California could experience a 8.0 or greater easily. Remember, where the Japan quake struck a 9.0 wasn't "supposed" to happen. Now, we know for certain the Juan de Faca subduction zone, responsible for the Cascade range of Volcanoes is capabable of 9+ magnitude earthquakes and the devastating Tsunamis that follow. The last such even was recorded in Japan about 350 years ago and they occur every 300-400 years. We can tell from the rock record.
I can say with almost 100% certainty that the US Pacific Northwest will be hit with such an event with increasing probability over the next 100 years.
If it is anything like the original it is killing college aspirations, careers and marriages and the nation of South Korea. Graphics cards should be the least of our concerns!!!
I say this as a survivor of SC. Oh and Total Annihilation was the better game!!
How about, more efficient use of power + solar + wind + carbon + nuclear? Until we get off this blasted rock and off to mining asteroids and the moon, we are constrained by the limit of resources on this planet. If we reduce the rate of consumption through lower power means of attaining the same work, then we are winning.
When I see that picture, I am imagining a Guatemalan who just divided by zero and jumps into the hole exclaiming in their best Buzz Light-year voice: "To infinity and beyooooond!!!"
1) I have read and listened to said speech. You are making an assumption. I also know that similar thoughts have been spoken by the Pope and politicians and thinkers on the right. What the president thinks is just a few strokes of a pen away from being policy.
2) Agreed. But I don't trust any of them. My starting position is from mistrust. Even the best politician, to me, is no higher up the ladder of respect than an ambulance chaser, sometimes they are one and the same (John Edwards).
3) Spoken like a true grammar Nazi, controlling the spelling of my words and diverting attention away from the greater passage. This is a discussion forum not a research paper. Granted, punctuation and spelling generally reflect time wasted on studying the rules of the English language, but I have to many other pressing interests to devote the necessary time to proofread and correct grammar and spelling in a brain dump on some dusty and dark corner of the interwebs. Also, I like commas, alot.
I know how to spell bureaucracy 9 times out of 10. Do you know how to spell fuchsia?
Never trust them (those in power) even if we elected them to CHANGE our system.
They hate these new devices because they don't control them yet. Look at totalitarian states all around the world, all politicians' DREAMLANDS because they control every facet of information and the minutiae of everyday lives of their subjects. I don't care if your politician is Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, or Barack Obama. They all dreamed of a place they can control us from. That is why in our society we have to keep them in check. We have to let them know who is boss and that they are chosen to SERVE US. If they can't get over the yellow press, the "rumors" the "false information". if they can't calibrate their message to appeal to the mass of us, that is THEIR problem and not ours.
Barack Obama, your Chavez is showing. At least we know how to recognize it, we learned it in the time frame between 1763 and 1789.
Now to be down-ranked into oblivion by the enlightened leftosphere...
The Apple iPad, it doesn't burn at 451 degrees but by golly we'll figure out a way to eliminate it's subversive information delivery capability!
Oh, and BHO... The Xbox is an entertainment platform. Maybe the Whitehouse should mandate what games are played on it, like:
The Healthcare Bill: Acquiesing your personal freedoms to the bueracracy 2011. Learn how to avoid fraud detection by the Healthcare Police. Work your way up from menial claims clerk to head of the HHS, or in Death Panel mode, decide who gets the life saving operation and who doesn't!!!
Sounds like a lot of fun. maybe even more than Madden NFL 2011.
Of course what was written above is just a warning and not a foretelling of events to come.
In an earlier stage of life I worked at RadioShack, when they actually sold electronics and radio equipment. One of my co-workers was a ham radio enthusiast and would spend hours talking about the rise of the Amiga and how it would come back. It was always just a few months away from releasing a new OS or platform. I would wager if I went back to that store... Or perhaps the store that replaced it, since RadioShack is just a shell of its former self he would still extoll the virtues of Amiga and it's imminent resurgence. Then he'd mutter about how Gateway killed it because the technology was too advanced for the average PC user to accept.
yet nothing was made of Obama spending 14million dollars to give move the last day of the convention to a stadium from the pepsi center, or the vast majority of other luxuries and expenses that could be found in his campaign. I find it silly that the media banged away at Palin for the 150K in clothes when Obama raised north of 600 million dollars. How many 150K were from illegitamate sources? We may never know because Obama refused to disclose who the $200 came from. Additionally, he reneged on his promises to debate McCain anytime, anyplace and reneged on public financing.
Do you see now? Or is the Emperor still clothed?
If you care about the health of our democracy we better hope that the media does not treat Obama with kid gloves here on out, and end up becoming state press. I am quite upset that the WashPost did not add too and complete its story on the Barack Obama campaign credit card donation fraud. I provided evidence in the form of bank statements, screen shots, etc and was speaking directly to the reporter who wrote the article. He informed me that they were working on the story, even the day before the election, but nothing came of it. One wonders who squelched it.
The media also needs to recognize the vast majority of McCain voters, voted against Obama not because of his race but because of his ideology and the direction we think he will take the country in. If they continue to treat all McCain voters by some sterotypical image of a bubba in backwoods somewhere, that is bad press and needs to be countered.
Additionally, if BHO and his Democratic allies have their way, the voice of the conservatives on the AM dial will be squelched. The media should, in its own interest, understand this is not good for our democracy.
Hmmm. Greenspan, Bernanke, Raines, et al are educated economists. They were wrong.
part of the problem is Government intrusion into the market. The market should be allowed to determine what lives and what dies, Government propping up failed policies and institutions teaches no one a lesson, specifically the market. The market was correcting the excesses and the government intrusion, then the government stepped in and mucked with it more.
So our choice this election is someone who wants to give government ultimate power and believes the constitution is flawed, or the lesser evil.
I for one am voting for McCain, but I'm in Texas so it makes not much of a difference. I really think the country and the media are in for a shock come November 5th.
This week is very similar to 2004, Kerry was pretty much declared the winner, even the day of and night of the election. When the actual returns came, the left was shocked. They will be again.
I docked my iphone to my pc like any other day, today, Apple wanted to install a new iTunes, sure, go ahead. Then it wanted to stuff Safari at me, no thanks. Oh, there is a software update for your iPhone. Apply.
iTunes crashes, my iphone is stuck at a Apple logo and the swirly. Waited about 45 minutes. WTF? Rebooted my system. Rebooted the iPhone. It has the little logo plug me into itunes.
So, I did. It says it needs to restore the iphone, ok, restoring. 30 minutes later it is done.
Then it complains, can't connect to iTunes store for activation.
Disconnect and reconnect about 5 times.
Got a page, SORRY IPHONE ACTIVATIONS NOT AVAILALBE AT THIS TIME.
So, I have no phone today, or tunes, or jack and shiiiit.
I hope Nokia updates the Series 5. Imagine a hybrid 5 / N700.
Anyways, I love my 5, I still use it religiously. No one has been able to match it's keyboard in such a package yet.
I saw Neil at SC07. He came off as quite insistent that his way of thinking is right and everyone else's thinking is wrong when it comes to development of compute power and the networking / programming interfaces we develop around that. How you could make buckets of compute power and if you needed more, just throw another bucket at it. He then went off on some tangent of making lightbulbs and buildings "intelligent".
He showed off his internet0 devices. He then went on a long talk about his fab labs, showed off some videos etc. It seemed really cool on the surface of it.
Still it was more visionary and philosophical than anything else. It would require quite a paradigm shift to move to his way of thinking. I just don't think its going to happen anytime soon.
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California could experience a 8.0 or greater easily. Remember, where the Japan quake struck a 9.0 wasn't "supposed" to happen. Now, we know for certain the Juan de Faca subduction zone, responsible for the Cascade range of Volcanoes is capabable of 9+ magnitude earthquakes and the devastating Tsunamis that follow. The last such even was recorded in Japan about 350 years ago and they occur every 300-400 years. We can tell from the rock record. I can say with almost 100% certainty that the US Pacific Northwest will be hit with such an event with increasing probability over the next 100 years.
There is evidence in cooling magma Earth's poles can and have changed rapidly. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62947/title/Geomagnetic_field_flip-flops_in_a_flash
Are you not aware of the number 0?
If it is anything like the original it is killing college aspirations, careers and marriages and the nation of South Korea. Graphics cards should be the least of our concerns!!! I say this as a survivor of SC. Oh and Total Annihilation was the better game!!
Yes. Cause NetApp is losing marketshare, dwindling even. Oh wait. It is 2nd only to EMC.
Or used to feed to the population of the Pacific Northwest.
This administration received more campaign contributions from BP than the last. What say you!!?
How about, more efficient use of power + solar + wind + carbon + nuclear? Until we get off this blasted rock and off to mining asteroids and the moon, we are constrained by the limit of resources on this planet. If we reduce the rate of consumption through lower power means of attaining the same work, then we are winning.
When I see that picture, I am imagining a Guatemalan who just divided by zero and jumps into the hole exclaiming in their best Buzz Light-year voice: "To infinity and beyooooond!!!"
No, joke. Cirrusly. This is a very cirrus situation. I am cirrus.
1) I have read and listened to said speech. You are making an assumption. I also know that similar thoughts have been spoken by the Pope and politicians and thinkers on the right. What the president thinks is just a few strokes of a pen away from being policy.
2) Agreed. But I don't trust any of them. My starting position is from mistrust. Even the best politician, to me, is no higher up the ladder of respect than an ambulance chaser, sometimes they are one and the same (John Edwards).
3) Spoken like a true grammar Nazi, controlling the spelling of my words and diverting attention away from the greater passage. This is a discussion forum not a research paper. Granted, punctuation and spelling generally reflect time wasted on studying the rules of the English language, but I have to many other pressing interests to devote the necessary time to proofread and correct grammar and spelling in a brain dump on some dusty and dark corner of the interwebs. Also, I like commas, alot.
I know how to spell bureaucracy 9 times out of 10. Do you know how to spell fuchsia?
Never trust them (those in power) even if we elected them to CHANGE our system.
They hate these new devices because they don't control them yet. Look at totalitarian states all around the world, all politicians' DREAMLANDS because they control every facet of information and the minutiae of everyday lives of their subjects. I don't care if your politician is Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, or Barack Obama. They all dreamed of a place they can control us from. That is why in our society we have to keep them in check. We have to let them know who is boss and that they are chosen to SERVE US. If they can't get over the yellow press, the "rumors" the "false information". if they can't calibrate their message to appeal to the mass of us, that is THEIR problem and not ours.
Barack Obama, your Chavez is showing. At least we know how to recognize it, we learned it in the time frame between 1763 and 1789.
Now to be down-ranked into oblivion by the enlightened leftosphere...
The Apple iPad, it doesn't burn at 451 degrees but by golly we'll figure out a way to eliminate it's subversive information delivery capability!
Oh, and BHO... The Xbox is an entertainment platform. Maybe the Whitehouse should mandate what games are played on it, like:
The Healthcare Bill: Acquiesing your personal freedoms to the bueracracy 2011. Learn how to avoid fraud detection by the Healthcare Police. Work your way up from menial claims clerk to head of the HHS, or in Death Panel mode, decide who gets the life saving operation and who doesn't!!!
Sounds like a lot of fun. maybe even more than Madden NFL 2011.
Of course what was written above is just a warning and not a foretelling of events to come.
In an earlier stage of life I worked at RadioShack, when they actually sold electronics and radio equipment. One of my co-workers was a ham radio enthusiast and would spend hours talking about the rise of the Amiga and how it would come back. It was always just a few months away from releasing a new OS or platform. I would wager if I went back to that store... Or perhaps the store that replaced it, since RadioShack is just a shell of its former self he would still extoll the virtues of Amiga and it's imminent resurgence. Then he'd mutter about how Gateway killed it because the technology was too advanced for the average PC user to accept.
yet nothing was made of Obama spending 14million dollars to give move the last day of the convention to a stadium from the pepsi center, or the vast majority of other luxuries and expenses that could be found in his campaign. I find it silly that the media banged away at Palin for the 150K in clothes when Obama raised north of 600 million dollars. How many 150K were from illegitamate sources? We may never know because Obama refused to disclose who the $200 came from. Additionally, he reneged on his promises to debate McCain anytime, anyplace and reneged on public financing. Do you see now? Or is the Emperor still clothed?
If you care about the health of our democracy we better hope that the media does not treat Obama with kid gloves here on out, and end up becoming state press. I am quite upset that the WashPost did not add too and complete its story on the Barack Obama campaign credit card donation fraud. I provided evidence in the form of bank statements, screen shots, etc and was speaking directly to the reporter who wrote the article. He informed me that they were working on the story, even the day before the election, but nothing came of it. One wonders who squelched it. The media also needs to recognize the vast majority of McCain voters, voted against Obama not because of his race but because of his ideology and the direction we think he will take the country in. If they continue to treat all McCain voters by some sterotypical image of a bubba in backwoods somewhere, that is bad press and needs to be countered. Additionally, if BHO and his Democratic allies have their way, the voice of the conservatives on the AM dial will be squelched. The media should, in its own interest, understand this is not good for our democracy.
Hmmm. Greenspan, Bernanke, Raines, et al are educated economists. They were wrong. part of the problem is Government intrusion into the market. The market should be allowed to determine what lives and what dies, Government propping up failed policies and institutions teaches no one a lesson, specifically the market. The market was correcting the excesses and the government intrusion, then the government stepped in and mucked with it more. So our choice this election is someone who wants to give government ultimate power and believes the constitution is flawed, or the lesser evil. I for one am voting for McCain, but I'm in Texas so it makes not much of a difference. I really think the country and the media are in for a shock come November 5th. This week is very similar to 2004, Kerry was pretty much declared the winner, even the day of and night of the election. When the actual returns came, the left was shocked. They will be again.
The press proved Bush the winner. Not sure what alternate universe you are from.
I run MSSQL/Greatplains on my Xbox farm. I don't see why everyone else doesn't buy in.
This is why I use IE5.5, security through obscuri
That AC is me. I was too distracted by playing the dock game, I forgot I had logged out.
I docked my iphone to my pc like any other day, today, Apple wanted to install a new iTunes, sure, go ahead. Then it wanted to stuff Safari at me, no thanks. Oh, there is a software update for your iPhone. Apply.
iTunes crashes, my iphone is stuck at a Apple logo and the swirly. Waited about 45 minutes. WTF? Rebooted my system. Rebooted the iPhone. It has the little logo plug me into itunes.
So, I did. It says it needs to restore the iphone, ok, restoring. 30 minutes later it is done.
Then it complains, can't connect to iTunes store for activation.
Disconnect and reconnect about 5 times.
Got a page, SORRY IPHONE ACTIVATIONS NOT AVAILALBE AT THIS TIME.
So, I have no phone today, or tunes, or jack and shiiiit.
I hope Nokia updates the Series 5. Imagine a hybrid 5 / N700. Anyways, I love my 5, I still use it religiously. No one has been able to match it's keyboard in such a package yet.
I saw Neil at SC07. He came off as quite insistent that his way of thinking is right and everyone else's thinking is wrong when it comes to development of compute power and the networking / programming interfaces we develop around that. How you could make buckets of compute power and if you needed more, just throw another bucket at it. He then went off on some tangent of making lightbulbs and buildings "intelligent". He showed off his internet0 devices. He then went on a long talk about his fab labs, showed off some videos etc. It seemed really cool on the surface of it. Still it was more visionary and philosophical than anything else. It would require quite a paradigm shift to move to his way of thinking. I just don't think its going to happen anytime soon.
Great. I can see the boston brain party now... Chumming the harbor with brains will attract the sharks, or as I like to call them Democrats.