It will hit 100% on one core and that's it. Its not multithreaded - one CPU will churn on it forever and the others will sit around waiting for a task from the OS. 2 course, 200,000 cores the results will be the same. These machines are made for tasks that are broken up into lots of smaller jobs and processed individually. Its not magic - more cores won't get a single threaded process done faster.
Seriously.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I posted so quickly, I should have written "...some processes won't ever..."
Aren't a lot of games and apps single-threaded? Hmmm. I figured that dual/quad-core wasn't all it's cracked up to be. So, essentially, if I have a single-threaded app on a quad core, it'll perform at 1/4th the potential speed.
That doesn't leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.
The funny thing is that it teeter-totters back and forth from one core to the other. I wish I knew what made it do that.
I have a couple dual-core PCs. I notice that some won't ever use 100% CPU even though they easily could. I check "set affinity" in task manager, which says the process should use both cores...but it only ever hits 50% of total CPU. Looking at the CPU graph, it shows that as usage goes up on one core, usage goes down on the other.
Is there any way to force a process to run over 2 cores at 100%?
If not...how would 300,000 cores help unless you are running 300,000 processes, or an app that you know will scale over that many cores?
Pros: Cheap, includes office software, robust Cons: Doesn't come in Ultimate and Premier editions
Wah?! Cons = no ultimate version? Talk about brainwashed.
Business 101 = market segmentation...F/OSS doesn't mandate segmentation for profit...ergo no segmentation is a negative aspect of a product?
Dude has no gray matter.
My only question is why doesn't it come in different flavors?
Because you get everything possible in the version you bought. One can get even more if one wants to download it, too. F/OSS doesn't operate on the same principles as corporate greed, but it's so foreign now, that no one can conceive of this concept.
If your monitor's refresh rate was equal to the ambiant lighting's refresh rate, you could almost guarantee a headache
Maybe you should stop programming in raves! Turn off the strobe lights - my light bulbs don't refresh!
Even though they generate light from super-heating tungsten wire, incandescent lights still refresh 60 times per second due to their power source...your alternating current electricity. People say I'm crazy, but I can see it...just like the stupid 15-16kHz high tension whine CRT TVs make...drives me nuts. I live near a Walmart that has a broken sound system...no one else hears it, but there's a nerve-grating, tension-generating, migraine-inducing, banshee-like high-pitch squealing noise coming from the speakers mounted in the ceiling. It has been like that for years.
I rarely go there.
If you have LED, or DC-powered lights, please ignore the preceding.
1. 2000:1 contrast doesn't exist for under $3,000. Look for the real contrast ratio, probably something like 600:1.
2. Look for the "native resolution", ask for it. A 22" wide-screen at 1680 x 1050 is good. If it's not widescreen, look for at least 1280 x 1024. 1600 x 1400 would be good.
3. High refresh rates (the number of times the image is re-created on your screen) are your eye's best friends. Unfortunately, 60Hz is all we get in LCD monitors... 70Hz or 75Hz would be best. Some LCDs say they go to 75Hz, but I think they just pretend. They say that refresh rates don't effect LCDs, but, I still say they do. LCDs don't flicker like CRTs do, but, some LCDs aren't as clean looking as better ones. "Real response rate" means don't believe 2ms...this is grey-to-grey response (it means very little). Real response times will be like 8ms...basically, response time means how quickly the monitor can go from pure black, to white, then to pure black again. If you aren't going to game or watch movies don't worry. If you are, get the lowest possible black-to-black response time to prevent blurring. Some companies don't publish this info because their marketing department doesn't want people to know the truth. Don't buy from these companies.
4. Don't believe 2000cd/m2, that's "dynamic brightness"...the real number will be 250 or 300. 300 and above will be good.
Secondly, I'll say that price isn't a 100% guaranteed metric. The Samsung 2220wm is fantastic, and is just over $250 retail. There's another 22" wide Samsung for a few dollars more, but I forget which model.
Viewing angle is less of an issue these days, I haven't seen anything less than 170degrees in ages.
If you plan to watch HD-DVD or BluRay, make sure it says HDCP on it, and has a DVI-D connector.
I read in another slashdot article that some Apple monitors don't actually display 16.7M colors. It might be true. So, make sure your new monitor can display 24bit color, or 16.7M simultaneously.
Last thing: make sure it's NOT GLOSSY! Who...in their right mind...would produce a glossy monitor? They have no brain in their head, or never have to look at it. I know why, really. It's because they want the picture to -seem- brighter. It isn't, and your eyes and head will ache from focusing on all the things behind you. Don't buy it. In fact, if you see one at the shop, accidentally tip it onto the floor, and blame the troll under the counter. The next guy that was going to buy it will not have to suffer thanks to you.
I could have talked about dead or stuck pixels, but they are rare these days...if you get one, see if they'll take it back.
Yes, mostly...unfortunately, this sort of thing was far beyond anything I could construct myself. What my ideal implementation included was the ability to connect through a gateway to another BBS -- i.e. user in city A connects to BBS in city B, then has the ability to dial any BBS in city C by selecting it from a list or whatever, and potentially city D, E, F, and so on...unfortunately, that really meant that one user could occupy an indefinite number of phone lines, hopping all over the place.
When I was a kid I had the idea of networking every BBS together. My plan was basically to run a "management" multi-node BBS in every city via a dedicated modem/phone line that would connect to another management node in the next city (assuming it was a local call) -- theoretically one phone line/modem per outlying city that was a local call...ultimately, chats, messages and files could be sent through the links far and wide through the network of locally dialed/connected BBSs.
I know this was done in more or less an offline manner with message nets, but, I wanted something that was more real-time.
As an example, given cities A, B, and C, where their geographical layout is A - B - C, and people in city A have to pay long distance charges to dial city C, an interconnect or pass through in city B could allow people in city A to communicate with people in city C free of charge.
I had no idea that regular people would be so interested in stuff like that, but, apparently they are...I had no idea of the true potential of stuff like Email and websites (or message and file boards)
I didn't know what to do about crossing state/federal borders, but hey, I was a kid.
-Let me run my old PC games -Let me run current PC games (without great hassle) -Let me run applications specific to my line of work (3d studio max, maya, premiere, photoshop, and various game engines)
Actually, dosbox works in linux, and plays any of the old DOS games. Wine is a fantastic emulator...I was surprised the first time I ran Age of Empires on the tux.
Now that nVidia and ATI are beginning to actually support linux, some game companies are showing interest. First it's emulation, in a year or so we'll see native support...
It'll happen, we just need to get more people on it to increase actual demand.
You're right about MS domination of the market. Anyone I talk to has no concept of a world without Windows. I try to share the light as much as possible, but, for some reason, the dark is what makes people feel all warm and cozy.
Not really. Just because you delete something, doesn't mean that's it's gone. Files are "deleted" by nullifying the first letter of their filename (well, at least in FAT systems they are...NTFS might be a bit different, but it's essentially the same). I'm sure they image the whole drive when they go on their swiping sprees...that'll pick up any data that has been deleted, but not overwritten yet...
Company secrets, your temp and temporary internet files directories and all.
You can run a "secure" wiping program on your free space, which should do the trick...but how many people know this? It could be the best $40 piece of software ever purchased.
I rather have the convinience of never having to touch the install medium again, _and_ shadow copies of system files, ect, than having a 99.5% instead of 98.5% empty hd. Ha ha...convenience...imagine the convenience I felt oozing from my keyboard when I tried to run telnet on Vista.
I think you mean the knock sensor, not the O2. Crappy gas causes pinging or knocking (pre-ignition), causing the fine smooth rhythm of the engine to be knocked off a bit. It's more common than most people think, but the engine management system compensates pretty quickly. Backing off the timing by a bit eliminates the knocking, reducing power (mostly unnoticeable). When the knocking is gone, the computer brings the timing back to normal slowly (well, slowly in computer terms). Some sensors are designed to be more or less sensitive depending on application, too.
Oh yeah...engine knock can be detrimental to your engine...that's why there's a sensor dedicated just to that.
the concept of a defined frequency for a defined service is on the way out. Much like DC electricity, it was used for a lot of reasons, but as time goes on, a smart radio system will become common. You do realize that 90% of the stuff you use actually runs on DC power, right? Let's take a looksie:
your WHOLE computer: yes your tv: yes your cell phone: yes your telephone: yes your network equipment: yes your car: yes your PDA: yes your game console:yes your everything battery operated: yes
alright, so that's a lot of stuff...sure, yes, your fridge, stove, and vacuum don't...but they could just as easily...we should all be on DC power, we wouldn't have to use all the power sapping AC/DC converters. Ya know that those things suck up entire watts of power when plugged in and idle, right? yep...whoever designed everything that way should be shot. How many millions of these things are left plugged in? That's millions of watts of power being wasted. Tesla was a smarter man, in my opinion.
Well then, label our American democratic project a hypocracy and let's get on with it. I'm not willing to be so cynical. I believe in the enlightened ideals upon which this country was built. I believe in the virtuous nature of a democratic-style government. I believe in the goodness of my fellow man, and in our capacity to come together and strive for something greater. Fundamentally, I believe in our ability to own our government, and make it work for us. And I also believe we have a lot of work to do to get there. The frontline battle is to get people to believe, to eschew a cynicism that does nothing but maintain the power of the status quo, and feel the sense of empowerment that our founding fathers intended us to have as citizens. To stop looking to government for answers and quick-fixes, but instead to participate in government to help seek common understanding and reach a social consensus on how to deal with harsh realities. To get people to believe that all races, genders, and generations are capable of this participation, and yet, recognizing that this is a skill, to mentor and train those who would seek further involvement. I realize this is a utopian vision, to a great extent, and as such, I don't necessarily have my sights focused on an endpoint. Rather, this ongoing process of self-improvement, or the potential for this process, is what makes America great. We are a people that founded itself in the pursuit of something greater, and while our demise has often been proclaimed, wave after wave of generation has risen up to renew this pursuit. My vision is not for the endpoint, the realization of some grand society, but simply that this process that forms the strength of country not die out completely! And oh, how some in power would love to see this end... To quote one of my favorite movies - I find your lack of faith disturbing. I understand cynicism, I see how people become frustrated with government, but I believe there's a better way. Is Mr. Obama taking applications for speechwriters?:) Well, I'm afraid to say it, but it is more republic-like or fascist. I don't want to go off on tangents here, but, suffice it to say that the general sentiment amongst the populace would be close to congruent with the idea that the government is no longer serving the public, but rather suppressing it.
Seriously though, I would be in the first wave of a rebellion. Sort of ironic that you would quote a high ranking primary officer in the oppression of scores of otherwise rightful citizens...albeit on tv.
When a corporation operates with this kind of lack of transparency, it's called Enron. Why do accept this kind of behavior from our government? Each American citizen has an investment in government, predicated on that whole "By the people" schtick that a few goofballs advanced. Why can't we see that a bunch of bureaucrats are causing this investment to depreciate more rapidly than the dollar? The thing is that these are American citizens that are running the government, trying to keep these secrets. They suffer (indirectly) as well when they operate in such a way...but you see, I think they are just happy to have more power than the next guy, AND they may not see it as everyone else does.
Having said that, covering up is nothing new, and getting caught is nothing new. Most people in America are just happy to have enough money for food, shelter, and gas for the car, there's no time to worry about the guys that are causing the problems that make most Americans only able to just afford food, shelter, and gas for the car, and that's the way the guys with slightly more power like it. This is the way the the people with a lot of power WILL keep it, with their last dying breath.
It all feeds into itself, unfortunately, and the only way to break (restart?) the cycle is a revolution...before, people were labeled as communists for thinking such things...now they are called terrorists. The proletariats/bourgeoisie structure still applies today, as far as I see it. Even if "we" did "rise up", we would fall victim to the allure of power, and it would happen again. Look at the separation from the British Commonwealth -- early Americans were so happy, and wrote a list of rules so that it wouldn't happen to them...so, the succeeding Americans just wrote laws that amended the original to override what they didn't like.
I don't mean to sound so cynical, it's just the human/social development life cycle that's near impossible to resist/avoid.
...buy a brick and put in a recovery disc to get Windows running on it? DAMNIT, there goes all the Christmas presents I was going to buy everyone I know.
Slashdot editors...please, for the love of all that is holy, the term "bricking" means "BRICK-LIKE"...any computer that can still compute (or anything that is still operational for that matter) is NOT BRICK-LIKE/a brick/bricked!
I did...man..it's a treasure trove of "could be" technologies...all the techs there that are "the next thing to change the world" are demonstrated very poorly though...anyway, I suppose I could google "+Toshiba +nuclear" to verify if this exists, but I'm far too lazy...but that's not my point! Stop taking me off track for god's sake. My point is that the linked website is full of college student's home videos of revolutionary energy sources that no one else could have possibly thought about! Why didn't that monstrous two paragraph "article" link to any reputable source? All the videos are sketchy at best. Perpetual motion, free energy, look at all the wonders of the universe like 300mpg cars, all on one website! Go, go! Look for yourself!
You're kidding right? Or maybe you're new here. Cause everybody around here knows that it only takes us Slashdotters a few seconds to find major flaws in what highly qualified scientists and engineers come up with.
There's nothing our superior collective intelligence cannot quickly debunk, including the truth.
...and found that they said "Such transformers are large and necessarily heat up, which can lead to hot spots. To prevent equipment temperatures from rising to dangerous levels and to reduce power leaks, oil and gas are used as insulators. But oil is flammable and can make the transformers explode at high temperatures. The transformers are also expensive to install and maintain."...
Say what?!? Ok...so, yes, I'd much rather have the manufacturer disclaim that they can't be sure that their product won't explode (thusly guaranteeing all hands lost), than use wires that have have never caused a problem in the manner in which the manufacturer of said bomb-like device.
Still...there might be some application for this device, but it certainly WON'T be in a fuel tank.
By the way, millions or even billions of fuel level sending units have been in use in anything with gas gauge for years. How many users of such devices have been killed due to electric failures? I'm guess very very VERY few, if any at all.
I agree with another commenter when they said that they don't want frickin' lasers pointing at their frickin' gas tanks.
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If your process looks like this:
int main()
{
while (something)
{
doSometing();
}
}
It will hit 100% on one core and that's it. Its not multithreaded - one CPU will churn on it forever and the others will sit around waiting for a task from the OS. 2 course, 200,000 cores the results will be the same. These machines are made for tasks that are broken up into lots of smaller jobs and processed individually. Its not magic - more cores won't get a single threaded process done faster.
Seriously.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I posted so quickly, I should have written "...some processes won't ever..."
Aren't a lot of games and apps single-threaded? Hmmm. I figured that dual/quad-core wasn't all it's cracked up to be. So, essentially, if I have a single-threaded app on a quad core, it'll perform at 1/4th the potential speed.
That doesn't leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.
The funny thing is that it teeter-totters back and forth from one core to the other. I wish I knew what made it do that.
The applications that are going to be run on this type of machine are designed to be run on this kind of machine.
Thanks for the reply...
I posted so quickly, I should have written "...some processes won't ever..."
Anyway...yeah, it's hit and miss on the processes that do this. I guess it's up to the author of the app to make it multi-core friendly.
Seriously:
I have a couple dual-core PCs. I notice that some won't ever use 100% CPU even though they easily could. I check "set affinity" in task manager, which says the process should use both cores...but it only ever hits 50% of total CPU. Looking at the CPU graph, it shows that as usage goes up on one core, usage goes down on the other.
Is there any way to force a process to run over 2 cores at 100%?
If not...how would 300,000 cores help unless you are running 300,000 processes, or an app that you know will scale over that many cores?
The preceding was in fact a serious question.
I'd mod you up, but then I couldn't comment on your post :)
I modded you up, but it was removed when I posted this.
When that happens be on the look out for "Windows 7!"
Windows 7! = Windows 5040?
Har har...Statistician or mathematician?
I bet that'll be the release date though. :P
Pros: Cheap, includes office software, robust
Cons: Doesn't come in Ultimate and Premier editions
Wah?! Cons = no ultimate version? Talk about brainwashed.
Business 101 = market segmentation...F/OSS doesn't mandate segmentation for profit...ergo no segmentation is a negative aspect of a product?
Dude has no gray matter.
My only question is why doesn't it come in different flavors?
Because you get everything possible in the version you bought. One can get even more if one wants to download it, too. F/OSS doesn't operate on the same principles as corporate greed, but it's so foreign now, that no one can conceive of this concept.
Maybe you should stop programming in raves! Turn off the strobe lights - my light bulbs don't refresh!
Even though they generate light from super-heating tungsten wire, incandescent lights still refresh 60 times per second due to their power source...your alternating current electricity. People say I'm crazy, but I can see it...just like the stupid 15-16kHz high tension whine CRT TVs make...drives me nuts. I live near a Walmart that has a broken sound system...no one else hears it, but there's a nerve-grating, tension-generating, migraine-inducing, banshee-like high-pitch squealing noise coming from the speakers mounted in the ceiling. It has been like that for years.
I rarely go there.
If you have LED, or DC-powered lights, please ignore the preceding.
I'd say four factors:
1. True contrast,
2. Resolution,
3. Refresh/ real response rate,
4. Brightness
1. 2000:1 contrast doesn't exist for under $3,000. Look for the real contrast ratio, probably something like 600:1.
2. Look for the "native resolution", ask for it. A 22" wide-screen at 1680 x 1050 is good. If it's not widescreen, look for at least 1280 x 1024. 1600 x 1400 would be good.
3. High refresh rates (the number of times the image is re-created on your screen) are your eye's best friends. Unfortunately, 60Hz is all we get in LCD monitors... 70Hz or 75Hz would be best. Some LCDs say they go to 75Hz, but I think they just pretend. They say that refresh rates don't effect LCDs, but, I still say they do. LCDs don't flicker like CRTs do, but, some LCDs aren't as clean looking as better ones. "Real response rate" means don't believe 2ms...this is grey-to-grey response (it means very little). Real response times will be like 8ms...basically, response time means how quickly the monitor can go from pure black, to white, then to pure black again. If you aren't going to game or watch movies don't worry. If you are, get the lowest possible black-to-black response time to prevent blurring. Some companies don't publish this info because their marketing department doesn't want people to know the truth. Don't buy from these companies.
4. Don't believe 2000cd/m2, that's "dynamic brightness"...the real number will be 250 or 300. 300 and above will be good.
Secondly, I'll say that price isn't a 100% guaranteed metric. The Samsung 2220wm is fantastic, and is just over $250 retail. There's another 22" wide Samsung for a few dollars more, but I forget which model.
Viewing angle is less of an issue these days, I haven't seen anything less than 170degrees in ages.
If you plan to watch HD-DVD or BluRay, make sure it says HDCP on it, and has a DVI-D connector.
I read in another slashdot article that some Apple monitors don't actually display 16.7M colors. It might be true. So, make sure your new monitor can display 24bit color, or 16.7M simultaneously.
Last thing: make sure it's NOT GLOSSY! Who...in their right mind...would produce a glossy monitor? They have no brain in their head, or never have to look at it. I know why, really. It's because they want the picture to -seem- brighter. It isn't, and your eyes and head will ache from focusing on all the things behind you. Don't buy it. In fact, if you see one at the shop, accidentally tip it onto the floor, and blame the troll under the counter. The next guy that was going to buy it will not have to suffer thanks to you.
I could have talked about dead or stuck pixels, but they are rare these days...if you get one, see if they'll take it back.
Good luck!
Shouldn't the Billborg icon be replaced now? Say with a Ballmerborg, or maybe a Ballmerchair. Or even a chairborg.
You forgot a BillBalmer...and maybe BorgChair...if that would be different...hmmm...I wonder what one would look like...
You are probably talking about FidoNet.
Yes, mostly...unfortunately, this sort of thing was far beyond anything I could construct myself. What my ideal implementation included was the ability to connect through a gateway to another BBS -- i.e. user in city A connects to BBS in city B, then has the ability to dial any BBS in city C by selecting it from a list or whatever, and potentially city D, E, F, and so on...unfortunately, that really meant that one user could occupy an indefinite number of phone lines, hopping all over the place.
Anyway...the idea sounded good.
When I was a kid I had the idea of networking every BBS together. My plan was basically to run a "management" multi-node BBS in every city via a dedicated modem/phone line that would connect to another management node in the next city (assuming it was a local call) -- theoretically one phone line/modem per outlying city that was a local call...ultimately, chats, messages and files could be sent through the links far and wide through the network of locally dialed/connected BBSs.
I know this was done in more or less an offline manner with message nets, but, I wanted something that was more real-time.
As an example, given cities A, B, and C, where their geographical layout is A - B - C, and people in city A have to pay long distance charges to dial city C, an interconnect or pass through in city B could allow people in city A to communicate with people in city C free of charge.
I had no idea that regular people would be so interested in stuff like that, but, apparently they are...I had no idea of the true potential of stuff like Email and websites (or message and file boards)
I didn't know what to do about crossing state/federal borders, but hey, I was a kid.
HEY! Calling you an insensitive clod is insensitive to insensitive clods!
All I can hope for is she only wraps herself around a tree or lamp post, and not another car or pedestrian.
Hey! I'm a tree hugger! What if I'm hugging the tree she hits? You insensitive clod!
That's because Linux will most probably NEVER:
-Let me run my old PC games
-Let me run current PC games (without great hassle)
-Let me run applications specific to my line of work (3d studio max, maya, premiere, photoshop, and various game engines)
Actually, dosbox works in linux, and plays any of the old DOS games. Wine is a fantastic emulator...I was surprised the first time I ran Age of Empires on the tux.
Now that nVidia and ATI are beginning to actually support linux, some game companies are showing interest. First it's emulation, in a year or so we'll see native support...
It'll happen, we just need to get more people on it to increase actual demand.
You're right about MS domination of the market. Anyone I talk to has no concept of a world without Windows. I try to share the light as much as possible, but, for some reason, the dark is what makes people feel all warm and cozy.
Clean as a whistle?
Not really. Just because you delete something, doesn't mean that's it's gone. Files are "deleted" by nullifying the first letter of their filename (well, at least in FAT systems they are...NTFS might be a bit different, but it's essentially the same). I'm sure they image the whole drive when they go on their swiping sprees...that'll pick up any data that has been deleted, but not overwritten yet...
Company secrets, your temp and temporary internet files directories and all.
You can run a "secure" wiping program on your free space, which should do the trick...but how many people know this? It could be the best $40 piece of software ever purchased.
I had to stop and think about what other wonderful conveniences in Vista I would be expecting to experience.
Please. I want more conveniences from microsoft.
I think you mean the knock sensor, not the O2. Crappy gas causes pinging or knocking (pre-ignition), causing the fine smooth rhythm of the engine to be knocked off a bit. It's more common than most people think, but the engine management system compensates pretty quickly. Backing off the timing by a bit eliminates the knocking, reducing power (mostly unnoticeable). When the knocking is gone, the computer brings the timing back to normal slowly (well, slowly in computer terms). Some sensors are designed to be more or less sensitive depending on application, too.
Oh yeah...engine knock can be detrimental to your engine...that's why there's a sensor dedicated just to that.
your WHOLE computer: yes
your tv: yes
your cell phone: yes
your telephone: yes
your network equipment: yes
your car: yes
your PDA: yes
your game console:yes
your everything battery operated: yes
alright, so that's a lot of stuff...sure, yes, your fridge, stove, and vacuum don't...but they could just as easily...we should all be on DC power, we wouldn't have to use all the power sapping AC/DC converters. Ya know that those things suck up entire watts of power when plugged in and idle, right? yep...whoever designed everything that way should be shot. How many millions of these things are left plugged in? That's millions of watts of power being wasted. Tesla was a smarter man, in my opinion.
I'm not willing to be so cynical. I believe in the enlightened ideals upon which this country was built. I believe in the virtuous nature of a democratic-style government. I believe in the goodness of my fellow man, and in our capacity to come together and strive for something greater. Fundamentally, I believe in our ability to own our government, and make it work for us.
And I also believe we have a lot of work to do to get there.
The frontline battle is to get people to believe, to eschew a cynicism that does nothing but maintain the power of the status quo, and feel the sense of empowerment that our founding fathers intended us to have as citizens. To stop looking to government for answers and quick-fixes, but instead to participate in government to help seek common understanding and reach a social consensus on how to deal with harsh realities. To get people to believe that all races, genders, and generations are capable of this participation, and yet, recognizing that this is a skill, to mentor and train those who would seek further involvement.
I realize this is a utopian vision, to a great extent, and as such, I don't necessarily have my sights focused on an endpoint. Rather, this ongoing process of self-improvement, or the potential for this process, is what makes America great. We are a people that founded itself in the pursuit of something greater, and while our demise has often been proclaimed, wave after wave of generation has risen up to renew this pursuit. My vision is not for the endpoint, the realization of some grand society, but simply that this process that forms the strength of country not die out completely! And oh, how some in power would love to see this end...
To quote one of my favorite movies - I find your lack of faith disturbing. I understand cynicism, I see how people become frustrated with government, but I believe there's a better way.
Is Mr. Obama taking applications for speechwriters?
Seriously though, I would be in the first wave of a rebellion. Sort of ironic that you would quote a high ranking primary officer in the oppression of scores of otherwise rightful citizens...albeit on tv.
Each American citizen has an investment in government, predicated on that whole "By the people" schtick that a few goofballs advanced. Why can't we see that a bunch of bureaucrats are causing this investment to depreciate more rapidly than the dollar? The thing is that these are American citizens that are running the government, trying to keep these secrets. They suffer (indirectly) as well when they operate in such a way...but you see, I think they are just happy to have more power than the next guy, AND they may not see it as everyone else does.
Having said that, covering up is nothing new, and getting caught is nothing new. Most people in America are just happy to have enough money for food, shelter, and gas for the car, there's no time to worry about the guys that are causing the problems that make most Americans only able to just afford food, shelter, and gas for the car, and that's the way the guys with slightly more power like it. This is the way the the people with a lot of power WILL keep it, with their last dying breath.
It all feeds into itself, unfortunately, and the only way to break (restart?) the cycle is a revolution...before, people were labeled as communists for thinking such things...now they are called terrorists. The proletariats/bourgeoisie structure still applies today, as far as I see it. Even if "we" did "rise up", we would fall victim to the allure of power, and it would happen again. Look at the separation from the British Commonwealth -- early Americans were so happy, and wrote a list of rules so that it wouldn't happen to them...so, the succeeding Americans just wrote laws that amended the original to override what they didn't like.
I don't mean to sound so cynical, it's just the human/social development life cycle that's near impossible to resist/avoid.
and you'll see a pic of some dude leaning on the side of the thing with a single bag of groceries on the ground...
Guess why there's only one bag there...
...buy a brick and put in a recovery disc to get Windows running on it? DAMNIT, there goes all the Christmas presents I was going to buy everyone I know.
Slashdot editors...please, for the love of all that is holy, the term "bricking" means "BRICK-LIKE"...any computer that can still compute (or anything that is still operational for that matter) is NOT BRICK-LIKE/a brick/bricked!
Anyone know where the complaint department is?
I did...man..it's a treasure trove of "could be" technologies...all the techs there that are "the next thing to change the world" are demonstrated very poorly though...anyway, I suppose I could google "+Toshiba +nuclear" to verify if this exists, but I'm far too lazy...but that's not my point! Stop taking me off track for god's sake. My point is that the linked website is full of college student's home videos of revolutionary energy sources that no one else could have possibly thought about! Why didn't that monstrous two paragraph "article" link to any reputable source? All the videos are sketchy at best. Perpetual motion, free energy, look at all the wonders of the universe like 300mpg cars, all on one website! Go, go! Look for yourself!
Vaporware snakeoil fallacy free energy website
I want my 10 minutes back. Who do I see for a refund?
You're kidding right? Or maybe you're new here. Cause everybody around here knows that it only takes us Slashdotters a few seconds to find major flaws in what highly qualified scientists and engineers come up with.
There's nothing our superior collective intelligence cannot quickly debunk, including the truth.
Here, here!
Hand this man a free, as in beer, beer.
...and found that they said "Such transformers are large and necessarily heat up, which can lead to hot spots. To prevent equipment temperatures from rising to dangerous levels and to reduce power leaks, oil and gas are used as insulators. But oil is flammable and can make the transformers explode at high temperatures. The transformers are also expensive to install and maintain."...
Say what?!? Ok...so, yes, I'd much rather have the manufacturer disclaim that they can't be sure that their product won't explode (thusly guaranteeing all hands lost), than use wires that have have never caused a problem in the manner in which the manufacturer of said bomb-like device.
Still...there might be some application for this device, but it certainly WON'T be in a fuel tank.
By the way, millions or even billions of fuel level sending units have been in use in anything with gas gauge for years. How many users of such devices have been killed due to electric failures? I'm guess very very VERY few, if any at all.
I agree with another commenter when they said that they don't want frickin' lasers pointing at their frickin' gas tanks.