Well, I think that's where some portion of those trillions go - research. Breeder reactors, fusion, etc... I don't think we'll have a fuel problem with nuclear.
Right, because Afghanistan is _so_ capable of high tech mining operations, amirite? You're talking silly talk. Without those evil "western corporations" your type so reviles, there would be no development done in Afghanistan.
Wind energy this, Solar energy that. It's all fantasy dreamed up by hippies. It may or may not be able to meet a high percentage of our energy needs at some point in the future.
Nuclear power is here now. We know it works. We know it's safe, if done right. Sure, it's expensive, but if we'd invested a few trillion in nuclear power over the last 30 years ago we'd have ended up saving a shitload on foreign wars, cost to the environment from oil spills and pollution, etc...
At the rate we're going now, nothing will have changed 20 years from now. Instead, we need to start building nuclear plants and investing in research on portable power like fuel cells so we can use that nuclear power outside of the main power grid.
"Isn't this just WOL, way to 'invent' that Micro$haft! Hur Hur"
"Gwerp, my Mac does this!"
What a den of idiocy this place is. Did any of you even read the god damn article? Jesus Christ.
First, they didn't make it out to be something they invented or that is revolutionary. You neckbeards are erecting a firm strawman and then attacking it with your +1 Wand of Douchebaggery.
Second, read the fucking article. They are doing some other stuff:
"SleepNotifier alerts SleepServer just before the client goes to sleep, and SleepServer ensures that all incoming traffic meant for the client comes to the proxy instead," Microsoft writes in another article titled "Trying to cure PC insomnia." "The proxy server's role is to monitor traffic and respond accordingly. For some requests, it responds on behalf of the client so the client can continue sleeping, and others it ignores. Some traffic, such as a user access request, causes the SleepServer proxy to awaken the client and present the user with apparently seamless remote access."
Yeah...no. Mac is a trainwreck. And 5% of the market is nothing. Why would anyone spend time investing in something where they get 1/20th the return? There really is no debate, I don't know why I'm bothering. MacOS is not virus-free because it's secure, it's virus free because it has tiny market share.
Your "facts" are arbitrary. That's like saying if 50 people in a town of 100 kill themselves, but the US wide numbers for that year are still within the normal range, you coming on here and waving your hands "Come on people, those 50 deaths were well within the norm for US deaths". Yeah - anyone with any IQ will note that you conveniently lumped those 50 deaths into the US bucket instead of the SuicideVille bucket.
You would look at deaths at a factory, or deaths at a set of factories, or some reasonably tied population. You don't just include "durr, all Foxconn employees" any more than you include "durr, all Chinese".
I said nothing about security through obscurity. In fact, security through obscurity is just something people who have a superficial knowledge of security say to sound knowledgeable.
Windows is a more hardened OS, it has been under scrutiny for longer and all the easy exploits have been plugged, all the moderate exploits have been plugged, and almost all the hard exploits have been plugged.
Mac OS, on the other hand, is something that any UNIX hacker can get into very easily in any of numerous ways.
I'm kidding. Haven't you pedantic types learned that even moderately technical people know that, and you don't have to remind people.
This is, of course, an apples to apples comparison. A 2GHz processor in the same ARM family will tend to be possibly even as much as twice as fast (in CPU performance) as a 1GHz processor.
Comparing a 2GHz ARM to a 2GHz Core 2, for example, is not apples to apples. Comparing processors within the same family (or even cousins), GHz is often a fairly good way to differentiate speed.
Wow, you mean AMD invented a way to go from 32->64 bits? Like Intel did from 8->16 and 16->32 bits? I don't know why people think AMD was so revolutionary for doing this, it's been done before.
I'm considering one. Microsoft will have, on launch, development tools for Win7Mo that will be better than anyone else's. This is Microsoft's core strength, and it will help them a lot to catch up.
Human labor can create purified water. There is no limit on it other than the work humans are willing to do. I think that's his main point. There's no environmental limit, it doesn't disappear. If you've got people willing to crank a shaft, you've got water.
More realistically, if you've got people willing to pay (work) to build nuclear power plants, you've got water.
Cackle all you want. I mean, how could the IRS ever get details on electronic transactions you make, amirite? It's just inconceivable! that the IRS would ever catch these sneaky Robin Hoods, huh? Right....
Second, I agree with a flat tax of some sort but it will never happen. The rich pay the majority of the taxes in this country and it's harder to soak them as much if you go to a flat tax. The left wing will never go for it.
Yeah, the debt run up by Dubya was a pittance compared to what's going to be run up by the Democrats this cycle. The numbers they _lied_ about were ridiculously high, the real numbers will be insane. You think the cast of Dubya's 8 years was a snaggle toothed bunch of villains? Wait until you see the extent to which these current scoundrels have lied about how much all this shit they're doing is going to really cost.
It's even funnier when left wing nuts blame the Republicans for the housing meltdown than it is when right wing nuts blame the Democrats and CRA. It was a bubble - just like the Internet bubble. Sorry, lefty, government is not the solution to all of our problems.
2 unwinnable wars? Maybe. One of them was legitimate (Afghanistan), one questionable. I think Dubya was a liar too, but my viewpoint is softening on the old scoundrel a little bit. Iraq might have been some plan to create a battlefield with Al Qaeda that was well away from US civilians. Draw them to us where we can fight them at least a little more on our terms. I don't know - they sure as shit lied about it, whatever the real reasons. I think the "durr, it was for multinational evil corporations" screed the left wing loons rant about is a bit facile.
Funny, the shit hasn't hit the fan yet. Greece and Spain are the early (and small) failures. Germany's debt/GDP ratio is skyrocketing. I did say "long march". It's not going to happen this month, this year, or probably even in the next 3 years. But that shit is going to collapse under its own weight.
Norway... you're serious? Nobody gives a shit about Norway, it's tiny (about the population of Alabama) and has lots of oil money. Norway, I mean tell me you're joking right?
Ahaha. I love misplaced sarcasm. I said "long march". And Germany's screwed too.
Christ, I thought the US had problems but we're pretty far down in the list of Debt/GDP ratios.
The EU will come crashing down, denying this is simply willful idiocy. Some of the states will come out better than others, but there's going to be a shitload of upheaval no matter what.
I'm not sure if you know this or not, but Theora - it sucks. Almost nobody's using it for anything serious, and this will be doubly true in the next few years.
Umm, in their defense the word "Intel" does start with exactly one of the 26 characters in the alphabet, and it happens to be 'i'. Unlike some other companies...
I suggest you move to an EU member state, if you happen to be in the US. I hear things are going great over there. Enjoy the scenic riots and the long march towards chaos as their unsustainable economies collapse under their own weight!
Reagan wasn't small government, he just talked about small government.
The government has grown tremendously over the last 50 years, and has accelerated the last 30 years.
I guess we'll see how it all works out, no point arguing with the current crop of Big Government EuroSocialist SlashDotters. I remember when this place used to be kind of a libertarian hang out, now it's like an alternate reality.
PS: How's that big government thing working out in Europe? I mean who could have seen that fail, amirite? Oh, wait - anyone could have seen that coming. And don't give me any bullshit about it being because they can't devalue their currency. They're failing fast because of overspending. Currency devaluation is just stalling the inevitable, like what will happen in the US.
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Well, I think that's where some portion of those trillions go - research. Breeder reactors, fusion, etc... I don't think we'll have a fuel problem with nuclear.
Right, because Afghanistan is _so_ capable of high tech mining operations, amirite? You're talking silly talk. Without those evil "western corporations" your type so reviles, there would be no development done in Afghanistan.
Wind energy this, Solar energy that. It's all fantasy dreamed up by hippies. It may or may not be able to meet a high percentage of our energy needs at some point in the future.
Nuclear power is here now. We know it works. We know it's safe, if done right. Sure, it's expensive, but if we'd invested a few trillion in nuclear power over the last 30 years ago we'd have ended up saving a shitload on foreign wars, cost to the environment from oil spills and pollution, etc...
At the rate we're going now, nothing will have changed 20 years from now. Instead, we need to start building nuclear plants and investing in research on portable power like fuel cells so we can use that nuclear power outside of the main power grid.
"Duh, I'm a really smart guy I know about WOL!"
"Isn't this just WOL, way to 'invent' that Micro$haft! Hur Hur"
"Gwerp, my Mac does this!"
What a den of idiocy this place is. Did any of you even read the god damn article? Jesus Christ.
First, they didn't make it out to be something they invented or that is revolutionary. You neckbeards are erecting a firm strawman and then attacking it with your +1 Wand of Douchebaggery.
Second, read the fucking article. They are doing some other stuff:
"SleepNotifier alerts SleepServer just before the client goes to sleep, and SleepServer ensures that all incoming traffic meant for the client comes to the proxy instead," Microsoft writes in another article titled "Trying to cure PC insomnia." "The proxy server's role is to monitor traffic and respond accordingly. For some requests, it responds on behalf of the client so the client can continue sleeping, and others it ignores. Some traffic, such as a user access request, causes the SleepServer proxy to awaken the client and present the user with apparently seamless remote access."
Yeah...no. Mac is a trainwreck. And 5% of the market is nothing. Why would anyone spend time investing in something where they get 1/20th the return? There really is no debate, I don't know why I'm bothering. MacOS is not virus-free because it's secure, it's virus free because it has tiny market share.
It's not hard to deny at all. Mac OS has 5% of the market. Why in god's name would you release something that will find 5% of people at _best_.
Ask some security researchers which is harder to compromise, MacOS or Windows.
Your "facts" are arbitrary. That's like saying if 50 people in a town of 100 kill themselves, but the US wide numbers for that year are still within the normal range, you coming on here and waving your hands "Come on people, those 50 deaths were well within the norm for US deaths". Yeah - anyone with any IQ will note that you conveniently lumped those 50 deaths into the US bucket instead of the SuicideVille bucket.
You would look at deaths at a factory, or deaths at a set of factories, or some reasonably tied population. You don't just include "durr, all Foxconn employees" any more than you include "durr, all Chinese".
I said nothing about security through obscurity. In fact, security through obscurity is just something people who have a superficial knowledge of security say to sound knowledgeable.
Windows is a more hardened OS, it has been under scrutiny for longer and all the easy exploits have been plugged, all the moderate exploits have been plugged, and almost all the hard exploits have been plugged.
Mac OS, on the other hand, is something that any UNIX hacker can get into very easily in any of numerous ways.
Macs are at least a step up from Windows in terms of viruses...
Yes (popularity).
...and security
Lol. No.
Wow, you're just so clever that you know that!
I'm kidding. Haven't you pedantic types learned that even moderately technical people know that, and you don't have to remind people.
This is, of course, an apples to apples comparison. A 2GHz processor in the same ARM family will tend to be possibly even as much as twice as fast (in CPU performance) as a 1GHz processor.
Comparing a 2GHz ARM to a 2GHz Core 2, for example, is not apples to apples. Comparing processors within the same family (or even cousins), GHz is often a fairly good way to differentiate speed.
Wow, you mean AMD invented a way to go from 32->64 bits? Like Intel did from 8->16 and 16->32 bits? I don't know why people think AMD was so revolutionary for doing this, it's been done before.
Or as I call them, Economists.
Sorry, BlackBerry is done. They may hang out as a niche player for business users for a long while, but they're basically finished.
Market penetration... OK. How about growth? How's growth doing for RIM? I'll tell you: not well. Not well at all.
I'm considering one. Microsoft will have, on launch, development tools for Win7Mo that will be better than anyone else's. This is Microsoft's core strength, and it will help them a lot to catch up.
Fine, agreed. Then don't crybaby when Apple fucks you over.
Human labor can create purified water. There is no limit on it other than the work humans are willing to do. I think that's his main point. There's no environmental limit, it doesn't disappear. If you've got people willing to crank a shaft, you've got water.
More realistically, if you've got people willing to pay (work) to build nuclear power plants, you've got water.
Cackle all you want. I mean, how could the IRS ever get details on electronic transactions you make, amirite? It's just inconceivable! that the IRS would ever catch these sneaky Robin Hoods, huh? Right....
Second, I agree with a flat tax of some sort but it will never happen. The rich pay the majority of the taxes in this country and it's harder to soak them as much if you go to a flat tax. The left wing will never go for it.
Yeah, the debt run up by Dubya was a pittance compared to what's going to be run up by the Democrats this cycle. The numbers they _lied_ about were ridiculously high, the real numbers will be insane. You think the cast of Dubya's 8 years was a snaggle toothed bunch of villains? Wait until you see the extent to which these current scoundrels have lied about how much all this shit they're doing is going to really cost.
It's even funnier when left wing nuts blame the Republicans for the housing meltdown than it is when right wing nuts blame the Democrats and CRA. It was a bubble - just like the Internet bubble. Sorry, lefty, government is not the solution to all of our problems.
2 unwinnable wars? Maybe. One of them was legitimate (Afghanistan), one questionable. I think Dubya was a liar too, but my viewpoint is softening on the old scoundrel a little bit. Iraq might have been some plan to create a battlefield with Al Qaeda that was well away from US civilians. Draw them to us where we can fight them at least a little more on our terms. I don't know - they sure as shit lied about it, whatever the real reasons. I think the "durr, it was for multinational evil corporations" screed the left wing loons rant about is a bit facile.
Funny, the shit hasn't hit the fan yet. Greece and Spain are the early (and small) failures. Germany's debt/GDP ratio is skyrocketing. I did say "long march". It's not going to happen this month, this year, or probably even in the next 3 years. But that shit is going to collapse under its own weight.
Norway... you're serious? Nobody gives a shit about Norway, it's tiny (about the population of Alabama) and has lots of oil money. Norway, I mean tell me you're joking right?
Ahaha. I love misplaced sarcasm. I said "long march". And Germany's screwed too.
Christ, I thought the US had problems but we're pretty far down in the list of Debt/GDP ratios.
The EU will come crashing down, denying this is simply willful idiocy. Some of the states will come out better than others, but there's going to be a shitload of upheaval no matter what.
I'm not sure if you know this or not, but Theora - it sucks. Almost nobody's using it for anything serious, and this will be doubly true in the next few years.
Umm, in their defense the word "Intel" does start with exactly one of the 26 characters in the alphabet, and it happens to be 'i'. Unlike some other companies...
Ahahaha. Hilarious. You even put TREASON in all caps! How dramatic!
I suggest you move to an EU member state, if you happen to be in the US. I hear things are going great over there. Enjoy the scenic riots and the long march towards chaos as their unsustainable economies collapse under their own weight!
Reagan wasn't small government, he just talked about small government.
The government has grown tremendously over the last 50 years, and has accelerated the last 30 years.
I guess we'll see how it all works out, no point arguing with the current crop of Big Government EuroSocialist SlashDotters. I remember when this place used to be kind of a libertarian hang out, now it's like an alternate reality.
PS: How's that big government thing working out in Europe? I mean who could have seen that fail, amirite? Oh, wait - anyone could have seen that coming. And don't give me any bullshit about it being because they can't devalue their currency. They're failing fast because of overspending. Currency devaluation is just stalling the inevitable, like what will happen in the US.