I know you were semi-joking here, but this is exactly why many airlines require their first officers and captains to have different meals. It makes it that much harder for terrorists to take over a plane after slipping roofies into the food supply, because they would have to poison all the food, not just one particular dish.
I'm sorry, but WTF?! That rule is to prevent food poisoning from taking out a plane, not terrahrists. Really, screw the terrorists. The more you spaz over random dangerous crap, the more they win, whomever they are.
I had one person complain that since LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation, that the light itself was radioactive and therefore could cause cancer!
Well, UV light can cause cancer, but I suppose he meant something else. I hope you advised him to go hide in a basement for the rest of his natural life...
Very few things were made by the human hand more than 10,000 years ago (even fewer that were intended to last this long), so of course few things have lasted till now.
The point here is that we have little experience in building for endurance of this magnitude. It's not a statistical argument - it's an engineering argument.
My home-built kit car has a Ford engine. There's a problem with the engine. Ford needs to fix it
Well, yes. If Ford has a manufacturing defect in their engine, they do need to fix it. In keeping with the analogy, this Ford engine may well reside in a Saleen car.
No, we backtracked on that when we had the story about France trying to impose their laws on a US company (Yahoo).
Gee, what's wrong with that? We impose our laws on foregin companies operating in the us, after all.
Of course, they shouldn't be imposing their laws on the US presence, but yahoo.fr is fine.
Can't help but wonder if that's "200,000 years under ideal, laboratory conditions" and this is projected (unless they've been working on it for a really long time.
Nothing that a human hand has made has lasted much past 10,000 years, much less 10,000 years with no maintenance. It's safe to say that 200,000 years is a guess at best.
That Dell monitor is probably a rebadged Samsung or LG.
Makes sense. Samsung is the market leader, after all.
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As for the illegals I highly doubt any american wants to pick fruit for 12 hours at 2 dollars an hour.
Well, duh. The linked article cites illegals a s a large problem because they are willing to work for $2/hr. If it wasn't for them, then the farmers would have to pay a higher wage for labor. Then they might have incentive to be more efficient. In any event, we won't be seeing a tripling in the cost of fruit - labor is only part of the cost.
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Look, the rate of unemployment is 5.4%. It was 5.5% when Bill Clinton ran for reelection in 96. Amazingly, 5.4% for Bush is considered bad, 5.5% for Clinton is considered good. Go figure. Now if you're going to rant about job losses, you must remember the average rate for unemployment is roughly 6%. The mid-4s when Bush entered office were downright unusually low rates.
The way the rate is calculated was changed after Bush took office, so 5.4 is not comparable to 5.5 12 years ago. You're probably missing a whole 2 or 3 percent.
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No the Figure is not inaccurate, they are correct.
Spoken like somebody with food on the table. The unemployment figures may be an accurate representation of a statistic, but they are not even close to an accurate representation of the actual unemployment rate. Rather they are a stat for the numbr of people on unemployment. Once your benefits go away, you're no longer unemployed - congratulations!
The people who want to die, are going to die.
I dare you to go to the midwest and say that to somebody's face. With any luck, they'll kill you and take your job.
And let's face it. Programs like Keyhole and the free World Wind are only going to get better from here on. 5-10 years from now you're going to able to pan from San Francisco to Paris, either way around, and have a 1-5meter resolution all the way, so that you can count every Starbuck along the way if you feel like it.
Who's going to spend the time to photograph the Atlantic at 1M resolution?
Um, to their benefit, Itanium was not, nor ever will be, a workstation processor. Heck, it's not even a "serve-your-shitty-perl-app-over-the-web" processor.
It's a HPC processor.
It's a low-volume proc. Intel will either watch as the Itanium is eclipsed by everybody+dog or lose money on the whole thing. Generic processors beat niche every time - that's how Intel made their fortune.
They started this back in the days of the Pentium, when it looked like the x86 CPU architecture and instruction set were the big problems. The Itanium design team didn't forsee the crazy lengths that would be taken--by both Intel and AMD--in order to speed up the crappy x86 architecture.
The architecture is actually rather nice now. It's only the instruction set that sucks, and that's a fairly small part of the transistor count.
Honestly, you can't fault Intel for trying.
Nope, but I can fault them for not knifing this thing in 97 or 98.
Oh God. Please tell me you didn't go in for one of those closed source software packages....
You mean, like that ancient package that your company wrote, but then lost the source? You don't always have the source, and why recompile when you can just, um, not recompile?
They service different markets. That HP decided not to compete in the HPC market is fine by me.
What do you think AMD64 is? You can go to 8 way smp before you have to worry about expensive interconnect hardware, it has rather nice bandwidth and generally shows a ton of potential.
Sure, but unless you really know what you're doing, the overall experience will still suck compared to a real STi, because you won't have the suspension, brakes, etc. to match the performance. It'll probably cost you a lot more than just buying an STi from a Subaru dealer, too. At the risk of over-soundbiting, the overall package is more than the sum of its parts, and the weakest link in the chain is what matters.
Actually, I will - most of those parts carry over rather well. The problem is usually that I'd spend more money. That and getting everything just right. I might be beter served muying the faster car and upgrading that.
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I know you were semi-joking here, but this is exactly why many airlines require their first officers and captains to have different meals. It makes it that much harder for terrorists to take over a plane after slipping roofies into the food supply, because they would have to poison all the food, not just one particular dish.
I'm sorry, but WTF?! That rule is to prevent food poisoning from taking out a plane, not terrahrists. Really, screw the terrorists. The more you spaz over random dangerous crap, the more they win, whomever they are.
I had one person complain that since LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation, that the light itself was radioactive and therefore could cause cancer!
Well, UV light can cause cancer, but I suppose he meant something else. I hope you advised him to go hide in a basement for the rest of his natural life...
I bet a good 40% of the people would approve of impaling terrorists.
Hey, as long as I get to choose the terrorists, no problem...
Almost exactly 10,000 years, it seems, although I don't know what condition those houses are in. Is there anything older?
There's an intersection in the vicinity of Cairo that's been in continuous use for the past 11000 years or so. Not sure if that counts, though.
Very few things were made by the human hand more than 10,000 years ago (even fewer that were intended to last this long), so of course few things have lasted till now.
The point here is that we have little experience in building for endurance of this magnitude. It's not a statistical argument - it's an engineering argument.
for those that don't know, he had a 9 second Ferrari also... so he excels in everything that he does
Hell, anyone with half a million can have a 9 second Ferrari. Or they could go buy a Porsche and run it on an actual race track.
My home-built kit car has a Ford engine. There's a problem with the engine. Ford needs to fix it
Well, yes. If Ford has a manufacturing defect in their engine, they do need to fix it. In keeping with the analogy, this Ford engine may well reside in a Saleen car.
No, we backtracked on that when we had the story about France trying to impose their laws on a US company (Yahoo).
Gee, what's wrong with that? We impose our laws on foregin companies operating in the us, after all. Of course, they shouldn't be imposing their laws on the US presence, but yahoo.fr is fine.
It would really suck if we have highly radioactive lava spewing out of a volcano a few thousand years after we put this stuff in the ground.
Who cares? the stuff under the crust is already radioactive. a ton, more or less, won't make any difference.
Can't help but wonder if that's "200,000 years under ideal, laboratory conditions" and this is projected (unless they've been working on it for a really long time.
Nothing that a human hand has made has lasted much past 10,000 years, much less 10,000 years with no maintenance. It's safe to say that 200,000 years is a guess at best.
Heating the soil up that high to melt it into glass will also vaporize the lead and send it into the air.
...which you capture and sell - Profit!
I haven't seen a machine with interrupt conflicts since probably 2000, and that was old hardware with all those PnP problems old machines had.
I have, but that waas solved by moving the card to a different PCI slot. Most likely, it was a poorly designed device.
That Dell monitor is probably a rebadged Samsung or LG.
Makes sense. Samsung is the market leader, after all.
As for the illegals I highly doubt any american wants to pick fruit for 12 hours at 2 dollars an hour.
Well, duh. The linked article cites illegals a s a large problem because they are willing to work for $2/hr. If it wasn't for them, then the farmers would have to pay a higher wage for labor. Then they might have incentive to be more efficient. In any event, we won't be seeing a tripling in the cost of fruit - labor is only part of the cost.
Look, the rate of unemployment is 5.4%. It was 5.5% when Bill Clinton ran for reelection in 96. Amazingly, 5.4% for Bush is considered bad, 5.5% for Clinton is considered good. Go figure. Now if you're going to rant about job losses, you must remember the average rate for unemployment is roughly 6%. The mid-4s when Bush entered office were downright unusually low rates.
The way the rate is calculated was changed after Bush took office, so 5.4 is not comparable to 5.5 12 years ago. You're probably missing a whole 2 or 3 percent.
No the Figure is not inaccurate, they are correct.
Spoken like somebody with food on the table. The unemployment figures may be an accurate representation of a statistic, but they are not even close to an accurate representation of the actual unemployment rate. Rather they are a stat for the numbr of people on unemployment. Once your benefits go away, you're no longer unemployed - congratulations!
The people who want to die, are going to die.
I dare you to go to the midwest and say that to somebody's face. With any luck, they'll kill you and take your job.
And let's face it. Programs like Keyhole and the free World Wind are only going to get better from here on. 5-10 years from now you're going to able to pan from San Francisco to Paris, either way around, and have a 1-5meter resolution all the way, so that you can count every Starbuck along the way if you feel like it.
Who's going to spend the time to photograph the Atlantic at 1M resolution?
Intel is not in the business of making special purpose CPUs. That's something Cray and Sequent (IIRC) wer famous for, and look where it got them?
The later Crays were all Alpha based, as I recall. Problem is, there are only so many things that demand that level of CPU grunt.
Um, to their benefit, Itanium was not, nor ever will be, a workstation processor. Heck, it's not even a "serve-your-shitty-perl-app-over-the-web" processor.
It's a HPC processor.
It's a low-volume proc. Intel will either watch as the Itanium is eclipsed by everybody+dog or lose money on the whole thing. Generic processors beat niche every time - that's how Intel made their fortune.
Intel had difficulties in spitting out enough 386 chips, so they drew up an agreement to co-fab the 386.
My understanding was that Intel licensed the architecture because the pentagon wasn't willing to single source anything.
They started this back in the days of the Pentium, when it looked like the x86 CPU architecture and instruction set were the big problems. The Itanium design team didn't forsee the crazy lengths that would be taken--by both Intel and AMD--in order to speed up the crappy x86 architecture.
The architecture is actually rather nice now. It's only the instruction set that sucks, and that's a fairly small part of the transistor count.
Honestly, you can't fault Intel for trying.
Nope, but I can fault them for not knifing this thing in 97 or 98.
Oh God. Please tell me you didn't go in for one of those closed source software packages....
You mean, like that ancient package that your company wrote, but then lost the source? You don't always have the source, and why recompile when you can just, um, not recompile?
They service different markets. That HP decided not to compete in the HPC market is fine by me.
What do you think AMD64 is? You can go to 8 way smp before you have to worry about expensive interconnect hardware, it has rather nice bandwidth and generally shows a ton of potential.
Sure, but unless you really know what you're doing, the overall experience will still suck compared to a real STi, because you won't have the suspension, brakes, etc. to match the performance. It'll probably cost you a lot more than just buying an STi from a Subaru dealer, too. At the risk of over-soundbiting, the overall package is more than the sum of its parts, and the weakest link in the chain is what matters.
Actually, I will - most of those parts carry over rather well. The problem is usually that I'd spend more money. That and getting everything just right. I might be beter served muying the faster car and upgrading that.
Forged pistons in your trans eh?
Forged pistons and a turbo in my engine, chunks of metal in my tranny.