Hmm, then maybe people should reconsider shooting their 'wives'/girlfriends/themselves on that cheap cam...?
But seriously, people, the shoe IS actually on the other foot this time, what with the US government holding the devil's keys to every encryption algorithm originating in the US, and God knows access to what backdoors on your shiny, proprietary software!
This is the reason why the Chinese Government has encouraged Red Flag. And they have the means and the will to ensure its success.
Increasingly, the American people and their rulers are being perceived to be paranoid. As the old wisdome goes, in a free society, only those with something to hide will keep their windows closed. No pun intended.
With MS Office you have at least evolved to the stage of dinosaurs. OO.o doesn't even consider you to be a lifeform, does it? Show me an advertising campaign that proves otherwise.
Dude, just don't bother. It's somebody masquerading as somebody else, in order to give a false impression. I know, I have done it quite a few times myself, but for other reasons.
You can easily notice the deliberate naivété. The clueless-seeming (un)logic, the deliberate misspellings. Hey, I'm giving away my secret here! There might also be a gender switch (although I haven't tried it myself;-)).
So, the motives are ulterior. And thoroughly stupid in execution.
Don't dream about interplanetary titties, Jupiter is male. At least in the legends, he is an alpha male, and perhaps he is growing up to the beta level.
Highschool joke: ======= (Two spermcells are talking)
Sperm1: I am gonna be a Doctor when I grow up.
Sperm2: Oh yeah, I'm gonna be a *Computer* engineer when I grow up.
(would-have-been-father ejaculates)
Sperm1: Damn asshole! Screwed up my career!!
Sperm2: Goodbye,/. =======
Your streetcry: Spermcells are (haploid) people too! Prevent cruelty to sperm! Give life a chance?
So you won't ever accept an organ donation, even if your life depended on it. Right? This would stand true also for your wife/son/daughter, wouldn't it?
Get off your high pedestal. Those ants crawling around your feet are people who are suffering. The proposed treatment has only a sunk cost, anyway.
What does the article have to offer on real details? Apart from saying that the scientists have "worked out an optimal configuration" for use with a "superlens", which provides "negative refraction", thus "maximizing the resolution" of the superlens concept, where is the real information I would like to set my teeth on?
There is no simple diagram showing how superlenses work. If they are bending light unnaturally, i.e. the other way, does this mean you will create convex lenses to see better detail?
What's a lay reader supposed to understand from this? The article makes broad statements, and some misstatements. Consider this: ""In a conventional lens, light gets bent as it moves through a curved material, such as glass". Doesn't light get bent as it passes through materials having different densities/refractive indices, regardless of the surface being flat or curved?
Anyway, it is from somebody's blog anyway, and seems to have been posted here to fish for funny comments, IMHO.
Gattaca was not about genetic engineering, but about aspirations of the systemically compromised underclass, it was about perseverence, and redemption of a fallen individual - even though his end was sad.
If you liked Shawshank Redemption (i.e. the novella "Rita Hayworth and ~"), you and I should be in agreement.
It was a wonderful movie - and it was about/going/ on a space mission. Not too much of science fiction in there.
It should have been there on the list. 'Contact' sucks, really, except for '22 hours of static on the tape'. It's more about Jodie Foster as this astronomer(!), and her fixations. The part where she uses the 'man can fly' analogy is the worst, and very obvious.
Hey, if you want to go back to the past, you travel faster than light and arrive there. If we don't use the 'wrinkle in space-time fabric' technology, how can we accelerate to the future?
Somebody throw a clue?
Well, here's blowing a razberry at you, kid. Are you a votary of the oil lobby?
Land usage / kW for wind turbines is NOT too high. You only actually need half an acre/MW. The rest of the land is for wind easement, and you can carry on farming/horticulture without much interruption on it. And this is true only for Europe and N. America.
In developing countries, windy land is mostly arid, mountainous, or coastal - nothing much grows there.
Large scale wind developments are economically viable. Wind gets the minimal of governmental support, and look at how it's growing. Lots of free tools are available on the web to see it for yourself - various HAWT models, various sites around the world.
Large scale developments starting from 50 MW parks or higher can enable the manufacturer/service providers to provide efficient erection and commissioning services, on-site round-the-clock Operation and Maintenance services, SCADA operation and data communication to the investor/utility, etc.
Distributed development of wind power projects over geographically distant areas can theoretically reduce intermittency, which is the usual FUD against wind these days. Avian kills are another FUD: what is the extent of ecological damage being caused by your conventional power plants? What is the submergence being caused by hydropower?
About TFA, well, there is a huge amount of development taking place in both HAWT and VAWT technologies, with competition between generator and/or drivetrain philosophies./. can randomly mention anything - maybe somebody is fishing for funny comments.
HAWTs have a distinct advantage of exploiting the swept area and the power law index by increasing rotor diameters (blade lengths). VAWTs may evolve into simple designs without much need for regulation - there are some that offer inbuilt speed regulation by design. They can generate at any wind speed that the supporting structure can withstand. However, I am yet to see VAWTs catching up with HAWTs having rated capacities of decade-old standards.
Some of the VAWTs of the type in TFA can be well suited for use in defence installations - I've myself suggested one design to a defence research official for distributed, arctic-condition, radar/thermal/sonic neutral generation needs at the world's highest battlefield. I don't know if they have researched it further, but they won't tell:-)
-clueless
Disclaimer: I work for a wind turbine manufacturer. However, I have stayed with them because I like the industry.
MS must love it! Not a single mention of Microsoft or Bill Gates anywhere. Guess the intersection of Dilbert.com readers and Slashdot.com readers includes just you and me.
-clueless
Needful Things. Also touches upon the Tower series, I think...
"The Eyes of the Dragon" speaks about some more previous incarnations of Flagg, or the Dark One, or the Walkin Dude (The Stand). When will we see something more on him? Let's see - who's the real protagonist here?
I haven't read more than an excerpt from the Tower series, unfortunately. WILL take it up seriously now.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, then maybe people should reconsider shooting their 'wives'/girlfriends/themselves on that cheap cam...?
But seriously, people, the shoe IS actually on the other foot this time, what with the US government holding the devil's keys to every encryption algorithm originating in the US, and God knows access to what backdoors on your shiny, proprietary software!
This is the reason why the Chinese Government has encouraged Red Flag. And they have the means and the will to ensure its success.
Increasingly, the American people and their rulers are being perceived to be paranoid. As the old wisdome goes, in a free society, only those with something to hide will keep their windows closed. No pun intended.
-clueless
They're linking back to Slashdot - Tittle for Tuttle?
/. /. itself?
Will
UP or DOWN, according to your current feelings about Higher Math.
With MS Office you have at least evolved to the stage of dinosaurs. OO.o doesn't even consider you to be a lifeform, does it? Show me an advertising campaign that proves otherwise.
-clueless
Dude, just don't bother. It's somebody masquerading as somebody else, in order to give a false impression. I know, I have done it quite a few times myself, but for other reasons.
;-)).
You can easily notice the deliberate naivété. The clueless-seeming (un)logic, the deliberate misspellings. Hey, I'm giving away my secret here! There might also be a gender switch (although I haven't tried it myself
So, the motives are ulterior. And thoroughly stupid in execution.
-clueless
No, you get them by kissing girls. Mars saw Jupiter do it, from behind the asteroid belt, and blushed.
Isn't that the line here today?
Don't dream about interplanetary titties, Jupiter is male. At least in the legends, he is an alpha male, and perhaps he is growing up to the beta level.
Jupiter doesn't go on dates. He just runs away with them. Ask Europa.
There seems to be a story in here.
/.
Just another day at
clueless
It's funny and insightful. Take your pick. clueless
Do you also find masturbation unethical?
/.
Highschool joke:
=======
(Two spermcells are talking)
Sperm1: I am gonna be a Doctor when I grow up.
Sperm2: Oh yeah, I'm gonna be a *Computer* engineer when I grow up.
(would-have-been-father ejaculates)
Sperm1: Damn asshole! Screwed up my career!!
Sperm2: Goodbye,
=======
Your streetcry: Spermcells are (haploid) people too! Prevent cruelty to sperm! Give life a chance?
So you won't ever accept an organ donation, even if your life depended on it. Right? This would stand true also for your wife/son/daughter, wouldn't it?
Get off your high pedestal. Those ants crawling around your feet are people who are suffering. The proposed treatment has only a sunk cost, anyway.
What does the article have to offer on real details? Apart from saying that the scientists have "worked out an optimal configuration" for use with a "superlens", which provides "negative refraction", thus "maximizing the resolution" of the superlens concept, where is the real information I would like to set my teeth on?
There is no simple diagram showing how superlenses work. If they are bending light unnaturally, i.e. the other way, does this mean you will create convex lenses to see better detail?
What's a lay reader supposed to understand from this? The article makes broad statements, and some misstatements. Consider this: ""In a conventional lens, light gets bent as it moves through a curved material, such as glass". Doesn't light get bent as it passes through materials having different densities/refractive indices, regardless of the surface being flat or curved?
Anyway, it is from somebody's blog anyway, and seems to have been posted here to fish for funny comments, IMHO.
Let his advertisers know that we all use Firefox with Adblock. That might bring the rates down.
-clueless
You have a working installation of Sessionsaver on Firefox 1.5? I have v0.2.1.028, and it has been disabled by the update wizard...and I am on XP.
Can you tell me where you downloaded it from?
Upon revisiting that idea, I think maybe he is right. The *whole* movie sucks.
-clueless
When they need to - yechch...!
Still, it involved space as much as Contact.
Gattaca was not about genetic engineering, but about aspirations of the systemically compromised underclass, it was about perseverence, and redemption of a fallen individual - even though his end was sad.
If you liked Shawshank Redemption (i.e. the novella "Rita Hayworth and ~"), you and I should be in agreement.
-clueless
It was a wonderful movie - and it was about /going/ on a space mission. Not too much of science fiction in there.
It should have been there on the list. 'Contact' sucks, really, except for '22 hours of static on the tape'. It's more about Jodie Foster as this astronomer(!), and her fixations. The part where she uses the 'man can fly' analogy is the worst, and very obvious.
But hey, don't flame me, I'm clueless.
Hey, if you want to go back to the past, you travel faster than light and arrive there. If we don't use the 'wrinkle in space-time fabric' technology, how can we accelerate to the future? Somebody throw a clue?
And there goes security, the main driver of migration from IE to Mozilla.
Maybe one less reason to migrate to Linux and to forget about all IE security and ActiveX crap?
Well, here's blowing a razberry at you, kid. Are you a votary of the oil lobby?
/. can randomly mention anything - maybe somebody is fishing for funny comments.
:-)
Land usage / kW for wind turbines is NOT too high. You only actually need half an acre/MW. The rest of the land is for wind easement, and you can carry on farming/horticulture without much interruption on it. And this is true only for Europe and N. America.
In developing countries, windy land is mostly arid, mountainous, or coastal - nothing much grows there.
Large scale wind developments are economically viable. Wind gets the minimal of governmental support, and look at how it's growing. Lots of free tools are available on the web to see it for yourself - various HAWT models, various sites around the world.
Large scale developments starting from 50 MW parks or higher can enable the manufacturer/service providers to provide efficient erection and commissioning services, on-site round-the-clock Operation and Maintenance services, SCADA operation and data communication to the investor/utility, etc.
Distributed development of wind power projects over geographically distant areas can theoretically reduce intermittency, which is the usual FUD against wind these days. Avian kills are another FUD: what is the extent of ecological damage being caused by your conventional power plants? What is the submergence being caused by hydropower?
About TFA, well, there is a huge amount of development taking place in both HAWT and VAWT technologies, with competition between generator and/or drivetrain philosophies.
HAWTs have a distinct advantage of exploiting the swept area and the power law index by increasing rotor diameters (blade lengths). VAWTs may evolve into simple designs without much need for regulation - there are some that offer inbuilt speed regulation by design. They can generate at any wind speed that the supporting structure can withstand. However, I am yet to see VAWTs catching up with HAWTs having rated capacities of decade-old standards.
Some of the VAWTs of the type in TFA can be well suited for use in defence installations - I've myself suggested one design to a defence research official for distributed, arctic-condition, radar/thermal/sonic neutral generation needs at the world's highest battlefield. I don't know if they have researched it further, but they won't tell
-clueless
Disclaimer: I work for a wind turbine manufacturer. However, I have stayed with them because I like the industry.
MS must love it! Not a single mention of Microsoft or Bill Gates anywhere. Guess the intersection of Dilbert.com readers and Slashdot.com readers includes just you and me. -clueless
Nahhh...we need a Stephen King section. THEN I'll truly be able to hang out with real fr...umm...iends. -clueless
Needful Things. Also touches upon the Tower series, I think...
"The Eyes of the Dragon" speaks about some more previous incarnations of Flagg, or the Dark One, or the Walkin Dude (The Stand). When will we see something more on him? Let's see - who's the real protagonist here?
I haven't read more than an excerpt from the Tower series, unfortunately. WILL take it up seriously now.
-clueless
Vista (Vish-ttaa) means faeces. I know, other people have made the same deductions here. -Clueless