Anybody with strong feelings about which web browser is the best is probably spending too much time surfing the web, and is in fact suffering from an internet addiction. IE 7, Opera, and Firefox are all pretty similar from a normal end-user perspective.
Just a few short years ago, Linux users such as myself were becoming decidedly second-class citizens on the web, with many pages not working at all or not working right. Microsoft-specific extensions were polluting the web and making it hard to enjoy without paying Microsoft. I'm not talking about something that could have happened, that did happen. The fact that Firefox came through and won enough market share to make web developers take notice so it doesn't matter so much which browser you use is a HUGE victory. Thanks Firefox!
The 1980 explosion at Mount St. Helens in Washington state blew out about 540 million tons of debris. Morrell said an explosion at Yellowstone likely would be 1,000 times greater, releasing about half a billion tons of ash.
Experts say such an event would have a colossal impact on a global scale...
It would have a similar effect to a 1.5km-diameter space rock striking Earth, they claim....
A super-eruption is also five to 10 times more likely to happen than an asteroid impact, the report claims....
The volcanic winter resulting from a super-eruption could last several years or decades, depending on the scale of an eruption, and according to recent computer models, could cause cooling on a global scale of 5-10C.... The crater from the last super-eruption, 640,000 years ago, is large enough to fit Tokyo - the world's biggest city - inside it.
Not just a dusting of ash, by any means. To extrapolate from a single event (Mt St Helens) which may or may not even be in the same geologic region (I don't know) is pointless when the Snake River Plain has erupted several times over - the entire landscape their bears the scars of it.
For goods produced by U.S. companies, there is always a middle-man involved.
What does the US actually "produce" anyways? Is there even one printer assembly line in the US? At some point we are going to realize letting other countries do all the hard work gives them power and prevents us from dictating terms.
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My guess is, a bit north of $100K. The top of the engineering ladder is not all that high, and gurus don't make all that much more than bumblers with equal years of experience. (I'm not talking about RedHat in particular, just my observations of engineering in general.)
I can't believe this recycled 1950's tripe gets modded up. It's not even worthy of a further response until you can think of a reason WHY somebody would want to place their nuclear arsenal two days away on the moon.
Regardless, bittorrent is useless for streaming. People don't want to wait an hour for their program to start. Eventually, one way or another, whatever method wins out WILL support streaming.
There seem to be a ton of places where one could use excess energy at night, that you wouldn't need a new "Battery" source.
Selling a few million plug-in hybrids should help quite a bit.
It would be even better if those cars were on the Internet so they could talk to the power company. For instance if I tell my car to be charged by 8am the next day, it could negotiate with the power company to draw power whenever it is cheapest.
I'm more of an anti-comic-book-literalist - I wonder why studios are willing to pay big bucks for rights to comic books when it's just as easy to make up another superhero, since they're all pretty much the same. Two of my favorite movies this year were Batman and James Bond. But how much of that is due to the authors of the original series? Zilch, IMHO. The Bond movie could have been altered very slightly and passed for Mission Impossible or Bourne Identity. Batman is close enough to Spider Man, Superman, Iron Man, or random new made-up -Man. The Incredibles made up half a dozen new superheroes and they all seemed familiar even so. Batman, Superman - anything that has enough iterations has been good sometimes and sucked sometimes, so it's certainly no intrinsic value of the character or original comic book plotline that matters. I can see a producer shelling out for brand familiarity, but Watchmen doesn't offer much of that.
"I do think the voters are getting what we want on average"... No, they are not. Thats specifically why things keep failing.
Are you sure? I would love to blame all these problems on subversion of the people's will, but is that the case? I watched with disgust over the last 6 years as Bush/Cheney did stupid things (e.g. grossly inflating the evidence supporting the Iraq war and alienating Europe) and got caught infringing on Americans' rights (e.g. retroactive telecom immunity). I would love to think Americans were outraged with this. But instead, again and again, I saw lots of debate over whether all this was AOK, spoke with relatives who supported Bush, saw him win a second term, etc. What I learned is that the only thing people really care about is money. That's why Bush's approval didn't truly tank until gas skyrocketed and the economy crashed.
We'd be doing great if we can simply stick to the principles the Post Office already uses: don't open my mail without a warrant. Censorship in the mail hasn't generally been a big problem.
But don't get me wrong, this could easily (probably?) break the wrong way when people start talking about "your tax dollars paying to deliver."
so what is the carbon footprint of a $44B dollar broadband system
You tell me, what's the carbon footprint of:
Telecommuting vs. commuting
Watching a streaming video at home vs. driving to blockbuster or a big air-conditioned theater
Shopping online vs. shopping at the mall
scp'ing gigabytes of data instead of fedexing a DVD
Having a video conference instead of flying across the country for a face-to-face.
Pervasive broadband won't eliminate any of those things, but even just a few percent reduction would be a huge payoff.
I don't think the Constitution has really had all that much to do with the government since the New Deal. When I read the Constitution, the government it brings to mind isn't much like what we have now. That said, I do think the voters are getting what we want on average, and the country has made vast progress in the last 80 years. I guess it would be better if we ammended the Constitution instead of just ignoring or re-interpreting it, but I doubt the end result is much different either way.
The bigger problem is that, by repeatedly citing his own articles, his journal gets a high impact factor.
Since google similarly uses links to pages to compute their pagerank, they combat this problem constantly. People do all kinds of stuff, from buying or swiping the registration of a reputable domain name, to posting spam on forums hosted at.gov domains, to setting up complicated interwoven sets of cross-linking domains to fake "grass-roots" popularity.
It would be great if google could reveal more of their techniques and they could be applied to boost the validity of scientific publications' impact factor. Or maybe we should just rank scientists by the google pagerank of their papers:)
The typical Libertarian mantra is, "Utopia is not an option." The whole idea is to maximize individual liberty in a highly imperfect world full of jerks who won't cooperate.
The annoying part is when they refuse to recognize that most everybody in Western democracies shares that goal. The REAL question is what to do when various rights of various people conflict - which is almost all the time. If our actions affected only ourselves, there would be no motive to control each other. But that's not reality.
I took the statement - "anything that would make more people read over and specifically approve the wording of error messages and other notifications is a good thing" - to refer to distro quality control (akin to code reviews for error messages), rather than anything about end users. End users will not disrupt their work for computer maintainence until it is necessary for them to get something done.
Silly americans and their megalomaniatic view of the world, (mod me flamebait) you guys are not the center of the world, nor the policemen of the nations.
I am not suggesting that the US govt would regulate CA's around the globe. Only that it should be easy to tell with certainty if I am doing business with somebody regulated by the same government as myself (which the CA infrastructure, or something very similar, can accomplish). Why? Does not wanting to send my CC# to Russia or Nigeria imply I think they are all crooks? Of course not. But I am wary of dealing with people when I would have no recourse if they rip me off. That is, at a very basic level, what regulation is good for.
I guess this is my fault for mentioning libertariansm in the first place. For the record, I think it's a great idea in an imaginary perfect world where everybody has complete access to all information, dishonesty is abolished, natural resources are infinite (so each of us can breathe our own air, etc), and everybody starts life on equal footing (access to education, proclivity to illness, etc). Which is to say, it's exactly as practical as Communism and every other idealization that never seems to get fully proven or disproven because it can never actually exist.
Actually I don't think that's such a huge problem. For me, anyways, my bank web access and (almost?) all my online purchases are still from here in the US. Sending my credit card number overseas is not something I do very casually, regardless of anything to do with ssl.
How can we trust that the list of trusted CAs is valid and up to date? Who maintains this list? Me? You? The Scam Artists? A central trust agency? The Government?
Go ahead and accuse me of not being libertarian, but yes, I think making and enforcing standards for CAs is a good role for the government. I would never put my money in an unregulated bank, or send premiums to an unregulated insurer, or go to a back-alley doctor.
Plus, decertifying a CA would nuke thousands of websites that did nothing wrong; even for this lax CA I'm sure most of the companies registered there are legit.
Last I checked, Linux was smart enough to try to keep programs running on cores where cache contained the needed data.
As if simply giving each process affinity for a given core solves the problem. But then you have interrupt handling, job loads with more than one process per core, multi-threaded programs - all sharing memory space yet with different memory access patterns - and different processors with e.g. different cache architectures. The task-switching OS is 50 years old and we still haven't settled on THE perfect scheduler - and now you suggest solving that problem with several more degrees of freedom due to multi-core is solved by a trivial heuristic.
No, the programs are not the problem. The programmer should not have to worry about manually assigning processes to cores or switching a process from one core to another - in fact, there's no way the programmer could do that, since it would require knowing what the system load is, what other programs are running, and physical details (such as cache behavior) of processors not even invented yet. This is all the job of the OS.
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Not a bad idea, at least as a stopgap. Does MS support parallel installations of IE6 and IE7?
Just a few short years ago, Linux users such as myself were becoming decidedly second-class citizens on the web, with many pages not working at all or not working right. Microsoft-specific extensions were polluting the web and making it hard to enjoy without paying Microsoft. I'm not talking about something that could have happened, that did happen. The fact that Firefox came through and won enough market share to make web developers take notice so it doesn't matter so much which browser you use is a HUGE victory. Thanks Firefox!
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Not just a dusting of ash, by any means. To extrapolate from a single event (Mt St Helens) which may or may not even be in the same geologic region (I don't know) is pointless when the Snake River Plain has erupted several times over - the entire landscape their bears the scars of it.
What does the US actually "produce" anyways? Is there even one printer assembly line in the US? At some point we are going to realize letting other countries do all the hard work gives them power and prevents us from dictating terms.
My guess is, a bit north of $100K. The top of the engineering ladder is not all that high, and gurus don't make all that much more than bumblers with equal years of experience. (I'm not talking about RedHat in particular, just my observations of engineering in general.)
I can't believe this recycled 1950's tripe gets modded up. It's not even worthy of a further response until you can think of a reason WHY somebody would want to place their nuclear arsenal two days away on the moon.
Regardless, bittorrent is useless for streaming. People don't want to wait an hour for their program to start. Eventually, one way or another, whatever method wins out WILL support streaming.
Selling a few million plug-in hybrids should help quite a bit.
It would be even better if those cars were on the Internet so they could talk to the power company. For instance if I tell my car to be charged by 8am the next day, it could negotiate with the power company to draw power whenever it is cheapest.
I'm more of an anti-comic-book-literalist - I wonder why studios are willing to pay big bucks for rights to comic books when it's just as easy to make up another superhero, since they're all pretty much the same. Two of my favorite movies this year were Batman and James Bond. But how much of that is due to the authors of the original series? Zilch, IMHO. The Bond movie could have been altered very slightly and passed for Mission Impossible or Bourne Identity. Batman is close enough to Spider Man, Superman, Iron Man, or random new made-up -Man. The Incredibles made up half a dozen new superheroes and they all seemed familiar even so. Batman, Superman - anything that has enough iterations has been good sometimes and sucked sometimes, so it's certainly no intrinsic value of the character or original comic book plotline that matters. I can see a producer shelling out for brand familiarity, but Watchmen doesn't offer much of that.
Are you sure? I would love to blame all these problems on subversion of the people's will, but is that the case? I watched with disgust over the last 6 years as Bush/Cheney did stupid things (e.g. grossly inflating the evidence supporting the Iraq war and alienating Europe) and got caught infringing on Americans' rights (e.g. retroactive telecom immunity). I would love to think Americans were outraged with this. But instead, again and again, I saw lots of debate over whether all this was AOK, spoke with relatives who supported Bush, saw him win a second term, etc. What I learned is that the only thing people really care about is money. That's why Bush's approval didn't truly tank until gas skyrocketed and the economy crashed.
But don't get me wrong, this could easily (probably?) break the wrong way when people start talking about "your tax dollars paying to deliver ."
You tell me, what's the carbon footprint of:
Telecommuting vs. commuting
Watching a streaming video at home vs. driving to blockbuster or a big air-conditioned theater
Shopping online vs. shopping at the mall
scp'ing gigabytes of data instead of fedexing a DVD
Having a video conference instead of flying across the country for a face-to-face.
Pervasive broadband won't eliminate any of those things, but even just a few percent reduction would be a huge payoff.
I don't think the Constitution has really had all that much to do with the government since the New Deal. When I read the Constitution, the government it brings to mind isn't much like what we have now. That said, I do think the voters are getting what we want on average, and the country has made vast progress in the last 80 years. I guess it would be better if we ammended the Constitution instead of just ignoring or re-interpreting it, but I doubt the end result is much different either way.
So I guess you'll start buying again now that the lawsuits are over, eh?
Since google similarly uses links to pages to compute their pagerank, they combat this problem constantly. People do all kinds of stuff, from buying or swiping the registration of a reputable domain name, to posting spam on forums hosted at .gov domains, to setting up complicated interwoven sets of cross-linking domains to fake "grass-roots" popularity.
It would be great if google could reveal more of their techniques and they could be applied to boost the validity of scientific publications' impact factor. Or maybe we should just rank scientists by the google pagerank of their papers :)
The annoying part is when they refuse to recognize that most everybody in Western democracies shares that goal. The REAL question is what to do when various rights of various people conflict - which is almost all the time. If our actions affected only ourselves, there would be no motive to control each other. But that's not reality.
I took the statement - "anything that would make more people read over and specifically approve the wording of error messages and other notifications is a good thing" - to refer to distro quality control (akin to code reviews for error messages), rather than anything about end users. End users will not disrupt their work for computer maintainence until it is necessary for them to get something done.
Can't I just dump a stack trace to stderr and be done with it?
I am not suggesting that the US govt would regulate CA's around the globe. Only that it should be easy to tell with certainty if I am doing business with somebody regulated by the same government as myself (which the CA infrastructure, or something very similar, can accomplish). Why? Does not wanting to send my CC# to Russia or Nigeria imply I think they are all crooks? Of course not. But I am wary of dealing with people when I would have no recourse if they rip me off. That is, at a very basic level, what regulation is good for.
I guess this is my fault for mentioning libertariansm in the first place. For the record, I think it's a great idea in an imaginary perfect world where everybody has complete access to all information, dishonesty is abolished, natural resources are infinite (so each of us can breathe our own air, etc), and everybody starts life on equal footing (access to education, proclivity to illness, etc). Which is to say, it's exactly as practical as Communism and every other idealization that never seems to get fully proven or disproven because it can never actually exist.
Actually I don't think that's such a huge problem. For me, anyways, my bank web access and (almost?) all my online purchases are still from here in the US. Sending my credit card number overseas is not something I do very casually, regardless of anything to do with ssl.
Go ahead and accuse me of not being libertarian, but yes, I think making and enforcing standards for CAs is a good role for the government. I would never put my money in an unregulated bank, or send premiums to an unregulated insurer, or go to a back-alley doctor.
Plus, decertifying a CA would nuke thousands of websites that did nothing wrong; even for this lax CA I'm sure most of the companies registered there are legit.
As if simply giving each process affinity for a given core solves the problem. But then you have interrupt handling, job loads with more than one process per core, multi-threaded programs - all sharing memory space yet with different memory access patterns - and different processors with e.g. different cache architectures. The task-switching OS is 50 years old and we still haven't settled on THE perfect scheduler - and now you suggest solving that problem with several more degrees of freedom due to multi-core is solved by a trivial heuristic.
No, the programs are not the problem. The programmer should not have to worry about manually assigning processes to cores or switching a process from one core to another - in fact, there's no way the programmer could do that, since it would require knowing what the system load is, what other programs are running, and physical details (such as cache behavior) of processors not even invented yet. This is all the job of the OS.