The difference being that the brits had to travel a thousand or so miles before they got here (which really makes any war a bit harder) and armed forces were significantly less advanced (your enemy has a gun, you had a gun... they might have some cannons too or something... but it is pretty much a fair playing field). Look at Iraq, not even 2,500 U.S. soldiers have died yet... and we've been in the war for a few years now. The American military destroyed old Iraq's military in a matter of days. The advantage that remaining terrorists have is that they blend in, and have to shoot first before soldiers know who the enemy is. Terrorists have a huge advantage here in that they always get to shoot first, the American soldiers don't know who the enemy is until it happens. Despite this advantage, our kill ratios are the best of any war ever. The bias in the media reporting is ridiculous, but by all accounts from a military point of view it is a huge success. The military officials are glad because this is like real life training for their troops, if a nation's army goes a decade or so without real fighting then when the fighting is needed the troops won't be as effective, so a lot of officials jumped at this chance to get their men out into the field. So if we did have another civil or revolutionary war (in this case it would be civil), we'd have to make sure we blend in with the general populace..but as Iraq shows, that still doesn't provide a very effective means of fighting. It would be even worse here because the soldiers are familiar with the area, as opposed to Iraq, and there is a ton of military equipment just a few miles from just about any point in the nation... there supply lines would be damn near impenetrable. The only chance we would have would be if a good chunk of the soldiers and generals sided with the revolutionaries, or if another major power in the world came to help us out (just like France did previously). I think that last scenario is likely considering the number of nations that would probably love to throw a punch or two our way. So yea, we might have a chance... but the rules of the game are vastly different today. Regards, Steve
100% agree, but even worse is that a tiered internet system can't work on a decentralized network like the internet. Great, your packets travel on too many networks, if any one of them isn't being paid by the website for high QoS, then you're not going to get any higher QoS no matter how much the website is paying for it. No net neutrality simply puts the telcos in a position to throttle one of the strongest economic forces in the nation, and considering that the network was built with government privileges and subsidies, they have no right to do that. Regards, Steve
Yea, not only are these blogs, but they are written with the goal of attacking a single religion (and they are pretty vicious about it). This has no place being in the news anywhere. It isn't news, it is just radical non-sense about how "wrong" the other side is. Regards, Steve
With all due respect, people like you are going to ruin the internet. Something has to pay for all this free stuff. If the ads are relevant and not popping up all over the place, there is no reaosn to block them. Regards, Steve
Nuclear fusion in the states has always had the necessary backing and funding. In fact the Department of Energy just recently announced its latest budgets and gave the nuclear fusion folks every penny requested. Billions every year are invested by the government, and even more so recently because there is a huge push to get off of our oil dependance. The government is also dumping a good chunk of change into an international reactor called ITER (latin for "the way"). ITER will be a stepping stone to commercial reactors. It is under construction and will finish being built in 2015. It is already going to have a net gain in energy production, now scientists are more focused on getting more bang for their buck. ITER will not be used for producing electricity, but it is a good prototype for a reactor being built after it that is designed to create about 6 to 8 times as much energy and will be used commercially to produce electricity. So, even though scientists have been saying that we are 10 years away from viable fusion for 50 years now... we really are this time, and the reactor is being built. Within 2 decades the first commercial reactor should be finished, and within 3 to 4 decades, nuclear fusion should start becoming pretty widespread. And this is all assuming a pretty much worst case scenario with no major unpredicted advances being made in the field. Regards, Steve
What about signing the packages? I like having my packages signed by my "vendor", not a bunch of 3rd parties. If my vendor signs it, it implies that they've ran it and tested it(at least I hope so). It also stops me from having to import a whole bunch of gpg keys, etc... Where is the quality control in all of this? Regards, Steve
A little old, but here is one example: http://furryland.org/~mikec/bench/
I've never seen python beat perl for anything (on that site you'll see python beat it for hashes but that is simply because of the underlying data structures, in the real world you would have done it differently in perl). For alot of graphics work or text processing, or heavy I/O though python is just slow as hell. Just walking a directory tree will take forever if it has a few levels to it. It really depends on the type of work you are doing, but often times for me, perl is more than 5 times faster, I was being generous with the 5:) Don't get me wrong, I love python, and prefer it whenever I can... but its slowness can be a real pain. Regards, Steve
Heh, what a warped perspective you have. The only people moving to rails are the people that were using php. Java devs aren't going anywhere, its a damn good platform. Just the Java standard libraries alone puts it in a whole league of its own that is matched by no other. Perl's CPAN is a distant second. Oh and don't forget about Ruby's horrible performance. Do benchmarks, ruby is a few magnitudes of order slower than most other scripting language. About 10 times slower than python and about 50 times slower than perl. meanwhile Java can often outperform native code with a modern jvm simply because it handles memory so much more efficiently than most C coders can. This assumes that the native code isn't just doing raw calculations, but instead has to move memory around a bit.
Actually I just did the calculations and from just about every way you can measure performance (memory, bandwidth, cpu speed, etc....) The PS3 is over 256 times faster than the PS1. In fact, depending on how you count the cells in the cell processor, it is significantly faster than 256 times the playstation 1. I'm not buying a PS3, and I am what most would consider a Nintendo fanboy (I will be buying a Wii), but still I thought this was interesting. Wikipedia has the specs on the systems if you want to verfiy my results. Regards, Steve
Nah, actually we also take all branches (this is all happening at ridiculously small scales). Since we take all branches, any choice that could have been made is made and taken. The point of parrallel universes is that there are billions of you (actually a hell of alot more) and they continue brnaching exponentially. Each one of "you" follows different branches.
One could argue that we simply live in the illusion of free-will. Expanding on this, every choice that we can make is always made. Whenever choice is possible (speaking at the sub-atomic level), the universe branches into multiple parallel universes, and all choices are made, all paths are taken. We simply are riding "the wave" and every choice that could be made, is made, thus giving us the illusion that we chose it. Or so some theories suggest. If nothing else its an interesting thought experiment. Regards, Steve
Who the hell goes to UConn for anything computer science related? If you're going to give anecdotal evidence, at least give it about a university that has a reputation for computer science related fields. I think if you had gone to MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, or a handful of other American universities reknowned for their CS departments, you may have a different perspective on things. Regards, Steve
Unless it was MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, and a hand full of other universites then that makes sense. You don't just go to any old university and expect it to be top notch in *everything*. You don't go to Harvard to learn computer science, and you don't go to Berkeley to learn law. Regards, Steve
Well actually, the Wiimote will have a quality speaker in it. As you pull back on the bow, you'll hear the bow being pulled back coming from the remote. Now the cool part is that when the arrow is released, you hear it coming from the remote, but its traveling quickly, and the sound quickly fades out in the remote and fades in on the TV, so it actually sounds like the arrow is flying away from you. It should be really cool stuff. Regards, Steve
I'd argue the merits or Ubuntu (I honestly gave it a good go, and just can't stand the damn thing), but as far as Who wrote this crap? goes, the submitter wrote that crap, and as a result the summary is biased as hell in favor of Mandrake too. Its all kind of stupid if you ask me. Regards, Steve
This guy is either trolling, or his e-mails were being censored by Iran and being made to look like the U.S. did it. I know for a fact that the U.S. censors no incoming or outgoing private communications, although they do listen on suspect communcations. One guy's story doesn't make it true, it is false, ask anyone who has ever worked in such scenarios.
Holy crap! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Seriously. I wound up just tossing a terminal in my top bar and clicking on that, but I really missed my right click. Regards, Steve
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haha! wow that was bad, thanks :)
I think you are missing a really big point.
I believe the password wasn't hashed or anything, it is rooky mistake.
The difference being that the brits had to travel a thousand or so miles before they got here (which really makes any war a bit harder) and armed forces were significantly less advanced (your enemy has a gun, you had a gun... they might have some cannons too or something... but it is pretty much a fair playing field). Look at Iraq, not even 2,500 U.S. soldiers have died yet... and we've been in the war for a few years now. The American military destroyed old Iraq's military in a matter of days. The advantage that remaining terrorists have is that they blend in, and have to shoot first before soldiers know who the enemy is. Terrorists have a huge advantage here in that they always get to shoot first, the American soldiers don't know who the enemy is until it happens. Despite this advantage, our kill ratios are the best of any war ever. The bias in the media reporting is ridiculous, but by all accounts from a military point of view it is a huge success. The military officials are glad because this is like real life training for their troops, if a nation's army goes a decade or so without real fighting then when the fighting is needed the troops won't be as effective, so a lot of officials jumped at this chance to get their men out into the field. So if we did have another civil or revolutionary war (in this case it would be civil), we'd have to make sure we blend in with the general populace..but as Iraq shows, that still doesn't provide a very effective means of fighting. It would be even worse here because the soldiers are familiar with the area, as opposed to Iraq, and there is a ton of military equipment just a few miles from just about any point in the nation... there supply lines would be damn near impenetrable. The only chance we would have would be if a good chunk of the soldiers and generals sided with the revolutionaries, or if another major power in the world came to help us out (just like France did previously). I think that last scenario is likely considering the number of nations that would probably love to throw a punch or two our way. So yea, we might have a chance... but the rules of the game are vastly different today.
Regards,
Steve
I also hope they know that humans get tired, confused, and aren't always attentive. The more that machines handle, the better.
Regards,
Steve
100% agree, but even worse is that a tiered internet system can't work on a decentralized network like the internet. Great, your packets travel on too many networks, if any one of them isn't being paid by the website for high QoS, then you're not going to get any higher QoS no matter how much the website is paying for it. No net neutrality simply puts the telcos in a position to throttle one of the strongest economic forces in the nation, and considering that the network was built with government privileges and subsidies, they have no right to do that.
Regards,
Steve
Yea, not only are these blogs, but they are written with the goal of attacking a single religion (and they are pretty vicious about it). This has no place being in the news anywhere. It isn't news, it is just radical non-sense about how "wrong" the other side is.
Regards,
Steve
With all due respect, people like you are going to ruin the internet. Something has to pay for all this free stuff. If the ads are relevant and not popping up all over the place, there is no reaosn to block them.
Regards,
Steve
It is a still image unless you click play to view it. It is a maximum of 2 minutes long.
Regards,
Steve
Nuclear fusion in the states has always had the necessary backing and funding. In fact the Department of Energy just recently announced its latest budgets and gave the nuclear fusion folks every penny requested. Billions every year are invested by the government, and even more so recently because there is a huge push to get off of our oil dependance. The government is also dumping a good chunk of change into an international reactor called ITER (latin for "the way"). ITER will be a stepping stone to commercial reactors. It is under construction and will finish being built in 2015. It is already going to have a net gain in energy production, now scientists are more focused on getting more bang for their buck. ITER will not be used for producing electricity, but it is a good prototype for a reactor being built after it that is designed to create about 6 to 8 times as much energy and will be used commercially to produce electricity. So, even though scientists have been saying that we are 10 years away from viable fusion for 50 years now... we really are this time, and the reactor is being built. Within 2 decades the first commercial reactor should be finished, and within 3 to 4 decades, nuclear fusion should start becoming pretty widespread. And this is all assuming a pretty much worst case scenario with no major unpredicted advances being made in the field.
Regards,
Steve
What about signing the packages? I like having my packages signed by my "vendor", not a bunch of 3rd parties. If my vendor signs it, it implies that they've ran it and tested it(at least I hope so). It also stops me from having to import a whole bunch of gpg keys, etc... Where is the quality control in all of this?
Regards,
Steve
A little old, but here is one example: http://furryland.org/~mikec/bench/ :) Don't get me wrong, I love python, and prefer it whenever I can... but its slowness can be a real pain.
I've never seen python beat perl for anything (on that site you'll see python beat it for hashes but that is simply because of the underlying data structures, in the real world you would have done it differently in perl). For alot of graphics work or text processing, or heavy I/O though python is just slow as hell. Just walking a directory tree will take forever if it has a few levels to it. It really depends on the type of work you are doing, but often times for me, perl is more than 5 times faster, I was being generous with the 5
Regards,
Steve
Heh, what a warped perspective you have. The only people moving to rails are the people that were using php. Java devs aren't going anywhere, its a damn good platform. Just the Java standard libraries alone puts it in a whole league of its own that is matched by no other. Perl's CPAN is a distant second. Oh and don't forget about Ruby's horrible performance. Do benchmarks, ruby is a few magnitudes of order slower than most other scripting language. About 10 times slower than python and about 50 times slower than perl. meanwhile Java can often outperform native code with a modern jvm simply because it handles memory so much more efficiently than most C coders can. This assumes that the native code isn't just doing raw calculations, but instead has to move memory around a bit.
Don't forget the sudden motion sensor that locks the harddrive if you drop or move your laptop too fast to avoid data corruption.
Regards,
Steve
Yea, the SVG rendering is a portage issue, it works fine in everyother distro I've tried.
Actually I just did the calculations and from just about every way you can measure performance (memory, bandwidth, cpu speed, etc....) The PS3 is over 256 times faster than the PS1. In fact, depending on how you count the cells in the cell processor, it is significantly faster than 256 times the playstation 1. I'm not buying a PS3, and I am what most would consider a Nintendo fanboy (I will be buying a Wii), but still I thought this was interesting. Wikipedia has the specs on the systems if you want to verfiy my results.
Regards,
Steve
Nah, actually we also take all branches (this is all happening at ridiculously small scales). Since we take all branches, any choice that could have been made is made and taken. The point of parrallel universes is that there are billions of you (actually a hell of alot more) and they continue brnaching exponentially. Each one of "you" follows different branches.
One could argue that we simply live in the illusion of free-will. Expanding on this, every choice that we can make is always made. Whenever choice is possible (speaking at the sub-atomic level), the universe branches into multiple parallel universes, and all choices are made, all paths are taken. We simply are riding "the wave" and every choice that could be made, is made, thus giving us the illusion that we chose it. Or so some theories suggest. If nothing else its an interesting thought experiment.
Regards,
Steve
Who the hell goes to UConn for anything computer science related? If you're going to give anecdotal evidence, at least give it about a university that has a reputation for computer science related fields. I think if you had gone to MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, or a handful of other American universities reknowned for their CS departments, you may have a different perspective on things.
Regards,
Steve
Unless it was MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, and a hand full of other universites then that makes sense. You don't just go to any old university and expect it to be top notch in *everything*. You don't go to Harvard to learn computer science, and you don't go to Berkeley to learn law.
Regards,
Steve
Well actually, the Wiimote will have a quality speaker in it. As you pull back on the bow, you'll hear the bow being pulled back coming from the remote. Now the cool part is that when the arrow is released, you hear it coming from the remote, but its traveling quickly, and the sound quickly fades out in the remote and fades in on the TV, so it actually sounds like the arrow is flying away from you. It should be really cool stuff.
Regards,
Steve
Next week we'll see Jack trying to outlaw mannequins.
I'd argue the merits or Ubuntu (I honestly gave it a good go, and just can't stand the damn thing), but as far as Who wrote this crap? goes, the submitter wrote that crap, and as a result the summary is biased as hell in favor of Mandrake too. Its all kind of stupid if you ask me.
Regards,
Steve
This guy is either trolling, or his e-mails were being censored by Iran and being made to look like the U.S. did it. I know for a fact that the U.S. censors no incoming or outgoing private communications, although they do listen on suspect communcations. One guy's story doesn't make it true, it is false, ask anyone who has ever worked in such scenarios.
Holy crap! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Seriously. I wound up just tossing a terminal in my top bar and clicking on that, but I really missed my right click.
Regards,
Steve