Take e=mc2, then account for losses during the actual generation, and you do the math (it's a f*ckton more than you get out of a pound of coal).
This article is pure FUD.
People are scared of nuclear fuel, greenies hate it.
The influence of science fiction has really damned the technology. It's weird, funny and sad.
I've read we have enough uranium to fuel our planet until such time as we develop the technology to mine it elsewhere in the solar system, ie; thousands upon thousands of years.
If it was a pared-down machine with WinXP embedded, simplified interface (as in, maybe only Media Center?), etc. and brought it in under $500, it could have had a shot.
If it could play Gears of War and came with a wireless controller then it'd be totally bad ass!
I installed MythTV under OongaBoonga lunix and then called to get new balls for my mice and THEY HUNG UP ON ME AND CALLED ME A FAG0T! They managed to say it with one G, and a 0 too.
Lots of bragging in there about his clients vast wealth and ability to fight back.
Guess that doesn't apply to me. I can't fly techs around the country to copy my hard drive and dance the hokey pokey and do other bullshit.
They've no doubt taken millions from people who cant fight back.. Is there a tally anywhere? Or is it all "confidential".
I should also note that lawyers are duplicitious sacks of dog shit. Don't lionize this guy, he's not fighting the good fight, he's "getting a rich guy out of trouble".
I don't think they're paid ads, but the/. editorial staff sure wants me to run out and buy everything Apple sells, and pointing out any flaws or shortcoming in any Apple product is a sure-fire way to lose your oh-so-important karma.
It only bugs me when the comments cross over into complete fabrications, and bullshit. This is supposed to be a geek site. Masterbating for Apple because they're "hip", and not for legitimate tech reasons is just so utterly un-geek.
You get self-proclaimed computer experts telling you stupid nonsense that two mouse buttons are "confusing".
Neither course will guarantee him a spot (or even help) designing the great games of the future. Those are designed by suits in boardrooms, for the most part.
But at least a real degree is worth a little more than a comparable size of toilet paper.
Get ahold of the regional repair manager from whatever company you're dealing with. 95% of all claims that go above the dealership are resolved in the customers favor. Some dealers hate doing warrantee work, because Ford pays them about half as much to drop in a new engine as you would out of pocket.
Go above their heads, you'll come out the winner every time. I know a guy who threw a rod after installing (by himself) a supercharger, and argued himself into a new engine. He didn't deserve it, and it was douchebaggy on his part, but he got it.
There are bad dealers and good ones. Good ones want your business.
I found a Ford dealer who would install a third party turbo kit on my mustang, and still honor the drivetrain warranty so long as they do the work and tune it. I'm going to take my car up to have a limited slip rear diff and 4.10 racing gears. They have no problem with CAIs, exhausts, or other bolt-ons. It also helps they sponsor the local mustang club, and their business is no doubt comprised almost entirely of tuners and gearheads. Very smart on their part, since all Ford has these days are Mustangs.
Then I tried to upgrade the box, with an emerge --sync and emerge -uD world, so I'd get the latest nVidia driver. Something borked in the middle of it so now I have a paperweight, which maybe I'll get around to deciphering one day.
I'd guessed it was bad RAM caused both problems, but it doesnt make sense how I could still ssh in and use the machine when frozen. Memtest ran for an hour or so with no errors reported.
I'll try another consumer-oriented distro next time, maybe this unga bunga everyones talking about. I don't have the time to fuck with gentoo anymore.
Why not develop mono on it's own, as it's own application development platform.
C# is a good language, having it represented outside of Windows is a good thing. Plenty of C# coders are hitting their streets, and linux could exploit that too.
Instead of dicking around trying to recreate MSFT's libraries (Windows Forms), why not more focus on developing their OWN truly cross platform libraries, (like, say, GTK#)
I had some success writing cross-platform apps based on GTK#, this was over a year ago, and haven't played with Mono since, I didn't want to invest too much time into something that looked like a novelty which would just be pitched.
De Icazas focus seemed to be "do exactly what microsoft does" then, and seems so now.
I'd take a thread safe GTK# over a half-assed wine-implementation of winforms.
Why do you think people will "switch"? If someone has a PC on their desk that runs Windows and MS Office, what makes you think you're going to get them to flatten it and restart with linux? It's paid for, it's done.
If you want to increase linux' and OSS's presence, it needs to ship on the box. Don't expect Dell, HP, Compaq, etc to do this for you. The fact they don't shows there's no demand. The fact that everyone who's tried to provide this has failed speaks for itself.
The masses just dont want it.
It's hard to convince people to rebuild their perfectly functional computer, with a less capable alternative, based purely on the philosophy of "MSF is evil its not Free".
Seriously. What the fuck would you knobs know about cool?
You probably think it's uncool because it isn't compatible with firefox for unga bunga linux or dragonfire BSD.
NBC and NewsCorp have tons of content people want access too. They will be successful, whether you like it or not, or whether it gets the tag of "cool" from a bunch of geeks.
YouTube cool? Whats so cool about some fat kids video diary?
The idea is more like you blow a rod and the dealer says he won't honor the warranty because you added driving lights
In that case, the dealer would have to explain to you in writing, just how its possible that your driving lights affected your drivetrain.
You'd escalate to the next level, and call the regional maintainence supervisor, and 95% of all calls that go to him get resolved in the customers favor.
Ther's a Ford dealer near me that will install racing parts, lower your car, do whatever mod you want, and still honor the warranty. There's another one who will gouge you for an oil change.
The real point is, it's all going to vary from dealer to dealer, mechanic to mechanic. As a rule, they don't like doing warranty work, they make less money. But they also don't like p*ssing off customers.
I doubt this is HP's written policy. I bet the CSR just wanted off the phone. Just because some tech guy supposedly said something on the phone doesn't make it HP's policy.
Is there any reason that solid state cannot ultimately replace the current HD technology?
$$$
For a long while I think you'll see more hybrids, and more use of a solid state drive to accelerate application loading, while platter based discs hold the mountains of "data".
Other than application loading, there isn't too much use for these on personal PCs. They'd improve the hell out of database server performance, though.
Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) has aired it a few times in syndication. Fox, however, censored Stewie's naked butt crack (A black, sort of curved line) because they were afraid of a backlash. (Was soon after Janet Jacksons nasty saggy tit being shown off at the superbowl).
Another example is the Seinfeld episode where kramer accidentally burns a peurto rican flag during the peurto rican parade, and those two "street toughs" that terrify him just happen to be there. It was a good gag in context.
You don't need that speed for all your slews of videos and images, just put them ( and all data) on a regular disc, and use this for applications only. It'll last longer that way, anyways.
Bullshit, the law is rather well-misquoted among tuners and rodders. Or rather, the only ones who talk about it are scam artists who sell bullshit like the "turbonator" to double your gas mileage.
All they have to do to toss out MMWA is show that there's a reasonable chance that the modification caused the failure.
If I bolt a turbo kit on my mustang, and throw a piston, ford will not honor any drivetrain warranty. If I lower my car, they will void my warranty as I've now changed the ride geometry.
If I install linux, there's every chance that my hardware may not function properly.
Good luck ever successfully invoking this do-nothing law, against Ford, or against HP.
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Take e=mc2, then account for losses during the actual generation, and you do the math (it's a f*ckton more than you get out of a pound of coal).
This article is pure FUD.
People are scared of nuclear fuel, greenies hate it.
The influence of science fiction has really damned the technology. It's weird, funny and sad.
I've read we have enough uranium to fuel our planet until such time as we develop the technology to mine it elsewhere in the solar system, ie; thousands upon thousands of years.
If it was a pared-down machine with WinXP embedded, simplified interface (as in, maybe only Media Center?), etc. and brought it in under $500, it could have had a shot.
If it could play Gears of War and came with a wireless controller then it'd be totally bad ass!
Apparently installing Vista fixes it too.
I was experimenting with linux as a desktop, and it almost worked out.
I installed MythTV under OongaBoonga lunix and then called to get new balls for my mice and THEY HUNG UP ON ME AND CALLED ME A FAG0T! They managed to say it with one G, and a 0 too.
Which was nice.
Lots of bragging in there about his clients vast wealth and ability to fight back.
Guess that doesn't apply to me. I can't fly techs around the country to copy my hard drive and dance the hokey pokey and do other bullshit.
They've no doubt taken millions from people who cant fight back.. Is there a tally anywhere? Or is it all "confidential".
I should also note that lawyers are duplicitious sacks of dog shit. Don't lionize this guy, he's not fighting the good fight, he's "getting a rich guy out of trouble".
I don't think they're paid ads, but the /. editorial staff sure wants me to run out and buy everything Apple sells, and pointing out any flaws or shortcoming in any Apple product is a sure-fire way to lose your oh-so-important karma.
It only bugs me when the comments cross over into complete fabrications, and bullshit. This is supposed to be a geek site. Masterbating for Apple because they're "hip", and not for legitimate tech reasons is just so utterly un-geek.
You get self-proclaimed computer experts telling you stupid nonsense that two mouse buttons are "confusing".
I remember hearing about this as soon as it was announced the mother was sort-of pregnant.
Neither course will guarantee him a spot (or even help) designing the great games of the future. Those are designed by suits in boardrooms, for the most part.
But at least a real degree is worth a little more than a comparable size of toilet paper.
Get ahold of the regional repair manager from whatever company you're dealing with. 95% of all claims that go above the dealership are resolved in the customers favor. Some dealers hate doing warrantee work, because Ford pays them about half as much to drop in a new engine as you would out of pocket.
Go above their heads, you'll come out the winner every time. I know a guy who threw a rod after installing (by himself) a supercharger, and argued himself into a new engine. He didn't deserve it, and it was douchebaggy on his part, but he got it.
There are bad dealers and good ones. Good ones want your business.
I found a Ford dealer who would install a third party turbo kit on my mustang, and still honor the drivetrain warranty so long as they do the work and tune it. I'm going to take my car up to have a limited slip rear diff and 4.10 racing gears. They have no problem with CAIs, exhausts, or other bolt-ons. It also helps they sponsor the local mustang club, and their business is no doubt comprised almost entirely of tuners and gearheads. Very smart on their part, since all Ford has these days are Mustangs.
How's it any different than all the obvious Apple ads that get posted as "news" right here on /.?
I tried that.
Then I tried to upgrade the box, with an emerge --sync and emerge -uD world, so I'd get the latest nVidia driver. Something borked in the middle of it so now I have a paperweight, which maybe I'll get around to deciphering one day.
I'd guessed it was bad RAM caused both problems, but it doesnt make sense how I could still ssh in and use the machine when frozen. Memtest ran for an hour or so with no errors reported.
I'll try another consumer-oriented distro next time, maybe this unga bunga everyones talking about. I don't have the time to fuck with gentoo anymore.
Why not develop mono on it's own, as it's own application development platform.
C# is a good language, having it represented outside of Windows is a good thing. Plenty of C# coders are hitting their streets, and linux could exploit that too.
Instead of dicking around trying to recreate MSFT's libraries (Windows Forms), why not more focus on developing their OWN truly cross platform libraries, (like, say, GTK#)
I had some success writing cross-platform apps based on GTK#, this was over a year ago, and haven't played with Mono since, I didn't want to invest too much time into something that looked like a novelty which would just be pitched.
De Icazas focus seemed to be "do exactly what microsoft does" then, and seems so now.
I'd take a thread safe GTK# over a half-assed wine-implementation of winforms.
But, that's just one little bears opinion.
Jupiter has one too.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not unheard of for natural weather phenomena to form geometric patterns.
The eye of a hurricane is more hexagonal/octogonal than circular if you look at one, each "arm" of the hurricane sort of defines a side in the eye.
Intelligent life couldn't "build" a long-term atmospheric feature?
What are we to make of Lando's cloud city?
THINK ABOUT LANDO FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE YOU RACIST
I bought two Wii's before christmas.
PS3s marketing campaign was based on somebody getting stabbed in the parking lot, to get them on the news as the seasons "hot gift".
*not*
Why do you think people will "switch"? If someone has a PC on their desk that runs Windows and MS Office, what makes you think you're going to get them to flatten it and restart with linux? It's paid for, it's done.
If you want to increase linux' and OSS's presence, it needs to ship on the box. Don't expect Dell, HP, Compaq, etc to do this for you. The fact they don't shows there's no demand. The fact that everyone who's tried to provide this has failed speaks for itself.
The masses just dont want it.
It's hard to convince people to rebuild their perfectly functional computer, with a less capable alternative, based purely on the philosophy of "MSF is evil its not Free".
Exactly how is that racist?
Maybe you're the racist for assuming I meant Ubuntu. I was talking about the other one.
Seriously. What the fuck would you knobs know about cool?
You probably think it's uncool because it isn't compatible with firefox for unga bunga linux or dragonfire BSD.
NBC and NewsCorp have tons of content people want access too. They will be successful, whether you like it or not, or whether it gets the tag of "cool" from a bunch of geeks.
YouTube cool? Whats so cool about some fat kids video diary?
The idea is more like you blow a rod and the dealer says he won't honor the warranty because you added driving lights
In that case, the dealer would have to explain to you in writing, just how its possible that your driving lights affected your drivetrain.
You'd escalate to the next level, and call the regional maintainence supervisor, and 95% of all calls that go to him get resolved in the customers favor.
Ther's a Ford dealer near me that will install racing parts, lower your car, do whatever mod you want, and still honor the warranty. There's another one who will gouge you for an oil change.
The real point is, it's all going to vary from dealer to dealer, mechanic to mechanic. As a rule, they don't like doing warranty work, they make less money. But they also don't like p*ssing off customers.
I doubt this is HP's written policy. I bet the CSR just wanted off the phone. Just because some tech guy supposedly said something on the phone doesn't make it HP's policy.
I've seen keyboards not work on a fucked up linux kernel.
Is there any reason that solid state cannot ultimately replace the current HD technology?
$$$
For a long while I think you'll see more hybrids, and more use of a solid state drive to accelerate application loading, while platter based discs hold the mountains of "data".
Other than application loading, there isn't too much use for these on personal PCs. They'd improve the hell out of database server performance, though.
Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) has aired it a few times in syndication. Fox, however, censored Stewie's naked butt crack (A black, sort of curved line) because they were afraid of a backlash. (Was soon after Janet Jacksons nasty saggy tit being shown off at the superbowl).
Another example is the Seinfeld episode where kramer accidentally burns a peurto rican flag during the peurto rican parade, and those two "street toughs" that terrify him just happen to be there. It was a good gag in context.
People are too easily offended. Bunch of pussies.
They're called "wait states" and the number of them really depends on the depth of the decoding logic.
You know, those SDRAM timings that x-trememe overclockers 2 the max use to fully run 3dmarks to the xtreme maxx.
You don't need that speed for all your slews of videos and images, just put them ( and all data) on a regular disc, and use this for applications only. It'll last longer that way, anyways.
Bullshit, the law is rather well-misquoted among tuners and rodders. Or rather, the only ones who talk about it are scam artists who sell bullshit like the "turbonator" to double your gas mileage.
All they have to do to toss out MMWA is show that there's a reasonable chance that the modification caused the failure.
If I bolt a turbo kit on my mustang, and throw a piston, ford will not honor any drivetrain warranty. If I lower my car, they will void my warranty as I've now changed the ride geometry.
If I install linux, there's every chance that my hardware may not function properly.
Good luck ever successfully invoking this do-nothing law, against Ford, or against HP.