Oh, I see. The problem is that backwards-assed medievalism as embodied in nations like Sudan and Iran isn't given enough power to wield on the world stage.
So you want to take away the votes of everyone in the US whose ideas are medieval? No vote for Ashcroft? I admit it would solve some issues but it is a travesty. Either you're for democracy or not. You can't promote democracy by dictate.
You simply shrug off every country except the one's with British origins
Because the US, UK and Australia were the only ones taking part in the invasion. We were talking about the invasion not the occupation.
Now we can look at that too: South Korea, Italy, Poland, Ukraine and the Netherlands are the countries with more than 1000 troops in Iraq. Public opinion in the first three is overwhelmingly against, and in the Netherlands it was against before the war and I doubt that has changed since even though I have no current numbers. I don't know about Ukraine but I think I read once that they had similar numbers to Poland. Ukraine wants to reduce its contingent by 250 and Poland wants to cut it in half.
For non-US citizens. As a US citizen, I am not worried about this
Ok, I have you now dumb ass. Of the 95% Muslim population of Iraq, about 2/3 are Shia; they were oppressed by the Sunni-dominated Ba'ath Party that ruled Iraq. SOURCE. That is the end of that stupid argument.
What are you smoking? Let's assume 2/3 of the Shiites are for something that makes 2/3 x 2/3 = 4/9 less than half of the whole population. IIRC more than 2/3 of the US population was white is it ok to ignore Blacks, Hispanics and Asians?
No I think most want a stable Iraq and America out in that order, as fast as possible.
Well that's what we're doing dumb ass!!!
You should read the stuff Cheney's and Rumsfeld's think tank "Project for a New American Century" is writing since 1999. Iraq will be the new permanent Army base in the Mideast.
Sounds good to me. Problem with polling on the street is that these street people are the same people looting abandoned US vehicles, hanging charred bodies from a bridge, throwing rocks at US troops. There is no accurate polling data on poverty in Iraq. It wasn't done. Saddam had no need for figures on the number of homeless people in Iraq, because he didn't care. The polling aught to be done through the mail, and I'm not even sure if they have a stable postal system yet.
You produced some less useful statistics so I don't see how you can complain about more representative ones. You could also see hanging bodies as a political statement it most likely means "We don't like you".
It was a wise thinker who once said "Nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent". If you're expecting world peace to occur all on it's own, you're an idiot.
I don't think it will occur anytime soon. People like Bush will see to that.
I think you hated George Bush to begin with, he "stole" your election, imposed stricter drug laws, instated religious initiatives, and a few other convtroversial measures. I don't think these points you bring up are anything but propoganda used to try and sway public opinion, made by the democrats. Oh god, Reagan won the cold war by building nuclear weapons, and now George Bush is going to try and fix violence in the middle east? Oh god. We have to stop them
Bush didn't steal the election, Harris did and the US press took 7 months to notice that the UK press less than a week. I don't take drugs, I don't smoke, I don't even drink but Bush should know better than anyone else that you should give drug addicts a second chance. Heck they could even become president someday. Reagon wasn't as stupid as Bush is, was never that unpopular in the rest of the world and even he saw that the Star Wars project was stupid. And I really don't see how Bush will stop violence in the Middle East. The whole administration has ignored the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for months and a solution there will be the centerpiece for the whole region. If/When Iraq becomes democratic it won't suddenly change the Iraqi opinion on Israel. Only if the Palestinians accept a solution the rest of the region will follow over time.
When I grow up and become President I will be truthful and honest and I won't talk bad about the other guy.
you meant: When I grow up I...
a) will become President
b) will be truthful and honest
c) won't talk bad about the other guy
(choose one)
I would like for you to say one good thing about each other
That would be really interesting to hear. Especially if we get platitudes (my opponent is a good man), camouflaged attacks ("I admire his strong convictions. Even after Iraq turned into the disaster it is he still believes he did the right thing" "I like his ability to change his opinions like his underwear - every week a new one") or something resembling honesty ("no comment on this one"). I'd bet on platitudes but you never know
Flying cars, while a dream for many are not as great as everyone believes they are. Imagine everything that can go wrong in a car today, then imagine it going wrong 300 feet in the air
You could have said the same thing about cars. Imagine everything that can go wrong with a horse carriage today, then imagine it at 80 miles an hour.
Blade Runner is an excelent example of how I would build the future, flying car wise, that is: Only the Cops, and Emergency Services have flying cars. Compare this to a movie like The Fifth Element, where we see gridlock... in three dimensions.
I think it won't be either one or the other but first Blade Runner and after that 5th Element.
Of the ninety-seven aboard, thirty-six died, including thirteen ?civilian? (paying) passengers, the first passengers of this kind killed in a dirigible accident.
Hydrogen burns like... well hydrogen but in case of an airship you don't have a hydrogen oxygen mixture that will explode but pure hydrogen which slowly mixes with the surrounding air and burns down (the same reason why cars don't explode like in Hollywood movies but burn). Due to the sheer size of an airship, its seperated tanks and the lucky fact that the fire on the Hindenburg started at the back and during the landing the ship came down rather softly
The bad information came from the other countries, Jordan, one of Iraq's neighbors, was one of them. EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD EXCEPT FRANCE GERMANY AND RUSSIA, and that is because of economic ties to Iraq. The UN Security council is not a country.
uahaha, you're kidding right? The coalition of the willing had 47 members out of 200 something countries and with the exception of Great Britain and Australia all were either only paying lip service (Saudi Arabia, Japan and Germany payed for most of Gulf War I, this time Japan sent 50 soldiers after the fighting was over and called them back home as soon as it started again) or a joke (Albania? Azerbaijan? Those countries need peace keepers themselves). Public opinion in nearly all of those countries (especially your traditional allies i.e. UK, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia) was always against this war with the exception of the UK which was supporting it the first few weeks their troops were actually in combat (I'm not sure about Australia, they could've been supporting it also but I think they weren't)
Where in the patriot act does it say that they aren't given a trial?
The part where it allows the government to postpone it infinitely.
Are you a terrorist?
Didn't you listen to the Bush administration? He is against Bush he *has* to be a terrorist or a traitor at the very least.
Yes, Lets: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/WorldNewsToni ght/iraq_poll_040405.html. You look at all the numbers and you come to the conclusion that Iraqi's want their own government, and they are tired of the violence.
No, I come to the conclusion that Shiites and Southern Shiite Arabs want that. I miss numbers for all of Iraq.
there is widespread support in Iraq for the US cause. The same people saying they want America out are the ones who put Osama Bin Laden at the top of their "greatest world leaders" list.
No I think most want a stable Iraq and America out in that order, as fast as possible.
What I'd really like to see are numbers about people who think that the current situation is better than 2 years ago, worse than 2 years ago, worse than 2 years ago but acceptable in hope of a situation better than 2 years ago somewhere down the road.
If you think the insurgents aren't crossing over the border you're an idiot. READ THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS REPORT.
U.S. Marines backed by helicopters battled hundreds of Iraqi insurgents Sunday near the Syrian border.
I read they battled *Iraqi* insurgents. Not Syrians. Iraqis who probably got money and weapons from Syria but that's something different.
I think there are foreign fighters but I also think foreign fighters only are a hardcore minority of insurgents.
Look, Saddam Hussein didn't kill THAT many people. Estimates are that we have uncovered mass burial sites with around 400,000 Iraqi's buried in them
Which doesn't say anything about when they died.
Most probably in the Iran-Iraq war and massacres during that time (when he was still our ally) and in the Shiite uprisings directly after Gulf War I (when the US let them die). While that doesn't excuse his deeds it means that the argument "we're saving thousands of Iraqis" was ten years past its prime and last year was probably worse for the average Iraqi than the past few years under Saddam. See below for a better and far more eloquent posting I've stolen from a fellow/. poster
Did you ever think you would be defending Saddam Hussein at the expense of our own republican president?
OK this is the point were Iraq war supporters always lose it. We *don't* defend Saddam. *But* there are at least a dozen countries on this planet were a military intervention for humanitarian reasons would have been more urgent. A good deal of them are US allies. The WMD argument was dubious even before the war. If Rumsfeld specifically knew where to find weapons why didn't he tell the UN guys at
I have nothing against those comments (on both sides) as long as they aren't name-calling contests without arguments but much enthusiasm (reminds me of political discussions around here. "Bush is the worst" "No, Kerry is the worsesesestest" "Not true" "Yes" "No"...) In both cases I agree with one side which means that I won't mod them down or post replies (others can do that) but I wouldn't mod them up or write supporting replies either. =)
But you're probably right that Go fans are worse. It's the same reason Apple fanatics and Linux zealots are normally more... enthusiastic than Windows users.
Well Go is even more ancient and if you'd said that chess is better that would be a matter of taste (well, I've never liked chess but to use computer games as an example I love both the elegance and (relative) simplicity of Europa Universalis II and the sheer features and possibilities the Total War series offers) but in terms of elegance go beats chess hands down. With far simpler rules you get a game of equal depth.
Blu-Ray is much better than HD-DVD (come on 30Gig on a dual-layer that's just 3 times the size of a dual-layer DVD, 54Gig and quad-layer in the works, now we're talking. For a technology to be adopted it has to be at least 10 times better than the existing solution)
Sony said it would be cheaper than DVDs (yeah right, but I'm hoping they got at least the order of magnitude right this time)
With the new coating they don't need those removable trays anymore (and in comparison to HD-DVD they could afford to have 20% of the disc used for error correction and it would still be bigger)
Sony *supports* *standards* with mpeg4 avc and vc-1. This *is* important because the decoder chips will be cheap and it'll be easy to make dvd/blu-ray combi-drives. Also they have a lot of the big names on board. Hitachi
JVC
LG
Panasonic
Philips
Pioneer
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
Zenith. They're not trying to do it alone this time
PS3 alone will sell 10 million units in its first year unless they screw up really bad. In fact 20 million are possible. Remember that especially in Japan many people bought a ps2 to use it as a dvd-player
You're right Sony has a history of screwups but unless they do something extremely stupid I don't see how they could lose to HD-DVD
Yes, it couldn't affect other users on the local machine, but it would still spread and affect the user that opened it
It can. IDE I/O saturation (I think scsi would handle this better but I don't know) is the key. I did a test once when k3b was trying to kill my disk by overuse (old version, they were unstable as hell sometimes, and yes I mean the user part not the suid'd cd writing part). It took me almost an hour to change to a different tty, login as root, find out the pid (no killall because kde starts programs with kinit to escape the prelinking hell) and kill it off. On any multiuser system that's almost as good as a crash. Of course it can only go active again when the user who catched it first logs in unless it uses a root exploit
If someone wants to help a clueless person and tells me how to limit the I/O access of processes (something like nice for IDE) I'd be really grateful
But I don't know whether it was the real reason for the flamebait. Another thing is that it's considered good manners to post such stuff as anonymous coward. Using your login is karma whoring.
If you need karma cheap I recommend
Waiting for an article about Microsoft and write how they want to use Palladium to make Linux illegal
Say that Apple is better. The topic is irrelevant
Try to write the first post about Linux on the desktop in any discussion remotely related to Linux. Your opinion doesn't matter they always get modded up
Bash Diebold
Soviet Russia jokes may be out but combining them with even older running gags (In Soviet Russia the Cowboy Neal poll option is missing Beowulf clusters) still guarantees a +5 funny (but iirc funny doesn't count for your karma rating =/ )
Say that global warming is the invention of a socialist French conspiration to bring down the US. Jingoism works every time
power plants don't use internal combustion engines they use steam turbines.
That said, the big advantage of fuel cells is -you said it- that they can be powered by hydrogen generated by non-polluting power plants. That includes current available technology but also developments of the next decades.
Especially/. with all its bitching about Windows and Office and lock-in should be aware of network effects. The infrastructure necessary to power cars all over the world combined with the need for this technology to be safe and small enough for cars prevents fast changes.
Think of fuel-cells/hydrogen as an open api. It can be easily produced and has acceptable efficiency and allows to change backends at will
It's still the most popular IM in Germany. At least I know noone around here who's using something else. (Well, IRC of course =)
There are other parts of the world too, IMs aren't about features they're about network effects. Therefore even dead it'll take years for ICQ to die off.
Ok, how about this: LotR, the whole trilogy. Analog film has about 4000x4000 pixels, and for big multiplexes you'd need something like that for a similar digital experience (Lucas used 1280x1024 for Star Wars iirc and people complained that it was blocky)
4000x2000 pixel (aspect-ratio, anamorphic would be better but let's be conservative)
40bits color (10bits per channel, 10bits alpha. Yes 10bits per channel *are* useful, in fact Matrox's doing it today and before someone bitches that you can't tell apart 30bits color, well maybe you can't but you *can* see it in gradients, and 10bits alpha is useful too, you could do overlay effects e.g. different ads on billboards in different language versions, different moods for different audiences etc - you don't have to like it, the studios do)
32bits depths (3D, 32bits should be enough for a smooth depth experience, don't know)
48 frames/sec (current state of the art)
3600 sec/hr
3.5 hrs/movie (LotR special edition)
5 movies (Silmarillion, Hobbit, LotR)
3520TB!!!!!! Without sound, let's say you're doing Fraunhofer's new Wave Field Synthesis that's a whole lot of data too, you have to feed up to 300 speakers.
Now a thousand of this trilogies and you'd get close to the 64bit limit. And if you redo all old stuff... (NOW, SUPER LIMITED SPECIAL MEGA PACK, GONE WITH THE WIND THE 20HR 3D SPECIAL EDITION)
Of course that may sound extreme but 10 years ago you could have said the same about our consumption now (300GB discs? Ridiculous!). Within 20yrs you'll thank Sun for 128bits, especially because 128bit *will* be enough for everyone at least until we administer a galaxy spanning empire on one filesystem =)
ZFS appears to applications as a standard POSIX file system--no porting is required. But to administrators, it presents a pooled storage model that eliminates the antique concept of volumes, as well as all of the related partition management, provisioning, and file system sizing problems. Thousands--even millions--of file systems can all draw from ZFS' common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all of the devices in that storage pool is always available to each file system.
So? Why would I need to evenly divide anything into 3 or 4 equal parts? And how convenient is it really to divide that 2' 5 7/16" wide part into 3 or 4 equal parts? Oh, I didn't remember, everything always is some convenient integer multiple of a measurement in the imperial system, because otherwise that division argument would be pure bullshit!
You're missing the ingenious part of the Imperial system. 2' 5 7/16" is probably half a dog's leap or something like that. Everything *is* some convenient integer multiple because there is a name for everything =)
As with so many other times when people throw out time tested wisdom
And I really liked burning witches.
That said my original posting was a joke but I should have known that/. would see that differently =P
More important, today they may be optimistic but when they were introduced they were quite conservative. A Athlon X normally beat a Pentium X+200MHz. That way AMD got the people to trust them
I like beach volleyball because I like the sport but as a man of course I also approve of the dress code. We could eliminate the sexism by introducing a similar dress code for male teams. I wouldn't mind men in speedos if we can keep the bikinis =)
Your "scientific reasons" are more rubbish of the we're proving definitions sort.
That said some points:
This definition of "pregnancy" was initiated to accommodate the introduction of the process of in vitro fertilization, where fertilization takes place artificially outside the mother in a petri dish, and then the embryo is artificially introduced into the woman's uterus so that implantation of the embryo can take place.
Unless they vastly improved their methods, in vitro fertilizations means artificial fertilization of a number of eggs. A part is then placed in the uterus (where most simply die off) the rest is frozen for some time to see if they are needed and end in the trash after that. Mass murder.
As the well-known neurological researcher D. Gareth Jones has succinctly put it, the parallelism between "brain death" and "brain birth" is scientifically invalid. "Brain death" is the gradual or rapid cessation of the functions of a brain. "Brain birth" is the very gradual acquisition of the functions of a developing neural system. This developing neural system is not a brain. He questions, in fact, the entire assumption and asks what neurological reasons there might be for concluding that an incapacity for consciousness becomes a capacity for consciousness once this point is passed.
Ok, if this neural system might already be a sign of consciousness he'll still have to explain how there should be consciousness before the cells start differentiating (somewhere around day 6 iirc). So the morning-after pill should be all right.
Now if you're not one of the pro-life pet-scientists you should agree that consciousness before about week 20 is ridiculous.
To put it in other terms, would you rather invest $100 in an investment with a 6% return or one with a 37% return?
a 6% investment because 37% sounds LIKE SOME INVSETEMENT HAILALE MBUNGA EXPRESIDENT OF NIGERIA WUOLD SUGEST TOO YU
Obviously, I'm right-of-center politically, and what I find insightful, you may find unconvincing.
I believe I speak for many of us when I say that we like to read stuff that doesn't agree with our political viewpoint as long as it is well reasoned and doesn't claim to be the absolute truth but acknowledges that it's only an opinion.
Blu-Ray is cool. Especially if the quad-layer 100GB discs ever take off.
Instead of 6 discs per season for tv-shows you'd only need 1. Heck you could press whole series on 1 disc.
I recently thought that it would be cool if there were dvds of all of the Olympics. Not because I want to watch 1500h+ but because I'm interested in a few sports and they always get neutered on TV. Digital TV improves that somewhat but it would be cool to have a 4 disc set with all footage of the games (250mb/hr seems realistic because you don't need fancy 7.1 sound and blu-ray supports h264 and wmv9; 4hr/gig => 400hrs per disc).
Of course BBC multicast and pay-per-view download offers would be even better but face it the media corps prefer discs because you have physical entities for easier control over the content.
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So you want to take away the votes of everyone in the US whose ideas are medieval? No vote for Ashcroft? I admit it would solve some issues but it is a travesty. Either you're for democracy or not. You can't promote democracy by dictate.
Because the US, UK and Australia were the only ones taking part in the invasion. We were talking about the invasion not the occupation.
Now we can look at that too: South Korea, Italy, Poland, Ukraine and the Netherlands are the countries with more than 1000 troops in Iraq. Public opinion in the first three is overwhelmingly against, and in the Netherlands it was against before the war and I doubt that has changed since even though I have no current numbers. I don't know about Ukraine but I think I read once that they had similar numbers to Poland. Ukraine wants to reduce its contingent by 250 and Poland wants to cut it in half.
For non-US citizens. As a US citizen, I am not worried about this
*cough*Padilla*cough*
Ok, I have you now dumb ass. Of the 95% Muslim population of Iraq, about 2/3 are Shia; they were oppressed by the Sunni-dominated Ba'ath Party that ruled Iraq. SOURCE. That is the end of that stupid argument.
What are you smoking? Let's assume 2/3 of the Shiites are for something that makes 2/3 x 2/3 = 4/9 less than half of the whole population. IIRC more than 2/3 of the US population was white is it ok to ignore Blacks, Hispanics and Asians?
No I think most want a stable Iraq and America out in that order, as fast as possible.
Well that's what we're doing dumb ass!!!
You should read the stuff Cheney's and Rumsfeld's think tank "Project for a New American Century" is writing since 1999. Iraq will be the new permanent Army base in the Mideast.
Sounds good to me. Problem with polling on the street is that these street people are the same people looting abandoned US vehicles, hanging charred bodies from a bridge, throwing rocks at US troops. There is no accurate polling data on poverty in Iraq. It wasn't done. Saddam had no need for figures on the number of homeless people in Iraq, because he didn't care. The polling aught to be done through the mail, and I'm not even sure if they have a stable postal system yet.
You produced some less useful statistics so I don't see how you can complain about more representative ones. You could also see hanging bodies as a political statement it most likely means "We don't like you".
It was a wise thinker who once said "Nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent". If you're expecting world peace to occur all on it's own, you're an idiot.
I don't think it will occur anytime soon. People like Bush will see to that.
I think you hated George Bush to begin with, he "stole" your election, imposed stricter drug laws, instated religious initiatives, and a few other convtroversial measures. I don't think these points you bring up are anything but propoganda used to try and sway public opinion, made by the democrats. Oh god, Reagan won the cold war by building nuclear weapons, and now George Bush is going to try and fix violence in the middle east? Oh god. We have to stop them
Bush didn't steal the election, Harris did and the US press took 7 months to notice that the UK press less than a week. I don't take drugs, I don't smoke, I don't even drink but Bush should know better than anyone else that you should give drug addicts a second chance. Heck they could even become president someday. Reagon wasn't as stupid as Bush is, was never that unpopular in the rest of the world and even he saw that the Star Wars project was stupid. And I really don't see how Bush will stop violence in the Middle East. The whole administration has ignored the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for months and a solution there will be the centerpiece for the whole region. If/When Iraq becomes democratic it won't suddenly change the Iraqi opinion on Israel. Only if the Palestinians accept a solution the rest of the region will follow over time.
The Iraq war is a war to liberate the people. But
But the shipping rates of thinkgeek are absolutely ridiculous so if that Danish shop charges less we'll save a lot nevertheless
you meant: When I grow up I...
a) will become President
b) will be truthful and honest
c) won't talk bad about the other guy
(choose one)
I would like for you to say one good thing about each other
That would be really interesting to hear. Especially if we get platitudes (my opponent is a good man), camouflaged attacks ("I admire his strong convictions. Even after Iraq turned into the disaster it is he still believes he did the right thing" "I like his ability to change his opinions like his underwear - every week a new one") or something resembling honesty ("no comment on this one"). I'd bet on platitudes but you never know
You could have said the same thing about cars. Imagine everything that can go wrong with a horse carriage today, then imagine it at 80 miles an hour.
Blade Runner is an excelent example of how I would build the future, flying car wise, that is: Only the Cops, and Emergency Services have flying cars. Compare this to a movie like The Fifth Element, where we see gridlock... in three dimensions.
I think it won't be either one or the other but first Blade Runner and after that 5th Element.
From here
Hydrogen burns like... well hydrogen but in case of an airship you don't have a hydrogen oxygen mixture that will explode but pure hydrogen which slowly mixes with the surrounding air and burns down (the same reason why cars don't explode like in Hollywood movies but burn). Due to the sheer size of an airship, its seperated tanks and the lucky fact that the fire on the Hindenburg started at the back and during the landing the ship came down rather softly
uahaha, you're kidding right? The coalition of the willing had 47 members out of 200 something countries and with the exception of Great Britain and Australia all were either only paying lip service (Saudi Arabia, Japan and Germany payed for most of Gulf War I, this time Japan sent 50 soldiers after the fighting was over and called them back home as soon as it started again) or a joke (Albania? Azerbaijan? Those countries need peace keepers themselves). Public opinion in nearly all of those countries (especially your traditional allies i.e. UK, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia) was always against this war with the exception of the UK which was supporting it the first few weeks their troops were actually in combat (I'm not sure about Australia, they could've been supporting it also but I think they weren't)
Where in the patriot act does it say that they aren't given a trial?
The part where it allows the government to postpone it infinitely.
Are you a terrorist?
Didn't you listen to the Bush administration? He is against Bush he *has* to be a terrorist or a traitor at the very least.
Yes, Lets: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/WorldNewsToni ght/iraq_poll_040405.html. You look at all the numbers and you come to the conclusion that Iraqi's want their own government, and they are tired of the violence.
No, I come to the conclusion that Shiites and Southern Shiite Arabs want that. I miss numbers for all of Iraq.
there is widespread support in Iraq for the US cause. The same people saying they want America out are the ones who put Osama Bin Laden at the top of their "greatest world leaders" list.
No I think most want a stable Iraq and America out in that order, as fast as possible.
What I'd really like to see are numbers about people who think that the current situation is better than 2 years ago, worse than 2 years ago, worse than 2 years ago but acceptable in hope of a situation better than 2 years ago somewhere down the road.
If you think the insurgents aren't crossing over the border you're an idiot. READ THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS REPORT.
U.S. Marines backed by helicopters battled hundreds of Iraqi insurgents Sunday near the Syrian border.
I read they battled *Iraqi* insurgents. Not Syrians. Iraqis who probably got money and weapons from Syria but that's something different.
I think there are foreign fighters but I also think foreign fighters only are a hardcore minority of insurgents.
Look, Saddam Hussein didn't kill THAT many people. Estimates are that we have uncovered mass burial sites with around 400,000 Iraqi's buried in them
Which doesn't say anything about when they died. Most probably in the Iran-Iraq war and massacres during that time (when he was still our ally) and in the Shiite uprisings directly after Gulf War I (when the US let them die). While that doesn't excuse his deeds it means that the argument "we're saving thousands of Iraqis" was ten years past its prime and last year was probably worse for the average Iraqi than the past few years under Saddam. See below for a better and far more eloquent posting I've stolen from a fellow /. poster
Did you ever think you would be defending Saddam Hussein at the expense of our own republican president?
OK this is the point were Iraq war supporters always lose it. We *don't* defend Saddam. *But* there are at least a dozen countries on this planet were a military intervention for humanitarian reasons would have been more urgent. A good deal of them are US allies. The WMD argument was dubious even before the war. If Rumsfeld specifically knew where to find weapons why didn't he tell the UN guys at
But you're probably right that Go fans are worse. It's the same reason Apple fanatics and Linux zealots are normally more... enthusiastic than Windows users.
Well Go is even more ancient and if you'd said that chess is better that would be a matter of taste (well, I've never liked chess but to use computer games as an example I love both the elegance and (relative) simplicity of Europa Universalis II and the sheer features and possibilities the Total War series offers) but in terms of elegance go beats chess hands down. With far simpler rules you get a game of equal depth.
Think of it as the German Time magazine
Blu-Ray is much better than HD-DVD (come on 30Gig on a dual-layer that's just 3 times the size of a dual-layer DVD, 54Gig and quad-layer in the works, now we're talking. For a technology to be adopted it has to be at least 10 times better than the existing solution)
Sony said it would be cheaper than DVDs (yeah right, but I'm hoping they got at least the order of magnitude right this time)
With the new coating they don't need those removable trays anymore (and in comparison to HD-DVD they could afford to have 20% of the disc used for error correction and it would still be bigger)
Sony *supports* *standards* with mpeg4 avc and vc-1. This *is* important because the decoder chips will be cheap and it'll be easy to make dvd/blu-ray combi-drives. Also they have a lot of the big names on board. Hitachi JVC LG Panasonic Philips Pioneer Samsung Sharp Sony Zenith. They're not trying to do it alone this time
PS3 alone will sell 10 million units in its first year unless they screw up really bad. In fact 20 million are possible. Remember that especially in Japan many people bought a ps2 to use it as a dvd-player
You're right Sony has a history of screwups but unless they do something extremely stupid I don't see how they could lose to HD-DVD
Oh and they offer 25Gig paper discs. =P
It can. IDE I/O saturation (I think scsi would handle this better but I don't know) is the key. I did a test once when k3b was trying to kill my disk by overuse (old version, they were unstable as hell sometimes, and yes I mean the user part not the suid'd cd writing part). It took me almost an hour to change to a different tty, login as root, find out the pid (no killall because kde starts programs with kinit to escape the prelinking hell) and kill it off. On any multiuser system that's almost as good as a crash. Of course it can only go active again when the user who catched it first logs in unless it uses a root exploit
If someone wants to help a clueless person and tells me how to limit the I/O access of processes (something like nice for IDE) I'd be really grateful
But I don't know whether it was the real reason for the flamebait. Another thing is that it's considered good manners to post such stuff as anonymous coward. Using your login is karma whoring.
If you need karma cheap I recommend
Because you called the New York Post New York Times. *Big* difference. And quite insulting to the real NYT
That said, the big advantage of fuel cells is -you said it- that they can be powered by hydrogen generated by non-polluting power plants. That includes current available technology but also developments of the next decades.
Especially /. with all its bitching about Windows and Office and lock-in should be aware of network effects. The infrastructure necessary to power cars all over the world combined with the need for this technology to be safe and small enough for cars prevents fast changes.
Think of fuel-cells/hydrogen as an open api. It can be easily produced and has acceptable efficiency and allows to change backends at will
There are other parts of the world too, IMs aren't about features they're about network effects. Therefore even dead it'll take years for ICQ to die off.
4000x2000 pixel (aspect-ratio, anamorphic would be better but let's be conservative)
40bits color (10bits per channel, 10bits alpha. Yes 10bits per channel *are* useful, in fact Matrox's doing it today and before someone bitches that you can't tell apart 30bits color, well maybe you can't but you *can* see it in gradients, and 10bits alpha is useful too, you could do overlay effects e.g. different ads on billboards in different language versions, different moods for different audiences etc - you don't have to like it, the studios do)
32bits depths (3D, 32bits should be enough for a smooth depth experience, don't know)
48 frames/sec (current state of the art)
3600 sec/hr
3.5 hrs/movie (LotR special edition)
5 movies (Silmarillion, Hobbit, LotR)
3520TB!!!!!! Without sound, let's say you're doing Fraunhofer's new Wave Field Synthesis that's a whole lot of data too, you have to feed up to 300 speakers.
Now a thousand of this trilogies and you'd get close to the 64bit limit. And if you redo all old stuff... (NOW, SUPER LIMITED SPECIAL MEGA PACK, GONE WITH THE WIND THE 20HR 3D SPECIAL EDITION)
Of course that may sound extreme but 10 years ago you could have said the same about our consumption now (300GB discs? Ridiculous!). Within 20yrs you'll thank Sun for 128bits, especially because 128bit *will* be enough for everyone at least until we administer a galaxy spanning empire on one filesystem =)
ZFS appears to applications as a standard POSIX file system--no porting is required. But to administrators, it presents a pooled storage model that eliminates the antique concept of volumes, as well as all of the related partition management, provisioning, and file system sizing problems. Thousands--even millions--of file systems can all draw from ZFS' common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all of the devices in that storage pool is always available to each file system.
You're missing the ingenious part of the Imperial system. 2' 5 7/16" is probably half a dog's leap or something like that. Everything *is* some convenient integer multiple because there is a name for everything =)
As with so many other times when people throw out time tested wisdom
And I really liked burning witches.
That said my original posting was a joke but I should have known that /. would see that differently =P
More important, today they may be optimistic but when they were introduced they were quite conservative. A Athlon X normally beat a Pentium X+200MHz. That way AMD got the people to trust them
Gesundheit
I like beach volleyball because I like the sport but as a man of course I also approve of the dress code. We could eliminate the sexism by introducing a similar dress code for male teams. I wouldn't mind men in speedos if we can keep the bikinis =)
That said some points: This definition of "pregnancy" was initiated to accommodate the introduction of the process of in vitro fertilization, where fertilization takes place artificially outside the mother in a petri dish, and then the embryo is artificially introduced into the woman's uterus so that implantation of the embryo can take place.
Unless they vastly improved their methods, in vitro fertilizations means artificial fertilization of a number of eggs. A part is then placed in the uterus (where most simply die off) the rest is frozen for some time to see if they are needed and end in the trash after that. Mass murder.
As the well-known neurological researcher D. Gareth Jones has succinctly put it, the parallelism between "brain death" and "brain birth" is scientifically invalid. "Brain death" is the gradual or rapid cessation of the functions of a brain. "Brain birth" is the very gradual acquisition of the functions of a developing neural system. This developing neural system is not a brain. He questions, in fact, the entire assumption and asks what neurological reasons there might be for concluding that an incapacity for consciousness becomes a capacity for consciousness once this point is passed.
Ok, if this neural system might already be a sign of consciousness he'll still have to explain how there should be consciousness before the cells start differentiating (somewhere around day 6 iirc). So the morning-after pill should be all right.
Now if you're not one of the pro-life pet-scientists you should agree that consciousness before about week 20 is ridiculous.
To put it in other terms, would you rather invest $100 in an investment with a 6% return or one with a 37% return?
a 6% investment because 37% sounds LIKE SOME INVSETEMENT HAILALE MBUNGA EXPRESIDENT OF NIGERIA WUOLD SUGEST TOO YU
I believe I speak for many of us when I say that we like to read stuff that doesn't agree with our political viewpoint as long as it is well reasoned and doesn't claim to be the absolute truth but acknowledges that it's only an opinion.
Instead of 6 discs per season for tv-shows you'd only need 1. Heck you could press whole series on 1 disc.
I recently thought that it would be cool if there were dvds of all of the Olympics. Not because I want to watch 1500h+ but because I'm interested in a few sports and they always get neutered on TV. Digital TV improves that somewhat but it would be cool to have a 4 disc set with all footage of the games (250mb/hr seems realistic because you don't need fancy 7.1 sound and blu-ray supports h264 and wmv9; 4hr/gig => 400hrs per disc).
Of course BBC multicast and pay-per-view download offers would be even better but face it the media corps prefer discs because you have physical entities for easier control over the content.