Also at 11: capacitors can leak and are prone to aging. Also: lot control of components on printed circuit boards is impossible, even if you buy the bare boards and components and stuff and solder them yourself.
Yeah; I rethought the wording right after I posted. Obviously, Progress is air-tight, (and therefore) pressurized at 1 atm when sealed. So, technically pressurized, just nothing on-board to repressurize with. But you are correct, I did forget to mention the single ATV-001 mission. Luckily, ISS isn't (yet) depending on ATV, or they'd have had to abandon ISS years ago.
ISS gets most of its consumables from unmanned Russian Progress capsules. Once the Shuttle stops flying, Progress will be ISS' only resupply. Orion was never intended to resupply consumables to ISS, although it was planned to use it for some (pressurized) scientific material ferrying. An (Orion-like) ISS crew-exchange vehicle resupplying two days of food and oxygen from ISS stores isn't as far-fetched as it immediately sounds, considering per-pound launch costs on a man-rated pressurized vehicle (Orion/CST-100), versus an unpressurized, unmanned vehicle (Progress).
Any religion that can only survive by censorship is a religion deserving of nothing but absolute scorn and the sincerest wish that it end up in the trash heap of worthless ideas.
Any religion <snip> is a religion deserving of nothing but absolute scorn and the sincerest wish that it end up in the trash heap of worthless ideas.
Not sure if I should be pleased or frightened. I have to warn you, if you want to duel, my choice is going to be something strange, like Remington 700s at 1000 yards, or katanas and blindfolds.
Our laws (bills) are written by the lawyers from the industries those laws are written to regulate. These bills are then introduced by representatives from the home districts of the largest companies of those industries, who supply the voters and money to place/keep those representatives in office. The bills are then discussed and voted on in an orgy of self-interested back-scratching and pork exchange with representatives from other districts. Oftentimes, these other representatives will attach totally unrelated goodies and other bits of pork for themselves and their districts to bills which have nothing to do with their ostensible purpose. After a bill is passed into law, its enforcement is regulated by a government bureau whose executive layer is comprised of people who came from executive positions in the industry in question, and to which they will return, when the Other Party wins their next Presidential election and replaces those executives with a different set of executives from the same industry. If a law should come before a pesky court, its hands are generally bound by the letter of the law itself, so, in actual fact, the Constitution poses little threat to our sacred way of life.
Please understand that if we do not "cram our shit house laws down the rest of the worlds throat" then our Corporate Overlords become unhappy because they are not making every possible dime they feel they are entitled to, and their accountants will produce reams of speculative arithmetic to prove that it is so. And frankly, we're just not interested in "taking care of our own internal issues properly", or whether or not the rest of the world "hates us for our interfering", because we're making lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of money, and that's the only thing anyone in power here gives a flying fuck about.
Kindest Regards,
The U.S. Government
(and their Corporate Overlords)
If I'm North Korea or Al-Qaeda or "Red" China, or any one of a million other defined-as "bad guys", I'm not using RSA or some such, I'm using one-time-pads or steganography on any one of a billion different chat boards, probably one where I can post JPEGs. Places where the message location and encryption itself is all the sender signature it needs. It's the bankers and the private citizens (and possibly some foreign diplomatic services) who are using RSA and public-key type ciphers that (might maybe potentially could be) cracked by lots and lots of computing power.
Meanwhile, this is perfect paranoia-food for the "ECHELON is reading my e-mails and SMS!" types. Thing is, they're probably right.
I also doubt intel is intentionally "allowing hardware innovation to stagnate"
Yes, they absolutely are. They are absolutely FOSSILIZED behind the x86 instruction/register set. All the pipelines and on-chip caches and multiple cores on the planet only serve to demonstrate that they're putting lipstick on a pig. In this day and age, when FSB bandwidth is the REAL performance limiter, it's ridiculous to have a single-accumulator single-stack instruction set that's that Byzantinely non-orthagonal.
At this point the fanbois jump up shouting "but it's really RISC inside" and "instruction caches". To which I reply:
REPNE SCASB
That's only partially true. It happened again (in a big way) with the switch from 16 to 32 bits, and it is/has again (in a much smaller way) with the switch from 32 to 64 bits. Picture what the computing world would be like today if Alpha (and maybe Unix) had been adopted instead of everybody waiting for the Itanic to come in. Just the THREAT of Itanic was enough to scuttle SPARC, PA-RISC, MIPS, ALPHA...
The "dominance" is the x86 instruction set. Intel and Microsoft have locked us in; AMD is just a second source for chips that use that instruction set.
The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.
to someone using my phone, I can like totally call them, and it only takes about 6 seconds to say, while I'm guessing "kthxby" doesn't gain a lot of speed from being "swyped".
Meanwhile, a pox on Yet Another Stupid Internet Word like "swype".
That is a good argument, and you spin it pretty effectively. The one thing you fail to mention is that Spamhaus, for one, is an opt-in service, meaning that the individuals and businesses who decide to accept the false positives of Spamhaus' "slander via algorithm" have decided to do so on their own - no one is forcing them to take Spamhaus' word for it. Secondly, being a "spammer" isn't like pregnancy, it's not a binary option. Certainly there are people out there who think they're "informing the public", where others think the same people are worthy of being boiled in oil. If you look at the eternal flame war that is the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email, you can see both sides of this argument - the outraged sleazy spammers (on whatever sliding scale you choose to believe) vs the oh-so-noble (again on a very sliding scale) list maintainers. As the Bard said: "A pox on both their houses".
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Also at 11: capacitors can leak and are prone to aging. Also: lot control of components on printed circuit boards is impossible, even if you buy the bare boards and components and stuff and solder them yourself.
Yeah; I rethought the wording right after I posted. Obviously, Progress is air-tight, (and therefore) pressurized at 1 atm when sealed. So, technically pressurized, just nothing on-board to repressurize with. But you are correct, I did forget to mention the single ATV-001 mission. Luckily, ISS isn't (yet) depending on ATV, or they'd have had to abandon ISS years ago.
ISS gets most of its consumables from unmanned Russian Progress capsules. Once the Shuttle stops flying, Progress will be ISS' only resupply. Orion was never intended to resupply consumables to ISS, although it was planned to use it for some (pressurized) scientific material ferrying. An (Orion-like) ISS crew-exchange vehicle resupplying two days of food and oxygen from ISS stores isn't as far-fetched as it immediately sounds, considering per-pound launch costs on a man-rated pressurized vehicle (Orion/CST-100), versus an unpressurized, unmanned vehicle (Progress).
Any religion <snip> is a religion deserving of nothing but absolute scorn and the sincerest wish that it end up in the trash heap of worthless ideas.
FTFY
Either way, you have to love those Dutch girls, for showing their voorwerp on teh internets!
Not sure if I should be pleased or frightened. I have to warn you, if you want to duel, my choice is going to be something strange, like Remington 700s at 1000 yards, or katanas and blindfolds.
Dear Rest of World,
Our laws (bills) are written by the lawyers from the industries those laws are written to regulate. These bills are then introduced by representatives from the home districts of the largest companies of those industries, who supply the voters and money to place/keep those representatives in office. The bills are then discussed and voted on in an orgy of self-interested back-scratching and pork exchange with representatives from other districts. Oftentimes, these other representatives will attach totally unrelated goodies and other bits of pork for themselves and their districts to bills which have nothing to do with their ostensible purpose. After a bill is passed into law, its enforcement is regulated by a government bureau whose executive layer is comprised of people who came from executive positions in the industry in question, and to which they will return, when the Other Party wins their next Presidential election and replaces those executives with a different set of executives from the same industry. If a law should come before a pesky court, its hands are generally bound by the letter of the law itself, so, in actual fact, the Constitution poses little threat to our sacred way of life.
Please understand that if we do not "cram our shit house laws down the rest of the worlds throat" then our Corporate Overlords become unhappy because they are not making every possible dime they feel they are entitled to, and their accountants will produce reams of speculative arithmetic to prove that it is so. And frankly, we're just not interested in "taking care of our own internal issues properly", or whether or not the rest of the world "hates us for our interfering", because we're making lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of money, and that's the only thing anyone in power here gives a flying fuck about.
Kindest Regards,
The U.S. Government
(and their Corporate Overlords)
I clicked on that with more than a little trepidation, but then I LOL'ed. Well played.
If I'm North Korea or Al-Qaeda or "Red" China, or any one of a million other defined-as "bad guys", I'm not using RSA or some such, I'm using one-time-pads or steganography on any one of a billion different chat boards, probably one where I can post JPEGs. Places where the message location and encryption itself is all the sender signature it needs. It's the bankers and the private citizens (and possibly some foreign diplomatic services) who are using RSA and public-key type ciphers that (might maybe potentially could be) cracked by lots and lots of computing power.
Meanwhile, this is perfect paranoia-food for the "ECHELON is reading my e-mails and SMS!" types. Thing is, they're probably right.
Yes, they absolutely are. They are absolutely FOSSILIZED behind the x86 instruction/register set. All the pipelines and on-chip caches and multiple cores on the planet only serve to demonstrate that they're putting lipstick on a pig. In this day and age, when FSB bandwidth is the REAL performance limiter, it's ridiculous to have a single-accumulator single-stack instruction set that's that Byzantinely non-orthagonal.
At this point the fanbois jump up shouting "but it's really RISC inside" and "instruction caches". To which I reply:
REPNE SCASB
That's only partially true. It happened again (in a big way) with the switch from 16 to 32 bits, and it is/has again (in a much smaller way) with the switch from 32 to 64 bits. Picture what the computing world would be like today if Alpha (and maybe Unix) had been adopted instead of everybody waiting for the Itanic to come in. Just the THREAT of Itanic was enough to scuttle SPARC, PA-RISC, MIPS, ALPHA...
The "dominance" is the x86 instruction set. Intel and Microsoft have locked us in; AMD is just a second source for chips that use that instruction set.
Also, if I want to convey
The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.
to someone using my phone, I can like totally call them, and it only takes about 6 seconds to say, while I'm guessing "kthxby" doesn't gain a lot of speed from being "swyped".
Meanwhile, a pox on Yet Another Stupid Internet Word like "swype".
I believe Frank Zappa wrote a song about disingenuous organization names like "The National Education Association".
They have this draft of Hamlet they want to talk about...
Actually, they think they're kind of douchey and stupid. But all the explosions are cool.
Damn, there was some other government project that fit this description, which I can't seem to remember just now...
fap fap fap ... yes, go on...
Here we're expected to fall on our swords. Although, as often as we're shoved, it's usually under the bus.
That is a good argument, and you spin it pretty effectively. The one thing you fail to mention is that Spamhaus, for one, is an opt-in service, meaning that the individuals and businesses who decide to accept the false positives of Spamhaus' "slander via algorithm" have decided to do so on their own - no one is forcing them to take Spamhaus' word for it. Secondly, being a "spammer" isn't like pregnancy, it's not a binary option. Certainly there are people out there who think they're "informing the public", where others think the same people are worthy of being boiled in oil. If you look at the eternal flame war that is the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email, you can see both sides of this argument - the outraged sleazy spammers (on whatever sliding scale you choose to believe) vs the oh-so-noble (again on a very sliding scale) list maintainers. As the Bard said: "A pox on both their houses".
Spamhaus is as likely to pay $27K as LimeWire is to pay $1.5 trillion.
They moved on to the third grade.
Now get off his lawn!
For those of you keeping track, that's pretty goddam funny.
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