Do you read Russian? I have immense respect for the Russian scientists and wouldn't be surprised if novel ideas could still be found in the cold war era Soviet journals that nobody in the mainstream science really has read.
So the terrorists have already won: we can't build something because someone might blow it up?
New continents were found, the sound barrier was broken and even space flight was developed at the cost of human life. Yet, it was worth it.
As a species we have become too concerned about safety. We are afraid to such extent that testing new discoveries (medicinal, chemical and physical) are becoming so burdened by the hysterical safeguards, governmental red tape and the associated costs that nothing ever gets done. To my mind, this development threatens the very progess of our species.
I've been thinking about clustering mini-ITX computers as well, but the floating point performance of VIAs CPUs is abyssmal. It's so bad that the price/performance ratio of such a cluster would still be approximately the same as that of a cluster of P4s.
Fortunately, first mini-ITX P4 boards are coming out. Cluster them and compile your code with Intel's compiler and you've got a great high performance computational cluster!
This is a perfect example of how the open source community is wasting its resources. Instead of concentrating on one definitive GUI, let's fight it out between two major ones. Let's confuse the end-users and sabotage the creation of any kind of stable culture of actual Linux applications.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Do you have any links on hard data measured during a "haunting" such as IR/UV cameras, sounds, temperature and EM fields?
Investigators' subjective experiences serve only as a reference for the time when something should show up in the measurements. As a Physicist I'd be very intrigued in seeing hard experimental data.
What I don't understand is why no-one has ever done a thorough, scientifically rigorous investigation of the most famous haunted places. Hell, I'm sure you could get some funding for a joint project on haunting if it involved people from the Arts (Culture History, Theology, Folklore, Audio Visual guys?) and Science (Physics/Instrumentation Tech.) departments. Interdisciplinary research still seems to be the buzzword. I'd gladly participate in such a project even on my spare time and using my lab equipment.
My passwords are 12-14 characters long alphanumeric codes. These codes are combinations of two 6-7 character long subsequences that I have in my tactile memory. This way I only have to remember which combination made up the password for which site.
Oh wait, you're using Linux. Nevermind. Happy hacking. Ain't open source wonderful? You've got the source and now you even got the opportunity to debug it!
Now, who do you see trying to outdo Microsoft in the 'we supplied all this shiney new kit. Aren't we great?!' stakes?
What's your point?
Hey, if Red Hat can't compete with Microsoft in this fashion and IBM doesn't bother, why the hell should Microsoft stop (or be stopped) from sponsoring schools in any way they want?
If the voting hardware/software were open, I'd buy your argument. However, here we have a clearly partisan manufacturer and a closed system. That doesn't ring any alarm bells?
Maybe fewer people will be able to form their opinions on freely available information that way. That's what you neocon/conservatives would like, after all. Just like Britney Spears says:
"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."'
Don't question the authority. That's the way to go.
"The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
Yes. Your votes are being scammed to keep the neocon scum in power.
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Well, I've got an answer for the "why did they pour sand on the lawn?" paranoid bit.
Heavy rescue equipment. You don't want them to turn the lawn into a friggin mud pit.
Do you read Russian? I have immense respect for the Russian scientists and wouldn't be surprised if novel ideas could still be found in the cold war era Soviet journals that nobody in the mainstream science really has read.
New continents were found, the sound barrier was broken and even space flight was developed at the cost of human life. Yet, it was worth it.
As a species we have become too concerned about safety. We are afraid to such extent that testing new discoveries (medicinal, chemical and physical) are becoming so burdened by the hysterical safeguards, governmental red tape and the associated costs that nothing ever gets done. To my mind, this development threatens the very progess of our species.
Fortunately, first mini-ITX P4 boards are coming out. Cluster them and compile your code with Intel's compiler and you've got a great high performance computational cluster!
This is a perfect example of how the open source community is wasting its resources. Instead of concentrating on one definitive GUI, let's fight it out between two major ones. Let's confuse the end-users and sabotage the creation of any kind of stable culture of actual Linux applications.
Good work, zealots.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Please make your case.
Well, most hymns are copyrighted...
Investigators' subjective experiences serve only as a reference for the time when something should show up in the measurements. As a Physicist I'd be very intrigued in seeing hard experimental data.
What I don't understand is why no-one has ever done a thorough, scientifically rigorous investigation of the most famous haunted places. Hell, I'm sure you could get some funding for a joint project on haunting if it involved people from the Arts (Culture History, Theology, Folklore, Audio Visual guys?) and Science (Physics/Instrumentation Tech.) departments. Interdisciplinary research still seems to be the buzzword. I'd gladly participate in such a project even on my spare time and using my lab equipment.
Thanks for the link. I lecture physics at a university and that video just made into my teaching material.
Wouldn't that make it zero?
My passwords are 12-14 characters long alphanumeric codes. These codes are combinations of two 6-7 character long subsequences that I have in my tactile memory. This way I only have to remember which combination made up the password for which site.
Yet, none of these were mobos and as far as I could see the amdboard.com ad was not even a finalized product.
Really? Link me to a quad-Opteron mobo...
The lack of a bit-banging AMD compiler has kept me away from AMD CPUs all the time.
And just what is the kiddie porn doing on the internet anyway? I'm sure you agree that it must be eradicated.
And, as before, they'll just use their diminished profits as evidence of a vast piracy problem.
Oh wait, you're using Linux. Nevermind. Happy hacking. Ain't open source wonderful? You've got the source and now you even got the opportunity to debug it!
What's your point?
Hey, if Red Hat can't compete with Microsoft in this fashion and IBM doesn't bother, why the hell should Microsoft stop (or be stopped) from sponsoring schools in any way they want?
If the voting hardware/software were open, I'd buy your argument. However, here we have a clearly partisan manufacturer and a closed system. That doesn't ring any alarm bells?
No.
Not from voting but from doing such sensitive business.
Maybe fewer people will be able to form their opinions on freely available information that way. That's what you neocon/conservatives would like, after all. Just like Britney Spears says:
Don't question the authority. That's the way to go.
"The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
Yes. Your votes are being scammed to keep the neocon scum in power.
I haven't bought any music CDs since they started selling crippled ("copy protected") CDs. Thanks to that campaign, I now P2P all my music.