There are people participating in such groups, but every time they turn around, someone calls them a teabagger and tries to point to some nut-job racist calling him the leader trying to discredit the movement even though he didn't start it.
You know there's nothing in the Constitution or laws granting slavery or oppression of women, right? And according to my reading of said documents, it's implicitly denied because the Constitution applies to all people, not just white male people.
Is it really wasted though? Most GPUs don't use a lot of power while sitting idle. It's not like they are sitting there running needless operations over and over waiting for something meaningful to do.
Everyone that tries is decried as a loon and it's said they will never be able to change the course of the two party system we've been engrossed in.
At this point, I wish it were true, but someone who's not Republican or Democrat has about a better chance of getting struck by lighting while winning the lottery than gaining control of anything.
Right now is probably the best chance in forever, with Democrats still pissed off at Bush and Republicans pissed off at Obama. I still don't see it happening. All I see coming from it is spite voting where they start voting more fervently toward their party line instead of looking outside it. Most people think that if they do vote outside their party, they may as well be voting for the other since they think their vote would be "thrown away."
I thought that's what this was at first. I thought, "Finally, someone is going to clean up!"
Then I finished reading the summary.
So why is it so hard to send something up to even smack this stuff out of orbit? I mean, the military apparently tracks all this junk floating around up there and it's all so small it would burn up on re-entry. So why not send up such a small autonomous craft to find and redirect such trash to get it out of there? It could even be something as simple as a small space plow.
I know not a lot of people do this on a regular basis, but I target shoot with my father and he has had laser eye surgery and he has a hard time lining up iron sights because the fine space has refracted images of the side of the rear sight. It's not clear enough to get a good bearing.
He used to easily take out ground hogs with his M1 Garand from about 150-200 yards with iron sights and he says it's much harder after the surgery.
Granted, this is not exactly life shattering since the surgery gave him the ability to see clearly during his day job without contacts or glasses, but it has lessened something he enjoyed doing.
There's a simple workaround to that though. Sell it to your client, royalty free for your standard fee, then tell then you will offer it to the public on a simple website with a shopping cart for $5,000,000 per license and split the income with them.
Sounds like a plan to me. I'd be pissed off if people kept bugging me as well. Just take the money he doesn't want and give it to a math oriented scholarship fund or something.
I actually haven't got that perception at all... from what I see it's the politicians that feel that way because they can't find benefit from what's going on.
$40K doesn't go very far when a one bedroom apartment in the Chicago area goes for over $900/month (and when I was paying that, people still broke into my car so that's not even a neighborhood I'd consider fit for raising kids), food, auto financing, auto insurance, clothes, and utilities. That's pretty much break even. You know $4000 is 10% of $40K and the feds take a good chunk of that 40K before you even see it. That's some ugly break even accounting after filing taxes and putting that money away. Heaven forbid someone wants to have money for retirement, or even thinking about Christmas (for their kids), school supplies or if they get into an accident.
You are trying to relate cost to quality and it's not going to work. We have some of the best doctors in the world here and innovation is quite frankly staggering.
I'm not talking about affordability. I'm talking about the quality you get when you can pay for it. The health care in this country is adequate. It's more than adequate. It's downright amazing that they can heal so many things.
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There are people participating in such groups, but every time they turn around, someone calls them a teabagger and tries to point to some nut-job racist calling him the leader trying to discredit the movement even though he didn't start it.
Even better... I got a form letter, and was subscribed to their newsletter on how these changes will "benefit" me, even though I don't agree.
Yeah, because spite is the best reason for voting for a particular person who will dictate your laws for the next 4-8 years. :rolleyes:
You know there's nothing in the Constitution or laws granting slavery or oppression of women, right? And according to my reading of said documents, it's implicitly denied because the Constitution applies to all people, not just white male people.
Firefox 3.5.8 on Ubuntu 9.10, Lenovo T61 with "Intelgrated" video card:
40FPS @ 100 images (Had both my cores flopping around 50%)
Is it really wasted though? Most GPUs don't use a lot of power while sitting idle. It's not like they are sitting there running needless operations over and over waiting for something meaningful to do.
I wonder why it doesn't support OpenGL on all platforms. Why keep two branches of code?
Everyone that tries is decried as a loon and it's said they will never be able to change the course of the two party system we've been engrossed in.
At this point, I wish it were true, but someone who's not Republican or Democrat has about a better chance of getting struck by lighting while winning the lottery than gaining control of anything.
Right now is probably the best chance in forever, with Democrats still pissed off at Bush and Republicans pissed off at Obama. I still don't see it happening. All I see coming from it is spite voting where they start voting more fervently toward their party line instead of looking outside it. Most people think that if they do vote outside their party, they may as well be voting for the other since they think their vote would be "thrown away."
I thought that's what this was at first. I thought, "Finally, someone is going to clean up!"
Then I finished reading the summary.
So why is it so hard to send something up to even smack this stuff out of orbit? I mean, the military apparently tracks all this junk floating around up there and it's all so small it would burn up on re-entry. So why not send up such a small autonomous craft to find and redirect such trash to get it out of there? It could even be something as simple as a small space plow.
Then we are all screwed... those things can be very vicious.
I know not a lot of people do this on a regular basis, but I target shoot with my father and he has had laser eye surgery and he has a hard time lining up iron sights because the fine space has refracted images of the side of the rear sight. It's not clear enough to get a good bearing.
He used to easily take out ground hogs with his M1 Garand from about 150-200 yards with iron sights and he says it's much harder after the surgery.
Granted, this is not exactly life shattering since the surgery gave him the ability to see clearly during his day job without contacts or glasses, but it has lessened something he enjoyed doing.
There's a simple workaround to that though. Sell it to your client, royalty free for your standard fee, then tell then you will offer it to the public on a simple website with a shopping cart for $5,000,000 per license and split the income with them.
The slash however is a slippery slope.
Sounds like a plan to me. I'd be pissed off if people kept bugging me as well. Just take the money he doesn't want and give it to a math oriented scholarship fund or something.
Sprinkle in a dash of sarcasm and a touch of humor. Blend that all in a bowl of angst.
Um... what qualifies Mitsubishi the ability to make TVs and cars! They can't do that because they have to pick a market!
That's what technology is for... so you don't have to do it yourself the hard way.
It's okay, cheese is soft.
I actually haven't got that perception at all... from what I see it's the politicians that feel that way because they can't find benefit from what's going on.
Duh... obviously it shields the scientists from a bunch of boring rock data.
Maybe we should ask Slashdot to lock the whole thread while someone posts a reply to avoid this in the future.
That's attempted suicide, it's illegal to fail. Are they going to imprison you for succeeding?
Also, being illegal doesn't make it impossible.
$40K doesn't go very far when a one bedroom apartment in the Chicago area goes for over $900/month (and when I was paying that, people still broke into my car so that's not even a neighborhood I'd consider fit for raising kids), food, auto financing, auto insurance, clothes, and utilities. That's pretty much break even. You know $4000 is 10% of $40K and the feds take a good chunk of that 40K before you even see it. That's some ugly break even accounting after filing taxes and putting that money away. Heaven forbid someone wants to have money for retirement, or even thinking about Christmas (for their kids), school supplies or if they get into an accident.
Unless the premiums cost more then the insulin...
You are trying to relate cost to quality and it's not going to work. We have some of the best doctors in the world here and innovation is quite frankly staggering.
I'm not talking about affordability. I'm talking about the quality you get when you can pay for it. The health care in this country is adequate. It's more than adequate. It's downright amazing that they can heal so many things.