Can we have some ponies and free money in your utopia as well? Nobody uses pesticides for shits and giggles ya know, without them the price of food would go WAY up because of crop losses and frankly the poor are already barely hanging on by a thread. As for chemicals in the water...can I have a pink unicorn? Because in case you ain't kept up with current events because we have so many people on meds you can't hardly find a drop of water anywhere short of the poles that doesn't have everything from birth control hormones to heart meds in it, hence why we need to put shit to try and clean out as much of the crap as possible.
I mean sure we'd all like to live in your little utopia, and if we slaughtered....ohh I'd say about 65% of the population on this planet it'd be doable for at least 300 years or so. So you gonna be digging the holes cause that's a shitload of bodies you are gonna have to pile up.
Well considering I'm practically a clone of my father (as he was of his and on through the line, I swear the first one of us that climbed down from the trees probably had my face) and he ended up in the hospital fighting for every breath while what I got wasn't more than the sniffles so that frankly is proof enough for me.
If you don't want it? Don't take it, not like they are sticking a gun to your head ya know.
Sure it would...and it would also probably get you a couple years in the gulag as a "spy for the CIA" for your trouble.
Frankly anybody that goes to that country deserves what they get, sorry but they do. Its no different than the USSR under Stalin's cult of personality and your "rights" are there only at the whim of the regime.
Well I got it after the flu shot but frankly it was VERY mild and only lasted a few days, those i know that got it and didn't get the shot were sick as dogs for a couple weeks and felt weak for a couple more. All in all I'd rather have 3 days of low grade fever and just feeling slightly run down over puking in a bucket and feeling like I been hit by a truck for a month.
Maybe you're different, maybe you are lucky or never work around people, who knows but I have elderly parents that have weak immune systems so I'd get the shot for them if not for myself anyway as it lowers their risk.
Insightful? Really? I take you haven't seen all the flu shot stands in places like the mall and Wally World, you know, where people are gonna go anyway to do their shopping? Its not like you have to go to a doctor's office just to get a flu shot anymore.
Dude are you trolling? Or have you just been an uber nerd so damned long you don't know any better? You know how easy the new routers are to set up? Its "Insert CD, clicky clicky next next next" and THAT IS IT. Hell many of them have basic Android and iPhone apps or websites that will hold your little hand and walk you through setting up the router without having to know more than how to push the button.
But this same attitude is why Linux goes nowhere, they go "Open just open up Bash and type" followed by a string of gibberish THEY understand which HAS TO BE TWEAKED for the situation but since THEY know how to tweak it because they've spent countless hours fiddling with the damned thing that means Sally and Grandpa can do it too...bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit and be no different than me handing you an electric bass which you had never touched in your life and saying "Play Freewill by Rush. What do you mean you can't? I can play it so should you" while ignoring I've played bass for 25+ years while you have never even tuned the instrument.
Actually you ALMOST had it then it slipped through your fingers. See the difference is thanks to the bigger budgets the pros can hire focus groups and experts in UI design whereas with FOSS we have seen time and time again programmers make for lousy UI designers because the skills to make a good UI are different than the skills for making a good stable program and without the big budget they can't afford to bring in guys that know how to make easy to use UIs.
And that is the problem in a nutshell, the activist comes to cash in on the free publicity which helps their fundraisers and turns what could have been a discussion into a war, turns what was a local tragedy like the Martin case into "an event" where millions in property destroyed from the looting and riots,
The ability to turn anything into a cause has allowed the rise of "professional activism" which like any other profession cares more about its bottom line than it does actually getting anything done. there is a reason why many of the founders of Greepeace want nothing to do with the org and the founder of MADD actively campaigns against the org they built, and that is because they have been taken over by professional activists that care more about shit stirring for profit than in actual results.
I mean just look at how the current leaders of MADD have come out on TV and basically said there should be zero tolerance for alcohol. Think they never heard of prohibition? Think they don't know that banning a drug only creates black markets? of course they know that but the point of the statement was NOT to get alcohol banned, its to keep shit stirred because controversy equals more press which equals more money for lectures and books. Its all bullshit and kayfabe now and they don't give a shit if the NIMBY attitude or shit stirring causes REAL harm, as long as they can get paid.
I agree they should tell the truth and the WHOLE truth but the simple fact is the ones who got the flu that had the shot (myself included) frankly didn't get all that sick, yes some folks ended up in the hospital but those were the ones that were already weak as hell to begin with, whereas those I saw who got the flu WITHOUT the shot ended up puking like a buzzard and had a hell of a time getting over it.
So I gotta agree both with the AC and the CDC, they need to tell folks that the shot alone isn't a magic bullet but at the same time having some immunity is better than none, especially if you aren't weak to begin with and will be able to fight it off. lets face it folks, somebody that is already immuno-compromised isn't gonna build up much in the way of antibodies even if you gave them a flu shot every week and there are a LOT of older folks out there that take meds that weaken the immune system, either on purpose as with the arthritis drugs or as a side effect so that too needs to be taken into account.
But I can tell you that I was sure as hell glad I got my flu shot when the worst I got was a fever of 101 and slightly sick at the stomach while those around me were at death's door for a good week and a half, mine only lasted 3 days and all I needed was a Z-Pac for the sinus infection I ended up with (which I get sinus infections at the drop of a hat so that was expected) and I was right as rain in less than 7 days, those around me that didn't have the shot were sick for a couple of weeks and felt weak for a good week or two after that.
Sorry I can't remember the name, i think it was an animal name, cougar or panther or something. The only reason i mention it was because I saw a video where the enemy set off a hell of an IED under one and while it trashed the tires and caused serious (but fixable) damage every single soldier walked away with nothing worse than a bruise or two from bouncing around inside.
But if they can do the same thing with an M113? great, all for it, the M113 is like a Ford truck, nothing fancy but reliable as hell and gets the job done. You compare it to the AK but it always reminded me of the way my grandfather described the "ma Deuce" 50 cal, cheap, reliable, and always ready to go. he said in WWII they stuck those things everywhere and on everything just because they were so dependable and affordable, just as we've had a ton of variants of the M113 because its such a reliable base to build upon.
But again sadly Ike was right nobody cares about affordable or reliable because its all about milking the contracts. Frankly we haven't built anything past the F-Teen series that wasn't insanely over budget and underperforming, this is no accident because the MIC can milk the cost overruns and get paid even if the thing never goes into production. i believe it was you that pointed me to the excellent "Failed Tanks" series (great show BTW, watched every episode) and in every one of the failed American designs it was obvious before it even left the drawing board these things were gonna suck (like sticking an aircraft radar on the Sgt York) but it didn't matter to the MIC because they got paid anyway. What few products they DO deliver end up like the F-22 and F-35, insanely expensive techno turkeys that look great on paper but IRL spend more time in the shop than they do in the air and when you look at how much abuse the Russian designs can take (because in their rough climate they have no choice but to build rugged planes) and its really a bad joke. It reminds me of the AK VS the M16 in Vietnam, they changed powders which fouled and caused the guns to jam like crazy while the VC could drag an AK through the mud, shake it off and start firing.
Frankly we need to go back to the pre WWII way of doing things, where we set out a request and they don't get a check until they can provide us with a finished product. Because as it is they can build the biggest POS on the planet and actually make more money than if they build something cheap and reliable so we are sending the entirely wrong message, what we need is to make it clear we won't put up with these overbudget POS designs anymore, they either provide a working product or they don't get paid PERIOD.
Can we get the ACs banned please? is there a script or checkbox that will JUST block ACs while not blocking downmodded comments by actual users?
Because if you had bothered to read the actual post you were responding to I said quite clearly they sold him a booster for the shop and a mini-tower for his home because he was too far from the tower for the booster to help.
So if anybody knows how to filter out all the AC prattle without blocking those with UID (preferably something that works with Chrome if its browser based) I'd appreciate it, because I swear the ACs are getting as thick as Zombies in a Romero flick around here and are just as dumb.
You joke but there is a reason why China is gonna have 25 new nuclear reactors up and running before we get a single one out of committee and that is because no matter what you propose the NIMBYs will try to cock block. Wind? "It'll spoil our view and kill the birds!" Hydro? "It'll run the flow and hurt the fishies!" No matter what tech you use the NIMBYs will come out and try to cock block you here.
So I doubt even being made in Ohio with Ohio coal will help, the NIMBYs will come try and cock block anything being built there. I swear listening to the NIMBYs you'd think the power fairy was gonna provide our needs, because they sure as fuck don't want a single thing built.
Why is this labeled troll? This is American business in a nutshell since the 80s. Screw the workers, downsize and make whomever is left work 4 jobs while looking to offshore them the second you get a chance while making sure the CEO gets paid better than a rock star. In 1960 the average CEO made 28 times what a line worker did, now its at over 800%! And rising!
And if anybody wants to know WHY America has gotten so fucked up in this case it can be traced back to the government. I'm not the type to blame government for much of anything (other than wasting money, they are great at that) but this video on the stock market by a libertarian of all people (I have never agreed on ANYTHING with a libertarian, I personally believe their idea of "paradise" would lead us right back to feudalism) really points out and backs up with facts where we went wrong and why. Take a look at the graphs starting at around the 3.30 mark, its a real eye opener.
While that is true I think the Blender guys really don't get enough credit. Sure the UI is complex and some might say PITA but when you are dealing with 3D animation frankly its gonna be complex no matter how you slice it and Big Buck Bunny shows that Blender CAN make studio quality animation and at the end of the day its the product that people care about and Blender can obviously make compelling animation.
But you really can't compare something like Maya and Photoshop to a free tool like Blender or Gimp simply because of the difference in budget. I'm sure the Blender and Gimp devs would love to have every feature that their counterparts have but they don't have a fiftieth of the budget that the big boys so one really has to take that into consideration.All in all I think the Blender guys really deserve kudos, they have made a pretty nice tool that anybody can have for free that can make top notch animation if you are willing to put in the time.
No matter how you slice it you're still left with an assload of carbon that has to go SOMEWHERE so what are you gonna do with it? Frankly that's always been the problem, what to do with all the waste that is left over. TFA I notice is awful light on the details about what EXACTLY if left after this chemical burning, is it a paste, a gel, powder, maybe i missed it but I couldn't find any clear answer on that.
But at the end of the day that is still hundreds of tons of waste you are gonna have to put somewhere, the big question is where because as we saw with Yucca flats pretty much any place you pick is gonna have NIMBYs coming out the woodwork so what are you gonna do with it? This is why I've always supported the new nuclear reactors with reprocessing, it lets you re-use as much as possible until the waste is much smaller and has a much lower half life but no matter how you slice it the stuff left over is gonna have to be put somewhere.
But like coal or hate it we are gonna end up having to use at least some of it because our power needs have gone nowhere but up and this at least sounds like the waste is in solid form instead of gas which will make handling and disposal easier, if not politically then at least physically.
I agree its probably best to wait until its moved higher up the chain. the frankly depressing news nobody seems to be talking about is what the "six strikes" crap that the ISPs have wholly embraced is gonna do to free Wifi which is kill it deader than Dixie. If you've looked at their little six strikes plans they don't have any kind of "safe harbor" provisions so all it will take is somebody looking at anything the media corps don't like (because frankly their definition of "infringing" seems to be "anything we don't like or aren't directly profiting from") a couple of times for every coffee shop and food joint to have their free Wifi shut down.
And before anybody says "The ISP wouldn't want to give up those customers!" remember how badly the ISPs have been overselling the hell out of their lines while refusing to use profits for anything but CEO bonuses? Well six strikes gives them the perfect excuse to kick anybody that uses more bandwidth than your average grandma, thus allowing them to keep gouging and overselling while using the profits for bonuses and buying out smaller fish to prop up the stock price.
so while this is good new no need to be patting ourselves on the back just yet, we need to see if it stands up to higher courts and we've seen a LOT more attacks on the Internet by the courts and corps in the past few years than ever before so vigilance is required. I'd suggest everybody sign the petition against CISPA 2.0 and write your lawmakers demanding an end to six strikes and for support of net neutrality.
I've been in the PC biz for over 25 years and been into PCs longer than that so what you are saying? Honestly doesn't surprise me, we saw the same thing for the first 8 years or so with HDDs, they had bad storage designs like MFM and frankly were flaky as hell and just as likely to lose your data as it was to keep it. I know seeing how many drives my gamer customers could go through on SSDs, and its not like they are doing anything seriously stressful, tells me there are some serious fundamental flaws with the tech that nobody has been able to figure out. As I said I don't think its the OS, or the CPU or the mobo chipset, I think it comes down to the controller on the SSD and how its having to constantly lie to the system and remap data. I think the ARM chips they are using for this purpose just isn't able to keep up the load for any real length of time and THAT is why they are failing.
And the one BIG advantage SSDs have for being used as a caching drive is if they fail, who gives a shit? windows 7 cache is also backed up on HDD so if you yank the drive it'll boot just as before, you just won't get the speed boost. This is why you can use Readyboost on a thumbstick as Windows always keeps a backup to the cache on the HDD so if the cache goes it doesn't affect the stability of the system. I already have one customer who does a LOT of graphics and video editing and he says the speedboost is just incredible and he doesn't have any of the risks of dealing with SSD for that boost.
Now as far as the software that comes with caching drives? I haven't heard enough about it one way or another to know if its good or not but just the fact that it takes over from Windows which means Windows won't have a backup cache makes me kinda leery. The graphics guy just told Windows to use the 32Gb drive he picked up as a Readyboost drive and while he says boot isn't much faster (because Windows has to load the OS enough to enable Readyboost) that once its on the desktop his programs just pop and its really helped with his render times.
Anyway I'm glad you found some of the info helpful and if it were me I'd just get a small drive and Readyboost it instead of messing with the vendor's caching software, let Windows handle it and that way there is no risk. I can tell you Readyboost in Win 7 works great, I've placed a fast 4GB USB 2.0 drive in my gaming PC as a Readyboost cache and timing how quickly it takes a game I've played often I'd say its pretty close to 40% or more faster to load by using readyboost than by not and that is on a USB 2.0 line with a lousy 4GB cache. Now if I can see that amount of gains on USB 2.0 with just 4GB, imagine what you'd see on SATA 3 or 6 with 32GB of much faster SSD? And the prices are right, I've seen several at less than $40 that would make good caching drives. Certainly cheaper than a hybrid and with zero risk to data, what could it hurt?
Did you need to be bitchslapped with a citation, fine bitchslapped you are. I quote the very first fucking sentence under PR rating which says, and I quote "The first use of the PR system was in 1996, when AMD used it to assert that their AMD 5x86 processor was as fast as a Pentium running at 75 MHz."
Guess what sparky? They didn't make P2s at 75MHz, that was the P1 hence the P1 PR rating dumbass. Nothing I hate more than children that don't know their fucking history, I was in the biz building and selling systems at that time so i knew damned well what the chips were called because I was ordering them every fucking day. You had Cyrix and WinChip and AMD and they all used the PR P1 rating because people knew WTF a Pentium 1 was and could do, not a Cyrix or WinChip or AMD, hence the WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF A PR RATING!!!
How fucking sad that/. has sunk so low its filled with puppies like fucking Reddit, it just turns my stomach how damned clueless everyone here is becoming. No damned wonder all the greybeards are moving away while the site gets taken over by AC dumbasses such as yourself, none of you have the guts to even stand by your posts because deep down you know you don't know WTF you are talking about!
Sorry I don't know the name of it, you probably do, the new APC with the triangle bottom that diverts blasts from IEDs away from the crew while looking kinda like a big truck? I always thought THAT would be a better platform to build on than the Bradly as its pretty obvious that future wars will end up more in urban areas than in the middle of the desert and that thing had plenty of armor. It also probably wouldn't be a bad idea to come up with a new M113, just give it a beefier powertrain and thicker armor instead of the thin aluminum its got now that forces troops to pile sandbags in the floorboard as the M113 has shown itself to be a pretty reliable unit.
But if you read the reports of the Ontos from the guys actually manning the thing in firefights and they loved it, wide tracks meant it could go anywhere without getting stuck, 6 barrels pretty much made it a guaranteed hit on the first try and it was useful for suppressing enemy troops as well as killing tanks. I agree 100% if they would have spent a little time on R&D that could have been a truly great weapons system. And the Hydra would probably work great as well without blowing the crazy money per shot that the TOW costs. I'll never forget an episode of Dogfights were they read a report from a Phantom pilot who was given the task of testing the first gun mount in combat on the Phantom, it went something like "Splashed 4 MiG 17s, first 2 with missiles and the last 2 with the gun. Cost per MiG with the missiles was $29,000, cost per MiG with the gun was $518 worth of rounds".
But the problem sadly Crosshair is NOBODY gives a shit about actually defending the country because just as Ike tried to warn us the MIC has become this giant money sucking beast which only cares about dragging a project out for as long as it can and milking as much cost overruns as possible. I mean look at the last 3 big projects, the F-22, the F-35, and the stealth destroyer, the F-22 is more of a threat to our pilots than the enemy is, the F-35 in the words of one analyst "can't run, can't fight, can't turn against the latest Russian and Chinese designs and is SEVERELY undergunned compared to the most likely threats and has an extremely limited range" and finally the stealth destroyer that ended up scrapped after several billion down the shitter because it was found to be at risk of rollover in heavy seas and its horribly unreliable gun system would cost more per shot than the harpoon missile!
Frankly all we can hope is that the USA just remains a bully and only picks on goat herders with AKs because if we faced anybody with weapons made in the last 15 years we'd be in trouble. And our reliance on stealth so damned much is really gonna bite us in the ass, its already becoming obsolete as the Russians and Chinese develop ways to track without radar and of course they were able to down an F117 in Bosnia (which if rumors are true that F117 is sitting in a hangar in China along with the stealth drone that came down in Iran) just by going through the entire spectrum until they got lucky. We are falling into the same trap Germany fell into with the V-projects, we are betting the farm on super expensive craft that aren't reliable for shit and will be too expensive to send more than a handful up at a time and will be facing the SU27 and MiG29 which are so cheap just like we did to Germany a future enemy could just fill the sky and spam us off the map.
Riiiight, because Sally Secretary and grandma and grandpa could REALLY set something like that up, geez. This is why Linux never goes anywhere, the FOSSie thinks "If I can do it anybody can" which is complete and total horseshit, that is like saying because your local mechanic can rebuild a car from a rusting hulk into a hot rod you could do so with nothing but the tools and the husk, no instruction needed.
Crap like pfsense is about as user friendly as open heart surgery and if you don't REALLY know what you are doing and have a low level understanding of networking you are just as likely to come up with something worse than what you had because it'll be misconfigured.
As I have said many times what we NEED is something that can be updated via firmware as new threats come out and which has a new more secure form of UPNP so that grandma and Sally can follow the very BASIC instructions and set up their devices to work on it without paying a guy like me a $150+ service call on top of an hourly rate to set the thing up.
So I'm sorry but your "solution" is anything but and would be like saying "To save gas just build your own hybrid" for all the usefullness of it. Unless of course you are just trying to throw names for geek cred, if so congrats, you are a basement nerd that uses products nobody cares about and which has less home users than Solaris.
Are people buying theirs from Radio Shack or something? Because my dad has one, he got it from the cell phone provider so I don't see how anybody would say he would need "permission" from the company that sold it to him, not like they don't know about it. They were more than happy to sell him a booster for his shop and what they called a "mini-tower" for his home which lets him use his DSL instead of their tower because their reception is very poor where he lives. Works great, doesn't have the drop out his HTC experienced when we were trying to run it on his WiFi, all in all he's just thrilled with it.
But to me the FCC is a good example of good intentions that have been allowed to run amok. Originally the FCC had a simple and logical goal, to make sure that our limited spectrum could be used without everybody and their dog tripping over each others signals or worse getting into a "wattage war" and blasting each other with ever louder signals. Now they just butt in where they simply aren't needed, everything from the Janet Jackson nipple slip (ZOMFG kids that have access to the Internet and can see rule 34 on anything might has saw half a titty for a tenth of a second ZOMFG!) and stupid shit like this.
This is why I've tried to warn people who cheered at the ever more intrusive laws against smokers just because they don't like smoking. Government NEVER gets smaller, only bigger and no matter how many times you elect some politician who says "I'm gonna shrink government involvement in your lives" it NEVER happens because it can only grow, it never shrinks. This is a prime example, we've not heard anybody complaining about boosters and with today's blogger culture anything that is even mildly annoying gets ranted about to death, but the FCC hasn't got in anybody's face in awhile so there ya go. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if some company slipped the right person a check so that they could have mandated "interference free" boosters at an inflated price.
Ironically all the fanbois who have made arguments in favor of blocking used games use the "Its no different than Steam!" argument without being willing to accept games are MUCH cheaper on the PC than they are on console and those prices tend to drop a LOT quicker. This is why I don't care about first sale rights when it comes to Steam games as on average I paid less than $15 a pop, many under $7, so what would the resale be? 50c? A buck?
But frankly with the console manufacturers and developers adopting the worst aspects of PC gaming like online passes and long path times without the good like long term MP support and cheaper prices I'm just glad I was able to get my 2 boys off of the consoles. I built the youngest an AMD triple while the oldest got an AMD 6 core from his grandfather so they both have plenty of power and will be able to game for years with nothing more than the occasional $75 GPU upgrade and the MUCH lower prices on steam has easily made them gaming on the PC the cheaper option.
I have a feeling if Sony and MSFT kill first sale we may see another console crash like we saw in 84 as the console gamers I know use trade ins to afford more triple A games and without those trade ins they wouldn't buy a fifth of what they do now. With Steam offering more games than ever and HDMI making it so simple your grandma could hook a PC to a TV maybe its time for yet another PC gaming golden age.
All I know is their stupid DRM has made me say goodbye to the consoles because I just can't stand throwing away hardware which could be re-used but would require a mod chip and soldering iron just to use. i hung onto both my original Xbox and Dreamcast long after those systems were EOL precisely because they had other uses, the Dreamcast made a great emulator and the Xbox made a great SD home theater. If they kill first sale on top of all the other hassles like locked down hardware, higher prices and MP that seems to die a week after the next thing comes out? I have a feeling I won't be the only one passing on these systems. After all both the Xbox Next and PS4 are just PCs with hardware DRM, why not just skip the DRM part and get a cheap PC?
The bigger threat is Sony joining MSFT in trying to outlaw first sale with regards to used games, we can only hope there will be a nice class action lawsuit against both companies if they try to pull that and hopefully the courts will give them a good smack for trying it.
As for the hardware the bigger winner in this round of consoles is obviously AMD who'll have their CPUs, GPUs, or both in 3 out of the 4 consoles with the lone holdout possibly being the steamBox but since we haven't seen any hard specs with the SteamBox who know? maybe they'll be in the SteamBox as well.
The interesting part to me is seeing how they pull heavy gaming on the jaguar which is the replacement for the Bobcat and as such is made for low power at the cost of performance. I also don't think its fair to call either the PS4 or Xbox Next an "octo-core" because the new AMD arches all use "half core" designs that frankly behave more like hyperthreading than true independent cores.
But considering the fact that triple A game development costs are hitting close to 100 million a pop I can see why they didn't go with full cores as the current gen on PC is probably about as good as its gonna get until somebody can figure out how to cut down the crazy development costs so a quad APU with HT should be enough to handle triple A games for quite awhile.
That is why I think we need to build a modern version of the M50 Ontos as it was cheap, reliable, and could pack a serious punch. Today we could probably make a 4 barrel autocannon instead of having it single shot, build them on the Bradley or M113 and you'd have a cheap reliable unit that could punch holes in just about anything you wanted.
But sadly just as our planes get "replaced" with vaporware so too will we keep right on building techno turkeys and betting on the missile to save us, but as you rightly pointed out with new tech like Shtora and reactive armor the days of the missile being a one shot kill no matter what you are facing may well be coming to a close. Frankly our entire strategy (if you wanna call it that, i call it defense contractor payoffs) just makes no sense, we seem to be stuck in a cross between a WWII mindset with regards to carriers (which the latest sea skimmers would make short work of) and a cold war mindset with regards to our air force and neither reflects the shape on the modern battlefield.
At the end of the day we'll just have to hope that the USA only fights goat herders with AKs from now on because if we faced off with a well trained enemy with the latest Russian tech we'd be SOL.
And what we have now is better where more than half of the consumer devices get flaky if you try to have any real security? You know it doesn't matter if its because hackers cracked the chip or because the device just won't hook up as in both cases you are SOL as far as security goes.
But considering how powerful ARM DSPs are now i don't see why you couldn't have one that could be updated through firmware, that way as new advances in encryption came out you could update the device.
as it is now you go right ahead and try to enable MAC filtering and WPA PSK and see how quickly the phones and tablets become paperweights, what good is having security if it results in devices you can no longer use in their intended purpose?
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Can we have some ponies and free money in your utopia as well? Nobody uses pesticides for shits and giggles ya know, without them the price of food would go WAY up because of crop losses and frankly the poor are already barely hanging on by a thread. As for chemicals in the water...can I have a pink unicorn? Because in case you ain't kept up with current events because we have so many people on meds you can't hardly find a drop of water anywhere short of the poles that doesn't have everything from birth control hormones to heart meds in it, hence why we need to put shit to try and clean out as much of the crap as possible.
I mean sure we'd all like to live in your little utopia, and if we slaughtered....ohh I'd say about 65% of the population on this planet it'd be doable for at least 300 years or so. So you gonna be digging the holes cause that's a shitload of bodies you are gonna have to pile up.
Well considering I'm practically a clone of my father (as he was of his and on through the line, I swear the first one of us that climbed down from the trees probably had my face) and he ended up in the hospital fighting for every breath while what I got wasn't more than the sniffles so that frankly is proof enough for me.
If you don't want it? Don't take it, not like they are sticking a gun to your head ya know.
Sure it would...and it would also probably get you a couple years in the gulag as a "spy for the CIA" for your trouble.
Frankly anybody that goes to that country deserves what they get, sorry but they do. Its no different than the USSR under Stalin's cult of personality and your "rights" are there only at the whim of the regime.
Well I got it after the flu shot but frankly it was VERY mild and only lasted a few days, those i know that got it and didn't get the shot were sick as dogs for a couple weeks and felt weak for a couple more. All in all I'd rather have 3 days of low grade fever and just feeling slightly run down over puking in a bucket and feeling like I been hit by a truck for a month.
Maybe you're different, maybe you are lucky or never work around people, who knows but I have elderly parents that have weak immune systems so I'd get the shot for them if not for myself anyway as it lowers their risk.
Insightful? Really? I take you haven't seen all the flu shot stands in places like the mall and Wally World, you know, where people are gonna go anyway to do their shopping? Its not like you have to go to a doctor's office just to get a flu shot anymore.
Dude are you trolling? Or have you just been an uber nerd so damned long you don't know any better? You know how easy the new routers are to set up? Its "Insert CD, clicky clicky next next next" and THAT IS IT. Hell many of them have basic Android and iPhone apps or websites that will hold your little hand and walk you through setting up the router without having to know more than how to push the button.
But this same attitude is why Linux goes nowhere, they go "Open just open up Bash and type" followed by a string of gibberish THEY understand which HAS TO BE TWEAKED for the situation but since THEY know how to tweak it because they've spent countless hours fiddling with the damned thing that means Sally and Grandpa can do it too...bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit and be no different than me handing you an electric bass which you had never touched in your life and saying "Play Freewill by Rush. What do you mean you can't? I can play it so should you" while ignoring I've played bass for 25+ years while you have never even tuned the instrument.
Actually you ALMOST had it then it slipped through your fingers. See the difference is thanks to the bigger budgets the pros can hire focus groups and experts in UI design whereas with FOSS we have seen time and time again programmers make for lousy UI designers because the skills to make a good UI are different than the skills for making a good stable program and without the big budget they can't afford to bring in guys that know how to make easy to use UIs.
And that is the problem in a nutshell, the activist comes to cash in on the free publicity which helps their fundraisers and turns what could have been a discussion into a war, turns what was a local tragedy like the Martin case into "an event" where millions in property destroyed from the looting and riots,
The ability to turn anything into a cause has allowed the rise of "professional activism" which like any other profession cares more about its bottom line than it does actually getting anything done. there is a reason why many of the founders of Greepeace want nothing to do with the org and the founder of MADD actively campaigns against the org they built, and that is because they have been taken over by professional activists that care more about shit stirring for profit than in actual results.
I mean just look at how the current leaders of MADD have come out on TV and basically said there should be zero tolerance for alcohol. Think they never heard of prohibition? Think they don't know that banning a drug only creates black markets? of course they know that but the point of the statement was NOT to get alcohol banned, its to keep shit stirred because controversy equals more press which equals more money for lectures and books. Its all bullshit and kayfabe now and they don't give a shit if the NIMBY attitude or shit stirring causes REAL harm, as long as they can get paid.
I agree they should tell the truth and the WHOLE truth but the simple fact is the ones who got the flu that had the shot (myself included) frankly didn't get all that sick, yes some folks ended up in the hospital but those were the ones that were already weak as hell to begin with, whereas those I saw who got the flu WITHOUT the shot ended up puking like a buzzard and had a hell of a time getting over it.
So I gotta agree both with the AC and the CDC, they need to tell folks that the shot alone isn't a magic bullet but at the same time having some immunity is better than none, especially if you aren't weak to begin with and will be able to fight it off. lets face it folks, somebody that is already immuno-compromised isn't gonna build up much in the way of antibodies even if you gave them a flu shot every week and there are a LOT of older folks out there that take meds that weaken the immune system, either on purpose as with the arthritis drugs or as a side effect so that too needs to be taken into account.
But I can tell you that I was sure as hell glad I got my flu shot when the worst I got was a fever of 101 and slightly sick at the stomach while those around me were at death's door for a good week and a half, mine only lasted 3 days and all I needed was a Z-Pac for the sinus infection I ended up with (which I get sinus infections at the drop of a hat so that was expected) and I was right as rain in less than 7 days, those around me that didn't have the shot were sick for a couple of weeks and felt weak for a good week or two after that.
Sorry I can't remember the name, i think it was an animal name, cougar or panther or something. The only reason i mention it was because I saw a video where the enemy set off a hell of an IED under one and while it trashed the tires and caused serious (but fixable) damage every single soldier walked away with nothing worse than a bruise or two from bouncing around inside.
But if they can do the same thing with an M113? great, all for it, the M113 is like a Ford truck, nothing fancy but reliable as hell and gets the job done. You compare it to the AK but it always reminded me of the way my grandfather described the "ma Deuce" 50 cal, cheap, reliable, and always ready to go. he said in WWII they stuck those things everywhere and on everything just because they were so dependable and affordable, just as we've had a ton of variants of the M113 because its such a reliable base to build upon.
But again sadly Ike was right nobody cares about affordable or reliable because its all about milking the contracts. Frankly we haven't built anything past the F-Teen series that wasn't insanely over budget and underperforming, this is no accident because the MIC can milk the cost overruns and get paid even if the thing never goes into production. i believe it was you that pointed me to the excellent "Failed Tanks" series (great show BTW, watched every episode) and in every one of the failed American designs it was obvious before it even left the drawing board these things were gonna suck (like sticking an aircraft radar on the Sgt York) but it didn't matter to the MIC because they got paid anyway. What few products they DO deliver end up like the F-22 and F-35, insanely expensive techno turkeys that look great on paper but IRL spend more time in the shop than they do in the air and when you look at how much abuse the Russian designs can take (because in their rough climate they have no choice but to build rugged planes) and its really a bad joke. It reminds me of the AK VS the M16 in Vietnam, they changed powders which fouled and caused the guns to jam like crazy while the VC could drag an AK through the mud, shake it off and start firing.
Frankly we need to go back to the pre WWII way of doing things, where we set out a request and they don't get a check until they can provide us with a finished product. Because as it is they can build the biggest POS on the planet and actually make more money than if they build something cheap and reliable so we are sending the entirely wrong message, what we need is to make it clear we won't put up with these overbudget POS designs anymore, they either provide a working product or they don't get paid PERIOD.
Can we get the ACs banned please? is there a script or checkbox that will JUST block ACs while not blocking downmodded comments by actual users?
Because if you had bothered to read the actual post you were responding to I said quite clearly they sold him a booster for the shop and a mini-tower for his home because he was too far from the tower for the booster to help.
So if anybody knows how to filter out all the AC prattle without blocking those with UID (preferably something that works with Chrome if its browser based) I'd appreciate it, because I swear the ACs are getting as thick as Zombies in a Romero flick around here and are just as dumb.
You joke but there is a reason why China is gonna have 25 new nuclear reactors up and running before we get a single one out of committee and that is because no matter what you propose the NIMBYs will try to cock block. Wind? "It'll spoil our view and kill the birds!" Hydro? "It'll run the flow and hurt the fishies!" No matter what tech you use the NIMBYs will come out and try to cock block you here.
So I doubt even being made in Ohio with Ohio coal will help, the NIMBYs will come try and cock block anything being built there. I swear listening to the NIMBYs you'd think the power fairy was gonna provide our needs, because they sure as fuck don't want a single thing built.
Why is this labeled troll? This is American business in a nutshell since the 80s. Screw the workers, downsize and make whomever is left work 4 jobs while looking to offshore them the second you get a chance while making sure the CEO gets paid better than a rock star. In 1960 the average CEO made 28 times what a line worker did, now its at over 800%! And rising!
And if anybody wants to know WHY America has gotten so fucked up in this case it can be traced back to the government. I'm not the type to blame government for much of anything (other than wasting money, they are great at that) but this video on the stock market by a libertarian of all people (I have never agreed on ANYTHING with a libertarian, I personally believe their idea of "paradise" would lead us right back to feudalism) really points out and backs up with facts where we went wrong and why. Take a look at the graphs starting at around the 3.30 mark, its a real eye opener.
While that is true I think the Blender guys really don't get enough credit. Sure the UI is complex and some might say PITA but when you are dealing with 3D animation frankly its gonna be complex no matter how you slice it and Big Buck Bunny shows that Blender CAN make studio quality animation and at the end of the day its the product that people care about and Blender can obviously make compelling animation.
But you really can't compare something like Maya and Photoshop to a free tool like Blender or Gimp simply because of the difference in budget. I'm sure the Blender and Gimp devs would love to have every feature that their counterparts have but they don't have a fiftieth of the budget that the big boys so one really has to take that into consideration.All in all I think the Blender guys really deserve kudos, they have made a pretty nice tool that anybody can have for free that can make top notch animation if you are willing to put in the time.
No matter how you slice it you're still left with an assload of carbon that has to go SOMEWHERE so what are you gonna do with it? Frankly that's always been the problem, what to do with all the waste that is left over. TFA I notice is awful light on the details about what EXACTLY if left after this chemical burning, is it a paste, a gel, powder, maybe i missed it but I couldn't find any clear answer on that.
But at the end of the day that is still hundreds of tons of waste you are gonna have to put somewhere, the big question is where because as we saw with Yucca flats pretty much any place you pick is gonna have NIMBYs coming out the woodwork so what are you gonna do with it? This is why I've always supported the new nuclear reactors with reprocessing, it lets you re-use as much as possible until the waste is much smaller and has a much lower half life but no matter how you slice it the stuff left over is gonna have to be put somewhere.
But like coal or hate it we are gonna end up having to use at least some of it because our power needs have gone nowhere but up and this at least sounds like the waste is in solid form instead of gas which will make handling and disposal easier, if not politically then at least physically.
I agree its probably best to wait until its moved higher up the chain. the frankly depressing news nobody seems to be talking about is what the "six strikes" crap that the ISPs have wholly embraced is gonna do to free Wifi which is kill it deader than Dixie. If you've looked at their little six strikes plans they don't have any kind of "safe harbor" provisions so all it will take is somebody looking at anything the media corps don't like (because frankly their definition of "infringing" seems to be "anything we don't like or aren't directly profiting from") a couple of times for every coffee shop and food joint to have their free Wifi shut down.
And before anybody says "The ISP wouldn't want to give up those customers!" remember how badly the ISPs have been overselling the hell out of their lines while refusing to use profits for anything but CEO bonuses? Well six strikes gives them the perfect excuse to kick anybody that uses more bandwidth than your average grandma, thus allowing them to keep gouging and overselling while using the profits for bonuses and buying out smaller fish to prop up the stock price.
so while this is good new no need to be patting ourselves on the back just yet, we need to see if it stands up to higher courts and we've seen a LOT more attacks on the Internet by the courts and corps in the past few years than ever before so vigilance is required. I'd suggest everybody sign the petition against CISPA 2.0 and write your lawmakers demanding an end to six strikes and for support of net neutrality.
I've been in the PC biz for over 25 years and been into PCs longer than that so what you are saying? Honestly doesn't surprise me, we saw the same thing for the first 8 years or so with HDDs, they had bad storage designs like MFM and frankly were flaky as hell and just as likely to lose your data as it was to keep it. I know seeing how many drives my gamer customers could go through on SSDs, and its not like they are doing anything seriously stressful, tells me there are some serious fundamental flaws with the tech that nobody has been able to figure out. As I said I don't think its the OS, or the CPU or the mobo chipset, I think it comes down to the controller on the SSD and how its having to constantly lie to the system and remap data. I think the ARM chips they are using for this purpose just isn't able to keep up the load for any real length of time and THAT is why they are failing.
And the one BIG advantage SSDs have for being used as a caching drive is if they fail, who gives a shit? windows 7 cache is also backed up on HDD so if you yank the drive it'll boot just as before, you just won't get the speed boost. This is why you can use Readyboost on a thumbstick as Windows always keeps a backup to the cache on the HDD so if the cache goes it doesn't affect the stability of the system. I already have one customer who does a LOT of graphics and video editing and he says the speedboost is just incredible and he doesn't have any of the risks of dealing with SSD for that boost.
Now as far as the software that comes with caching drives? I haven't heard enough about it one way or another to know if its good or not but just the fact that it takes over from Windows which means Windows won't have a backup cache makes me kinda leery. The graphics guy just told Windows to use the 32Gb drive he picked up as a Readyboost drive and while he says boot isn't much faster (because Windows has to load the OS enough to enable Readyboost) that once its on the desktop his programs just pop and its really helped with his render times.
Anyway I'm glad you found some of the info helpful and if it were me I'd just get a small drive and Readyboost it instead of messing with the vendor's caching software, let Windows handle it and that way there is no risk. I can tell you Readyboost in Win 7 works great, I've placed a fast 4GB USB 2.0 drive in my gaming PC as a Readyboost cache and timing how quickly it takes a game I've played often I'd say its pretty close to 40% or more faster to load by using readyboost than by not and that is on a USB 2.0 line with a lousy 4GB cache. Now if I can see that amount of gains on USB 2.0 with just 4GB, imagine what you'd see on SATA 3 or 6 with 32GB of much faster SSD? And the prices are right, I've seen several at less than $40 that would make good caching drives. Certainly cheaper than a hybrid and with zero risk to data, what could it hurt?
Did you need to be bitchslapped with a citation, fine bitchslapped you are. I quote the very first fucking sentence under PR rating which says, and I quote "The first use of the PR system was in 1996, when AMD used it to assert that their AMD 5x86 processor was as fast as a Pentium running at 75 MHz."
Guess what sparky? They didn't make P2s at 75MHz, that was the P1 hence the P1 PR rating dumbass. Nothing I hate more than children that don't know their fucking history, I was in the biz building and selling systems at that time so i knew damned well what the chips were called because I was ordering them every fucking day. You had Cyrix and WinChip and AMD and they all used the PR P1 rating because people knew WTF a Pentium 1 was and could do, not a Cyrix or WinChip or AMD, hence the WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF A PR RATING!!!
How fucking sad that /. has sunk so low its filled with puppies like fucking Reddit, it just turns my stomach how damned clueless everyone here is becoming. No damned wonder all the greybeards are moving away while the site gets taken over by AC dumbasses such as yourself, none of you have the guts to even stand by your posts because deep down you know you don't know WTF you are talking about!
Sorry I don't know the name of it, you probably do, the new APC with the triangle bottom that diverts blasts from IEDs away from the crew while looking kinda like a big truck? I always thought THAT would be a better platform to build on than the Bradly as its pretty obvious that future wars will end up more in urban areas than in the middle of the desert and that thing had plenty of armor. It also probably wouldn't be a bad idea to come up with a new M113, just give it a beefier powertrain and thicker armor instead of the thin aluminum its got now that forces troops to pile sandbags in the floorboard as the M113 has shown itself to be a pretty reliable unit.
But if you read the reports of the Ontos from the guys actually manning the thing in firefights and they loved it, wide tracks meant it could go anywhere without getting stuck, 6 barrels pretty much made it a guaranteed hit on the first try and it was useful for suppressing enemy troops as well as killing tanks. I agree 100% if they would have spent a little time on R&D that could have been a truly great weapons system. And the Hydra would probably work great as well without blowing the crazy money per shot that the TOW costs. I'll never forget an episode of Dogfights were they read a report from a Phantom pilot who was given the task of testing the first gun mount in combat on the Phantom, it went something like "Splashed 4 MiG 17s, first 2 with missiles and the last 2 with the gun. Cost per MiG with the missiles was $29,000, cost per MiG with the gun was $518 worth of rounds".
But the problem sadly Crosshair is NOBODY gives a shit about actually defending the country because just as Ike tried to warn us the MIC has become this giant money sucking beast which only cares about dragging a project out for as long as it can and milking as much cost overruns as possible. I mean look at the last 3 big projects, the F-22, the F-35, and the stealth destroyer, the F-22 is more of a threat to our pilots than the enemy is, the F-35 in the words of one analyst "can't run, can't fight, can't turn against the latest Russian and Chinese designs and is SEVERELY undergunned compared to the most likely threats and has an extremely limited range" and finally the stealth destroyer that ended up scrapped after several billion down the shitter because it was found to be at risk of rollover in heavy seas and its horribly unreliable gun system would cost more per shot than the harpoon missile!
Frankly all we can hope is that the USA just remains a bully and only picks on goat herders with AKs because if we faced anybody with weapons made in the last 15 years we'd be in trouble. And our reliance on stealth so damned much is really gonna bite us in the ass, its already becoming obsolete as the Russians and Chinese develop ways to track without radar and of course they were able to down an F117 in Bosnia (which if rumors are true that F117 is sitting in a hangar in China along with the stealth drone that came down in Iran) just by going through the entire spectrum until they got lucky. We are falling into the same trap Germany fell into with the V-projects, we are betting the farm on super expensive craft that aren't reliable for shit and will be too expensive to send more than a handful up at a time and will be facing the SU27 and MiG29 which are so cheap just like we did to Germany a future enemy could just fill the sky and spam us off the map.
Riiiight, because Sally Secretary and grandma and grandpa could REALLY set something like that up, geez. This is why Linux never goes anywhere, the FOSSie thinks "If I can do it anybody can" which is complete and total horseshit, that is like saying because your local mechanic can rebuild a car from a rusting hulk into a hot rod you could do so with nothing but the tools and the husk, no instruction needed.
Crap like pfsense is about as user friendly as open heart surgery and if you don't REALLY know what you are doing and have a low level understanding of networking you are just as likely to come up with something worse than what you had because it'll be misconfigured.
As I have said many times what we NEED is something that can be updated via firmware as new threats come out and which has a new more secure form of UPNP so that grandma and Sally can follow the very BASIC instructions and set up their devices to work on it without paying a guy like me a $150+ service call on top of an hourly rate to set the thing up.
So I'm sorry but your "solution" is anything but and would be like saying "To save gas just build your own hybrid" for all the usefullness of it. Unless of course you are just trying to throw names for geek cred, if so congrats, you are a basement nerd that uses products nobody cares about and which has less home users than Solaris.
Are people buying theirs from Radio Shack or something? Because my dad has one, he got it from the cell phone provider so I don't see how anybody would say he would need "permission" from the company that sold it to him, not like they don't know about it. They were more than happy to sell him a booster for his shop and what they called a "mini-tower" for his home which lets him use his DSL instead of their tower because their reception is very poor where he lives. Works great, doesn't have the drop out his HTC experienced when we were trying to run it on his WiFi, all in all he's just thrilled with it.
But to me the FCC is a good example of good intentions that have been allowed to run amok. Originally the FCC had a simple and logical goal, to make sure that our limited spectrum could be used without everybody and their dog tripping over each others signals or worse getting into a "wattage war" and blasting each other with ever louder signals. Now they just butt in where they simply aren't needed, everything from the Janet Jackson nipple slip (ZOMFG kids that have access to the Internet and can see rule 34 on anything might has saw half a titty for a tenth of a second ZOMFG!) and stupid shit like this.
This is why I've tried to warn people who cheered at the ever more intrusive laws against smokers just because they don't like smoking. Government NEVER gets smaller, only bigger and no matter how many times you elect some politician who says "I'm gonna shrink government involvement in your lives" it NEVER happens because it can only grow, it never shrinks. This is a prime example, we've not heard anybody complaining about boosters and with today's blogger culture anything that is even mildly annoying gets ranted about to death, but the FCC hasn't got in anybody's face in awhile so there ya go. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if some company slipped the right person a check so that they could have mandated "interference free" boosters at an inflated price.
Ironically all the fanbois who have made arguments in favor of blocking used games use the "Its no different than Steam!" argument without being willing to accept games are MUCH cheaper on the PC than they are on console and those prices tend to drop a LOT quicker. This is why I don't care about first sale rights when it comes to Steam games as on average I paid less than $15 a pop, many under $7, so what would the resale be? 50c? A buck?
But frankly with the console manufacturers and developers adopting the worst aspects of PC gaming like online passes and long path times without the good like long term MP support and cheaper prices I'm just glad I was able to get my 2 boys off of the consoles. I built the youngest an AMD triple while the oldest got an AMD 6 core from his grandfather so they both have plenty of power and will be able to game for years with nothing more than the occasional $75 GPU upgrade and the MUCH lower prices on steam has easily made them gaming on the PC the cheaper option.
I have a feeling if Sony and MSFT kill first sale we may see another console crash like we saw in 84 as the console gamers I know use trade ins to afford more triple A games and without those trade ins they wouldn't buy a fifth of what they do now. With Steam offering more games than ever and HDMI making it so simple your grandma could hook a PC to a TV maybe its time for yet another PC gaming golden age.
All I know is their stupid DRM has made me say goodbye to the consoles because I just can't stand throwing away hardware which could be re-used but would require a mod chip and soldering iron just to use. i hung onto both my original Xbox and Dreamcast long after those systems were EOL precisely because they had other uses, the Dreamcast made a great emulator and the Xbox made a great SD home theater. If they kill first sale on top of all the other hassles like locked down hardware, higher prices and MP that seems to die a week after the next thing comes out? I have a feeling I won't be the only one passing on these systems. After all both the Xbox Next and PS4 are just PCs with hardware DRM, why not just skip the DRM part and get a cheap PC?
The bigger threat is Sony joining MSFT in trying to outlaw first sale with regards to used games, we can only hope there will be a nice class action lawsuit against both companies if they try to pull that and hopefully the courts will give them a good smack for trying it.
As for the hardware the bigger winner in this round of consoles is obviously AMD who'll have their CPUs, GPUs, or both in 3 out of the 4 consoles with the lone holdout possibly being the steamBox but since we haven't seen any hard specs with the SteamBox who know? maybe they'll be in the SteamBox as well.
The interesting part to me is seeing how they pull heavy gaming on the jaguar which is the replacement for the Bobcat and as such is made for low power at the cost of performance. I also don't think its fair to call either the PS4 or Xbox Next an "octo-core" because the new AMD arches all use "half core" designs that frankly behave more like hyperthreading than true independent cores.
But considering the fact that triple A game development costs are hitting close to 100 million a pop I can see why they didn't go with full cores as the current gen on PC is probably about as good as its gonna get until somebody can figure out how to cut down the crazy development costs so a quad APU with HT should be enough to handle triple A games for quite awhile.
That is why I think we need to build a modern version of the M50 Ontos as it was cheap, reliable, and could pack a serious punch. Today we could probably make a 4 barrel autocannon instead of having it single shot, build them on the Bradley or M113 and you'd have a cheap reliable unit that could punch holes in just about anything you wanted.
But sadly just as our planes get "replaced" with vaporware so too will we keep right on building techno turkeys and betting on the missile to save us, but as you rightly pointed out with new tech like Shtora and reactive armor the days of the missile being a one shot kill no matter what you are facing may well be coming to a close. Frankly our entire strategy (if you wanna call it that, i call it defense contractor payoffs) just makes no sense, we seem to be stuck in a cross between a WWII mindset with regards to carriers (which the latest sea skimmers would make short work of) and a cold war mindset with regards to our air force and neither reflects the shape on the modern battlefield.
At the end of the day we'll just have to hope that the USA only fights goat herders with AKs from now on because if we faced off with a well trained enemy with the latest Russian tech we'd be SOL.
And what we have now is better where more than half of the consumer devices get flaky if you try to have any real security? You know it doesn't matter if its because hackers cracked the chip or because the device just won't hook up as in both cases you are SOL as far as security goes.
But considering how powerful ARM DSPs are now i don't see why you couldn't have one that could be updated through firmware, that way as new advances in encryption came out you could update the device.
as it is now you go right ahead and try to enable MAC filtering and WPA PSK and see how quickly the phones and tablets become paperweights, what good is having security if it results in devices you can no longer use in their intended purpose?