Fusion thus far has been a total dead end. Christ, you invoke science, and then advocate something we can't even make produce energy even the slightest bit greater than the energy we put into it.
So let me get this straight. Rather than pursuing a course that at least will stop things from getting worse, you want to embark on a geo-engineering exercise of the Earth's oceans, for which we have little or no technology capable of doing it, and don't even know what the long term effects are.
It's like a guy going "Geez, my engine's seized, but rather than pay to have it rebuilt, because that's kind of expensive, I'm going to put a warp engine in instead."
But this is so typical of the AGW skeptics in general. It does not matter at all whether what they post is true, or even makes sense. All that is required is that it raises some sort of doubt. Of course anyone who has any fucking brains at all knows that water expands, but I'll wager right now that six months down the road when a similar article comes along, this meme will be repeated.
Because, of course, the laws of nature obey your political ideology.
Here's news, moron, the Universe doesn't give a fuck about Liberal vs. Conservative, Socialist vs. Capitalist. It does not fucking care. If pumping millions of years of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere in the space of two centuries is going to cause serious climactic changes, it is absolutely fucking irrelevant who you fucking vote for, or whether you masturbate to Vladimir Lenin or Ayn Rand.
Fucking hell, you ideological fanatics are a tiresome, mentally handicapped lot. Don't like evolution because you think it falsifies your religion. Don't like acid rain or climate change because it means there are consequences to wide-scale and uncontrolled industrial activity. Don't like regulations because it kills your particular get-rich-quick-while-fucking-the-economy scheme.
Is there any part of you at all that isn't a selfish, greedy piece of stupidity? Is there any part of you that gives the least little fuck for anyone other than yourself? Or are you really the vile repugnant sociopathic troll you appear?
It is an accounting term. It means to essentially zero the value of an investment or debt; a credit to assets (reducing the company's worth) and a debit to some sort of expense account (thus reducing the company's net income). A good example is customer debts you may be carrying (Accounts Receivable). At some point, particularly if the debts are small, or attempts at collection have failed, you're not going to want to keep that asset on the books (seeing as you never actually were able to convert the customer debt into cash, and have been paying income tax on it), so you write it off as a bad debt (a credit to Accounts Receivable and a debit to Bad Debts Expense).
Now, obviously in the case of a very large corporation, where individual units may operate as autonomous or semi-autonomous interests in their own right, the accounting becomes much more complicated, but at the end of the day, a write off of an investment means to remove it from the books by reducing to zero whatever is left in the Balance Sheet.
Any physical assets like buildings, equipment and so forth, would be another set of accounting operations, depending on their value. Either they'll be sold off, disposed of or absorbed by the larger operating unit.
I may be a little dense here, but I can't figure out why you would be exposing your VM host in such a fashion that you would need some special security measures. I'm just running KVM, and my hosts sit on the internal network. When I need direct access to virsh it's via SSH and if I need direct access to a guest's console it's via VNC over SSH. Moving guests around isn't really different than any other sort of network traffic, and is done via encrypted connections. Individual guests (like a mail server or web server) may in fact be accessible to the larger network or even to the Internet via the firewall, but I certainly wouldn't make the VM hosts themselves accessible in this way.
I'm really just trying to sort out why this is some sort of unique situation. Why would I need to do anything more spectacular for a Xen or VMWare host than I would for, say, an Active Directory domain controller? In both cases you have a control panel that can make very substantial changes to servers and networks via network protocols, so you don't do things like open the TCP or UDP ports to the outside world.
So far as I'm aware they exist in all Common Law jurisdictions. If you came into possession of stolen property you are obligated to return it to the owner if he can identify it. If you want your money back, you'll have to go after the guy that sold you the goods. To withhold those goods is unlawful.
Good grief, it hasn't been that long. The antitrust case didn't start over IE, it started because Microsoft threatened to withhold OEM pricing from any manufacturer who chose to install Netscape on new computers. This was after they had already been nailed for doing the same damned thing over Dr. DOS a few years before.
The abuse of monopoly was over OEM pricing. Because OEM copies of Windows are so significantly discounted, it was a clear case of a use of monopoly.
My latest builds were three Mini-ITX VIA boards; two are 1ghz VIA Centaurs and one is a 1.2ghz VIA Nano (the latter because I need to run a couple of KVM guests). They're fanless and I'm using 60gb SSD drives, because the idea is not only relatively low power, but no moving parts, as two of them are located about 60 miles away over some pretty nasty roads, so I want to reduce the likelihood of having to go out there to swap out power supplies or drives.
I did set up a WAN with three Tomato-upgraded Asus routers, and that worked very well, but because I'm running servers, I think they'd be a little under-powered for that purpose.
That's why I build my own from a very basic Debian install. Since most of the routers out there are just embedded Linux boxes using iptables, why would I pay for what I can build for free. If I'm looking for high capacity stuff like Cisco's real offerings, I doubt I'll be running up against his problem anyways.
AGW is the consensus view of an overwhelming number of climatologists and researchers in related fields. As I always say, the Universe doesn't give a fuck about the Third World, about your particular favorite socio-economic philosophical stance, about whether gas is cheap or expensive. If AGW is happening, your political leanings mean absolutely fucking nothing.
Slashdot is a place where cowardly racist fucktards post with impunity. I hope you die of the most horrific cancer one can imagine, so that your flesh falls off in chunks and you smell like a rotting corpse, so that even your wife has to leave you because your body has become as vile and evil as your mind.
Or to use a mixed car-superhero analogy, if you're parked in a parking lot when the Incredible Hulk goes on a car-smashing spree, can you be held liable for the other cars being smashed?
Right now it sure would, but write back in 75 or a 100 years, when we've exhausted most of our oil reserves and polluted most of the groundwater with fracking, and the price of oil reaches obscene heights, then it might make a lot more sense.
Which is odd, because the one thing Titan has plenty of is hydrocarbons, so you would think it would be of very great interest in the long-term as a potential source.
More like "RIM takes on on the chin, and is down for the count, and doctors are confirming, RIM is dead. Oh the humanity! Will anyone buy RIM's boxing shorts?"
The one thing it underlines is just how poorly thought out PHP's libraries and behavior really was. That we're still dealing with these bizarre issues after all these years shows you the extent of the problem. The other side of the coin is the PHP team always has a pat answer for these issues, and seems profoundly unwilling to do what many library maintainers over the decades have finally decided to do; and that is to clean up the mess. Pick the next major release, create a consistent library that is sane and predictable and doesn't constantly require running to the references because for this weirdo function, a specific argument is first, but another it's the second. Deprecate all existing functions that don't fit with whatever it is you choose, giving developers time to fix their code, and then, on the release after that, dump the deprecated functions entirely.
Yes I know, we'll have a great hue and cry, but so be it. At some point you want to bring the beast under control, otherwise it just gets worse and worse, and no one can deny that PHP's libraries have been getting more clogged with crap, even as the core language itself becomes at least a tolerable C-like language. If someone two releases down the road still requires PHP 4 support, that's tough. Other library maintainers have drawn lines in the sand. Even Windows x64 doesn't have support for Win16, because there has to be some sane limit to how long you support legacy cruft.
Millions of lines of fine, historic code were written in COBOL, but I don't exactly here anyone declaring it a wondrous language.
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It's a broken tool that one has to put a considerable amount of effort into to write tolerably decent apps. It's libraries couldn't be worse than if someone took a print out of the specs, stuck dynamite in the middle and then tried to reassemble them. Coding in PHP has got to be one of the miserable experiences I have had, the only thing being worse is trying to fix someone else's PHP code.
Yup, apart from all the other absurdities, PHP's library just plain sucks. Inconsistent with loads of functionality duplication. I realize that a lot of this baggage is due to backwards compatibility, but the time has come to toss the cruft, come up with a new library.
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Fusion thus far has been a total dead end. Christ, you invoke science, and then advocate something we can't even make produce energy even the slightest bit greater than the energy we put into it.
Translation: The scientists aren't telling me what I want to hear, therefore they must be wrong.
So let me get this straight. Rather than pursuing a course that at least will stop things from getting worse, you want to embark on a geo-engineering exercise of the Earth's oceans, for which we have little or no technology capable of doing it, and don't even know what the long term effects are.
It's like a guy going "Geez, my engine's seized, but rather than pay to have it rebuilt, because that's kind of expensive, I'm going to put a warp engine in instead."
But this is so typical of the AGW skeptics in general. It does not matter at all whether what they post is true, or even makes sense. All that is required is that it raises some sort of doubt. Of course anyone who has any fucking brains at all knows that water expands, but I'll wager right now that six months down the road when a similar article comes along, this meme will be repeated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion#Expansion_in_liquids
Translation: You're a fucking idiot.
Because, of course, the laws of nature obey your political ideology.
Here's news, moron, the Universe doesn't give a fuck about Liberal vs. Conservative, Socialist vs. Capitalist. It does not fucking care. If pumping millions of years of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere in the space of two centuries is going to cause serious climactic changes, it is absolutely fucking irrelevant who you fucking vote for, or whether you masturbate to Vladimir Lenin or Ayn Rand.
Fucking hell, you ideological fanatics are a tiresome, mentally handicapped lot. Don't like evolution because you think it falsifies your religion. Don't like acid rain or climate change because it means there are consequences to wide-scale and uncontrolled industrial activity. Don't like regulations because it kills your particular get-rich-quick-while-fucking-the-economy scheme.
Is there any part of you at all that isn't a selfish, greedy piece of stupidity? Is there any part of you that gives the least little fuck for anyone other than yourself? Or are you really the vile repugnant sociopathic troll you appear?
It is an accounting term. It means to essentially zero the value of an investment or debt; a credit to assets (reducing the company's worth) and a debit to some sort of expense account (thus reducing the company's net income). A good example is customer debts you may be carrying (Accounts Receivable). At some point, particularly if the debts are small, or attempts at collection have failed, you're not going to want to keep that asset on the books (seeing as you never actually were able to convert the customer debt into cash, and have been paying income tax on it), so you write it off as a bad debt (a credit to Accounts Receivable and a debit to Bad Debts Expense).
Now, obviously in the case of a very large corporation, where individual units may operate as autonomous or semi-autonomous interests in their own right, the accounting becomes much more complicated, but at the end of the day, a write off of an investment means to remove it from the books by reducing to zero whatever is left in the Balance Sheet.
Any physical assets like buildings, equipment and so forth, would be another set of accounting operations, depending on their value. Either they'll be sold off, disposed of or absorbed by the larger operating unit.
I may be a little dense here, but I can't figure out why you would be exposing your VM host in such a fashion that you would need some special security measures. I'm just running KVM, and my hosts sit on the internal network. When I need direct access to virsh it's via SSH and if I need direct access to a guest's console it's via VNC over SSH. Moving guests around isn't really different than any other sort of network traffic, and is done via encrypted connections. Individual guests (like a mail server or web server) may in fact be accessible to the larger network or even to the Internet via the firewall, but I certainly wouldn't make the VM hosts themselves accessible in this way.
I'm really just trying to sort out why this is some sort of unique situation. Why would I need to do anything more spectacular for a Xen or VMWare host than I would for, say, an Active Directory domain controller? In both cases you have a control panel that can make very substantial changes to servers and networks via network protocols, so you don't do things like open the TCP or UDP ports to the outside world.
So far as I'm aware they exist in all Common Law jurisdictions. If you came into possession of stolen property you are obligated to return it to the owner if he can identify it. If you want your money back, you'll have to go after the guy that sold you the goods. To withhold those goods is unlawful.
Good grief, it hasn't been that long. The antitrust case didn't start over IE, it started because Microsoft threatened to withhold OEM pricing from any manufacturer who chose to install Netscape on new computers. This was after they had already been nailed for doing the same damned thing over Dr. DOS a few years before.
The abuse of monopoly was over OEM pricing. Because OEM copies of Windows are so significantly discounted, it was a clear case of a use of monopoly.
My latest builds were three Mini-ITX VIA boards; two are 1ghz VIA Centaurs and one is a 1.2ghz VIA Nano (the latter because I need to run a couple of KVM guests). They're fanless and I'm using 60gb SSD drives, because the idea is not only relatively low power, but no moving parts, as two of them are located about 60 miles away over some pretty nasty roads, so I want to reduce the likelihood of having to go out there to swap out power supplies or drives.
I did set up a WAN with three Tomato-upgraded Asus routers, and that worked very well, but because I'm running servers, I think they'd be a little under-powered for that purpose.
That's why I build my own from a very basic Debian install. Since most of the routers out there are just embedded Linux boxes using iptables, why would I pay for what I can build for free. If I'm looking for high capacity stuff like Cisco's real offerings, I doubt I'll be running up against his problem anyways.
This is a complete falsehood.
I've got to love it. The deniers either deny there is a consensus, or use the consensus to claim a flaw.
Make no mistake. The vast majority of climatologists accept AGW, and the above poster is a lying sack of shit.
AGW is the consensus view of an overwhelming number of climatologists and researchers in related fields. As I always say, the Universe doesn't give a fuck about the Third World, about your particular favorite socio-economic philosophical stance, about whether gas is cheap or expensive. If AGW is happening, your political leanings mean absolutely fucking nothing.
Because of course industrialized nations don't rely at all on the resources from "third world hell holes", as you put it.
Windows?
Slashdot is a place where cowardly racist fucktards post with impunity. I hope you die of the most horrific cancer one can imagine, so that your flesh falls off in chunks and you smell like a rotting corpse, so that even your wife has to leave you because your body has become as vile and evil as your mind.
Or to use a mixed car-superhero analogy, if you're parked in a parking lot when the Incredible Hulk goes on a car-smashing spree, can you be held liable for the other cars being smashed?
Right now it sure would, but write back in 75 or a 100 years, when we've exhausted most of our oil reserves and polluted most of the groundwater with fracking, and the price of oil reaches obscene heights, then it might make a lot more sense.
Which is odd, because the one thing Titan has plenty of is hydrocarbons, so you would think it would be of very great interest in the long-term as a potential source.
More like "RIM takes on on the chin, and is down for the count, and doctors are confirming, RIM is dead. Oh the humanity! Will anyone buy RIM's boxing shorts?"
The one thing it underlines is just how poorly thought out PHP's libraries and behavior really was. That we're still dealing with these bizarre issues after all these years shows you the extent of the problem. The other side of the coin is the PHP team always has a pat answer for these issues, and seems profoundly unwilling to do what many library maintainers over the decades have finally decided to do; and that is to clean up the mess. Pick the next major release, create a consistent library that is sane and predictable and doesn't constantly require running to the references because for this weirdo function, a specific argument is first, but another it's the second. Deprecate all existing functions that don't fit with whatever it is you choose, giving developers time to fix their code, and then, on the release after that, dump the deprecated functions entirely.
Yes I know, we'll have a great hue and cry, but so be it. At some point you want to bring the beast under control, otherwise it just gets worse and worse, and no one can deny that PHP's libraries have been getting more clogged with crap, even as the core language itself becomes at least a tolerable C-like language. If someone two releases down the road still requires PHP 4 support, that's tough. Other library maintainers have drawn lines in the sand. Even Windows x64 doesn't have support for Win16, because there has to be some sane limit to how long you support legacy cruft.
Millions of lines of fine, historic code were written in COBOL, but I don't exactly here anyone declaring it a wondrous language.
It's a broken tool that one has to put a considerable amount of effort into to write tolerably decent apps. It's libraries couldn't be worse than if someone took a print out of the specs, stuck dynamite in the middle and then tried to reassemble them. Coding in PHP has got to be one of the miserable experiences I have had, the only thing being worse is trying to fix someone else's PHP code.
Yup, apart from all the other absurdities, PHP's library just plain sucks. Inconsistent with loads of functionality duplication. I realize that a lot of this baggage is due to backwards compatibility, but the time has come to toss the cruft, come up with a new library.