctor to up the dose on your meds.
In 2.5 square miles they produce 350 Mega-watts of power and do it with reflective troughs and heating high temperature oil to drive a steam turbine.
They store hot oil and get some production even after sundown, and then switch to natural gas for a few hours til sunrise.
If the uninhabited sections of the Mojave Desert were used for this system, it would power all of North America.
The Mojave is over 22,000 sq. miles, if 10,000 of it was used for a SEGs type setup you would get 4,000 times the current power production ie. 1.41 Tera-Watts rough estimate.
In 2004 it was estimated by scientists that total world energy usage was 15 Tera-Watts for all types of energy.
"Couldn't they even keep backwards compatibility via virtualization?"
Yeah they recently announced that they are going to focus hard on virtualization, and I am guessing the Novell ppl will hand then the keys to some stable source code to make an OS that is a tad *nix like and amazingly stable for some odd reason...
Til that damn LTO stretches and drops the leader in the drive and you get to ship it back or take the drive apart and void its warranty to recover the leader.
Then once recovered...
It does it again....and again....on the tape that has the data.
Tape is the best we got at this point for true portable data backup, but lets face it Tape sucks.
I am with Google on this, keep multiple copies of the data, and at least one copy at a different location.
They do not Tape Backup all their data, and thus I consider their way the new way to get it done.
I have been doing it with friends for a few years, and it has worked VERY well.
We all back each other up, and if it is private information we store it encrypted.
Slashdot Mirror
You guys have been the reason possibly more than 300000 people were killed in Iraq
The number is closer to a million since it all began, but
to be honest Saddam and his sons had a fair bit of blood on their
hands as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Most Shia Iraqi's which make up over 50% of the population
wanted Saddam and his son's removed from power.
The reasons and excuses were lies of course, but maybe someday
they will have their own country once all the oil is gone.
The coming regional war over all the oil in the region
will make the Iraq war look like a walk in the park though.
Stop judging a nation's people by it's government's actions and the world will make a lot more sense.
I keep seeing this come up, and I keep asking is not the
government made of people?
Do they not have children ? Do they not read history ?
Actions speak louder than words, and the history of the world's
actions are 10's of millions killed.
People need to question the government and the ones that run it,
and what is coming in Iran and Syria is a good example.
When World War 3 starts, it is people that pushed it through.
The "whites" were Europeans that came to the Americas,
primarily Spanish, French, British, Dutch, etc etc.
They did things like hand out small pox blankets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_blanket#Biological_warfare
The Native Americans were many different tribes, and
they really did not have a large unification til around the
time of Custer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer#Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn
Some Native Americans tried to flee to canada after fighting
and were pursued all the way to Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nez_Perce#Chief_Joseph.27s_surrender
Some fought brutal guerilla style war for many years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
The skull and bones society stole his bones back in the day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo#Theft_of_remains
So that is who the "whites" are.
The whites are the ppl who signed many treaties, and did not
honor most of them.
Their were some instances when Native Americans who had family
members killed went on rampages as well thou.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_treaties#U.S._Native_American_treaties
There are still many tribes, several names known by very few.
My tribe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Potawatomi_Nation
I credit my grandfather with my dim view of so called society.
He was one of the most brilliant men I ever personally knew.
My tour of duty in the US military working on RADAR showed
me that the killing of local indigenous ppl by profiteers
has been justified by said profiteers for a very long time.
It continues to this day...
Yes, the kid chip is being marketed via fear mongering
for their kids already.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2176543,00.asp
It will get worse too, and they have started putting the
RFID tags on medical implants as well.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3978/1/1/
I expect phones, watches, and other devices will have them
with or without us knowing about it as well.
They will simply hide the devices.
Not very hard as small as they are getting.
http://www.i4u.com/article5046.html
I'd say you may not like the idea of being tagged,
but odds are they are thinking a stealth tagging method.
Only ppl that will use a active scanner to
find them on themselves will have any luck.
This is pretty accurate here.
Alot of the skippers are in the gang/drug/alcohol scene and
forcing them to be in the class makes it more likely for
problems to come up due to their "hobbies".
Most parents with rather that the hell raisers NOT be in the
school, or put them in a kids at risk school away from the
normal students.
I remember having to carry weapons to school just to keep
some of the more violent ones from rousting me for my wallet.
The kids with issues/records need to be to be placed away
from the normal kids because they just make it harder
for the students and the teachers.
The teachers have BEGGED for this for some time.
It is not about belief, it is about Anti-competitive behavior.
M$ has bought off Novell, and plans much worse than what we
are seeing here.
This is just the tip of the Iceberg.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/index.php?p=2369
An old Adage, Evil is as Evil does.
Alot of ppl want to bash the space critic here, but to be honest
we got ppl living under bridges.
We got thousands dead from a storm in the former Burmese state.
And WW III is about to kick off over oil reserves in the middle
east cause we still have to find things on earth to burn for power.
3 things down here on the ground should be addressed first.
1) a replacement for oil so WW III might be averted
2) world wide weather/tsunami/hurricane/volcano warning system
3) permaculture food sources for the 3rd world
Some jaded elitists feel the ppl under the bridges are not
as good as them and deserve their fate, and I assume these
same elitists feel the thousands dead in Burma are justified ?
I think not, and the billions going into space would be
better spent stopping world war 3 down here.
WW III is coming, and it is not gonna be as fun and playful
as WW I and II, the nukes are coming out to play.
The tens of millions dead will seem small by comparison.
It is like our leaders embrace the damned religious apocalypse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
So that is why I ALSO feel that space should not be our first
choice for billions in spending.
If it is a long ways to any broadband, ie. out of range of a Wifi
bridge via yagi antennas you might try having the neighbors
setup a locustworld setup and you can share multiple dial ups
via MESH topology Wifi.
http://www.locustworld.com/
Yeah this is dead on, you can still get stable performance
out of Q6600 clocked to 3.4 ghz, and it will go to 3.6 ghz,
but it is branded for just 2.4 ghz.
The new 45 nm cores supposedly go a little faster even.
You also get to up your bus speed, and other things as well
if you cards can handle it.
It takes some tweaking if your flying blind, but reading
some hardware sites you can just back it off a notch from
their best and it works fine.
Well alot of new games have just been tired rehashes of the
same old crapola, with new gfx effects is about it.
Except, the new games are speed code in Visual Studio and
are massively resource intensive and require a Quad core to
play it like Supreme Commander with anything more than about
5 armies on the screen it starts to crawl.
After years and years, nothing really ground breaking.
Same old same old, so I am not gonna upgrade my PC when
I don't need the power.
Same deal for 90% of businesses, they don't need new systems
if they do the work they need.
If you think it is bad now, it is about to get a lot worse,
when PC's can be made for about $199.
With gas racing to $5/gal real or fake, it is making ppl
have to spend money on gas they could spend on other things.
Also as the fuel goes up, so do all the goods, so the big
contraction is coming just around the corner.
Well when I took Comp Sci a long time ago in a galaxy without silicon
;-)
far far away, they said this was a computing device.
To make it run required human power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
Modern man probably arose ~200,000 years ago, not several million.
Eh..more like 500,000 yrs ago...there was tool use.
Don't know if that makes them modern or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
Your spelling his name wrong ...
It is not Mc Cain, it is Mc SAME...
LOL
Well I can laugh now, but after 8 years of
war with Iraq, Iran, Syria, and North Korea
it won't be a laughing matter.
Its and old and over used adage, but true, this is almost
verbatim of the decadence prior to the fall of Rome.
But they didn't listen then, and I am very sure they
won't listen now.
I don't think he is a troll, the world has serious problems
... let them eat cake.
facing it and the rich just want to play with new or old toys.
I think their devil may care attitude is somewhat like a
forlorn french ladies phrase of
Well indeed there may come a time for some cake, and the
rich may find themselves at a modern version of the guillotine.
And the disenfranchised will be serving up head cake.
Laugh at the mob as you may, though it may have its day.
The corrupt power brokers may find themselves hemp led marionettes
playing in the trees.
Fistya looks more like OSX than XP.
Vista = Fistya for those who didn't get the misnomer.
NIMBY,
This has been happening for every wind and solar project in
most countries.
I got some bad news for you sunshine.
I'd like to say you get to choose, between oil and solar,
but the oil is running out as you will soon understand.
The natural gas and coal you got awhile if you are ok with
the acid rain.
The 40% of the Mojave that I spoke of is enough for north
America. I just gave an example of other places the system
could be put instead and the Sonora was one of them.
But as a reactionary you jumped on it like I was saying the
inhabited sections and all wildlife would sacrificed to the
almighty solar panel god.
If you find yourself freaking out this easy, try asking your
doctor to up the dose on your meds.
11 more time for the whole planet to replace oil, coal,
wind, nuclear, and hydro.
We don't need to replace Hydro for a long time.
Nuclear we can tolerate for awhile longer.
I hope to see wind expand.
Oil and Coal I'd like to see go the way of the dinosaurs.
There are numerous unpopulated deserts around the world
that could be used for this, and it works now.
The US long haul transmission system wastes less than 10%.
About 7% for the US per wikipedia.
So once you finish that EE degree, get back to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Losses
In 2006 when I started at Dell we had one 15" tube monitor.
We did not have cubes, we had this abomination called a pod.
The pod walls are 18 inches higher than the surface of your desk.
The person sitting across from you can be heard just as
clearly on your phone as you can.
Dell would not pay for noise canceling headsets.
Dell uses a Compaq ie. HP mainframe to run their ticket system.
Now that is some damn irony.
It took me multiple weeks of begging to receive my very own
company purchased pen and notepad.
They monitor to "the second" how long you go to bathroom and
it is part of your evaluations.
Emails to customers are expected to be done between calls,
or while waiting for reboots, or when there are no calls.
You have to get permission to work overtime to get aforementioned
emails done outside your 8 hr shift.
Yet...they constant ask you to work overtime to take more calls.
On overnight shift they ask you take "platinum calls" ie. MCSE
required when you don't have even an MCSA.
To be honest that is a contract violation.
This is not for Desktop or Workstation Support, this is for
Server Support.
So for me D[h]ell will always be #1 worst place to work period.
The SEGs system is online now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEGS
In 2.5 square miles they produce 350 Mega-watts of power
and do it with reflective troughs and heating high temperature
oil to drive a steam turbine.
They store hot oil and get some production even after sundown,
and then switch to natural gas for a few hours til sunrise.
If the uninhabited sections of the Mojave Desert
were used for this system, it would power all of North America.
The Mojave is over 22,000 sq. miles, if 10,000 of it was used
for a SEGs type setup you would get 4,000 times the current
power production ie. 1.41 Tera-Watts rough estimate.
In 2004 it was estimated by scientists that total world
energy usage was 15 Tera-Watts for all types of energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption
The proposed SEGs expansion would produce almost 10% of that.
We have our silver bullet, it will just be a monster to build.
North Africa could use the Sahara and power all of Africa
and Europe.
The best photovoltaic cells are 20% effective, The best Thermals
have hit 41% per wikipedia, and 60% being theoretically possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#High-temperature_collectors
Here in the US we could also use a large part of the 120,000 sq. mi.
Sonora Desert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora_desert
Just my 2 cents...
"Couldn't they even keep backwards compatibility via virtualization?"
Yeah they recently announced that they are going to focus hard
on virtualization, and I am guessing the Novell ppl will hand
then the keys to some stable source code to make an OS that
is a tad *nix like and amazingly stable for some odd reason...
"Kinda makes me lose hope that Slashdot will ever be a place where intelligent and reasonable discussion will ever take place again."
Obligatory...
"You must be new here."
Toba, exactly ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Til that damn LTO stretches and drops the leader in the drive and you get to ship it back or take the drive apart and void its warranty to recover the leader.
Then once recovered...
It does it again....and again....on the tape that has the data.
Tape is the best we got at this point for true portable data backup,
but lets face it Tape sucks.
I am with Google on this, keep multiple copies of the data,
and at least one copy at a different location.
They do not Tape Backup all their data, and thus I consider their
way the new way to get it done.
I have been doing it with friends for a few years, and it has
worked VERY well.
We all back each other up, and if it is private information
we store it encrypted.
3 copies works fine.