As a fellow canadian i wouldnt mind hearing your first hand experience iwth the "most terrifying government on the planet". Clearly you have been there, experienced it first hand and have some interesting "totalitarian" stories to share.
Signed.. a canadian who actuallly owns a house in there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin) and has been there many times.
I generally don't comment much here but I just had to reply to this. I grew up in Punjab, India before migrating to Canada in early 90s. Anyhow, I still vividly remember going to Leh, Ladakh & Dharamshala during my summer vacations. While there one would notice the refugees which at the time looked like outnumbering the locals. All those refugees were either Chinese or Tibetans fleeing Chinese persecutions. It was indeed really a sorry sight, and at the time me and my friends did whatever we could at the moment to help them. We didn't have much cash, but we tried to help by giving whatever we had and also extra clothes that we had for our trip. I recall seeing 2-3 year old kids who were rescued by fleeing refugees and nobody knew who they belong to, because Chinese government had killed indiscriminately when annexing Tibet. With annexation of Tibet,Chinese government knew then, that they can do anything and rest of the world either doesn't care or too scared to get involved. Yes there was sanctions and noise...but nothing of effect.
My second trip the next was literally a helping mission, when we asked for donations from nears and dears to take there. I still remember how much they appreciated getting old clothes, pots and pans. But to the see the suffering of those people was gut wrenching. Indian government was trying to do whatever it could by providing some(barely) medical services etc. But yeah, Chinese government (not people) if not the most terrifying certainly is up there in committing atrocious crimes against its own citizens and that of its neighbors.
It may very well be that my experiences might have influenced my bias, but Sir, you cannot in good conscience say that Chinese government doesn't commit atrocities. They may very well do lot of good and humane things but that doesn't negate the facts.
For what it is worth...I was in India a while back in summer. Almost every household there had this thing called Inverter hooked up right at the mains. Basically a step up/down transformer hooked up to a truck battery (car battery wasn't considered powerful enough). With daily power cuts, the inverter kicks in to keep basic light and essential services (Fridge, freezer etc.) running. There are variety of reasons why people there are doing this but as a concept it is already being done, when about half the city has a power cut, yet most of them are running on battery power. I must add, it is was at the time/place considered illegal to have these devices cause they put extra load on the grid when they are on charge.
Except you are forgetting, with cable you pay for the service and still have to watch the commercials. Free TV broadcasts over the air has commercials, and that is acceptable as per your point. Someone has to pay, but with cable you are paying twice.
On a related note, often the places with the tightest gun restrictions have very poor police response. In my view, if the police have no legal obligation to protect the public, then the public should have the right to be armed with few restrictions. Be glad it wasn't an armed robbery. Even that doesn't necessarily guarantee a timely police response either.
You got anything to backup this statement? We have gun control here in Canada, granted there is still gun related crimes but police response to any crime is almost immediate. At least in Peel Region, they are fast. Guns kill people, plain and simple. US has most number of guns per capita, yet its jails are over crowded, violence and gun-related death are probably highest in any developed nation. By your logic, guns should have eliminated all crime.
Obviously society is not so easily contained by simplified statements and analysis. I agree, any non-us resident would not understand the US's infatuation with guns, but at what point will there be reform in policies that reduce gun crime, racism and other related *self-imposed* ills in American society. Why is it, that a country known to be at the forefront of tech., science, philosophy and tolerance also is known for most incarcerations, racism and intolerance etc.
My car is 11 years old and there are no design constraints in it preventing me from hoping it will last five more years without major expenses. You can't say that about a hybrid or an electric. It WILL need an expensive new battery long before it is 16 years old.
Hmm, How many times did you have to do an Oil/Filter/Spark Plug etc. Change. How much GAS cost for 100KMs vs. Cost of Electricity to charge it for 100KM. So on and so forth.
I don't foresee the batteries as a long term issue. What will eventually happen, once there are enough EVs on the road, you will see batteries becomming a standard and battery stations will start cropping up. Essentially Gas stations will start carrying these standard batteries, you will pay monthly/yearly fee for the service. Once you are running low, you pull into these battery stations and someone or robotically, your battery will be replaced with a fully charged one. You will be in/out in less than 5 minutes. Then you will never have to worry about old battery, cause the cost of maintaining the battery will be handled by the battery charging station. Obviously they will work out a metric for the cost of the doing that, add 1000% profit and then pass over the bill to you. Even at that price, you will be happy cause it is still cheaper than GAS. Even more competition will drive the cost down.
Needless to say, Electricity manufacturers will be the new overlords.
Second translation: DB admins are pretty inept at IT. It's trivial to change the Mac address.
Once again proving that those that do evil deed are typically pretty stupid and leave obvious clues.
You missed the key point too.
The anon poster before you had the right idea.
He wouldn't need to keep the laptop if all he had to do was spoof the MAC address.>
If all he needed was the mac address, then he didn't even need the laptop. He could have spoofed the Mac Address. Most likely there was additional network security which is why he needed the laptop. It could be a cert/key etc. too that was on the laptop which he couldn't spoof.
Guns have freed every people who have thrown off a government since guns became widespread.
The world's largest democracy is the result of "NO GUNS". Gandhi/Civil disobedience/Non Violence movement was no match for Guns?
Today's society has no place for guns. Public unrest is what topples governments. Guns rebellions nowadays are replied by bombings. Guns are simply an answer to low self esteem.
Rather elaborate description just to say that you believe in a fairy tale that God exists.
For a person that sees the colour vs. one that doesn't. It can easily be proven, by using instruments. Although it may be simple enough as taking a black white picture of of green & red patches. The different shades of gray will indicate the presence of different colours.
But what would a color blind person believe? Probably half, who have half of the people they know able to see color and half who donâ(TM)t telling them that color exists, and they would believe that they were lacking in this useless ability.
I actually knew few people that were colour blind, and they considered that to be a disability. Why stop at colour, how about a completely blind person. While I have never had a chance to ask a blind person if he/she believes if I can see, I am doubtful that a blind person will ever say, "No, You can't see, cause I can't and hence it must be true".
A very large percentage of the color blind population would believe that those who believe in color were fools or insane.
âoeProve that your âcolorâ(TM) is real!â
"I can't.â
âoeThen it doesn't exist.â
Bring that person to me, and I will prove colour is real. God is a figment of imagination, and for a colour blind person God is transparent in colour.
In my personal opinion, people who believe in god make assumptions, and then reinforce their assumptions with other assumptions. They tend to get so used to it that eventually they don't even realise the difference between an assumption and fact. Born in India, I grew up in religion, learnt about Sikhism as part of my upbringing, went to a catholic school, learnt all about that. Had friends who were Hindus, Muslims, Aryans (yes Aryan) . I was deeply religious up until early twenties, but loved to read and learn more about science, advances in astronomy, earth sciences etc. All that started making more sense than any religion, and started questioning my own beliefs which either made no sense or could be explained very rationally using science.
Imagine having a God, who can see when you are having sex, who watches while you shit, who makes you sick, who makes you fail, who kills people for fun, who makes deformed children, still born etc. Just so that people will be afraid and pray.. egomaniac or god?... I can keep on blabbing...but you should've got the point by now.
I do aplogise for incorrect grammar, and broken English.
Production wise, Lotus notes from 96. The server was originally implemented as a Scheduling system and email server; Email was ported long ago, but it still runs the production schedule.
On the other hand, my friend has a machine shop. He has a CNC Boring machine, that is from the 60s(I am assuming). Only way to feed the program to this machine is through punch tape. He had called me to see if I can figure out any other way of doing it. Upon opening the computer box, oh boy, huge motherboard with loads of wires, rather than screwing something and turning his machine to scrap. I decided to acknowledge it was way out of my league.
On that note, what really got me, was he can still buy those tape reels at the machine supply store. And he has tape copy machine, you feed tape on one side, and the it punches the tape on the other side. The whole thing is mechanical.
so Punch tape still in use.
Funny,
Working in graphics company here, I've got few iMacs with Yosemite, and they need to be rebooted multiple times during the day. Whilst iMacs & PowerMacs on 10.8 are stable. I can't reliably downgrade a new iMac to older versions reliably enough, cause either they don't work or still have issues. Got lots windows machines too, they work just fine. Same goes with Windows and Linux servers. Can't say the same for OS X server(on xserve, remember those)...cause apple discontinued that.
In my (emphasis *my*) 15 years of experience of working in IT, Workstations both PC & Apple are virtually identical. From support point of view, they are both un/reliable.
Enpdoint protection, security policies have generally kept machines working reliably just as well. In the 90s while windows boxes were rebooted, running system 7,8 wasn't much better either. All the Mac's needed just as much rebooting if not more. Even upto system 9 things weren't as rosy as most people would make you believe, If I recall correctly it was 9.2 finally when things got stable, but then OS X hit.
On that note, Our first Xserve with OS X server was an interesting beast. The OS would completely drop networking support if you changed the IP of the machine.
Granted it was early and first few iterations of OS X, but a server that can't be networked reliably is not something that only MS is guilty of.
Not trying to bash Apple or anything, but when you are working and supporting Apple, Windows & Linux camps, you realize that they all are the same, they each have their strong points and weak points...all the same.
There was about 1000 years of peace before that happened.
They then suffered a series of lost battles with the Christians and their empires pretty much collapsed. And that got blamed on not being sufficiently "pure" in the faith.
We have more guns. (Per person!) According to our own government's statistics. Yet we have less violent crime. This is a direct, indisputable DISproof of the idea that "more guns equals more crime".
Here in Canada, we have less guns, less crime and less prisoners per capita than US. By your logic, this is absolute proof that guns are indisputable proof of the idea that, "More guns equal more crime".
I have an OCZ Revodrive first gen 120GB and its never had a problem. I also have a Vertex 4 256GB thats been running solid since I got it. The only SSD I've ever had fail was a Patriot. That drive was a total slice of crap though. Maybe the popularity decline has sonething to do with them ditching Sandforce for inhouse designs...
Ok then, word of advice, make sure you have daily backups of all your critical stuff. Image the drive, so that it is easy to restore when the drive fails.
Right now if it is perfect and you haven't had a problem, the likelihood of you having a catastrophic failure in near future is rather high. This is purely based on numbers/averages available at large on Internet.
Everyone here should at least spend some time watching the documentary on climate change by Sir Paul Nurse.
Specific to issue of manipulating global warming data, you should atleast watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQLvK6kxeU
I just keep on wondering for us general public, what is the vested interest in denying climate change.
Maybe at some places, but then it won't be so at other places. I recall my school days in India. By the time our summer vacation started in end of May, the temp. was already +40C and even though the school had AC, it just didn't keep up. It was a routine to see someone faint etc. because of the heat. Hence as it got hotter all physical activities were cancelled and so on. Schools reopened just after Monsoon, and weather was bit more bearable. From what I recall, last few weeks of May, and the month of June, with first few weeks of July, practically everything slows down. The heat would grind everything to a halt, only time you would see activity outside was in the morning hours and then in evening.
Although what was very different was that the school year starts in February/March, instead of Sept. (as in Canada), and for summer vacation practically every kid had loads of homework to do, which to a degree kept most kids slightly engaged with learning....
On the other hand.
Obviously if there has been studies and concrete results about kids performing better etc. vs. Kids back in the day....maybe we should do that then..
Oh..btw...is it ok once we have had these kids in longer school hours attempts some Math/Science tests done by kids from 60s ( who had the summer vacation)
and then compare general scores with the criteria being that kids can only use tools available to kids back in 50s & 60s.
Curriculum that is set now, with the some of the rules that I hear about, should be fixed first before we do anything to hours/length of school year. Our education system has taken a nose dive for worse. Yet when you go talk to teachers, they say, "Oh yes, your kid is fine, he is doing great". I can't believe that we have adults and educations systems in North America exploring Creationism in school.....What are these people doing, why can they think rationally and logically. Do these people realize that there are other religions in the world too, some older than Christianity and Judaism for that. For anyone who argues that summer vacation should be reviewed, should first absolutely commit to the fact that all religions are farce. That alone will expose so much commotion, illogical arguments, bureaucracy and politics in the education system, which if all fixed you won't need extra hours to make kids smart.
Six year old kids hear can barely write A-Z, 1-200, some better cases can spell 2-3 letters or add 1-2 digit numbers that is it. Whereas in some other parts of the world with similar amount of schooling, they are already doing short sentences...and are starting to explore addition/subtractions at higher order.
All this rant... Fix the education standards first, otherwise all we are going to have more schooling, more expenses...yet same old dumb kids.
FWIW, I'm a Christian who believes in both creation and evolution.
The Bible says that one day God created x, and on one day God created y. It doesn't say how much time elapsed between those events, or how he did it. God could have created the cosmos with a "big bang".
And I believe that evolution occurs, but evolution doesn't explain what happened before the beginning of time, or where all the mass in the universe came from in the first place.
Are you kidding me ??? What was god doing before he created x, where did God come from...
Let me get this straight...You believe that god always existed (oh the irony... you can't even rationally prove that god exists)
but you don't believe that
universe always existed, even though there is overwhelming evidence(we are here...) and and same sane theories about it (big bang etc.)
I am stumped??? how dumb am i ??
Government: uhm....Yea..but is it green?
Prof: This is science, applications come after
Government: Can't use it in election. Grant Denied
Next Man: This is high gloss lipstick
Government: Does it help me in Election
Next Man: It will Make PM look 10 years younger with better lips than Angelina Jolie
Prime Minister: Grant for $10,000,0000 approved. Have it ready in 6 months
Ugh!!! could've done better:( I am comedically challenged...
Wow..that is so smart:) everything is by the numbers, wonder why even rest of the world hasn't figured that economics is so simple as either X* Y or X*(Y-1)...
But, and here's the important part, so would spending that money on something more useful like schools or water pumps. The money spent on those would create just as many jobs, you know, and you'd also have some schools or clean water instead of a national penis size symbol.
Have you ever been to India, it is great when so many people here point out Illiteracy & safe water? Even if you have schools, uhm how many poor people are going to send their kids to school. Oh wait, forget the the poor people, how many of those who are bit better off are going to send their kids to higher education when the attitude is, what am I going to do with education, there is nothing I can do, all the government does is make schools and dig wells. Oh wait the wells they've been digging aren't so great either. For some strange reason only way Indians can get safe water (when they really need it) is when its got ton of chemicals etc. in it to kill all the unsafe things...and for some reason unsafe water peaks during monsoons(ironic you have fresh water falling from sky, yet all the water is unsafe)...oh did I mention that most Indians (even poor ones) typically boil/purify the drinking water. Oh maybe cause they've been doing that for ages, keeping drinking water separate from regular/daily use water. Then again I am sure you probably know that International firms are probably the biggest water/land polluters now.
Safe water, Universal Education, Safe Roads, Access to utilities are great things if you have money for that, but the reality is quite different. Building the lab will cost money, mostly tax payer money and maybe some donations etc. but it will be far better utilized than those socialist projects. A good sort of example of wastage would be Bridge/Road to nowhere in Alaska(I am sure you have heard of it)...whereas in India an example of waste would be a road that perhaps links bunch of villages together..but the fact is there is no trade between those villages, people's primary mode of travel is Walk/Cycle and/or Oxen/Horse carts. Some better off villagers might have Scooters or 100cc bikes. There are countless schools in India that don't have students, because the kids or their parent think they have better things to do than get educated. You cannot change that thought process, the kids should want to study, parents should want to send their kids to school, and trust me Indian government doesn't have that kind of money...so what will motivate the kids, when they see educated people get jobs, when educated population can afford better living. Right now one of the biggest problems facing the educated population is lack of good jobs.
Only reason lately India has been doing well is because of strange politics, the way Congress, BJP have been locked in horns, its has been in the best interest of past and present coalition government to be *not corrupt* and invest in good long term projects. There have been more smart long term projects & long term policies in India in past 10 years than ever before. During those past 10 year it has been mostly coalition government. Remember this is the same government that made a Nuclear deal with US & rest of the world despite the fact its not a signatory to non-proliferation treaty. Despite all that, its a fact the politicians in India are one of the most corrupt ones you will find in the world if not the worst.
Politicians are bribed to the hilt, so they turn a blind eye. A project like this which will constantly be in public eye and constantly be scrutinized by people like you, will have less money siphoned off than the "School & Well" project. Oh btw, did I mention India has already done countless School & Well projects but never the neutrino lab.
I am not saying that more schools & more wells(or bores for hands pumps atleast) w
You got it as wrong as possible when it comes to nuclear bombs.
Uranium (or any other nuclear material being used for the bomb) is the only hard part to get.
Assembling a nuclear bomb provided you have the enriched nuclear material is supposedly easy/straightforward.
Why do you think US & allies are up in arms about Iran's Enrichment Program.
I've got two apple xserve servers, one old dual G4 with regular 4 ATA drives, and the new one with 3 SATA drives. I bought them both with smallest/cheapest drives, and then replaced the drives with off the shelf bigger drives.
Absolutely no difference in reliability/performance.
I can say that cause older Xserve drives were still running good for 5 years when I replaced them with bigger drives, and new xserve is still running good.
Drives modules is no different every manufacturer has their own custom drive trays, which fit their servers only, Apple is doing nothing different here. Even our Mac's have had drives and other hardware replaced with off the shelf parts, and they work just as good, drives ironically were replaced from some Mac's cause original Apple ones failed.
I don't quite understand what this is being potrayed the way it is in the media. Especially here at slashdot where I thought it was fair assumption that most of its readers are bit more educated than average bunch that can discern fact from, "fluff". Hence are couple of things for everyone to know:
India's first nuclear test was on May 18, 1974, hence a fair assumption it has had a nuclear weapon ever since.
India also has a nuclear capable missile atleast since 1988.(lookup Prithvi)
This nuclear deal is for fuel for Power plants
Part of the deal is an agreement that India will open up its civilian nuclear facilities for inspection (Before this, it was 0 access)
India also has approx 25% reserves of Thorium (nuclear fuel of future), so it'd make sense to let it in for current, "Uranium" fuel to somehow guarantee, "Thorium" supply in future.
Indian government itself is taking a beating at home because its being seen as a way to suppress India's nuclear ambitions by west.
Power(electricity) is one the major problems in current India, and having more of it can only be beneficial to the society at large.
On the other hand, only exception I see to all this is that India's Military/Defense/Weapons Nuclear sites are still off-limits to inspections, and this deal can possibly free up more spent nuclear material for India to experiment with. That should have been accounted for in a bit more responsible manner.
You can't prove Earth is round by looking at lunar eclipse..although its is a fairly accurate assumption....it could be a disc casting its shadow, it could also be a cone, semi sphere etc. etc.
basically anything that is capable of casting a round shadow.
Also, keep in mind, as you move away from the light source and object blocking the light, shadow starts rounding off..you can test this your self put a cardboard with a square hole in from of a torch light, at close distance you'll see a square being cast..as you move away..it gets rounder and rounder..
Established proofs for earth being round are more like,
Day/Night
Shadows cast during various times of day
Ship disappearing over the horizon
Light house
Radio Antennas
Satellites, and Space Photography should pretty have debunked these, "Flat Earth Scientists", so only conclusive reasoning could be is that, "They are pulling our freaking leg!!"
give it a rest.
As far as I recall, I used to call it et cetera too, but then I was corrected/flamed once, and was basically told that etc stands for, "everything configurable".
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As a fellow canadian i wouldnt mind hearing your first hand experience iwth the "most terrifying government on the planet".
Clearly you have been there, experienced it first hand and have some interesting "totalitarian" stories to share.
Signed.. a canadian who actuallly owns a house in there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin) and has been there many times.
I generally don't comment much here but I just had to reply to this. I grew up in Punjab, India before migrating to Canada in early 90s. Anyhow, I still vividly remember going to Leh, Ladakh & Dharamshala during my summer vacations. While there one would notice the refugees which at the time looked like outnumbering the locals. All those refugees were either Chinese or Tibetans fleeing Chinese persecutions. It was indeed really a sorry sight, and at the time me and my friends did whatever we could at the moment to help them. We didn't have much cash, but we tried to help by giving whatever we had and also extra clothes that we had for our trip.
I recall seeing 2-3 year old kids who were rescued by fleeing refugees and nobody knew who they belong to, because Chinese government had killed indiscriminately when annexing Tibet. With annexation of Tibet,Chinese government knew then, that they can do anything and rest of the world either doesn't care or too scared to get involved. Yes there was sanctions and noise...but nothing of effect.
My second trip the next was literally a helping mission, when we asked for donations from nears and dears to take there. I still remember how much they appreciated getting old clothes, pots and pans. But to the see the suffering of those people was gut wrenching. Indian government was trying to do whatever it could by providing some(barely) medical services etc. But yeah, Chinese government (not people) if not the most terrifying certainly is up there in committing atrocious crimes against its own citizens and that of its neighbors.
It may very well be that my experiences might have influenced my bias, but Sir, you cannot in good conscience say that Chinese government doesn't commit atrocities. They may very well do lot of good and humane things but that doesn't negate the facts.
I shall end this with an obvious references to:
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For what it is worth...I was in India a while back in summer. Almost every household there had this thing called Inverter hooked up right at the mains. Basically a step up/down transformer hooked up to a truck battery (car battery wasn't considered powerful enough). With daily power cuts, the inverter kicks in to keep basic light and essential services (Fridge, freezer etc.) running.
There are variety of reasons why people there are doing this but as a concept it is already being done, when about half the city has a power cut, yet most of them are running on battery power. I must add, it is was at the time/place considered illegal to have these devices cause they put extra load on the grid when they are on charge.
Except you are forgetting, with cable you pay for the service and still have to watch the commercials. Free TV broadcasts over the air has commercials, and that is acceptable as per your point. Someone has to pay, but with cable you are paying twice.
Uhm, the world is already adjusting to that scenario...all eyes on Merkel
On a related note, often the places with the tightest gun restrictions have very poor police response. In my view, if the police have no legal obligation to protect the public, then the public should have the right to be armed with few restrictions. Be glad it wasn't an armed robbery. Even that doesn't necessarily guarantee a timely police response either.
You got anything to backup this statement? We have gun control here in Canada, granted there is still gun related crimes but police response to any crime is almost immediate. At least in Peel Region, they are fast.
Guns kill people, plain and simple. US has most number of guns per capita, yet its jails are over crowded, violence and gun-related death are probably highest in any developed nation. By your logic, guns should have eliminated all crime.
Obviously society is not so easily contained by simplified statements and analysis. I agree, any non-us resident would not understand the US's infatuation with guns, but at what point will there be reform in policies that reduce gun crime, racism and other related *self-imposed* ills in American society. Why is it, that a country known to be at the forefront of tech., science, philosophy and tolerance also is known for most incarcerations, racism and intolerance etc.
Does that make sense, I'm confused.
My car is 11 years old and there are no design constraints in it preventing me from hoping it will last five more years without major expenses. You can't say that about a hybrid or an electric. It WILL need an expensive new battery long before it is 16 years old.
Hmm,
How many times did you have to do an Oil/Filter/Spark Plug etc. Change. How much GAS cost for 100KMs vs. Cost of Electricity to charge it for 100KM. So on and so forth.
I don't foresee the batteries as a long term issue. What will eventually happen, once there are enough EVs on the road, you will see batteries becomming a standard and battery stations will start cropping up.
Essentially Gas stations will start carrying these standard batteries, you will pay monthly/yearly fee for the service. Once you are running low, you pull into these battery stations and someone or robotically, your battery will be replaced with a fully charged one. You will be in/out in less than 5 minutes. Then you will never have to worry about old battery, cause the cost of maintaining the battery will be handled by the battery charging station. Obviously they will work out a metric for the cost of the doing that, add 1000% profit and then pass over the bill to you. Even at that price, you will be happy cause it is still cheaper than GAS. Even more competition will drive the cost down.
Needless to say, Electricity manufacturers will be the new overlords.
Second translation: DB admins are pretty inept at IT. It's trivial to change the Mac address.
Once again proving that those that do evil deed are typically pretty stupid and leave obvious clues.
You missed the key point too.
The anon poster before you had the right idea.
He wouldn't need to keep the laptop if all he had to do was spoof the MAC address.>
If all he needed was the mac address, then he didn't even need the laptop. He could have spoofed the Mac Address. Most likely there was additional network security which is why he needed the laptop. It could be a cert/key etc. too that was on the laptop which he couldn't spoof.
Guns won't free you.
Guns have freed every people who have thrown off a government since guns became widespread.
The world's largest democracy is the result of "NO GUNS". Gandhi/Civil disobedience/Non Violence movement was no match for Guns?
Today's society has no place for guns. Public unrest is what topples governments. Guns rebellions nowadays are replied by bombings. Guns are simply an answer to low self esteem.
But what would a color blind person believe? Probably half, who have half of the people they know able to see color and half who donâ(TM)t telling them that color exists, and they would believe that they were lacking in this useless ability.
I actually knew few people that were colour blind, and they considered that to be a disability. Why stop at colour, how about a completely blind person. While I have never had a chance to ask a blind person if he/she believes if I can see, I am doubtful that a blind person will ever say, "No, You can't see, cause I can't and hence it must be true".
A very large percentage of the color blind population would believe that those who believe in color were fools or insane. âoeProve that your âcolorâ(TM) is real!â "I can't.â âoeThen it doesn't exist.â
Bring that person to me, and I will prove colour is real. God is a figment of imagination, and for a colour blind person God is transparent in colour. In my personal opinion, people who believe in god make assumptions, and then reinforce their assumptions with other assumptions. They tend to get so used to it that eventually they don't even realise the difference between an assumption and fact. Born in India, I grew up in religion, learnt about Sikhism as part of my upbringing, went to a catholic school, learnt all about that. Had friends who were Hindus, Muslims, Aryans (yes Aryan) . I was deeply religious up until early twenties, but loved to read and learn more about science, advances in astronomy, earth sciences etc. All that started making more sense than any religion, and started questioning my own beliefs which either made no sense or could be explained very rationally using science. Imagine having a God, who can see when you are having sex, who watches while you shit, who makes you sick, who makes you fail, who kills people for fun, who makes deformed children, still born etc. Just so that people will be afraid and pray.. egomaniac or god?... I can keep on blabbing...but you should've got the point by now. I do aplogise for incorrect grammar, and broken English.
Production wise, Lotus notes from 96. The server was originally implemented as a Scheduling system and email server; Email was ported long ago, but it still runs the production schedule. On the other hand, my friend has a machine shop. He has a CNC Boring machine, that is from the 60s(I am assuming). Only way to feed the program to this machine is through punch tape. He had called me to see if I can figure out any other way of doing it. Upon opening the computer box, oh boy, huge motherboard with loads of wires, rather than screwing something and turning his machine to scrap. I decided to acknowledge it was way out of my league. On that note, what really got me, was he can still buy those tape reels at the machine supply store. And he has tape copy machine, you feed tape on one side, and the it punches the tape on the other side. The whole thing is mechanical. so Punch tape still in use.
Funny, Working in graphics company here, I've got few iMacs with Yosemite, and they need to be rebooted multiple times during the day. Whilst iMacs & PowerMacs on 10.8 are stable. I can't reliably downgrade a new iMac to older versions reliably enough, cause either they don't work or still have issues. Got lots windows machines too, they work just fine. Same goes with Windows and Linux servers. Can't say the same for OS X server(on xserve, remember those)...cause apple discontinued that. In my (emphasis *my*) 15 years of experience of working in IT, Workstations both PC & Apple are virtually identical. From support point of view, they are both un/reliable. Enpdoint protection, security policies have generally kept machines working reliably just as well. In the 90s while windows boxes were rebooted, running system 7,8 wasn't much better either. All the Mac's needed just as much rebooting if not more. Even upto system 9 things weren't as rosy as most people would make you believe, If I recall correctly it was 9.2 finally when things got stable, but then OS X hit. On that note, Our first Xserve with OS X server was an interesting beast. The OS would completely drop networking support if you changed the IP of the machine. Granted it was early and first few iterations of OS X, but a server that can't be networked reliably is not something that only MS is guilty of. Not trying to bash Apple or anything, but when you are working and supporting Apple, Windows & Linux camps, you realize that they all are the same, they each have their strong points and weak points...all the same.
Well... No.
There was about 1000 years of peace before that happened.
They then suffered a series of lost battles with the Christians and their empires pretty much collapsed. And that got blamed on not being sufficiently "pure" in the faith.
Of course that didn't stop the collapse either.
1000 years of Peace????? where????
We have more guns. (Per person!) According to our own government's statistics. Yet we have less violent crime. This is a direct, indisputable DISproof of the idea that "more guns equals more crime".
Here in Canada, we have less guns, less crime and less prisoners per capita than US. By your logic, this is absolute proof that guns are indisputable proof of the idea that, "More guns equal more crime".
I have an OCZ Revodrive first gen 120GB and its never had a problem. I also have a Vertex 4 256GB thats been running solid since I got it. The only SSD I've ever had fail was a Patriot. That drive was a total slice of crap though. Maybe the popularity decline has sonething to do with them ditching Sandforce for inhouse designs...
Ok then, word of advice, make sure you have daily backups of all your critical stuff. Image the drive, so that it is easy to restore when the drive fails. Right now if it is perfect and you haven't had a problem, the likelihood of you having a catastrophic failure in near future is rather high. This is purely based on numbers/averages available at large on Internet.
Everyone here should at least spend some time watching the documentary on climate change by Sir Paul Nurse. Specific to issue of manipulating global warming data, you should atleast watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQLvK6kxeU I just keep on wondering for us general public, what is the vested interest in denying climate change.
Maybe at some places, but then it won't be so at other places. I recall my school days in India. By the time our summer vacation started in end of May, the temp. was already +40C and even though the school had AC, it just didn't keep up. It was a routine to see someone faint etc. because of the heat. Hence as it got hotter all physical activities were cancelled and so on. Schools reopened just after Monsoon, and weather was bit more bearable. From what I recall, last few weeks of May, and the month of June, with first few weeks of July, practically everything slows down. The heat would grind everything to a halt, only time you would see activity outside was in the morning hours and then in evening. Although what was very different was that the school year starts in February/March, instead of Sept. (as in Canada), and for summer vacation practically every kid had loads of homework to do, which to a degree kept most kids slightly engaged with learning.... On the other hand. Obviously if there has been studies and concrete results about kids performing better etc. vs. Kids back in the day....maybe we should do that then.. Oh..btw...is it ok once we have had these kids in longer school hours attempts some Math/Science tests done by kids from 60s ( who had the summer vacation) and then compare general scores with the criteria being that kids can only use tools available to kids back in 50s & 60s. Curriculum that is set now, with the some of the rules that I hear about, should be fixed first before we do anything to hours/length of school year. Our education system has taken a nose dive for worse. Yet when you go talk to teachers, they say, "Oh yes, your kid is fine, he is doing great". I can't believe that we have adults and educations systems in North America exploring Creationism in school.....What are these people doing, why can they think rationally and logically. Do these people realize that there are other religions in the world too, some older than Christianity and Judaism for that. For anyone who argues that summer vacation should be reviewed, should first absolutely commit to the fact that all religions are farce. That alone will expose so much commotion, illogical arguments, bureaucracy and politics in the education system, which if all fixed you won't need extra hours to make kids smart. Six year old kids hear can barely write A-Z, 1-200, some better cases can spell 2-3 letters or add 1-2 digit numbers that is it. Whereas in some other parts of the world with similar amount of schooling, they are already doing short sentences...and are starting to explore addition/subtractions at higher order. All this rant... Fix the education standards first, otherwise all we are going to have more schooling, more expenses...yet same old dumb kids.
FWIW, I'm a Christian who believes in both creation and evolution.
The Bible says that one day God created x, and on one day God created y. It doesn't say how much time elapsed between those events, or how he did it. God could have created the cosmos with a "big bang".
And I believe that evolution occurs, but evolution doesn't explain what happened before the beginning of time, or where all the mass in the universe came from in the first place.
Are you kidding me ??? What was god doing before he created x, where did God come from... Let me get this straight...You believe that god always existed (oh the irony... you can't even rationally prove that god exists) but you don't believe that universe always existed, even though there is overwhelming evidence(we are here ...) and and same sane theories about it (big bang etc.)
I am stumped??? how dumb am i ??
Government: uhm....Yea..but is it green? Prof: This is science, applications come after Government: Can't use it in election. Grant Denied Next Man: This is high gloss lipstick Government: Does it help me in Election Next Man: It will Make PM look 10 years younger with better lips than Angelina Jolie Prime Minister: Grant for $10,000,0000 approved. Have it ready in 6 months Ugh!!! could've done better :( I am comedically challenged...
But, and here's the important part, so would spending that money on something more useful like schools or water pumps. The money spent on those would create just as many jobs, you know, and you'd also have some schools or clean water instead of a national penis size symbol.
Have you ever been to India, it is great when so many people here point out Illiteracy & safe water? Even if you have schools, uhm how many poor people are going to send their kids to school. Oh wait, forget the the poor people, how many of those who are bit better off are going to send their kids to higher education when the attitude is, what am I going to do with education, there is nothing I can do, all the government does is make schools and dig wells. Oh wait the wells they've been digging aren't so great either. For some strange reason only way Indians can get safe water (when they really need it) is when its got ton of chemicals etc. in it to kill all the unsafe things...and for some reason unsafe water peaks during monsoons(ironic you have fresh water falling from sky, yet all the water is unsafe)...oh did I mention that most Indians (even poor ones) typically boil/purify the drinking water. Oh maybe cause they've been doing that for ages, keeping drinking water separate from regular/daily use water. Then again I am sure you probably know that International firms are probably the biggest water/land polluters now.
Safe water, Universal Education, Safe Roads, Access to utilities are great things if you have money for that, but the reality is quite different. Building the lab will cost money, mostly tax payer money and maybe some donations etc. but it will be far better utilized than those socialist projects. A good sort of example of wastage would be Bridge/Road to nowhere in Alaska(I am sure you have heard of it)...whereas in India an example of waste would be a road that perhaps links bunch of villages together..but the fact is there is no trade between those villages, people's primary mode of travel is Walk/Cycle and/or Oxen/Horse carts. Some better off villagers might have Scooters or 100cc bikes. There are countless schools in India that don't have students, because the kids or their parent think they have better things to do than get educated. You cannot change that thought process, the kids should want to study, parents should want to send their kids to school, and trust me Indian government doesn't have that kind of money...so what will motivate the kids, when they see educated people get jobs, when educated population can afford better living. Right now one of the biggest problems facing the educated population is lack of good jobs.
Only reason lately India has been doing well is because of strange politics, the way Congress, BJP have been locked in horns, its has been in the best interest of past and present coalition government to be *not corrupt* and invest in good long term projects. There have been more smart long term projects & long term policies in India in past 10 years than ever before. During those past 10 year it has been mostly coalition government. Remember this is the same government that made a Nuclear deal with US & rest of the world despite the fact its not a signatory to non-proliferation treaty. Despite all that, its a fact the politicians in India are one of the most corrupt ones you will find in the world if not the worst.
Politicians are bribed to the hilt, so they turn a blind eye. A project like this which will constantly be in public eye and constantly be scrutinized by people like you, will have less money siphoned off than the "School & Well" project. Oh btw, did I mention India has already done countless School & Well projects but never the neutrino lab.
I am not saying that more schools & more wells(or bores for hands pumps atleast) w
You got it as wrong as possible when it comes to nuclear bombs. Uranium (or any other nuclear material being used for the bomb) is the only hard part to get. Assembling a nuclear bomb provided you have the enriched nuclear material is supposedly easy/straightforward. Why do you think US & allies are up in arms about Iran's Enrichment Program.
I've got two apple xserve servers, one old dual G4 with regular 4 ATA drives, and the new one with 3 SATA drives. I bought them both with smallest/cheapest drives, and then replaced the drives with off the shelf bigger drives. Absolutely no difference in reliability/performance. I can say that cause older Xserve drives were still running good for 5 years when I replaced them with bigger drives, and new xserve is still running good. Drives modules is no different every manufacturer has their own custom drive trays, which fit their servers only, Apple is doing nothing different here. Even our Mac's have had drives and other hardware replaced with off the shelf parts, and they work just as good, drives ironically were replaced from some Mac's cause original Apple ones failed.
I don't quite understand what this is being potrayed the way it is in the media. Especially here at slashdot where I thought it was fair assumption that most of its readers are bit more educated than average bunch that can discern fact from, "fluff". Hence are couple of things for everyone to know: India's first nuclear test was on May 18, 1974, hence a fair assumption it has had a nuclear weapon ever since. India also has a nuclear capable missile atleast since 1988.(lookup Prithvi) This nuclear deal is for fuel for Power plants Part of the deal is an agreement that India will open up its civilian nuclear facilities for inspection (Before this, it was 0 access) India also has approx 25% reserves of Thorium (nuclear fuel of future), so it'd make sense to let it in for current, "Uranium" fuel to somehow guarantee, "Thorium" supply in future. Indian government itself is taking a beating at home because its being seen as a way to suppress India's nuclear ambitions by west. Power(electricity) is one the major problems in current India, and having more of it can only be beneficial to the society at large. On the other hand, only exception I see to all this is that India's Military/Defense/Weapons Nuclear sites are still off-limits to inspections, and this deal can possibly free up more spent nuclear material for India to experiment with. That should have been accounted for in a bit more responsible manner.
You can't prove Earth is round by looking at lunar eclipse..although its is a fairly accurate assumption....it could be a disc casting its shadow, it could also be a cone, semi sphere etc. etc. basically anything that is capable of casting a round shadow. Also, keep in mind, as you move away from the light source and object blocking the light, shadow starts rounding off..you can test this your self put a cardboard with a square hole in from of a torch light, at close distance you'll see a square being cast ..as you move away..it gets rounder and rounder..
Established proofs for earth being round are more like,
Day/Night
Shadows cast during various times of day
Ship disappearing over the horizon
Light house
Radio Antennas
Satellites, and Space Photography should pretty have debunked these, "Flat Earth Scientists", so only conclusive reasoning could be is that, "They are pulling our freaking leg!!"
give it a rest.
As far as I recall, I used to call it et cetera too, but then I was corrected/flamed once, and was basically told that etc stands for, "everything configurable".