'cause he's wondering how the next gen of american CS's will cope with the un-american competition. Imagine a future where most U.S. tech-companies outsource R&D and production to India and china...oh...never mind
Makes no sense to own a beachhouse if you dont have a car (and money) to get there. Luckily the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Russians, Europeans, Iranians,... have their own space programs.
You might have been able to put a man on the moon, but you're not able to finance a constant presence in space...Kennedy must be rotating in his grave!
I strongly doubt either one of them would invade a neighbor and be foolish enough to pick the neighbor, who happens to be our ally... The world's scumbags have learned that lesson.
You reaffirm your allies bloodthirsty, medieval, religious, monarchistic, murderous regime? Oh, sorry, Kuwait is a "democracy", of course!
buying oil from Saddam Hussein would've been far cheaper and easier
You insensitive clod! Until now, i comforted my self with the thought that oil might be the real reason for the Iraq invasion. The thought that Oil might *not* have been the real reason, gives me the creeps.... ("Saddam tried to kill my dad")
Given the subhuman nature of our enemy, I'm not losing much sleep over turning them into red spots in the ground from half a world away.
"Psychopathy is currently defined in psychiatry and clinical psychology as a condition characterized by lack of empathy [1] [2] or conscience, and poor impulse control [3] [4] or manipulative behaviors.[5] It is a term derived from the Greek psyche (soul, breath hence mind) and pathos (to suffer), and was once used to denote any form of mental illness, often being confused with psychosis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopat
Dont take it personally, I see it rather as a collective phenomenon in some certain countries.
Ok, so the military personnel is safe and sound at their guarded camps. Tis leaves a lot of frustrated enemy combatants who can not reach their enemy in open combat. The alternative: Kill the voters who voted for the enemy leader and attack their financial infrastructure...Oh, wait..sounds familiar.
Honestly, even suicide bombers seem more humane to me than these "UAV operators" who kill people without the slightest risk for their own life. That's on par with WMD's
Have you ever been going at it so hard you fell off? Can you see yourself thrusting away and then losing grip on your partners sweat soaked body. Can you imagine the frustration of seeing her slowly drift away just out of reach?
Just flap your arms in a birdie fashion until you accelerate toward her...she's gonna like it!
Down on earth we have gravity. In space the only thing that will halt your flying man-juice is some undoubtably important computer a hundred meters away on the other side of the station.
Try www.durex.com or, alternately, just keep it inside...
Can you imagine floating gracefully in the middle of the room, hearing your roommate at the door, and the futile (yet hilarious) running in air as you try to retrieve your pants?
Just put a lit candle in front of the bulkhead window.
Anyway, you wanna write a PhD or get laid in space?:)
Uh, I'm running a mission critical application server on a x226 with 2 Maxtor SATA disks in a RAID1 configuration. Due to budget cuts, this was a "temporary solution until the ordered hardware arrives"(Jan 1. 2007):-) This is our companies billing system, with 250k transactions/week distributed on 400 locations. Oh, and there are no backup servers. Even the database is single, running oracle on a SCSI RAID 5 -- temporarily of course.
And if Bush is as dumb as you leftest keep telling me he is how could he have planed such a huge attack without blundering it in the few months he was in office prior to the attacks?
Well, he screwed up his choreography at the school, when he was told about the attacks!
Cut the crap, Java boy! Your "enthusiasm" regarding 3/4G languages tells me that you missed the entire point of programming a device like the C64. Don't waste cycles!
Let me repeat that:
Don't waste cycles!
While you might have profiled (and eventually optimized) an inner loop, I really doubt that your code was anything near the optimum.
Nowadays I work in Java, C# and Python but I still miss the old days when you could write diretly ti the registers and hook up your functions to an interrupt vector. And I still feel guilty for wasting memory and cycles when I'm in a rush to finish some project. Oh btw, computers still use machine code under the hood. unless you know *exactly* how a CPU works, you might be in for a Bad surprise (try multiplying 1.65 with 1.65 in java 1.4 on different hardware platforms).
May you land in hell with your comments... there, I'l be forcing you to program an OS kernel for the latest CPU... using punchcards!:)
True, but in the noise, of corporate sponsored voices, the truth has to be yelled out fiercely in order to be heard
You see, most tech journalists couldn't tell the difference between madwifi or the kernel. To them all of this means that the oh-so-secure linux is not so secure anymore.
So, scream my children and be heard; scream louder perchance to be heard by some serious journalist passing by our OSTG gutter....scream my children!:)
Sorry chap, people start bashing on linux (and its users) as soon as any kind of vulnerability is found. In this case, the vulnerability is in a 3rd party driver and not in the kernel itself. Nevertheless the not-so-techie reader just reads "Linux vulnerability".
Btw. Dont forget that the public is used to hear about Windows vulnerabilities, they dont notice them anymore.
My dear friend, Your faith and the fact that you believe in God shouldn't make you a creationist per se. Remember that many of the most inquisitive, rational and critical minds were members of the Church. Even though they had to follow an official Canon, they never took the Bible for granted. Aware that this book was written down by stone and bronze age nomads, they just refused to take for granted that God created the world in 6 (earthen) days. Look at people like Thomas Aquinas ans William of Occam. Would they have shared the creationists views? I think not! They rather marveled at the way God led the creation of nature and the universe. After all, how could you have explained a bunch of stone age shepherds what the big bang was and how DNA works. Once you start looking at the Genesis from this viewpoint, you might see the true revelation behind these words.
I consider myself agnostic, although I had the opportunity to let myself be warmly embraced by faith.
Not really, we're not talking about a classic engine, this is rather a pneumatic system, where efficiency is much larger than with the former ones. For pressurizing you use an electric motor whose efficiency lies by 90-95% (most losses being at the compression piston and its seal). Likewise for decompression (engine) you have rather small losses.
In my former post, I related to the output of an engine, not to the overall energy spent in moving the vehicle.
I just can't wait to fart my way to work and back:)
you forgot that gasoline combustion engines have an efficiency rating of 25%.
Let me give it another shot. Suppose the engine has a rating of 20 kW/h (~27hp). So with a top speed of 100km/h I use up 20kW/h per 100 km, add (very pessimistic) engine and pressurizing losses of 50%, this gives you a mere 40kW/h per 100km.
With an average (night time) price of 5 Euro Cent per kwh (east Europe), you get 100 km for 2Eur. (3$). I drive a Diesel car which operates at about 6L/100km with a Liter costing about 1 Euro. (Actually I use heating oil which is 30% cheaper. highly illegal here, but who cares!)
There you go, 30% cheaper, thus more energy efficient:) Btw, you don't need electricity to charge those babies. It can be done by wind, sun(stirling engine),waves, tidal forces,...
The civilized society that we enjoy here in the west is built upon the implicit threat of violent force to back up and maintain that system.
Not true, unless you regard the U.S. as the only civilized country in the world. The majority of "civilized" countries lead a peaceful existence *due* to the fact that they pose no threat to their neighbors. As for the U.S., you may be right, but don't forget that you are rapidly losing your economic and military supremacy which will turn your (enforced) peaceful existence upside down -- live by the sword....
The enemies of the United States do not care about our laws
Why should they, do you care about their laws? Often I can see the U.S. trying to pass their own interest as law (remember the International Court of Justice?).
"OMG, another madman is able to attack us on our soil. Let us pass a law through the U.N. to forbid him getting this ability!" Now this a sad stance. Even sadder, I find, is the way the U.S. are disregarding other nations feelings in regarding that matter; believe me, I was scared shit when GWB was elected for a second term (Let's be honest, he is not the brightest guy around, and he holds his finger on the button. Now thats a dangerous combo!) Lastly, I don't regard the article as entirely truthful. The main topic in Europe and Rusia is not whether the U.S. is building a satellite killer, it's rather about the planned stationing of anti-missile systems in Poland and the Baltic countries; just at the border with Russia. Imagine Iran stationing the same type of weapons on Cuba...oh, we had that already, almost brought us WW3.
I'm not a U.S. basher. I met quite a few reasonable people from the U.S. Unfortunately many people there believe in some kind of superiority over other people and nations. As long as you openly take such a stance, and as long as you openly endorse "patriotism" (Idiotic to be proud for something you did not achieve), there might be no real place for you amongst the truly civilized countries.
Anonymity *is* a freedom.
Otherwise you could just give up on privacy too!
While there, you could also give up on basic human rights; after all, why would you need basic human rights as long as you abide by the law?
And now.... Lets change the law!
Get a glimpse at history.
Oh, and please don't give up on US. You'll do them a terrible damage if that happens;)
Ok, I gave up on the U.S. quite a while ago. If *that* is the freedom you were proclaiming for the last few decade, then let me move to the USSR...oh, you brought them *democracy*...damned!:)
As long as good (old) Europe is free(until you bring us democracy too;) I'll just stick to my side of the atlantic (and the channel).
But seriously, U.S. citizens, aware of their surroundings, must be pretty frustrated by these moves.
Buddhists still believe in Karma an the Buddha. Though not a deity in himself, he still is a leading figure. Many Buddhist branches revere their teacher and accept Karma.
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'cause he's wondering how the next gen of american CS's will cope with the un-american competition. Imagine a future where most U.S. tech-companies outsource R&D and production to India and china...oh...never mind
Makes no sense to own a beachhouse if you dont have a car (and money) to get there. Luckily the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Russians, Europeans, Iranians,... have their own space programs.
You might have been able to put a man on the moon, but you're not able to finance a constant presence in space...Kennedy must be rotating in his grave!
You reaffirm your allies bloodthirsty, medieval, religious, monarchistic, murderous regime? Oh, sorry, Kuwait is a "democracy", of course!
You insensitive clod! Until now, i comforted my self with the thought that oil might be the real reason for the Iraq invasion. The thought that Oil might *not* have been the real reason, gives me the creeps.... ("Saddam tried to kill my dad")
"Psychopathy is currently defined in psychiatry and clinical psychology as a condition characterized by lack of empathy [1] [2] or conscience, and poor impulse control [3] [4] or manipulative behaviors.[5] It is a term derived from the Greek psyche (soul, breath hence mind) and pathos (to suffer), and was once used to denote any form of mental illness, often being confused with psychosis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopat
Dont take it personally, I see it rather as a collective phenomenon in some certain countries.
Ok, so the military personnel is safe and sound at their guarded camps. Tis leaves a lot of frustrated enemy combatants who can not reach their enemy in open combat.
The alternative: Kill the voters who voted for the enemy leader and attack their financial infrastructure...Oh, wait..sounds familiar.
Honestly, even suicide bombers seem more humane to me than these "UAV operators" who kill people without the slightest risk for their own life. That's on par with WMD's
Your comments kinda take the fun away! :)
OTOH, once you're horny enough, you don't really care about the air filters
Just flap your arms in a birdie fashion until you accelerate toward her...she's gonna like it!
Try www.durex.com or, alternately, just keep it inside...
Just put a lit candle in front of the bulkhead window.
Anyway, you wanna write a PhD or get laid in space?
hey man, just admit you played with his orifice, thats waaay cooler than settling things.
Uh, I'm running a mission critical application server on a x226 with 2 Maxtor SATA disks in a RAID1 configuration. Due to budget cuts, this was a "temporary solution until the ordered hardware arrives"(Jan 1. 2007) :-)
:D
This is our companies billing system, with 250k transactions/week distributed on 400 locations.
Oh, and there are no backup servers. Even the database is single, running oracle on a SCSI RAID 5 -- temporarily of course.
Any message for the suits?
P.S. got a job for me?
Well, he screwed up his choreography at the school, when he was told about the attacks!
Cut the crap, Java boy!
... there, I'l be forcing you to program an OS kernel for the latest CPU... using punchcards! :)
Your "enthusiasm" regarding 3/4G languages tells me that you missed the entire point of programming a device like the C64.
Don't waste cycles!
Let me repeat that:
Don't waste cycles!
While you might have profiled (and eventually optimized) an inner loop, I really doubt that your code was anything near the optimum.
Nowadays I work in Java, C# and Python but I still miss the old days when you could write diretly ti the registers and hook up your functions to an interrupt vector. And I still feel guilty for wasting memory and cycles when I'm in a rush to finish some project.
Oh btw, computers still use machine code under the hood. unless you know *exactly* how a CPU works, you might be in for a Bad surprise (try multiplying 1.65 with 1.65 in java 1.4 on different hardware platforms).
May you land in hell with your comments
Yes but how will you explain a god-fearing nation that their ambassadors to mars turned their spaceship into a merry swinger club?
True, but in the noise, of corporate sponsored voices, the truth has to be yelled out fiercely in order to be heard
:)
You see, most tech journalists couldn't tell the difference between madwifi or the kernel. To them all of this means that the oh-so-secure linux is not so secure anymore.
So, scream my children and be heard; scream louder perchance to be heard by some serious journalist passing by our OSTG gutter....scream my children!
Sorry chap, people start bashing on linux (and its users) as soon as any kind of vulnerability is found.
In this case, the vulnerability is in a 3rd party driver and not in the kernel itself. Nevertheless the not-so-techie reader just reads "Linux vulnerability".
Btw. Dont forget that the public is used to hear about Windows vulnerabilities, they dont notice them anymore.
My dear friend,
Your faith and the fact that you believe in God shouldn't make you a creationist per se.
Remember that many of the most inquisitive, rational and critical minds were members of the Church. Even though they had to follow an official Canon, they never took the Bible for granted. Aware that this book was written down by stone and bronze age nomads, they just refused to take for granted that God created the world in 6 (earthen) days. Look at people like Thomas Aquinas ans William of Occam. Would they have shared the creationists views? I think not!
They rather marveled at the way God led the creation of nature and the universe.
After all, how could you have explained a bunch of stone age shepherds what the big bang was and how DNA works. Once you start looking at the Genesis from this viewpoint, you might see the true revelation behind these words.
I consider myself agnostic, although I had the opportunity to let myself be warmly embraced by faith.
Why do you fight OBL and his Qaeda comrades anyway? After all you almost share the same belief...
:)
Oh, marketshare competition I guess
What and use Putty every time you want search Google?
...Like starting a war for oil, or supporting bloodthirsty dictators in the 3rd world?
Not really,
:)
we're not talking about a classic engine, this is rather a pneumatic system, where efficiency is much larger than with the former ones.
For pressurizing you use an electric motor whose efficiency lies by 90-95% (most losses being at the compression piston and its seal).
Likewise for decompression (engine) you have rather small losses.
In my former post, I related to the output of an engine, not to the overall energy spent in moving the vehicle.
I just can't wait to fart my way to work and back
you forgot that gasoline combustion engines have an efficiency rating of 25%.
:)
Let me give it another shot.
Suppose the engine has a rating of 20 kW/h (~27hp).
So with a top speed of 100km/h I use up 20kW/h per 100 km, add (very pessimistic) engine and pressurizing losses of 50%, this gives you a mere 40kW/h per 100km.
With an average (night time) price of 5 Euro Cent per kwh (east Europe), you get 100 km for 2Eur. (3$). I drive a Diesel car which operates at about 6L/100km with a Liter costing about 1 Euro. (Actually I use heating oil which is 30% cheaper. highly illegal here, but who cares!)
There you go, 30% cheaper, thus more energy efficient
Btw, you don't need electricity to charge those babies. It can be done by wind, sun(stirling engine),waves, tidal forces,...
Not true, unless you regard the U.S. as the only civilized country in the world. The majority of "civilized" countries lead a peaceful existence *due* to the fact that they pose no threat to their neighbors. As for the U.S., you may be right, but don't forget that you are rapidly losing your economic and military supremacy which will turn your (enforced) peaceful existence upside down -- live by the sword....
Why should they, do you care about their laws? Often I can see the U.S. trying to pass their own interest as law (remember the International Court of Justice?).
"OMG, another madman is able to attack us on our soil. Let us pass a law through the U.N. to forbid him getting this ability!" Now this a sad stance.
Even sadder, I find, is the way the U.S. are disregarding other nations feelings in regarding that matter; believe me, I was scared shit when GWB was elected for a second term (Let's be honest, he is not the brightest guy around, and he holds his finger on the button. Now thats a dangerous combo!)
Lastly, I don't regard the article as entirely truthful. The main topic in Europe and Rusia is not whether the U.S. is building a satellite killer, it's rather about the planned stationing of anti-missile systems in Poland and the Baltic countries; just at the border with Russia. Imagine Iran stationing the same type of weapons on Cuba...oh, we had that already, almost brought us WW3.
I'm not a U.S. basher. I met quite a few reasonable people from the U.S. Unfortunately many people there believe in some kind of superiority over other people and nations. As long as you openly take such a stance, and as long as you openly endorse "patriotism" (Idiotic to be proud for something you did not achieve), there might be no real place for you amongst the truly civilized countries.
Otherwise you could just give up on privacy too!
While there, you could also give up on basic human rights; after all, why would you need basic human rights as long as you abide by the law?
And now.... Lets change the law!
Get a glimpse at history.
Ok, I gave up on the U.S. quite a while ago. If *that* is the freedom you were proclaiming for the last few decade, then let me move to the USSR...oh, you brought them *democracy*...damned! :)
As long as good (old) Europe is free(until you bring us democracy too;) I'll just stick to my side of the atlantic (and the channel).
But seriously, U.S. citizens, aware of their surroundings, must be pretty frustrated by these moves.
Buddhists still believe in Karma an the Buddha. Though not a deity in himself, he still is a leading figure. Many Buddhist branches revere their teacher and accept Karma.
Supreme being and fate: Sounds a lot like God!