I see soldiers every single day, and I try to thank every one I meet for their service in support of their country.
A cousin of mine used to be in the Army, thanks that's great! Now he's a civilian and has a huge Mercedes which he loves.
As for the Stargate Universe soldier having sex - you should show that to your son, because it's an obvious plot line that he could be discovered and disciplined and/or blackmailed in later episodes, he should not absorb every act that an actor makes on TV, otherwise he just has to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando to work out it's ok to procure Army equipment and fight a private war by invading another country without orders to do so. If I was writing Stargate Universe I would have that crazy marine who was locked up going and discovering him having sex with the female soldier, taking a picture, and saying "Yeah now I got you" then he goes on some sort of rampage, going to other worlds and killing aliens for their technology, all the while blackmailing the soldier that had sex saying "I have a picture of you having sex while on duty - I'm going to show it to the Colonel unless you cover up my crimes". And then all 3 get discovered and then bam you have one hell of an intergalactic Court martial yes yes yes! And your son won't be able to understand any of that if/when it happens because you pressed the skip button.
and have happily kicked the ass of several people who have tried to "whip my ass after 8 beers." I personally find drunk people amusing, especially since they so overestimate their physical prowess
I know a few people that can't control their violent urges when drunk, it's funny sometimes but they've come close to hurting themselves badly which is a shame cos when sober they're very nice people. I just tend to hug people when I get drunk so yeah I'm a bit of a wus unfortunately.
My son has training in martial arts, and participates in several sports. The difference between him, and any progeny that might be sorrowfully produced by your loins, is that after winning, or losing, my son will walk up to your son, and shake his hand, and say, "Good Game" and mean it. While your offspring will be the one who shouts back at him, "F*** YOU A**HOLE!" And I can say with some assurance, that this most often happens when the opposing team is from "Christian" schools, so don't try to tar and feather me with some religious brush either, because you can't. I've studied and read and possess every major holy book from every major religion, Torah, Bible, Koran, Nag Hamadi, Veda, Five Pillars, Tibetan Book of the Dead, etc, etc. Religion is a wonderful thing, but the people who practice it are flawed, and the institutions they build tend to reflect the people rather than the religion
I know a guy that used to change the rules of the game whenever he lost a point, like "You have to double-check the ball, it's the rules" and I'm like "Dude, we've been playing basketball for the last hour, that's a new rule dumbass!". Honestly, I don't know how my kids are gonna turn out cos I don't have any yet.
Number four, in spite of your criticisms of me, you apparently can't understand the simple basis of this nation, and if you can't understand the freedom that I have to raise my children with critical thought and a moral basis behind decisions, in any manner I desire, then you, sir, are part of the problem.
Ah ha! Got ya there! Suppose it was just the military that ended up on that spaceship, then if the spaceship takes more than 100 years to return to Earth, then everybody on the spaceship would be dead, and unmanned perhaps the spaceship would crash into Earth killing millions of Americans. If the orders were relaxed and the chain of command was relaxed, then the soldiers could take procreative actions amongst themselves and some actual real living people would arrive back with the ship when it returns to Earth, and these grandsons and gr
I have spent time teaching my son that having sex is a major, life-changing decision. The repercussions of being sexually active are large and important. Were they to have shown a loving, caring, relationship, culminating in a physical relationship, I'd have had far less issue with it. What they chose to do, however, was to show, as acceptable and correct, what used to be called a "back-alley stand-up".
So you're teaching your children to be exactly like you, you are imposing a patriarchal system on them. You're also teaching your children to follow morality and rules to the letter, that's Communism - not US democracy and that is out of line with the spirit of the Constitution of the United States. Let me tell you after your kid leaves home and has a 8 beers he's gonna get his ass whooped. Even heroes have dark sides - just look at the atrocities committed by United States troops in torchering prisoners at Abu Gheraib prison in Iraq. Those soldiers that committed the torcher could just say "Heck I was just following orders", do you want your kid to end up like that?
Extremely interesting. You can be a historian yourself - just take the GPS locations of the tunnel entrances, use a compass to see their direction underground, and that should do it. It's really easy to build a tunnel, it's working out whether it goes to interesting places that's the thing. There are tunnels underneath London that people can wander around in - some contain steam and heating ducts, some for telecoms and power. In Russia there should be loads of tunnels for transmission of steam heating from CHP plants.
Gasoline engines have maximum efficiency in terms of power produced per drop of gasoline injected at about 75% throttle and between 1700rpm to 4000rpm. A bmep/bar chart (throttle opening on y axis versus rpm on x axis with a contour map of efficiency zones) will show you this, available at my local library. Accelerating hard is more fuel efficient. Accelerating harder than 75% results in fuel enrichment in modern cars (more gasoline in the fuel air mix) which decreases efficiency.
Sounds like you really don't know how cars work, then. Older mechanical fuel injection systems or carburetors CAN get better mileage with full-throttle acceleration
Modern cars enrich their fuel-air mixtures at above 75% throttle so you're using a hell of a lot more gas, at throttle settings below this the EMS and oxygen sensor set lambda=1 which is perfect gas composition for the Cat.
This is why retirement ages should be mandatory. If a significant proportion of voters were retirees, and Congress knew that they had to retire and live on a pension, they would vote in policies that maintain a stable system for older people because everybody would eventually become members of it.
Don't ban it. Let the market work. Make it expensive, and it will stop. This is something the government should be doing: add taxes and tariffs to things that are harmful and cause problems for society; give tax breaks to things that are helpful and do good things for society. That was the reason they gave the tax breaks in this case, but maybe the government dropped the ball here by not getting a solid agreement in writing (I don't know, maybe they have one, and the poo will hit the fan soon, I didn't RTFA, because I'm not new here).
Rubbish. By offshoring work, American products become cheaper, increasing the number of customers and therefore the profit of the company. Just go to rent-a-coder.com and commission a prject using an Indian developer and sell it to one of those rich bosses, be a middle man. Someone has to "manage" those overseas projects. Price comes down, that means American businesses can afford to use MORE software, increasing computerisation increases the efficiency of businesses. So these Indians are increasing the efficiency of the US businesses that use software, which is pretty much everyone, increasing the efficiency of the US economy, allowing it to deliver all products such as steel, tractors, trains cheaper than anybody else
Unless the American people stop this, it's going to get worse. WE allowed this to happen. WE allow companies like Neilsen and Citigroup to take advantage of us like this. Accordingly, WE get reamed.
And do what? Only a God forbid worker-centric semi-socialism like Norway/Sweden/UK cares about the human rights of the workers by a significant amount of Government legislation. Does an American pray-tell want more Government legislation over working practices and businesses? The American people can't stop this, only the American government can.
NEVER EVER testing what they produced before delivering (sometimes it did not even COMPILE
In my experience, this is because when coding a deadline is always set, as long as you hit that deadline the managers don't care if the code compiles or whether it was all taken from GPLed code. Any newbie knows how to use the compile button.
indian and japanese kids are taught algebra at age 5, how can the future workers of the USA compete with these kids that study 16 hours a day because their parents know there is no welfare check for them if they fail in this globalised world?
that's why i bought the nokia n95 instead of the iphone, it has 3g hdpa as well as edge as well as pretty much all the same features - posted from my nokia n95
I can tell you that in the pre-Windows days, electricity had outages, television had outages, telephone service had outages, gas service had outages... For the same reason we have them today -- people aren't willing to accept the economic and aesthetic costs of providing those services at the level of reliability you and the author are demanding.
I agree, the fixed phone network with high reliability was largely built during wartime so electricity outages were expected during bombing/sabotage so they were built with UPS and generators up its ass. If it were built right now it wouldn't have that - you can see that from the lack of UPS/generators for GSM and 3G antennae
In addition to this, by adding power management, it's possible to reduce data center power use also. If you monitored temp and turned off fans when not needed, less power used, less heat generated, less cooling needed overall. If all hardware were built in such a way the hardware on a quad nic card that is not used could be powered off after configuration... as an example. Nic cards could be the last thing to be powered up.
If heat and energy usage were that much of a problem then the laws of capitalism dictate that all the World's datacentres would be located in Antarctica.
I won't even touch the fact that you are basically advocating the widespread use of cheap labor (interns/co-op students) as a really, really, really good thing. I mean, I work with some smart, young guys.... and in addition to their intelligence, they are also possessed of a naivete about how things REALLY work that REALLY limits their utility and value, amongst other severe flaws unique to the TALENTED young professional. Furthermore, trying to devalue the programming profession, in this way, such that it turns into Mexican day labour REALLY isn't the way to find programming superstars....
There is a fanaticism in corporations about experience, and these poor graduates are penalised as a result. Sad, I have no idea where this big "experience" thing comes from, and how much talent Capitalism just wastes by underemploying intelligent young people in McJobs and letting only a small minority through into Banks/engineering/professions.
I am sure "aging" can apply as well as "experience", experience only selects people that have kept the same type of job for a long time. The naivety of young people is incredible, they believe that Capitalism is somehow fair in allocating money to superior engineering, this only happens in Sony, that's why people prefer to buy those products, but not in American corporations. Young professionals learn, that way they become veteran professionals, everybody started off as a baby once, and there is not one baby l33t cod3r.
the possibility for an external HT3 bus on a machine which could be used to link together multiple physical machines into one giant NUMA beast
That's what the Cray XT5 does - uses Hypertransport on new AMD Quad Core Barcelona to link multiple CPUs via their Seastar chip, and with FPGA accelerators too, sheesh
sometimes processing power is more applicable, other times people want both, or someone is willing to take a lesser CPU power and get a better video card. How are they going to match the consumer preference
With lots and lots of different products, just look at it now:
AMD Athlon and Athlon X2
AMD Phenom tri-core (cheap) and quad core (more expensive), black edition
AMD Barcelona 23xx
AMD Barcelona 83xx for over 2 CPUs
The more products are out there, the more easily AMD can fit into a niche where it doesn't compete with Intel which any MBA would tell you is THE place to be when you're a company.
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Is it? Don't gamerz upgrade their $1500 gaphics card every three months or so?
Exactly! Imagine how much money AMD would make if everyone upgraded their CPU every three months!!! It's their master plan!
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Then they go off and buy ATI? Wouldn't it make sense to hang onto money a bit more than just purchase another company? Could that move end up dragging ATI down too?
When fly by wire was 1st put out there ( it became required since the planes were so big and the control surfaces were so large that you could not move them without hydraulics ) pilots went nuts because of the lack of feedback, especially when approaching stall speed! There was not buffeting of the controls that one normally feels, especially from the elevator. Boeing had to go back and design in a hydraulics system to actually shake the control yoke when the computer knew you were getting ready to stall!
Yeah! A Boeing or something crashed because of single engine failure, and the copilot was flying and didn't have a stick-shaker, he pulled up and stalled the plane killing a whole bunch of passengers!
ALL turbine engines have permanent magnet alternators mechanically connected to the engine core and will generate enough power to keep the FADEC and ECC running at as little as 9% N2 and some even have them on N1 as well.
Even in complete engine failure cases you have the emergency generator on A320, and then if you're out of fuel, there's always the RAT
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I see soldiers every single day, and I try to thank every one I meet for their service in support of their country.
A cousin of mine used to be in the Army, thanks that's great! Now he's a civilian and has a huge Mercedes which he loves.
As for the Stargate Universe soldier having sex - you should show that to your son, because it's an obvious plot line that he could be discovered and disciplined and/or blackmailed in later episodes, he should not absorb every act that an actor makes on TV, otherwise he just has to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando to work out it's ok to procure Army equipment and fight a private war by invading another country without orders to do so. If I was writing Stargate Universe I would have that crazy marine who was locked up going and discovering him having sex with the female soldier, taking a picture, and saying "Yeah now I got you" then he goes on some sort of rampage, going to other worlds and killing aliens for their technology, all the while blackmailing the soldier that had sex saying "I have a picture of you having sex while on duty - I'm going to show it to the Colonel unless you cover up my crimes". And then all 3 get discovered and then bam you have one hell of an intergalactic Court martial yes yes yes! And your son won't be able to understand any of that if/when it happens because you pressed the skip button.
and have happily kicked the ass of several people who have tried to "whip my ass after 8 beers." I personally find drunk people amusing, especially since they so overestimate their physical prowess
I know a few people that can't control their violent urges when drunk, it's funny sometimes but they've come close to hurting themselves badly which is a shame cos when sober they're very nice people. I just tend to hug people when I get drunk so yeah I'm a bit of a wus unfortunately.
My son has training in martial arts, and participates in several sports. The difference between him, and any progeny that might be sorrowfully produced by your loins, is that after winning, or losing, my son will walk up to your son, and shake his hand, and say, "Good Game" and mean it. While your offspring will be the one who shouts back at him, "F*** YOU A**HOLE!" And I can say with some assurance, that this most often happens when the opposing team is from "Christian" schools, so don't try to tar and feather me with some religious brush either, because you can't. I've studied and read and possess every major holy book from every major religion, Torah, Bible, Koran, Nag Hamadi, Veda, Five Pillars, Tibetan Book of the Dead, etc, etc. Religion is a wonderful thing, but the people who practice it are flawed, and the institutions they build tend to reflect the people rather than the religion
I know a guy that used to change the rules of the game whenever he lost a point, like "You have to double-check the ball, it's the rules" and I'm like "Dude, we've been playing basketball for the last hour, that's a new rule dumbass!". Honestly, I don't know how my kids are gonna turn out cos I don't have any yet.
Number four, in spite of your criticisms of me, you apparently can't understand the simple basis of this nation, and if you can't understand the freedom that I have to raise my children with critical thought and a moral basis behind decisions, in any manner I desire, then you, sir, are part of the problem.
Ah ha! Got ya there! Suppose it was just the military that ended up on that spaceship, then if the spaceship takes more than 100 years to return to Earth, then everybody on the spaceship would be dead, and unmanned perhaps the spaceship would crash into Earth killing millions of Americans. If the orders were relaxed and the chain of command was relaxed, then the soldiers could take procreative actions amongst themselves and some actual real living people would arrive back with the ship when it returns to Earth, and these grandsons and gr
So you're teaching your children to be exactly like you, you are imposing a patriarchal system on them. You're also teaching your children to follow morality and rules to the letter, that's Communism - not US democracy and that is out of line with the spirit of the Constitution of the United States. Let me tell you after your kid leaves home and has a 8 beers he's gonna get his ass whooped. Even heroes have dark sides - just look at the atrocities committed by United States troops in torchering prisoners at Abu Gheraib prison in Iraq. Those soldiers that committed the torcher could just say "Heck I was just following orders", do you want your kid to end up like that?
Extremely interesting. You can be a historian yourself - just take the GPS locations of the tunnel entrances, use a compass to see their direction underground, and that should do it. It's really easy to build a tunnel, it's working out whether it goes to interesting places that's the thing. There are tunnels underneath London that people can wander around in - some contain steam and heating ducts, some for telecoms and power. In Russia there should be loads of tunnels for transmission of steam heating from CHP plants.
I'd say the best way to get these resources is to evacuate Siberia and smash the asteroid into there, then go in and mine it
Gasoline engines have maximum efficiency in terms of power produced per drop of gasoline injected at about 75% throttle and between 1700rpm to 4000rpm. A bmep/bar chart (throttle opening on y axis versus rpm on x axis with a contour map of efficiency zones) will show you this, available at my local library. Accelerating hard is more fuel efficient. Accelerating harder than 75% results in fuel enrichment in modern cars (more gasoline in the fuel air mix) which decreases efficiency.
Modern cars enrich their fuel-air mixtures at above 75% throttle so you're using a hell of a lot more gas, at throttle settings below this the EMS and oxygen sensor set lambda=1 which is perfect gas composition for the Cat.
This is why retirement ages should be mandatory. If a significant proportion of voters were retirees, and Congress knew that they had to retire and live on a pension, they would vote in policies that maintain a stable system for older people because everybody would eventually become members of it.
Rubbish. By offshoring work, American products become cheaper, increasing the number of customers and therefore the profit of the company. Just go to rent-a-coder.com and commission a prject using an Indian developer and sell it to one of those rich bosses, be a middle man. Someone has to "manage" those overseas projects. Price comes down, that means American businesses can afford to use MORE software, increasing computerisation increases the efficiency of businesses. So these Indians are increasing the efficiency of the US businesses that use software, which is pretty much everyone, increasing the efficiency of the US economy, allowing it to deliver all products such as steel, tractors, trains cheaper than anybody else
And do what? Only a God forbid worker-centric semi-socialism like Norway/Sweden/UK cares about the human rights of the workers by a significant amount of Government legislation. Does an American pray-tell want more Government legislation over working practices and businesses? The American people can't stop this, only the American government can.
In my experience, this is because when coding a deadline is always set, as long as you hit that deadline the managers don't care if the code compiles or whether it was all taken from GPLed code. Any newbie knows how to use the compile button.
What's the point of worrying about asteroids when the Large Hadron Collider will create Mini Black Holes that could destroy Earth this October?
indian and japanese kids are taught algebra at age 5, how can the future workers of the USA compete with these kids that study 16 hours a day because their parents know there is no welfare check for them if they fail in this globalised world?
that's why i bought the nokia n95 instead of the iphone, it has 3g hdpa as well as edge as well as pretty much all the same features
- posted from my nokia n95
If heat and energy usage were that much of a problem then the laws of capitalism dictate that all the World's datacentres would be located in Antarctica.
There is a fanaticism in corporations about experience, and these poor graduates are penalised as a result. Sad, I have no idea where this big "experience" thing comes from, and how much talent Capitalism just wastes by underemploying intelligent young people in McJobs and letting only a small minority through into Banks/engineering/professions.
I am sure "aging" can apply as well as "experience", experience only selects people that have kept the same type of job for a long time. The naivety of young people is incredible, they believe that Capitalism is somehow fair in allocating money to superior engineering, this only happens in Sony, that's why people prefer to buy those products, but not in American corporations. Young professionals learn, that way they become veteran professionals, everybody started off as a baby once, and there is not one baby l33t cod3r.
With lots and lots of different products, just look at it now:
AMD Athlon and Athlon X2
AMD Phenom tri-core (cheap) and quad core (more expensive), black edition
AMD Barcelona 23xx
AMD Barcelona 83xx for over 2 CPUs
The more products are out there, the more easily AMD can fit into a niche where it doesn't compete with Intel which any MBA would tell you is THE place to be when you're a company.
What happened to Gallium Arsenide technology? It's supposed to be 10 times faster than silicon
And what about silicon germanium?