The tongue in cheek was sure there, sure. It's the trivialization of terrorism by idiots, and casual attitude about seeing terrorism limited only to some type of non-white person. Its not about P.C. Fuck P.C. Its about an being an ignorant ass.
I mean, it's not like we want to be gay niggers, here. Chill. I'm using sarcasm. Yeah.
Are you a racist? Or is it you can't distinguish between 'slimy' legal tactics in a democracy, and brutal, bloody fascism (the current popular form being a perversion of a religion)?
I had to click the link after seeing the 'googleisevil' tag, posted by some lefty groupthink tool. Evil as defined by a moral-relativist is always a moving target target!
The lack of critical thinking applied to economic, social, and political topics on/. reminds me: this place is becoming less about technology and intelligence, and more about the lowest common denominator, bitter partisanship, and attracting the diggers.
Anyone recommend a new tech site or two?/Saw 'republicansarefuckingfascists' as a frontpage tag the other day. Petulant children running amok here.
As much as I find it amusing to see these MMORPG wastoids be voluntary drawn out of society (I do oppose the China's big brother methods, though), I am happy to see a force intervening.
These sad souls need guidance, rehab, a life, something outside the warm cocoon of fat rolls and 3d dwarf landscapes.
"A. As far as I can tell, any new proposals would be presented by the same group as the original SSC" "B. I think it's reasonable point to conclude that cutting edge particle physics isn't that valuable."
I think we're done here. Thanks for your thoughts.
The initial costs of the LEP (say $1b, because your link requires registration) are close to the initial costs of the SCC at the time of its cancellation if you translate the 1981 Swiss Franc's purchasing power to that of USD say in 1990-93. Bzzzzzzzzt, thanks for playing.
A. An alternative plan was not introduced -- this does not automatically infer the exact same group ("these people"?) needed a second chance.
B. Value of research -- oh, the total research value was worth less than a billion USD. Sure. Where is your response about nuclear technology in relation to this? Advancing the movement away from fossil fuel dependency is not worth the short term costs? Ok.
I'll respond briefly to your points:
The $2b was not entirely "wasted" until the project was canceled. The infrastructure could still have been used if the project was reorganized. Duh.
I'm not going to entertain your premise of canceling important scientific research simply for political gain. It's insipid, and their political points from this certainly were not apparent in the 1994 elections.
Yes, a government funded project was not run efficiently in regards to cost. Stop the presses! An alternate plan was not introduced-- the whole project was simply killed and the $2b already spent was laid to waste. The point remains, unrefuted, that the democrats in power decided to score some political points rather than advance important scientific research.
Are you saying the advances provided by having the SSC online for at least the last 5 years wouldn't have been worth $20 billion? $30b? Oh, and why haven't we built a nuclear power plant in a few decades? Hmmm...
Given we had OSX running on the AppleTV back on March 30, I'm not surprised that the article missed Linux is running with full nvidia hardware acceleration. After 5+ years, the journaled HFS support in the kernel is basically worthless though (FIXME).
Pretty naive buddy. Try answering your own question with examples of other microprocessor architectures that aren't bound to microsoft. Look where they are at. Some better than intel, some not. If a company could produce a general cpu that was a quantum leap forward in power efficiency, and still as powerful computation-wise, they would.
PA Semiconductor is trying as much with the PowerPC platform, as an example.
Your link was pure drivel, written by children. "Punctuated Equilibrium: Stability through network effects"? Linux must dominate the world OS market by 2008-- because the next platform transition won't be until 2050?
These people need treatment for the abuse of crack-cocaine, or lack thereof.
BTW, John Stossel had an interesting report on 20/20 last night about Senator Tom Coburn, who is fighting federal pork-- and taking on heavy fire from both sides.
Thanks for a informative post. Beats the typical whiny M$ iz S4T4|\| crap.
Google does keep up, but quietly- anecdotally, last week I was searching for a certain spec ARM9 dev board (the VULCAN-Lite) with USD also as a search term and all kinds of fake keyword sites and eastern block bride services were in the top 20 results.
I sent Google feedback with my search terms (VULCAN-Lite +USD), explained what spam was popping up, and as I write this comment a few days later-- the Google search comes back clean (empty for +USD, no spam in first 30 results for VULCAN-Lite). They apparently listen and respond to random user feedback pretty quickly.
Interesting mix of experience. I was thinking about Apple's recent ZFS addition after I posted. What other Sun tech are they licensing? Sounds like potential for both...
AC, thanks for the first "Mac fanboy" tag I've ever gotten. Your people skills are top notch!
Your ad hominem misses the fact I don't own a recent Mac or OS X. I recycled my 604 powermac clone (but kept the scsi drive with BeOS and System 7) some time ago. I did recommend a late model MacBook to my mid-fifties parent without a second thought however. She enjoys it.
I'll stick with cheap x86 hardware (and wish it was inexpensive PowerPC), thanks. I enjoy the wide range of capabilities of the most common platform.
Get on ruling the world with your laughable OpenOffice and awful attitude. Don't let me hold you up-- a few linux distros have enough sense to take some cues *from* Apple's philosophy, and are doing well because of it. I applaud them!
(someone has to soothe the savage zealot, hope your blood pressure is lower buddy)
They "rest of the computing world" would sure wake up to a cold shower if Apple Computer licensed a few reference designs and developed an "Office Suite" as high quality as OS X.
Your waste is another mans progress. Feel free to live in a tent anytime, and unplug your computer. Seems to be a waste of energy, no? Try running it with pedal power- you will soon agree!
In your mind, an ever running public wiki of the names, date of birth and location of every human ever involved in a nuclear accident may sound important. It is not. Organizations that matter are aware of the risks, benefits.
Unfortunately, too many 'flat earth' types are hindering scientific and technological progress with their foolish FUD campaigns and political action committees-- hindering third world countries efforts to build fossil fuel burning stations to provide basic services to their impoverished citizens. The same over-reactionary fear mongers (Rory Kennedy comes to mind) are hampering the US from even catching up with China in developing nuclear power stations.
These anti-thought efforts keeps the country stuck burning fossil fuel. The 'alternatives' are highly impractical on a mass scale. We can't produce nearly enough biofuel to run 50% of our energy use, especially without driving food prices high worldwide. Who does that effect? THE POOR. Yeah, less manufacture a million+ tons of chemical batteries to run our cars on. THATS A GOOD IDEA.
Fine, build a windmill in your backyard. But stop telling me that we can't develop pebble bed reactors because you are running scared of nuclear fission technology. Your feel good politics are bringing down the worlds quality of life. Please, think critically.
While you have more calmly explained the "con" position, the US courts routinely deny defendants any worthwhile legal representation via public defenders. This class of attorneys underperforms every other class, and may as well be denying people meaningful access due to their substandard representation (compared to fee for service defense attorneys).
The chilling effect could be solved if enough people cared. Medical malpractice suits are out of control, and the constant advertising for them, as well as drugs like Vioxx being shoved off the market due to statistically insignificant risks only underscores my point.
This is not "nothing to see here, please move along", unless of course you are a civil attorney. Go chase an waahhmbulance.
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The tongue in cheek was sure there, sure. It's the trivialization of terrorism by idiots, and casual attitude about seeing terrorism limited only to some type of non-white person. Its not about P.C. Fuck P.C. Its about an being an ignorant ass.
I mean, it's not like we want to be gay niggers, here. Chill. I'm using sarcasm. Yeah.
Are you a racist? Or is it you can't distinguish between 'slimy' legal tactics in a democracy, and brutal, bloody fascism (the current popular form being a perversion of a religion)?
Get a clue, some ritalin, something...
Wow, that was a choice comment. How about a GNAA comment or two? Maybe slander some other large group with a broad brush. Classy.
You are exactly what is wrong with Slashdot. Speaking on your level: thankfully, it is inevitable you will die.
I had to click the link after seeing the 'googleisevil' tag, posted by some lefty groupthink tool. Evil as defined by a moral-relativist is always a moving target target!
/. reminds me: this place is becoming less about technology and intelligence, and more about the lowest common denominator, bitter partisanship, and attracting the diggers.
/Saw 'republicansarefuckingfascists' as a frontpage tag the other day. Petulant children running amok here.
The lack of critical thinking applied to economic, social, and political topics on
Anyone recommend a new tech site or two?
As much as I find it amusing to see these MMORPG wastoids be voluntary drawn out of society (I do oppose the China's big brother methods, though), I am happy to see a force intervening.
These sad souls need guidance, rehab, a life, something outside the warm cocoon of fat rolls and 3d dwarf landscapes.
"A. As far as I can tell, any new proposals would be presented by the same group as the original SSC"
"B. I think it's reasonable point to conclude that cutting edge particle physics isn't that valuable."
I think we're done here. Thanks for your thoughts.
If you wish to continue this cost argument, check out:
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http://www.sunshinecable.com/~eisehan/V80-10en.ht
The initial costs of the LEP (say $1b, because your link requires registration) are close to the initial costs of the SCC at the time of its cancellation if you translate the 1981 Swiss Franc's purchasing power to that of USD say in 1990-93. Bzzzzzzzzt, thanks for playing.
Ok, so you are dodging my points:
A. An alternative plan was not introduced -- this does not automatically infer the exact same group ("these people"?) needed a second chance.
B. Value of research -- oh, the total research value was worth less than a billion USD. Sure. Where is your response about nuclear technology in relation to this? Advancing the movement away from fossil fuel dependency is not worth the short term costs? Ok.
I'll respond briefly to your points:
The $2b was not entirely "wasted" until the project was canceled. The infrastructure could still have been used if the project was reorganized. Duh.
I'm not going to entertain your premise of canceling important scientific research simply for political gain. It's insipid, and their political points from this certainly were not apparent in the 1994 elections.
Yes, a government funded project was not run efficiently in regards to cost. Stop the presses! An alternate plan was not introduced-- the whole project was simply killed and the $2b already spent was laid to waste. The point remains, unrefuted, that the democrats in power decided to score some political points rather than advance important scientific research.
Are you saying the advances provided by having the SSC online for at least the last 5 years wouldn't have been worth $20 billion? $30b? Oh, and why haven't we built a nuclear power plant in a few decades? Hmmm...
Thanks to democrats (neo-luddites?), the US doesn't already have this technology. Know your (recent) history.
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~txecm/super_collider.htm
http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/03/ssc-and-clinton
How's free for a pricepoint?
Given we had OSX running on the AppleTV back on March 30, I'm not surprised that the article missed Linux is running with full nvidia hardware acceleration. After 5+ years, the journaled HFS support in the kernel is basically worthless though (FIXME).
As usual, AwkwardTV has the scoop--
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Linux_on_Apple_TV
thanks gimli!
It's only that simple to simpletons. GTFO.
Pretty naive buddy. Try answering your own question with examples of other microprocessor architectures that aren't bound to microsoft. Look where they are at. Some better than intel, some not. If a company could produce a general cpu that was a quantum leap forward in power efficiency, and still as powerful computation-wise, they would.
PA Semiconductor is trying as much with the PowerPC platform, as an example.
Your link was pure drivel, written by children. "Punctuated Equilibrium: Stability through network effects"? Linux must dominate the world OS market by 2008-- because the next platform transition won't be until 2050?
These people need treatment for the abuse of crack-cocaine, or lack thereof.
Throw in a few partisan attacks, use some pejoratives, go back to X is worthless. Your points are worthless on balance.
Neither US political party has much to brag about on tax an spend issues. They both are quite greedy.
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Take a look at the CATO Institutes 2006 report card on state governors:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa581/reportcard_tab
In case you are too blinded by ideology to even look, I'll post the scores of the governors above and below Washington :
Bob Riley (R) -- Alabama, 47, F
Christine Gregoire (D) -- Washington, 47, F
Mike Huckabee (R) -- Arkansas, 46, F
The full report, with analysis and discussion:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa581.pdf
BTW, John Stossel had an interesting report on 20/20 last night about Senator Tom Coburn, who is fighting federal pork-- and taking on heavy fire from both sides.
He wrote about the story last year:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?Ur
Thanks for a informative post. Beats the typical whiny M$ iz S4T4|\| crap.
Google does keep up, but quietly- anecdotally, last week I was searching for a certain spec ARM9 dev board (the VULCAN-Lite) with USD also as a search term and all kinds of fake keyword sites and eastern block bride services were in the top 20 results.
I sent Google feedback with my search terms (VULCAN-Lite +USD), explained what spam was popping up, and as I write this comment a few days later-- the Google search comes back clean (empty for +USD, no spam in first 30 results for VULCAN-Lite). They apparently listen and respond to random user feedback pretty quickly.
Wouldn't the FSF or BSA be a better partner for your complaint than posting as an AC on slashdot?
Interesting mix of experience. I was thinking about Apple's recent ZFS addition after I posted. What other Sun tech are they licensing? Sounds like potential for both...
AC, thanks for the first "Mac fanboy" tag I've ever gotten. Your people skills are top notch!
Your ad hominem misses the fact I don't own a recent Mac or OS X. I recycled my 604 powermac clone (but kept the scsi drive with BeOS and System 7) some time ago. I did recommend a late model MacBook to my mid-fifties parent without a second thought however. She enjoys it.
I'll stick with cheap x86 hardware (and wish it was inexpensive PowerPC), thanks. I enjoy the wide range of capabilities of the most common platform.
Get on ruling the world with your laughable OpenOffice and awful attitude. Don't let me hold you up-- a few linux distros have enough sense to take some cues *from* Apple's philosophy, and are doing well because of it. I applaud them!
(someone has to soothe the savage zealot, hope your blood pressure is lower buddy)
They "rest of the computing world" would sure wake up to a cold shower if Apple Computer licensed a few reference designs and developed an "Office Suite" as high quality as OS X.
Your waste is another mans progress. Feel free to live in a tent anytime, and unplug your computer. Seems to be a waste of energy, no? Try running it with pedal power- you will soon agree!
In your mind, an ever running public wiki of the names, date of birth and location of every human ever involved in a nuclear accident may sound important. It is not. Organizations that matter are aware of the risks, benefits.
Unfortunately, too many 'flat earth' types are hindering scientific and technological progress with their foolish FUD campaigns and political action committees-- hindering third world countries efforts to build fossil fuel burning stations to provide basic services to their impoverished citizens. The same over-reactionary fear mongers (Rory Kennedy comes to mind) are hampering the US from even catching up with China in developing nuclear power stations.
These anti-thought efforts keeps the country stuck burning fossil fuel. The 'alternatives' are highly impractical on a mass scale. We can't produce nearly enough biofuel to run 50% of our energy use, especially without driving food prices high worldwide. Who does that effect? THE POOR. Yeah, less manufacture a million+ tons of chemical batteries to run our cars on. THATS A GOOD IDEA.
Fine, build a windmill in your backyard. But stop telling me that we can't develop pebble bed reactors because you are running scared of nuclear fission technology. Your feel good politics are bringing down the worlds quality of life. Please, think critically.
Fascists, anti-war (at any cost) insanity. Lie about deaths, go ahead.
While you have more calmly explained the "con" position, the US courts routinely deny defendants any worthwhile legal representation via public defenders. This class of attorneys underperforms every other class, and may as well be denying people meaningful access due to their substandard representation (compared to fee for service defense attorneys).
The chilling effect could be solved if enough people cared. Medical malpractice suits are out of control, and the constant advertising for them, as well as drugs like Vioxx being shoved off the market due to statistically insignificant risks only underscores my point.
This is not "nothing to see here, please move along", unless of course you are a civil attorney. Go chase an waahhmbulance.