First my gripe: you also failed to note that I said that I'm not willing to judge the state of nuclear engineering in Russia on the basis of one accident and the fact that I'm not an expert in the field.
Apart from that, I agree with you 100% regarding the seeminlgy miserable state of nuclear energy in the US. I wonder, however, whether on an absolute scale of how many people are affected by energy generation, nuclear energy isn't cleaner than fossil fuels. The extraction process for the raw materials is obviously damaging to the environment-- but so is strip mining for coal, or drilling for oil. Furthermore, unlike fossil fuels, the waste products from NP generation can be stored in a single isolated, localized zone. It isn't renewable, but it seems to use fewer resources on a whole than the current fossil fuel based paradigm. I should have been more precise in my phrasing: it should have been "nuclear power is cleaner". Not clean.
It's not as if the navies of the world's superpowers haven't been building sea-worthy nuclear reactors for oh, I don't know, the last 50 years. To prevent nuclear disasters in the event that the ships carrying them are sunk, the reactors are specced so that they are able to withstand high pressures at the bottom of the ocean. I'm guessing that these reactors, apart from their novel location, won't be any more (or less) dangerous than their land based brethren. The only thing I'd be worried about is the standard of Russian nuclear engineering, and frankly, I'm not willing to extrapolate on its qualty from a one datapoint obtained from a single-- admittedly serious-- disaster. (Note: IANANE... I'd love to see some nuclear engineers weigh in).
Environmentalists, if they are objecting to this, should stop and take a good look at how hypocritical their position is. On one hand, they demand that economies cut reliance on fossil fuels, and on the other hand, they malign the only clean alternative that is available now. They can't have it both ways. Choose one or the other. And if you can't choose, shut the fsck up.
So maybe I fell asleep in that lecture in Operating systems. But how the hell are they planning on enforcing the virtualization clause? I thought the point of virtualization was to make it so the operating system didn't know that it was being emulated.
Of course the fact that they decided to insert the clause is bad-- legally, Home-centric Vista users now won't be able to virtualize their machines.
You know it's interesting that he termed it a great communications medium, because it is. Or it could be, with some work.
Think of all the time that people are sinking to keep email- a stressed and some would say broken- tenable into the future... now divert some of that energy into making Second Life (or a Second Life-like system) into something useful for communication. The result would be newer, richer and arguably better suited for human communication than text based email ever will be.
int main (void){
for (i = 1000000; i >= 0; i--){
printf ("%d batteries on recall. %d batteries! Take one down, bury it in the ground. %d Apple batteries on recall.", i, i, i-1);
} }
First of all, you make the mistake of thinking that I'm a dismissive PC user. I'm actually fairly catholic about what operating systems I use: I have a linux/windows dual boot box, as well as a Mac.
Secondly, my post wasn't aimed at users like yourself, who clearly know why they are using the hardware they are using. But for every user like yourself, there are a couple of thousand losers who use Macs because the ads look good. Because they think owning a Mac is a lifestyle choice.
Apologies if I caused offense. A word of advice, however: I've always believed that a sense of proportion is a good thing to cultivate. To fly off the handle because somebody disses your favorite OS on/. is the reaction you would expect from a 6 year old whose favorite action figure has come under attack; it is hardly befitting of an obviously experienced and skilled computer user and person.
... if they can write an automatic lameness filter that recognizes when a Mac is being an officious and superior bastard and initiate a shock sequence by way of response. I recommend the following performance vs. penalty scheme:
1 shock every time user logs on to Apple hardware related forum to masturbate about what new hardware may or may not be revealed during Steve Job's next keynote address
2 shocks for every DRM ridden iTunes song downloaded by the user because "it works out better for the artists, and because it gives me the flexibility to do whatever I want with my music." Discretionary shocks may be assigned on the basis of whether or not the song is subsequently downloaded to an iPod (max. 1 shock), and if said iPod is a "special edition" U2 iPod (max. 2 shocks)
3 shocks for every "My mac 'just works'" comment. Additional shocks in the event that Mac breaks down 1 day after warranty expires (max 3 shocks); further shocks may be assigned if user has to go to friend who uses Linux to get the problem sorted out (max 4 shocks)
4 shocks for every time user says that Apple is the only sensible platform for him/her because he/she is an "artist."
5 shocks for every "I never get viruses" comment to a PC user. More shocks if the user is a graphic designer who uses his computer for nothing except photoshop (max 6 additional shocks). Fatal shock may be administered if user is a graphic designer talking to a sysadmin in charge of maintaining a network of PCs.
... to which Asian countries reply: who the fsck are you talking to?
Asia is not one homogenous region guys, and can't be addressed as such. A call to specific countries would probably be more productive.
That said, Asian countries are going to be at the forefront of technological expansion (and by that I mean adoption of new technologies) in the coming years as a result of their increasing literacy rates and prosperity. It makes sense for ODF to squirm in before Microsoft gets a stranglehold on the market
The gist of this article seems to be that unless you're doing complete content analysis on incoming packets, you aren't going to be able to detect Skype: it uses (on my system at any rate) port 443 (SSL?) and port 80 (HTTP) as its default ports. Any sysadmin that blocks those ports is going to get some very annoyed phone calls from pissed off users.
That skype is being devious and sneaky is not the issue here. I think the real issue here is that sysadmins don't have control over the machines they're supposed to be looking after. There are plenty of ways to make sure that Skype doesn't make it onto the corporate network-- don't give unauthorized users permission to install software, blacklist it on the company approved software image, packet analysis... the list goes on. I figure if the sysadmin is not paranoid enough to do these things to begin with, the use of Skype on his/her network probably isn't a major threat. Or the sysadmin is inept. Your call.
The guy is clearly dumb as a rock. Who the hell takes a stolen credit card, buys stuff with it, and then has the stuff delivered to his doorstep???!!? I don't know jack about stealing identities, but this guy's MO is just plain stoopid.
Trust the mainstream media to make him sound like some kind of twisted, tortured genius.
"Nanotechnology" is such an amorphous term... it can apply to anything that deals with nano-scale technologies. That includes things the tiny lasers I'm dealing with at school, and the technology that Intel uses to fabricate processors.
Work is hard enough without the freakin' food and drug administration slowing me down with paperwork, defining what I can and cannot research-- I already have to deal with OSHA on a regular basis, and one government agency is quite enough for me. E
The average environmentalist needs to stop jerking off to buzzwords and get a life.
I'm serial.
I gather you graduated from Princeton Community College down the road from us. It's okay, buddy. I'm told women sometimes prefer smaller::cough cough::.
Let's be honest... I just recently moved from editing in xemacs to ms visual studio... went back after a few days, and found myself wondering why the little scrollbar wasn't coming down to tell me what members were part of my struct.:)
Visual Studio saves time, but at the same time, it denudes skills honed over an extended period of time.
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First my gripe: you also failed to note that I said that I'm not willing to judge the state of nuclear engineering in Russia on the basis of one accident and the fact that I'm not an expert in the field.
Apart from that, I agree with you 100% regarding the seeminlgy miserable state of nuclear energy in the US. I wonder, however, whether on an absolute scale of how many people are affected by energy generation, nuclear energy isn't cleaner than fossil fuels. The extraction process for the raw materials is obviously damaging to the environment-- but so is strip mining for coal, or drilling for oil. Furthermore, unlike fossil fuels, the waste products from NP generation can be stored in a single isolated, localized zone. It isn't renewable, but it seems to use fewer resources on a whole than the current fossil fuel based paradigm. I should have been more precise in my phrasing: it should have been "nuclear power is cleaner". Not clean.
It's not as if the navies of the world's superpowers haven't been building sea-worthy nuclear reactors for oh, I don't know, the last 50 years. To prevent nuclear disasters in the event that the ships carrying them are sunk, the reactors are specced so that they are able to withstand high pressures at the bottom of the ocean. I'm guessing that these reactors, apart from their novel location, won't be any more (or less) dangerous than their land based brethren. The only thing I'd be worried about is the standard of Russian nuclear engineering, and frankly, I'm not willing to extrapolate on its qualty from a one datapoint obtained from a single-- admittedly serious-- disaster. (Note: IANANE... I'd love to see some nuclear engineers weigh in).
Environmentalists, if they are objecting to this, should stop and take a good look at how hypocritical their position is. On one hand, they demand that economies cut reliance on fossil fuels, and on the other hand, they malign the only clean alternative that is available now. They can't have it both ways. Choose one or the other. And if you can't choose, shut the fsck up.
Seriously. You ask-- on a forum full of geek nerds who are reading Slashdot on a Friday night-- what "triple play" is.
:)
You deserve every single bad ménage a trois joke you get.
That said, it refers to a service that provides phone, cable and broadband internet over the same pipe.
Dammit. A tube joke. I can't shake them... sorry.
Wish I had mod points. That link was _very_ informative. And that isn't a "could I subscribe to your newsletter" comment. :)
So VMWare's out. What else is feasible?
So maybe I fell asleep in that lecture in Operating systems. But how the hell are they planning on enforcing the virtualization clause? I thought the point of virtualization was to make it so the operating system didn't know that it was being emulated.
Of course the fact that they decided to insert the clause is bad-- legally, Home-centric Vista users now won't be able to virtualize their machines.
You know it's interesting that he termed it a great communications medium, because it is. Or it could be, with some work.
Think of all the time that people are sinking to keep email- a stressed and some would say broken- tenable into the future... now divert some of that energy into making Second Life (or a Second Life-like system) into something useful for communication. The result would be newer, richer and arguably better suited for human communication than text based email ever will be.
Coo. Just plain coo.
... didn't they just roll back to a version that didn't have the feed in it?
1. apple_batt.c:
./a.out
#include
int main (void){
for (i = 1000000; i >= 0; i--){
printf ("%d batteries on recall. %d batteries! Take one down, bury it in the ground. %d Apple batteries on recall.", i, i, i-1);
}
}
2. gcc apple_batt.c
3.
I did that with my last interviewer. Forgot to talk about the ReentrantLock class though. :)
5PM to 9PM, baby.
First of all, you make the mistake of thinking that I'm a dismissive PC user. I'm actually fairly catholic about what operating systems I use: I have a linux/windows dual boot box, as well as a Mac.
/. is the reaction you would expect from a 6 year old whose favorite action figure has come under attack; it is hardly befitting of an obviously experienced and skilled computer user and person.
Secondly, my post wasn't aimed at users like yourself, who clearly know why they are using the hardware they are using. But for every user like yourself, there are a couple of thousand losers who use Macs because the ads look good. Because they think owning a Mac is a lifestyle choice.
Apologies if I caused offense. A word of advice, however: I've always believed that a sense of proportion is a good thing to cultivate. To fly off the handle because somebody disses your favorite OS on
It's okay-- you escape being shocked because you are replying to another Mac-user.
Posted from a Mac. :)
Repeat after me: technology is a tool, not a lifetstyle.
- 1 shock every time user logs on to Apple hardware related forum to masturbate about what new hardware may or may not be revealed during Steve Job's next keynote address
- 2 shocks for every DRM ridden iTunes song downloaded by the user because "it works out better for the artists, and because it gives me the flexibility to do whatever I want with my music." Discretionary shocks may be assigned on the basis of whether or not the song is subsequently downloaded to an iPod (max. 1 shock), and if said iPod is a "special edition" U2 iPod (max. 2 shocks)
- 3 shocks for every "My mac 'just works'" comment. Additional shocks in the event that Mac breaks down 1 day after warranty expires (max 3 shocks); further shocks may be assigned if user has to go to friend who uses Linux to get the problem sorted out (max 4 shocks)
- 4 shocks for every time user says that Apple is the only sensible platform for him/her because he/she is an "artist."
- 5 shocks for every "I never get viruses" comment to a PC user. More shocks if the user is a graphic designer who uses his computer for nothing except photoshop (max 6 additional shocks). Fatal shock may be administered if user is a graphic designer talking to a sysadmin in charge of maintaining a network of PCs.
Now where's my iPod?Whoa man, you must have registered for slashdot back in the dark ages. That's the lowest number I've ever seen on this page... :)
Kudos.
... to which Asian countries reply: who the fsck are you talking to?
Asia is not one homogenous region guys, and can't be addressed as such. A call to specific countries would probably be more productive.
That said, Asian countries are going to be at the forefront of technological expansion (and by that I mean adoption of new technologies) in the coming years as a result of their increasing literacy rates and prosperity. It makes sense for ODF to squirm in before Microsoft gets a stranglehold on the market
I am assuming your use of the term "facing charges" was not a joke...
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here until the end of the week. Don't forget to tip your waiter!
Point taken... I just tried that trick out on our campus network. If only OIT had a clue... is there any way around it?
The gist of this article seems to be that unless you're doing complete content analysis on incoming packets, you aren't going to be able to detect Skype: it uses (on my system at any rate) port 443 (SSL?) and port 80 (HTTP) as its default ports. Any sysadmin that blocks those ports is going to get some very annoyed phone calls from pissed off users.
That skype is being devious and sneaky is not the issue here. I think the real issue here is that sysadmins don't have control over the machines they're supposed to be looking after. There are plenty of ways to make sure that Skype doesn't make it onto the corporate network-- don't give unauthorized users permission to install software, blacklist it on the company approved software image, packet analysis... the list goes on. I figure if the sysadmin is not paranoid enough to do these things to begin with, the use of Skype on his/her network probably isn't a major threat. Or the sysadmin is inept. Your call.
Can anyone say... script kiddie?
The guy is clearly dumb as a rock. Who the hell takes a stolen credit card, buys stuff with it, and then has the stuff delivered to his doorstep???!!? I don't know jack about stealing identities, but this guy's MO is just plain stoopid.
Trust the mainstream media to make him sound like some kind of twisted, tortured genius.
Is shelleytherepublican for real?
It seems too out of whack even for right wing nutters... the tragedy/frightening part is that you can't really tell if its a joke or not.
This thing downloads adult content and displays it. And this is a bad thing for us dorks because...
"Nanotechnology" is such an amorphous term... it can apply to anything that deals with nano-scale technologies. That includes things the tiny lasers I'm dealing with at school, and the technology that Intel uses to fabricate processors. Work is hard enough without the freakin' food and drug administration slowing me down with paperwork, defining what I can and cannot research-- I already have to deal with OSHA on a regular basis, and one government agency is quite enough for me. E The average environmentalist needs to stop jerking off to buzzwords and get a life. I'm serial.
I gather you graduated from Princeton Community College down the road from us. It's okay, buddy. I'm told women sometimes prefer smaller ::cough cough::.
Let's be honest... I just recently moved from editing in xemacs to ms visual studio... went back after a few days, and found myself wondering why the little scrollbar wasn't coming down to tell me what members were part of my struct. :)
Visual Studio saves time, but at the same time, it denudes skills honed over an extended period of time.