It's reading things like this that help put my little worldview in perspective. I'm out in the sticks of Eastern Washington (the state), earning ~52k writing software, paying 645 for a two-bed, and maybe a mile from the Columbia River and the mess of parks cluttering the shore.
I'm not sure if the EPA, DOE, or USPS would slap you harder for sending radioactive waste through the mail, but it'd be pretty funny to see. I hear the USPS spooks mean business, and even the ninjas wake up in a cold sweat after USPS spook nightmares.
What kind of a smart, beautiful woman with an interest in world conflict and politics wouldn't want to marry an easily guided politician and aim to steer him towards positions of political clout? She's probably closer to the front lines of politics where she is now than she'd be in Zimbabwe, Iraq, or China... longer life span, too.
"A million billion" is 10^6 * 10^9 = 10^15... we also call that "a quadrillion".
I'd be pretty excited about studying these things, were I a physical scientist. When you get some massively powerful EMF, electrons and protons must have very "interesting" behavior.
Frequently the measurements from the control centers gets shipped to other locations. Holes get punched in firewalls to distribute this data, and it's safe to say that there are IT workers out there who don't know enough about properly securing networks.
In other cases, the particular control system could just be a digital switch for a breaker for line X. Sure, it's no more complicated than a big switch, but those 245kV lines tend to be pretty inconvenient to trip.
Although AMD seems to be in a bit of a bind on all marketing fronts, I don't see how this will positively affect their business. They'll have to pitch it pretty hard to get vendors to sign on, and most "gamers" are pretty familiar with the hardware offerings. The types who don't research what they're buying, but instead grab something off the shelf without asking pointed questions about the power supply and specific slots, probably are looking for a home computer more than a game playing device. There's a lot of information out there to anyone who wants to see even rudimentary benchmarks.
If they *are* able to sell their services, though, more power to them. I'm kinda disappointed with their latest offerings, but I must say that the new Intel Q6600 is keeping pace with my 5600 in everything that was CPU-bound or single-core'd.
'course, all those galaxies would still fit if you DIDN'T move the supermassive black hole first. You'd just have to remove "comfortably" from the statement.
C/C++ won't be going anywhere fast.
* There's too much code written in both languages.
* There's NO CHANCE (imo) that anyone is going to write a kernel with code the plays with the memory behind the scenes. That's what the kernel's there for.
* "If it works, don't fix it." See old FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, and other "dead/dying" languages that are still being used in industries because it'd cost more to replace everything than it's worth to update it ~ and in downtime & support costs more than direct dev costs.
* "Fashionable" languages may affect the language choice, but do not affect task requirements. Construction workers don't wear hard hats because it's fashionable to do so.
I don't think Intel will be able to kill AMD ~ we have these funny anticompetition clauses if Intel tries to burn AMD. They'll keep pace and offer comparable products, albeit with the smaller fab processes and the seemingly better design, but they won't jump ahead. The FTC would come down on Intel like a bag of bricks.
AMD needs to stay floating and push to the 45mm, and figure out the tricks to make their designs just as efficient, if they want to reclaim market share.
I can see this being a practical medium for high-voltage transmission just as soon as they solve the problem with pipes being vulnerable to puncture and explosions. Any sort of grid using that stuff would probably be a giant "sabotage me!" sign for all sorts of malcontents and terrorists (though I hate to use the word).
A quick check says that 10 euros is US$15. Let's look at some interesting metrics.
* My 10 meg cable is $50/month or so * My rent is $645/month * My car payment is $420/month * Dinner and a good beer at the pub is about $15-20 * This service would cost $450/month
So, "internet freedom" would cost 2/3rds of a month of rent, as much as eating dinner out almost every day, nine times what my statically located service is (where I spend most of my time), and would give me little benefit compared to making a car payment.
I think "just 10 euros" are much better spent on practical things.
Most of these "flaws" were likely caused by some programmer who made it work and had more interest in getting something off his list than interest in "furthering the visibility of Microsoft products".
Not everyone likes to speculate on the backstory, though, so I guess the gov't gets to run around with this 'til they're happy, whether or not it does anything really constructive.
"Meanwhile, how much of the plutonium-238 the United States has at its disposal was not immediately clear. DOE reported in 2005 that its inventory stood at 39.5 kilograms, with U.S. national security customers and NASA expected to consume all but 6.5 kilograms by 2010."
NASA, obviously, is shooting plutonium battery packs into space with their exploration craft. But "national security customers"? Does anyone know what sort of national security interests are consuming plutonium? I'm guessing they're not going to the Ghostbuster's proton packs...
"If you don't want it known, don't use the phone."
I don't think there's anything wrong with visiting the link -- they set it up in the clear. The wrong is with the way MobiTV implemented it, which is their own fault. Using the legal system as a hammer is an improper solution when your product doesn't work as you expect it to. You shouldn't use lawyers to fix a development problem.
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It's reading things like this that help put my little worldview in perspective. I'm out in the sticks of Eastern Washington (the state), earning ~52k writing software, paying 645 for a two-bed, and maybe a mile from the Columbia River and the mess of parks cluttering the shore.
I'm not sure if the EPA, DOE, or USPS would slap you harder for sending radioactive waste through the mail, but it'd be pretty funny to see. I hear the USPS spooks mean business, and even the ninjas wake up in a cold sweat after USPS spook nightmares.
Whatever happened to "by the people, for the people"?
What kind of a smart, beautiful woman with an interest in world conflict and politics wouldn't want to marry an easily guided politician and aim to steer him towards positions of political clout? She's probably closer to the front lines of politics where she is now than she'd be in Zimbabwe, Iraq, or China... longer life span, too.
...if this gets signed, will it kill off MediaDefender's business model?
First we got Rick Rolled.
Now we're going to get Rick Perry'ed.
What is the internet coming to?!
"A million billion" is 10^6 * 10^9 = 10^15 ... we also call that "a quadrillion".
I'd be pretty excited about studying these things, were I a physical scientist. When you get some massively powerful EMF, electrons and protons must have very "interesting" behavior.
So, a tribe of aboriginals out in the Amazon.
Inquiring minds want to know, what kind of booze do they have?
Wafer thin? Well, maybe we can try plugging in ONE more of them...
Frequently the measurements from the control centers gets shipped to other locations. Holes get punched in firewalls to distribute this data, and it's safe to say that there are IT workers out there who don't know enough about properly securing networks.
In other cases, the particular control system could just be a digital switch for a breaker for line X. Sure, it's no more complicated than a big switch, but those 245kV lines tend to be pretty inconvenient to trip.
Although AMD seems to be in a bit of a bind on all marketing fronts, I don't see how this will positively affect their business. They'll have to pitch it pretty hard to get vendors to sign on, and most "gamers" are pretty familiar with the hardware offerings. The types who don't research what they're buying, but instead grab something off the shelf without asking pointed questions about the power supply and specific slots, probably are looking for a home computer more than a game playing device. There's a lot of information out there to anyone who wants to see even rudimentary benchmarks.
If they *are* able to sell their services, though, more power to them. I'm kinda disappointed with their latest offerings, but I must say that the new Intel Q6600 is keeping pace with my 5600 in everything that was CPU-bound or single-core'd.
Why? California wouldn't notice anything over the rock concerts and the bar bands.
'course, all those galaxies would still fit if you DIDN'T move the supermassive black hole first. You'd just have to remove "comfortably" from the statement.
"C++ is dying". Next!
C/C++ won't be going anywhere fast.
* There's too much code written in both languages.
* There's NO CHANCE (imo) that anyone is going to write a kernel with code the plays with the memory behind the scenes. That's what the kernel's there for.
* "If it works, don't fix it." See old FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, and other "dead/dying" languages that are still being used in industries because it'd cost more to replace everything than it's worth to update it ~ and in downtime & support costs more than direct dev costs.
* "Fashionable" languages may affect the language choice, but do not affect task requirements. Construction workers don't wear hard hats because it's fashionable to do so.
...how many times have you read Snow Crash in the last week?
Sorry, I think the Greeks were doing that with Zeus. You're a few thousand years late.
how many steps does it take to boot up Linux on a Rube Goldberg machine?
I don't think Intel will be able to kill AMD ~ we have these funny anticompetition clauses if Intel tries to burn AMD. They'll keep pace and offer comparable products, albeit with the smaller fab processes and the seemingly better design, but they won't jump ahead. The FTC would come down on Intel like a bag of bricks.
AMD needs to stay floating and push to the 45mm, and figure out the tricks to make their designs just as efficient, if they want to reclaim market share.
'Engineers make good terrorists because they're smart.'
Can we flip this to 'liberal art students make poor terrorists because they're disorganized and irrational'?
I can see this being a practical medium for high-voltage transmission just as soon as they solve the problem with pipes being vulnerable to puncture and explosions. Any sort of grid using that stuff would probably be a giant "sabotage me!" sign for all sorts of malcontents and terrorists (though I hate to use the word).
A quick check says that 10 euros is US$15. Let's look at some interesting metrics.
* My 10 meg cable is $50/month or so
* My rent is $645/month
* My car payment is $420/month
* Dinner and a good beer at the pub is about $15-20
* This service would cost $450/month
So, "internet freedom" would cost 2/3rds of a month of rent, as much as eating dinner out almost every day, nine times what my statically located service is (where I spend most of my time), and would give me little benefit compared to making a car payment.
I think "just 10 euros" are much better spent on practical things.
Most of these "flaws" were likely caused by some programmer who made it work and had more interest in getting something off his list than interest in "furthering the visibility of Microsoft products".
Not everyone likes to speculate on the backstory, though, so I guess the gov't gets to run around with this 'til they're happy, whether or not it does anything really constructive.
"Meanwhile, how much of the plutonium-238 the United States has at its disposal was not immediately clear. DOE reported in 2005 that its inventory stood at 39.5 kilograms, with U.S. national security customers and NASA expected to consume all but 6.5 kilograms by 2010."
NASA, obviously, is shooting plutonium battery packs into space with their exploration craft. But "national security customers"? Does anyone know what sort of national security interests are consuming plutonium? I'm guessing they're not going to the Ghostbuster's proton packs...
Naw, then you're making something out of wedlock. (ba-dum ching)
"If you don't want it known, don't use the phone."
I don't think there's anything wrong with visiting the link -- they set it up in the clear. The wrong is with the way MobiTV implemented it, which is their own fault. Using the legal system as a hammer is an improper solution when your product doesn't work as you expect it to. You shouldn't use lawyers to fix a development problem.