The nukes in SC are "tactical" nukes, and they have to be laser guided by an actual person on the ground. Realistically, they shouldn't be too powerful.
Now, the real question is: The psi limit is explained in the manual (for the terrans), that the command center holds 200 people. But if they die on the battlefield, you can still reach 200 later on. Where do the new people come from?
Also, where do dragoons come from if you didn't build any zealots first?
After the install, patching, software install, and initial configuration,
defrag (if you still need to defrag on windows)
Pop in a liveCD and external drive,
null the empty space, ( cat/dev/zero >dummy && rm dummy )
and store an image of the current configuration ( gzip/dev/{hard drive}/usbdrive/backup-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.img
It's not as elegant a scheme as it could be, but it's scriptable, and extremely simple, and short cuts you past a bunch of patch-reboot cycles.
Heat pump systems do not work that way, unfortunately. They are typically just a reversible air conditioner hooked up to forced air ducts.
I would love to see a heat pump system that had high and low pressure refrigerant lines, individual throttles in each room, and tie-in ports for things like refrigerators. It always strikes me as inefficient that we stick a refrigerator up against a wall in an insulated room and then chill the room itself.
On the other hand, such a system would also suffer from some scale inefficiencies, so I guess that's why it's not done. Still, individual room climate control and a reduction in the cross section of the transport piping would have *some* benefit, wouldn't they?
They're not armed because someone got it in their head that if the crews don't fight, the pirates won't kill them.
Now, if that assumption holds true, I absolutely think that the crew's lives are more important than a few hundred thousand worthless vietnamese sneakers. I'd rather the pirates didn't get anything at all, but lives are lives.
It ought to be up to the crews, though, and if the assumption is not true then it should be discarded as worthless.
Also, I suspect piracy would be less of a problem if people would stop registering ships in tax-shelter countries with laughably small navies.
The parallel port, though, is easier to program for if you just need relatively low-frequency IO. As in some data logging applications and of course, prototyping. There are C headers that will let you interface *directly* with the parallel port, and all you need on the hardware end are a couple opto-isolators for safety. No need for any kind of special UART or host controller.
It is the apple one. and I just downloaded Opera in response to this thread. It's much more awesome that it was when I gave up on it several years ago, but still rough around the edges. I haven't figured out how to enable the apple gestures with it yet.
Um.. Maybe on your printer, using the straight text.
But the way the house actually formatted it, which is, I presume, their standard typesetting and therefore makes "page count" a relevant measure for comparing bills' length, it is indeed 1990 pages. Her is a link which has a link to the 5 MB pdf version.
Tried that a century and a half ago. Unfortunately we coupled "state sovereignty" with "states' rights to allow slavery." So we lost that one. We all lost. Even the freed slaves lost.
Show me something from the over 2000 pages about dealing with the scarcity. If anything the price caps will decrease supply instead of improving it. In that scenario, only the politically connected will have access to life saving procedures that "only the wealthy" have access to now. I fail to see a demonstrable difference, except that it's much harder to become politically connected than it is to become wealthy.
Under the new plan, our lords will have the same excellent care they have now, but we vassals will have "the care we deserve" And like the old ox, when we can no longer strain at our yokes, even that basic, minimum care will evaporate.
If you want more people to have access to medical care, the most important thing to do is to produce more doctors and more efficient doctors.
True, but they're also hard to find if you want "just a basic" anything but USB mouse. For instance, it's very difficult to find an encrypted, bluetooth, full-sized, optical, wheel mouse without side-buttons.
Whoever thought side buttons are a good idea for a non-gaming mouse should be drug out into the street and pelted with rotten produce. Freakin' have to hold the mouse ever so gingerly if you don't want to accidentally flip web pages* or, if you're on a mac, something even more annoying.
*It's freakin' 2009. netbooks have 2GB of ram. Why the 'F does the page have to reload when I hit the back button, or two pages reload if I did so accidentally and hit the forward button immediately thereafter. Why aren't the fully rendered pages cached for several levels of back-ed-ness? (determined by some algorithm relating to the available RAM, to balance off use against the filesystem cache) If I need to reload, F5 is right there on the keyboard. My main use of tabs at the moment is because "back" is not implemented properly on any of the browsers I use.
From a quick glance at the www.broadcastingcable.com article, it appears that he's saying that if cable doesn't evolve their business models, they'll bet run over by internet-based content providers
Interesting. But he's wrong. They're going to be run over by the internet-based content providers anyway. And if they don't plan things out right, they won't even be the ones selling the internet access, either.
There is only one real way through for them. They need to be the internet-based content providers. The economic efficiency benefit to the consumer of the on-demand IP based services is simply too great to overcome without an even greater economic benefit.
The problem is that they're not just talking about TPB or Napster. They are also upset about Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
I think everyone wants something like Hulu but less encumbered by flash (360i video shouldn't require a multi-ghz, multiple core machine. It shouldn't even be done on the CPU at all) that has *everything* available for a reasonable fee. And I want to pay for the content license separately from the bandwidth license. There's no reason why HD movies should cost three times as much as their SD versions.
But that's the service that really eats into their revenue models. Not the whiny brats file sharing. They are justified in objecting to the file-sharers, though.
I think it would probably be cheaper just to switch to smaller, more frequent, more direct, more convenient flights. I'm not convinced that the giant planes offer so very much of an economy of scale that there's simply no other way to do it.
If you want to flit across a landmass in a vehicle the size of an office building, you should travel by airship.
There is no other fauna shown on his desert homeworld that is "about two meters" Everything was much larger or much smaller, even in the remastered edition.
Blah blah blah, We get it. You want to drive your neighbor's yoke instead of the brown fellah in the big house the swamp.
But the proper thing to do, if you find you can spend less on defense contractors, is to take the savings and *not* find something else to spend it on. It's not your money, therefore you should always spend as little of it as possible. Don't invent "worthwhile causes" to justify keeping your budget high and maintaining your little bureaucratic fiefdom.
If space programs are vital to the national interest, then they should be undertaken. If they are not (and as someone who spent some time in the industry and would like to spend more time there, I must admit that they probably are not. At least not manned space projects), then they have no business being funded at the point of a gun. There are other deep pockets than the collective pocket.
Interesting theory, but I'd pay for a system that introduces me to songs I haven't heard before that I might like. I don't care if it's popular (or good) if I like it, I like it. For instance, this is in my "a" playlist at the moment. Right next to "Waking up in Vegas" which was a top 40 hit not too long ago.
Such a service actually fits within capitalism, if enough people are interested. I have to agree that Genius just doesn't seem to do that for me.
I gotta tell ya, "beach" is funnier. The mental image of bloated slashdotters flailing their useless arms about, stuck on the border of land and sea, loudly complaining about fruit labeling improvements that have literally zero downsides is difficult to suppress.
You can't afford $150 per year? Maybe you should consider outsourcing your mail servers.
If you simply must use self-signed cert, then you must send the cert out-of-band. So your explanation will also include instructions for adding the certificate to various operating systems.
He said, "how is this not like ad-hoc with internet sharing"
And frankly.. I can't figure out how it's different. Further, I can't figure out how it's special either. I'm pretty sure that my old d-link wireless b pcmcia card came with an internet sharing feature in the driver disk in 2001.
Heck, I remember doing it before I'd heard of wireless with an ethernet null modem local network to share a 56k modem connection back in the 90s, and in fact, I was under the impression that this was a feature that was already included in XP when it came out a little later.
There's no reason why the compare has to be done right away, either. That can be done asynchronously, too. You only have to make sure that you do the read before the de-duped block is forgotten. Heck, depending on when blocks were written, the already-written block might itself still be in the cache, in which case no additional reads would be necessary. I think it's even likely that some operations might want to write similar blocks at roughly the same time.
It does add a seek and read (so a minimum of 8ms on typical consumer hardware) to the operation at some point, but hashes like sha256 are expensive by design. You might have a *very* small chance of collision, but using a faster, less unique hash should mitigate some of the performance loss of mandatory checking, as long as the chance of multiple matches on the disk is still very small.
Anyway, I'm not even suggesting that "dangerous mode" shouldn't be available. Just that the default should be the slightly worse performing "no more dangerous than normal mode."
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You mean, "worse" balanced...
The nukes in SC are "tactical" nukes, and they have to be laser guided by an actual person on the ground. Realistically, they shouldn't be too powerful.
Now, the real question is: The psi limit is explained in the manual (for the terrans), that the command center holds 200 people. But if they die on the battlefield, you can still reach 200 later on. Where do the new people come from?
Also, where do dragoons come from if you didn't build any zealots first?
Indeed.
Let me add:
After the install, patching, software install, and initial configuration,
defrag (if you still need to defrag on windows)
Pop in a liveCD and external drive, /dev/zero >dummy && rm dummy ) /dev/{hard drive} /usbdrive/backup-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.img
null the empty space, ( cat
and store an image of the current configuration ( gzip
It's not as elegant a scheme as it could be, but it's scriptable, and extremely simple, and short cuts you past a bunch of patch-reboot cycles.
Heat pump systems do not work that way, unfortunately. They are typically just a reversible air conditioner hooked up to forced air ducts.
I would love to see a heat pump system that had high and low pressure refrigerant lines, individual throttles in each room, and tie-in ports for things like refrigerators. It always strikes me as inefficient that we stick a refrigerator up against a wall in an insulated room and then chill the room itself.
On the other hand, such a system would also suffer from some scale inefficiencies, so I guess that's why it's not done. Still, individual room climate control and a reduction in the cross section of the transport piping would have *some* benefit, wouldn't they?
They're not armed because someone got it in their head that if the crews don't fight, the pirates won't kill them.
Now, if that assumption holds true, I absolutely think that the crew's lives are more important than a few hundred thousand worthless vietnamese sneakers. I'd rather the pirates didn't get anything at all, but lives are lives.
It ought to be up to the crews, though, and if the assumption is not true then it should be discarded as worthless.
Also, I suspect piracy would be less of a problem if people would stop registering ships in tax-shelter countries with laughably small navies.
The parallel port, though, is easier to program for if you just need relatively low-frequency IO. As in some data logging applications and of course, prototyping. There are C headers that will let you interface *directly* with the parallel port, and all you need on the hardware end are a couple opto-isolators for safety. No need for any kind of special UART or host controller.
It is the apple one. and I just downloaded Opera in response to this thread. It's much more awesome that it was when I gave up on it several years ago, but still rough around the edges. I haven't figured out how to enable the apple gestures with it yet.
Um.. Maybe on your printer, using the straight text.
But the way the house actually formatted it, which is, I presume, their standard typesetting and therefore makes "page count" a relevant measure for comparing bills' length, it is indeed 1990 pages. Her is a link which has a link to the 5 MB pdf version.
Tried that a century and a half ago. Unfortunately we coupled "state sovereignty" with "states' rights to allow slavery." So we lost that one. We all lost. Even the freed slaves lost.
Show me something from the over 2000 pages about dealing with the scarcity. If anything the price caps will decrease supply instead of improving it. In that scenario, only the politically connected will have access to life saving procedures that "only the wealthy" have access to now. I fail to see a demonstrable difference, except that it's much harder to become politically connected than it is to become wealthy.
Under the new plan, our lords will have the same excellent care they have now, but we vassals will have "the care we deserve" And like the old ox, when we can no longer strain at our yokes, even that basic, minimum care will evaporate.
If you want more people to have access to medical care, the most important thing to do is to produce more doctors and more efficient doctors.
That's great, but I have a touchpad....
They invented an extra bulky presentation mouse?
True, but they're also hard to find if you want "just a basic" anything but USB mouse. For instance, it's very difficult to find an encrypted, bluetooth, full-sized, optical, wheel mouse without side-buttons.
Whoever thought side buttons are a good idea for a non-gaming mouse should be drug out into the street and pelted with rotten produce. Freakin' have to hold the mouse ever so gingerly if you don't want to accidentally flip web pages* or, if you're on a mac, something even more annoying.
*It's freakin' 2009. netbooks have 2GB of ram. Why the 'F does the page have to reload when I hit the back button, or two pages reload if I did so accidentally and hit the forward button immediately thereafter. Why aren't the fully rendered pages cached for several levels of back-ed-ness? (determined by some algorithm relating to the available RAM, to balance off use against the filesystem cache) If I need to reload, F5 is right there on the keyboard. My main use of tabs at the moment is because "back" is not implemented properly on any of the browsers I use.
It seems I have a lot of anger.
From a quick glance at the www.broadcastingcable.com article, it appears that he's saying that if cable doesn't evolve their business models, they'll bet run over by internet-based content providers
Interesting. But he's wrong. They're going to be run over by the internet-based content providers anyway. And if they don't plan things out right, they won't even be the ones selling the internet access, either.
There is only one real way through for them. They need to be the internet-based content providers. The economic efficiency benefit to the consumer of the on-demand IP based services is simply too great to overcome without an even greater economic benefit.
The problem is that they're not just talking about TPB or Napster. They are also upset about Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
I think everyone wants something like Hulu but less encumbered by flash (360i video shouldn't require a multi-ghz, multiple core machine. It shouldn't even be done on the CPU at all) that has *everything* available for a reasonable fee. And I want to pay for the content license separately from the bandwidth license. There's no reason why HD movies should cost three times as much as their SD versions.
But that's the service that really eats into their revenue models. Not the whiny brats file sharing. They are justified in objecting to the file-sharers, though.
Unfortunately, you have to sit through a pretty boring two and a half hour ad for plastic dolls made by Hasbro...
Bandwidth growth might, though. Someone needs to put glass in the ground, after all.
I think it would probably be cheaper just to switch to smaller, more frequent, more direct, more convenient flights. I'm not convinced that the giant planes offer so very much of an economy of scale that there's simply no other way to do it.
If you want to flit across a landmass in a vehicle the size of an office building, you should travel by airship.
There is no other fauna shown on his desert homeworld that is "about two meters" Everything was much larger or much smaller, even in the remastered edition.
The 13" macbook pro is their "netbook"...
Blah blah blah, We get it. You want to drive your neighbor's yoke instead of the brown fellah in the big house the swamp.
But the proper thing to do, if you find you can spend less on defense contractors, is to take the savings and *not* find something else to spend it on. It's not your money, therefore you should always spend as little of it as possible. Don't invent "worthwhile causes" to justify keeping your budget high and maintaining your little bureaucratic fiefdom.
If space programs are vital to the national interest, then they should be undertaken. If they are not (and as someone who spent some time in the industry and would like to spend more time there, I must admit that they probably are not. At least not manned space projects), then they have no business being funded at the point of a gun. There are other deep pockets than the collective pocket.
Interesting theory, but I'd pay for a system that introduces me to songs I haven't heard before that I might like. I don't care if it's popular (or good) if I like it, I like it. For instance, this is in my "a" playlist at the moment. Right next to "Waking up in Vegas" which was a top 40 hit not too long ago.
Such a service actually fits within capitalism, if enough people are interested. I have to agree that Genius just doesn't seem to do that for me.
I gotta tell ya, "beach" is funnier. The mental image of bloated slashdotters flailing their useless arms about, stuck on the border of land and sea, loudly complaining about fruit labeling improvements that have literally zero downsides is difficult to suppress.
You can't afford $150 per year? Maybe you should consider outsourcing your mail servers.
If you simply must use self-signed cert, then you must send the cert out-of-band. So your explanation will also include instructions for adding the certificate to various operating systems.
He said, "how is this not like ad-hoc with internet sharing"
And frankly.. I can't figure out how it's different. Further, I can't figure out how it's special either. I'm pretty sure that my old d-link wireless b pcmcia card came with an internet sharing feature in the driver disk in 2001.
Heck, I remember doing it before I'd heard of wireless with an ethernet null modem local network to share a 56k modem connection back in the 90s, and in fact, I was under the impression that this was a feature that was already included in XP when it came out a little later.
There's no reason why the compare has to be done right away, either. That can be done asynchronously, too. You only have to make sure that you do the read before the de-duped block is forgotten. Heck, depending on when blocks were written, the already-written block might itself still be in the cache, in which case no additional reads would be necessary. I think it's even likely that some operations might want to write similar blocks at roughly the same time.
It does add a seek and read (so a minimum of 8ms on typical consumer hardware) to the operation at some point, but hashes like sha256 are expensive by design. You might have a *very* small chance of collision, but using a faster, less unique hash should mitigate some of the performance loss of mandatory checking, as long as the chance of multiple matches on the disk is still very small.
Anyway, I'm not even suggesting that "dangerous mode" shouldn't be available. Just that the default should be the slightly worse performing "no more dangerous than normal mode."