Don't move the earth. Instead reduce energy production of the sun. Besides countering global warming, it also has the effect of increasing the sun's lifetime, because it uses up its fuel more slowly.
We just have to find the knob where to change the setting.
Actually you would not need to go to the spectrum. Since the bubbling water reflects more sunlight (which is what the cooling effect is based on), less sunlight enters the water. Less sunlight = less photosynthesis.
Less photosynthesis means less production of biomass, which I'd guess has a negative effect on the ecosystem. But less photosynthesis also has the effect of less consumption of CO2, so at the end this idea may actually have the opposite effect from what was intended.
Does the average Chinese internet user even exist when the government pays thousands of people to forge pro-government opinions and suppress anti-government opinions?
Of course. If the Chinese internet is dominated by people paid for positive comments, it just means that the average Chinese internet user is paid for positive comments.
Hey, maybe when the Chinese internet turns into the Chinese LAN, they can have huge Chinese LAN parties! Of course, these LAN parties will have to be harmonized by the government and consist of 72 hours of back to back dota, counter-strike, and wow. Coincidentally, the Chinese government is also interested in recruiting new operators for their virtual soldiers.
The Chinese cannot have LAN parties because there's only one party allowed, the communist party.
After they used up all combinations with "Large", they could of course simply continue with the Huge Telescope, the Very Huge Telescope, etc. Then comes the Gigantic Telescope series, followed by the Monstrous Telescope series.
After that they slightly modify their naming scheme, so they get the Telescope of Astronomical Size, the Telescope of Very Astronomical Size, etc. Following the Astronomical Size series, there could be the Galactic Size series, and finally the Cosmic Size series.
The Telescope of Overwhelmingly Cosmic Size will be the largest telescope ever built, because anything larger would collapse to a black hole under its own weight.:-)
weren't people wondering where 90% of the Universe's mass went? So they started into 'dark matter' and other voodoo stuff. Now that there's been a, what, 10-fold increase in galaxies, and I assume galaxies are a bit heavy (hey, I'm not against fat galaxies, they're just massively gifted), does that answer the 'mass of the Universe' question, or is there more stuff missing still?
The dark matter is missing mass inside the galaxies. Obviously additional galaxies cannot solve the problem. Dark energy pushes things apart. No amount of matter (whether normal or dark) can give you that, because gravity always pulls things together.
No. They obviously didn't find those galaxies inside other galaxies, which is where they would have to be if they should solve the problem dark matter solves.
So I'm not saying that there are no use cases out there for which memory and CPU matter. I'm saying that for 99% of what Joe User does, the HD or the network is the bottleneck.
That's not what you said. You said (emphasis added by me):
The bottleneck is not your CPU--it's virtual memory swapping in and out.
If adding more memory doesn't change it, it's obviously not virtual memory swapping in and out. As I already said: If your bottleneck is other disk I/O, then an SSD may help, of course.
For fun, I just pasted the text of The Right To Read into this. According to this test, Stallman is informally a weak man, and formally a weak woman.:-)
Total words: 1031
Genre: Informal
Female = 1551
Male = 1708
Difference = 157; 52.4%
Verdict: Weak MALE
And how do they find out what paedophiles type like in the first place? Observe them in the wild?
Should be simple: Put CP on a server and protect it with a 10 letter captcha. The only question is whether you'll get enough data before the police gets you.:-)
Not even a week ago there was an article on how the US government was pushing domain registrars to curtal effectivly anonymous registrations by pushing ID requirements. Before you critisize China you need to critical about the same shit closer to home.
Does that mean GoDaddy will also pull out of the USA?
No. If your browser is performing a DNS lookup, it is doing it right. Since the host specifier has neither the form of an IPv4address (four decimal numbers in the range 0-255 separated by dots) nor the form of an IP-Literal (basically, an IPv6 adress in brackets, although there's a reserved second form for future IP versions), it must be considered a hostname, and therefore looked up.
Octal numbers are especially interesting, because C octals actually are also valid decimal numbers (but generally with different values). Is 010.000.000.001 the same as 8.0.0.1 or the same as 10.0.0.1?
I didn't see anywhere that the decimals may not have leading zeros (the only requirement I've found is that it's a decimal in the range 0 to 255, and 010 as decimal certainly fulfils that requirement). That is, implementations interpreting 010 as octal may actually get the wrong IP address.
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Don't move the earth. Instead reduce energy production of the sun. Besides countering global warming, it also has the effect of increasing the sun's lifetime, because it uses up its fuel more slowly.
We just have to find the knob where to change the setting.
Actually you would not need to go to the spectrum. Since the bubbling water reflects more sunlight (which is what the cooling effect is based on), less sunlight enters the water. Less sunlight = less photosynthesis.
Less photosynthesis means less production of biomass, which I'd guess has a negative effect on the ecosystem. But less photosynthesis also has the effect of less consumption of CO2, so at the end this idea may actually have the opposite effect from what was intended.
It's no secret in China that this square exists. It's just what happened there $%*+
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Ah, now I understand. Microsoft's ultimate goal is to extinguish China!
Of course. If the Chinese internet is dominated by people paid for positive comments, it just means that the average Chinese internet user is paid for positive comments.
Hey, maybe when the Chinese internet turns into the Chinese LAN, they can have huge Chinese LAN parties! Of course, these LAN parties will have to be harmonized by the government and consist of 72 hours of back to back dota, counter-strike, and wow. Coincidentally, the Chinese government is also interested in recruiting new operators for their virtual soldiers.
The Chinese cannot have LAN parties because there's only one party allowed, the communist party.
I don't think China is so small that you could call it a local area.
NAN (Nation Area Network) would seem to fit more.
In Soviet Russia, the prize gets you.
After they used up all combinations with "Large", they could of course simply continue with the Huge Telescope, the Very Huge Telescope, etc. Then comes the Gigantic Telescope series, followed by the Monstrous Telescope series.
After that they slightly modify their naming scheme, so they get the Telescope of Astronomical Size, the Telescope of Very Astronomical Size, etc. Following the Astronomical Size series, there could be the Galactic Size series, and finally the Cosmic Size series.
The Telescope of Overwhelmingly Cosmic Size will be the largest telescope ever built, because anything larger would collapse to a black hole under its own weight. :-)
So it's the Almost Overwhelmingly Large Telescope now?
In related news, scientists have found out that dark matter is made of chairs.
weren't people wondering where 90% of the Universe's mass went? So they started into 'dark matter' and other voodoo stuff. Now that there's been a, what, 10-fold increase in galaxies, and I assume galaxies are a bit heavy (hey, I'm not against fat galaxies, they're just massively gifted), does that answer the 'mass of the Universe' question, or is there more stuff missing still?
The dark matter is missing mass inside the galaxies. Obviously additional galaxies cannot solve the problem.
Dark energy pushes things apart. No amount of matter (whether normal or dark) can give you that, because gravity always pulls things together.
Actually it's the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
No. They obviously didn't find those galaxies inside other galaxies, which is where they would have to be if they should solve the problem dark matter solves.
That's not what you said. You said (emphasis added by me):
If adding more memory doesn't change it, it's obviously not virtual memory swapping in and out. As I already said: If your bottleneck is other disk I/O, then an SSD may help, of course.
For fun, I just pasted the text of The Right To Read into this. According to this test, Stallman is informally a weak man, and formally a weak woman. :-)
And how do they find out what paedophiles type like in the first place? Observe them in the wild?
Should be simple: Put CP on a server and protect it with a 10 letter captcha. :-)
The only question is whether you'll get enough data before the police gets you.
What about the Foundation for the Invention of Really Simple Texts to be Posted On Slashdot by Trolls?
Not even a week ago there was an article on how the US government was pushing domain registrars to curtal effectivly anonymous registrations by pushing ID requirements. Before you critisize China you need to critical about the same shit closer to home.
Does that mean GoDaddy will also pull out of the USA?
Hey, it said "Soviet China" instead of "Soviet Russia"! That would be enough originality to get a patent!
No. If your browser is performing a DNS lookup, it is doing it right. Since the host specifier has neither the form of an IPv4address (four decimal numbers in the range 0-255 separated by dots) nor the form of an IP-Literal (basically, an IPv6 adress in brackets, although there's a reserved second form for future IP versions), it must be considered a hostname, and therefore looked up.
Probably the difference is in underlying OS or library routines used by Firefox.
Thanks for the references.
Octal numbers are especially interesting, because C octals actually are also valid decimal numbers (but generally with different values). Is 010.000.000.001 the same as 8.0.0.1 or the same as 10.0.0.1?
I didn't see anywhere that the decimals may not have leading zeros (the only requirement I've found is that it's a decimal in the range 0 to 255, and 010 as decimal certainly fulfils that requirement). That is, implementations interpreting 010 as octal may actually get the wrong IP address.
Are those hex formats actually RFC conforming? It might be just the result of using %i instead of %d in a scanf format string.