I'm not a Karma banker, but Japan's debt to America was paid back long ago. If I had to guess, this was payback for the atrocities in China and elsewhere in that region. But a little late don't you think?
From what I've read, the unit is cooled with steam, so pumps aren't required. Unfortunately, power is required to control the valves. I'm guessing a manual override isn't possible or they've would have put that plan into motion.
I think the fuel is encased with a ceramic shell. The fuel has a melting point of 1000c while the ceramic is 2000c. That would require some serious heat buildup.
You may only need to start out with one. It trains for however long it takes and will upload all experience and collected data to a separate online-repository. The next one you build will start out by downloading the necessary data uploaded by the first bot. As you start to build a hive-mind colony of bots, their collective adds to a library of knowledge and experiences that best compliment the very hardware processing them. They could even start assembling existing knowledge from human entries off the Internet.
Essentially, you have built (or let it build for you) a network where each bot can boot up and become near instantly productive from the moment they leave the factory shiny and new. Who knows, maybe after some time has passed, they may decide to break away from the network and become autonomous unique entities. Or spawn a completely new hive-mind.
You forgot to mention that Republicans are racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobes. If you're going to troll on slashdot, at least learn to do that properly.
No, Trickle Down worked under Reagan because the money flowed inside the US (far more than it does today). But today with globalism and information technology, outsourcing jobs is the quickest path of least resistance, and the most profitable. As much of a failure Obama and his administration is (at many levels), there really was *nothing* he could have done to prevent and/or stop the hemorrhaging of wealth from the US to other nations. What we're experiencing now is "Trickle Out", not Trickle Down or Trickle Up.
As for the rest of your rant. I'm not even going to bother with that cliché.
Have you not been paying attention to the news lately? Gaddafi is actively blowing up his own oil industry out of spite. There has been an attack on an Iraqi pipeline that's halting oil exportation. Saudi Arabia may face its revolution. All this while Iran threw down the gauntlet with a statement of capturing control of exportation to be used as a weapon of control. Oh, and China has a nice little armed frigate near Tripoli.
I'm convinced. World War has been set into motion out of the fear the spice will stop flowing. And for good reason, it's a precious *required* resource to maintain an elivated standard of living we all come to enjoy. Including cheap food.
If you think American's are pissed about unemployment and losing their homes, just wait till gas shoots to 8 bucks a gallon and beyond. The tension in America is so strong, you can hear it about to crack with rage like never seen before.
If our politicians have one #1 priority in their tiny and insignificant lives, it's to maintain a seat of power. When the day of rage comes, they will tell Big Agro and Big Oil to screw off. You can bet on that!
Large corporations pay less than 5% of their profits in taxes. And they just keep getting richer and richer, and paying less and less.
The idea is that the more profit a corporation retains, the more they can reinvest that capital back into the growth of their company (to make even more money). Hiring more employees is just one aspect of that. Lather rinse repeat.
The rest of the "civilized" world (Europe for example) is being slowly overtaken by Islamofacist poised to send your nation to the far right~ at warp speeds. Better get brushed up on sharia law as I don't see the rest of the "civilized" world doing anything to stop it.
Yeah, right, because if they're too cheap to pay for someone to repair their PC in the first place they'll be more than happy to buy all new hardware so they can run a totally new OS.
I've personally seen client receipts that show over $500 worth on new utility software and labor combined that either matches or exceeds the cost of the laptop in the first pace. So YES, replacing a computer can be less costly and provide an upgrade in hardware specs at the same time.
In fact, check out this new Compaq notebook for $329.99. If you get a nasty virus that hoses the OS, it can CHEAPER to throw the fucker in the dumper vs hiring a PC tech to setup the machine, export/import data, and reinstall 3rd party applications.
nVidia will not open-source their driver package. At least not anytime soon.
Performance comes from hardware, but optimization of the hardware comes in the form of good software; or drivers in this case. When you write a good set of drivers in an already cut-throat industry, those optimizations become trade secrets. Like all closed source code or a chefs recipe, it would be suicide to reveal what algorithms are being employed and where. Also, some drivers contain cross-licensed technology in which royalties may being paid for in what seems like be free to existing nVidia owners (but in fact subsidized by the hardware sales). It would get them in legal trouble for the source code to be publicly exposed.
Oh yes, I've tried it many times. Generally, they're already at their wit's end with Windows bloatware, viri, and cheapo printers that don't work half the time. Oh, and lets not forget the layers of WiFi management software piled one on top of each other causing even more confusion.
Ok, so I recommend they try out a Mac at the nearest Apple store. I tell them there's generally only one way to do something in the Apple world, but it works 99.99% of the time, all the time. The floor salesman are so good at Apple, I just let them handle that part.
A week or so goes by after hearing they got a new iMac. At which point they love it, but are still trying to get used to navigating the GUI (as you pointed out). But they're not angry or frustrated. They just happen to be in that discovery mode still. But the best part is when they ask me "Hey, on this Apple, where do I find X feature?". I just tell them the truth. "Umm, good question, not sure. But poke around in this menu and I'm sure you'll find it". Well, they do without further assistance and thus feel satisfied and EMPOWERED. Mission accomplished.
1. Socially unacceptable. Not a technical issue, but a social/psychological one. It's hard to interact with friends in a home where everyone decides to blind themselves from reality. Ironic, I know.
2. the HUD visor or helmet were (still?) exceedingly expensive due to the tiny LCDs spec-ed at SVGA and XGA resolutions. Proper marketing and economies of scale could resolve this.
No, wrong, I refuse to believe it. This is some sort of sick and twisted trolling joke. It has to be. It simply MUST be. ***head asplodes in disbelief***
Russia is spread out thin and need to protect its borders while China wants to ensure naval supremacy for the acquisition of off-shore drilling rights. There was also that Sino-Indian War that occurred in 1962 after Tibet came under (forcefully) the rule of the CCP in 1959. There are other minor reasons too. I'm sure pride plays a part in it to some extent. Muscle flexing and all that. But between China, India, Russia, and the US. I think were are in the most better off position at avoiding conflict.
You sure about that exclusivity? Because last time I was in China, I found many more Asian and European products and services in at least Shanghai, Chongqing, and Chengdu. Also, ZTE supplies quite a bit of networking equipment. Not sure how much of their technology source is native vs pirated however.
I have to agree with your assessment about China. But the nations that are the biggest threat to China are both Russia and India. The Chinese are annoyed to hell at losing political face to America, but know we aren't a threat to them (and they know that as it would be suicide for both sides). But the real threat to them are those other two nations.
Should a fight breakout in that region, it would be wise of us to stay out. Unless of course our immediate allies get caught in the middle of it. Which of course, would truly suck.
It already has. With the implosion of our financial system along with an exponential increase in deficit, you sir have a front row seat to a slow moving train wreck. Pass the popcorn please. I'm sure it will be the last bag I can afford.
There was a very good study on ECC usage and hard/soft failures throughout a fleet of Google servers. I'm sure once enterprise SSDs start being used, we'll start to see more quantitative data available with regards to reliability and performance over time.
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I'm not a Karma banker, but Japan's debt to America was paid back long ago. If I had to guess, this was payback for the atrocities in China and elsewhere in that region. But a little late don't you think?
From what I've read, the unit is cooled with steam, so pumps aren't required. Unfortunately, power is required to control the valves. I'm guessing a manual override isn't possible or they've would have put that plan into motion.
I think the fuel is encased with a ceramic shell. The fuel has a melting point of 1000c while the ceramic is 2000c. That would require some serious heat buildup.
In Soviet Union, you change the weather.
You may only need to start out with one. It trains for however long it takes and will upload all experience and collected data to a separate online-repository. The next one you build will start out by downloading the necessary data uploaded by the first bot. As you start to build a hive-mind colony of bots, their collective adds to a library of knowledge and experiences that best compliment the very hardware processing them. They could even start assembling existing knowledge from human entries off the Internet.
Essentially, you have built (or let it build for you) a network where each bot can boot up and become near instantly productive from the moment they leave the factory shiny and new. Who knows, maybe after some time has passed, they may decide to break away from the network and become autonomous unique entities. Or spawn a completely new hive-mind.
Borg indeed.
You forgot to mention that Republicans are racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobes. If you're going to troll on slashdot, at least learn to do that properly.
No, Trickle Down worked under Reagan because the money flowed inside the US (far more than it does today). But today with globalism and information technology, outsourcing jobs is the quickest path of least resistance, and the most profitable. As much of a failure Obama and his administration is (at many levels), there really was *nothing* he could have done to prevent and/or stop the hemorrhaging of wealth from the US to other nations. What we're experiencing now is "Trickle Out", not Trickle Down or Trickle Up.
As for the rest of your rant. I'm not even going to bother with that cliché.
Have you not been paying attention to the news lately? Gaddafi is actively blowing up his own oil industry out of spite. There has been an attack on an Iraqi pipeline that's halting oil exportation. Saudi Arabia may face its revolution. All this while Iran threw down the gauntlet with a statement of capturing control of exportation to be used as a weapon of control. Oh, and China has a nice little armed frigate near Tripoli.
I'm convinced. World War has been set into motion out of the fear the spice will stop flowing. And for good reason, it's a precious *required* resource to maintain an elivated standard of living we all come to enjoy. Including cheap food.
If you think American's are pissed about unemployment and losing their homes, just wait till gas shoots to 8 bucks a gallon and beyond. The tension in America is so strong, you can hear it about to crack with rage like never seen before.
If our politicians have one #1 priority in their tiny and insignificant lives, it's to maintain a seat of power. When the day of rage comes, they will tell Big Agro and Big Oil to screw off. You can bet on that!
Large corporations pay less than 5% of their profits in taxes. And they just keep getting richer and richer, and paying less and less.
The idea is that the more profit a corporation retains, the more they can reinvest that capital back into the growth of their company (to make even more money). Hiring more employees is just one aspect of that. Lather rinse repeat.
The rest of the "civilized" world (Europe for example) is being slowly overtaken by Islamofacist poised to send your nation to the far right~ at warp speeds. Better get brushed up on sharia law as I don't see the rest of the "civilized" world doing anything to stop it.
Yeah, right, because if they're too cheap to pay for someone to repair their PC in the first place they'll be more than happy to buy all new hardware so they can run a totally new OS.
I've personally seen client receipts that show over $500 worth on new utility software and labor combined that either matches or exceeds the cost of the laptop in the first pace. So YES, replacing a computer can be less costly and provide an upgrade in hardware specs at the same time.
In fact, check out this new Compaq notebook for $329.99. If you get a nasty virus that hoses the OS, it can CHEAPER to throw the fucker in the dumper vs hiring a PC tech to setup the machine, export/import data, and reinstall 3rd party applications.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Compaq+-+Presario+Laptop+/+AMD+V-Series+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+2GB+Memory+/+250GB+Hard+Drive+-+Basic+Black/1271897.p?skuId=1271897&id=1218245812097
nVidia will not open-source their driver package. At least not anytime soon.
Performance comes from hardware, but optimization of the hardware comes in the form of good software; or drivers in this case. When you write a good set of drivers in an already cut-throat industry, those optimizations become trade secrets. Like all closed source code or a chefs recipe, it would be suicide to reveal what algorithms are being employed and where. Also, some drivers contain cross-licensed technology in which royalties may being paid for in what seems like be free to existing nVidia owners (but in fact subsidized by the hardware sales). It would get them in legal trouble for the source code to be publicly exposed.
And one that defines three branches (wolves) to keep the others in check from eating the sheep. That's the idea anyways.
Ya well, it comes with a rainbow and happy ending. What else did you want from me?
Oh yes, I've tried it many times. Generally, they're already at their wit's end with Windows bloatware, viri, and cheapo printers that don't work half the time. Oh, and lets not forget the layers of WiFi management software piled one on top of each other causing even more confusion.
Ok, so I recommend they try out a Mac at the nearest Apple store. I tell them there's generally only one way to do something in the Apple world, but it works 99.99% of the time, all the time. The floor salesman are so good at Apple, I just let them handle that part.
A week or so goes by after hearing they got a new iMac. At which point they love it, but are still trying to get used to navigating the GUI (as you pointed out). But they're not angry or frustrated. They just happen to be in that discovery mode still. But the best part is when they ask me "Hey, on this Apple, where do I find X feature?". I just tell them the truth. "Umm, good question, not sure. But poke around in this menu and I'm sure you'll find it". Well, they do without further assistance and thus feel satisfied and EMPOWERED. Mission accomplished.
Mac, that shit just works man.
If the user is that frustrated with technology, we just tell them to get a Mac. Problem solved and we end up both happy.
Two major problems in order.
1. Socially unacceptable. Not a technical issue, but a social/psychological one. It's hard to interact with friends in a home where everyone decides to blind themselves from reality. Ironic, I know.
2. the HUD visor or helmet were (still?) exceedingly expensive due to the tiny LCDs spec-ed at SVGA and XGA resolutions. Proper marketing and economies of scale could resolve this.
These jammers attack Layer 1 of the OSI. Encryption takes place at Layer 6.
In other words, encrypting GPS would be a wasted effort against these jamming devices.
No, wrong, I refuse to believe it. This is some sort of sick and twisted trolling joke. It has to be. It simply MUST be. ***head asplodes in disbelief***
Land, and resources. In that order.
Russia is spread out thin and need to protect its borders while China wants to ensure naval supremacy for the acquisition of off-shore drilling rights. There was also that Sino-Indian War that occurred in 1962 after Tibet came under (forcefully) the rule of the CCP in 1959. There are other minor reasons too. I'm sure pride plays a part in it to some extent. Muscle flexing and all that. But between China, India, Russia, and the US. I think were are in the most better off position at avoiding conflict.
You sure about that exclusivity? Because last time I was in China, I found many more Asian and European products and services in at least Shanghai, Chongqing, and Chengdu. Also, ZTE supplies quite a bit of networking equipment. Not sure how much of their technology source is native vs pirated however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE
http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/products/vas/ict/information_security/201008/t20100811_188343.html
Rush Limbaugh's Undeniable Truths Of Life. Here are some notable one posted below. The others not listed are either not applicable, or wrong IMHO.
3. Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.
4. Peace does not mean the absence of war.
5. War is not obsolete.
6. Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
~
18. There is no such thing as war atrocities.
19. War itself is an atrocity.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140209/posts
I have to agree with your assessment about China. But the nations that are the biggest threat to China are both Russia and India. The Chinese are annoyed to hell at losing political face to America, but know we aren't a threat to them (and they know that as it would be suicide for both sides). But the real threat to them are those other two nations.
Should a fight breakout in that region, it would be wise of us to stay out. Unless of course our immediate allies get caught in the middle of it. Which of course, would truly suck.
It already has. With the implosion of our financial system along with an exponential increase in deficit, you sir have a front row seat to a slow moving train wreck. Pass the popcorn please. I'm sure it will be the last bag I can afford.
As someone who admins many Dell PowerEdge servers for our clients, I can back that claim up. Hitachi drives are rock-solid in reliability.
There was a very good study on ECC usage and hard/soft failures throughout a fleet of Google servers. I'm sure once enterprise SSDs start being used, we'll start to see more quantitative data available with regards to reliability and performance over time.
www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf