Who the heck modded that as flamebait? Tired old in-joke, yes, but hardly flamebait. Sheesh.
The pool of moderators consistently has a large number of BSD and Mac OS X users, all of whom reflexively mod down any post containing both the words 'BSD' and 'dying'.
Hm, Not sure about that. I'm a OSX and *BSD guy for mumble years, get the joke, and would mod it funny rather than anything else. But then again based on your.sig, looks like you are too. Is this the point where I'm just taking a joke post seriously again?
380,000,000,000,000 is 380 trillion. See my other post. Funny how, the, it was "billion" earlier.
How about you go check your numbers before flaming those who point out that your lies are off by a factor of 1000? thanks awfully. Now go run along. By the way, can I borrow 10 bucks please? It's clear that you don't get the difference.
Nice try. Now, go reread. The person posting a number posted in trillions for a number in the billions. This isn't complicated.
Retraction accepted but not expected.
To be honest, once I have the advanced tank thingy tech, I'm done researching, it's time to build and kick some ass.
Speaking of...time to sign off that intarweb tubes thingy and go play civIII.
$380B = $380,000,000,000 so not much of a difference. Bloody fucking hell. That's 380 TRILLION, not 380 BILLION. So yeah, a factor of 1000, is a big difference. Which was and is my farking point. I mean, if you want to complain about something, go ahead, but don't farking exaggerate by, what, 100,000 percent?
I'm guessing it might. 1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion 1,000,000 = 1 Million 1,000 = 1 Thousand
I am guessing you are using the British definition of a Billion (1,000,000). You're not actually serious here, are you? Because either you don't get basic farking math, or you're lying by a factor of nearly 1000 to make a misguided point. Honestly, it doesn't matter, you're either wrong mathematically or you're wrong through an intentional desire to lie. But, 300 billion, is NOT 300,000,000,000. That's 300 TRILLION. This has nothing to do with brit either, I'm a merkin.
Just so you know, when you blatantly lie to make your point, your point automatically is disregarded by anyone who spots the blatant lie.
You should try Civilization III... you can declare war anytime even with democracy. Not that your population will back you to the end of it, of course... Indeed. I've tried civ4, gave it a good shot, but I'm back to playing civ3. It seems that the gameplay took a back seat to graphics in civ4. Maybe I'll give it another shot but yeah, to me, 3 is more fun.
The Iraq war has cost $355,000,000,000 so far. Has it? Really? Got a cite for that? Because that number looks a bit, um, wrong. Yes, really: costofwar.com. Congress will have appropriated a total of about $380B for it by March.
And what relation does $380B have with $355,000,000,000 please? Because I'm seeing an awfully large difference between those two numbers.
Occam's Shaving Cream says that Conspiracy theories can trade off lubrication vs foam factor. If a conspiracy theory is slick enough, you don't need much foam. And if the initial conspiracy isn't very slick, the harder someone tries to rub it away the harder it foams up.
That's either a brilliant observation or the stupidest thing I've read today. I've gone over it a bunch of times and honestly can't decide. I'm leaning towards brilliant, though.
Has it? Really? Got a cite for that? Because that number looks a bit, um, wrong.
That's 3550 potential cancer cures at your example rate, in the span of 4 years.
OK so what do you feel happens, exactly, to the money that is spent on the war? Where does it go? What does it buy? Who does it employ? What do _they_ then buy with it? The money doesn't just evaporate, it gets spent on high-tech items. Which employ high-tech people. Which improves the job market for the rest of us. Could we be spending some of that money on cancer research instead, or in furthering domestic biofuel infrastructure, and this and that? Sure, but pretending that the money somehow -whif- is gone, is naiive and/or dishonest.
The AC didn't ask what specific numbers were or the methodology involved, he asked "Any mention of performance". So, um, yeah, I _did_ read TFA, and the post I answered as well. And, far as that goes, yeah they missed 2 seconds somewhere, but it's a reasonable benchmark, one that the likely audience can relate to. I mean, _I_ won't be booting Vista any time soon if ever, but it does tell me about overall performace with a large collection of random files.
Sort of true. If you are heating with electricity then no, that is not waste heat. But, if you are heating with gas then that electric heat costs double or triple what the gas heat it displaced would have cost. You are also using the energy in a very wasteful way, burning coal to make heat to make electricity, delivering the electricity, then turning it right back into heat.
Perhaps you missed the part of my post where I described using electric as a primary heat source during off-peak times when it's measurably cheaper than propane. And as far as it being in the wrong part of the house, well, that's what a recirculation fan is for, isn't it? Besides, at least in my house, the TV, computers, and such are in the inhabited parts of the house. As far as it 'wasting half the energy in the coal', well, the bottom line is "what does it cost me for A vs B", not what's the ultimate bio-ecological efficiency of a system. With electricity I can heat my house for 8 bucks a night, propane for the same BTUs would cost me 12. I'm not seeing a downside, and if there are infrastructure inefficiencies, they're all factored in by the time it hits my meter.
Aside from the measurable things, radiant heating with a huge heat sink is a very pleasant heat; the whole house is warm, not just the air. Radiant vs. convective vs. conductive and all that.
And finally, now in 2006 (in a different city), I have six things plugged in - from DVD player to the TV itself. And it is such a big mess that nobody ever unplugs anything at all - just use the remote to turn it on & off. That sleep mode does take a fair bit of power (well, tens of watts) which is just going to an absolute waste (well, heating the room).
That last bit is critical. Guys, we're not wasting ANY energy, at least during the heating season. The heat put out by the wall warts and other always-on stuff, helps heat your house. If you have electric heat, it's exactly a wash. If you heat with natural gas or propane, well, this is that much less fuel you'll burn. The cost per BTU even comes out in favor of electric, sometimes. For me, the on-peak rate is 5x as high as the off-peak rate, so during nights and weekends, electric heat is cheaper than propane.
For off-peak heating, I use a 4500W water heater, piped into plastic tubing cast into the concrete slabs in my basement and kitchen. I can get a 1 degree (f) per hour temperature rise in the slabs, which doesn't sound like much but in practice is more than enough. The electric heat, in this case, saves me quite a bit in propane costs, somewhere around 20% in heating costs savings last time I calculated.
Point is, that heat isn't wasted, unless you're running an air conditioner at the same time.
Actually,the gun didn't go off because she didn't have a round in the chamber. Blocking the hammer of a 1911 model auto would be pretty difficult.
It would? How so? Nice big gap there, would hurt like a SOB but no reason you couldn't get, say, the web of your hand in there. Got a couple bites on the web of my hand from 1911 hammers, but from holding them the normal way (OK, a bit high actually).
Your parent post seems to understand that. I think they are just scared where the robot is planted is inherently dangerous to others (drivers), regardless whether it is a poacher that does the actual shooting.
I fear that you, also, have missed my point. This isn't causing anyone to engage in unsafe behaviour that they don't already engage in, this is a way to catch them doing it. And when you're planting a robodeer, you can decide where physically to put it to minimize the risk, I'd imagine that the DNR folks, not being stupid, take that into consideration. It's a net positive no matter how you look at it.
What a great idea! Goading hunters to shoot at a target just a few feet/meters of the road where cars pass.
You seem to miss the entire point. This isn't about hunters, it's about poachers. Poachers are people who illegally kill animals, either in the wrong place, at the wrong time of year, the wrong sex, or without having paid their license fee to do so. A hunter doesn't just drive along and suddenly decide "Oh, I think today I shall break the law, since there is a deer standing right over there." The only people shooting at these robodeer, are the people who aren't following the laws. I am having a hard time understanding why so many people in this thread are seeming to confuse hunting with poaching, this isn't a subtle distinction. Hunters follow laws and manage the deer population in the proportions determined by people who know what, where, and how many deer should be removed from the population. Poachers, don't give a shit about the laws or management, they just want free meat without paying their fair share, and without regard for the laws.
If you get the impression that hunters get annoyed at being associated with poachers, then you're perceptive. Two different groups of people.
Fantastic: We killed the wolf, we killed the coyote, and now we're creating a device to reduce the number of the deer's last remaining predator.
Um...the whole point of having laws wrapped around hunting, is to control where, which, and how many deer should be removed from the herd. Some random poacher shooting the first deer they see, doesn't help to _manage_ the population. Poachers (notice I didn't say "hunters", who are by large a honorable and careful group) aren't helping, and they're breaking several laws. I've seen these robo-deer (the DNR has them at the county fair every year, so it's not like this is some stealth program) and I'm completely in favor of it.
I've run into a few, usually their "proof" revolves around there being no widespread viruses and malware out in the wild for the Mac like there is for Windows.
So, does that mean that you _have_ evidence of viruses and spyware for MacOSX? Because if you know of it, you'll be farking famous. It just plain does't exist, other than in Macafee's lab. A reasonable person might question Macafee's objectiveness on the topic, all things considered.
Face it. unix's security model is different from, and superior to, that of Windows. That is what it boils down to. PCs give the bozo user rights to break the machine, Unix boxes do not. This isn't a subtle distinction. If you give Joe User control over system critical files, you're asking for trouble. Not much to say here, it's a fundamental design difference.
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The pool of moderators consistently has a large number of BSD and Mac OS X users, all of whom reflexively mod down any post containing both the words 'BSD' and 'dying'.
Hm, Not sure about that. I'm a OSX and *BSD guy for mumble years, get the joke, and would mod it funny rather than anything else. But then again based on your
Who the heck modded that as flamebait? Tired old in-joke, yes, but hardly flamebait. Sheesh.
Nice try. Now, go reread. The person posting a number posted in trillions for a number in the billions. This isn't complicated. Retraction accepted but not expected.
To be honest, once I have the advanced tank thingy tech, I'm done researching, it's time to build and kick some ass. Speaking of...time to sign off that intarweb tubes thingy and go play civIII.
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion
1,000,000 = 1 Million
1,000 = 1 Thousand
I am guessing you are using the British definition of a Billion (1,000,000). You're not actually serious here, are you? Because either you don't get basic farking math, or you're lying by a factor of nearly 1000 to make a misguided point. Honestly, it doesn't matter, you're either wrong mathematically or you're wrong through an intentional desire to lie. But, 300 billion, is NOT 300,000,000,000. That's 300 TRILLION. This has nothing to do with brit either, I'm a merkin.
Just so you know, when you blatantly lie to make your point, your point automatically is disregarded by anyone who spots the blatant lie.
You and the other guy are off by nearly a factor of 1,000. Unless "billion" means something different in your numbering system.
And what relation does $380B have with $355,000,000,000 please? Because I'm seeing an awfully large difference between those two numbers.
Occam's Shaving Cream says that Conspiracy theories can trade off lubrication vs foam factor. If a conspiracy theory is slick enough, you don't need much foam. And if the initial conspiracy isn't very slick, the harder someone tries to rub it away the harder it foams up.
That's either a brilliant observation or the stupidest thing I've read today. I've gone over it a bunch of times and honestly can't decide. I'm leaning towards brilliant, though.
The Iraq war has cost $355,000,000,000 so far.
Has it? Really? Got a cite for that? Because that number looks a bit, um, wrong.
That's 3550 potential cancer cures at your example rate, in the span of 4 years.
OK so what do you feel happens, exactly, to the money that is spent on the war? Where does it go? What does it buy? Who does it employ? What do _they_ then buy with it? The money doesn't just evaporate, it gets spent on high-tech items. Which employ high-tech people. Which improves the job market for the rest of us. Could we be spending some of that money on cancer research instead, or in furthering domestic biofuel infrastructure, and this and that? Sure, but pretending that the money somehow -whif- is gone, is naiive and/or dishonest.
it will make one person happy in each city
Bravo, well played sir. But does that mean we're nearing the end game, or do we just keep researching numbered future techs now?
The AC didn't ask what specific numbers were or the methodology involved, he asked "Any mention of performance". So, um, yeah, I _did_ read TFA, and the post I answered as well. And, far as that goes, yeah they missed 2 seconds somewhere, but it's a reasonable benchmark, one that the likely audience can relate to. I mean, _I_ won't be booting Vista any time soon if ever, but it does tell me about overall performace with a large collection of random files.
Don't SSD drives smoke the pants off of conventional hard drives? Does anyone have details?
Oddly enough, TFA addresses this, and even gives details, yes.
How come when you remove that "U-bend" piece of pipe to find lost items you're not assaulted by stench?
Oh, you are. But why post this as AC?
Sort of true. If you are heating with electricity then no, that is not waste heat. But, if you are heating with gas then that electric heat costs double or triple what the gas heat it displaced would have cost. You are also using the energy in a very wasteful way, burning coal to make heat to make electricity, delivering the electricity, then turning it right back into heat.
Perhaps you missed the part of my post where I described using electric as a primary heat source during off-peak times when it's measurably cheaper than propane. And as far as it being in the wrong part of the house, well, that's what a recirculation fan is for, isn't it? Besides, at least in my house, the TV, computers, and such are in the inhabited parts of the house. As far as it 'wasting half the energy in the coal', well, the bottom line is "what does it cost me for A vs B", not what's the ultimate bio-ecological efficiency of a system. With electricity I can heat my house for 8 bucks a night, propane for the same BTUs would cost me 12. I'm not seeing a downside, and if there are infrastructure inefficiencies, they're all factored in by the time it hits my meter.
Aside from the measurable things, radiant heating with a huge heat sink is a very pleasant heat; the whole house is warm, not just the air. Radiant vs. convective vs. conductive and all that.
And finally, now in 2006 (in a different city), I have six things plugged in - from DVD player to the TV itself. And it is such a big mess that nobody ever unplugs anything at all - just use the remote to turn it on & off. That sleep mode does take a fair bit of power (well, tens of watts) which is just going to an absolute waste (well, heating the room).
That last bit is critical. Guys, we're not wasting ANY energy, at least during the heating season. The heat put out by the wall warts and other always-on stuff, helps heat your house. If you have electric heat, it's exactly a wash. If you heat with natural gas or propane, well, this is that much less fuel you'll burn. The cost per BTU even comes out in favor of electric, sometimes. For me, the on-peak rate is 5x as high as the off-peak rate, so during nights and weekends, electric heat is cheaper than propane.
For off-peak heating, I use a 4500W water heater, piped into plastic tubing cast into the concrete slabs in my basement and kitchen. I can get a 1 degree (f) per hour temperature rise in the slabs, which doesn't sound like much but in practice is more than enough. The electric heat, in this case, saves me quite a bit in propane costs, somewhere around 20% in heating costs savings last time I calculated.
Point is, that heat isn't wasted, unless you're running an air conditioner at the same time.
If there is something to be learned from this it is that technological superiority doesn't count for much in setting global de-facto standards.
One could say that the OS wars have confirmed this. Remember, the common cold is very popular too, that doesn't mean it's good...
Actually,the gun didn't go off because she didn't have a round in the chamber. Blocking the hammer of a 1911 model auto would be pretty difficult.
It would? How so? Nice big gap there, would hurt like a SOB but no reason you couldn't get, say, the web of your hand in there. Got a couple bites on the web of my hand from 1911 hammers, but from holding them the normal way (OK, a bit high actually).
Your parent post seems to understand that. I think they are just scared where the robot is planted is inherently dangerous to others (drivers), regardless whether it is a poacher that does the actual shooting.
I fear that you, also, have missed my point. This isn't causing anyone to engage in unsafe behaviour that they don't already engage in, this is a way to catch them doing it. And when you're planting a robodeer, you can decide where physically to put it to minimize the risk, I'd imagine that the DNR folks, not being stupid, take that into consideration. It's a net positive no matter how you look at it.
What a great idea! Goading hunters to shoot at a target just a few feet/meters of the road where cars pass.
You seem to miss the entire point. This isn't about hunters, it's about poachers. Poachers are people who illegally kill animals, either in the wrong place, at the wrong time of year, the wrong sex, or without having paid their license fee to do so. A hunter doesn't just drive along and suddenly decide "Oh, I think today I shall break the law, since there is a deer standing right over there." The only people shooting at these robodeer, are the people who aren't following the laws. I am having a hard time understanding why so many people in this thread are seeming to confuse hunting with poaching, this isn't a subtle distinction. Hunters follow laws and manage the deer population in the proportions determined by people who know what, where, and how many deer should be removed from the population. Poachers, don't give a shit about the laws or management, they just want free meat without paying their fair share, and without regard for the laws.
If you get the impression that hunters get annoyed at being associated with poachers, then you're perceptive. Two different groups of people.
Fantastic: We killed the wolf, we killed the coyote, and now we're creating a device to reduce the number of the deer's last remaining predator.
Um...the whole point of having laws wrapped around hunting, is to control where, which, and how many deer should be removed from the herd. Some random poacher shooting the first deer they see, doesn't help to _manage_ the population. Poachers (notice I didn't say "hunters", who are by large a honorable and careful group) aren't helping, and they're breaking several laws. I've seen these robo-deer (the DNR has them at the county fair every year, so it's not like this is some stealth program) and I'm completely in favor of it.
Like 90% of all Slashdot "memes" it's not funny... like "we welcome our masters", "soviet russia", etc.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Slashdot memes...
I've run into a few, usually their "proof" revolves around there being no widespread viruses and malware out in the wild for the Mac like there is for Windows.
So, does that mean that you _have_ evidence of viruses and spyware for MacOSX? Because if you know of it, you'll be farking famous. It just plain does't exist, other than in Macafee's lab. A reasonable person might question Macafee's objectiveness on the topic, all things considered.
Face it. unix's security model is different from, and superior to, that of Windows. That is what it boils down to. PCs give the bozo user rights to break the machine, Unix boxes do not. This isn't a subtle distinction. If you give Joe User control over system critical files, you're asking for trouble. Not much to say here, it's a fundamental design difference.