Why not look at the high-res version and see that there are at least 3 people riding on it? His weight won't change anything. He's certainly there to monitor the move, to make sure it doesn't shift or something.
It's a sphere. And I'd bet that the ground isn't perfectly flat. The sun is obviously low and to the right of the image, and most of the shadow is falling on the grass beside the road, and hence, "invisible". The leg struts leave shadows properly on the sphere itself, and on the road. I'd bet you $100 right now that this isn't a photoshop (except for the crappy, aliased resizing)
But you know what makes a ton of money? Putting out a new revision of a standard textbook with only a few sections moved around, and all the questions renumbered, so you sell the same content for hundreds of dollars all over again to a new bunch of suckers! This works because you give the professors that assign it a little bit of a kickback, as well as a free copy to get it as the new standard textbook for the course. I can't understand why anyone would be upset by that, or feel as if they're being ripped off.
You stated problems that no longer exist with nuclear power as being too expensive. That's pretty much the textbook definition of setting up a strawman. I'm not a nuclear "fanboy", I simply see that the environmental and other side-effects of nuclear power are much preferable to any other kind of power generation that we have on the table at the moment. Expensive is ok, if you get the return on the investment.
I didn't say there weren't any problems with nuclear power. I said that the ones you set up were strawmen, ignoring the state of technology.
And that "open mind" bullshit? That's something cold-fusion and free-energy idiots spout when someone tells them about thermodynamics. Don't be that guy.
There are plenty of trunk lines. The main issue is the "last mile" of connection, to the home. The companies aren't using all that money we taxpayers gave them specifically for that. They're just ignoring that it ever existed, and complaining about regulation stifling them.
At least yours is planned. Colorado isn't even under consideration. Gotta be east or west coast, apparently. We hicks in the middle of the country apparently ain't good enough for it.
Because disposing of the waste is a solved problem, digging up fissionables is also a solved problem if you look at the previous link. NIMBY lawsuits, that would simply take an act of Congress saying "We'll put these anywhere a different kind of power plant could be situated, and you can't do shit about it". Decommissioning worn out plants of ANY sort is expensive, so that's something that can't be leveled only against nuclear (coal, oil, whatever it is, it's expensive). Really, your arguments are old and uninformed. Nuclear is a VERY viable option for a lot of power going forward from here. It just needs to break through disinformation that's presented as fact by people like you.
Grab a price/performance ratio on all of those you listed, compare it to the ratio this Intel SSD has, and get back to me. Then put them in a RAID config. Not to mention... how many of those will fit into a 2.5" form factor? I don't think any of them. This is big news for mobile speed, and for compact datacenter needs.
Generally not. What a RAM defragger does, all it CAN do, is request a metric fuckton (not imperial... people often get those confused) of memory, which shoves almost everything currently running into swap, and then it releases it, so hopefully the OS reads the pages back from the swap in larger cohesive blocks.
In short, no, there's no reason for it. If there was, it'd be recommended for use on memory-hungry server applications in the enterprise, and I have never seen that. Operating systems have improved a lot since Windows98, which was really the last time you might want to actually use one of those, since they didn't really have any actual control over the application memory allocations and such.
What gets really interesting is if you start thinking about these access times and such on your swap partition/file/drive/whatever. It's a hell of a lot less expensive than a ton of extra RAM, but still performs quite well, especially in random access. 80GB of an Intel SSD is still a lot cheaper than the equivalent amount of RAM, too.
I'd bet that a non-trivial amount people would buy it rather than pirate it if it didn't come with all the DRM. I know I would. I'd rather risk a virus infection than deal with a guaranteed shitware infection. And there are games I've bought specifically because they didn't come with DRM. Didn't really like the game, but I liked the company and it's practices.
Thing is, the only people reading that are people who already know about Microsoft. Is someone reading an article about a company spending lots of money to say "Our product isn't as bad as everyone except us says it is! Really!" really going to be convinced by said commercial? I watched it the same way I watch a train wreck. It's bad, but I just can't take my eyes off of it...
I really don't think that the Atom is capable of decoding full HD video at any reasonable rate. You might be barely able to get away with 720p DivX or H.264 video, though. The only option for 1080p might be to have a VERY fast network with some very minimally CPU-intensive encoding.
Not having access to the same things as the rest of the world (or at least the US) isn't enough of a citation for consumers being harmed? Are you that stupid naturally, or does it take work?
Yeah. OK, well, uh, we found, uh, this mouse in a bottle of YOUR BEER, eh. Like, we was at a party and, uh, a friend of ours - a COP - had some, and HE PUKED. And he said, uh, come here and get free beer or, uh, he'll press charges
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It's easier than that to sneak a lot (80oz per person) of liquid onto a plane, especially if you're skinny.
Why not look at the high-res version and see that there are at least 3 people riding on it? His weight won't change anything. He's certainly there to monitor the move, to make sure it doesn't shift or something.
Replying to myself since I found a nice link with high-resolution versions of the 125,000 gallon tank photo, which make it much clearer that it's NOT a photoshop job.
It's a sphere. And I'd bet that the ground isn't perfectly flat. The sun is obviously low and to the right of the image, and most of the shadow is falling on the grass beside the road, and hence, "invisible". The leg struts leave shadows properly on the sphere itself, and on the road. I'd bet you $100 right now that this isn't a photoshop (except for the crappy, aliased resizing)
There's a difference between civil and criminal law, though... but an AC troll wouldn't care, would (s)he?
But you know what makes a ton of money? Putting out a new revision of a standard textbook with only a few sections moved around, and all the questions renumbered, so you sell the same content for hundreds of dollars all over again to a new bunch of suckers! This works because you give the professors that assign it a little bit of a kickback, as well as a free copy to get it as the new standard textbook for the course. I can't understand why anyone would be upset by that, or feel as if they're being ripped off.
You stated problems that no longer exist with nuclear power as being too expensive. That's pretty much the textbook definition of setting up a strawman. I'm not a nuclear "fanboy", I simply see that the environmental and other side-effects of nuclear power are much preferable to any other kind of power generation that we have on the table at the moment. Expensive is ok, if you get the return on the investment.
I didn't say there weren't any problems with nuclear power. I said that the ones you set up were strawmen, ignoring the state of technology.
And that "open mind" bullshit? That's something cold-fusion and free-energy idiots spout when someone tells them about thermodynamics. Don't be that guy.
There are plenty of trunk lines. The main issue is the "last mile" of connection, to the home. The companies aren't using all that money we taxpayers gave them specifically for that. They're just ignoring that it ever existed, and complaining about regulation stifling them.
At least yours is planned. Colorado isn't even under consideration. Gotta be east or west coast, apparently. We hicks in the middle of the country apparently ain't good enough for it.
Because disposing of the waste is a solved problem, digging up fissionables is also a solved problem if you look at the previous link. NIMBY lawsuits, that would simply take an act of Congress saying "We'll put these anywhere a different kind of power plant could be situated, and you can't do shit about it". Decommissioning worn out plants of ANY sort is expensive, so that's something that can't be leveled only against nuclear (coal, oil, whatever it is, it's expensive). Really, your arguments are old and uninformed. Nuclear is a VERY viable option for a lot of power going forward from here. It just needs to break through disinformation that's presented as fact by people like you.
Well, it looks like it's hosed. You should probably reinstall the OS.
Grab a price/performance ratio on all of those you listed, compare it to the ratio this Intel SSD has, and get back to me. Then put them in a RAID config. Not to mention... how many of those will fit into a 2.5" form factor? I don't think any of them. This is big news for mobile speed, and for compact datacenter needs.
Generally not. What a RAM defragger does, all it CAN do, is request a metric fuckton (not imperial... people often get those confused) of memory, which shoves almost everything currently running into swap, and then it releases it, so hopefully the OS reads the pages back from the swap in larger cohesive blocks.
In short, no, there's no reason for it. If there was, it'd be recommended for use on memory-hungry server applications in the enterprise, and I have never seen that. Operating systems have improved a lot since Windows98, which was really the last time you might want to actually use one of those, since they didn't really have any actual control over the application memory allocations and such.
Seconded.
What gets really interesting is if you start thinking about these access times and such on your swap partition/file/drive/whatever. It's a hell of a lot less expensive than a ton of extra RAM, but still performs quite well, especially in random access. 80GB of an Intel SSD is still a lot cheaper than the equivalent amount of RAM, too.
I'd bet that a non-trivial amount people would buy it rather than pirate it if it didn't come with all the DRM. I know I would. I'd rather risk a virus infection than deal with a guaranteed shitware infection. And there are games I've bought specifically because they didn't come with DRM. Didn't really like the game, but I liked the company and it's practices.
I believe the term is "no-talent ass clown" ;)
Thing is, the only people reading that are people who already know about Microsoft. Is someone reading an article about a company spending lots of money to say "Our product isn't as bad as everyone except us says it is! Really!" really going to be convinced by said commercial? I watched it the same way I watch a train wreck. It's bad, but I just can't take my eyes off of it...
We'll have the real killer filesystem in no time! ...shit. Stay away from me with that whip.
If it's in English only (site, product, everything), and you only spoke French, do you really think it'd be hard to figure that out?
I really don't think that the Atom is capable of decoding full HD video at any reasonable rate. You might be barely able to get away with 720p DivX or H.264 video, though. The only option for 1080p might be to have a VERY fast network with some very minimally CPU-intensive encoding.
Not having access to the same things as the rest of the world (or at least the US) isn't enough of a citation for consumers being harmed? Are you that stupid naturally, or does it take work?
Yeah. OK, well, uh, we found, uh, this mouse in a bottle of YOUR BEER, eh. Like, we was at a party and, uh, a friend of ours - a COP - had some, and HE PUKED. And he said, uh, come here and get free beer or, uh, he'll press charges
Would you wizz on an electric fence?
It hurts :(
If a drunk old lady is threatening to you, you need to get the fuck out of the customer service business.