You *know* the answer to that. It should be blatantly obvious that it will be used to fund "education and healthcare". You know, more of the same bullshit we hear every year.
I hope our politicians are reading this, because they need to know that all the money in the world can't fix a cultural issue. That's right, if people value stuffing there face with junk food and parents not doing there part in the educational process, you're just throwing money down a rat hole!
It worked for America and establishing independence from the British. However, given what has been going on in the Middle East, our success is an exception rather than the rule.
The idea sounded great at the time. Why fight the Soviets directly when you can have these civilians do it for you, and re-gain their independence. Besides, fighting the Soviets directly *might* set off a nuclear war between us. The cold war was some scary shit back in the day!
Giving weapons to these dissidents would be a coin toss. There's no way to know for sure what will/would happen from now. They're rational arguments to be made on both sides (for/against arming civilians). One thing we can (or I hope most of us at least) agree on however, is that the oppression must stop. It would be immoral to turn a blind eye when the world is able to do something about it. Question is, what should we do?
If pods placed outside the cavitation bubble, you could steer with transducers. Better yet, you might be able to steer with ultrasonic transducers operating within the bubble.
Given the US Navy has extensive experience with transducer technology, I'm sure they've already solve the issue. Whether the solution is classified or not is another story...
A few major problems with transatlantic vactrains.
1. Maglev + constant vacuum pumping = enormous energy costs. 2. Proper track re-alignment after an earthquake would be an engineering nightmare. 3. Maintenance costs.
A more elegant solution would be to use Supersonic Submarines. Basically, an underwater version of an airplane minus the sonic-boom. The downside however is their restricted use. They could only provide coast to coast transportation in open waters.
The airline industry already has the economic might and infrastructure to embrace supersonic subs. Assuming energy consumption and engineering issues have been addressed, they would make an excellent addition. For example, you could fly from LA to New York, then from New York take a sub to the UK and perhaps take another flight to your final destination.
Yup, I've been on it twice. Just take a bus or cab to the subway. From there, you can get to the Maglev and ride it to Pudong International Airport. It costs 50 RMB one-way (currently $6.65 dollars).
I'll never forget the first time I rode it. After we boarded the train (inside reminds me of a Boeing 737 cabin; seats and all), I was headed over to the bin to place my back pack so I could find a seat to sit. As I was walking down the isle, we were already going about 50 KPH. That's right! I did *not* feel anything going from a standstill to 50 KPH standing up!
Reading about the Maglevs is one thing, but to actually ride in one is a whole other experience. It truly is ultra smooooth.
No, they're rich because of an industry established OS momentum in place. I pay for their products so I can support them for other's who paid for them. As for the corporate user, they hate change and don't like the idea of an entire IT overhaul be it going Apple or Linux platform.
I knew Vista was going to be problematic. You know, typical Microsoft OS growing pains. I did *not* know how much of a PITA this Vista Experience was going to be. I gave it a chance above and beyond what feel is to be expected. But I'm sorry, I'm dropping Vista like a bad habit. It'll be better for my health too.
AMD Mobile Athlon 64 2800 (1.6 GHz), 1GB PC2700 DDR, 80GB 5400RPM drive (upgrade), and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 128MB of dedicated video memory (AGP 8x).
From cold boot to a quite/stable desktop enviroment takes about 3 to 4 minutes. The only items I have set in the system tray is AVG anti-virus. I've turned off pre-boot caching features normally enabled by Quicktime, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Java Runtime. I suspect it's the Windows Defender wanting to do "quick" scan of the drive. It happens 50% of the time I boot up.
As for the apps. My SonicWall VPN is in beta for vista support. I had to ask a support rep for these. Normally, only XP drivers are available. If you try and install the application, I get a message from Vista saying there is a known compatibility issue and I'm not allowed to install. I can't even over-ride it. With Winzip 11, it's painfully slow at decompressing files. No problem when I use 7Zip however. Quicktime 7 seems to be flakey. Data transfers are slow as shit over CAT5. Also, if my laptop goes into stand-by, pressing a button on the keypad *might* reboot the computer and POST again. Power management is like Russian Roulette. Etc...
Ok, I've been using Vista Ultimate (Yes, I PAID for it. Shut up already) on my Acer Ferrari 3200 lappy. Why? Two reasons.
1. Acer abandoned XP driver support on my laptop shortly after launch. I've had to scour the net for updated Wifi drivers from HP and other places that supported my ATI mobile 9700. Windows Vista OTOH, supported all my hardware on the first install.
2. I support Windows servers and desktops. I figured now would be a good time to learn Vista including all of its quirkiness.
How did it go? Well...Vista is a POS to be blunt. It's slow to boot up, next to impossible to access work group resources, application compatibility issues, and next to no 3rd party VPN app support. It's a good thing I kept my collection of XP drivers for this laptop, cause I'll be nuking the drive and loading an XP SP2 build within a month.
Larger is not always better. All engines have a sweet spot in regards to excaust flow. Too small of a pipe diameter, and you run into restriction. To large, and you're not tapping into the scavenge effect.
Due to some active-x plugin, I will cut-and-past from the miata.net page.
OK, so here is Backpressure 101.
The purpose of the car's exhaust system is to evacuate gases from the combustion chamber quickly and efficiently. The exhaust gasses do not flow in a smooth stream. Because the gasses are vented at each opening of the exhaust valves there is a pulse of gasses from each cylinder. Just put you hand near the exhaust tip and you will feel the pulses. In a MX-5 engine there are four pulses per cycle (except if it's John Pitt's supercharged V8 then there are eight really big pulses per cycle).
The exhaust gasses produce a positive flow in the exhaust pipe. Backpressure can be likened to resistance to the positive flow of the exhaust stream. Taken to its extreme backpressure can lead to a reversal (albeit momentarily) of the exhaust stream.
Is Bigger Better or is Faster Best?
When contemplating a modified exhaust system there are those who want the biggest diameter pipe that can be had. Their idea must be that fatter pipes are more effective at venting than narrower pipes. This sounds reasonable but it is not quite correct. Sure wider pipes have greater volume and higher flow capacity, but that is just half of the story. Capacity is one consideration but gas velocity is the other factor.
An experienced exhaust designer knows that the best exhaust is one that balances flow capacity with velocity. A given volume/time of gasses will travel faster through a 2" pipe than the same volume of gas passing through a 3" pipe. So when taken to its extremes we can see that a too narrow pipe will create backpressure (restrictions to positive flow) problems and a too wide pipe will cause a very slow flow with no backpressure.
The optimum is where the fastest velocity is achieved with the least constriction possible.
This situation will arise when the pipe is wide enough so that there is the least level of positive backpressure possible whilst achieving the highest exhaust gas velocity.
The faster the exhaust gas pulse moves, the better it can scavenge out all of the spent gasses during valve overlap. The scavenge effect can be visualised by imagining the high-pressure pulse with a trailing low-pressure area behind. The faster the high-pressure pulse moves the stronger the draw on the low-pressure gasses and the gasses behind that. The scavenge action is like (but not exactly) suction on the gasses behind.
The greater the clearance burned fuel from the combustion chamber the less diluted the incoming air/fuel mix is. Scavenging can also aid intake on overlapping valves (where the exhaust and inlet valves are open at the same time) by drawing in the intake. These are good things to happen.
So instead of going for the widest pipe possible we should be looking for the combination of the narrowest pipe that produces the least backpressure possible. In this scenario we achieve the least restriction on positive flow and the highest gas travel speed.
Exhaust pipe diameters are best suited to a particular RPM range. If we used a constant RPM engine this would be easy to specify. But a variable RPM engine will mean that not one size suits all. It is possible to vary the size of exhaust volumes according to rpm but it is very expensive (Ferrari has done it). The optimum gas flows (volume and speed) are required at the RPM range that you want your power band to be located. For a given engine configuration a small pipe diameter will produce higher exhaust velocities at a low RPM (good) but create unacceptably high amounts (bad) of backpressure at high rpm. If you had a car with a low RPM power band (2,000-3,000 RPM) you would want a narrower pipe than if your power band is located at 5,000-7,000 RPM.
Besides, my money's on a plague (bird flu, or maybe a bioweapon) depopulating China before they ascend again.
Then again, maybe a few hundred million less poor mouths to feed will be an advantage.
No, no it would not! Thanks to mass airline transportation, any plague would be a global plague. And millions? Think more like billions. After the flesh rots, you would see massive geo-political reconstruction unprecedented in human history. Nations will rise and fall; other will be born out of the fires forged in war. Basically, Hell-on-Earth.
What if it was real and she blew herself up? What then?
I'll tell you what would happen. There would be an outrage of how incompetent they were for not protecting the public. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Let's be honest here ok? If someone walks around with what looks to be an IED, there ass is going down. What she did was basically scream "fire" in a theater. Fuck her!
A four, six, and eight cylinder engine will have their pistons out of phase from each other as to provide a continuous and smooth power curve. Now compare that with a single piston engine (lawn mower, weed eater...etc) and take notice of the excessive vibration. Even though the crank shaft has counter weights, it's the interleaving of the detonations (and flywheel) that provides smooth motion.
I doubt the FDA would allow for Open Source Drug development in our own homes. So, your only source for such curing chemical compounds is through the drug companies.
A life saving cure may be found a lot sooner thanks to this folding research. And I would rather have my life saved when in need than be bitter over who's CEO pockets I will be lining.
Life isn't always fair. But we should at least make it more bearable for those stricken with an unfortunate ailment.
We should be debating this, and I'm glad we are. But the parent brings up an interesting point. More over, what constitutional adminmendment could best be drafted to stop those that are willing to destroy it? If you want to change it via vote, I'm ok with that. But to have it changed by force, violence, and terrorism is just **wrong**.
Given that most of the Democrats aren't taking global Islamic fundamentalism seriously, and most Americans seems to have forgotten that "911 feeling", I fear not even a nuclear bomb (smuggled in from a rogue nation) would wake us up. Ok, so maybe it would for a few years. But eventually, the tail of hurricane Katrina would rear its ugly head in politics again soon after. Call it sick, call it twisted. Better yet, call it American.
We are not in a declared war with any state. It's kind of hard to declare a war against an ambiguous enemy. Enemy combatants are identified by behavior, not by uniform or flag. Since they are a militia of no government (and if they were, of no government we are at war with, since we have not declared war with any government that remains) these enemy combatants caught in acts of aggression are mere criminals and are not in fact prisoners of war.
Exactly. Also, Article 4 section A-2 of the Geneva Convention basically states Al-Qaeda members are not entitled to POW status. Let's review...
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfill the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (Al-Qaeda functions as autonomous cell networks.)
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (Al-Qaeda members are dressed as civilians and walk among them.)
(c) That of carrying arms openly; (Al-Qaeda members prefer IED explosives and martyrdom.)
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war. (Al-Qaeda terrorizes humanity around the world with the goal of religious domination.)
Where are the greenies when you need them to protest?
Did it ever occur to anyone the vast processing resources content filtering will require? Processing data of any sort will require energy (not including energy to keep them cool)
Just imagine AT&T having data centers racked up with network appliances around the world. Their sole purpose; to filter content in real-time for the MPAA/RIAA.
No, but slave labo....err "Community Service" would I think. Nothing like providing humiliation and a form of work ethic to kick someone's sensibilities in the right direction.
Of course, not everyone can be rehabilitated. Some are just mental or too violent, while others are soulless monsters that deserve nothing less than the needle.
Like the AGEIA PhysX chip? Doubtful. While putting it to native silicon provides speed and efficiency, it doesn't leave much room for change. No, I suspect Intel will have Havok start coding physic engines to take advantage of the multi-core processing. And why not? Quad Core CPUs are pretty much going unused desktops.
Current cable boxes don't provide H.264 decompression such as the Scientific Atlanta 8300 series and below. The new 8550 box does support it however, but I don't know of any region that has them yet. I'd give it a few more years before they're available for pickup.
Due to the increase in HDTV content and additional channels, your local cable company is already hurting for bandwidth. I know for sure Austin, TX has changed over to switch-channel technology to save on bandwidth. Surely moving to the H.264 codec will also provide further bandwidth savings.
It's well known that ECC and other forms of error correction are found at all levels of software and hardware. For example, hard drives have their own internal error correction while the file system it's formatted with may have another. Also worth mentioning, the CPU, serial busses, network adapters (both the physical IEEE 802.x connection and TCP/IP stack) and other forms of software error correction.
Basically, the modern computer has various hardware and software layers of error correction stacked on top of each other if not at least by themselves.
We do have weak link with desktops regarding RAM however. While modern workstations and server are generally installed with ECC RAM, our desktops are not. Also worth mentioning, most custom built clone PCs are for the desktop market. This has become a huge problem given the voltage and timing requirements don't leave much room for tolerance. The fact memory density has been going up only makes the chances for "bit flips" even worse. I can't tell you how many countless times I've ran into data corruption due to improper RAM settings. Running a few passes with Memtest 86+ will reveal this nasty issue. Hell, even Windows Vista now includes a utility to check for faulty RAM read/write issues that's how big the problem has become in the industry. As such, the desktop market severely needs to embrace ECC RAM like the server and workstation market. These days, to not use ECC is asking for trouble. And yes, you would take a 1 to 2% performance hit, but so what; Data integrity is more imporant.
Note: The newer Intel P965 chipset does not support ECC memory while their older 965x does. Crying shame too given the P965 has been designed for Core 2 Due and Quad Core CPUs.
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Does anyone know what these taxes are for?
You *know* the answer to that. It should be blatantly obvious that it will be used to fund "education and healthcare". You know, more of the same bullshit we hear every year.
I hope our politicians are reading this, because they need to know that all the money in the world can't fix a cultural issue. That's right, if people value stuffing there face with junk food and parents not doing there part in the educational process, you're just throwing money down a rat hole!
It worked for America and establishing independence from the British. However, given what has been going on in the Middle East, our success is an exception rather than the rule.
The idea sounded great at the time. Why fight the Soviets directly when you can have these civilians do it for you, and re-gain their independence. Besides, fighting the Soviets directly *might* set off a nuclear war between us. The cold war was some scary shit back in the day!
Giving weapons to these dissidents would be a coin toss. There's no way to know for sure what will/would happen from now. They're rational arguments to be made on both sides (for/against arming civilians). One thing we can (or I hope most of us at least) agree on however, is that the oppression must stop. It would be immoral to turn a blind eye when the world is able to do something about it. Question is, what should we do?
If pods placed outside the cavitation bubble, you could steer with transducers. Better yet, you might be able to steer with ultrasonic transducers operating within the bubble.
Given the US Navy has extensive experience with transducer technology, I'm sure they've already solve the issue. Whether the solution is classified or not is another story...
A few major problems with transatlantic vactrains.
1. Maglev + constant vacuum pumping = enormous energy costs.
2. Proper track re-alignment after an earthquake would be an engineering nightmare.
3. Maintenance costs.
A more elegant solution would be to use Supersonic Submarines. Basically, an underwater version of an airplane minus the sonic-boom. The downside however is their restricted use. They could only provide coast to coast transportation in open waters.
The airline industry already has the economic might and infrastructure to embrace supersonic subs. Assuming energy consumption and engineering issues have been addressed, they would make an excellent addition. For example, you could fly from LA to New York, then from New York take a sub to the UK and perhaps take another flight to your final destination.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a397c938f46bc.htm
Yup, I've been on it twice. Just take a bus or cab to the subway. From there, you can get to the Maglev and ride it to Pudong International Airport. It costs 50 RMB one-way (currently $6.65 dollars).
I'll never forget the first time I rode it. After we boarded the train (inside reminds me of a Boeing 737 cabin; seats and all), I was headed over to the bin to place my back pack so I could find a seat to sit. As I was walking down the isle, we were already going about 50 KPH. That's right! I did *not* feel anything going from a standstill to 50 KPH standing up!
Reading about the Maglevs is one thing, but to actually ride in one is a whole other experience. It truly is ultra smooooth.
No, they're rich because of an industry established OS momentum in place. I pay for their products so I can support them for other's who paid for them. As for the corporate user, they hate change and don't like the idea of an entire IT overhaul be it going Apple or Linux platform.
I knew Vista was going to be problematic. You know, typical Microsoft OS growing pains. I did *not* know how much of a PITA this Vista Experience was going to be. I gave it a chance above and beyond what feel is to be expected. But I'm sorry, I'm dropping Vista like a bad habit. It'll be better for my health too.
Laptop specs are as follows:
AMD Mobile Athlon 64 2800 (1.6 GHz), 1GB PC2700 DDR, 80GB 5400RPM drive (upgrade), and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 128MB of dedicated video memory (AGP 8x).
From cold boot to a quite/stable desktop enviroment takes about 3 to 4 minutes. The only items I have set in the system tray is AVG anti-virus. I've turned off pre-boot caching features normally enabled by Quicktime, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Java Runtime. I suspect it's the Windows Defender wanting to do "quick" scan of the drive. It happens 50% of the time I boot up.
As for the apps. My SonicWall VPN is in beta for vista support. I had to ask a support rep for these. Normally, only XP drivers are available. If you try and install the application, I get a message from Vista saying there is a known compatibility issue and I'm not allowed to install. I can't even over-ride it. With Winzip 11, it's painfully slow at decompressing files. No problem when I use 7Zip however. Quicktime 7 seems to be flakey. Data transfers are slow as shit over CAT5. Also, if my laptop goes into stand-by, pressing a button on the keypad *might* reboot the computer and POST again. Power management is like Russian Roulette. Etc...
Ok, I've been using Vista Ultimate (Yes, I PAID for it. Shut up already) on my Acer Ferrari 3200 lappy. Why? Two reasons.
1. Acer abandoned XP driver support on my laptop shortly after launch. I've had to scour the net for updated Wifi drivers from HP and other places that supported my ATI mobile 9700. Windows Vista OTOH, supported all my hardware on the first install.
2. I support Windows servers and desktops. I figured now would be a good time to learn Vista including all of its quirkiness.
How did it go? Well...Vista is a POS to be blunt. It's slow to boot up, next to impossible to access work group resources, application compatibility issues, and next to no 3rd party VPN app support. It's a good thing I kept my collection of XP drivers for this laptop, cause I'll be nuking the drive and loading an XP SP2 build within a month.
Due to some active-x plugin, I will cut-and-past from the miata.net page.
So you're saying that most people are sick, and being something of a psychopath is normal?
No, no it would not! Thanks to mass airline transportation, any plague would be a global plague. And millions? Think more like billions. After the flesh rots, you would see massive geo-political reconstruction unprecedented in human history. Nations will rise and fall; other will be born out of the fires forged in war. Basically, Hell-on-Earth.
Anyone old enough to remember those Federated Electronic store commercials? Reminds me of Crazy Eddie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHNIRik7bUA
What if it was real and she blew herself up? What then?
I'll tell you what would happen. There would be an outrage of how incompetent they were for not protecting the public. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Let's be honest here ok? If someone walks around with what looks to be an IED, there ass is going down. What she did was basically scream "fire" in a theater. Fuck her!
A four, six, and eight cylinder engine will have their pistons out of phase from each other as to provide a continuous and smooth power curve. Now compare that with a single piston engine (lawn mower, weed eater...etc) and take notice of the excessive vibration. Even though the crank shaft has counter weights, it's the interleaving of the detonations (and flywheel) that provides smooth motion.
I doubt the FDA would allow for Open Source Drug development in our own homes. So, your only source for such curing chemical compounds is through the drug companies.
A life saving cure may be found a lot sooner thanks to this folding research. And I would rather have my life saved when in need than be bitter over who's CEO pockets I will be lining.
Life isn't always fair. But we should at least make it more bearable for those stricken with an unfortunate ailment.
We should be debating this, and I'm glad we are. But the parent brings up an interesting point. More over, what constitutional adminmendment could best be drafted to stop those that are willing to destroy it? If you want to change it via vote, I'm ok with that. But to have it changed by force, violence, and terrorism is just **wrong**.
Given that most of the Democrats aren't taking global Islamic fundamentalism seriously, and most Americans seems to have forgotten that "911 feeling", I fear not even a nuclear bomb (smuggled in from a rogue nation) would wake us up. Ok, so maybe it would for a few years. But eventually, the tail of hurricane Katrina would rear its ugly head in politics again soon after. Call it sick, call it twisted. Better yet, call it American.
Exactly. Also, Article 4 section A-2 of the Geneva Convention basically states Al-Qaeda members are not entitled to POW status. Let's review...
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfill the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (Al-Qaeda functions as autonomous cell networks.)
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (Al-Qaeda members are dressed as civilians and walk among them.)
(c) That of carrying arms openly; (Al-Qaeda members prefer IED explosives and martyrdom.)
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war. (Al-Qaeda terrorizes humanity around the world with the goal of religious domination.)
Where are the greenies when you need them to protest?
Did it ever occur to anyone the vast processing resources content filtering will require? Processing data of any sort will require energy (not including energy to keep them cool)
Just imagine AT&T having data centers racked up with network appliances around the world. Their sole purpose; to filter content in real-time for the MPAA/RIAA.
Such a waste of resources...
No, but slave labo....err "Community Service" would I think. Nothing like providing humiliation and a form of work ethic to kick someone's sensibilities in the right direction.
Of course, not everyone can be rehabilitated. Some are just mental or too violent, while others are soulless monsters that deserve nothing less than the needle.
Like the AGEIA PhysX chip? Doubtful. While putting it to native silicon provides speed and efficiency, it doesn't leave much room for change. No, I suspect Intel will have Havok start coding physic engines to take advantage of the multi-core processing. And why not? Quad Core CPUs are pretty much going unused desktops.
Vote for Clinton or Edwards in 2008 and that's exactly what will end up happening.
Univeral Healthcare my ass! Second job enslavement, here we come!
Current cable boxes don't provide H.264 decompression such as the Scientific Atlanta 8300 series and below. The new 8550 box does support it however, but I don't know of any region that has them yet. I'd give it a few more years before they're available for pickup.
Due to the increase in HDTV content and additional channels, your local cable company is already hurting for bandwidth. I know for sure Austin, TX has changed over to switch-channel technology to save on bandwidth. Surely moving to the H.264 codec will also provide further bandwidth savings.
FYI, I'm a former Time Warner Cable TSR agent.
So if you fart, does your butthole blow a bubble?
You meant 975x, not 965x.
Correct. A typo on my part.
It's well known that ECC and other forms of error correction are found at all levels of software and hardware. For example, hard drives have their own internal error correction while the file system it's formatted with may have another. Also worth mentioning, the CPU, serial busses, network adapters (both the physical IEEE 802.x connection and TCP/IP stack) and other forms of software error correction.
Basically, the modern computer has various hardware and software layers of error correction stacked on top of each other if not at least by themselves.
We do have weak link with desktops regarding RAM however. While modern workstations and server are generally installed with ECC RAM, our desktops are not. Also worth mentioning, most custom built clone PCs are for the desktop market. This has become a huge problem given the voltage and timing requirements don't leave much room for tolerance. The fact memory density has been going up only makes the chances for "bit flips" even worse. I can't tell you how many countless times I've ran into data corruption due to improper RAM settings. Running a few passes with Memtest 86+ will reveal this nasty issue. Hell, even Windows Vista now includes a utility to check for faulty RAM read/write issues that's how big the problem has become in the industry. As such, the desktop market severely needs to embrace ECC RAM like the server and workstation market. These days, to not use ECC is asking for trouble. And yes, you would take a 1 to 2% performance hit, but so what; Data integrity is more imporant.
Note: The newer Intel P965 chipset does not support ECC memory while their older 965x does. Crying shame too given the P965 has been designed for Core 2 Due and Quad Core CPUs.