Actually the fraction of oil that has reached the surface and the coast is tiny compared to what is still in the water. The marshes will be in far worse shape if we just do nothing. And compared to the Jindall plan of dredging up a new coastline to absorb the brunt of the oil, a temporary underwater curtain is likely to be fantastically cheaper, less destructive, and more effective.
Sheesh, next you'll deny the economic crisis was actually caused by the government forcing poor old mortgage companies to extend loans to money-grubbing poor people!
If you're right, then this case is more about net neutrality than political/religious censorship. Does Turkey have some sort of UK-style TV tax that youtube could be seen as circumventing? This would not be too unlike here were cable or satellite networks sometimes lose access to a TV channel due to payment disputes - except that in this case one side is a government and the other is an overseas company.
Whose bright idea was it to put the UPS and backup systems in the portion of the building that is first to be flooded... Sounds like something a government would do....
Now if only we could re-play the situation with the equipment on an upper floor and destroyed by a tornado. I'll bet your response would be identical.
Not if it's just some power supplies and UPSs that got wrecked. A duplicate datacenter just amounts to pre-emptive purchasing of the very same equipment, plus more they wouldn't have ended up using.
It's good for the world that labor in china is getting more expensive in every way except the most short-term "I want my shit cheap right now" way.
Well, they are going to be using a lot more resources - eating more meat, driving more cars, more precious metals, all that good stuff. Energy costs will soar when the global economy recovers. But don't get me wrong, I can hardly complain when their consumption is on average still a fraction of mine. And maybe their armies of engineers will figure out a post-fossil-fuel economy.
If your 24 room school costs $12M to build, which seems believable, then your empty room cost $500K. You can pull your hair out to "save" $2500 worth of hard drives and $1250 worth of chassis/power supplies, but that's a false economy. And you'll never be able to piecewise upgrade.
I agree the multi-seat would probably only help IF it economized those things - real estate square footage and administrative cost. Unfortunately my own experience with multi-seat tells me that as things stand, it's easier just to maintain N computers. And PCs have gotten more power efficient with CPU speed scaling (for desktops too) and "green" hard drives etc, so consolidating several PCs doesn't save so much on energy anymore either.
You just reminded me of a Usenet post I made in the mid 90's asking a technical question about OpenGL. This was when SGI owned 3d graphics and openly scorned the presumption of a PC ever rivaling them. Something about my question made it PC-specific and they flamed me like a heretic.
I think a 4 or 6 core CPU could support 12 users in many cases. I could see building a computer lab at a school this way to minimize administrative burden. But it's too bad multi-seat linux doesn't work better. I have struggled with it on and off over the years, and it just doesn't seem to have critical mass of interest to gain real distro support.
Privacy in health care is not an easy issue. Yes, personal medical information needs to be private. But at the same time, for medicine to advance as a science and to become more cost-effective, requires data on what is being done, why, and what is being charged. Part of the reason US health care is so expensive is because it's a "free market" with no transparency, so everybody is flying in the dark.
Environmental monitoring seems like one area where the US does not need to be self-sufficient. I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill.
What's more, are you under the delusion that making a law prevents it?
That's a bizarre statement, since smog controls have been extremely effective. In California, smog controls have made the air is better than it was 30 years ago, even though there are far more cars on the road. By now it would be almost uninhabitable there without those laws.
The article says SpaceX got $278 million from NASA to develop the rocket. Apparently we spent $1.500 billion on Ares in FY10 alone, and spent $445 million on a single sub-orbital test flight for Ares in '09.
Uh, no. Unacceptably to you. Please stay out of other's ppl's way of life. What makes you think you know best for the rest of the US, and by extension, the world?
By "stay out of my life," do you mean "stop polluting the air I breathe," or "stop telling me to put a smog regulator on my car?"
While the occasional sinkhole is scary and dramatic, the human costs of staying put and paying closer attention to hydrology, and possibly dealing with the occasional sinkhole incident, are almost certainly lower than trying to move on that scale.
I agree relocating en masse is unlikely. There has to be some way to map this. If we can find oil deposits under a mile of water and another mile of rock, there must be a way to do this. Maybe ground penetrating radar. Perhaps total collapse is preceded by depressions that can be tracked over time with synthetic aperture radar. There must be a way.
I don't enjoy playing unless it's at the pointy end of the spectrum, so I have pretty much given it away.
By this I gather you mean it's not fun unless you're one of the better players. I find it very annoying a casual gamer like myself can't have a good match because the people online are simply too good. I can see why they feel compelled to play and play for hours per day. I am playing Forza 3 on XBox 360 and the only way to have a good game is to arrange a private match with fellow casual gamers (which is hard). Why isn't there a ladder system!? My brother just sold his copy of Modern Warfare for the same reason - even playing for ~4 hrs / week wasn't cutting it. So, most of my playing is splitscreen Star Wars Battlefront with my son on the PS2.
Hasn't the Nintendo proven that there's a big market for casual gamers? The online matchmaking services need to better support us instead of just catering to the vocal hardcore gamers this article is about. I pay the same for XBox Live as anybody else; and on an hour-to-hour basis, far more.
Another way is to simply time the number of seconds taken to travel a known distance (with a stopwatch, not Ohio-style "one-mississippi, two-mississippi...")
It ain't rocket science, but why bother when you can just write tickets whenever you feel like it with no proof?
To all the minorities in Ohio, let me offer my condolences.
Their not ignorant. The OP is ignorant. While there may be research being done, there are NOT animal-human hybrids, nor are there likely to be for some time. They may be splicing bits here and here, like the growing of the human ear on the mouse, but the mouse ITSELF is not a hybrid. There are NOT hybrid animals running around!
Previous attempts to combine unmodified pig lungs and human blood ended abruptly two years ago when blood clots began forming almost immediately, causing the organs to become so blocked no blood could pass through.
Human DNA is now added to the pigs as they are reared to reduce clotting and the number of lungs which are rejected.
The full results of the research are due to be announced in Vancouver in August.
The issue has prompted an ethical debate about the use of animals for human transplants.
Medical ethicist Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini said: "It is basically a human-pig, a hybrid, or whatever you want to call it.
"It is about whether the community is prepared to accept a part human, part animal."
Here is another article with several links. Quoting: "We've derived stem cells by inserting human genomes in rabbit eggs. We've made mice with human prostate glands. We've made sheep with nearly half-human livers. This week, Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences reported (PDF) that scientists have created "thousands of examples of transgenic animals" carrying human DNA. According to the report, "the introduction of human gene sequences into mouse cells in vitro is a technique now practiced in virtually every biomedical research institution across the world."
Ultimately, that just boils down to an argument against free speech on the basis that some people will tell half-truths, spinning the facts in their own favor. It's true of course. But the only effective countermeasure is to let both sides gather their evidence and present their case.
In practice, police never get prosecuted unless their actions are really egregious. And usually not even then.
There is nothing wrong with hiding most things you might do on your own property, for example in your bedroom; nor your banking transactions etc. Privacy in those realms is good.
Performing your state-sponsored job duties in public spaces, on the other hand, is quite different.
I guess it just goes to show how quickly a field is progressing when 2/3 of the comments on a slashdot story ignorantly assume it's still science fiction and couldn't possibly require legislation.
However, I hope this is defined very carefully not to preclude important medical research. Growing a human ear on a mouse, for example, might seem like a gross waste of time, but perhaps not if you're a soldier whose soft tissue was burned off by an IED. (That image is from way back in 1997 BTW).
Iridium Satellite LLC is actually profitable, unlike the original Iridium LLC which went bankrupt promptly after launching the system and sold it to Iridium Satellite for pennies on the dollar.
That said, I don't know to what extent the actual management personnel changed. Maybe the bankruptcy and sale was just a big shell game to screw over the first wave of creditors and investors.
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Actually the fraction of oil that has reached the surface and the coast is tiny compared to what is still in the water. The marshes will be in far worse shape if we just do nothing. And compared to the Jindall plan of dredging up a new coastline to absorb the brunt of the oil, a temporary underwater curtain is likely to be fantastically cheaper, less destructive, and more effective.
Sheesh, next you'll deny the economic crisis was actually caused by the government forcing poor old mortgage companies to extend loans to money-grubbing poor people!
If you're right, then this case is more about net neutrality than political/religious censorship. Does Turkey have some sort of UK-style TV tax that youtube could be seen as circumventing? This would not be too unlike here were cable or satellite networks sometimes lose access to a TV channel due to payment disputes - except that in this case one side is a government and the other is an overseas company.
Now if only we could re-play the situation with the equipment on an upper floor and destroyed by a tornado. I'll bet your response would be identical.
Not if it's just some power supplies and UPSs that got wrecked. A duplicate datacenter just amounts to pre-emptive purchasing of the very same equipment, plus more they wouldn't have ended up using.
Well, they are going to be using a lot more resources - eating more meat, driving more cars, more precious metals, all that good stuff. Energy costs will soar when the global economy recovers. But don't get me wrong, I can hardly complain when their consumption is on average still a fraction of mine. And maybe their armies of engineers will figure out a post-fossil-fuel economy.
I agree the multi-seat would probably only help IF it economized those things - real estate square footage and administrative cost. Unfortunately my own experience with multi-seat tells me that as things stand, it's easier just to maintain N computers. And PCs have gotten more power efficient with CPU speed scaling (for desktops too) and "green" hard drives etc, so consolidating several PCs doesn't save so much on energy anymore either.
You just reminded me of a Usenet post I made in the mid 90's asking a technical question about OpenGL. This was when SGI owned 3d graphics and openly scorned the presumption of a PC ever rivaling them. Something about my question made it PC-specific and they flamed me like a heretic.
I think a 4 or 6 core CPU could support 12 users in many cases. I could see building a computer lab at a school this way to minimize administrative burden. But it's too bad multi-seat linux doesn't work better. I have struggled with it on and off over the years, and it just doesn't seem to have critical mass of interest to gain real distro support.
Privacy in health care is not an easy issue. Yes, personal medical information needs to be private. But at the same time, for medicine to advance as a science and to become more cost-effective, requires data on what is being done, why, and what is being charged. Part of the reason US health care is so expensive is because it's a "free market" with no transparency, so everybody is flying in the dark.
Environmental monitoring seems like one area where the US does not need to be self-sufficient. I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill.
That's a bizarre statement, since smog controls have been extremely effective. In California, smog controls have made the air is better than it was 30 years ago, even though there are far more cars on the road. By now it would be almost uninhabitable there without those laws.
The article says SpaceX got $278 million from NASA to develop the rocket. Apparently we spent $1.500 billion on Ares in FY10 alone, and spent $445 million on a single sub-orbital test flight for Ares in '09.
So in this case, to you "stay out of my life" means "go ahead and pollute the air I breathe."
By "stay out of my life," do you mean "stop polluting the air I breathe," or "stop telling me to put a smog regulator on my car?"
I agree relocating en masse is unlikely. There has to be some way to map this. If we can find oil deposits under a mile of water and another mile of rock, there must be a way to do this. Maybe ground penetrating radar. Perhaps total collapse is preceded by depressions that can be tracked over time with synthetic aperture radar. There must be a way.
By this I gather you mean it's not fun unless you're one of the better players. I find it very annoying a casual gamer like myself can't have a good match because the people online are simply too good. I can see why they feel compelled to play and play for hours per day. I am playing Forza 3 on XBox 360 and the only way to have a good game is to arrange a private match with fellow casual gamers (which is hard). Why isn't there a ladder system!? My brother just sold his copy of Modern Warfare for the same reason - even playing for ~4 hrs / week wasn't cutting it. So, most of my playing is splitscreen Star Wars Battlefront with my son on the PS2.
Hasn't the Nintendo proven that there's a big market for casual gamers? The online matchmaking services need to better support us instead of just catering to the vocal hardcore gamers this article is about. I pay the same for XBox Live as anybody else; and on an hour-to-hour basis, far more.
It ain't rocket science, but why bother when you can just write tickets whenever you feel like it with no proof?
To all the minorities in Ohio, let me offer my condolences.
Another cite:
Here is another article with several links. Quoting: "We've derived stem cells by inserting human genomes in rabbit eggs. We've made mice with human prostate glands. We've made sheep with nearly half-human livers. This week, Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences reported (PDF) that scientists have created "thousands of examples of transgenic animals" carrying human DNA. According to the report, "the introduction of human gene sequences into mouse cells in vitro is a technique now practiced in virtually every biomedical research institution across the world."
In practice, police never get prosecuted unless their actions are really egregious. And usually not even then.
Performing your state-sponsored job duties in public spaces, on the other hand, is quite different.
The above link is still relevant but I meant to post this better image.
I guess it just goes to show how quickly a field is progressing when 2/3 of the comments on a slashdot story ignorantly assume it's still science fiction and couldn't possibly require legislation. However, I hope this is defined very carefully not to preclude important medical research. Growing a human ear on a mouse, for example, might seem like a gross waste of time, but perhaps not if you're a soldier whose soft tissue was burned off by an IED. (That image is from way back in 1997 BTW).
That said, I don't know to what extent the actual management personnel changed. Maybe the bankruptcy and sale was just a big shell game to screw over the first wave of creditors and investors.