The "price of oil" you read about in the papers is the price of a futures contract with delivery in one month. Your claim is -- that the highly-unlikely possibility of oil supply increasing by 0.2% and thus the price dropping insignificantly (the Bush DoE's word) 18 years from now has in substantive part caused the one-month futures contract price to fall by 20%.
When Bush lifted the presidential ban on drilling, oil prices dropped $9 in a day. Now you are telling me following through won't do anything? You obviously are not familiar with the market forces in play. It's not just supply and demand and what percent we can produce, it's the fact we are producing. Read my other posts in this thread.
Jamie, you don't know shit, and fuck you for this lame attempt for trolling your own political opinions on slashdot. News for nerds, stuff that matters, you guys have run this place to hell. I've gone from spending hours a day here to mere minutes and shit like this makes me have no regrets.
For anyone who actually pays attention to politics, this was not just your standard adjournment to recess. There have been a series of events leading up to this adjournment that make it blatantly clear that the vote was called early while business was still on the table, to avoid Democratic embarrassment. Why vote on what might embarrass you today when you can procrastinate it on a one month paid vacation? It's no surprise that congress has a lower approval rating than President Bush.
Yes, they voted themselves a paid one-month vacation, by a margin of one vote. Almost directly down party lines. All republicans save four voted nay, to stay in session and hammer out issues except for four who abstained. 17 democrats joined said republicans, 6 abstained. The rest of the democrats voted themselves a vacation.
And yes drilling will help. The very news of drilling will bring oil prices down. Speculation of approval of drilling has already brought prices down already, over $20 under the high of $147. Gas prices at least where I live are down $0.15 - $0.20 since six weeks ago. Tell people you are drilling and yeah, the oil won't enter the stream for 10, 15 years but the speculative properties alone will drop crude by another $20 or $40, easy.
i was having weight gain problems when i was eating breakfast cereal daily
Actually research shows that eating a healthy breakfast is about the best thing you can do for weight loss - it kick starts your metabolism. There was a study done recently actually where one group actually consumed 1000 calories for breakfast and lost more weight than the group that consumed a minimalistic breakfast because of their increased metabolism and a decrease in cravings. When your mom told you it was the most important meal of the day, she wasn't kidding... trim down lunch or dinner. Unless you are eating straight lard for breakfast and salads for lunch/dinner, it won't make a difference so long as the net caloric intake is the same.
me too... the more time I spend on bikeforums, the less I spend on slashdot... it's really not a bad thing. Most of the tech headlines here I catch on google news, there's generally only 1 or 2 things worth discussing on a given day... and bikeforums tends to have more useful day to day stuff for me anyways:)
It's caught on in smaller communities. For example one of the bike forums I frequent (www.bikeforums.net) does group purchases all the time, and often the minimum number of people to buy-in isn't that high to get manufacturers to do limited runs because some of the items are truly niche products.
Sure, but the computer you put that hard drive in, came with a copy of Mac OS of some vintage. And last I checked OSX was sold by the computer, not the hard drive. If that argument were really true PyStar wouldn't be getting in trouble, now, would they?
No, the EULA specifies apple-branded hardware, which comes with a copy of a Mac OS. Therefore any time you purchase a standalone copy of OSX, you are upgrading, regardless of which hard drive you put it. That's merely semantics.
Whereas in the Windows or Linux world I can buy a PC sans OS. That's the argument.
If you truly understand the problem domain you are operating in, parallelism becomes readily apparent. Implementing it isn't difficult even on old code, again, if you truly understand where the parallelism exists.
Me too. Frequent migraines. I have yet to have a migraine triggered by CFL's but I have had CFL's increase pain during a migraine. We have about half the lights in our house converted over to CFL's - but there are two rooms I will not put them in, my office and my bedroom, the two rooms I most likely be in during a migraine (either to finish work or to recover). Any other room I can avoid or not turn the lights on. The cost savings is great but even on a nice brand-name bulb, I perceive the flicker.
Maybe some day the US will get the idea that you shouldn't put things containing mercury (and other things toxic to our planet) into household waste that will end up in landfills. Here in Europe we actually recycle (!) and CFL bulbs do not go into landfills, they are properly recycled so the mercury doesn't end up where it shouldn't be.
We do. Our recycling facilities take back CFL bulbs as do several commercial chains which sell the bulbs, most recently announced, the Home Depot. So it's just as easy as taking the burnt out bulb back when you go to purchase the new one.
That being said I don't know what all the fuss is about. Read the posts above - there are so many more meaningful sources of mercury that are "socially acceptable", yet we harp on CFL's. It's all posturing.
My favorite is Widmers' brick, named after the farm that produces it in southeast Wisconsin. You can only get it in southeast Wisconsin. It's a relatively mild brick but has a good flavor to it. Sadly I don't live there anymore but when we go up there to visit family we will spend $100+ in cheese and fresh meat. Stuff straight from the small cheese producers and butchers is so much better than what you get in any supermarket.
You don't have to be sorry, you just aren't spoiled like I am - my dad was a dairy farmer. I didn't grow up eating mass-market cheeses, we got cheese and sausage and other cuts of meat straight from the producers.
Well, good for you. Yesterday: 11 incoming messages. 7 spam, 4 legit. 3 from the mailing list what accompanies the open source scene graph package OpenSceneGraph (www.openscenegraph.com), and the fourth a robotics design group.
Image here, names of senders blocked to anonymize the uninvolved, only showing messages from yesterday.
Try checking how many legit messages it catches too. Yesterday, it caught 4 of mine...
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I dig legitimate mail, including mail that doesn't look at all spammy to me, out of my google *incoming* filters on a regular basis.
I get several incoming emails **a day** that get caught in the inbound email filter. The thing that is so silly is they are all on several mailing lists I subscribe to, so you think the filter would be smart enough to realize gee, this guy has wanted several THOUSAND emails from osg-users, even though this one looks like it might be spam, I'll let it slide and see how this guy tags it...
This doesn't just happen on one mailing list, it happens on 5 or 10, all open source or amateur radio development lists. And I can't figure out why it thinks its spam... occasionally there is broken english (international development teams), but sometimes it's a crystal clear paragraph of English. Maybe it's the acronyms. Almost wish I could turn spam filtering off, or at least set up rules to not filter messages containing X in the subject, some days its 25% legit email, 75% spam in the filter, if you forget to check for a few weeks it becomes tedious to clean.
I've been thinking about porting a CFD code to PS3, but this would be interesting. There's been at least one company making Cell add-in cards but they have been prohibitively expensive.
It's kind of like using your GPU for fast math. No wait, the exact same thing:)
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The "price of oil" you read about in the papers is the price of a futures contract with delivery in one month. Your claim is -- that the highly-unlikely possibility of oil supply increasing by 0.2% and thus the price dropping insignificantly (the Bush DoE's word) 18 years from now has in substantive part caused the one-month futures contract price to fall by 20%.
When Bush lifted the presidential ban on drilling, oil prices dropped $9 in a day. Now you are telling me following through won't do anything? You obviously are not familiar with the market forces in play. It's not just supply and demand and what percent we can produce, it's the fact we are producing. Read my other posts in this thread.
Jamie, you don't know shit, and fuck you for this lame attempt for trolling your own political opinions on slashdot. News for nerds, stuff that matters, you guys have run this place to hell. I've gone from spending hours a day here to mere minutes and shit like this makes me have no regrets.
For anyone who actually pays attention to politics, this was not just your standard adjournment to recess. There have been a series of events leading up to this adjournment that make it blatantly clear that the vote was called early while business was still on the table, to avoid Democratic embarrassment. Why vote on what might embarrass you today when you can procrastinate it on a one month paid vacation? It's no surprise that congress has a lower approval rating than President Bush.
But don't take my word on it...
You obviously aren't a day trader. The market is built 100% on emotion.
Yes, they voted themselves a paid one-month vacation, by a margin of one vote. Almost directly down party lines. All republicans save four voted nay, to stay in session and hammer out issues except for four who abstained. 17 democrats joined said republicans, 6 abstained. The rest of the democrats voted themselves a vacation.
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And yes drilling will help. The very news of drilling will bring oil prices down. Speculation of approval of drilling has already brought prices down already, over $20 under the high of $147. Gas prices at least where I live are down $0.15 - $0.20 since six weeks ago. Tell people you are drilling and yeah, the oil won't enter the stream for 10, 15 years but the speculative properties alone will drop crude by another $20 or $40, easy.
i was having weight gain problems when i was eating breakfast cereal daily
... trim down lunch or dinner. Unless you are eating straight lard for breakfast and salads for lunch/dinner, it won't make a difference so long as the net caloric intake is the same.
Actually research shows that eating a healthy breakfast is about the best thing you can do for weight loss - it kick starts your metabolism. There was a study done recently actually where one group actually consumed 1000 calories for breakfast and lost more weight than the group that consumed a minimalistic breakfast because of their increased metabolism and a decrease in cravings. When your mom told you it was the most important meal of the day, she wasn't kidding
me too ... the more time I spend on bikeforums, the less I spend on slashdot ... it's really not a bad thing. Most of the tech headlines here I catch on google news, there's generally only 1 or 2 things worth discussing on a given day ... and bikeforums tends to have more useful day to day stuff for me anyways :)
The 401k is guaranteed if you invest in shit like bonds or the money market, which are guaranteed... but your rate of return will suffer.
It's caught on in smaller communities. For example one of the bike forums I frequent (www.bikeforums.net) does group purchases all the time, and often the minimum number of people to buy-in isn't that high to get manufacturers to do limited runs because some of the items are truly niche products.
seen it a few times like here
Yeah, that is, until Bob Loblaw lobs the Law Bomb...
... on the next Arrested Development.
Sure, but the computer you put that hard drive in, came with a copy of Mac OS of some vintage. And last I checked OSX was sold by the computer, not the hard drive. If that argument were really true PyStar wouldn't be getting in trouble, now, would they?
No, the EULA specifies apple-branded hardware, which comes with a copy of a Mac OS. Therefore any time you purchase a standalone copy of OSX, you are upgrading, regardless of which hard drive you put it. That's merely semantics.
Whereas in the Windows or Linux world I can buy a PC sans OS. That's the argument.
Amen
If you truly understand the problem domain you are operating in, parallelism becomes readily apparent. Implementing it isn't difficult even on old code, again, if you truly understand where the parallelism exists.
Nintendo should post a countersuit in the united nations as this would seen a human rights issue.
A company does not have human rights. Try again.
Statement from nasa.gov
Me too. Frequent migraines. I have yet to have a migraine triggered by CFL's but I have had CFL's increase pain during a migraine. We have about half the lights in our house converted over to CFL's - but there are two rooms I will not put them in, my office and my bedroom, the two rooms I most likely be in during a migraine (either to finish work or to recover). Any other room I can avoid or not turn the lights on. The cost savings is great but even on a nice brand-name bulb, I perceive the flicker.
Maybe some day the US will get the idea that you shouldn't put things containing mercury (and other things toxic to our planet) into household waste that will end up in landfills. Here in Europe we actually recycle (!) and CFL bulbs do not go into landfills, they are properly recycled so the mercury doesn't end up where it shouldn't be.
We do. Our recycling facilities take back CFL bulbs as do several commercial chains which sell the bulbs, most recently announced, the Home Depot. So it's just as easy as taking the burnt out bulb back when you go to purchase the new one.
That being said I don't know what all the fuss is about. Read the posts above - there are so many more meaningful sources of mercury that are "socially acceptable", yet we harp on CFL's. It's all posturing.
cut a hole in the bottom of a boat and make-believe like Mr. Rogers taught us to?
My favorite is Widmers' brick, named after the farm that produces it in southeast Wisconsin. You can only get it in southeast Wisconsin. It's a relatively mild brick but has a good flavor to it. Sadly I don't live there anymore but when we go up there to visit family we will spend $100+ in cheese and fresh meat. Stuff straight from the small cheese producers and butchers is so much better than what you get in any supermarket.
You don't have to be sorry, you just aren't spoiled like I am - my dad was a dairy farmer. I didn't grow up eating mass-market cheeses, we got cheese and sausage and other cuts of meat straight from the producers.
Bah, I'm stuck in AL looking for my way to get back to WI :)
The cheese man. It is all the reason you need.
Well, good for you. Yesterday: 11 incoming messages. 7 spam, 4 legit. 3 from the mailing list what accompanies the open source scene graph package OpenSceneGraph (www.openscenegraph.com), and the fourth a robotics design group.
Image here, names of senders blocked to anonymize the uninvolved, only showing messages from yesterday.
I have all mailing lists filtered to apply labels, when I go to my spam folder, the messages are labeled, but also spam :)
Try checking how many legit messages it catches too. Yesterday, it caught 4 of mine ...
I dig legitimate mail, including mail that doesn't look at all spammy to me, out of my google *incoming* filters on a regular basis.
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I get several incoming emails **a day** that get caught in the inbound email filter. The thing that is so silly is they are all on several mailing lists I subscribe to, so you think the filter would be smart enough to realize gee, this guy has wanted several THOUSAND emails from osg-users, even though this one looks like it might be spam, I'll let it slide and see how this guy tags it
This doesn't just happen on one mailing list, it happens on 5 or 10, all open source or amateur radio development lists. And I can't figure out why it thinks its spam... occasionally there is broken english (international development teams), but sometimes it's a crystal clear paragraph of English. Maybe it's the acronyms. Almost wish I could turn spam filtering off, or at least set up rules to not filter messages containing X in the subject, some days its 25% legit email, 75% spam in the filter, if you forget to check for a few weeks it becomes tedious to clean.
I've been thinking about porting a CFD code to PS3, but this would be interesting. There's been at least one company making Cell add-in cards but they have been prohibitively expensive.
:)
It's kind of like using your GPU for fast math. No wait, the exact same thing