Ya know, I wonder if under this scheme they're cacheing images in memory instead of re-reading them out of the cache directory? That'd suck down memory awful quickly.
You should read your own link. The decision in that case rested entirely on the 14th Amendment, on the grounds that it had been shown that racially segregated educational facilities could not be equal by their very nature. Without a Constitutional or other legal basis to forbid unequal protection by reason of race, the court would have been unable to do anything.
Also note that the Supreme Court must have a case before it to issue a ruling. It cannot issue decisions on any subject it chooses.
How long did it take for the Supreme Court to figure out that black people and women were people? A long time, but it did eventually take place.
The Supreme Court had nothing to do with enacting rights for either minorities or women. It was done correctly, through Constitutional amendment and legislation, and not by activist judges. That is not their role.
Without these laws (among others) in place, there wasn't a thing the Supreme Court could do about slavery, race or sex discrimination, or anything similar. It was perfectly legal.
And you know what's really sad? They could do it faster on that terminal system then any GUI that has come since.
What on earth is sad about that? Some applications are totally unsuitable for a GUI. Billing is probably one of them. A well-designed terminal-based system is far more efficient for data entry than some "find the icon and click" arrangement. Using a GUI for something like this is like trying to kill a fly with a paperclip.
What's sad is that everyone now tries to cram every app into a GUI whether it needs it or not -- indeed, Windows and tools like VB make it far easier to build a app with a GUI than one without. It's just not an HF paradigm that should always be used.
I find their "Safe Search" feature works fairly well, at least in terms of porn. I keep it turned on for my work machine so as to avoid inadvertent work-unsafe "lucky" results.
That's a pretty unconventional view -- actually, a unique view -- in the minerals world.
Actually it's not unique. Check out the conspiracy theory. This guy is on Coast to Coast with George Noory every so often -- I think he's on tonight -- and the idea of a limitless supply of oil with artificially generated shortages to drive up the price is one of his regular themes.
What do you think happened to lamplighters that were replaced by electric lamps?
Lamplighter was never a fulltime job. He either doubled as a constable or had the job as a kind of patronage or "workfare" arrangement.
How about blacksmiths that were replaced by the automobiles?
This is not an apt comparison since a cashier is an unskilled worker but a blacksmith very much is not. But really, when the horse, which takes only about 4 smallish iron parts, is replaced with a lumbering machine made primarily of iron or steel and needing frequent repair, a man who knows how to work with the material isn't going to have trouble finding work.
In other words, there will always be a market for skilled workers since skillsets are often transferrable across a range of occupations. It's the unskilled who suffer most from automation. There is no ready solution to the question unless they're willing to acquire skills.
If you've ever wondered what it was like to live on a planet in one of those exotic galaxy-eating-galaxies that we've seen in various images from Hubble and others --
Well, now we know. Little did we know that we knew all along.
I've seen this company before. It looks almost like a vanity site for J. Hilbert Anderson. It says he designed his plantship all by himself. I don't believe for one moment that this can be done without an interdisciplanary team. Anderson is called "the inventor" but I see nothing new about this design apart from some unsubstantiated claims about more efficient heat transfer. Much work has been done in OTEC since 1962, and this will be far from the first functioning example.
In particular, the floating platform must be carefully designed and entails much of the expense of the plant. This company appears to want to adapt something like a supertanker hull. If they do that, all I can say is that they'd better have a good, quick, cheap way of replacing their cold water pipe. (Maintaining the integrity of the cold water pipe is a major technical challenge in OTEC.) Such a platform simply isn't stable enough.
100MW extremely small for a commercial plant. Unless they have a much more inexpensive design overall than the textbook standard -- they might, but the textbook standard is extremely thorough -- they cannot make money with ships that size. It's difficult to turn a profit on a 400MW plant for that matter.
Furthermore, if it generates fresh water as a byproduct then it must be Open Cycle OTEC, which is rather less efficient than Closed Cycle. Open Cycle equipment is extremely bulky and so has been considered unsuitable for shipboard use: it has been limited to land-based plants. The animated graphic in the article illustrates Closed Cycle, so that must be what they're building. It will not produce a fresh water byproduct.
Another obstacle to OTEC is that where it works well is mostly not where the energy is needed. That's why it must first be economically feasable to operate on a hydrogen economy or some such. (In fact, OTEC is about the ideal energy source for producing hydrogen, which can be done onboard and then stored and shipped. Hydrogen being what it is, ammonia production might be a better choice though.) These folks still want to transmit energy to the shore via undersea cables. Certainly tropical islands with limited energy resources can use a nearby OTEC plant -- but they can't afford one, which is why this hasn't been done yet. And surely these people do not intend to string electric transmission lines clear across the Pacific. (Plantships work best when "grazing" anyway, and for that they must be untethered.)
Don'g get me wrong: I'm very enthusiastic about OTEC in general and I think it will be an important energy source someday. But in this case.... Perhaps the article is omitting some key details, but as presented the plan sounds half-baked.
Not only can this be spread out, it must be spread out. Haven't RTFA, but from what I know about OTEC it's generally held that 400MW or so ought to be the standard commercial sized plant. You'd need thousands of plantships spread all over the tropical oceans for the US alone.
No. Although there were indeed significant numbers of religious believers murdered by Stalin simply because they were religious believers, their numbers didn't approach this. But then again, the vast numbers typically cited -- or rather, hinted at or assumed -- for killings for religious reasons are grossly inflated too. Nearly all wars, the Crusades included, were waged largely for political or economic reasons. Throwing a putative religious motivation into the mix was just part of the political game. So let's use the same standard in both directions, shall we?
In any event, you'd be a fool to deny that religions were officially, brutally suppressed in both the regimes I mentioned.
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's wrong. That may be all who were directly killed on his orders. Many, many died in the famine, which was largely due to Stalin's collectivization policies.
That would be true if I were talking about wars. I'm talking instead about large-scale slaughters of officially atheist populations so as to make them easier to control. The only thing remotely comparable on the religious side that I can think of is the repression of the Jews in 15th century Spain, and there they were mostly expelled, not killed. (There may be others; that's just the one I can think of.)
You know very well that's not what parent is saying. He's merely pointing out a fact of history: that more people were killed in the 20th Century by atheist regimes than by any religion. Possibly more than all deaths for religious reasons in all of history, but that would be difficult to calculate for lack of data. At least 60M died under the Maoist and Stalinist regimes alone. (40M and 20M respectively, although that last in particular is a low estimate. See this. Stalin's victims may number as high as 50M.)
Why do I get the feeling this is the programmer's equivalent of that scene in the teen slasher movies where the girl is going into the dark basement, unarmed and with nothing but a flickering candle for light?
There is, of course, no need to speak of VMS in the past tense.
Of course, one of the most commonly used commands is not a verb. See if you can remember which one. (I'm not counting the commands for invoking compilers, none of which are verbs either.)
The "alias" comes in two varieties. The symbol can hold any arbitrary content and can be used to abbreviate commonly used commands together with calling parameters if you didn't like the default ones, as you describe. They function as variables in DCL. The logical name is used for abbreviating or abstracting devices or pathnames.
Years ago Omni published a story by Alfred Bester called "Galatea Galante". The title character was genetically engineered from scratch, and her designer coded her genome using a language with a regular syntax similar to computer languages. Bester shows us a few lines of it before remarking in his narrative voice that it would be really, really boring to show any more of it. It might be of interest in this context if anyone could dig it up though.
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"Despite"? Try fighting a war someday without a high degree of organization and cooperation. War requires society, it does not occur in spite of it.
They should read Sony the Patriot Act.
Ya know, I wonder if under this scheme they're cacheing images in memory instead of re-reading them out of the cache directory? That'd suck down memory awful quickly.
This sometimes happens whether you have a foreskin or not.
So I suppose more than just the point is being missed here...
The drink was just to get you to swallow the transmitter. They probably didn't think they could get anyone to do it sober.
Also note that the Supreme Court must have a case before it to issue a ruling. It cannot issue decisions on any subject it chooses.
The Supreme Court had nothing to do with enacting rights for either minorities or women. It was done correctly, through Constitutional amendment and legislation, and not by activist judges. That is not their role.
See:
Without these laws (among others) in place, there wasn't a thing the Supreme Court could do about slavery, race or sex discrimination, or anything similar. It was perfectly legal.
What on earth is sad about that? Some applications are totally unsuitable for a GUI. Billing is probably one of them. A well-designed terminal-based system is far more efficient for data entry than some "find the icon and click" arrangement. Using a GUI for something like this is like trying to kill a fly with a paperclip.
What's sad is that everyone now tries to cram every app into a GUI whether it needs it or not -- indeed, Windows and tools like VB make it far easier to build a app with a GUI than one without. It's just not an HF paradigm that should always be used.
I find their "Safe Search" feature works fairly well, at least in terms of porn. I keep it turned on for my work machine so as to avoid inadvertent work-unsafe "lucky" results.
Actually it's not unique. Check out the conspiracy theory. This guy is on Coast to Coast with George Noory every so often -- I think he's on tonight -- and the idea of a limitless supply of oil with artificially generated shortages to drive up the price is one of his regular themes.
A suspended sentence means he doesn't actually go to prison. Unless he really screws up in the meantime.
Lamplighter was never a fulltime job. He either doubled as a constable or had the job as a kind of patronage or "workfare" arrangement.
How about blacksmiths that were replaced by the automobiles?
This is not an apt comparison since a cashier is an unskilled worker but a blacksmith very much is not. But really, when the horse, which takes only about 4 smallish iron parts, is replaced with a lumbering machine made primarily of iron or steel and needing frequent repair, a man who knows how to work with the material isn't going to have trouble finding work.
In other words, there will always be a market for skilled workers since skillsets are often transferrable across a range of occupations. It's the unskilled who suffer most from automation. There is no ready solution to the question unless they're willing to acquire skills.
Well, now we know. Little did we know that we knew all along.
In particular, the floating platform must be carefully designed and entails much of the expense of the plant. This company appears to want to adapt something like a supertanker hull. If they do that, all I can say is that they'd better have a good, quick, cheap way of replacing their cold water pipe. (Maintaining the integrity of the cold water pipe is a major technical challenge in OTEC.) Such a platform simply isn't stable enough.
100MW extremely small for a commercial plant. Unless they have a much more inexpensive design overall than the textbook standard -- they might, but the textbook standard is extremely thorough -- they cannot make money with ships that size. It's difficult to turn a profit on a 400MW plant for that matter.
Furthermore, if it generates fresh water as a byproduct then it must be Open Cycle OTEC, which is rather less efficient than Closed Cycle. Open Cycle equipment is extremely bulky and so has been considered unsuitable for shipboard use: it has been limited to land-based plants. The animated graphic in the article illustrates Closed Cycle, so that must be what they're building. It will not produce a fresh water byproduct.
Another obstacle to OTEC is that where it works well is mostly not where the energy is needed. That's why it must first be economically feasable to operate on a hydrogen economy or some such. (In fact, OTEC is about the ideal energy source for producing hydrogen, which can be done onboard and then stored and shipped. Hydrogen being what it is, ammonia production might be a better choice though.) These folks still want to transmit energy to the shore via undersea cables. Certainly tropical islands with limited energy resources can use a nearby OTEC plant -- but they can't afford one, which is why this hasn't been done yet. And surely these people do not intend to string electric transmission lines clear across the Pacific. (Plantships work best when "grazing" anyway, and for that they must be untethered.)
Don'g get me wrong: I'm very enthusiastic about OTEC in general and I think it will be an important energy source someday. But in this case.... Perhaps the article is omitting some key details, but as presented the plan sounds half-baked.
Not only can this be spread out, it must be spread out. Haven't RTFA, but from what I know about OTEC it's generally held that 400MW or so ought to be the standard commercial sized plant. You'd need thousands of plantships spread all over the tropical oceans for the US alone.
In any event, you'd be a fool to deny that religions were officially, brutally suppressed in both the regimes I mentioned.
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's wrong. That may be all who were directly killed on his orders. Many, many died in the famine, which was largely due to Stalin's collectivization policies.
That would be true if I were talking about wars. I'm talking instead about large-scale slaughters of officially atheist populations so as to make them easier to control. The only thing remotely comparable on the religious side that I can think of is the repression of the Jews in 15th century Spain, and there they were mostly expelled, not killed. (There may be others; that's just the one I can think of.)
You know very well that's not what parent is saying. He's merely pointing out a fact of history: that more people were killed in the 20th Century by atheist regimes than by any religion. Possibly more than all deaths for religious reasons in all of history, but that would be difficult to calculate for lack of data. At least 60M died under the Maoist and Stalinist regimes alone. (40M and 20M respectively, although that last in particular is a low estimate. See this. Stalin's victims may number as high as 50M.)
Or Jason with a chainsaw. Either way...
Why do I get the feeling this is the programmer's equivalent of that scene in the teen slasher movies where the girl is going into the dark basement, unarmed and with nothing but a flickering candle for light?
Of course, one of the most commonly used commands is not a verb. See if you can remember which one. (I'm not counting the commands for invoking compilers, none of which are verbs either.)
The "alias" comes in two varieties. The symbol can hold any arbitrary content and can be used to abbreviate commonly used commands together with calling parameters if you didn't like the default ones, as you describe. They function as variables in DCL. The logical name is used for abbreviating or abstracting devices or pathnames.
Years ago Omni published a story by Alfred Bester called "Galatea Galante". The title character was genetically engineered from scratch, and her designer coded her genome using a language with a regular syntax similar to computer languages. Bester shows us a few lines of it before remarking in his narrative voice that it would be really, really boring to show any more of it. It might be of interest in this context if anyone could dig it up though.
Well yeah. At this point they've got step 3 down cold.