The character isn't supposed to be rendered. Soft hyphen indicates where to break words if necessary. The hyphens are not rendered if the word doesn't need to be broken.
My BBS multi-player game of choice was Galactic Empire, consumer of many lines on Major BBS systems. Open Source today. I have Telix scripts for that game somewhere... what we would today call an aimbot.:)
Within a week the Obama administration will take some dramatic and highly public step against Chinese imports to the US. The pretense will be that Japan is an important ally. The actual reason will be Democrats desperate need to find an issue, any issue, that will rally the working class voter to the election five weeks from now. The left has been looking for a justification to attack Chinese imports but has not been willing to initiate a trade war. China just handed them a campaign platform.
No, the fact that China buys lots of treasuries won't prevent this; the Fed is buying treasuries with printed money now. No, the fact that China will probably react by embargoing US trade won't stop it either; the left doesn't care about the US farmer or his agriculture exports to China. No, the vanishingly small amount of exports that isn't agriculture won't stop them either.
The left is starting to realize that letting working class prosperity evacuate to China makes for an unreliable constituency. The right is about to discover that China is rapidly transitioning from cheap-labor-r-us to international belligerent.
The most important "desktops" are the laptops that get hauled around airports by the powers that be. Relying exclusively on your servers/switches to isolate your "desktops" doesn't work in a Beijing hotel.
This really is too obvious to be worth mentioning. Anyone indulging this non-debate is a liability.
Some of this UNIX stuff has been ricocheting around the US legal system, such as it is, for decades now. SCO v Linux et al wasn't the first eruption of this nonsense. Time to retire it.
The HTC Desire Z is about to be released as the T-Mobile G2 later this month ($200ish with a plan.) The T-Mobile G2 will have the stock Android UI as did the G1 years ago.
GPU acceleration isn't that important for most browser rendering. The major benefit is found in image compositing and HTML canvas, both of which can be accelerated without major architectural upheaval for the legacy bits of the browser. Not rapidly leveraging hardware for every conceivable operation isn't going to doom the portable browsers.
It takes more effort to optimize portable software. The correct abstractions must be found, by design at first, and then through rework as reality is discovered. The slight performance deficit the portable browsers suffer will eventually vanish, and long before it matters to anyone. Other factors will continue to dominate browser preference.
Microsoft has lost the search war, the marketing war, the content distribution war, the standards war (HTML, PDF, etc) and the mobile war. Silverlight remains irrelevant and IE gives up more eyeballs every day. Accelerating IE9, a browser which will probably land with as big a thud as will Windows Phone 7, isn't going to fix all of this. Microsoft is a legacy business with legacy products, howling for the attention it no longer merits.
More interesting than the dollar amounts is the type of exports; the vast majority of US exports to China are agricultural comodities; wheat, beef, etc. This drives up prices for essential commodities in the US.
We'd be hurting if prices on, well, almost everything went up e.g. 10%.
What if that 10% stopped the slide of the US worker into government subsistence? Over 10% of the US is being fed by the federal government via food stamps. Which of those two 10% figures to you think has more consequence for the fate of the US?
The real world doesn't obey naive models such as ours; a resurgence of US industry would be met by vigorous opposition employing hordes of the aforementioned lawyers. 10% might ultimately seem a great bargain.
The exact same thing was said when the railroad industry began to eliminate brakemen
Trains are equipped with dead man switches as a direct result of the elimination of human redundancy you cite. Trains stop operating and safely halt when (not if) the driver is incapacitated. The equivalent of this mechanism does not exist in aviation; aircraft can not stop safely at any arbitrary point. Autopilots and landing systems are not yet competent to handle the broad range of contingencies for which humans are trained.
The nautical cases you cite are equally naive. Even small boats have safety lanyards to stop propulsion. Helm controls are disengaged during storms and during navigation of busy waterways, by law.
The Indy 500 thing makes no sense. The high level of risk inherently accepted with any racing activity is not acceptable to commercial aviation. The difference in risk is so vast that it makes whatever safety rational you claim for the one activity entirely irrelevant to the other.
Ryanair had a gross profit of $2.6G in 2010, net $0.5G. Their business model, including the ability of their passengers to pay, is fine. While it may be fun to indulge the fevered dreams of businessmen hypothesizing about huge cost savings, it clearly isn't needed for airline viability.
Could the market be left to decide between co-pilots and lower costs? Only if you've buried your head in free market la-la sand; given the option airlines would eliminate all co-pilots ASAP because the cost of civil payouts that would occur sans pilot redundancy is lower than co-pilot compensation due to the infrequency of their necessity. The market would leave no choice for either airlines or passengers. Beyond that, our regulatory system has generally eliminated safety as a competitive factor among airlines. If you advocate the market as the mechanism then the burden is on you to provide a compelling argument why the market must cease to take safety for granted. Good luck with that, sparky!
Last year a Continental Boeing 777 with 247 passengers had to be taken over by a co-pilot and landed by a relief pilot when the captain died suddenly over Europe. This isn't a theoretical situation. Co-pilots have saved thousands of people. Those people don't fret about the cost of co-pilots. Should we all accept your tragically bad analogies over their experience?
Someone will probably try to use this to say hydrogen is dangerous. I'd like to remind you gasoline is dangerous
People are going to get killed. Hydrogen adoption will be blamed. Hydrogen advocates that have never condescended to cut the legacy fuels the least bit of slack will stand by quietly while the hydrogen industry makes the exact same excuses that the oil/coal/nuclear industries use to explain away their bodies. The real world is a nasty bitch. Welcome!
how on earth will the people affected by these diseases get these drugs in time
Don't think like an ambulance driver. If some part of the world is attacked with ebola people will be killed. The response will then be to manufacture and deploy the 'antidote' to the contaminated area and other areas that might also be at risk of attack. Meanwhile the attackers get hunted down, with prejudice, as the saying goes.
one more cure for a disease that is defeated by poverty and corruption
All the good intentions in the world are doomed in the face of corruption, of which poverty is only the most obvious symptom. A solution is not invalid only because it requires more sophistication than can exist in corrupt and impoverished places. When it's your butt on the line you aren't going to walk away from the fix just because the Congolese don't have the option. You will demand it as a right and curse anyone that fails to agree.
turning a somewhat "normal" lake (probably near enough to a volcano) into an exploding one?
It's already being done. The gas industry is experiencing a boom in the US at the moment because NG creates less CO2 than coal when burned and new recovery techniques are making known reserves economically recoverable. One of these new techniques is Hydraulic Fracturing.
Fracking breaks rock formations to release reservoir contents for recovery. One consequence of this is that nearby aquifers (subsurface water) can become contaminated with hydrocarbons. This has produced cases of benzine flavored water appearing at residential taps.
Inevitably some lake will eventually accumulate a bunch of CO2, fizz over and suffocate waterfront property owners... Cue green hysterics and indignant congress folk. Some negligent company will be singled out for public outrage. Some clutch of lawyers in a government agency will be found snoozing and be given a pass.
Similarly, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) recently obtained an Energy Star certification for a gasoline powered clock radio, among other things. It's a pencil whipping operation with no credible investigation of manufacturers claims. Worry not! The EPA has since announced reforms to this stellar program, so have no doubt that whatever price premium such august recognition demands is worth every certified penny.
Btrfs is a product of Oracle. Oracle now owns ZFS outright and controls the fate of Btrfs in terms of developer resources. One guess as to whether Oracle will remain motivated to complete Btrfs.
Oracle controls the fate of the best open source advanced file systems.
The items destroyed, so called 'plex', are purchased with real money. A player may either trade in plex for game time or sell them to other players for game money. When selling plex it is advantageous to place the items on the market near likely buyers. This creates incentive to move the items around as cargo in ships.
Ships can be attacked by other players in Eve. If the victim happens to be carrying a few grand worth of plex then so be it; they are forfeit. No hacking involved.
Until recently (1-2 months approximately) it was impossible to move plex around as cargo. Plex where tied to the station in which they where created. This was done precisely to protect naive players loses of plex to PvP. That restriction was lifted because protecting players from their own mistakes is counter to CCP philosophy. That change made this story inevitable.
Something to note: cargo randomly survives ship destruction. I believe the odds are 50/50. Poor pirates; they've gotten nothing but a shocking "killmail." The victim character will probably not be able to resume whatever scheme he had in mind; many pirates will monitor him from now on. Stalking mechanics are deliberately provided for this purpose in Eve.
I really enjoyed watching Chrome swell up to 3GB resident memory, and then detonate, while wading through all that dynamic "content." The core files were... remarkable.
This is correct. The cap WILL be reopened in any case. If the well pressure does not build to about 8000 psi they will reopen the cap because this would indicate a bore containment problem. Even if the pressure does build to the proper level 'they' want to perform seismic tests without pressure in the well bore after 48 hours. Finally, if they then decide the well bore and/or formation does not have sufficient integrity the cap will then remain open permanently, otherwise they'll close it again.
In all cases the cap will be reopened and gush into the Gulf for some period of time, so don't be surprised when it happens. The best case is that the conclusions made from the seismic tests will allow the cap to be closed again relatively quickly.
If the cap cannot remain closed for whatever reason another containment plan is then used; four different ships are attached to the new cap in various configurations (kill lines, floating risers, etc.) to attempt to recover and/or burn the entire flow from the well.
A thoughtful reader may ask; why risk the "shut in" (closing the cap) and possible well bore/formation damage when 'they' can just collect/burn all of the flow without closing the cap? The answer is that ships, even big ships, have to escape hurricanes; if a cane blows through and the collection ships have to leave then the well will, once again, flow into the Gulf until the storm passes and the entire multi-ship apparatus can be reconnected. This could take weeks if the storm is uncooperative.
I must agree. There are plenty of other public mediums that provide anonymity so we need not suffer it and the unpleasant anti-social behavior it fosters on our Internet. Let's expose everyone and leave anonymous coward to his many other venues.
Does the law give the President the power to impose a moratorium in this situation?
The president is the head of the Interior Department, the institution responsible for the leases that permit drilling, and the Interior Department is a creation of Congress, which has the power to establish the cabinet. Those leases come with strings attached; the Interior Department reserves the right to suspend the leases for various reasons. Seems pretty clear to me that Obama does have the authority.
Judicial activism is judicial activism whether it's pro- or anti- oil, gays, guns or whatever. We have a president for a reason and he is supposed to have power for a reason.
Let him ban deep water rigs. Let him destroy 30% of LA's economy[1] five months before the midterms in the middle of the Great Recession. Lets watch what happens when Chevron, Shell, etc. individually announce that their rigs are moving out of US waters. See the result when Haliburton et al. start laying off thousands. I say go for it Mr. President. Wreck the US oil industry; see how that plays out when we get to vote 22 weeks from now.
[1] the big drilling rigs, as opposed to finished production rigs, are where all the $$ is; finished wells don't employ many people. Some folks, like/. editors, either don't understand that or at least hope you don't.
Maybe it doesn't belong to you, but as long as it doesn't come with battery or a solar panel, the electricity sure does...
Am I to understand that headlights are optional because CA does not pay to provide the electricity to light them? Give that a try in traffic court after driving around some night without lights.
You comply with automotive regulations. Full stop. Don't like the regulations? Take it up with your elected representatives. Otherwise fuck off.
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Why don't modern browsers render this character?
The character isn't supposed to be rendered. Soft hyphen indicates where to break words if necessary. The hyphens are not rendered if the word doesn't need to be broken.
My BBS multi-player game of choice was Galactic Empire, consumer of many lines on Major BBS systems. Open Source today. I have Telix scripts for that game somewhere... what we would today call an aimbot. :)
While attacking the Slashdot page I found Firefox performance not up to scratch. Chrome 7.x was better but still not perfect.
Anyone know of a high-FPS browser? Do I need a better video card??
And where is the MMO version?
they don't have the deserts to blame the particulate levels on
Actually they do. They created it by over grazing and farming.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/desert-dust-storm-roars-through-china-blankets-korea.html
Does this now need an inbuilt GPS?
Adding GPS to new wireless routers will cost so little that it won't matter in the least. TI makes a $5 part that is probably sufficient.
Within a week the Obama administration will take some dramatic and highly public step against Chinese imports to the US. The pretense will be that Japan is an important ally. The actual reason will be Democrats desperate need to find an issue, any issue, that will rally the working class voter to the election five weeks from now. The left has been looking for a justification to attack Chinese imports but has not been willing to initiate a trade war. China just handed them a campaign platform.
No, the fact that China buys lots of treasuries won't prevent this; the Fed is buying treasuries with printed money now. No, the fact that China will probably react by embargoing US trade won't stop it either; the left doesn't care about the US farmer or his agriculture exports to China. No, the vanishingly small amount of exports that isn't agriculture won't stop them either.
The left is starting to realize that letting working class prosperity evacuate to China makes for an unreliable constituency. The right is about to discover that China is rapidly transitioning from cheap-labor-r-us to international belligerent.
The most important "desktops" are the laptops that get hauled around airports by the powers that be. Relying exclusively on your servers/switches to isolate your "desktops" doesn't work in a Beijing hotel.
This really is too obvious to be worth mentioning. Anyone indulging this non-debate is a liability.
I'm up for this. More if necessary.
Some of this UNIX stuff has been ricocheting around the US legal system, such as it is, for decades now. SCO v Linux et al wasn't the first eruption of this nonsense. Time to retire it.
The HTC Desire Z is about to be released as the T-Mobile G2 later this month ($200ish with a plan.) The T-Mobile G2 will have the stock Android UI as did the G1 years ago.
http://g2.t-mobile.com/
http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-announces-desire-z-qwerty-slider
GPU acceleration isn't that important for most browser rendering. The major benefit is found in image compositing and HTML canvas, both of which can be accelerated without major architectural upheaval for the legacy bits of the browser. Not rapidly leveraging hardware for every conceivable operation isn't going to doom the portable browsers.
It takes more effort to optimize portable software. The correct abstractions must be found, by design at first, and then through rework as reality is discovered. The slight performance deficit the portable browsers suffer will eventually vanish, and long before it matters to anyone. Other factors will continue to dominate browser preference.
Microsoft has lost the search war, the marketing war, the content distribution war, the standards war (HTML, PDF, etc) and the mobile war. Silverlight remains irrelevant and IE gives up more eyeballs every day. Accelerating IE9, a browser which will probably land with as big a thud as will Windows Phone 7, isn't going to fix all of this. Microsoft is a legacy business with legacy products, howling for the attention it no longer merits.
Plot those numbers year over year
More interesting than the dollar amounts is the type of exports; the vast majority of US exports to China are agricultural comodities; wheat, beef, etc. This drives up prices for essential commodities in the US.
We'd be hurting if prices on, well, almost everything went up e.g. 10%.
What if that 10% stopped the slide of the US worker into government subsistence? Over 10% of the US is being fed by the federal government via food stamps. Which of those two 10% figures to you think has more consequence for the fate of the US?
The real world doesn't obey naive models such as ours; a resurgence of US industry would be met by vigorous opposition employing hordes of the aforementioned lawyers. 10% might ultimately seem a great bargain.
The exact same thing was said when the railroad industry began to eliminate brakemen
Trains are equipped with dead man switches as a direct result of the elimination of human redundancy you cite. Trains stop operating and safely halt when (not if) the driver is incapacitated. The equivalent of this mechanism does not exist in aviation; aircraft can not stop safely at any arbitrary point. Autopilots and landing systems are not yet competent to handle the broad range of contingencies for which humans are trained.
The nautical cases you cite are equally naive. Even small boats have safety lanyards to stop propulsion. Helm controls are disengaged during storms and during navigation of busy waterways, by law.
The Indy 500 thing makes no sense. The high level of risk inherently accepted with any racing activity is not acceptable to commercial aviation. The difference in risk is so vast that it makes whatever safety rational you claim for the one activity entirely irrelevant to the other.
Ryanair had a gross profit of $2.6G in 2010, net $0.5G. Their business model, including the ability of their passengers to pay, is fine. While it may be fun to indulge the fevered dreams of businessmen hypothesizing about huge cost savings, it clearly isn't needed for airline viability.
Could the market be left to decide between co-pilots and lower costs? Only if you've buried your head in free market la-la sand; given the option airlines would eliminate all co-pilots ASAP because the cost of civil payouts that would occur sans pilot redundancy is lower than co-pilot compensation due to the infrequency of their necessity. The market would leave no choice for either airlines or passengers. Beyond that, our regulatory system has generally eliminated safety as a competitive factor among airlines. If you advocate the market as the mechanism then the burden is on you to provide a compelling argument why the market must cease to take safety for granted. Good luck with that, sparky!
Last year a Continental Boeing 777 with 247 passengers had to be taken over by a co-pilot and landed by a relief pilot when the captain died suddenly over Europe. This isn't a theoretical situation. Co-pilots have saved thousands of people. Those people don't fret about the cost of co-pilots. Should we all accept your tragically bad analogies over their experience?
Someone will probably try to use this to say hydrogen is dangerous. I'd like to remind you gasoline is dangerous
People are going to get killed. Hydrogen adoption will be blamed. Hydrogen advocates that have never condescended to cut the legacy fuels the least bit of slack will stand by quietly while the hydrogen industry makes the exact same excuses that the oil/coal/nuclear industries use to explain away their bodies. The real world is a nasty bitch. Welcome!
how on earth will the people affected by these diseases get these drugs in time
Don't think like an ambulance driver. If some part of the world is attacked with ebola people will be killed. The response will then be to manufacture and deploy the 'antidote' to the contaminated area and other areas that might also be at risk of attack. Meanwhile the attackers get hunted down, with prejudice, as the saying goes.
one more cure for a disease that is defeated by poverty and corruption
All the good intentions in the world are doomed in the face of corruption, of which poverty is only the most obvious symptom. A solution is not invalid only because it requires more sophistication than can exist in corrupt and impoverished places. When it's your butt on the line you aren't going to walk away from the fix just because the Congolese don't have the option. You will demand it as a right and curse anyone that fails to agree.
turning a somewhat "normal" lake (probably near enough to a volcano) into an exploding one?
It's already being done. The gas industry is experiencing a boom in the US at the moment because NG creates less CO2 than coal when burned and new recovery techniques are making known reserves economically recoverable. One of these new techniques is Hydraulic Fracturing.
Fracking breaks rock formations to release reservoir contents for recovery. One consequence of this is that nearby aquifers (subsurface water) can become contaminated with hydrocarbons. This has produced cases of benzine flavored water appearing at residential taps.
Inevitably some lake will eventually accumulate a bunch of CO2, fizz over and suffocate waterfront property owners... Cue green hysterics and indignant congress folk. Some negligent company will be singled out for public outrage. Some clutch of lawyers in a government agency will be found snoozing and be given a pass.
Similarly, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) recently obtained an Energy Star certification for a gasoline powered clock radio, among other things. It's a pencil whipping operation with no credible investigation of manufacturers claims. Worry not! The EPA has since announced reforms to this stellar program, so have no doubt that whatever price premium such august recognition demands is worth every certified penny.
Btrfs might catch up eventually
Btrfs is a product of Oracle. Oracle now owns ZFS outright and controls the fate of Btrfs in terms of developer resources. One guess as to whether Oracle will remain motivated to complete Btrfs.
Oracle controls the fate of the best open source advanced file systems.
The items destroyed, so called 'plex', are purchased with real money. A player may either trade in plex for game time or sell them to other players for game money. When selling plex it is advantageous to place the items on the market near likely buyers. This creates incentive to move the items around as cargo in ships.
Ships can be attacked by other players in Eve. If the victim happens to be carrying a few grand worth of plex then so be it; they are forfeit. No hacking involved.
Until recently (1-2 months approximately) it was impossible to move plex around as cargo. Plex where tied to the station in which they where created. This was done precisely to protect naive players loses of plex to PvP. That restriction was lifted because protecting players from their own mistakes is counter to CCP philosophy. That change made this story inevitable.
Something to note: cargo randomly survives ship destruction. I believe the odds are 50/50. Poor pirates; they've gotten nothing but a shocking "killmail." The victim character will probably not be able to resume whatever scheme he had in mind; many pirates will monitor him from now on. Stalking mechanics are deliberately provided for this purpose in Eve.
Eve is harsh.
I really enjoyed watching Chrome swell up to 3GB resident memory, and then detonate, while wading through all that dynamic "content." The core files were... remarkable.
one. inclusive of this event.
The Ixtoc blowout, also in the Gulf, leaked for almost a year.
West coast blowout in 1969.
It is likely there have been others. They would have occurred far enough away from western media to have gone unreported.
In any case, thanks for playing!
This is correct. The cap WILL be reopened in any case. If the well pressure does not build to about 8000 psi they will reopen the cap because this would indicate a bore containment problem. Even if the pressure does build to the proper level 'they' want to perform seismic tests without pressure in the well bore after 48 hours. Finally, if they then decide the well bore and/or formation does not have sufficient integrity the cap will then remain open permanently, otherwise they'll close it again.
In all cases the cap will be reopened and gush into the Gulf for some period of time, so don't be surprised when it happens. The best case is that the conclusions made from the seismic tests will allow the cap to be closed again relatively quickly.
If the cap cannot remain closed for whatever reason another containment plan is then used; four different ships are attached to the new cap in various configurations (kill lines, floating risers, etc.) to attempt to recover and/or burn the entire flow from the well.
A thoughtful reader may ask; why risk the "shut in" (closing the cap) and possible well bore/formation damage when 'they' can just collect/burn all of the flow without closing the cap? The answer is that ships, even big ships, have to escape hurricanes; if a cane blows through and the collection ships have to leave then the well will, once again, flow into the Gulf until the storm passes and the entire multi-ship apparatus can be reconnected. This could take weeks if the storm is uncooperative.
forced to use their real names on the Internet
I must agree. There are plenty of other public mediums that provide anonymity so we need not suffer it and the unpleasant anti-social behavior it fosters on our Internet. Let's expose everyone and leave anonymous coward to his many other venues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1981
Does the law give the President the power to impose a moratorium in this situation?
The president is the head of the Interior Department, the institution responsible for the leases that permit drilling, and the Interior Department is a creation of Congress, which has the power to establish the cabinet. Those leases come with strings attached; the Interior Department reserves the right to suspend the leases for various reasons. Seems pretty clear to me that Obama does have the authority.
Judicial activism is judicial activism whether it's pro- or anti- oil, gays, guns or whatever. We have a president for a reason and he is supposed to have power for a reason.
Let him ban deep water rigs. Let him destroy 30% of LA's economy[1] five months before the midterms in the middle of the Great Recession. Lets watch what happens when Chevron, Shell, etc. individually announce that their rigs are moving out of US waters. See the result when Haliburton et al. start laying off thousands. I say go for it Mr. President. Wreck the US oil industry; see how that plays out when we get to vote 22 weeks from now.
[1] the big drilling rigs, as opposed to finished production rigs, are where all the $$ is; finished wells don't employ many people. Some folks, like /. editors, either don't understand that or at least hope you don't.
Maybe it doesn't belong to you, but as long as it doesn't come with battery or a solar panel, the electricity sure does...
Am I to understand that headlights are optional because CA does not pay to provide the electricity to light them? Give that a try in traffic court after driving around some night without lights. You comply with automotive regulations. Full stop. Don't like the regulations? Take it up with your elected representatives. Otherwise fuck off.