I've seen several documentaries and TV shows on various cooking shows which also supports the notion that smelling the cork is for those what to look like they know what they are doing...but really don't. The logic goes, since smell will provide some fashion of taste, smelling the cork will tell you if the wine is good...and information about its body. Yet, the whole point of letting a wine breath is 100% contrary to this notion. Simple fact is, the cork is going to absorb the aspects of the wine which most want to hide or get rid of by "breathing." Furthermore, wine is complex enough that its oder actually says little about its taste. Many cheeses follow suit too; smell good, taste bad, smells bad, tastes good.
Smelling the cork is for those that ignorantly present themselves as smart while proving they are not or they know they are frauds and are trying to look like they have a large penis. The long of the short, smelling the bottle makes more sense than does smell the cork and in the final analysis, only tasting it is going to tell you the critical details; which ultimately is a personal experience.
I have it on good authority that such home made jammers were in use during the early part of the Iraq war by the Iraqies. In some cases, when bombs "missed there target" in high density areas and civilians were killed, jammers which were protecting other high value targets were quieted.
As I understand it, the cars and engines I'm talking about are available in California; where they can justify the increased prices to meet higher emission standards, as required by law.
I would guess the answer is cost. These engines are provided to California but at the cost of HP. These engines are more expensive.
Diesel engines put out more crap into the air which is generally frowned on.
It may be that thse will be in our future hybrids...but if we already have the engine techology, why mess with a more expensive Hybrid...that was my point.
Actually, right now...today...Japan has IC engines which produce less emissions that the absolute best hybrids available now or tomorrow. Hybrids, as built today, are nothing but a waste of money. Several recent cost analysis indicate the hybrids will save you ~$100 over its life. Yes, they may be slightly cleaner for the environment than the current ICE's, but it doesn't have to be. Superior engine technology already exists.
Fission plants become, as is well known, uneconomical below 50 megawatts,
Is this still true? My understanding is that many of the newer designs could easily economically satisfy small community needs, must like gas and coal plants do today.
a nuclear reactor without a chain reaction isn't useful,
Exactly! That's why they are safe! They obtain a chain reaction when its running...but in a failure, the chain reaction can not be sustained. Now you why why they are safe!
meltdown can occur in a shut-down reactor from heat produced by decay of fission products
Not with breeders...which is why they are safe. Feel free to visit any one of many, many, many sites which clearly spell out the advantages of the newer reactor designs. There are many, newer designs which offer many fail safes.
Also, it's VERY important to keep in mind that nuclear energy is currently the safest energy source we have in mass production. Most people find that hard to believe, but surprisingly, more people die from coal (directly and indirectly) power plants (which also release a lot of radiation) every year han have died in the history of nuclear power plants. Amazingly, that statitics even covers the earliest of nuclear reactor designs. Just image the saftey record of a nuclear power plant based on late 90s and newer technology designs!
BTW, since you brought up numbers...the number of civilians killed, in total, is still less than what Sadam killed anually when he we in power. As bad you want to make it out to be, it's still better for the People of Iraq; death toll anyways. Now...if we can just get them to stop blowing up their own power lines, oil lines, and water and sewer lines, things would be markedly better for them.
Oh ya...let's not forget that many insurgents are blowing up some of their buildings in addition to infrastruture there too! But I'm sure you're too busy pointing a finger at the US to care.
Which is why it doesn't happen that way. You've been reading too much BS press!
Here's how it REALLY happens: 1) enter building and begin searching 2) enemy engages you 3) if it doesn't look good, you exit building as quickly as possible; often this is not required. 4) use man portable rocket and/or 203 into windows to clear buliding. If build was an
ambush, then call in artillary, tank, airstrike,/air support.
a) if air support, heli or plane will show up; chances are it will be heli which will use 20mm chain gun or rockets (very unlikely in a town) or missiles. Either way, collateral damage is minimized. Usually, ONLY the people in the building are killed. If a plane shows up, if its in a town, chances are it will be a guided munition and collateral damage will be minimal (surprisingly). Weakened structures in the area *may* collapse because of the shock wave but ths is not common. Normally a 500lbs bomb is used will will crater the building...minimizing damage to buildings surrounding. If an AC130 is used. collatoral damage will be minimized as accuracy is very high and level for force can be controlled given the target threat.
b) if tank shows up, building will probably be leveled yet collateral damage will be minimized.
c) if artillary, artillary is normally NOT used in a town unless a large area (many, many buildings) is actively involved in the fight. Just the same, artillary is very accurate these days. Likelihood of collateral damage is low to medium...which is why it's normally not used in a town.
d) And after all that...you would be surprised how often support is actually an hummer with a grenade launcher, tow/hell fire, or 50cals which just chew the building up...again, minimizing collatoral damage.
You need to keep in mind, much of the horrific destruction you see over there happened in the early days of the war and various large scale insurrections. This is vastly different from the normal door to door. Yes, war is not clean....yes, war kills people that it shouldn't! But realistically, completely uninformed commments like the above come from seeing far, far, far too many movies or listening to completely ignorant and uninformed news outlets (which is most of them). Yes, yes...I know......won't someone think of the children?!?!
How do I know this? I have lots of friends and families in the mililary. If leveling a city were the desire, we have much more effective weapons to do this without sending a single man into the town.
Airstrikes and artillary are used AFTER confirmation of enemy in structures. If there were any truth to your insanely stupid comment, the number of allied soldiers injured in this war would be much reduced.
Here's a penny! Go buy a brain which is at least twice as good as the one you currently have.
...and to be clear, even the Dragon is iffy against heavy armor...it's really designed to attack light and medium armor...and the SMAW is really consistently effective against light armor. Nonetheless, compare those specialized anti-tank weapons against something like an RPG...big difference!
Hate to burst your bubble, but an RPG can not take out a heavy tank...light armor yes (armoured Hummer, some APCs...light transports...etc...but heavy tank...no. Having said that, you might be able to get a *very* lucky shot from a building (high angle of attack against one of its weakest, lightly armored sections; and RPGs are known for being *VERY* inaccurate to boot) and damage its engine...not that it won't still kill you immediately after. Or, you might be able to cause it to throw a tread, which again....will still turn an kill you.
I hardly consider myself clueless about Open Source.
But I didn't say that! It's you perception that I'm questioning, not your commitment to Open Source. Based on your own statement, you support exactly what I said! For you, it is not a trade of between getting paid and not...its strictly a question of where you're spending your hobbiest time; which you call priorities.
Your time only has value if you can do something with it for which someone is willing to pay or trade for. As with most hobbies, people do it with the time they would not normally be paid. Thusly, it costs nothing other than the price to participate; generally time and/or any required equipment.
Two examples: 1) I take off work to work on my hobby. Yes, time is money.
2) I complete my work day and will not be paid more for working longer. I work on my hobby. Time is not money unless I have a second job for which I can be paid.
For these types of hobbiest projects, most people fall into category two, meaning, time != money.
As with all opensource, it's only free if your time is worthless.
As with most people that are clueless about open source, this line is mindlessly repeated. This closed minded statement completely ignores the fact that many people use open source because 1) it's their hobby, 2) they want something to do with their extra time, 3) enjoy doing something the average joe has not (sense of achievement)....so on and so on. For that mindless statement to have any merit is to assume that no one, anywhere, has any type of hobby or spare time and in fact, spends all of their "free time" working.
Since most humans are not like this, and after all, we are talking about something that most do as a hobby activity, can we please stop with this mindless nonsense! Having said that, sure, this type of activity is not for everyone and for many, it would be a waste of time/money. At the same type, chances are high, the people engaged in this type of activity do not fall into the non-hobbiest situation.
Hey, don't get me wrong here. If language support is coming for C#, great! Just the same, which is the original point I was hoping to make, with so many rich choices already available, I find it hard to believe that C# is the only thing holding someone back.
Long story short, PostgreSQL supports the entire gambit of languages (and idioms) already...if C# support is deal breaker, then I suspect something is really going on here.
I'm not sure if anyone else has considered this but, if you allow a genetically modified specimen to breed with ones in the wild and this gene is passed on to their offspring, you have instant population control. Think of it. How many rodents hide when a hawk flies over. Not this offspring. How many animals run for cover it sees a car coming? Not this offspring. The effects this could have on a species' population is incredible.
Now, imagine the effects it could have on preditory animals! Suddenly lion, tiger and bear attacks are through the roof! Covert operations could suddenly drop on engineered animals into areas where they are free to breed with pack animals which reside close to humans. Imagine the effect this could have on countries which have large monkey populations and engineered monkies were introduced! They could seriously effect every aspect of human life and culture there. Imagine the amount of food that would be stolen! Imagine the human/primate conflicts! Remember, many primates are pack/heard animals with strict social structures. Imagine a pack of monkies attacking people for their food and living space!
Seriously, this has the potential to become a VERY subvertive technology!
You can write SP for PostgreSQL in some half dozen languages...perhaps more, but I would be very surprised in C# were one of them...at least at this point. IIRC, Java is now an option. With so many language options already available for PostgreSQL, do you really need C# in the mix?
Would the (meta)moderators please fix the actions of an idiotic moderator troll which has been following me for some time now (months...maybe a year now)? For whatever reason this idiot hunts for my posts and mods them down, regardless of what's in them? As anyone with even a hint of intelligence can see, there is zero reason for my other post to this parent to have been moderated it down. If you (meta)moderate, please fix the actions of this idiotic, trolling moderator.
If you happen to know who he is, please feel free to kick him in the nuts for being a moron.
That's because HT often makes software run slower. The scheduler isn't all that great when it considers HT as a virtual CPU. That significantly hurts performance. Add in the fact that many compilers generate code which performs poorly for HT, things get worse. Add in the fact that most programmers either don't understand concurrent programming (many think they do, which is sad) or are not allowed to even address the issue (resulting in CPU's being ignored), and you'll find that SMP application performance tends to suck for mainstream software.
Well, now we know the idiotic troll moderators are out, running around. Too bad you can't legally kill these idiots that moderate stuff with their head stuck up their ass. Oh well....one can only dream....
Only and absolute idiot would moderate the above comment as "troll"! Morons! Unfit to breath the same air us humans do.
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I've seen several documentaries and TV shows on various cooking shows which also supports the notion that smelling the cork is for those what to look like they know what they are doing...but really don't. The logic goes, since smell will provide some fashion of taste, smelling the cork will tell you if the wine is good...and information about its body. Yet, the whole point of letting a wine breath is 100% contrary to this notion. Simple fact is, the cork is going to absorb the aspects of the wine which most want to hide or get rid of by "breathing." Furthermore, wine is complex enough that its oder actually says little about its taste. Many cheeses follow suit too; smell good, taste bad, smells bad, tastes good.
Smelling the cork is for those that ignorantly present themselves as smart while proving they are not or they know they are frauds and are trying to look like they have a large penis. The long of the short, smelling the bottle makes more sense than does smell the cork and in the final analysis, only tasting it is going to tell you the critical details; which ultimately is a personal experience.
I have it on good authority that such home made jammers were in use during the early part of the Iraq war by the Iraqies. In some cases, when bombs "missed there target" in high density areas and civilians were killed, jammers which were protecting other high value targets were quieted.
Thanks for the follow up! You shared some good information.
Cheers!
As I understand it, the cars and engines I'm talking about are available in California; where they can justify the increased prices to meet higher emission standards, as required by law.
As I understand it, effeciency is 40-50MPG...sounds pretty good to me.
Good points!
I would guess the answer is cost. These engines are provided to California but at the cost of HP. These engines are more expensive.
Diesel engines put out more crap into the air which is generally frowned on.
It may be that thse will be in our future hybrids...but if we already have the engine techology, why mess with a more expensive Hybrid...that was my point.
Actually, right now...today...Japan has IC engines which produce less emissions that the absolute best hybrids available now or tomorrow. Hybrids, as built today, are nothing but a waste of money. Several recent cost analysis indicate the hybrids will save you ~$100 over its life. Yes, they may be slightly cleaner for the environment than the current ICE's, but it doesn't have to be. Superior engine technology already exists.
Fission plants become, as is well known, uneconomical below 50 megawatts,
Is this still true? My understanding is that many of the newer designs could easily economically satisfy small community needs, must like gas and coal plants do today.
Any know?
a nuclear reactor without a chain reaction isn't useful,
Exactly! That's why they are safe! They obtain a chain reaction when its running...but in a failure, the chain reaction can not be sustained. Now you why why they are safe!
meltdown can occur in a shut-down reactor from heat produced by decay of fission products
Not with breeders...which is why they are safe. Feel free to visit any one of many, many, many sites which clearly spell out the advantages of the newer reactor designs. There are many, newer designs which offer many fail safes.
Also, it's VERY important to keep in mind that nuclear energy is currently the safest energy source we have in mass production. Most people find that hard to believe, but surprisingly, more people die from coal (directly and indirectly) power plants (which also release a lot of radiation) every year han have died in the history of nuclear power plants. Amazingly, that statitics even covers the earliest of nuclear reactor designs. Just image the saftey record of a nuclear power plant based on late 90s and newer technology designs!
BTW, since you brought up numbers...the number of civilians killed, in total, is still less than what Sadam killed anually when he we in power. As bad you want to make it out to be, it's still better for the People of Iraq; death toll anyways. Now...if we can just get them to stop blowing up their own power lines, oil lines, and water and sewer lines, things would be markedly better for them.
Oh ya...let's not forget that many insurgents are blowing up some of their buildings in addition to infrastruture there too! But I'm sure you're too busy pointing a finger at the US to care.
Which has zero to do with the topic at hand.
Which is why it doesn't happen that way. You've been reading too much BS press!
Here's how it REALLY happens:
1) enter building and begin searching
2) enemy engages you
3) if it doesn't look good, you exit building as quickly as possible; often this is not required.
4) use man portable rocket and/or 203 into windows to clear buliding. If build was an
ambush, then call in artillary, tank, airstrike,/air support.
a) if air support, heli or plane will show up; chances are it will be heli which will use 20mm chain gun or rockets (very unlikely in a town) or missiles. Either way, collateral damage is minimized. Usually, ONLY the people in the building are killed. If a plane shows up, if its in a town, chances are it will be a guided munition and collateral damage will be minimal (surprisingly). Weakened structures in the area *may* collapse because of the shock wave but ths is not common. Normally a 500lbs bomb is used will will crater the building...minimizing damage to buildings surrounding. If an AC130 is used. collatoral damage will be minimized as accuracy is very high and level for force can be controlled given the target threat.
b) if tank shows up, building will probably be leveled yet collateral damage will be minimized.
c) if artillary, artillary is normally NOT used in a town unless a large area (many, many buildings) is actively involved in the fight. Just the same, artillary is very accurate these days. Likelihood of collateral damage is low to medium...which is why it's normally not used in a town.
d) And after all that...you would be surprised how often support is actually an hummer with a grenade launcher, tow/hell fire, or 50cals which just chew the building up...again, minimizing collatoral damage.
You need to keep in mind, much of the horrific destruction you see over there happened in the early days of the war and various large scale insurrections. This is vastly different from the normal door to door. Yes, war is not clean....yes, war kills people that it shouldn't! But realistically, completely uninformed commments like the above come from seeing far, far, far too many movies or listening to completely ignorant and uninformed news outlets (which is most of them). Yes, yes...I know......won't someone think of the children?!?!
How do I know this? I have lots of friends and families in the mililary. If leveling a city were the desire, we have much more effective weapons to do this without sending a single man into the town.
Completely untrue!
Airstrikes and artillary are used AFTER confirmation of enemy in structures. If there were any truth to your insanely stupid comment, the number of allied soldiers injured in this war would be much reduced.
Here's a penny! Go buy a brain which is at least twice as good as the one you currently have.
...and to be clear, even the Dragon is iffy against heavy armor...it's really designed to attack light and medium armor...and the SMAW is really consistently effective against light armor. Nonetheless, compare those specialized anti-tank weapons against something like an RPG...big difference!
Hate to burst your bubble, but an RPG can not take out a heavy tank...light armor yes (armoured Hummer, some APCs...light transports...etc...but heavy tank...no. Having said that, you might be able to get a *very* lucky shot from a building (high angle of attack against one of its weakest, lightly armored sections; and RPGs are known for being *VERY* inaccurate to boot) and damage its engine...not that it won't still kill you immediately after. Or, you might be able to cause it to throw a tread, which again....will still turn an kill you.
l es_javelin.php) or other seriously large and bulky missiles/rockets. Seriously, a large shape charge is required to penetrate current heavy armor...and an RPG does not qualify. Classic examples are TOWs, Dragons (http://www.olive-drab.com/od_infweapons_at_missil es_dragon.php), and the SMAW (http://www.olive-drab.com/od_infweapons_at_missil es_smaw.php). Obviously, Soviet weapons of the like also exist....but the RPG is not one of them. The RPG is a general purpose anti-light armor weapon; but it mostly used as an anti-personal support weapon.
To kill a tank, you need something like a Javelin (http://www.olive-drab.com/od_infweapons_at_missi
But I didn't say that!
That should read, I didn't mean that. I obviously didn't type what I meant to say. Hopefully my follow up clarifies it.
I hardly consider myself clueless about Open Source.
But I didn't say that! It's you perception that I'm questioning, not your commitment to Open Source. Based on your own statement, you support exactly what I said! For you, it is not a trade of between getting paid and not...its strictly a question of where you're spending your hobbiest time; which you call priorities.
Your time only has value if you can do something with it for which someone is willing to pay or trade for. As with most hobbies, people do it with the time they would not normally be paid. Thusly, it costs nothing other than the price to participate; generally time and/or any required equipment.
Two examples:
1) I take off work to work on my hobby. Yes, time is money.
2) I complete my work day and will not be paid more for working longer. I work on my hobby. Time is not money unless I have a second job for which I can be paid.
For these types of hobbiest projects, most people fall into category two, meaning, time != money.
As with all opensource, it's only free if your time is worthless.
As with most people that are clueless about open source, this line is mindlessly repeated. This closed minded statement completely ignores the fact that many people use open source because 1) it's their hobby, 2) they want something to do with their extra time, 3) enjoy doing something the average joe has not (sense of achievement)....so on and so on. For that mindless statement to have any merit is to assume that no one, anywhere, has any type of hobby or spare time and in fact, spends all of their "free time" working.
Since most humans are not like this, and after all, we are talking about something that most do as a hobby activity, can we please stop with this mindless nonsense! Having said that, sure, this type of activity is not for everyone and for many, it would be a waste of time/money. At the same type, chances are high, the people engaged in this type of activity do not fall into the non-hobbiest situation.
Hey, don't get me wrong here. If language support is coming for C#, great! Just the same, which is the original point I was hoping to make, with so many rich choices already available, I find it hard to believe that C# is the only thing holding someone back.
Long story short, PostgreSQL supports the entire gambit of languages (and idioms) already...if C# support is deal breaker, then I suspect something is really going on here.
I'm not sure if anyone else has considered this but, if you allow a genetically modified specimen to breed with ones in the wild and this gene is passed on to their offspring, you have instant population control. Think of it. How many rodents hide when a hawk flies over. Not this offspring. How many animals run for cover it sees a car coming? Not this offspring. The effects this could have on a species' population is incredible.
Now, imagine the effects it could have on preditory animals! Suddenly lion, tiger and bear attacks are through the roof! Covert operations could suddenly drop on engineered animals into areas where they are free to breed with pack animals which reside close to humans. Imagine the effect this could have on countries which have large monkey populations and engineered monkies were introduced! They could seriously effect every aspect of human life and culture there. Imagine the amount of food that would be stolen! Imagine the human/primate conflicts! Remember, many primates are pack/heard animals with strict social structures. Imagine a pack of monkies attacking people for their food and living space!
Seriously, this has the potential to become a VERY subvertive technology!
You can write SP for PostgreSQL in some half dozen languages...perhaps more, but I would be very surprised in C# were one of them...at least at this point. IIRC, Java is now an option. With so many language options already available for PostgreSQL, do you really need C# in the mix?
Would the (meta)moderators please fix the actions of an idiotic moderator troll which has been following me for some time now (months...maybe a year now)? For whatever reason this idiot hunts for my posts and mods them down, regardless of what's in them? As anyone with even a hint of intelligence can see, there is zero reason for my other post to this parent to have been moderated it down. If you (meta)moderate, please fix the actions of this idiotic, trolling moderator.
If you happen to know who he is, please feel free to kick him in the nuts for being a moron.
Thank You.
That's because HT often makes software run slower. The scheduler isn't all that great when it considers HT as a virtual CPU. That significantly hurts performance. Add in the fact that many compilers generate code which performs poorly for HT, things get worse. Add in the fact that most programmers either don't understand concurrent programming (many think they do, which is sad) or are not allowed to even address the issue (resulting in CPU's being ignored), and you'll find that SMP application performance tends to suck for mainstream software.
Well, now we know the idiotic troll moderators are out, running around. Too bad you can't legally kill these idiots that moderate stuff with their head stuck up their ass. Oh well....one can only dream....
Only and absolute idiot would moderate the above comment as "troll"! Morons! Unfit to breath the same air us humans do.