As I haven't been following the news very closely, does anyone know where this $20 billion will go? Just like all other government revenue, it'll be put into the general fund under the jurisdiction of congress. The FCC won't get to keep any of it and will have to go ask congress if they want more money.
eh. i've known about that insect stuff for years, and honesty, it doesn't bug me. i'd still be more worried about the paint (and if paint can get in, what else?)
interestingly, a pound of ants is healthier (higher in protein and practically 0 fat) than a pound of lean ground beef. also, I've never heard of anyone having adverse effects from ingesting bee/wasp/whatever venom.
How much $ would a guy have to raise to buy commercial time to let everybody know that (statistically) 95% of you are paying for twice the internet connection that they use? about $3 million would put it in during next year's superbowl.
well, depends on the software in question. common software development isn't engineering by a long shot and should never be referred to as such.
if you're something where actual engineering principles and standards need to be and are applied, like the software for airliner's control systems or medical equipment, or something else in the "if this fucks up, people die" realm, that can definitely be called software engineering.
What I was thinking was just take the exhaust out of the smokestack, put it through some filters to remove the soot and whatever, and just dump it wholesale into a greenhouse/algae tank of suitable size, maybe with some sort of mechanism (not sure if this exists/is feasible) that removes the resulting oxygen and exhausts it/bottles it/whatever. That would provide the plants with a nice high-C02 environment (some of the greenhouses around here run a natural gas system to achieve similar) that would be kept warm by the waste heat.
I believe I remember an acquaintance of mine doing something similar with the exhaust from an gasoline generator and using it to grow fresh produce (tomatoes, IIRC) in the NWT.
i'd say 2^(n-1) hours would be better, where n is the cumulative number of pointless/merit-less suits? first one is free (honest mistake), but it adds up quickly from there.
1. good question of ram power use. i can't really find any meaningful stats on the power usage of ram, besides the rule-of-thumb of 15-30W/GB for desktops, which definitely doesn't apply to laptops.
2. i wouldn't think the CAS would make any difference. the performance difference is marginal and i wouldn't think it changes the power use any.
3. yeah, no change in performance, but i also wouldn't using faster rated ram running at the same speed as lower-rated ram would make any difference in power use.
Which is why I tell anyone having trouble with throttled encrypted traffic to contact their bank about it. The banks can (and will if they're getting complaints about it) apply considerably more leverage to the ISPs than any consumer or small group of consumers can. just the RBC has $5.5B net income, which utterly dwarfs Rogers Communications ($622 million) and outsizes even Bell Canada ($4B).
and that's not even counting TD ($4B), BMO ($2.1B), Scotiabank ($4B), CIBC ($3.3B), and not to mention all the other minor and foreign banks around, including a number of virtual banks that do much of their bussiness online.
yes, but that "safe" form becomes less safe over time, turning into the problematic form.
there's a good lot of asbestos insulation in the roof of this house, but to get at it, you'd need to whack a hole through the roof, but it's something to keep in mind if you ever need to do repairs/renovations up there, as it'd be pretty much powder and require caution to clean it out.
Seriously, is anyone going to ever realize that unused RAM is wasted RAM? As long as it's smart about what's being swapped in and when, then so much the better. I'd love to see apps pre-cached. yes, i realize that. RAM is about 6 orders of magnitude faster than ram. but the problem is that vista doesn't seem to want to de-cache that stuff when i'm actually doing something that requires that RAM. when it's dumping my current working files to the swap for no easily discernible, something is screwy. granted, obvious solution is disable the swap (which fixes that problem), but i don't like doing that as it's helpful for catching leaks.
the memory arrangement should really have 3 "pools" of memory:
1. free (should be fairly low. immediately available ram for small/urgent requests. a percent or two of the total ram should be good, though it should be adjustable. anytime some of this ram is used, some is taken from the freeable pool ASAP to replenish this. any requests larger than this will have to wait for the freeable ram to be freed.)
2. freeable (being used for caching. will be rapidly flushed when needed for something.)
3. in use (ram actively in use by something other than the caching.)
you seem to be putting yourself a little on the opposite side of the argument. people seem to be a wee bit over-conditioned to think that all radiation is inherently extremely harmful.
350 millirads is 3.5 milligrays, or about a chest X-ray. significantly less harmful actually, as uranium emits alpha radiation, which can't even penetrate skin.
changing clothes immediately wouldn't be necessary, though washing hands would be a good idea, as ingesting it is a bad idea, as internal alpha radiation is more harmful, along with uranium being a toxic heavy metal.
yeah, plenty of big names are. production must still be ramping up. they only started issuing the coupons at the start of the month, so i guess people will just have to give it time.
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i find that statement awfully funny, as the download link then downloads it from to http://truecrypt.sourceforce.net/
I begin to wonder reading all these stories.
In the long run it is actually cheaper to do maintenance. who cares about long term? we need to raise that stock price 2 more cents this quarter!
eh. i've known about that insect stuff for years, and honesty, it doesn't bug me. i'd still be more worried about the paint (and if paint can get in, what else?)
interestingly, a pound of ants is healthier (higher in protein and practically 0 fat) than a pound of lean ground beef. also, I've never heard of anyone having adverse effects from ingesting bee/wasp/whatever venom.
I'd say it took quite a few to figure out how to make it work at 0.3V.
no, they'll just be instructed to buy from the Time-Warner Approved Bandwidth-Fee-Free Online Digital Media Outlets.
Heh. Nice to know I'm not the only one that happened to. I believe I still have that one somewhere, likely in some box in the attic.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601127
well, depends on the software in question. common software development isn't engineering by a long shot and should never be referred to as such.
if you're something where actual engineering principles and standards need to be and are applied, like the software for airliner's control systems or medical equipment, or something else in the "if this fucks up, people die" realm, that can definitely be called software engineering.
What I was thinking was just take the exhaust out of the smokestack, put it through some filters to remove the soot and whatever, and just dump it wholesale into a greenhouse/algae tank of suitable size, maybe with some sort of mechanism (not sure if this exists/is feasible) that removes the resulting oxygen and exhausts it/bottles it/whatever. That would provide the plants with a nice high-C02 environment (some of the greenhouses around here run a natural gas system to achieve similar) that would be kept warm by the waste heat.
I believe I remember an acquaintance of mine doing something similar with the exhaust from an gasoline generator and using it to grow fresh produce (tomatoes, IIRC) in the NWT.
don't the plants already pump out a fair amount of waste heat?
yes, but how many other trackers/sites have that exact same torrent and aren't being prosecuted?
i would wonder if some kind of strength-supplementing exoskeleton would be more efficient/effective for that task.
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i'd say 2^(n-1) hours would be better, where n is the cumulative number of pointless/merit-less suits? first one is free (honest mistake), but it adds up quickly from there.
2 hours, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64...
1. good question of ram power use. i can't really find any meaningful stats on the power usage of ram, besides the rule-of-thumb of 15-30W/GB for desktops, which definitely doesn't apply to laptops.
2. i wouldn't think the CAS would make any difference. the performance difference is marginal and i wouldn't think it changes the power use any.
3. yeah, no change in performance, but i also wouldn't using faster rated ram running at the same speed as lower-rated ram would make any difference in power use.
it still does at times. i still get 503 errors every so often.
Which is why I tell anyone having trouble with throttled encrypted traffic to contact their bank about it. The banks can (and will if they're getting complaints about it) apply considerably more leverage to the ISPs than any consumer or small group of consumers can. just the RBC has $5.5B net income, which utterly dwarfs Rogers Communications ($622 million) and outsizes even Bell Canada ($4B).
and that's not even counting TD ($4B), BMO ($2.1B), Scotiabank ($4B), CIBC ($3.3B), and not to mention all the other minor and foreign banks around, including a number of virtual banks that do much of their bussiness online.
yes, but that "safe" form becomes less safe over time, turning into the problematic form.
there's a good lot of asbestos insulation in the roof of this house, but to get at it, you'd need to whack a hole through the roof, but it's something to keep in mind if you ever need to do repairs/renovations up there, as it'd be pretty much powder and require caution to clean it out.
the memory arrangement should really have 3 "pools" of memory:
1. free (should be fairly low. immediately available ram for small/urgent requests. a percent or two of the total ram should be good, though it should be adjustable. anytime some of this ram is used, some is taken from the freeable pool ASAP to replenish this. any requests larger than this will have to wait for the freeable ram to be freed.)
2. freeable (being used for caching. will be rapidly flushed when needed for something.)
3. in use (ram actively in use by something other than the caching.)
you seem to be putting yourself a little on the opposite side of the argument. people seem to be a wee bit over-conditioned to think that all radiation is inherently extremely harmful.
350 millirads is 3.5 milligrays, or about a chest X-ray. significantly less harmful actually, as uranium emits alpha radiation, which can't even penetrate skin.
changing clothes immediately wouldn't be necessary, though washing hands would be a good idea, as ingesting it is a bad idea, as internal alpha radiation is more harmful, along with uranium being a toxic heavy metal.
completely dropped in 2010? where're you getting that?
mainstream support for XP will end in 2009, but it will be in extended support until 2014.
yeah, plenty of big names are. production must still be ramping up. they only started issuing the coupons at the start of the month, so i guess people will just have to give it time.