I'll tell ya. Optics systems have a property called retroreflection. Shine a laser into a lens and some of it will return right back to the source. A scanning laser can find the location of an optical system pointed at it quite quickly.
You could even do it with a bright IR flash and some image processing to look for the focused reflection. Just like spotting a racoon by the side of the road at night. Then you point your disruption laser at the target.
And in warfare, it's quite easy to use this property to find biological optical systems. AKA, eyeballs. Much stronger lasers can then be pointed at the targets to melt them.
Are you serious? You're using a work of fiction as a data point?
And you can't think of a solution to the problem (hold the officers of the company responsible for the actions of the company) which might even be superior to the solution I proposed?
Would Washington be a better place if MS just pulled up roots, and moved to another state? Another country?
A better question is this. Would the United States be a better country if we unleashed the "nuclear option" on entities that avoided paying their taxes and then added further harm on top of that by moving outside the USA?
Fuck yea. It's called treason if anybody else does it. If Microsoft does it, then it's time to revoke their corporate charter and seize all their assets. It's called the "corporate death penalty" and that's what we do when we can't put the traitor up in front of a firing squad.
Now quit being such a corporate apologist. Companies need to pay their taxes, just like you and me.
The guy you're responding to, tjstork, is an idiot, not worth your time. He's also a conservative, but I repeate myself. The only reason it's relevant is that his opinions come from his ideology. In his mind, you are already wrong because you like science, and science is paid for in large part by public dollars. This makes science the enemy to him.
He'll stick to his scientifically ignorant position, and you will fail to educate him.
Who said I was worried about them? Are you saying that it would be smart to re-arm Japan?
Because if you're arguing that, then I'll point that Japan is already re-armed. Other than the US and a handful of NATO members they have the most powerful Navy and Air Force in the World. They could become a nuclear power almost overnight if they made the decision to do so. The only thing Japan is lacking is the political will to flex it's military muscle to protect/advance it's national interests.
My point stands. No matter which way you approach the issue, it's stupid to re-arm Japan.
Notice that I said that I didn't need more. You might need more, but I don't. Now I will discuss my specific situation. Yours may be different.
I have a very large amount of RAM on my system. Absolutely huge. I use my computer for surfing porn, mostly. About 95% of my RAM is unused. I can fit hours of disk activity into the enormous cache that I have already.
Multilevel cache is more useful when the data you're working with won't fit into the cache you can afford. So, you make levels of cache - fast|expensive|small goes close to the CPU. Up from that is a little slower, a little cheaper, and a little bigger. You can make as many levels as you like, and you can get maybe 95% of the performance you would have gotten from one huge expensive fast cache.
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When we find God, I would like to ask him why so many of his followers (Pudge, RailGunner, Sarah Palin, Adolf Hitler) are such assholes.
I'll tell ya. Optics systems have a property called retroreflection. Shine a laser into a lens and some of it will return right back to the source. A scanning laser can find the location of an optical system pointed at it quite quickly.
You could even do it with a bright IR flash and some image processing to look for the focused reflection. Just like spotting a racoon by the side of the road at night. Then you point your disruption laser at the target.
And in warfare, it's quite easy to use this property to find biological optical systems. AKA, eyeballs. Much stronger lasers can then be pointed at the targets to melt them.
Are you serious? You're using a work of fiction as a data point?
And you can't think of a solution to the problem (hold the officers of the company responsible for the actions of the company) which might even be superior to the solution I proposed?
This is why you lose: You don't value reality.
Would Washington be a better place if MS just pulled up roots, and moved to another state? Another country?
A better question is this. Would the United States be a better country if we unleashed the "nuclear option" on entities that avoided paying their taxes and then added further harm on top of that by moving outside the USA?
Fuck yea. It's called treason if anybody else does it. If Microsoft does it, then it's time to revoke their corporate charter and seize all their assets. It's called the "corporate death penalty" and that's what we do when we can't put the traitor up in front of a firing squad.
Now quit being such a corporate apologist. Companies need to pay their taxes, just like you and me.
Meanwhile, Tanenbaum's MINIX requires 16MB of RAM. Good luck getting any kind of Linux to load in that amount of space.
I used to run Linux on a 2 megabyte machine, so I don't see the problem at all. I guess you kids are spoiled.
You can do that without a billion dollars. Which goes to show you, there's nothing more useless than a billion dollars.
Now, 10 million dollars, that's PLENTY useful. All kinds of shit you can do with 10 million dollars. None of them worth doing more than once though.
But growing weed is free, and it will always be free.
Awesome! Please continue.
The guy you're responding to, tjstork, is an idiot, not worth your time. He's also a conservative, but I repeate myself. The only reason it's relevant is that his opinions come from his ideology. In his mind, you are already wrong because you like science, and science is paid for in large part by public dollars. This makes science the enemy to him.
He'll stick to his scientifically ignorant position, and you will fail to educate him.
Just a heads up.
Keep them prezedents away from my childrenz! I dontz wanna get them too educated nor nothing!
In other words, you're cute when you're wrong.
Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the hordes of ignorant and fearful Republicans demonstrating their paranoia at tea parties.
Have you noticed that those people aren't actually drinking tea at those parties? This is very suspicious to me.
Alan Turing is dead beacause of Republicans.
Old applications like the ancient VMware 6.5.3.
When will those cocksuckers switch to ALSA?
OK, you get it. You may step aside while I fuck with the stupid people. Especially the ones who want to argue that we should re-RE-arm Japan.
So, you're saying that we should not re-arm Japan. That's what I'm saying too. So why are we disagreeing?
I can confirm that hair is made by breathing. That's why I hair in my nose and my ears.
Who said I was worried about them? Are you saying that it would be smart to re-arm Japan?
Because if you're arguing that, then I'll point that Japan is already re-armed. Other than the US and a handful of NATO members they have the most powerful Navy and Air Force in the World. They could become a nuclear power almost overnight if they made the decision to do so. The only thing Japan is lacking is the political will to flex it's military muscle to protect/advance it's national interests.
My point stands. No matter which way you approach the issue, it's stupid to re-arm Japan.
Right. Current is a measure of movement of charge in terms of time.
But if you want to quibble on little things, try my cock. I love to have it quibbled.
Anyway, this supposed solar hair panel is a damn hoax.
Yes, but how many of our aircraft carriers did the Soviets sink?
The suggestion that we should re-arm Japan is pretty stupid. Go ask anybody's grandpa how dumb that idea is.
Maybe we could re-arm the Soviet Union while we're at it.
Or, maybe we could all just admit that you said a dumb thing.
It'll probably run just fine until Apple pulls support for logarithms.
There is no situation that is so fucked up that calling the police cannot make it worse.
I don't boot my computer more than once in three months. NAND would be of limited use.
It's that time of year. The one time every annum when I respond graciously to a request without becoming belligerent. So there you go.
Notice that I said that I didn't need more. You might need more, but I don't. Now I will discuss my specific situation. Yours may be different.
I have a very large amount of RAM on my system. Absolutely huge. I use my computer for surfing porn, mostly. About 95% of my RAM is unused. I can fit hours of disk activity into the enormous cache that I have already.
Multilevel cache is more useful when the data you're working with won't fit into the cache you can afford. So, you make levels of cache - fast|expensive|small goes close to the CPU. Up from that is a little slower, a little cheaper, and a little bigger. You can make as many levels as you like, and you can get maybe 95% of the performance you would have gotten from one huge expensive fast cache.
see?
Oh there's a bunch of them. I don't need any more, certainly.