His last novels were ghosted anyway....
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His last few novels were so tedious. Doesn't matter... I'm not an adolescent know-it-all utopian collectivist anymore... a new Heinlein novel doesn't get my interest like it once would have.
If I was to don the tinfoil hat for a bit, I'd say the only reason the dare was so readily accepted by election officials was to stage the illusion of security and uncrackability."
Good point... no tin foil necessary. An authorized hack is, by definition, not a hack at all. It's a system test.
"You don't want the Chinese to be capitalists, you want the chinese to be your little boot-licking lackey dogs who turn out your cheap ass consumer goods in sweatshop like factories for a pittance."
You say that like there's something wrong with it.
Your theory that ENRON caused the rolling blackouts would wash only if ENRON was the sole source energy supplier for the entire state of Kaliforia. They weren't. All suppliers were equally affected with the exception of the few municipally owned power utilities left in the state. The Socialist State of Kalifornia limited BY LAW the amount of profit any given supplier could make. Limited profits.. limited supply... unlimited demand. Do the math.
"And we all remember a few years ago that California had rolling blackouts because the grid couldn't handle the power."
Not so by a lightyear. Grayout Davis's socialist-state energy regulations prevented utilities from bringing needed peaking power onto the grid for economic reasons - they couldn't pay the outside energy suppliers.
Environmental regulations, NIMBYism, and utility cost cutting policies in general are mostly to blame for power shortages and "old equipment syndrome." It's a no-brainer. Higher demand - less supply. You can't take excess capacity offline for maintenance if you have no excess capacity.
The "research" was obviously commissioned with a preconceived outcome. After reading the article, I'm more inclined to believe the Airphone conspiracy angle.
A good engineering study wouldn't conclude with "Continue current practices of banning cell phone use" and leave it there. It would conclude with recomendations for aircraft manufacturers to clean up the life endangering EMI vunerabilities inherent in their products. The danger doesn't recede when passengers power down their cell phones... airliners pass over hundreds of radio towers during a typical trip - if a cell phone can broadcast to towers outside the plane... then the towers and lots of other radiating sources can return the favor.
Then puzzle me this Batman: Why did they care lots more back when they got paid even less?Based on the results we got when we raised salaries, logic dictates we need to start rolling back the pay.
"But then, back in my teens in the mainframe and paper tape days, I wrote my own version of the ever popular Star Trek game. I didn't need to, I could play the original all I wanted."
When did you ever find time back then? What with us all huddling around small fires in caves trying to scare off the sabertooth tigers and all...
"The fed gov SHOULD NOT abandon ultra-fast super computing in place of mega beowulf clusters.
The concept of the Beowolf cluster for supercomputing in its present state is kind of like using 9 pregnant women to make a baby in 1 month - it can't be done. Of course they are trying to sucker the government into paying to solve their problem of not enough contiguous memory to do high end supercomputing. They don't have a competitive product... they have an R&D problem.
"I think to him naive creationism = the universe was created in 7 (solar) days, adam and eve, etc."
If he wants to postulate on the universe being a "sim," then who is he to tell the creator how to write the code? Ver. 1.0 might have taken a gazillion years, ver. 15.1.1 could easily have been cleaned up in a week. I'm not a creationist... but I've written a wee bit of code.
"It's interesting how in one paragraph he espouses a theory in which there are infinite possibilities and how this could be all one big simulation, then in the next says that creationist are just nuts who could never be right."
I got that too. I've never been one to get hot one way ot the other on CREVO, but the "simulated universe" postulation thing throws a huge juicy "science bone" to the creationists - because it is creationism... then he goes and disses religious creationists - even though he plainly stated lines between science and philosophy were blurred by the multiverse theories. I sense blind prejudice... not something to be desired in a truly objective scientist.
Then why are famines and abject disease ridden poverty incidental to underpopulated third world dirt holes while Tokyo and NYC enjoy the highest standards of living in the world?
This is why the "Infinite Probability" engine made it all the way to the end of the universe and back. A "Doubt" engine is unlikely to make it out of the garage.
I'm on a long term mission to digitize all family photos and videos. After having messed with Hauppauge's WinTV video capture card and struggled with hardware issues, driver issues, resolution issues, crappy software issues, time-away-from-the-family issues... I read your post and headed straight to BestBuy's at lunchtime and picked up the floor sample DVDR-985 for $400. Now to find a copy of the manual.
Take my advice folks, unless you're a video professional or you have tens of hours to waste per week tweeking your setup and scrapping expensive disks on failed recordings, pick up the best standalone DVD recorder you can afford and abandon the video capture route. In the long run, it will be cheaper. The next PC you buy will probably come with a built in video capture solution anyway.
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His last few novels were so tedious. Doesn't matter... I'm not an adolescent know-it-all utopian collectivist anymore... a new Heinlein novel doesn't get my interest like it once would have.
That will only be of help to those whose computers are up and running.
If you're that McGuyver character from TV... it would be a feature.
Good point... no tin foil necessary. An authorized hack is, by definition, not a hack at all. It's a system test.
You say that like there's something wrong with it.
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Your theory that ENRON caused the rolling blackouts would wash only if ENRON was the sole source energy supplier for the entire state of Kaliforia. They weren't. All suppliers were equally affected with the exception of the few municipally owned power utilities left in the state. The Socialist State of Kalifornia limited BY LAW the amount of profit any given supplier could make. Limited profits.. limited supply... unlimited demand. Do the math.
Not so by a lightyear. Grayout Davis's socialist-state energy regulations prevented utilities from bringing needed peaking power onto the grid for economic reasons - they couldn't pay the outside energy suppliers. Environmental regulations, NIMBYism, and utility cost cutting policies in general are mostly to blame for power shortages and "old equipment syndrome." It's a no-brainer. Higher demand - less supply. You can't take excess capacity offline for maintenance if you have no excess capacity.
The "research" was obviously commissioned with a preconceived outcome. After reading the article, I'm more inclined to believe the Airphone conspiracy angle.
A good engineering study wouldn't conclude with "Continue current practices of banning cell phone use" and leave it there. It would conclude with recomendations for aircraft manufacturers to clean up the life endangering EMI vunerabilities inherent in their products. The danger doesn't recede when passengers power down their cell phones... airliners pass over hundreds of radio towers during a typical trip - if a cell phone can broadcast to towers outside the plane... then the towers and lots of other radiating sources can return the favor.
The "study" is bogus.
Then puzzle me this Batman: Why did they care lots more back when they got paid even less?Based on the results we got when we raised salaries, logic dictates we need to start rolling back the pay.
Flammible fuel for mobile phones? Why not skip the middle man and develop a charging system where we rub a glass rod through a swath of cat's fur?
When did you ever find time back then? What with us all huddling around small fires in caves trying to scare off the sabertooth tigers and all...
The concept of the Beowolf cluster for supercomputing in its present state is kind of like using 9 pregnant women to make a baby in 1 month - it can't be done. Of course they are trying to sucker the government into paying to solve their problem of not enough contiguous memory to do high end supercomputing. They don't have a competitive product... they have an R&D problem.
If he wants to postulate on the universe being a "sim," then who is he to tell the creator how to write the code? Ver. 1.0 might have taken a gazillion years, ver. 15.1.1 could easily have been cleaned up in a week. I'm not a creationist... but I've written a wee bit of code.
I got that too. I've never been one to get hot one way ot the other on CREVO, but the "simulated universe" postulation thing throws a huge juicy "science bone" to the creationists - because it is creationism... then he goes and disses religious creationists - even though he plainly stated lines between science and philosophy were blurred by the multiverse theories. I sense blind prejudice... not something to be desired in a truly objective scientist.
Then why are famines and abject disease ridden poverty incidental to underpopulated third world dirt holes while Tokyo and NYC enjoy the highest standards of living in the world?
Take my advice folks, unless you're a video professional or you have tens of hours to waste per week tweeking your setup and scrapping expensive disks on failed recordings, pick up the best standalone DVD recorder you can afford and abandon the video capture route. In the long run, it will be cheaper. The next PC you buy will probably come with a built in video capture solution anyway.
I'm the guy who had to throw the CD out because I had applied the label to the wrong side. Yeah... that was me. Sorry.