Zounds, man, what are you autostarting that causes windows to take 5-7 minutes to load? My Windows 7 loads to usable desktop in about 45 seconds, and that's on a Dell Mini with an Atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM. And I haven't disabled anything.
Except it simply doesn't do that as you can easily demonstrate with test case programs. Memory used for cache is used but not reserved, so if a program needs it, it will simply free some of the cache and give it to the program. No swapping required. Swapping programs in order to maintain the cache would be idiotic, but Windows doesn't do this.
You don't need 4GB of RAM for Win7. I run Win7 - with Aero! - on a Dell Mini with an Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 16GB SSD. It doesn't have the horsepower to play youtube videos smoothly, but web surfing, email, MS Office all run just fine. Even Slashdot!
Putting aside the sarcasm, any self-replicating technology, or technology that could be self-replicating, needs to have multiple safeguards in place to prevent over-replication. Unless you are willing to declare any such research absolutely off limits and enforce it somehow, then I think they should be credited with doing the right thing here.
It's been while higher than 18% for the last decade. 2009 looks to be about 28%. More to the point, total government spending, i.e., including state and local government, was some 29% of GDP in 1962. Last year? 46%, a level not seen since World War II. Conclusion? We're fucked.
Except there is no reduction in actual spending accompanying this. NASA's budget will stay roughly the same. So really this does nothing at all to deal with the deficit.
In this case, since the games are encrypted, it's probably just one half of a public/private key pair. I'm just speculating, but suppose that the authorization consists of requesting a token from the Steam auth servers, a token that is encrypted with Valve's private key. That token, then, can be decrypted with Valve's public key, and the Steam client knows therefore that the token is valid. So in the case that Valve goes TU, they could simply release their private key and clients could generate their own tokens. However, this would be fiendishly difficult to crack, because you'd essentially have to crack the encryption sceheme, which is the realm of super-mathematicians and NSA geniuses, who probably have better things to do than play video games.
Yes, but the Presidential submission has no binding status at all; Congress could completely disregard it if they really wanted to. So the point about the President having very little power over the details of the budget is true.
You're either very misinformed or being totally dishonest here. That chart you linked to? Notice how it's labeled "Discretionary Spending?" Now google "Nondiscretionary spending." Notice how it's more than the discretionary budget. Notice how it consists mostly of social security, medicare, medicaid, and debt service. Notice how if you add up social discretionary spending plus social nondiscretionary spending, it far outpaces military spending of all kinds. The 2008 figures are right here: wikipedia.
the president submits the budget to congress, not the other way around.
Not in the United States, my friend.
U.S. Constitution, Article 7:
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Legislation can only ever start in Congress, and budget bills in particular must start in the House.
We just need an SI unit for cancer-causing-probability. It should probably measure exposure, like rads. And dosage over time probably matters, too. So you could call it the "marb:" 1 marb = 1 filtered cigaratte over 1 day. So if you smoke 5 cigarettes a day, that's an exposure level of 5 marbs. Using a CRT probably adds a few millimarbs. Inhaling asbestos fibers adds several kilomarbs. There's also some micromarbs of background risk.
So McDonald's will achieve what my city government could not, and they didn't even have to force me to pay for it. There might be something to this "capitalism" idea.
Please stop with your lies. Cuba is NOT blockaded. No U.S. warship will interdict any craft enroute to Cuba. What is in effect is an embargo, which is simply the result of the U.S. deciding under what conditions it will trade with others. You think the U.S. has no right to tell other countries what to do, but you seem to have no problem telling the U.S. who we have to trade with and under what conditions!
A blockade is an act of war; an embargo is an act of diplomacy. I would appreciate if you keep these concepts separate.
P.S. I don't personally support the embargo, but I also don't support lies about the U.S.
That may be your wish, but in the real world, they would be arrested for "treason", "spying" or "intelligence with the ennemy"
No, what I stated is the rule, and with a few exceptions, it is mostly followed. CAIR, for example, expresses opposition to the government all the time, is funded at least partly by foreign governments, and is widely considered a "mainstream" organization.
What is disingenous, however, is that apparently only negative consequences of U.S. actions are ever allowed to tally on the moral ledger, never any positive ones. Where the U.S. is wrong, the evil would not have otherwise occurred - and where the U.S. was right, it was not needed, or blameworthy for lack of perfection. I think the truth is rather more subtle than this, for, as Burke noted some two hundred years ago, "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I fully recognize, of course, that for many people, moral concepts like "good" and "evil" are antiquated, unwanted, possibly dangerous concepts.
Imagine 5 minutes someone paid by Cuban or North Korean or Iranian government (which are definitely very different from each other, but all considered "ennemies" by USA) to oppose the US government ! Sure, he would have no problems.
So long as that opposition takes the form of advocacy, not violence, then we would welcome them and remind them that we will not interfere with the speech of those who disagree, either.
Yes, didn't you know? The U.S. is the source of all evil in the world. It was a nice place, everyone in harmony, until the U.S. came along. Nobody in the U.S. is entitled to judge anyone anywhere else, ever, because if you do then you are a HYPOCRITE, the absolute worst thing in the world. Yes, even worse than Nazis. The U.S. should not be talking about the beams in the eyes of others until it removes the specks from its own.
Ho-hum. I was doing this crap with a voicemodem, Homeseer, and a BetaBrite display like 10 years ago. It had far less latency, too. I mean kudos for building your own LED grid, I guess, but neither voice recognition nor LED control, nor tying the two together with scripts, it particularly new.
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Zounds, man, what are you autostarting that causes windows to take 5-7 minutes to load? My Windows 7 loads to usable desktop in about 45 seconds, and that's on a Dell Mini with an Atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM. And I haven't disabled anything.
No offense but I think you're doing it wrong.
Except it simply doesn't do that as you can easily demonstrate with test case programs. Memory used for cache is used but not reserved, so if a program needs it, it will simply free some of the cache and give it to the program. No swapping required. Swapping programs in order to maintain the cache would be idiotic, but Windows doesn't do this.
You don't need 4GB of RAM for Win7. I run Win7 - with Aero! - on a Dell Mini with an Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 16GB SSD. It doesn't have the horsepower to play youtube videos smoothly, but web surfing, email, MS Office all run just fine. Even Slashdot!
You don't need third party tools in Windows, either. The Performance Monitor admin tool will let you track virtually any metric you would want to.
Mr. Olberman, you should get off Slashdot and focus on your terrible ratings.
Putting aside the sarcasm, any self-replicating technology, or technology that could be self-replicating, needs to have multiple safeguards in place to prevent over-replication. Unless you are willing to declare any such research absolutely off limits and enforce it somehow, then I think they should be credited with doing the right thing here.
Check the figures. The project is cut, but not NASA's budget. No money is saved.
It's been while higher than 18% for the last decade. 2009 looks to be about 28%. More to the point, total government spending, i.e., including state and local government, was some 29% of GDP in 1962. Last year? 46%, a level not seen since World War II. Conclusion? We're fucked.
Except there is no reduction in actual spending accompanying this. NASA's budget will stay roughly the same. So really this does nothing at all to deal with the deficit.
In this case, since the games are encrypted, it's probably just one half of a public/private key pair. I'm just speculating, but suppose that the authorization consists of requesting a token from the Steam auth servers, a token that is encrypted with Valve's private key. That token, then, can be decrypted with Valve's public key, and the Steam client knows therefore that the token is valid. So in the case that Valve goes TU, they could simply release their private key and clients could generate their own tokens. However, this would be fiendishly difficult to crack, because you'd essentially have to crack the encryption sceheme, which is the realm of super-mathematicians and NSA geniuses, who probably have better things to do than play video games.
Yes, but the Presidential submission has no binding status at all; Congress could completely disregard it if they really wanted to. So the point about the President having very little power over the details of the budget is true.
You're either very misinformed or being totally dishonest here. That chart you linked to? Notice how it's labeled "Discretionary Spending?" Now google "Nondiscretionary spending." Notice how it's more than the discretionary budget. Notice how it consists mostly of social security, medicare, medicaid, and debt service. Notice how if you add up social discretionary spending plus social nondiscretionary spending, it far outpaces military spending of all kinds. The 2008 figures are right here: wikipedia.
the president submits the budget to congress, not the other way around.
Not in the United States, my friend.
U.S. Constitution, Article 7:
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Legislation can only ever start in Congress, and budget bills in particular must start in the House.
Have you checked out DosBox? You can basically create an virtual old computer running DOS on your shiny new system.
We just need an SI unit for cancer-causing-probability. It should probably measure exposure, like rads. And dosage over time probably matters, too. So you could call it the "marb:" 1 marb = 1 filtered cigaratte over 1 day. So if you smoke 5 cigarettes a day, that's an exposure level of 5 marbs. Using a CRT probably adds a few millimarbs. Inhaling asbestos fibers adds several kilomarbs. There's also some micromarbs of background risk.
How would that be different than the status quo?
So McDonald's will achieve what my city government could not, and they didn't even have to force me to pay for it. There might be something to this "capitalism" idea.
In blockaded Cuba
Please stop with your lies. Cuba is NOT blockaded. No U.S. warship will interdict any craft enroute to Cuba. What is in effect is an embargo, which is simply the result of the U.S. deciding under what conditions it will trade with others. You think the U.S. has no right to tell other countries what to do, but you seem to have no problem telling the U.S. who we have to trade with and under what conditions!
A blockade is an act of war; an embargo is an act of diplomacy. I would appreciate if you keep these concepts separate.
P.S. I don't personally support the embargo, but I also don't support lies about the U.S.
That may be your wish, but in the real world, they would be arrested for "treason", "spying" or "intelligence with the ennemy"
No, what I stated is the rule, and with a few exceptions, it is mostly followed. CAIR, for example, expresses opposition to the government all the time, is funded at least partly by foreign governments, and is widely considered a "mainstream" organization.
What is disingenous, however, is that apparently only negative consequences of U.S. actions are ever allowed to tally on the moral ledger, never any positive ones. Where the U.S. is wrong, the evil would not have otherwise occurred - and where the U.S. was right, it was not needed, or blameworthy for lack of perfection. I think the truth is rather more subtle than this, for, as Burke noted some two hundred years ago, "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I fully recognize, of course, that for many people, moral concepts like "good" and "evil" are antiquated, unwanted, possibly dangerous concepts.
Imagine 5 minutes someone paid by Cuban or North Korean or Iranian government (which are definitely very different from each other, but all considered "ennemies" by USA) to oppose the US government ! Sure, he would have no problems.
So long as that opposition takes the form of advocacy, not violence, then we would welcome them and remind them that we will not interfere with the speech of those who disagree, either.
Yes, didn't you know? The U.S. is the source of all evil in the world. It was a nice place, everyone in harmony, until the U.S. came along. Nobody in the U.S. is entitled to judge anyone anywhere else, ever, because if you do then you are a HYPOCRITE, the absolute worst thing in the world. Yes, even worse than Nazis. The U.S. should not be talking about the beams in the eyes of others until it removes the specks from its own.
I wonder if the principle could be applied in the opposite direction: turning mass velocity in a vacuum into energy.
So I says, "Supercollider? I just met her!" And then they built the supercollider. Thank you, you've been a great audience.
Ho-hum. I was doing this crap with a voicemodem, Homeseer, and a BetaBrite display like 10 years ago. It had far less latency, too. I mean kudos for building your own LED grid, I guess, but neither voice recognition nor LED control, nor tying the two together with scripts, it particularly new.