If you are going to attack someplace, what is more helpful to you: getting rid of their means to strike back? Or getting rid of the people there?
It is cruel, but by using some chemical/biological weapon that goes away in a few hours to attack the people there will do far more to achieve your means of taking over someplace.
My money is on something like this:
Country A: We have this new non nuke weapon. It rocks. Much more powerful then a nuke.
Rest of world: give us this weapon. Country A: No. Rest of world: Fine.
Rest of world attacks Country A. Welcome to WWIII.
I have seen many boats in the ocean. More in the shipping lanes for the middle of it. In and out of the shipping lanes are one gets close to land.
These wind mills do not need to be off the continental shelf where the water depths are miles. They most likely will be built in depths of 200-300 feet at most. Why make it floating when you do not need to. The floating platforms still take the beating from waves.
For the far from land windmills, the waves where these thing will be going could be 50+ feet high and very steep. Floating is not a good idea. Most likely they will be a tower that rises up from the floor. There are designs that have been proven to survive the wave forces, we just need to make sure that the blades of the windmill never touch the water. Considering the ones proposed to be built off the coast 12-15 miles out in 60-80 feet of water are going to be roughly 50 feet above average high moon tide. The wave heights in that area have been 15-25 feet in the worst storms. The far out (100 miles) are going to be freaking huge. They will be building skyscrapers with a windmill on top out in the ocean.
OK I googled Sun laptop and got a few hits. Most of which were EOL products. I have never seen someone with a sun laptop. I have seen a few sun towers on carts with a UPS that were called 'portable'. I laptop might have helped sun a bit. Who knows. Then again, the 4 Sun servers are louder then the other 15 servers combined in out server room. Everyone complains about the noise from those 4 servers. When we turned them off it was much nicer noise-wise. I have not opened them up, but I swear that Sun uses those vantec super loud fans. Those fans move air, but you do not want to be in the same room.
About time - i would prefer to see someone thanking me when I buy/rent a legit dvd. I understand the need to have the message there, but I have seen it ton of times. I wish they would make it so I could skip over it.
Actually if I buy a DVD I want that DVD to be free of commercials, trailers, of everything but the movie (maybe behind the scenes can stay). Take out all the extra crap. I am paying for the movie. I do not need to see ads or other trailers.
And that NPC said it every time. I so wanted to kill him just to shut him up. I think there was a mod where we could kill him. Been a while I forget.
But with Diablo 1, put up the mana shield, use mana steal on hit, use life steal in hit and kill every thing in sight. What a way to unwind after a stress filled day.
I played the game the regular way (no cheating) and the cheating way depending on my mood. I was so looking for a way to upload a picture to change the monsters to look like people I knew. Now that would be a real stress reliever. Or land me in jail one of the two.
not because they are easy, but because they are hard,
You might want to see a doctor about that. Leaving* a poop is not supposed to be hard.
*For some reason taking a poop doesn't make sense. I usually leave it, then flush it away. For the ISS, what ever is not burned up is taken back to Earth. So in their case, some return shuttle/capsule will be taking all the poop with it. I would not want to be on that trip.
That battery thing is total marking BS. You do realize that right? ~1000 charges the ad says. So if you use this laptop 350 out of the 365 days a year hence discharging it and charging once per day, you get roughly 2.8-2.9 years life out of the battery. What about happened to the 5 years the ad says? Which is interesting the same life I have used/seen on just about every laptop for the last 10 years. Some died early (sony batteries, run over with a steam roller, dropped in salt water) but for the most part, a well taken care of and defect free battery will give you ~3 years of life. The hp laptop is just now getting crappy battery run times, the laptop was bought in November 2004. Plus it was an older model then.
To get the 5 years of battery life you charge the laptop 200 times 9or less) per year. Most people will use their nice big shiny laptop more then 200 times in a year. Unless people are using the laptop with the battery removed, wait on that new 17 inch model you cannot take out the battery.
Runs fine on my $250 dell mini 9. (32GB SSD drive, 2GB RAM, 1.6 atom cpu). When I got the mini 32GB was the biggest drive. For regular computing needs (email, web surfing, writing papers, streaming HD videos) it works fine. It is not 1080P on the videos the screen doesn't do 1080p. But it does the 720p which surprised me. I am not using this for heavy number crunching. The 15 or so people that have borrowed it all like it. So maybe I should say it is my $379 dell mini 9 for the extra $129 for OSX.
There are a few sites on how to build your own mac on none mac hardware. Apple really hates these, and you are on your own for support if things go wrong. I did it on a laptop and it works great. There are ways of making getting OSX on your own machine, just takes some digging.
Don't try to pick them up. In fact, start talking to them as if they were guys. If they start flirting with you, that's a sign that you can flirt with them. Until then, just act as if they are guys.
This also means that if you are particularly introverted, just start up by practicing talking to guys about mundane stuff. (The weather, what *they* do for a living, traffic patterns, etc.)
Don't hide that you are a geek, but don't flaunt it or even bring it up unless relevant. And certainly steer the conversation away from computers, microsoft, digital rights management, politics, etc. When you are good with guys, then start the same process with the girls.
P.S. You're welcome.:-)
That is the problem, flirting to one may be just conservation to another. Some people are very touchy, it does not mean that they are flirting.
I knew this girl in college who was very touchy. She would put her hands on mine if we were sitting at a table, we would walk arm in arm down the halls. She fell asleep leaning against me 5-6 times in the car or at the movies (a group of friends went out never just the two of us). People thought we were dating. I asked her out and she was totally ticked off. She was never interested in me for anything more then a friend.
I have a red dell mini 9. Every cute girl that has seen it (the dell mini 9 not me) love it. A few have borrowed it for class. So far no phone numbers though. The dalmation worked better for getting girl's (sometimes they were even married with kids) phone numbers. That dog was great, he knew to stand perfectly still when a girl wanted to pet him. And he was great with little kids. But the mini is a close second. The OS on it doesn't seem to matter. I get the same cuteness result with ubuntu, xp, or osx on it.
But it sort of makes sense to pay a little more for a 5 year warrantee. If something happens 3-4 years down the road, you can get a replacement drive. Even if that drive is outdated when compared with what is currently selling. We are paying for a longer warrantee and paying for the manufacture to keep on making that model drive.
As to why Apple/HP/who ever charges so much more for their branded WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, etc. hard drive, I have no clue.
Zebra mussels are filter feeders. And really excellent ones at that. The problem is they filter the water too well. This lets light reach greater water depths then it usually should. Which moves the plant biomass down to greater water depths. The issue comes up when there is nothing to eat/keep down the plant life that is growing like crazy.
Robots will not be the product of natural selection. They will be the product of human directed selection and programming.
Only for the robots made by humans. How long do you think that will last? We have machines building cars. Machines will be building other machines. Other machines will be building robots. Then soon these machines will be programmed by robots. The robots are smart enough now less work for the humans to do. At that point is when the robots start doing more for robots then humans. Ever robot generation after will do more for robot kind then human kind.
There is no blind spot if you happened to add those small extra mirrors to the ones already on your the sides of the car/truck. And the added mirrors should be the wedge shaped or curved circle one not a flat ones. That way to see more of the road around your car/truck as you are traveling.
I am willing to bet most people would not miss the side mirrors since they never use them.
I thought the article was about Intel and AMD. Two chip (CPU/chipset/GPU) makers. Last I checked microsoft was a software company. So if the hardware put out by Intel and AMD can run the software put out by microsoft, how/why are they going to fail? Even with the moronic decisions made by the top people at microsoft, the company is still going. As long as their software can run an an Intel, AMD, or some other company's hardware why should microsoft care. Do you think that Intel or AMD will not give microsoft or any other big OS company a list of instructions that their hardware uses?
So you are saying that ultra low power devices are what will take over. OK, I can sort of see that. For most regular users, that is fine. For the big corporations or research firms who have to churn through trillions of calculations per second I do not see the ultra low power stuff being used. They will cut power use where they can, but this low power hardware isn't up to their computing needs yet.
Some personal observations: On this atom based laptop, Ubuntu has the lowest power use or best battery time of 5 hours 57 minutes. OSX gets 2 hours 33 minutes, and xp gets 3 hours 55 minutes. That was the average time from 10 full charges till the laptop went to sleep on batters. All three were used for email, web surfing, and writing papers. All three were updated with all updates. I set the power settings as close as I could. Plugged in, power off the screen at 20 minutes and run everything else at max. On battery: 5 minute screen off, 3 min hard drive, sleep in 10 min. I was hoping that OSX would have more battery life then xp.
I saw lasers and thought they were going to affix lasers to the heads of small mouth bass. Then the bass kill the mosquitoes that are on top of the water and flying over it.
They say it only hits mosquitoes, can the laser b used to also hit those little nats that also bite? And what if the software has a bug (not intended pun) and targets every flying insect? Are the cooked insects safe for insect eating animals to eat?
Got a problem with that? Or are you just jealous, because my brain happens to work better than yours, when it comes to technical things?;)
I know that it is called racism (and rightfully so, most of the time) when you insult people because of their race. But it seems to be a-ok, to insult intelligent people, or make them look like something bad. Especially tech people.
Unfortunately, tech people then usually buy right into that too, and think they really are worse than the average guy who gets all the women. I'm sorry my friend. But this time is over. We're not the "Oh, you think you are so much better. Well you're a piece of shit" nerds for you anymore. We *know* that we actually *are* (by definition) so much better (in technical things). So what? You may be better in other things. So what?
I say, we should get girls, not despite, but because we are techies.
(Don't you Americans usually say "Who's with me?" in this moments.;)
Too bad most girls only want us techies to work with their computer boxes, cell phones, and make other electronic boxes work. If we are lucky we get a a thank you hug or may be dinner. The type of dinner where she stays at least 3 feet away from you the whole time, and the place is one where non of her crowd will be.
Actually I have found that teaching them (well trying in some cases) to fix/make it work works better. One needs to actually communicate to teach. And she may come back to you so you can teach her other things about some new device or program she wants to use. Now you may not get to go out with or date that girl but other girls will notice you talking to her. The talking to the first girl in teaching her will help you talk to the other girls (if you needed help in that area). Just remember talk in english (or your first language) do not try to explain something in geekese. Geekese only works for other geeks, if she happens to be a female geek then go right ahead. But then, she most likely doesn't need your help in using the electronic device.
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If you are going to attack someplace, what is more helpful to you: getting rid of their means to strike back? Or getting rid of the people there?
It is cruel, but by using some chemical/biological weapon that goes away in a few hours to attack the people there will do far more to achieve your means of taking over someplace.
My money is on something like this:
Country A: We have this new non nuke weapon. It rocks. Much more powerful then a nuke.
Rest of world: give us this weapon.
Country A: No.
Rest of world: Fine.
Rest of world attacks Country A. Welcome to WWIII.
I have seen many boats in the ocean. More in the shipping lanes for the middle of it. In and out of the shipping lanes are one gets close to land.
These wind mills do not need to be off the continental shelf where the water depths are miles. They most likely will be built in depths of 200-300 feet at most. Why make it floating when you do not need to. The floating platforms still take the beating from waves.
For the far from land windmills, the waves where these thing will be going could be 50+ feet high and very steep. Floating is not a good idea. Most likely they will be a tower that rises up from the floor. There are designs that have been proven to survive the wave forces, we just need to make sure that the blades of the windmill never touch the water. Considering the ones proposed to be built off the coast 12-15 miles out in 60-80 feet of water are going to be roughly 50 feet above average high moon tide. The wave heights in that area have been 15-25 feet in the worst storms. The far out (100 miles) are going to be freaking huge. They will be building skyscrapers with a windmill on top out in the ocean.
Other then just Pirates, what would be a good name for the pirates who takes down/hold ransom electric windmills?
Shock pirates
Electric Pirates
Lightning Pirates
Bolt Pirates
Zap Pirates
Cowboy Neil Pirates
Has Sun ever made a laptop?
OK I googled Sun laptop and got a few hits. Most of which were EOL products. I have never seen someone with a sun laptop. I have seen a few sun towers on carts with a UPS that were called 'portable'. I laptop might have helped sun a bit. Who knows. Then again, the 4 Sun servers are louder then the other 15 servers combined in out server room. Everyone complains about the noise from those 4 servers. When we turned them off it was much nicer noise-wise. I have not opened them up, but I swear that Sun uses those vantec super loud fans. Those fans move air, but you do not want to be in the same room.
I always thought and read that the big red spot was about three Earth's wide. Jupiter is freaking huge compared to Earth.
About time - i would prefer to see someone thanking me when I buy/rent a legit dvd. I understand the need to have the message there, but I have seen it ton of times. I wish they would make it so I could skip over it.
Actually if I buy a DVD I want that DVD to be free of commercials, trailers, of everything but the movie (maybe behind the scenes can stay). Take out all the extra crap. I am paying for the movie. I do not need to see ads or other trailers.
And that NPC said it every time. I so wanted to kill him just to shut him up. I think there was a mod where we could kill him. Been a while I forget.
But with Diablo 1, put up the mana shield, use mana steal on hit, use life steal in hit and kill every thing in sight. What a way to unwind after a stress filled day.
I played the game the regular way (no cheating) and the cheating way depending on my mood. I was so looking for a way to upload a picture to change the monsters to look like people I knew. Now that would be a real stress reliever. Or land me in jail one of the two.
not because they are easy, but because they are hard,
You might want to see a doctor about that. Leaving* a poop is not supposed to be hard.
*For some reason taking a poop doesn't make sense. I usually leave it, then flush it away. For the ISS, what ever is not burned up is taken back to Earth. So in their case, some return shuttle/capsule will be taking all the poop with it. I would not want to be on that trip.
I would hope that the poop would burn up on entry (reentry?) in the atmosphere. If not, what the hell are they eating up there?
But pointing out shooting stars could be awkward.
Person A: Look a shooting star!
Person B: Nope. The ISS just flushed.
This is about girls, 'sex', and on slashdot.
Think about it.
He might be using MM/DD/YYYY not DD/MM/YYYY. In that case the 2nd of April 2009 has not passed yet.
And I am most likely hearing a whooosh sound...
That battery thing is total marking BS. You do realize that right? ~1000 charges the ad says. So if you use this laptop 350 out of the 365 days a year hence discharging it and charging once per day, you get roughly 2.8-2.9 years life out of the battery. What about happened to the 5 years the ad says? Which is interesting the same life I have used/seen on just about every laptop for the last 10 years. Some died early (sony batteries, run over with a steam roller, dropped in salt water) but for the most part, a well taken care of and defect free battery will give you ~3 years of life. The hp laptop is just now getting crappy battery run times, the laptop was bought in November 2004. Plus it was an older model then.
To get the 5 years of battery life you charge the laptop 200 times 9or less) per year. Most people will use their nice big shiny laptop more then 200 times in a year. Unless people are using the laptop with the battery removed, wait on that new 17 inch model you cannot take out the battery.
Runs fine on my $250 dell mini 9. (32GB SSD drive, 2GB RAM, 1.6 atom cpu). When I got the mini 32GB was the biggest drive. For regular computing needs (email, web surfing, writing papers, streaming HD videos) it works fine. It is not 1080P on the videos the screen doesn't do 1080p. But it does the 720p which surprised me. I am not using this for heavy number crunching. The 15 or so people that have borrowed it all like it. So maybe I should say it is my $379 dell mini 9 for the extra $129 for OSX.
There are a few sites on how to build your own mac on none mac hardware. Apple really hates these, and you are on your own for support if things go wrong. I did it on a laptop and it works great. There are ways of making getting OSX on your own machine, just takes some digging.
Don't try to pick them up. In fact, start talking to them as if they were guys. If they start flirting with you, that's a sign that you can flirt with them. Until then, just act as if they are guys.
This also means that if you are particularly introverted, just start up by practicing talking to guys about mundane stuff. (The weather, what *they* do for a living, traffic patterns, etc.)
Don't hide that you are a geek, but don't flaunt it or even bring it up unless relevant. And certainly steer the conversation away from computers, microsoft, digital rights management, politics, etc. When you are good with guys, then start the same process with the girls.
P.S. You're welcome. :-)
That is the problem, flirting to one may be just conservation to another. Some people are very touchy, it does not mean that they are flirting.
I knew this girl in college who was very touchy. She would put her hands on mine if we were sitting at a table, we would walk arm in arm down the halls. She fell asleep leaning against me 5-6 times in the car or at the movies (a group of friends went out never just the two of us). People thought we were dating. I asked her out and she was totally ticked off. She was never interested in me for anything more then a friend.
I have a red dell mini 9. Every cute girl that has seen it (the dell mini 9 not me) love it. A few have borrowed it for class. So far no phone numbers though. The dalmation worked better for getting girl's (sometimes they were even married with kids) phone numbers. That dog was great, he knew to stand perfectly still when a girl wanted to pet him. And he was great with little kids. But the mini is a close second. The OS on it doesn't seem to matter. I get the same cuteness result with ubuntu, xp, or osx on it.
Yes.
But it sort of makes sense to pay a little more for a 5 year warrantee. If something happens 3-4 years down the road, you can get a replacement drive. Even if that drive is outdated when compared with what is currently selling. We are paying for a longer warrantee and paying for the manufacture to keep on making that model drive.
As to why Apple/HP/who ever charges so much more for their branded WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, etc. hard drive, I have no clue.
Zebra mussels are filter feeders. And really excellent ones at that. The problem is they filter the water too well. This lets light reach greater water depths then it usually should. Which moves the plant biomass down to greater water depths. The issue comes up when there is nothing to eat/keep down the plant life that is growing like crazy.
Robots will not be the product of natural selection. They will be the product of human directed selection and programming.
Only for the robots made by humans. How long do you think that will last? We have machines building cars. Machines will be building other machines. Other machines will be building robots. Then soon these machines will be programmed by robots. The robots are smart enough now less work for the humans to do. At that point is when the robots start doing more for robots then humans. Ever robot generation after will do more for robot kind then human kind.
Well, he did say the E-club on base.....
There is no blind spot if you happened to add those small extra mirrors to the ones already on your the sides of the car/truck. And the added mirrors should be the wedge shaped or curved circle one not a flat ones. That way to see more of the road around your car/truck as you are traveling.
I am willing to bet most people would not miss the side mirrors since they never use them.
I thought the article was about Intel and AMD. Two chip (CPU/chipset/GPU) makers. Last I checked microsoft was a software company. So if the hardware put out by Intel and AMD can run the software put out by microsoft, how/why are they going to fail? Even with the moronic decisions made by the top people at microsoft, the company is still going. As long as their software can run an an Intel, AMD, or some other company's hardware why should microsoft care. Do you think that Intel or AMD will not give microsoft or any other big OS company a list of instructions that their hardware uses?
So you are saying that ultra low power devices are what will take over. OK, I can sort of see that. For most regular users, that is fine. For the big corporations or research firms who have to churn through trillions of calculations per second I do not see the ultra low power stuff being used. They will cut power use where they can, but this low power hardware isn't up to their computing needs yet.
Some personal observations: On this atom based laptop, Ubuntu has the lowest power use or best battery time of 5 hours 57 minutes. OSX gets 2 hours 33 minutes, and xp gets 3 hours 55 minutes. That was the average time from 10 full charges till the laptop went to sleep on batters. All three were used for email, web surfing, and writing papers. All three were updated with all updates. I set the power settings as close as I could. Plugged in, power off the screen at 20 minutes and run everything else at max. On battery: 5 minute screen off, 3 min hard drive, sleep in 10 min. I was hoping that OSX would have more battery life then xp.
I saw lasers and thought they were going to affix lasers to the heads of small mouth bass. Then the bass kill the mosquitoes that are on top of the water and flying over it.
They say it only hits mosquitoes, can the laser b used to also hit those little nats that also bite? And what if the software has a bug (not intended pun) and targets every flying insect? Are the cooked insects safe for insect eating animals to eat?
I *am* a techie, you insensitive clod.
Got a problem with that? Or are you just jealous, because my brain happens to work better than yours, when it comes to technical things? ;)
I know that it is called racism (and rightfully so, most of the time) when you insult people because of their race. But it seems to be a-ok, to insult intelligent people, or make them look like something bad. Especially tech people.
Unfortunately, tech people then usually buy right into that too, and think they really are worse than the average guy who gets all the women.
I'm sorry my friend. But this time is over. We're not the "Oh, you think you are so much better. Well you're a piece of shit" nerds for you anymore. We *know* that we actually *are* (by definition) so much better (in technical things). So what? You may be better in other things. So what?
I say, we should get girls, not despite, but because we are techies.
(Don't you Americans usually say "Who's with me?" in this moments. ;)
Too bad most girls only want us techies to work with their computer boxes, cell phones, and make other electronic boxes work. If we are lucky we get a a thank you hug or may be dinner. The type of dinner where she stays at least 3 feet away from you the whole time, and the place is one where non of her crowd will be.
Actually I have found that teaching them (well trying in some cases) to fix/make it work works better. One needs to actually communicate to teach. And she may come back to you so you can teach her other things about some new device or program she wants to use. Now you may not get to go out with or date that girl but other girls will notice you talking to her. The talking to the first girl in teaching her will help you talk to the other girls (if you needed help in that area). Just remember talk in english (or your first language) do not try to explain something in geekese. Geekese only works for other geeks, if she happens to be a female geek then go right ahead. But then, she most likely doesn't need your help in using the electronic device.