Oh, if we help out Tesla we might actually get an innovative product to buy in the end
What's so innovative about a $50,000 electric car? The Volt seems far more useful in the real world and that's looking at a price around $40,000 even with GM's enormous benefits costs folded into the costs.
Sorry, the charger issue is fixed by trickle-charging not just your car overnight, but also a high-current, high-capacity battery pack in the garage (li-poly? NiMH? Lithium-iron-phosphate? Lithium-magnesium phosphate? Silver-zinc? Lead-acid? Anything but lithium-cobalt, basically) that can deliver the thick, chewy amps needed to fast-charge the car battery.
So once you add that to the cost, this '$50,000 car' will be an even worse deal than it currently appears.
Americans have experienced the severe negative effects of air pollution. It would be unkind not to warn the world's largest democracy to avoid our mistake.
'Warning India about air pollution' is like warning Saudi Arabia about sand and heat.
Did you ever follow the Occam language? It seemed to have parallelization intrinsic, but it never went anywhere.
Occam was heavily tied into the Transputer, and without the transputer's hardware support for message-passing, it's a bit of a non-starter.
It also wasn't easy to write if you couldn't break your application down into a series of simple processes passing messages to each other. I suspect it would go down better today now people are used to writing object-oriented code, which is a much better match to the message-passing idea than the C code that was more common at the time.
"For starters, these are supposed to be PERFORMANCE BASED BONUSES. Last I checked, things have been tanking"
Yeah, but look at it this way: these people got the company hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money; that sounds like freaking good PERFORMANCE to me.
"Get over your Dem hatred, the "bonuses" were part of the deal Bush set up last year when the financial fallout was starting"
Hint: Bush did not give them the money, Congress did.
And Congress is and was controlled by... Democrats.
Most of the people I saw opposing the bailouts were Republicans: the Democrats in Congress were more than eager to hand over any amount of money so they could avoid taking the blame for pushing big financial companies into bankruptcy.
No matter what Bush wanted, the bailout would not have happened with Democrat votes.
The old defaults were: 5 seconds in ext3, in NTFS metadata is always and data flushed asap with but no guarantees. In practice, people don't lose huge amount of work.
Actually, I've lost multi-gigabyte files on NTFS; in one particular case I left IE downloading a game installer overnight, heard it beep around 8am to tell me it had completed, and then the power went out a couple of hours later before I got up. The file system was magically 'consistent' after the power came back and it rebooted, but it achieved that by deleting over two gigabytes of my data.
Modern file systems may be a bit faster than FAT32, but they're shit when it comes to reliably storing data.
In this case, yes, the KDE developers are retarded, but if the ext4 developers want ext4 to become the default filesystem for Linux, they need to make it work with retarded developers. 'But POSIX says we can do this' is worthless if it loses large amounts of user data; heck, you can easily guarantee 'file system consistency' by simply reformatting the disk on every reboot, but your users would be pretty damn pissed.
My parents and brother live in the UK and all that "police state" stuff was just in your head, mate.
I guess you'd have said the same to a Jew in Germany in 1932.
A few days ago I was reading a NASA astronaut's story about his visit to East Germany in the 80s before the Berlin Wall came down; I didn't understand why it seemed so familiar until I realised he was pretty much describing my last visit to the UK.
But yeah, total surveillance, ID cards, a DNA database and total control over Internet access are nothing to do with a police state; just go back to sleep and it will all be OK in the morning...
The funny part is that the way the country is going, Labour will get all these things in place just in time for the BNP to gain power and use those powers to turn the country into a real Nazi hell-hole.
'Your papers please...' Get used to it if you're dumb enough not to get out while you still can.
The subjects of the UK are perfectly willing to give away rights in the name of security.
It's more complicated than that.
The British electoral system ensures that you only need a tiny fraction of the votes to control the country; Labour, for example, got about 22% of the votes in the last election, and they have a majority of seats in Parliament. Worse than that, they actually got less votes than the Tories in England, yet they control the country thanks to votes from Scotland and Wales.
The Tories are the only other party capable of being elected at this time, and they've merely become a wet version of Labour, without any sign of a leader with the balls of a Thatcher who could turn the country around as she did after the last Labour government.
The most likely third party to gain from lost Labour votes is the BNP, who are a bunch of raving national socialists (using that in the literal sense: far-left nationalists).
So there's precisely zero chance of improving anything through political means, and everyone of clue has been getting the hell out, with emigration reaching levels not seen since... uh, the last time the country had a Labour government.
When you combine the inability to make any real change without stringing up politicians from lamp-posts on Westminster Bridge with the exodus of millions of people of clue since WWII, you should hardly be surprised by what a disaster zone Britain has become; the people left behind are the ones least likely to get off their ass and do anything.
Shouldn't you go to the UK before writing it off, rather than doing so based on a "UK is a policestate" meme on slashdot?
I used to live in the UK, and fled across the Atlantic a couple of years ago when I realised the country was rapidly being turned into a police state by a government of despicable scum who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. The only hope Britain has is that the recession bankrupts the government and prevents them from completing their goal of turning it into a third-world banana republic.
Because every time you double the rotation speed, you increase the force on the DVD by a factor of four; which means that before long the disk simply tears itself apart.
In fact, I thought that was supposed to happen not much above 16x, so I'm surprised they've got it working this fast.
"It will be interesting to see how useful of a NAS I can make that into."
The downside of the Atom motherboard for NAS is only two SATA ports. Mine is working fine as a combined SDTV MythTV box and 24/7 web/file server, but I think that eventually I'm going to have to replace it with a low-power AMD motherboard and CPU so I can add more hard drives and RAID them.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Atom profit margin is higher than an average desktop CPU (obviously not the $1000+ i7s, but I doubt margins are high on the typical low-clocked dual-cores that compete with Athlons). Sure, the profit per sale is lower, but it they sell more then that compensates.
I have one Atom system here already, and I'm thinking of building a couple more in the next year because they're cheap, run Linux decently and use relatively little power; I wouldn't buy three Core 2s in a year.
S3 is obviously worried about their advanced technology being stolen by nVidia and AMD if they publish an open-source driver or the specs required to write such a driver.
They're probably more worried that they're violating some patent that they don't even know about, and hence don't want to give Nvidia or ATI any ammunition to beat them with.
This is one of the reasons why the hardware company I used to work for was reluctant to give away programming information to open source developers.
The Earth's atmosphere doesn't reduce the intensity of sunlight that much that we need to put solar panels in orbit.
Solar power stations in orbit don't require as many resources as the same stations on the ground (very large mirrors can be thin and light in microgravity, etc) and produce their full power output nearly 100% of the time, tracking the sun 24/7 and only rarely going into the Earth's shadow. They also don't take up a huge amount of space on the ground which could be used for other things, like growing crops.
That's not to say that they would be cost-effective, but there are good reasons for preferring space-based solar power if the price is right. One obvious downside is that any wireless power downlink powerful enough to not require large amounts of space on the ground would also make quite an effective weapon.
Replication to another server in a another building is usually a good DRP for small shops.
No it's not; how can replication be a disaster recovery plan when a simple 'rm -rf/' will lose all your data as soon as it's replicated to the other server?
If you want to recover from a disaster, then you need backups of old system states. Because people will come up with plenty of disastrous ways to trash a replicated system in such a way that having a copy of that trashed state will not allow you to recover it.
"I still think that facial recognition and/or a fingerprint scanner is a great addition to a strong password, but it should never be used by itself to begin with."
Yeah, rather than the bad guys just beating your password out of you, now they get to cut off your fingers and your face too.
An improvement towards what though? Most articles have settled down to reflect the viewpoint of the people that watch them. If you agree with that viewpoint, that's an improvement. If you don't it's not and you give up citing, editing or reading them.
And for non-controversial subjects, that generally results in a pretty good article.
For controversial subjects, if the article is bad it's normally because policies aren't being followed: for example, the 'Apollo Moon Hoax' article (whatever the title may be today as it gets renamed regularly) has been a disaster zone for years, but that's primarily because it's an enormous violation of WP:UNDUE.
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Oh, if we help out Tesla we might actually get an innovative product to buy in the end
What's so innovative about a $50,000 electric car? The Volt seems far more useful in the real world and that's looking at a price around $40,000 even with GM's enormous benefits costs folded into the costs.
Sorry, the charger issue is fixed by trickle-charging not just your car overnight, but also a high-current, high-capacity battery pack in the garage (li-poly? NiMH? Lithium-iron-phosphate? Lithium-magnesium phosphate? Silver-zinc? Lead-acid? Anything but lithium-cobalt, basically) that can deliver the thick, chewy amps needed to fast-charge the car battery.
So once you add that to the cost, this '$50,000 car' will be an even worse deal than it currently appears.
Tesla is the only company that has demonstrated a viable business plan for producing electric cars.
If they had a viable business plan, they wouldn't be demanding that the taxpayer bail them out, would they?
Americans have experienced the severe negative effects of air pollution. It would be unkind not to warn the world's largest democracy to avoid our mistake.
'Warning India about air pollution' is like warning Saudi Arabia about sand and heat.
Are modern impressive games bottlenecked in physics or in the CPU side of graphics?
Do you really think that game developers wouldn't like to include a vastly more sophisticated physics or AI engine if the CPU could handle it?
Did you ever follow the Occam language? It seemed to have parallelization intrinsic, but it never went anywhere.
Occam was heavily tied into the Transputer, and without the transputer's hardware support for message-passing, it's a bit of a non-starter.
It also wasn't easy to write if you couldn't break your application down into a series of simple processes passing messages to each other. I suspect it would go down better today now people are used to writing object-oriented code, which is a much better match to the message-passing idea than the C code that was more common at the time.
"For starters, these are supposed to be PERFORMANCE BASED BONUSES. Last I checked, things have been tanking"
Yeah, but look at it this way: these people got the company hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money; that sounds like freaking good PERFORMANCE to me.
"Get over your Dem hatred, the "bonuses" were part of the deal Bush set up last year when the financial fallout was starting"
Hint: Bush did not give them the money, Congress did.
And Congress is and was controlled by... Democrats.
Most of the people I saw opposing the bailouts were Republicans: the Democrats in Congress were more than eager to hand over any amount of money so they could avoid taking the blame for pushing big financial companies into bankruptcy.
No matter what Bush wanted, the bailout would not have happened with Democrat votes.
The old defaults were: 5 seconds in ext3, in NTFS metadata is always and data flushed asap with but no guarantees. In practice, people don't lose huge amount of work.
Actually, I've lost multi-gigabyte files on NTFS; in one particular case I left IE downloading a game installer overnight, heard it beep around 8am to tell me it had completed, and then the power went out a couple of hours later before I got up. The file system was magically 'consistent' after the power came back and it rebooted, but it achieved that by deleting over two gigabytes of my data.
Modern file systems may be a bit faster than FAT32, but they're shit when it comes to reliably storing data.
In this case, yes, the KDE developers are retarded, but if the ext4 developers want ext4 to become the default filesystem for Linux, they need to make it work with retarded developers. 'But POSIX says we can do this' is worthless if it loses large amounts of user data; heck, you can easily guarantee 'file system consistency' by simply reformatting the disk on every reboot, but your users would be pretty damn pissed.
So why don't other liberals in other countries do the same?
In what Western country are liberals _not_ trying to tell everyone else what to do at gunpoint?
'Political correctness' (aka wet Marxism) is the norm throughout the West. Though I guess Britain was responsible for Marxism in the first place.
My parents and brother live in the UK and all that "police state" stuff was just in your head, mate.
I guess you'd have said the same to a Jew in Germany in 1932.
A few days ago I was reading a NASA astronaut's story about his visit to East Germany in the 80s before the Berlin Wall came down; I didn't understand why it seemed so familiar until I realised he was pretty much describing my last visit to the UK.
But yeah, total surveillance, ID cards, a DNA database and total control over Internet access are nothing to do with a police state; just go back to sleep and it will all be OK in the morning...
The funny part is that the way the country is going, Labour will get all these things in place just in time for the BNP to gain power and use those powers to turn the country into a real Nazi hell-hole.
'Your papers please...' Get used to it if you're dumb enough not to get out while you still can.
The subjects of the UK are perfectly willing to give away rights in the name of security.
It's more complicated than that.
The British electoral system ensures that you only need a tiny fraction of the votes to control the country; Labour, for example, got about 22% of the votes in the last election, and they have a majority of seats in Parliament. Worse than that, they actually got less votes than the Tories in England, yet they control the country thanks to votes from Scotland and Wales.
The Tories are the only other party capable of being elected at this time, and they've merely become a wet version of Labour, without any sign of a leader with the balls of a Thatcher who could turn the country around as she did after the last Labour government.
The most likely third party to gain from lost Labour votes is the BNP, who are a bunch of raving national socialists (using that in the literal sense: far-left nationalists).
So there's precisely zero chance of improving anything through political means, and everyone of clue has been getting the hell out, with emigration reaching levels not seen since... uh, the last time the country had a Labour government.
When you combine the inability to make any real change without stringing up politicians from lamp-posts on Westminster Bridge with the exodus of millions of people of clue since WWII, you should hardly be surprised by what a disaster zone Britain has become; the people left behind are the ones least likely to get off their ass and do anything.
I really still don't get it, why are the ones who are supposed to be liberals doing such things?
Because, uh, liberals want to tell everyone what to do and prevent them from offending anyone with 'bad speech' or seeing bad things?
Conservatives, of course, want to do the same, only with slightly different definitions of 'bad'.
Shouldn't you go to the UK before writing it off, rather than doing so based on a "UK is a policestate" meme on slashdot?
I used to live in the UK, and fled across the Atlantic a couple of years ago when I realised the country was rapidly being turned into a police state by a government of despicable scum who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. The only hope Britain has is that the recession bankrupts the government and prevents them from completing their goal of turning it into a third-world banana republic.
Why does Moore's Law not apply here?
Because every time you double the rotation speed, you increase the force on the DVD by a factor of four; which means that before long the disk simply tears itself apart.
In fact, I thought that was supposed to happen not much above 16x, so I'm surprised they've got it working this fast.
"It will be interesting to see how useful of a NAS I can make that into."
The downside of the Atom motherboard for NAS is only two SATA ports. Mine is working fine as a combined SDTV MythTV box and 24/7 web/file server, but I think that eventually I'm going to have to replace it with a low-power AMD motherboard and CPU so I can add more hard drives and RAID them.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Atom profit margin is higher than an average desktop CPU (obviously not the $1000+ i7s, but I doubt margins are high on the typical low-clocked dual-cores that compete with Athlons). Sure, the profit per sale is lower, but it they sell more then that compensates.
I have one Atom system here already, and I'm thinking of building a couple more in the next year because they're cheap, run Linux decently and use relatively little power; I wouldn't buy three Core 2s in a year.
"Which ideas has he stolen?"
Pretty much the whole of '28 Days Later'?
S3 is obviously worried about their advanced technology being stolen by nVidia and AMD if they publish an open-source driver or the specs required to write such a driver.
They're probably more worried that they're violating some patent that they don't even know about, and hence don't want to give Nvidia or ATI any ammunition to beat them with.
This is one of the reasons why the hardware company I used to work for was reluctant to give away programming information to open source developers.
The Earth's atmosphere doesn't reduce the intensity of sunlight that much that we need to put solar panels in orbit.
Solar power stations in orbit don't require as many resources as the same stations on the ground (very large mirrors can be thin and light in microgravity, etc) and produce their full power output nearly 100% of the time, tracking the sun 24/7 and only rarely going into the Earth's shadow. They also don't take up a huge amount of space on the ground which could be used for other things, like growing crops.
That's not to say that they would be cost-effective, but there are good reasons for preferring space-based solar power if the price is right. One obvious downside is that any wireless power downlink powerful enough to not require large amounts of space on the ground would also make quite an effective weapon.
Replication to another server in a another building is usually a good DRP for small shops.
No it's not; how can replication be a disaster recovery plan when a simple 'rm -rf /' will lose all your data as soon as it's replicated to the other server?
If you want to recover from a disaster, then you need backups of old system states. Because people will come up with plenty of disastrous ways to trash a replicated system in such a way that having a copy of that trashed state will not allow you to recover it.
WTF? Does Intel sell more CPUs than NVIDIA sells GPUs?
Doesn't Intel sell more GPUs (admittedly crappy integrated ones) than Nvidia does?
"I still think that facial recognition and/or a fingerprint scanner is a great addition to a strong password, but it should never be used by itself to begin with."
Yeah, rather than the bad guys just beating your password out of you, now they get to cut off your fingers and your face too.
An improvement towards what though? Most articles have settled down to reflect the viewpoint of the people that watch them. If you agree with that viewpoint, that's an improvement. If you don't it's not and you give up citing, editing or reading them.
And for non-controversial subjects, that generally results in a pretty good article.
For controversial subjects, if the article is bad it's normally because policies aren't being followed: for example, the 'Apollo Moon Hoax' article (whatever the title may be today as it gets renamed regularly) has been a disaster zone for years, but that's primarily because it's an enormous violation of WP:UNDUE.
nonsense. Wikipedia is meant to contain fact.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth"
I'm not surprised that the people who whine the most about Wikipedia don't understand what it's meant to do.