I'd be interested in seeing some of the more reputable hardware sites take up this story. Sure, running Furmark should stress your GPU far more than any game and unless you can run it without crashing your rig isn't stable.
I still wonder if there is something more to this story than a bunch of cards with insufficient cooling crashing. Few if any professionally assembled PCs should have bad enough cooling that a game could cause the GPU to overheat.
Any large enough company would have the resources to divert the asteroid. It would be in their interest to extract as much money or property as possible as payment. As long as the asteroid has not been fully diverted and as long as they can still divert it to hit the earth, they can extract monthly payments. It will be in their interest to indefinitely keep the asteroid in an orbit where it can target the earth. Since everyone will have to pay or die we'll all be slaves to Sony, Microsoft and Intel, just like we are now.
I'm as pro-green energy as anyone, but the chart here looks completely absurd. Nuclear has quadrupled in price in a few years? Even ignoring the trend lines, how on earth does nuclear go from 8c/kWh to 22 from 2005 to 2010? A jump like that can't be assumed to be a trend, surely.
The good news, assuming the data points can be trusted to be somewhat realistic, is that solar _is_ getting competitive and has changed significantly in a very short time.
It's good to know the editors are doing something. We should be supportive of their attempts instead of discouraging them by jumping on every little mistake.
It appears no one (but Slashdot) has commented on it in any way yet. I'm reminded of the "Surfer dude stuns physicists with Theory of Everything" headlines that had scientists so stunned they haven't commented on it in three years...
Kepler needs 3 transits to confirm a planet, so given that it's only been up there since March 7, 2009 any planet around the same distance as earth will only have had 2 transits max.
The first batch of data that had 400 candidates withheld was for 43 days only. It's quite possible this doesn't include newer data and every single one of these is really close to the star.
We're probably just the first advanced civilization in our galaxy. No Fermi paradox, no odd extinction events, no improbably rare Earth.
Perhaps, but what basis is there for that assumption?
If you assume on-planet origination of life is the norm, than most civilizations in any given galaxy will be of approximately the same age.
We see no others. Regardless of whether you call it a paradox or not, it's obviously true. We don't know the odds of there being others before us or the current rate per galaxy, but no one has colonized our planet or left any visible signs so far.
The time needed for our solar system to develop life was more than a third of the age of the universe so far. Extending the Drake equation to replace communication time before extinction with odds of spreading to the next star before extinction and replacing probabilities with average time taken would make far more sense than the original one.
We're probably just the first advanced civilization in our galaxy. No Fermi paradox, no odd extinction events, no improbably rare Earth. Why would it be impossible for civilizations to travel to another star and why would the typical time to interstellar travel be short enough that current formation rate of generation I stars is a more limiting factor than amount formed since the Big Bang?
I think the point is more like why you didn't need your 48x CD player to listen to music. I have my software on an SSD and my audio and video on HDDs. It's OK if a single SSD can be both the fastest thing I can get my software on per dollar and the largest thing I can get my data on per dollar. It's just not necessary.
Depends on who they put in charge of the list. I know where I work the dude in charge blocks most of the sites I like to visit (DKos, Wonkette etc etc...I iz a soshalist/muslin), but his faves are fair game (Drudge, RedState etc). It all comes down to one person's perspective and their willingness to view things dispassionately.
This is the reason I don't like this kind of policy. If they don't want people wasting their time by reading about current issues or news on paid time, that would be fine. If they choose what to allow or ban based on the opinions of the sites, I don't think it kosher. That would mean they are pushing an agenda or at best treating employees differently based on their political views. If it's about people spending their time reading blogs instead of working, why would employees with non-"controversial" opinions be allowed to slack off? Republican supporters don't have to work as hard as the others?
In general I don't think filtering beyond malware sites is a good idea. US:ians are far too willing to let employers dictate what employees do with company equipment. Why should the employer care whether I read Slashdot on a break or when waiting for something? Remove the coffee machine and newspapers if you want people to stare at the roof when they're not actively doing anything.
If the global trend was a cooling one, and then after industralization it started warming, there might not be so much controversy, but that is not the case. The earth has been warming for quite some time now; way before humans had their fancy machines.
The temperature peaked around 8000 years ago and it's been getting cooler since then up until industrialization started the current warming. The global trend was a cooling one and it did start warming. Have a look at this graph.
I've been thinking the same thing for a while. 1,5TB drives have been the cheapest per TB for a fairly long time now. I wonder if Moore's law for hd capacity is starting to break?
If you saw a pic of your mom naked on Google street view side by side with a 40 ft resolution height map of her naked you might see why the latter is not a privacy issue.
if china or al qaeda get information about where exoplanets are, its not like bin laden is going to go there to hide. there's little anyone can do about exoplanets right now except look at them, and it will be this way for generations to come
but if the scientific research were about nanotechnology or particle physics, meanwhile, i would expect everything to be censored, as it should be, even if funded with tax dollars
Particle physics? Would you expect some Al-Quaida-affiliated dudes with beards and AK-47s to be able to exploit supersymmetry or the Higgs boson to destroy America? That's even more absurd than the antimatter in Angels & Demons. Ok, give me a plausible scenario where a superintelligent being can exploit knowledge of the top quark to actually do anything with what he finds in his kitchen. Come on, you must have something in mind here.
Now, it is possible for the first time to write down a single equation (Eq.1 of Mathematical Foundations of the Relativistic Theory of Quantum Gravity. See T-shirt below) that can explain all the laws of physics( including the Einstein's equations), all the forces of nature - the proverbial "theory of everything".
The standard crackpot "a single equation" makes me want to cry, but the "see t-shirt below" part more than makes up for it.
"Australian iPad buyers have been forced to buy all manner of unnecessary add-ons"
No, they have not been forced to buy those add-ons. They could simply have refused to buy an iPad under those conditions. If enough people did this, the policy would be reverted really fast.
I'd say the sentence is correct since they wouldn't be iPad buyers if they didn't buy iPads. In addition, they didn't know they could buy iPads in other stores without the accessories so normal competition had no chance of working. Had they known this wasn't an Apple policy they would have been far more likely to buy elsewhere.
. In addition, backwards spinning black holes will evolve over time and spin the other way, producing a weaker and weaker jet until it shuts off altogether. It might be 50-50 to begin with. No clue why though.
Just examine that "hardware they own" argument a bit. Are you certain it's not just because you think employers can do anything they like to employees? Consider the cases where:
- The employer leases or rents their hardware. No spying allowed? - The employee uses his own hardware. Can't demand he installs this? - Someone leases or rents hardware to a company. Can't spy on their customers? - Someone leases or rents hardware to individuals. Can't spy on them? - Some company owns mail servers / routers / wires. Can't wiretap?
The "hardware they own" argument is bullshit because it's always applied to employer vs. employee and whether the employer owns the hardware is never relevant.
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What graphics card does it have? I'd be surprised if an iMac doesn't have adequate cooling.
I'd be interested in seeing some of the more reputable hardware sites take up this story. Sure, running Furmark should stress your GPU far more than any game and unless you can run it without crashing your rig isn't stable.
I still wonder if there is something more to this story than a bunch of cards with insufficient cooling crashing. Few if any professionally assembled PCs should have bad enough cooling that a game could cause the GPU to overheat.
Any large enough company would have the resources to divert the asteroid. It would be in their interest to extract as much money or property as possible as payment. As long as the asteroid has not been fully diverted and as long as they can still divert it to hit the earth, they can extract monthly payments. It will be in their interest to indefinitely keep the asteroid in an orbit where it can target the earth. Since everyone will have to pay or die we'll all be slaves to Sony, Microsoft and Intel, just like we are now.
See, the market has a solution for everything!
I'm as pro-green energy as anyone, but the chart here looks completely absurd. Nuclear has quadrupled in price in a few years? Even ignoring the trend lines, how on earth does nuclear go from 8c/kWh to 22 from 2005 to 2010? A jump like that can't be assumed to be a trend, surely.
The good news, assuming the data points can be trusted to be somewhat realistic, is that solar _is_ getting competitive and has changed significantly in a very short time.
I was being sarcastic :)
My red stapler always disappears. I've thought about pink, but I like my red stapler.
It's good to know the editors are doing something. We should be supportive of their attempts instead of discouraging them by jumping on every little mistake.
It appears no one (but Slashdot) has commented on it in any way yet. I'm reminded of the "Surfer dude stuns physicists with Theory of Everything" headlines that had scientists so stunned they haven't commented on it in three years...
The first batch of data that had 400 candidates withheld was for 43 days only. It's quite possible this doesn't include newer data and every single one of these is really close to the star.
We see no others. Regardless of whether you call it a paradox or not, it's obviously true. We don't know the odds of there being others before us or the current rate per galaxy, but no one has colonized our planet or left any visible signs so far.
The time needed for our solar system to develop life was more than a third of the age of the universe so far. Extending the Drake equation to replace communication time before extinction with odds of spreading to the next star before extinction and replacing probabilities with average time taken would make far more sense than the original one.
We're probably just the first advanced civilization in our galaxy. No Fermi paradox, no odd extinction events, no improbably rare Earth. Why would it be impossible for civilizations to travel to another star and why would the typical time to interstellar travel be short enough that current formation rate of generation I stars is a more limiting factor than amount formed since the Big Bang?
I think the point is more like why you didn't need your 48x CD player to listen to music. I have my software on an SSD and my audio and video on HDDs. It's OK if a single SSD can be both the fastest thing I can get my software on per dollar and the largest thing I can get my data on per dollar. It's just not necessary.
Actually, renaming Avogadro's constant to a "hella bunch" would be kinda cool.
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I don't think they look any more alike than any tube with random ridges would.
This is the reason I don't like this kind of policy. If they don't want people wasting their time by reading about current issues or news on paid time, that would be fine. If they choose what to allow or ban based on the opinions of the sites, I don't think it kosher. That would mean they are pushing an agenda or at best treating employees differently based on their political views. If it's about people spending their time reading blogs instead of working, why would employees with non-"controversial" opinions be allowed to slack off? Republican supporters don't have to work as hard as the others?
In general I don't think filtering beyond malware sites is a good idea. US:ians are far too willing to let employers dictate what employees do with company equipment. Why should the employer care whether I read Slashdot on a break or when waiting for something? Remove the coffee machine and newspapers if you want people to stare at the roof when they're not actively doing anything.
He's actually not spending any money. The companies building solar power are taking loans for $2B and probably expect to make a profit.
The temperature peaked around 8000 years ago and it's been getting cooler since then up until industrialization started the current warming. The global trend was a cooling one and it did start warming. Have a look at this graph.
I've been thinking the same thing for a while. 1,5TB drives have been the cheapest per TB for a fairly long time now. I wonder if Moore's law for hd capacity is starting to break?
If you saw a pic of your mom naked on Google street view side by side with a 40 ft resolution height map of her naked you might see why the latter is not a privacy issue.
Particle physics? Would you expect some Al-Quaida-affiliated dudes with beards and AK-47s to be able to exploit supersymmetry or the Higgs boson to destroy America? That's even more absurd than the antimatter in Angels & Demons. Ok, give me a plausible scenario where a superintelligent being can exploit knowledge of the top quark to actually do anything with what he finds in his kitchen. Come on, you must have something in mind here.
The standard crackpot "a single equation" makes me want to cry, but the "see t-shirt below" part more than makes up for it.
I'd say the sentence is correct since they wouldn't be iPad buyers if they didn't buy iPads. In addition, they didn't know they could buy iPads in other stores without the accessories so normal competition had no chance of working. Had they known this wasn't an Apple policy they would have been far more likely to buy elsewhere.
Yes. I was going to go to work tomorrow, but I'll stay home concentrating on warp drive.
. In addition, backwards spinning black holes will evolve over time and spin the other way, producing a weaker and weaker jet until it shuts off altogether.
It might be 50-50 to begin with. No clue why though.
Just examine that "hardware they own" argument a bit. Are you certain it's not just because you think employers can do anything they like to employees? Consider the cases where:
- The employer leases or rents their hardware. No spying allowed?
- The employee uses his own hardware. Can't demand he installs this?
- Someone leases or rents hardware to a company. Can't spy on their customers?
- Someone leases or rents hardware to individuals. Can't spy on them?
- Some company owns mail servers / routers / wires. Can't wiretap?
The "hardware they own" argument is bullshit because it's always applied to employer vs. employee and whether the employer owns the hardware is never relevant.