devising experiments which explore popularly held beliefs doesn't make them quacks. We still have that going on today, and even in the slashdot science section we see articles reporting the debunking of popular misconceptions that even our scientists hold. By the way, Newton DID hold to a quantum theory: he believed light was composed of particles.
you can relax, he's only there to protect you from the mimetic polyalloy automaton from the global AI consciousness which has selected you for termination.
actually, MS has "given back" in the sense that the one thing the BSD license requires is RECOGNITION to the authors, which is one thing most who write software want. And it is worth something, looks great on resume....
For old single-crystal silicon type solar collector payback in energy was 10 years or more (and some did not have useful life that long), but newer-tech thin-film and multicrystalline ones have companies claiming them to have 15-20 year life and 2 year energy payback . Anyway, I'd like to see $10 billion thrown at that problem rather than continuing the already 30+ year old fusion powerplant dream, my whole life that scene has gone nowhere fast
is this really better than spending the money to cover a few hundred square miles of otherwise useless sunny land with solar collectors? What's the percentage of bright sunny days in the Sahara desert?
heh, the plastic folks maybe weren't acquainted with Mr. OSHA and Mr. Confined Space and Mr. Oxygen Deficency Hazard, so adding Mr. Fire Marshall to the list of ignored people isn't a big step.
DragonFly is cool and all, but it still has The Giant Lock for most things, and it will be YEARS before it reaches production stability. I use FreeBSD on my servers, but then they are only 2 way SMP....Linux is probably the way to go for "mid to big iron", which most servers are not.
yes, we'll be able to generate fourteen quadrillion simultaneous states in the machine, one of which will be the correct forecast, but the rest won't be
but if you're talking about bad guys walking around locally it doesn't take GPS or a rocket scientist to locate any of that stuff, it's trivial. Heck, just seeing water towers, intake structures in lakes, resevoirs and pumping stations above ground you can prety much lay out the water distribution system for a whole state, above and below ground.
terrorists generally don't have the means to destroy the underground infrastructure anyway. On the other hand, if you're China or Russia, a one megaton ground burst within a few thousand meters of gas or water lines will probably back up the customer service call lines......
we hate his guts Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and mock and despise him Tuesday and Thursday. On weekends we try not to think about him at all unless we happen to step in manure.
We should be going to solar regardless of any fear of fossil fuel depletion. It's more accurate to say the supply of "sweet light" crude will decline in the next ten years, but of course there's plenty of other harder-to-process fossil fuel, enough for two centuries or more even at current rates of growth (ewwwww). In a pinch a hemispherical solar concentrator is good enough, but in the event The End of All Civilization comes you'll have plenty of parabolic dishes laying around, just pick those satellite dishes out of the ruins and put something light-reflective on them. Interesting there are now commercial bug sprays that use natural ingedients. I would suggest picking up a cheap blender to use for your kewl pest-control experiments, in the event you're unknowngly blending up something that makes anthrax look like chicken pox! Could backfire too, someday you might find mutant super-caterpillars impervious to any bacteria eating your trees and your dog.
why not do the usual trick of hiring as contractor for 3 - 6 month project. If you like them keep them, if you don't, you can actually get rid of them at any time.
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how come God doesn't rotate them 30 degree for Daylight Savings Time, after all we're His Nation and we made it The Law, dammit!!!!!
hah, my sun dial is also solar powered but doesn't need a radio reference.
you'll be delighted to know that february 29 is called a "leap day".
or, he wants to be one but with conversion involving hormones not saline bags?
As the evil Goldfinger will tell you, gold with a deadly amount of radioactivity isn't worth much.
devising experiments which explore popularly held beliefs doesn't make them quacks. We still have that going on today, and even in the slashdot science section we see articles reporting the debunking of popular misconceptions that even our scientists hold. By the way, Newton DID hold to a quantum theory: he believed light was composed of particles.
no, maybe they'll have a *lot* of warring old crime lords in the future.
you can relax, he's only there to protect you from the mimetic polyalloy automaton from the global AI consciousness which has selected you for termination.
hahaha, nope, but spouting off in a Public Forum has gotten under the skin of some Sun employees at times here on slashdot. that's priceless.
actually, MS has "given back" in the sense that the one thing the BSD license requires is RECOGNITION to the authors, which is one thing most who write software want. And it is worth something, looks great on resume....
For old single-crystal silicon type solar collector payback in energy was 10 years or more (and some did not have useful life that long), but newer-tech thin-film and multicrystalline ones have companies claiming them to have 15-20 year life and 2 year energy payback . Anyway, I'd like to see $10 billion thrown at that problem rather than continuing the already 30+ year old fusion powerplant dream, my whole life that scene has gone nowhere fast
I've not requisitioned $100K's of equipment from Linus, on the other hand from Sun I have. So I'll bitch about them all I please
why doesn't sun just add support for common x86 laptop chipsets to OpenSolaris.....oh wait, they want us to do it for them. for free.
is this really better than spending the money to cover a few hundred square miles of otherwise useless sunny land with solar collectors? What's the percentage of bright sunny days in the Sahara desert?
the article mentioned the body temperature of the dogs dropped to 7 degrees C, above freezing
heh, the plastic folks maybe weren't acquainted with Mr. OSHA and Mr. Confined Space and Mr. Oxygen Deficency Hazard, so adding Mr. Fire Marshall to the list of ignored people isn't a big step.
DragonFly is cool and all, but it still has The Giant Lock for most things, and it will be YEARS before it reaches production stability. I use FreeBSD on my servers, but then they are only 2 way SMP....Linux is probably the way to go for "mid to big iron", which most servers are not.
yes, we'll be able to generate fourteen quadrillion simultaneous states in the machine, one of which will be the correct forecast, but the rest won't be
A crackhead can't get a rider written into the Patriot Act
Well, GW isn't talking about his past drug use, so we're not sure if that's true or not
but if you're talking about bad guys walking around locally it doesn't take GPS or a rocket scientist to locate any of that stuff, it's trivial. Heck, just seeing water towers, intake structures in lakes, resevoirs and pumping stations above ground you can prety much lay out the water distribution system for a whole state, above and below ground.
terrorists generally don't have the means to destroy the underground infrastructure anyway. On the other hand, if you're China or Russia, a one megaton ground burst within a few thousand meters of gas or water lines will probably back up the customer service call lines......
we hate his guts Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and mock and despise him Tuesday and Thursday. On weekends we try not to think about him at all unless we happen to step in manure.
We should be going to solar regardless of any fear of fossil fuel depletion. It's more accurate to say the supply of "sweet light" crude will decline in the next ten years, but of course there's plenty of other harder-to-process fossil fuel, enough for two centuries or more even at current rates of growth (ewwwww). In a pinch a hemispherical solar concentrator is good enough, but in the event The End of All Civilization comes you'll have plenty of parabolic dishes laying around, just pick those satellite dishes out of the ruins and put something light-reflective on them. Interesting there are now commercial bug sprays that use natural ingedients. I would suggest picking up a cheap blender to use for your kewl pest-control experiments, in the event you're unknowngly blending up something that makes anthrax look like chicken pox! Could backfire too, someday you might find mutant super-caterpillars impervious to any bacteria eating your trees and your dog.
heh, was that a very obscure mocking of typical J2EE peristence layer architecture?
why not do the usual trick of hiring as contractor for 3 - 6 month project. If you like them keep them, if you don't, you can actually get rid of them at any time.