You know what....everyone who voted for this thing just got to be more involved with NASA than they probably ever have been in their entire lives. Nobody likes a nerd who's too nerdy to let you name your sword "ko-gal-piercer.com" when playing LAIRE. The only thing NASA can do by failing to own up to the results of the vote is horde their toys in a corner and cry about it not being spacey enough. Or is NASA maybe worried that only nerds who cry in a corner about the name not being spacey enough are potential NASA employees? I'm an aerospace engineering major, and naming the module "Colbert" is something that would say to me that NASA knows the difference between the very serious work to be done, like keeping astronauts alive, and naming modules. If NASA rejects the name, then to me they can't distinguish what is important and what isn't.
My thoughts exactly. I didn't hear anything about the initial experiments leading up to this test failing, but they were also conducted in different areas. In addition, the idea was somewhat backed up by ocean vents containing iron that resulted in plankton blooms that did end up sequestering carbon. There's a lot of ocean. Might be easy to find a new area where the predators will be less successful.
In other news...large phytoplankton blooms entering the food chain might turn out to be a good way of boosting fisheries that are mostly on the verge of collapse. Is anyone going to doubt that iron is a bad way of triggering an algae bloom? So we definitely found out something valuable.
Exactly my first thought. I'm thinking that 65,000ft isn't the kind of safety guarantee that I'd want for reliable intelligence, but in the context of getting more bang for buck, I suppose it's more than good enough for situations where a JSTAR would be expensive and overkill.
As a zerg surveillance system where we want to be able to quickly field a lot of cheap capability in places where we don't worry about them getting shot down or don't care if they are, I'm all for it. Just as long as they don't spend a lot of time integrating the system into tactics etc and kill a bunch of people by relying on it in situations where the zerg-airborne-command-and-Hindenburg style mission is just going to leave people blind.
Funny I guess you can compare them to zerg overlords in almost every way. Slow, good detection, cheap, expendable, and painfully obvious targets whenever they do get targeted. Over reliance is the only potential issue I see. Should use them as a powerful backup and be prepared to lose them for odd reasons. A convenience at best.
Yes. There were huge billboard posters guarded by rails and taken down every night to prevent vandalism. (I seriously considered making a run with some paint until I found this out.) Why anyone wants to continue protesting late-term abortions in Oklahoma is beyond me...except that it was obviously a rallying of conservative knee-jerk to ensure that every single county in Oklahoma would vote GOP. I don't want to think about it anymore. I was all excited about the idea that we were going to have a new president and that the issues in focus were war and economy instead of abortions and stem-cell crap. Seeing those posters was like a reminder that I'm at ground zero of the remaining stronghold of idiocy.
What's really disappointing is that the articles in the student paper are just as unbelievable. People writing up crap columns about how they believe that ID is relevant and that we should all go have a giant campus debate. It goes on and on. To make matters worse, there is a complete deficit of breakdancers in Oklahoma, indicating the general lack of creativity and cultural vacuum.
I have advice for anyone of any degree of intellect who has just been offered a lot of money to come to Oklahoma: don't. You'll be happier somewhere else, and that happiness will translate to academic success that will more than make up for the puny tuition wavers, especially when you see how small the tuition is and that they make up for it by having fees in excess of the cost of tuition.
I'm against wasting people's appetite for engaging important issues by disgusting them with something that's irrelevant, especially in the context of Oklahoma law, where such abortions are undoubtedly illegal. When people go on being angry about something after it's already addressed, it's like their only purpose from the beginning was to be angry and they just needed something to latch onto.
OMFG! This is after we had to put up with giant anti-abortion posters on campus during the presidential election week that just happened to have horrid pictures of late-term abortions that are already illegal everywhere as far as I know anyway. WTF. It's been a given for a long time that I'm leaving after graduating, but OK continues to find ways to make me worry less about what I leave behind.
Flatulence could become entrapped in the mud, adding porosity to the surface and totally losing a portion of the information. For butt self-portraits, xerox copiers will not produce this defect...assuming it's a defect. The user may consider it to be an indicator of healthy digestive activity and even strive to achieve the effect. Of course, it seems like some unfair stereotyping to say that people who sit in mud are likely to have this problem anyway. Maybe it's insensitive to say it's even a problem for mud-butt-pressers.
This pretty much confirms the cause of my frustrations with US Phones.
To follow up on my tribulations with the US phone situation, I'm opting not to overpay for crap and still use a Virgin Mobile phone with a $6 plan finally breaks even with the $30 plan at about 300min or so. I was using a Kyocera for the longest time, but finally upgraded to a much newer Kyocera that cost $20. The old one's battery died. I still don't have nearly as many features as my free W41CA had. In fact, I still use my Casio for taking pictures occasionally and as an alarm because of the really nostalgic ring tone. I like my current Kyocera because it's very simple and seems durable...and has a new battery.
Europe lost a satelite a few years ago that was supposed to measure ice melt. Little more than a big coincidence. Any more data on botched climate monitoring missions?
This is exactly like the failed launch of a climate monitoring satellite in the movie "The Arrival" where aliens were trying to terraform earth to make it warmer and were trying to keep us complacent by making it impossible for any scientists to ever present conclusive evidence! The aliens, oil companies, and Obama are all in on it! We've elected aliens!
Charlie Sheen was in it! He obviously knows a lot because he's slept with over 5k women!
I'm sick of the government, oil industry, and aliens getting away with shit! Time for some wooden stakes and DNA testing!
This post should be very, very, redundant by now, but if the internet gets in any way less free and I end up losing access to information streams, it will be a huge loss. I have learned about so many things through the internet. Anything that slows the rate of knowledge prorogation is, in my view, evil.
We always need another x86 supplier. Look at the big picture. Both Intel and AMD are talking about integrating components of GPU's directly onto the CPU die. Firstly it represents a direct assault on nVidia's ability to do business. nVidia must build an x86 CPU.
Also, streaming architectures are probably the way of the future. All of the really successful HPC chips lately utilize some form of steaming processor or coprocessor. (Don't kill me if "streaming" isn't the perfect descriptor for blue gene etc) CPU manufacturers are trying to strap components of GPU's onto CPU's. nVidia has been doing much more interesting things on their GPU's, and I'm tempted to predict we'll see nVidia with the first real x86 streaming monster with lots of math co-processing and graphics capabilities hard-wired in.
As far as companies go, nVidia is one of the best. The CEO is an animal. nVidia is a company you want to see going forward so that they will continue innovating. Watching them get pushed out of the integrated x86-streaming future is unacceptable and would represent a huge loss to the consumer.
I think we're at the point where x86 licensing is honestly kind of silly. For the sake of competition, I believe nVidia will find the right buttons to press and get at least enough breathing room to build parts.
Saying that x86 is a technology that allows Intel or AMD chips to run very powerful software is completely off-target. x86 is a vast software market, which chip makers continually convoluted their designs in order to have the ability to serve.
In other words, it's quite clear that x86 is not a technology anymore and has become more like a standard, which all companies should have some fair access to.
Forgot the best part. http://www.ou.edu/asia/images/ASAssin.jpg
Server was built out of old components, stripped down into a headless machine, packed into boxes with ventilation slots, and parked over in a corner pirating bandwidth in a room it wasn't supposed to be in. But it looked like just some boxes, so nobody cared. Top box had the APC/surge protector in it.
My Japanese phone has an option called "manner mode" that has a dedicated button on the side of the chassis that eliminates all potential for being cell-phone-rude. Some societies find phone clicking etc kind of annoying? Let's say I'd rather not bother people while clicking away at the museum etc. Am I a criminal? Would I be a criminal just for carrying my phone since its tone can be disabled?
This is a redundant law anyway. If the photos were being taken of something inappropriate and for illegal usage, the "artist" is already a criminal. As prevention, the existence of a manner mode option on my other phone demonstrates how out of step the legislation is with other concerns of the ordinary citizen.
Lastly, tell me this isn't national legislation. Surely there is something better to be done than trying to eliminate the wave of opportunistic camera-phone wielders waiting for that perfect chance to slip a shot that will put smiles on coworkers' faces...like fighting obesity so said pervs will be taking more flattering pictures on their ninja phones? Economy? Anyone?
Is this some new attempt to link marijuana to unrelated deaths as to unfairly associate the plant with vice and decay in an effort to reinforce the cult of marijuana prohibition?
I got news for you. People don't die on Everest because of weed. People reach nirvana on Everest and decide not to come down.
We should leave their frozen bodies and perhaps hold pilgrimages to clear the snow from their eyes once a year.
Yeah.....I was born with a genetic disorder where my fat cells will starve the rest of my body of nutrients to preserve themselves.
I ate rice and a few eggs and peanuts for one month when I was completely totally flat broke. I always breakdance. My weight never seemed to fluctuate before, but I also used to have a chin. I flattened out somewhere around "lean" and have become slightly more typical for me since getting back to the states. It seems like weight isn't all that influenced by diet to a point, but the when the laws of thermodynamics take over, body fat loses.^_^
Not to troll, but being one of the many people who felt the pain as Hector started spinning more and more BS storms to hide the fact that AMD never came up with a good product after K8 and failed time after time to finally capitalize on their gains, I'm glad AMD is finally going to chop itself up.
Conference call after conference call investors were told everything was okay. AMD did some good things for themselves when they let Intel fly into the sun while they held back on GHz and finally got the performance-per-watt metric to stick and won a lot of respect in the industry.
AMD followed up by flying straight into the sun and insisting that their architecture was fundamentally better and that true-quad-core was the way to go while Intel kept making good chips and lo and behold nobody cared if they were dual-die packages or not. AMD didn't have the production capability to fabricate such a part and committed product-pipeline suicide. They lead investors and wall street to believe they had a chance. Conference call after conference call they told the world it was going to be okay.
In the end, Intel's architectures are superior on the right counts. They've done a great job at getting the most out of their transistors with the shared cache architectures. AMD should have followed step, but either couldn't keep up or didn't allocate the resources right. Either way we ended up with a transistor monster in K10 that was hard to produce, buggy, and didn't offer the performance. Shame on Hector for flogging the dead horse.
This particular example doesn't have me excited, but shouldn't be barking cold fusion at the idea like it's a thermodynamic impossibility.
Split water with endothermic catalysis process. Temperature of the water goes down as the hydrogen and oxygen are released. Ambient heat of the surroundings drives the splitting of the water. Burn the hydrogen and oxygen to do work.
What part about that would be impossible? Take another look at some cold-fusion claims too. Nobody's saying they have built a reactor yet, but not everything is thermodynamically/physically impossible when you stop making assumptions about the entire cycle.
Airwave hosts small networks at residential complexes (apartments, condos, etc). They have very similar behavior to what you're describing about Comcast. Downloads will go very fast unless they go on for an extended period. Browsing and other small traffic is incredibly fast.
Although the feature is very handy so that browsing traffic and other light average bandwidth applications get high speed, I also noticed I can do speed tests up to about 760kbps down and 200kbps up. Never in the last six months of using this connection for any application whatsoever have I observed speeds that fast to any server at any time for any duration. This includes transferring files to a server on campus nearby. Not for the first second even. To test to see if they were simply allowing speed test traffic to be un-throttled, I left a download going for an extended time (as usual speed decayed over time to a minimum of about 15kbps) and then opened a speed test. >1MBps up 200kbps down. My conclusion from repeating this several times is that Airwave is in fact giving bias to speed test sites in order to distort users' perceptions of their connection capabilities. Airwave isn't a large operation, but it goes to show that this kind of behavior is happening.
I should mention that Sprint is the ISP who hosts the T1 line(s) connecting our network in the complex to the internet.
Redundant and wrong. My keitai was built around the qualcomm 3g cdma chip. GSM is only a standard in Europe. Someone else already mentioned that they use multiple standards in Japan as well.
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You know what....everyone who voted for this thing just got to be more involved with NASA than they probably ever have been in their entire lives. Nobody likes a nerd who's too nerdy to let you name your sword "ko-gal-piercer.com" when playing LAIRE. The only thing NASA can do by failing to own up to the results of the vote is horde their toys in a corner and cry about it not being spacey enough. Or is NASA maybe worried that only nerds who cry in a corner about the name not being spacey enough are potential NASA employees? I'm an aerospace engineering major, and naming the module "Colbert" is something that would say to me that NASA knows the difference between the very serious work to be done, like keeping astronauts alive, and naming modules. If NASA rejects the name, then to me they can't distinguish what is important and what isn't.
My thoughts exactly. I didn't hear anything about the initial experiments leading up to this test failing, but they were also conducted in different areas. In addition, the idea was somewhat backed up by ocean vents containing iron that resulted in plankton blooms that did end up sequestering carbon. There's a lot of ocean. Might be easy to find a new area where the predators will be less successful.
In other news...large phytoplankton blooms entering the food chain might turn out to be a good way of boosting fisheries that are mostly on the verge of collapse. Is anyone going to doubt that iron is a bad way of triggering an algae bloom? So we definitely found out something valuable.
Exactly my first thought. I'm thinking that 65,000ft isn't the kind of safety guarantee that I'd want for reliable intelligence, but in the context of getting more bang for buck, I suppose it's more than good enough for situations where a JSTAR would be expensive and overkill.
As a zerg surveillance system where we want to be able to quickly field a lot of cheap capability in places where we don't worry about them getting shot down or don't care if they are, I'm all for it. Just as long as they don't spend a lot of time integrating the system into tactics etc and kill a bunch of people by relying on it in situations where the zerg-airborne-command-and-Hindenburg style mission is just going to leave people blind.
Funny I guess you can compare them to zerg overlords in almost every way. Slow, good detection, cheap, expendable, and painfully obvious targets whenever they do get targeted. Over reliance is the only potential issue I see. Should use them as a powerful backup and be prepared to lose them for odd reasons. A convenience at best.
Yes. There were huge billboard posters guarded by rails and taken down every night to prevent vandalism. (I seriously considered making a run with some paint until I found this out.) Why anyone wants to continue protesting late-term abortions in Oklahoma is beyond me...except that it was obviously a rallying of conservative knee-jerk to ensure that every single county in Oklahoma would vote GOP. I don't want to think about it anymore. I was all excited about the idea that we were going to have a new president and that the issues in focus were war and economy instead of abortions and stem-cell crap. Seeing those posters was like a reminder that I'm at ground zero of the remaining stronghold of idiocy.
What's really disappointing is that the articles in the student paper are just as unbelievable. People writing up crap columns about how they believe that ID is relevant and that we should all go have a giant campus debate. It goes on and on. To make matters worse, there is a complete deficit of breakdancers in Oklahoma, indicating the general lack of creativity and cultural vacuum.
I have advice for anyone of any degree of intellect who has just been offered a lot of money to come to Oklahoma: don't. You'll be happier somewhere else, and that happiness will translate to academic success that will more than make up for the puny tuition wavers, especially when you see how small the tuition is and that they make up for it by having fees in excess of the cost of tuition.
Boomer Sooner.....(-_-)
I'm against wasting people's appetite for engaging important issues by disgusting them with something that's irrelevant, especially in the context of Oklahoma law, where such abortions are undoubtedly illegal. When people go on being angry about something after it's already addressed, it's like their only purpose from the beginning was to be angry and they just needed something to latch onto.
OMFG! This is after we had to put up with giant anti-abortion posters on campus during the presidential election week that just happened to have horrid pictures of late-term abortions that are already illegal everywhere as far as I know anyway. WTF. It's been a given for a long time that I'm leaving after graduating, but OK continues to find ways to make me worry less about what I leave behind.
Flatulence could become entrapped in the mud, adding porosity to the surface and totally losing a portion of the information. For butt self-portraits, xerox copiers will not produce this defect...assuming it's a defect. The user may consider it to be an indicator of healthy digestive activity and even strive to achieve the effect. Of course, it seems like some unfair stereotyping to say that people who sit in mud are likely to have this problem anyway. Maybe it's insensitive to say it's even a problem for mud-butt-pressers.
I So Called This.
This pretty much confirms the cause of my frustrations with US Phones.
To follow up on my tribulations with the US phone situation, I'm opting not to overpay for crap and still use a Virgin Mobile phone with a $6 plan finally breaks even with the $30 plan at about 300min or so. I was using a Kyocera for the longest time, but finally upgraded to a much newer Kyocera that cost $20. The old one's battery died. I still don't have nearly as many features as my free W41CA had. In fact, I still use my Casio for taking pictures occasionally and as an alarm because of the really nostalgic ring tone. I like my current Kyocera because it's very simple and seems durable...and has a new battery.
POSIX is a subset of the Single UNIX Specification. Any system that is UNIX(tm) is also POSIX, but not every POSIX system is UNIX.
Forgive me for pedantry, but which relationship was intended? If POSIX is a subset of UNIX, I'd expect every POSIX is UNIX.
It actually means he has too many friends, but has been isolated from anywhere where he might continue to do damage.
Europe lost a satelite a few years ago that was supposed to measure ice melt. Little more than a big coincidence. Any more data on botched climate monitoring missions?
This is exactly like the failed launch of a climate monitoring satellite in the movie "The Arrival" where aliens were trying to terraform earth to make it warmer and were trying to keep us complacent by making it impossible for any scientists to ever present conclusive evidence! The aliens, oil companies, and Obama are all in on it! We've elected aliens!
Charlie Sheen was in it! He obviously knows a lot because he's slept with over 5k women!
I'm sick of the government, oil industry, and aliens getting away with shit! Time for some wooden stakes and DNA testing!
This post should be very, very, redundant by now, but if the internet gets in any way less free and I end up losing access to information streams, it will be a huge loss. I have learned about so many things through the internet. Anything that slows the rate of knowledge prorogation is, in my view, evil.
.........mod troll for the Kool-Aid remark =)
We always need another x86 supplier. Look at the big picture. Both Intel and AMD are talking about integrating components of GPU's directly onto the CPU die. Firstly it represents a direct assault on nVidia's ability to do business. nVidia must build an x86 CPU.
Also, streaming architectures are probably the way of the future. All of the really successful HPC chips lately utilize some form of steaming processor or coprocessor. (Don't kill me if "streaming" isn't the perfect descriptor for blue gene etc) CPU manufacturers are trying to strap components of GPU's onto CPU's. nVidia has been doing much more interesting things on their GPU's, and I'm tempted to predict we'll see nVidia with the first real x86 streaming monster with lots of math co-processing and graphics capabilities hard-wired in.
As far as companies go, nVidia is one of the best. The CEO is an animal. nVidia is a company you want to see going forward so that they will continue innovating. Watching them get pushed out of the integrated x86-streaming future is unacceptable and would represent a huge loss to the consumer.
I think we're at the point where x86 licensing is honestly kind of silly. For the sake of competition, I believe nVidia will find the right buttons to press and get at least enough breathing room to build parts.
Saying that x86 is a technology that allows Intel or AMD chips to run very powerful software is completely off-target. x86 is a vast software market, which chip makers continually convoluted their designs in order to have the ability to serve.
In other words, it's quite clear that x86 is not a technology anymore and has become more like a standard, which all companies should have some fair access to.
Forgot the best part. http://www.ou.edu/asia/images/ASAssin.jpg
Server was built out of old components, stripped down into a headless machine, packed into boxes with ventilation slots, and parked over in a corner pirating bandwidth in a room it wasn't supposed to be in. But it looked like just some boxes, so nobody cared. Top box had the APC/surge protector in it.
Splinter(head node)
Leonardo
Donatello
Rafael
Michelangelo
Just a little make-shift cluster for large Blender renders implemented with Dr. Q. Splinter told the turtles what to do.
ASSassin
Asian Student Society...assin. A gentoo box built for hosting a website for Asian Student Interest Advocates.
My Japanese phone has an option called "manner mode" that has a dedicated button on the side of the chassis that eliminates all potential for being cell-phone-rude. Some societies find phone clicking etc kind of annoying? Let's say I'd rather not bother people while clicking away at the museum etc. Am I a criminal? Would I be a criminal just for carrying my phone since its tone can be disabled?
This is a redundant law anyway. If the photos were being taken of something inappropriate and for illegal usage, the "artist" is already a criminal. As prevention, the existence of a manner mode option on my other phone demonstrates how out of step the legislation is with other concerns of the ordinary citizen.
Lastly, tell me this isn't national legislation. Surely there is something better to be done than trying to eliminate the wave of opportunistic camera-phone wielders waiting for that perfect chance to slip a shot that will put smiles on coworkers' faces...like fighting obesity so said pervs will be taking more flattering pictures on their ninja phones? Economy? Anyone?
Oh my God...fire them all.
Is this some new attempt to link marijuana to unrelated deaths as to unfairly associate the plant with vice and decay in an effort to reinforce the cult of marijuana prohibition?
I got news for you. People don't die on Everest because of weed. People reach nirvana on Everest and decide not to come down.
We should leave their frozen bodies and perhaps hold pilgrimages to clear the snow from their eyes once a year.
Yeah.....I was born with a genetic disorder where my fat cells will starve the rest of my body of nutrients to preserve themselves.
I ate rice and a few eggs and peanuts for one month when I was completely totally flat broke. I always breakdance. My weight never seemed to fluctuate before, but I also used to have a chin. I flattened out somewhere around "lean" and have become slightly more typical for me since getting back to the states. It seems like weight isn't all that influenced by diet to a point, but the when the laws of thermodynamics take over, body fat loses.^_^
Not to troll, but being one of the many people who felt the pain as Hector started spinning more and more BS storms to hide the fact that AMD never came up with a good product after K8 and failed time after time to finally capitalize on their gains, I'm glad AMD is finally going to chop itself up.
Conference call after conference call investors were told everything was okay. AMD did some good things for themselves when they let Intel fly into the sun while they held back on GHz and finally got the performance-per-watt metric to stick and won a lot of respect in the industry.
AMD followed up by flying straight into the sun and insisting that their architecture was fundamentally better and that true-quad-core was the way to go while Intel kept making good chips and lo and behold nobody cared if they were dual-die packages or not. AMD didn't have the production capability to fabricate such a part and committed product-pipeline suicide. They lead investors and wall street to believe they had a chance. Conference call after conference call they told the world it was going to be okay.
In the end, Intel's architectures are superior on the right counts. They've done a great job at getting the most out of their transistors with the shared cache architectures. AMD should have followed step, but either couldn't keep up or didn't allocate the resources right. Either way we ended up with a transistor monster in K10 that was hard to produce, buggy, and didn't offer the performance. Shame on Hector for flogging the dead horse.
This particular example doesn't have me excited, but shouldn't be barking cold fusion at the idea like it's a thermodynamic impossibility.
Split water with endothermic catalysis process. Temperature of the water goes down as the hydrogen and oxygen are released. Ambient heat of the surroundings drives the splitting of the water. Burn the hydrogen and oxygen to do work.
What part about that would be impossible? Take another look at some cold-fusion claims too. Nobody's saying they have built a reactor yet, but not everything is thermodynamically/physically impossible when you stop making assumptions about the entire cycle.
Airwave hosts small networks at residential complexes (apartments, condos, etc). They have very similar behavior to what you're describing about Comcast. Downloads will go very fast unless they go on for an extended period. Browsing and other small traffic is incredibly fast.
Although the feature is very handy so that browsing traffic and other light average bandwidth applications get high speed, I also noticed I can do speed tests up to about 760kbps down and 200kbps up. Never in the last six months of using this connection for any application whatsoever have I observed speeds that fast to any server at any time for any duration. This includes transferring files to a server on campus nearby. Not for the first second even. To test to see if they were simply allowing speed test traffic to be un-throttled, I left a download going for an extended time (as usual speed decayed over time to a minimum of about 15kbps) and then opened a speed test. >1MBps up 200kbps down. My conclusion from repeating this several times is that Airwave is in fact giving bias to speed test sites in order to distort users' perceptions of their connection capabilities. Airwave isn't a large operation, but it goes to show that this kind of behavior is happening.
I should mention that Sprint is the ISP who hosts the T1 line(s) connecting our network in the complex to the internet.
Redundant and wrong. My keitai was built around the qualcomm 3g cdma chip. GSM is only a standard in Europe. Someone else already mentioned that they use multiple standards in Japan as well.
Canadians.