Suppose for a minute I had some breakthrough propulsion system at my fingertips. Maybe I've figured out a way to generate gravitational force independent of mass. Now I need a spacecraft to test my propulsion system with. Actually building one myself from scratch would be wildly expensive (a lot more than 1.6m USD). Could I buy this thing and expect it to protect from radiation, be airtight, etc. etc.?
I've made quite a few friends via IRC that I haven't even met IRL, and have gone on to continue communication with them on AIM. Is there something "wrong" with these social relationships?
Nowhere in that poorly-thought-out article (sorry, but it's a spade) is there any justification for the idea that bees are somehow harmed by the harvesting of honey from their hives. Far, FAR more than is necessary for them to survive is made even under natural conditions.
Cow's milk I can understand (except in the case of "organic" milk), since in many cases the conditions in which the cows are kept are inhumane, and using rBGH causes their udders to often become constantly infected.
But simply "it comes from animals" doesn't work when the vegan argument is one from "living peacefully." Beekeeping is an entirely peaceful profession.
In point of fact, it's not the police, exactly, who enforce the court's decision, but the county/city/whatever jurisdiction the court has's Sheriff's Dept.
I love beef and poultry and feel like crap when I don't get some animal protein into me at some point in the week.
Yes, I eat nuts, and beans, and steamed rice. I even eat roasted soybeans (delicious, but cause massive amounts of gas). They don't help, there's still something missing. Even if I add cheese it doesn't quite work out.
And now for something completely different: Why don't vegans eat honey? What is the justification?
Wasn't this a thread at some point? Like a REALLY old one? I haven't spent much time on the forums lately but I seem to recall at least two threads on "geek food" when I was still active.
"Who has to rebuild it if you fuck it up? Who has to troubleshoot it when your shit stops working on you and you call for support? Who gets blamed for you not being able to meet your deadline because your computer mysteriously crashed? Me. The sysadmin. I do."
Uh. What if you *don't*? What if I fuck it up and you never hear about it until after *I've already fixed it*?
"Dave, dude, I'm such a dumbass. I loaded $DRIVER for my PDA and thought it'd be fine, but it turns out those WHQL certs are there for a reason. Totally hosed my system. No worries though, I reghosted it in an hour this afternoon. Ain't that a PITA, though?"
Usually the real geek users are more than smart enough (and more than willing) to support themselves with just a little bit of info from IT to help (what's the feed for ghostwalk, what's my BIOS password so I can boot from CD, etc.).
there is the matter of the He-III which has collected on the moon's surface over the millenia. That's a big, big resource to anyone interested in sustainable nuclear fusion.
Hey! I work for Fuji! Quiet, you're lowering my stock price!
Seriously, xD isn't a bad format at all. Sure, it lacks an onboard controller, but the pins on xD readers break a lot less than the ones on SD readers (at least in the equipment I work on) and it doesn't have any of that annoying space-eating encryption stuff.
SCO is probably entirely within their rights. AutoZone should port their applications to Linux natively and stop using the ABI files. The only thing I'm worried about is how much money they're going to have to give SCO in settlement fees - not because I'm particularly worried about AutoZone but because I'm concerned about anything that puts more cash into SCO's war chest.
If we found intelligent Martians on the surface of the planet tomorrow, how would that diminish the uniqueness and specialness of human life? Or the uniqueness and specialness of Martian life, for that matter?
It isn't the fact of the jokes that struck me but rather the frequency and similarity of them. This would seem to indicate a lot of latent (or barely-repressed, really) anger at women in the geek sector.
They can't understand what's wrong with them that makes them unable to form relationships, so instead they decide that all women must be cruel and hateful.
That IS misleading. There are no (and haven't been for a year and a half, I'd say) full-size laptops with 1GHz CPUs. Maybe they include thin-and-lights in a very general "full size" category.
The Efficeon is just better at having its clock speed ramped up than the Crusoe, I think. Other than that, per clock their performances are supposed to be comparable.
is anyone else disturbed by the seemingly huge amount of misogyny in the Slashdot readership? Reading through the comments to this story reveals a lot of "jokes" about "hacking up women." Sure, it's mostly AC trolls, but it's kind of scary. Just because you can't get a girlfriend, guys, doesn't mean we need to kill women.
Where are you getting these awful performance specifications from? Transmeta 1GHz processors can generally be expected to perform around anywhere from a 500MHz to 900MHz P-III, depending on how the processor optimizes itself for the task at hand (that is, it gets better at the task the more it does it).
It's hardly an oversized PDA. Did you read the description of the machine? It has USB2 and an array of other expansion ports, a 1024x600 screen, for God's sake it even has a 3D accelerator with 8MB of dedicated VRAM. What else do you want in something that small? Heat-seeking missiles?
Yes, it can run StarCraft. It can also run X-Wing Alliance, for that matter. Pay attention.
"Next revisionist historians will be saying: "In the pioneering days of the internet, widespread compiler ownership was a myth. The majority of internet users did not own a compiler, much less know how to read the source...":)"
This is already the case, depending on what you mean by "the pioneering days of the Internet." Are you talking about ARPAnet? Ok, well then maybe not. But if this is 10-20 years down the line, you could be referring to "now," in which case I'd say yes, probably 95% of the people on the Internet don't know how to read source or compile code. Personally, I can read source and have some understanding of it, but damned if I can get anything I write to compile (I'm not a programmer).
So I guess what we need is an equatorial trench somewhere where the air pressure is higher.
I wouldn't go so far as to call the atmosphere "toxic." IIRC it's mostly CO2 which is a normal component of earth's atmosphere. All you'd really need to do is introduce some specific plants that were UV-resistant and could take low pressure and you'd be good to go.
(Vastly oversimplifying, I know, and probably leaving out huge chunks of the process, but you get the idea)
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Suppose for a minute I had some breakthrough propulsion system at my fingertips. Maybe I've figured out a way to generate gravitational force independent of mass. Now I need a spacecraft to test my propulsion system with. Actually building one myself from scratch would be wildly expensive (a lot more than 1.6m USD). Could I buy this thing and expect it to protect from radiation, be airtight, etc. etc.?
I've made quite a few friends via IRC that I haven't even met IRL, and have gone on to continue communication with them on AIM. Is there something "wrong" with these social relationships?
Nowhere in that poorly-thought-out article (sorry, but it's a spade) is there any justification for the idea that bees are somehow harmed by the harvesting of honey from their hives. Far, FAR more than is necessary for them to survive is made even under natural conditions.
Cow's milk I can understand (except in the case of "organic" milk), since in many cases the conditions in which the cows are kept are inhumane, and using rBGH causes their udders to often become constantly infected.
But simply "it comes from animals" doesn't work when the vegan argument is one from "living peacefully." Beekeeping is an entirely peaceful profession.
In point of fact, it's not the police, exactly, who enforce the court's decision, but the county/city/whatever jurisdiction the court has's Sheriff's Dept.
I love beef and poultry and feel like crap when I don't get some animal protein into me at some point in the week.
Yes, I eat nuts, and beans, and steamed rice. I even eat roasted soybeans (delicious, but cause massive amounts of gas). They don't help, there's still something missing. Even if I add cheese it doesn't quite work out.
And now for something completely different: Why don't vegans eat honey? What is the justification?
Wasn't this a thread at some point? Like a REALLY old one? I haven't spent much time on the forums lately but I seem to recall at least two threads on "geek food" when I was still active.
Kruzar
"Who has to rebuild it if you fuck it up? Who has to troubleshoot it when your shit stops working on you and you call for support? Who gets blamed for you not being able to meet your deadline because your computer mysteriously crashed? Me. The sysadmin. I do."
Uh. What if you *don't*? What if I fuck it up and you never hear about it until after *I've already fixed it*?
"Dave, dude, I'm such a dumbass. I loaded $DRIVER for my PDA and thought it'd be fine, but it turns out those WHQL certs are there for a reason. Totally hosed my system. No worries though, I reghosted it in an hour this afternoon. Ain't that a PITA, though?"
Usually the real geek users are more than smart enough (and more than willing) to support themselves with just a little bit of info from IT to help (what's the feed for ghostwalk, what's my BIOS password so I can boot from CD, etc.).
1) Buy cheap stick of SDRAM from somewhere
2) Install in your machine. Tell no one.
3) Expense it as something like "Computer consumables"
4) Profit!
there is the matter of the He-III which has collected on the moon's surface over the millenia. That's a big, big resource to anyone interested in sustainable nuclear fusion.
Hey! I work for Fuji! Quiet, you're lowering my stock price!
Seriously, xD isn't a bad format at all. Sure, it lacks an onboard controller, but the pins on xD readers break a lot less than the ones on SD readers (at least in the equipment I work on) and it doesn't have any of that annoying space-eating encryption stuff.
"and how did he manage to generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity with only a steam engine? A giant capacitor?"
A FLUX capacitor.
DUH.
SCO is probably entirely within their rights. AutoZone should port their applications to Linux natively and stop using the ABI files. The only thing I'm worried about is how much money they're going to have to give SCO in settlement fees - not because I'm particularly worried about AutoZone but because I'm concerned about anything that puts more cash into SCO's war chest.
... religious wars are something specific to just us humans. Maybe they'll think fighting over how tall Jesus was would be silly. Imagine that.
What is the point of proclaiming something diminished which can't be measured? For that matter, how can you even do it?
::shakes head::
It strikes me that this is somewhat similar to the argument that allowing gay marriage somehow diminishes the sanctity of marriage.
In what units does one measure sanctity?
If we found intelligent Martians on the surface of the planet tomorrow, how would that diminish the uniqueness and specialness of human life? Or the uniqueness and specialness of Martian life, for that matter?
I haven't been able to find his name or any other easily-identifiable keywords anywhere else in Google.
Dude, write to him. I can't wait to see what he says about his attacks from the high-tech machine.
Posting logged-in because this is absolutely hilarious and I HAVE to know.
It isn't the fact of the jokes that struck me but rather the frequency and similarity of them. This would seem to indicate a lot of latent (or barely-repressed, really) anger at women in the geek sector.
They can't understand what's wrong with them that makes them unable to form relationships, so instead they decide that all women must be cruel and hateful.
That IS misleading. There are no (and haven't been for a year and a half, I'd say) full-size laptops with 1GHz CPUs. Maybe they include thin-and-lights in a very general "full size" category.
The Efficeon is just better at having its clock speed ramped up than the Crusoe, I think. Other than that, per clock their performances are supposed to be comparable.
is anyone else disturbed by the seemingly huge amount of misogyny in the Slashdot readership? Reading through the comments to this story reveals a lot of "jokes" about "hacking up women." Sure, it's mostly AC trolls, but it's kind of scary. Just because you can't get a girlfriend, guys, doesn't mean we need to kill women.
are very easy to have if you have USB. You can use a dongle of extremely minimal size. Think of it as a cable length extender :)
Where are you getting these awful performance specifications from? Transmeta 1GHz processors can generally be expected to perform around anywhere from a 500MHz to 900MHz P-III, depending on how the processor optimizes itself for the task at hand (that is, it gets better at the task the more it does it).
It's hardly an oversized PDA. Did you read the description of the machine? It has USB2 and an array of other expansion ports, a 1024x600 screen, for God's sake it even has a 3D accelerator with 8MB of dedicated VRAM. What else do you want in something that small? Heat-seeking missiles?
Yes, it can run StarCraft. It can also run X-Wing Alliance, for that matter. Pay attention.
"Next revisionist historians will be saying: "In the pioneering days of the internet, widespread compiler ownership was a myth. The majority of internet users did not own a compiler, much less know how to read the source..." :)"
This is already the case, depending on what you mean by "the pioneering days of the Internet." Are you talking about ARPAnet? Ok, well then maybe not. But if this is 10-20 years down the line, you could be referring to "now," in which case I'd say yes, probably 95% of the people on the Internet don't know how to read source or compile code. Personally, I can read source and have some understanding of it, but damned if I can get anything I write to compile (I'm not a programmer).
Not every geek is a programmer, and that's okay.
So I guess what we need is an equatorial trench somewhere where the air pressure is higher.
I wouldn't go so far as to call the atmosphere "toxic." IIRC it's mostly CO2 which is a normal component of earth's atmosphere. All you'd really need to do is introduce some specific plants that were UV-resistant and could take low pressure and you'd be good to go.
(Vastly oversimplifying, I know, and probably leaving out huge chunks of the process, but you get the idea)