[The question is, "should we invest about the value of one nuclear power plant (10-20 Billion / about 1GW) or should we invest the equivalent in renewable energy sources e.g. doubling the research budget for three years (currently e.g DOE funded to about 2 Billion yearly) then easily paying to build the same capacity as the nuclear plant in terms of offshore wind plants (about 1Billion / 300MW - you would need three of these) tidal (again about 1Billion for about 300MW capacity - three of these too) and hydro plants (1Billion will get you 2GW of pump storage capacity ; put another billion into small scale hydro and you will get back loads, though I can't find clear enough calculations)]
The answer is... uh... what was the question again?
> Now I'm using the 'nv' driver in all it's crappiness.
It's segfaulting because you regularly spell its wrong. I work for Nvidia, snuck a little grammar checker into the driver. No one will ever know! Bwahahaha.
I certainly wouldn't ding someone for not ripping though the answer - it's way too obscure. I've no problem explaining what each instruction does. But after that, it's pretty good at showing a thought process. Go get off my lawn, but dammit I think any geek should understand bits and bytes, and enjoy them. So even if they don't crank it out, I'd get a sense of the candidate, whether they thought the problem was pretty cool or a waste of time.
I once heard of some compiler geeks writing a program to find these code snips. "Gee, what five-or-fewer x86 instructions would perform x?" You supply a dozen inputs/outputs, the program tries all permutations of instructions, sees if In gives Out, Bob's yer uncle. The story (or legend) says the proggy shook out one or two new ones. If you don't think that's nifty, you're No Hire to me.
> Radeon 4650 in my new machine and it runs Crysis on high
Whoa, you're my spiritual cousin. I just bought a Radeon 4870, and it runs Crysis on high right up to the final boss, whereupon it balloons to 3GB of ram (of my 4GB), pegs both CPUs, goes to 2 frames per minute. Who the heck ran that game when it came out, two years ago?
> For the life of me, I've never understood why they turn off the extensions by default
The 'feature' was born, oh so many years ago, because some Windows Program Manager had Macintosh Envy. The Mac allowed you to have "Letter to Grandma", not "Letter to Grandma.doc". What this dork PM failed to recognize is that extensions, a very simple concept, is really quite useful, and easy to use. C'mon MS, turn them back on (by default) in Win7.
> I'm trying my hardest
> large attachments he usually doesnt need to open but Outhouse downloads them anyway
> every idea I've tried comes to nothing
You're quite the wizard, gosh he's lucky to have you helping him out.
Outlook, like every other frikken mail program, has a setting to download just the headers until you dblclick to view the message. Search on "Outlook download headers". Don't call it Outhouse, because, y'know, the search won't work that way. Am I getting too technical for you?
> Fixtures can be removed if explicitly stated in the agreement, likewise chattels may be required to stay for the same reasons.
Oh yeah I bought my house, had all kinds of chattels running round the yard. He wanted to take em but I said huh no way, those my chattels now. Hm, we ate real good that first two weeks.
Congratulations! You're the billionth Slashdot post to misspell its.
"fallen apart towards the end" - SPOILER!
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The Baroque Cycle (yes, awfully long, but I enjoyed it) has a great ending! The third book is the best of the three, the last half is the best sixth, and the last 100 pages are terrific. The escape from jail, the trial with Newton and the Solomonic gold, and then Jack's hanging - my gracious that was good stuff.
I'm as nerdy as any of you, I hate DST, just get rid of it.
But, here's a funny story. Ages ago, I went to Club Med on Bora Bora, in Tahiti. American tourist ranch. Club Med ran an hour off the rest of the island. It'd be 3pm at Club Med, 2pm down the street. Why? Because the idiot tourists would party 'late', wake up at 10am, miss out on all the great sunshine activities. They couldn't convince people otherwise, so they just redefined time, fooled them.
God bless you, sir.
We had a programmable calculator, must have weighed 50 pounds. Printed out on paper tape. Input only through the keypad. I can squeeze my eyes and picture it, but not enough to remember the brand. Then I could spend my twilight years searching eBay for one. That baby lit the fire for me.
Boy, that's sure not my recollection. I remember gamers coming over fast, way ahead of both corporations and casual users. XP was such a win in gaming: more stable, better task switching, great backwards compat. Sure there were driver problems, but not so bad, nor for so long. I don't suppose there's any data to really show how it went, prove either of us right.
Team Fortress 2 crashes on exit for me, every single time. Happened on XP, then on Vista 32, now on Vista 64. Meh, could be worse.
The FCC is the Federal Buggy Whip Commission. They are regulating a bunch of dead, dying, or at the very least rapidly-changing businesses. The FCC getting in the action will help neither the businesses nor their consumers. If the radio/tv biz was made 100% unregulated, they'd still have less than even odds of surviving. The web will consume them. You're going to watch TV by browsing to www.desperatehousewifes.com. With the exception of real live stuff, podcasts will eat radio, and even the live will get done somehow or another. Heh, maybe all that free wifi will eventually work.
My fear of allowing the FCC to get up off the mat, is that they'll proclaim they're needed to regulate the Web. They're going to try to stick their nose in the tent.
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[The question is, "should we invest about the value of one nuclear power plant (10-20 Billion / about 1GW) or should we invest the equivalent in renewable energy sources e.g. doubling the research budget for three years (currently e.g DOE funded to about 2 Billion yearly) then easily paying to build the same capacity as the nuclear plant in terms of offshore wind plants (about 1Billion / 300MW - you would need three of these) tidal (again about 1Billion for about 300MW capacity - three of these too) and hydro plants (1Billion will get you 2GW of pump storage capacity ; put another billion into small scale hydro and you will get back loads, though I can't find clear enough calculations)]
... uh ... what was the question again?
The answer is
> Google doeth sucketh the big wet titty
I'm not seeing a problem here.
> since I live in the midwest now, and I don't get to see my glorious Ducks rule the Pac 10
Maybe you can watch Masoli play at Kansas City Community College.
> Now I'm using the 'nv' driver in all it's crappiness.
It's segfaulting because you regularly spell its wrong. I work for Nvidia, snuck a little grammar checker into the driver. No one will ever know! Bwahahaha.
Rabid
No one reads old SlashDot threads...
Yes, it's AX=ABS(AX).
I certainly wouldn't ding someone for not ripping though the answer - it's way too obscure. I've no problem explaining what each instruction does. But after that, it's pretty good at showing a thought process. Go get off my lawn, but dammit I think any geek should understand bits and bytes, and enjoy them. So even if they don't crank it out, I'd get a sense of the candidate, whether they thought the problem was pretty cool or a waste of time.
I once heard of some compiler geeks writing a program to find these code snips. "Gee, what five-or-fewer x86 instructions would perform x?" You supply a dozen inputs/outputs, the program tries all permutations of instructions, sees if In gives Out, Bob's yer uncle. The story (or legend) says the proggy shook out one or two new ones. If you don't think that's nifty, you're No Hire to me.
-- Rabid
I loved saying in an interview "I see you have x86 assembler on your resume". The color drains from the kid's face, I give 'em a snippet:
cwd
xor ax,dx
sub ax,dx
It's nothing rocket, just some fun with 2s-complement.
-- Rabid
> thermite and shit
Take it from me, that's a bad combination.
Rabid
> Radeon 4650 in my new machine and it runs Crysis on high
Whoa, you're my spiritual cousin. I just bought a Radeon 4870, and it runs Crysis on high right up to the final boss, whereupon it balloons to 3GB of ram (of my 4GB), pegs both CPUs, goes to 2 frames per minute. Who the heck ran that game when it came out, two years ago?
> For the life of me, I've never understood why they turn off the extensions by default
The 'feature' was born, oh so many years ago, because some Windows Program Manager had Macintosh Envy. The Mac allowed you to have "Letter to Grandma", not "Letter to Grandma.doc". What this dork PM failed to recognize is that extensions, a very simple concept, is really quite useful, and easy to use. C'mon MS, turn them back on (by default) in Win7.
> I'm trying my hardest
> large attachments he usually doesnt need to open but Outhouse downloads them anyway
> every idea I've tried comes to nothing
You're quite the wizard, gosh he's lucky to have you helping him out.
Outlook, like every other frikken mail program, has a setting to download just the headers until you dblclick to view the message. Search on "Outlook download headers". Don't call it Outhouse, because, y'know, the search won't work that way. Am I getting too technical for you?
Rabid
> Fixtures can be removed if explicitly stated in the agreement, likewise chattels may be required to stay for the same reasons.
Oh yeah I bought my house, had all kinds of chattels running round the yard. He wanted to take em but I said huh no way, those my chattels now. Hm, we ate real good that first two weeks.
> Bic sold it's 100 billionth pen back in 2005.
Congratulations! You're the billionth Slashdot post to misspell its.
The Baroque Cycle (yes, awfully long, but I enjoyed it) has a great ending! The third book is the best of the three, the last half is the best sixth, and the last 100 pages are terrific. The escape from jail, the trial with Newton and the Solomonic gold, and then Jack's hanging - my gracious that was good stuff.
I read A Clockwork Orange, got all the way to the end, then realized there was a glossary back there. Ha!
> supported through the Sound Blaster Sound Cards
Dude, it's the Hubble. It should have a Sound Blaster X-Fi ExtremeGamer.
I'm as nerdy as any of you, I hate DST, just get rid of it. But, here's a funny story. Ages ago, I went to Club Med on Bora Bora, in Tahiti. American tourist ranch. Club Med ran an hour off the rest of the island. It'd be 3pm at Club Med, 2pm down the street. Why? Because the idiot tourists would party 'late', wake up at 10am, miss out on all the great sunshine activities. They couldn't convince people otherwise, so they just redefined time, fooled them.
God bless you, sir.
We had a programmable calculator, must have weighed 50 pounds. Printed out on paper tape. Input only through the keypad. I can squeeze my eyes and picture it, but not enough to remember the brand. Then I could spend my twilight years searching eBay for one. That baby lit the fire for me.
The game. Sends an error report. Every time.
I've got fresh Nvidia drivers, Steam auto-updates TF2, Windows auto-updates everything else. Well, no, not everything, but you know what I mean.
But hey, it's at exit. I'm done anyway. No big deal.
> Gamers stuck it out with Windows 98
Boy, that's sure not my recollection. I remember gamers coming over fast, way ahead of both corporations and casual users. XP was such a win in gaming: more stable, better task switching, great backwards compat. Sure there were driver problems, but not so bad, nor for so long. I don't suppose there's any data to really show how it went, prove either of us right.
Team Fortress 2 crashes on exit for me, every single time. Happened on XP, then on Vista 32, now on Vista 64. Meh, could be worse.
Rabid
cwd
xor ax,dx
sub ax,dx
You insensitive clod!
> Well, unfortunately its a fact that the more education you have received
How much education does it take to teach you how to spell it's?
If you chose your education from the flaws of an '85 Camaro, my gosh you'd be in school for forty years.
The FCC is the Federal Buggy Whip Commission. They are regulating a bunch of dead, dying, or at the very least rapidly-changing businesses. The FCC getting in the action will help neither the businesses nor their consumers. If the radio/tv biz was made 100% unregulated, they'd still have less than even odds of surviving. The web will consume them. You're going to watch TV by browsing to www.desperatehousewifes.com. With the exception of real live stuff, podcasts will eat radio, and even the live will get done somehow or another. Heh, maybe all that free wifi will eventually work.
My fear of allowing the FCC to get up off the mat, is that they'll proclaim they're needed to regulate the Web. They're going to try to stick their nose in the tent.
-- Rabid.
Okay, one more time. It's it's, as in "it is", not its. It's a contraction, not a possessive.
4.77 MHz baby! Then we got that new AT and cranked it to 8. Hoo we were flying.