Oil is the primary energy source, mostly due to cars and trucks and such, but coal and natural gas (combined) power just as much, and the US has lots of both. In a bad enough oil crisis, the US could ramp up coal production and convert cars (and furnaces) to run off of compressed natural gas (which is common enough in niche markets, mostly big fleets).
That's probably a point, but with the fervor of their anti-Israeli rhetoric, only a fool would ignore the possibility that they're after a nuclear weapon.
I suppose that ranks as "funny" because the extent of the CUDA parallelism is... probably just to accelerate the aforementioned gzip decompression, or something like that.:(
That is interesting to me. CUDA can easily provide parallelization of bulk mathematical operations, but it's notoriously weak with conditional logic. Are they doing a whole lot of math on the side -- perhaps with some fancy anomaly-detection algorithms that work by clustering packet attributes in multidimensional spaces, or approximate nonnegative matrix factorization, or such?
Maybe they did, but they're still around selling of printers (and ink) and cameras and (OEM-rebranded) networking equipment and servers and the like. It's hard to argue with $122 billion in market cap.
Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes,...[AT&T] will also give high-bandwidth users incentives to "reduce or modify their usage."
For $40+/mo I expect a lot of leeway in my data plan usage. Perhaps they could offer me a rebate for using less? It'll seem a lot less nickel-and-dimey than the alternatives.
Why did the dot-com bubble sink the economy? Because we had a bunch of people throwing their money after absurdly overpriced Internet businesses. Then it all fell apart.
Why did the mortgage bubble sink the economy? Because we had a bunch of people throwing their money after absurdly overpriced real estate, with government subsidizing the worst of the business... homebuyers and mortgages alike. Then they took additional loans out on the (overpriced) equity, and businesses built themselves to cater to this false affluence, so these businesses fell apart too.
Cutting back free trade? Bah! Having one percent of the economy charge the rest of the economy double what they pay now for cheap manufactured goods wouldn't have saved us from this recession, and it won't pull us out of the recession now, either.
We have planes for regional/long-distance intercity mass transit. There's some overhead at either end of the trip, but they go much faster, and the tickets are generally cheaper. (Outside select areas like the northeast corridor, anyway). It would be nice to have more trains, and we probably even will. Someday.
Now, I like decent mass transit, but come on, let's be realistic here. For intracity transit, you're not using high-speed rail anyway. People generally avoid it because, even during rush hour when an 11-mile trip takes 25-30 minutes by car, using the light rail system will be 50-60 minutes. (Actual numbers from an actual commute!). Only in places with truly miserable traffic does mass transit - even the most effective mass transit - begin to become competitive.
Not always true. A tax acts to reduce both the producer surplus or the consumer surplus, depending on the relative price elasticities of supply and demand. It's true that where it's levied doesn't really make a difference, however. So business-owners (of all sizes) do end up paying taxes.
Anyone here own any businesses? Say, in your retirement portfolio?
Yes. Which means he's almost certainly pulling stuff out of his rear end^W^Wbleeding heart instead of engaging in any serious study of the matter (cf. the 2006 survey of American economists which indicated of American economists that "87.5% agree that the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade" and "90.1% disagree with the suggestion that the U.S. should restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries".)
There is infinitely* more scientific consensus for the economic benefits of free trade than there is for the benefits of urgent action to avoid global warming, but somehow the latter is a national policy priority and the former is just uncool. Bah.
Agreed. The film was not anti-technology. I thought it was anti-ugly. The local "technology" of plugging into trees and animals was a lot like USB.
Yes. Now, do you think that these capabilities evolved naturally? Or that the entire planet was something designed? I mean, what evolutionary pressure could possibly drive an animal to having a built-in "make me your mind-slave" link?
Another hint: floating mountains, people. Come on.
(I'm guessing it wasn't "technology" at large that would have done Earth in, anyway. Just one technology would do it, and they're called "nukes".)
New York is only the biggest single city in the US, the densest city in the US, and (since we're talking about technology items here) one of the more affluent cities in the US. It's essentially the ultimate real-world stress-test for something like a cellular telephone network.
Assuming the drop of water is 0.1 cm^3, your "bucket" would need to be the size of *two thousand* Olympic swimming pools to get approximately the same ratio.
What are you talking about? You assume the size of a drop of water but neglected to even mention the rate at which it accumulates.
Wikipedia places the Olympic-size swimming pool at 2,500,000 L. To fill that in 25 years (25 * 365 * 86400 = 788,400,000 seconds) is about 3.17 mL/sec. That doesn't seem too far off from the roof-leak I had about 2 weeks ago (through some of the flashing around the bathroom's vent) considering the gross approximations that we're working with here. If your roof-leak is 2000 times worse than sure, two thousand Olympic swimming pools. I hope you get it fixed sometimes in the next 25 years, though; it would be a pity to finally pay off that mortgage and then have the house collapse the next moment.
There is a leak in your roof, and it is dripping water into a bucket: drip drip, drip drip. That's the sun. Then someone dumps the bucket of water over your head all at once, only the bucket is the size of an Olympic swimming pool. That's your neutron star.
sorry, it's too early in the morning. It would be nice if they could replace the "noise and fume-producing ICE" with something that's quieter and more efficient, even if not quite as powerful as a motorcycle is used to, and then you could keep it running quietly the whole ride to stretch out a battery charge. Then everyday people going down the street wouldn't loathe your presence because of the obnoxious noise.
It might be nice if they could supplement the "noise and fume-producing ICE" with something that's quieter and more efficient, even if not quite as powerful as a motorcycle is used to, and then you could keep it running quietly the whole ride to stretch out a battery charge. Then everyday people going down the street wouldn't loathe your presence because of the obnoxious noise.
Enslaving your fellow man is not the point of capitalism. The point of capitalism is merely to reward people investing in capital (like factories, or post-secondary education, or server farms, or hog farms, or orchards, or houses, or wheelbarrows, or telecommunications networks) by allowing them to profit from the use of that capital. When you allow this, then people invest in that capital, and you get a lot of stuff done - more so than you would from mere labor, the other component of getting things done. But anything else in excess of this isn't really about capitalism anymore: it's just selfish materialism taken to extremes. That is destructive, and abusive, and wrong.
And anyone who says that "greed is good" needs to be bonked upside the head. No, greed is not good. Greed is useful. That's different. It's useful for this: it drives people to go out and make worthwhile things happen, so that they can make money satisfy their greedy impulses. It drives people to invest in capital, in loans and and bonds and equities in companies which will ultimately pay them back and make their investment as worthwhile as possible. These companies bring new things to people, or bring old things to people better, and everybody wins. (Except when they don't, because the market is imperfect, and some people definitely win more than others, like our favorite people in the world: CEOs.... and they get away with it because of market inefficiencies, and we should probably consider how to actually effectively deal with the situation rather than just assert partisan rhetoric about the matter one way or another).
There are whole swaths of the United States where $11 / hours is actually a "desirable" job as opposed to the minimum wage jobs that are otherwise available.
There are also places where a 1-bedroom apartment is $200-$400/mo instead of $2000. It's relative.
The people who reap the profits have to take a backseat to the common good of all, otherwise the system collapses and no-one gets any profit.
I don't know about that, but a number of CEOs need to take a back seat to their shareholders and not give themselves multimillion dollar bonuses they don't deserve.
Every industry that has been allowed to function without regulatory oversight has found a way to bubble.
Yeah, especially the flower industry. Those Dutch tulip bulbs were something else, eh?.... silly generalizations aside, though, seriously: "regulation regulation regulation" is a poor silver bullet, not always all that effective at bubble-reduction. In fact, if you do it wrong, it can contribute to the bubbles and make things worse. (No, Fannie Mae and the government's push for lots of subprime mortgages did not cause the bubble all by itself. Yes, they helped make things worse.)
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how about pouring more resources in nuclear fusion? Isn't it n times more efficient and m more clean?
Yes! For present values of 'n' less than or equal to 0.
Oil is the primary energy source, mostly due to cars and trucks and such, but coal and natural gas (combined) power just as much, and the US has lots of both. In a bad enough oil crisis, the US could ramp up coal production and convert cars (and furnaces) to run off of compressed natural gas (which is common enough in niche markets, mostly big fleets).
That's probably a point, but with the fervor of their anti-Israeli rhetoric, only a fool would ignore the possibility that they're after a nuclear weapon.
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I suppose that ranks as "funny" because the extent of the CUDA parallelism is... probably just to accelerate the aforementioned gzip decompression, or something like that. :(
That is interesting to me. CUDA can easily provide parallelization of bulk mathematical operations, but it's notoriously weak with conditional logic. Are they doing a whole lot of math on the side -- perhaps with some fancy anomaly-detection algorithms that work by clustering packet attributes in multidimensional spaces, or approximate nonnegative matrix factorization, or such?
Maybe they did, but they're still around selling of printers (and ink) and cameras and (OEM-rebranded) networking equipment and servers and the like. It's hard to argue with $122 billion in market cap.
See? I bet you thought the W was for WebSphere! (I know I did, until I checked it before posting.)
Now that's efficiency for you, folks!
I thought half the point of Chromium was to get us the HTML5 video element and bypass the Flash.
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URL or it didn't happen!
For $40+/mo I expect a lot of leeway in my data plan usage. Perhaps they could offer me a rebate for using less? It'll seem a lot less nickel-and-dimey than the alternatives.
Why did the dot-com bubble sink the economy? Because we had a bunch of people throwing their money after absurdly overpriced Internet businesses. Then it all fell apart.
Why did the mortgage bubble sink the economy? Because we had a bunch of people throwing their money after absurdly overpriced real estate, with government subsidizing the worst of the business... homebuyers and mortgages alike. Then they took additional loans out on the (overpriced) equity, and businesses built themselves to cater to this false affluence, so these businesses fell apart too.
Cutting back free trade? Bah! Having one percent of the economy charge the rest of the economy double what they pay now for cheap manufactured goods wouldn't have saved us from this recession, and it won't pull us out of the recession now, either.
We have planes for regional/long-distance intercity mass transit. There's some overhead at either end of the trip, but they go much faster, and the tickets are generally cheaper. (Outside select areas like the northeast corridor, anyway). It would be nice to have more trains, and we probably even will. Someday.
Now, I like decent mass transit, but come on, let's be realistic here. For intracity transit, you're not using high-speed rail anyway. People generally avoid it because, even during rush hour when an 11-mile trip takes 25-30 minutes by car, using the light rail system will be 50-60 minutes. (Actual numbers from an actual commute!). Only in places with truly miserable traffic does mass transit - even the most effective mass transit - begin to become competitive.
Like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_United_States#Current_federal_efforts
Not always true. A tax acts to reduce both the producer surplus or the consumer surplus, depending on the relative price elasticities of supply and demand. It's true that where it's levied doesn't really make a difference, however. So business-owners (of all sizes) do end up paying taxes.
Anyone here own any businesses? Say, in your retirement portfolio?
Yes. Which means he's almost certainly pulling stuff out of his rear end^W^Wbleeding heart instead of engaging in any serious study of the matter (cf. the 2006 survey of American economists which indicated of American economists that "87.5% agree that the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade" and "90.1% disagree with the suggestion that the U.S. should restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries".)
There is infinitely* more scientific consensus for the economic benefits of free trade than there is for the benefits of urgent action to avoid global warming, but somehow the latter is a national policy priority and the former is just uncool. Bah.
(* not actually infinite)
Yes. Now, do you think that these capabilities evolved naturally? Or that the entire planet was something designed? I mean, what evolutionary pressure could possibly drive an animal to having a built-in "make me your mind-slave" link?
Another hint: floating mountains, people. Come on.
(I'm guessing it wasn't "technology" at large that would have done Earth in, anyway. Just one technology would do it, and they're called "nukes".)
New York is only the biggest single city in the US, the densest city in the US, and (since we're talking about technology items here) one of the more affluent cities in the US. It's essentially the ultimate real-world stress-test for something like a cellular telephone network.
What are you talking about? You assume the size of a drop of water but neglected to even mention the rate at which it accumulates. Wikipedia places the Olympic-size swimming pool at 2,500,000 L. To fill that in 25 years (25 * 365 * 86400 = 788,400,000 seconds) is about 3.17 mL/sec. That doesn't seem too far off from the roof-leak I had about 2 weeks ago (through some of the flashing around the bathroom's vent) considering the gross approximations that we're working with here. If your roof-leak is 2000 times worse than sure, two thousand Olympic swimming pools. I hope you get it fixed sometimes in the next 25 years, though; it would be a pity to finally pay off that mortgage and then have the house collapse the next moment.
There is a leak in your roof, and it is dripping water into a bucket: drip drip, drip drip. That's the sun. Then someone dumps the bucket of water over your head all at once, only the bucket is the size of an Olympic swimming pool. That's your neutron star.
sorry, it's too early in the morning. It would be nice if they could replace the "noise and fume-producing ICE" with something that's quieter and more efficient, even if not quite as powerful as a motorcycle is used to, and then you could keep it running quietly the whole ride to stretch out a battery charge. Then everyday people going down the street wouldn't loathe your presence because of the obnoxious noise.
It might be nice if they could supplement the "noise and fume-producing ICE" with something that's quieter and more efficient, even if not quite as powerful as a motorcycle is used to, and then you could keep it running quietly the whole ride to stretch out a battery charge. Then everyday people going down the street wouldn't loathe your presence because of the obnoxious noise.
Enslaving your fellow man is not the point of capitalism. The point of capitalism is merely to reward people investing in capital (like factories, or post-secondary education, or server farms, or hog farms, or orchards, or houses, or wheelbarrows, or telecommunications networks) by allowing them to profit from the use of that capital. When you allow this, then people invest in that capital, and you get a lot of stuff done - more so than you would from mere labor, the other component of getting things done. But anything else in excess of this isn't really about capitalism anymore: it's just selfish materialism taken to extremes. That is destructive, and abusive, and wrong.
And anyone who says that "greed is good" needs to be bonked upside the head. No, greed is not good. Greed is useful. That's different. It's useful for this: it drives people to go out and make worthwhile things happen, so that they can make money satisfy their greedy impulses. It drives people to invest in capital, in loans and and bonds and equities in companies which will ultimately pay them back and make their investment as worthwhile as possible. These companies bring new things to people, or bring old things to people better, and everybody wins. (Except when they don't, because the market is imperfect, and some people definitely win more than others, like our favorite people in the world: CEOs.... and they get away with it because of market inefficiencies, and we should probably consider how to actually effectively deal with the situation rather than just assert partisan rhetoric about the matter one way or another).
There are also places where a 1-bedroom apartment is $200-$400/mo instead of $2000. It's relative.
I don't know about that, but a number of CEOs need to take a back seat to their shareholders and not give themselves multimillion dollar bonuses they don't deserve.
Yeah, especially the flower industry. Those Dutch tulip bulbs were something else, eh? .... silly generalizations aside, though, seriously: "regulation regulation regulation" is a poor silver bullet, not always all that effective at bubble-reduction. In fact, if you do it wrong, it can contribute to the bubbles and make things worse. (No, Fannie Mae and the government's push for lots of subprime mortgages did not cause the bubble all by itself. Yes, they helped make things worse.)