The Nanking Massacre in China is a sad part of Japanese history, which is probably why they didn't mention it in any of their history books.
Nobody tortured the Japanese Americans, yes they went to camps, yes they weren't compensated, yes it wasn't nice, but it was WW2 and there was plenty of not nice to go around. If these people want to be treated like POW's they should try putting on a uniform.
The internment of Japanese Americans is a sad part of United States history, and is not something to be pointed to as an example of "hey, it's tradition!".
I think the issues are
1. We've already built these nice monster sized telescopes, they are not all that portable
2. Even in virtually uninhabited places like Death Valley, you're still getting quite a bit of light pollution from Las Vegas, which is over 85 miles away. There are very few truly dark places left in the continental US.
Or people who want to see dark skies could just drive for a couple hours and leave the rest of us alone.
I think the biggest problem is that the only plants CA can bring online are running on natural gas, which gets spendy. Wind and Solar are there, but without an efficient way of storing that energy their utility is much more limited. Nuclear is also a good option, but since US plants are not breeder reactors there is the issue of waste disposal.
As much as I think this energy proposal is a bad joke it's not half as bad as the european ban on lead solder. That decision will send most of these eco-friendly televisions to a landfill near you sooner rather than later.
What they ought to do is mandate electronics to have either real off switches or efficient stand-by modes. Wall warts (in plug transformers) are always drawing power even if you're not using the device. That would save way more power than this initiative ever will and lets consumers buy whatever the heck TV they want.
There is a completely feasible alternative: Produce more energy. This is not hard to do, and anyone with half a brain knows about all the awesome relatively free energy sources such as wind/solar/geothermal/tidal. The energy produced is so much more valuable than the initial costs that the net gains are huge and the base startup costs are almost irrelevant.
I couldn't agree more, you can play VHS tapes from the 1980s. They won't look great, but they work. That's damn impressive when you consider a run of the mill DVD-R is good for 5-10 years tops before terminal bitrot sets in.
Although I agree with you, one cannot deny how gracefully that VHS tapes degraded. I guess that's why it's hard for us to completely write off analog formats: My VHS copy of Mission Impossible 1 definitely has streaking on it. My DVD copy of hackers definitely stops playing a few minutes in thanks to a scratch.
Cartman: [...and enters an elevator] Just send a maintenance guy to my room. I want this Nintendo hooked up to my float screen NOW! [the doors close]
[Cartman's room. A maintenance guy is trying to figure out how to connect the Wii to the screen.]
Cartman: Come on! Come on! Dude, what is taking so long! I wanna play!
Maintenance Guy: Uhh, what kind of output does this have? This is some ancient Super-VHS output or somethin'. I can't connect it to your float screen.
Cartman: There's gotta be some way to hook it up! It's the freakin' future!
Maintenance Guy: It may be the future for you, but I can't hook up anything to a float screen without at least a laser-7 output.
Forget media integrity. The problem is technology drift. Everyone thinks "ubiquitous" (as in every computer has a USB port) is the same as "eternal," and it isn't. Twenty years from now, your USB thumb drives and CD-R's may have their data physically intact, but only museums will have equipment that can read them.
I agree, too bad any modern car has a 'reserve' (E) capacity of 2-4 gallons that don't register on the @%!! gas gauge.
I drove plenty of old cars. E meant empty, not 1/5 of a tank.
When you're low on gas, or planning a drive through an area where gas stations are very spread out, you absolutely want to know how far you can get using the gas in your tank. That's why any modern car with a decent onboard computer display will show you that figure.
Why exhaustively? Normally you can check the header data/check file associations. If you're trying to hide a partition in a file I'd assume it to be of fairly large size.
Just how many file formats do you plan on documenting exhaustively?
Automated methods for finding hidden partitions could mean checking the bios report on the device against it's partitioned size, or just looking for large binary files that don't have known signatures.
FOREACH [file] in device
IF [file].size>MAX_SIZE && !hasKnownSignature([file]) ARREST_FOR_THOUGHTCRIME('Zekespeak')
IF isImage([file]) && fleshTones([file])>5.0 flagForAnalysis([file])
END FOREACH
I don't have swap files. I have swap partitions and they are encrypted with a random key at boot time using dmcrypt.
How can forensics easily tell the difference between an encrypted file and a file filled with either random or binary data?
Just encrypt all of your crap, and don't have illegal stuff.
Amen. With all the practically unbreakable, freely available encryption solutions out there, I don't understand why any criminal who, even occasionally, touches a computer, doesn't use a generous amount of encryption. Encryption stymies any attempt at, after the fact, detection.
What if she's Japanese? According to the child safety laws in the US, half of them ought to be in child seats (children must be secured in a car safety seat or booster seat until they are at least 6 years old or weigh 60 pounds)
It's up to the prosecution to actually prove their case. If a child looks to be 12 it's possible that she has a rare genetic condition but not that likely. Reasonable doubt would be a bit of a stretch.
No matter what you got,
Robitussin better handle it.
-''Daddy, l got asthma.''
-''Robitussin.''
-''l got cancer.''
-''Robitussin.''
l broke my leg,
Daddy poured Robitussin on it.
''Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there.
''Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin
get on down to the bone.
''The 'tussin ought to straighten out
the bone. lt's good.
''lf you run out of 'tussin, put some water
in the jar, shake it up, more 'tussin.
''More 'tussin!''
Are we going to ban cars and cold medicine too?
No! Cold medicine has other important uses.
My point is that 16 slightly faster ones are more useful given the state of programming today. Normal people are not running 16 cpu bound processes at any given moment. It would be great for optimization if that were the case, but generally it's not.
I agree that we're quite unlikely to see exponential increases in speed anytime soon but incremental ones are certainly feasible.
If GPU technology has taught me anything, it's that you can make gamers pay $700 for a graphics card and $200 for a new 600watt power supply as long as they're getting their shiny things fix, so power efficiency doesn't matter for the desktop market, laptops and servers being a different story.
I'd much rather have 64 fast cores than 16 slightly faster (but horribly power-inefficient) cores, and that's really the tradeoff that you're talking about. All of the reasonable ways of throwing transistors at getting faster straight-line code execution have already happened. Hell, even the unreasonable ones have been implemented, like fast 64-bit division units.
The reason this happens in the real world is because you generally need lots of X, be it a road, or babies, or whatever. If you just need one (unique inputs to create a singular unique output) often you can't optimize it using multiple cores, though I suppose you could still do the equivalent of superscalar branch prediction and result tables(for fixed input sets) the like.
More CPU horsepower is the obvious choice for non-bus limited operations, but things are starting to get expensive there, so I welcome a few extra cores. The real question is if Intel and AMD will save some cash from their MMC(massive multi-core) projects and deliver a more sensible number of faster cores. You just can't depend on a given user's programs being set up to run efficiently in parallel.
Thing is, you probably have a parallel task that was already bashed into a sequential one.
Most real-world problems are parallel problems. Even the ones that aren't (say... compiling a file in C) you can usually run a lot of instances of in parallel.
I wouldn't mind watching a remake of Buck Rogers. Just with less disco and no roller skates. Maybe be a little more like the original newspaper series too.
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Gibson Guitar Inc has told Activision Inc (ATVI.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) that its wildly popular "Guitar Hero" video games infringe one of Gibson's patents, and Activision has asked a U.S. court to find the claim invalid.
Gibson said the games, in which players press buttons on a guitar-shaped controller in time with notes on a TV screen, violates a 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance.
There are 120 million ha of cropland harvested in the USA each year. If all of that land was used to produce crops to support a vegan diet, and if 15 animals of the field are killed per ha per year, then 15 × 120 million = 1800 million or 1.8 billion animals would be killed annually to produce a vegan diet for the USA.
I think it's you who refuses to understand that vegans have ethical concerns about killing or exploiting living things.
If I recall correctly, you didn't even need the child killer flag for this to happen, you just had to have a low enough reputation score. After you terminated the Enclave, this was the way to go for the occasional challenge, since they would send in brotherhood of steel patrols.
Having a child killer or slaver flag was still a game altering decision since it affected how most of the npcs would react to you.
I'm not much of an oblivion fan, but at least they got Perlman back for the voiceover. Hopefully this game is true enough to the original series that it offers a healthy amount of quests to players regardless of their moral standing.
I do think it is messed up you can't kill children in the game unless you nuke their entire town. I miss the 'child killer' status of the last Fallout games, didn't they send out hunting parties to kill you, shot at you on site and refuse to talk to you? If you nuke an entire town none of that happens in this game.
American manufacturing is already quite competitive, it's called mechanization. Now if you're talking manufacturing that requires a real workforce, we're boned. Health care is just the tip of the iceberg. Environmental regulations and liability insurance are also way up there. Not that the EU is in much better shape, they just have eastern bloc countries to prop them up when they need cheap labor where as we have Joe the Illegal and NAFTA.
If people are so certain that the US system is great, then please answer one question. How can we make American manufacturing competitive on the world market again while paying the highest health care costs in the world?
Master of Orion no, Civilization yes. If you need technology with a lot of expensive prerequisites try spending your resource units on spies and using the 'steal technology' action on the enemy cities.
No. Invading people doesn't give you advanced technology, spending money on military R&D does. This isn't Master of Orion where you get technology for winning a battle
I concur, there have been plenty of instances of very real 'lost art'. Did you know that Roman carriages were more advanced than any built until after 1700AD? I'd have my damn flying car by now if the Library of Alexandria had kept proper offsite backups.
There have been instances when the metallurgy of times past was remarkably superior in some respects to later arts. Think of Damascus steel or Chinese bell-casting. Though the general trend of technology is constant progress forward, in certain cases the ancients were able to teach us a thing or two.
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Nobody tortured the Japanese Americans, yes they went to camps, yes they weren't compensated, yes it wasn't nice, but it was WW2 and there was plenty of not nice to go around. If these people want to be treated like POW's they should try putting on a uniform.
1. We've already built these nice monster sized telescopes, they are not all that portable
2. Even in virtually uninhabited places like Death Valley, you're still getting quite a bit of light pollution from Las Vegas, which is over 85 miles away. There are very few truly dark places left in the continental US.
As much as I think this energy proposal is a bad joke it's not half as bad as the european ban on lead solder. That decision will send most of these eco-friendly televisions to a landfill near you sooner rather than later.
What they ought to do is mandate electronics to have either real off switches or efficient stand-by modes. Wall warts (in plug transformers) are always drawing power even if you're not using the device. That would save way more power than this initiative ever will and lets consumers buy whatever the heck TV they want.
[the doors close]
[Cartman's room. A maintenance guy is trying to figure out how to connect the Wii to the screen.]
Cartman: Come on! Come on! Dude, what is taking so long! I wanna play!
Maintenance Guy: Uhh, what kind of output does this have? This is some ancient Super-VHS output or somethin'. I can't connect it to your float screen.
Cartman: There's gotta be some way to hook it up! It's the freakin' future!
Maintenance Guy: It may be the future for you, but I can't hook up anything to a float screen without at least a laser-7 output.
I drove plenty of old cars. E meant empty, not 1/5 of a tank.
Automated methods for finding hidden partitions could mean checking the bios report on the device against it's partitioned size, or just looking for large binary files that don't have known signatures.
FOREACH [file] in device
IF [file].size>MAX_SIZE && !hasKnownSignature([file])
ARREST_FOR_THOUGHTCRIME('Zekespeak')
IF isImage([file]) && fleshTones([file])>5.0
flagForAnalysis([file])
END FOREACH
Since this is the UK you will hand over your encryption keys, have a nice day.
No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it.
-''Daddy, l got asthma.''
-''Robitussin.''
-''l got cancer.''
-''Robitussin.''
l broke my leg, Daddy poured Robitussin on it.
''Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there.
''Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone.
''The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone. lt's good.
''lf you run out of 'tussin, put some water in the jar, shake it up, more 'tussin.
''More 'tussin!''
I agree that we're quite unlikely to see exponential increases in speed anytime soon but incremental ones are certainly feasible.
If GPU technology has taught me anything, it's that you can make gamers pay $700 for a graphics card and $200 for a new 600watt power supply as long as they're getting their shiny things fix, so power efficiency doesn't matter for the desktop market, laptops and servers being a different story.
More CPU horsepower is the obvious choice for non-bus limited operations, but things are starting to get expensive there, so I welcome a few extra cores. The real question is if Intel and AMD will save some cash from their MMC(massive multi-core) projects and deliver a more sensible number of faster cores. You just can't depend on a given user's programs being set up to run efficiently in parallel.
Perhaps this one also?
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Gibson Guitar Inc has told Activision Inc (ATVI.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) that its wildly popular "Guitar Hero" video games infringe one of Gibson's patents, and Activision has asked a U.S. court to find the claim invalid.
Gibson said the games, in which players press buttons on a guitar-shaped controller in time with notes on a TV screen, violates a 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance.
There are 120 million ha of cropland harvested in the USA each year. If all of that land was used to produce crops to support a vegan diet, and if 15 animals of the field are killed per ha per year, then 15 × 120 million = 1800 million or 1.8 billion animals would be killed annually to produce a vegan diet for the USA.
I for one welcome our Amanda Pays based overlords.