Wow...you're entire argument is made up of a single contiguous logical fallacy (argumentum ad Nazium). Impressive. Entirely ignorant, but still impressive. That's okay, ignorance is fixable. Perhaps try checking up on murder rates for countries who currently have strict gun control, such as Japan and Australia.
I know I posted this like a little bit above, but this sounds like something you might be looking for. Any card with the PowerXCell setup. http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/gigaaccel180/features.html If you check under the specs section, you'll see tha BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, and several other numeric libraries are supported. Also, the GCC can target Cell. All around, not a bad set up for physics modeling.
I believe he was speaking of people like this and discussed at much greater length here.
But face it - who got the most votes at the last election? People vote for whoever they want so the public policy is going the way they want. Democracy 101.
That happens after the Christians disappear in chapter 3 iirc. And since we're all still here...
I'm not certain this hasn't already happened. Given that the vast majority of the people who practice Christianity as outlined in the Bible have virtually ceased to exist, that may well have come to pass.
Granted, I am not an expert on the work of fiction in question, so take that with a grain of salt.
My college education consisted of a major in geology, double minor in physics and math. I'm not going to touch any of this guy's numbers, since I have serious reason to believe that his data is not accurate. Then again, I'm not touching any of the other numbers being released because I haven't managed to locate data that I can verify to be accurate enough to start using.
One thing I can say though is that BP is only legally liable for $75 million in damages at a maximum currently. This will not change without new legislation. I'm not sure how much this will end up costing, but I'm reasonably certain it will exceed $75 million. BP is a corporation. Corporations typically tend to depend on profit, which is easier to generate if you pay only what you have to. BP may have promised to pay it all, but, like the queen's ass, this remains to be seen.
Then, by your comparison, I guess we would have to consider the grid that delivers the power to your computer to be part of your computer, and the plant which produces it, along with all of the various things which go into power production, up to and including the planet itself because we extract resources from it to do this. Perhaps it should even include the sun.
So, you are trying to tell me that with this molecule, there was no deliberate process for transforming one or more inputs into one or more results, with variable change? You obviously have no idea what a calculation actually consists of. The concept of calculation is not bound up with arithmetic. Almost counter-intuitively, it doesn't even necessarily have to mathematical.
Not only that but Mark's Comments towards the end of this bug report posted in a previous slashdot story have really opened my eyes as to what a dick he really is when talking to his users.
There's lots of reasons to keep the close buttons on the right by default and yet Mark can't come up with one reason to move them, just a lot of nonsense about "his plans" which he doesn't want to share.
He is absolutely not being a dick. Just take a look at the rubbish people are throwing his way. Nothing he's said could be considered harsh to any but the most sensitive and fragile of souls out there and it's usually those fragile fools throwing the most mud.
The design team made a decision, and they've said they'll take on board any reasonable criticisms but most of what's going on is cry babies with their, "Listen to me, I want it this way, just because, and if you don't do what I say then I'll take my bat and ball and use another distro."
It's fine to take the view that you don't like where the buttons are and it's easily changed too. Just because someone wont do what you want just by crying and screaming at them via bug reports, etc. without being reasonable is hardly unusual. If I demand you to stop reading Slashdot just cause I want you to with no good reason and being a baby while I ask would rightly be met with a no. It's not the end of the world where the buttons are now and there's a way to put them where you want. How most of the posters can justify their positions on this in any way mystifies me.
There there, Mark Shuttleworth. You didn't have to post as AC in order to throw your temper-tantrum. We're all friends here. It's okay *soothing, cooing noises*.... You can pu
I had already tried policing them at by that point. Those who were going to do the assignment were doing it, and those who had already decided not to sat in silence giving me dirty looks. What else was I to do? The assignment was to copy definitions, and answer a few questions from a section review. In the review, the answers came from the vocabulary words and definitions they copied. I did not have a single student question all day.
Because it is the proper name of a subject/course title in this instance, and is therefore capitalized, if I recall the rules correctly. If not, then I am in error.
You are 100% correct. There was a generic vocabulary and section review today. In all of the classes, very few students participated. Even when I put forth the effort to police them, those who did not wish to do it (the majority) still did not participate.
I am currently the instructor in a high school Chemistry course (at least for the day). From my experience observing the students of today across various subjects, I can say that the fault is with both the students and their parents. Our students have no work ethic, and no desire to learn. They idolize their own ignorance. The writing I see from our high school students is worse than that mentioned in the article. Even among students who score relatively well, I get the impression that I am reading a paper written by someone without native English fluency. This is, of course, when they can be made to work on any assignment to begin with. Presently, the majority of the students I am watching as I write this have elected not to open their book and participate. Instead they have chosen to engage themselves in useless, and frankly, inane and nonsensical conversation.
Equally disturbing to me is the lack of command in spoken English. These students, with few exceptions, are native English speakers, but it would be difficult to tell this from observing them. I was raised in the same town as these students, and progressed through the same education system under most of the same teachers. The curriculum has changed in the intervening time, but not enough to account for the disparity in abilities. It is honestly as if I speak different language than these students when I speak English properly. As a matter of fact, English is an entirely differently language from what they speak, and that appalls me.
Having working experience in the public education system, I can say that our problems are arising from our youth culture. The problems with our youth culture are largely due to a lack of interest or parenting ability on the part of our parents. Our students are held to no standards at home, or at least, very low standards. They have no desire to learn, and no desire to work. I try to inspire students when I have the opportunity, but results are highly limited. It is shocking and sickening when I consider that in short order these students will be adults, with responsibility in society. The difficulty with language is a symptom of the deeper problem: our students idolize willful ignorance and have chosen to be intellectually spayed. I feel that only the sobering reality we will face when we become dependent on this generation for their participation in society will shake us from our complacency and help us to insist upon higher standards for education. This effort should be maintained not only within the education system, but at home.
Congratulations! You are today's winner for the "Who can make me feel old firs today" contest! There is no prize. However, I look at your post and everything in it made me smile. Kids today...they missed out on so many things. It makes me wonder what they'll say about the generation after them.
I'm descended from lowlanders as well. However, we're the only lowland clan, officially registered with the Lord Lyon King of Arms. This has nothing to do with the story mind you. I'm still waiting to find out the exact nature of the alleged copyright violations before I make any comments on that.
I'm reminded of a poster that I saw hanging in a fellow teacher's room. It shows young people protesting animal testing. The caption under it reads (I forget the exact number used) "That's to animal testing, they will have 28.5 more years to protest" and then gives brief commentary about how animal testing has increased the average human life span. Next to it, there is another poster showing adorable little animals and their names, along with which diseases they were cured of, which makes the statement "animal testing saves animal lives too". I've never met anyone else with pro animal testing posters before, and I really need to ask her where she got them from.
Markets do a piss poor job of that. Case in point: wire hangers. Cheap to make, cheap to buy, cheap to throw away. We don't really pay for the environmental impact of this. Enough are thrown away each year to account for enough steel to make thousands of new cars. But, hey, who cares if steel is steel and extraction is extraction? We're talking profit margins, something the market is quite adept at increasing, no matter the actual cost. We can't really afford to throw away thousands of cars the same way we do hangers, even though steel is steel and extraction is extraction. This is what I mean by price != cost.
I'm sorry, but you make a, sadly common, American/capitalist mistake here by giving price and cost equivalence. Just because the price is cheaper doesn't meant the cost is. You have to look at total cost in terms of calculating efficient use of resources. That may or may not include a straight monetary figure.
So long as those trees you plant aren't close enough to that coal plant to be effected by the acid rain (coal being made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur, the byproducts of which will form carbonic and sulfuric acid in rain), and if they are far enough away to escape exposure to the mercury, uranium, thorium, and arsenic that are also byproducts of coal emissions. If so, that plan works wonderfully.
Let me say, my post is actually more about efficiency versus inefficiency. Generating your power outside of your state and pushing it across inefficient lines (where the majority of our generated electricity is lost) is horribly inefficient. Inefficient use of finite resources IS blatantly harmful, to anyone involved. Furthermore, I was at one time, a Geology major, so I have never really bought into AGW. I'm not really arguing it from that standpoint.
However, when you look at what all it takes to run a coal power plant, in terms of construction, mining, transport of coal, and actual production versus other alternative methods, it is fairly easy to see that the more efficient use of resources and manpower lie with the alternative methods. Additionally, to place so much stake on a finite resource to provide for our insatiable, continued need for energy production over methods that are, over time period that we will need energy production, far less scare, is absolutely nonsensical to me.
I hope I have done something to further clarify my arguments here, and what my stance actually is.
At the risk of getting flamed and shot down, I have to admit that I actually favor actions like this. Will it hold up in a legal sense? Like the Queen's ass, that remains to be seen. However, I have long though that those things which are blatantly harmful to human beings, and the planet in general, should have enough economic disincentives as to make them all but beyond the ability of anyone to procure. Oh, I think you should be free to buy whatever you wish, but I think that freedom should include the freedom to have to spend all of your money on the stupid, inefficient, and harmful things if you so desire them. I'm frankly tired of seeing the economic incentives of "cheap" and "profitable" driving harmful things. It's time the tables turned, in my opinion.
Thinking about modems reminds me of my first Linux admin job. I started out as a junior admin for a dial-up ISP in my hometown (that should be read as "flunky" since there were only two of us: my supervisor and I). Managing a server and a modem bank, all fed by T1. Those were the days. While knowledge of dial-up technologies stopped serving me long ago, at least I got to cut my teeth on networking and Linux, and I have been able to capitalize on those ever since. Going to work there got me a free dial-up account, which put an end to my long reign of stealing dial-up from those I knew. Ah, those were the days. Now I have to pay someone for the ability to steal things from the internet.
A few friends and I were talking about our days on dialup when we were growing up. One friend was commenting on not noticing the download time on a 5 meg file, and how he complains when his download speeds are 500 k per second now. We had a little fun recalling our top-out speeds of 4.6 k per second, and the magical "1 meg every six minutes" rate we had all calculated growing up.
We all agreed that in a way, it is almost a shame that kids today are growing up with remarkably better technology than we had at their age (and it hasn't been that long ago that we were their age). We all sort of miss dealing with cobbled together and salvaged parts, trying to eek out any performance we could from our machines. One of the friends present recalled helping me overclock my 33 mhz machine to 36 mhz (woohooo! A 10% gain) and how excited we were.
These days, my cell phone has more computing power than the first three computers that I owned, and a much faster data transfer rate. The old technology still amuses me though.
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Please forgive my lapse in typing skills, that should be "your" and not "you're".
Wow...you're entire argument is made up of a single contiguous logical fallacy (argumentum ad Nazium). Impressive. Entirely ignorant, but still impressive. That's okay, ignorance is fixable. Perhaps try checking up on murder rates for countries who currently have strict gun control, such as Japan and Australia.
I know I posted this like a little bit above, but this sounds like something you might be looking for. Any card with the PowerXCell setup. http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/gigaaccel180/features.html If you check under the specs section, you'll see tha BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, and several other numeric libraries are supported. Also, the GCC can target Cell. All around, not a bad set up for physics modeling.
http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/gigaaccel180/features.html I wouldn't mind having a few of those. Also, the QS22 blades that I worked with were also very nice in my opinion. Cell is a fun architecture.
But face it - who got the most votes at the last election? People vote for whoever they want so the public policy is going the way they want. Democracy 101.
Ah, but they never get it, do they?
That happens after the Christians disappear in chapter 3 iirc. And since we're all still here...
I'm not certain this hasn't already happened. Given that the vast majority of the people who practice Christianity as outlined in the Bible have virtually ceased to exist, that may well have come to pass.
Granted, I am not an expert on the work of fiction in question, so take that with a grain of salt.
I would like to note that the $75 million is their obligation for damages, not cleanup cost, which they have stated they will pay.
My college education consisted of a major in geology, double minor in physics and math. I'm not going to touch any of this guy's numbers, since I have serious reason to believe that his data is not accurate. Then again, I'm not touching any of the other numbers being released because I haven't managed to locate data that I can verify to be accurate enough to start using. One thing I can say though is that BP is only legally liable for $75 million in damages at a maximum currently. This will not change without new legislation. I'm not sure how much this will end up costing, but I'm reasonably certain it will exceed $75 million. BP is a corporation. Corporations typically tend to depend on profit, which is easier to generate if you pay only what you have to. BP may have promised to pay it all, but, like the queen's ass, this remains to be seen.
Then, by your comparison, I guess we would have to consider the grid that delivers the power to your computer to be part of your computer, and the plant which produces it, along with all of the various things which go into power production, up to and including the planet itself because we extract resources from it to do this. Perhaps it should even include the sun.
So, you are trying to tell me that with this molecule, there was no deliberate process for transforming one or more inputs into one or more results, with variable change? You obviously have no idea what a calculation actually consists of. The concept of calculation is not bound up with arithmetic. Almost counter-intuitively, it doesn't even necessarily have to mathematical.
Not only that but Mark's Comments towards the end of this bug report posted in a previous slashdot story have really opened my eyes as to what a dick he really is when talking to his users.
There's lots of reasons to keep the close buttons on the right by default and yet Mark can't come up with one reason to move them, just a lot of nonsense about "his plans" which he doesn't want to share.
He is absolutely not being a dick. Just take a look at the rubbish people are throwing his way. Nothing he's said could be considered harsh to any but the most sensitive and fragile of souls out there and it's usually those fragile fools throwing the most mud.
The design team made a decision, and they've said they'll take on board any reasonable criticisms but most of what's going on is cry babies with their, "Listen to me, I want it this way, just because, and if you don't do what I say then I'll take my bat and ball and use another distro."
It's fine to take the view that you don't like where the buttons are and it's easily changed too. Just because someone wont do what you want just by crying and screaming at them via bug reports, etc. without being reasonable is hardly unusual. If I demand you to stop reading Slashdot just cause I want you to with no good reason and being a baby while I ask would rightly be met with a no. It's not the end of the world where the buttons are now and there's a way to put them where you want. How most of the posters can justify their positions on this in any way mystifies me.
There there, Mark Shuttleworth. You didn't have to post as AC in order to throw your temper-tantrum. We're all friends here. It's okay *soothing, cooing noises*.... You can pu
I had already tried policing them at by that point. Those who were going to do the assignment were doing it, and those who had already decided not to sat in silence giving me dirty looks. What else was I to do? The assignment was to copy definitions, and answer a few questions from a section review. In the review, the answers came from the vocabulary words and definitions they copied. I did not have a single student question all day.
Because it is the proper name of a subject/course title in this instance, and is therefore capitalized, if I recall the rules correctly. If not, then I am in error.
You are 100% correct. There was a generic vocabulary and section review today. In all of the classes, very few students participated. Even when I put forth the effort to police them, those who did not wish to do it (the majority) still did not participate.
I am currently the instructor in a high school Chemistry course (at least for the day). From my experience observing the students of today across various subjects, I can say that the fault is with both the students and their parents. Our students have no work ethic, and no desire to learn. They idolize their own ignorance. The writing I see from our high school students is worse than that mentioned in the article. Even among students who score relatively well, I get the impression that I am reading a paper written by someone without native English fluency. This is, of course, when they can be made to work on any assignment to begin with. Presently, the majority of the students I am watching as I write this have elected not to open their book and participate. Instead they have chosen to engage themselves in useless, and frankly, inane and nonsensical conversation.
Equally disturbing to me is the lack of command in spoken English. These students, with few exceptions, are native English speakers, but it would be difficult to tell this from observing them. I was raised in the same town as these students, and progressed through the same education system under most of the same teachers. The curriculum has changed in the intervening time, but not enough to account for the disparity in abilities. It is honestly as if I speak different language than these students when I speak English properly. As a matter of fact, English is an entirely differently language from what they speak, and that appalls me.
Having working experience in the public education system, I can say that our problems are arising from our youth culture. The problems with our youth culture are largely due to a lack of interest or parenting ability on the part of our parents. Our students are held to no standards at home, or at least, very low standards. They have no desire to learn, and no desire to work. I try to inspire students when I have the opportunity, but results are highly limited. It is shocking and sickening when I consider that in short order these students will be adults, with responsibility in society. The difficulty with language is a symptom of the deeper problem: our students idolize willful ignorance and have chosen to be intellectually spayed. I feel that only the sobering reality we will face when we become dependent on this generation for their participation in society will shake us from our complacency and help us to insist upon higher standards for education. This effort should be maintained not only within the education system, but at home.
Congratulations! You are today's winner for the "Who can make me feel old firs today" contest! There is no prize. However, I look at your post and everything in it made me smile. Kids today...they missed out on so many things. It makes me wonder what they'll say about the generation after them.
I'm descended from lowlanders as well. However, we're the only lowland clan, officially registered with the Lord Lyon King of Arms. This has nothing to do with the story mind you. I'm still waiting to find out the exact nature of the alleged copyright violations before I make any comments on that.
I'm reminded of a poster that I saw hanging in a fellow teacher's room. It shows young people protesting animal testing. The caption under it reads (I forget the exact number used) "That's to animal testing, they will have 28.5 more years to protest" and then gives brief commentary about how animal testing has increased the average human life span. Next to it, there is another poster showing adorable little animals and their names, along with which diseases they were cured of, which makes the statement "animal testing saves animal lives too". I've never met anyone else with pro animal testing posters before, and I really need to ask her where she got them from.
Markets do a piss poor job of that. Case in point: wire hangers. Cheap to make, cheap to buy, cheap to throw away. We don't really pay for the environmental impact of this. Enough are thrown away each year to account for enough steel to make thousands of new cars. But, hey, who cares if steel is steel and extraction is extraction? We're talking profit margins, something the market is quite adept at increasing, no matter the actual cost. We can't really afford to throw away thousands of cars the same way we do hangers, even though steel is steel and extraction is extraction. This is what I mean by price != cost.
I'm sorry, but you make a, sadly common, American/capitalist mistake here by giving price and cost equivalence. Just because the price is cheaper doesn't meant the cost is. You have to look at total cost in terms of calculating efficient use of resources. That may or may not include a straight monetary figure.
So long as those trees you plant aren't close enough to that coal plant to be effected by the acid rain (coal being made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur, the byproducts of which will form carbonic and sulfuric acid in rain), and if they are far enough away to escape exposure to the mercury, uranium, thorium, and arsenic that are also byproducts of coal emissions. If so, that plan works wonderfully.
Let me say, my post is actually more about efficiency versus inefficiency. Generating your power outside of your state and pushing it across inefficient lines (where the majority of our generated electricity is lost) is horribly inefficient. Inefficient use of finite resources IS blatantly harmful, to anyone involved. Furthermore, I was at one time, a Geology major, so I have never really bought into AGW. I'm not really arguing it from that standpoint.
However, when you look at what all it takes to run a coal power plant, in terms of construction, mining, transport of coal, and actual production versus other alternative methods, it is fairly easy to see that the more efficient use of resources and manpower lie with the alternative methods. Additionally, to place so much stake on a finite resource to provide for our insatiable, continued need for energy production over methods that are, over time period that we will need energy production, far less scare, is absolutely nonsensical to me.
I hope I have done something to further clarify my arguments here, and what my stance actually is.
At the risk of getting flamed and shot down, I have to admit that I actually favor actions like this. Will it hold up in a legal sense? Like the Queen's ass, that remains to be seen. However, I have long though that those things which are blatantly harmful to human beings, and the planet in general, should have enough economic disincentives as to make them all but beyond the ability of anyone to procure. Oh, I think you should be free to buy whatever you wish, but I think that freedom should include the freedom to have to spend all of your money on the stupid, inefficient, and harmful things if you so desire them. I'm frankly tired of seeing the economic incentives of "cheap" and "profitable" driving harmful things. It's time the tables turned, in my opinion.
Thinking about modems reminds me of my first Linux admin job. I started out as a junior admin for a dial-up ISP in my hometown (that should be read as "flunky" since there were only two of us: my supervisor and I). Managing a server and a modem bank, all fed by T1. Those were the days. While knowledge of dial-up technologies stopped serving me long ago, at least I got to cut my teeth on networking and Linux, and I have been able to capitalize on those ever since. Going to work there got me a free dial-up account, which put an end to my long reign of stealing dial-up from those I knew. Ah, those were the days. Now I have to pay someone for the ability to steal things from the internet.
A few friends and I were talking about our days on dialup when we were growing up. One friend was commenting on not noticing the download time on a 5 meg file, and how he complains when his download speeds are 500 k per second now. We had a little fun recalling our top-out speeds of 4.6 k per second, and the magical "1 meg every six minutes" rate we had all calculated growing up.
We all agreed that in a way, it is almost a shame that kids today are growing up with remarkably better technology than we had at their age (and it hasn't been that long ago that we were their age). We all sort of miss dealing with cobbled together and salvaged parts, trying to eek out any performance we could from our machines. One of the friends present recalled helping me overclock my 33 mhz machine to 36 mhz (woohooo! A 10% gain) and how excited we were.
These days, my cell phone has more computing power than the first three computers that I owned, and a much faster data transfer rate. The old technology still amuses me though.