i dont want the people passing me watching TV while they're driving.
The European system shuts off if the car is going more than 3 MPH. If you're getting passed by someone going 3 MPH, perhaps you should just pedal your Big Wheel a bit faster?
If you Read the article they say that if the engine does a castatrophic failure, the amount of nuclear material released is on the order of a few curries.
A few curries? What about vindaloos? Biryanis? Can we get some samosas and puris with that?
In most meaningful, sizeable programs, pointers aren't a significant chunk of memory usage. (And for small programs, it doesn't matter.) I would think most modern apps consume most of their memory storing images, which aren't affected by the 32->64 change.
Also, 64-bit pointers allow you to go from a max of 4GB of RAM to 16 billion GB, so the assumption is memory prices will keep dropping and you'll have much more than twice as much RAM on your 64-bit system anyway.
There are a lot of reasonable estimates that there are now more trees and forest in the United States than there were when the pilgrims set foot in Plymouth.
No, there aren't. There's an oft-repeated claim about more trees now in the U.S. than in 1900, which is a true lie in that heavily-forested Alaska was added the U.S. in that time.
Forest companies have the same short-term outlook as other U.S. companies, and the ones that don't get bought and looted by others seeking those short-term profits.
Why do you think they're so eager to chop down trees on public lands? If the timber companies were so responsible, they should have their own "fields" that they harvest.
All water is recycled anyway, whether that is by man or by nature.
Exactly. Take a drink. Do you realize you're drinking horse urine? Statistically speaking, some amount of the ~10^24 molecules you just drank (or would have, if you didn't just spew them) were at some point over the last five billion years a component of a little equine piss.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... people put WAY too much weight on the power of the presidency.
Bush has more power than most, simply because he has a Republican house and Senate as well. If the House and Senate were controlled by the Democrats, I'd be less worried about four more years of Bush, simply because he would have that tether. I'm hoping that one (but not both) of the houses of Congress changes over this election, just so the winner of the Presidency doesn't matter so much.
Fortunately, the Repubs don't have a super-majority, so the Dems still have some limiting influence.
The problem with too cold is cold hands; you can't type very well with gloves on. Some days I've used a heating pad just to keep my hands warm enough to type.
But when I've got 200+ CDs to rip, I'm going to go with something where everything works in one player: the rip, the album cover, the ID tags, and the playlists.
Does anything do lyrics? Seems weird you can get cover art but not lyrics. Irrelevant for an in-dash or portable player, of course, but not a PC-based one.
Methinks Slashdot should quietly cease giving moderator points to any moderator who marks a post (like the parent of this one) as overrated -- when it hasn't yet been rated...
If I ever need an amputation operation, you have convinced me to get a perminent marker and indicate which body parts are off limits.
A lot of hospitals have developed protocols to do just that. There's some inconsistencies regarding whether you mark the one to cut or the one to save (many mark both), and what mark to use, but there is progress towards making a uniform system. So if you ever have such an op, expect in the pre-op to be treated like a whiteboard -- and complain if you aren't.
Or C) records (used ones are dirt cheap), legal bootlegs (Grateful Dead, many others), used CDs, and stuff people have made available for free. Not to mention emusic and allofmp3.com, or classical CDs, some of which are available fairly cheaply.
Huh? Most libertarians tend to Republicanism, although the Republicans have been moving away for libertarianism and the Democrats closer to it. (I'd say Clinton and Kerry are closer than Mondale and McGovern were, for example.) The libs will probably be outvoted again, however, by the Nader supporters, who would mostly vote Democrat if Nader were not there.
There does seem to be a recognition among those who would support Nader, however, that doing so just makes a second Bush term even more likely.
Some alcoholics die from their alcoholism, after a long downward spiral into depression and depravity. Nothing heroin, crack, etc. can do to a person is any worse. As bad? Sure. But not worse.
It really is that simple. We live with legal alcohol and the resulting alcoholics; we can live with other drugs being legal.
It is my opinion, that a civil union should only carry those benefits which make sense--such as healthcare, or possibly a tax break if only one member of the union works (and is therefore dependent on the other for their wellbeing)[1].
I'd say the key issue is the legal recognition of the partner as one's next-of-kin, with all that entails, including parental rights over offspring. That's not really a "benefit" the gov't is providing, since it doesn't cost others anything.
Also, the tax situation for married couples isn't necessarily a benefit. For example, for years I had a job with no retirement program, but I couldn't start an IRA because my wife had a retirement program.
Works on the national level too, ie, I'm not voting for Kerry b/c I don't see him reducing the welfare state
As opposed to Bush and the Republican-dominated congress, which passed Medicare prescription drug coverage to the tune of an estimated $534 billion?
The medical savings accounts strike me as yet another overly complicated government scheme. We need simpler rules, not more complicated ones, but Bush et al have cut taxes without regards to simplifying the rules, and realistically that's the only time you can simplify.
Oh, and cutting taxes without cutting spending is just borrowing money in everyone's name and doling it out in unequal amounts. Cutting *spending* is the real need; do that and cutting taxes will follow.
A fellow grad student of mine was from Germany. He said that when he first saw a shirt saying "UNC sucks, but Duke swallows", that it was meant as a compliment...
I got 5 caesium atoms free from Ron Popeil when I ordered my Showtime Rotisserie!
It's not real caesium, though! It's qubic zirconium...
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The fundamental problem with biofuels is that they are simply too inefficient to produce. In the U.S., at least, our cars use much more energy than we do. So even accounting for the meat part of our diet, we probably would need to cultivate about as much or more land to grow plants for fuel as we already do for human food. That's an immense amount of extra farmland, especially considering that much of the most productive land is already taken, and the drain on our freshwater supplies from farming is quite high.
Really, you want something more efficient. One scheme that I think has a fair amount of potential is pluggable hybrids, with bigger batteries than current hybrids, so you could use mostly or purely electric power for short trips. The gas tank would remain available for longer journeys, so there isn't the limitation of pure electric cars.
Re-elect George W Bush... because nothing is more entertaining than an angry liberal.
Wouldn't that reason make more sense voting for Kerry? What with the House and Senate presumably remaining in Republican hands, he would be a frustrated president much of the time.
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i dont want the people passing me watching TV while they're driving.
The European system shuts off if the car is going more than 3 MPH. If you're getting passed by someone going 3 MPH, perhaps you should just pedal your Big Wheel a bit faster?
If you Read the article they say that if the engine does a castatrophic failure, the amount of nuclear material released is on the order of a few curries.
A few curries? What about vindaloos? Biryanis? Can we get some samosas and puris with that?
In most meaningful, sizeable programs, pointers aren't a significant chunk of memory usage. (And for small programs, it doesn't matter.) I would think most modern apps consume most of their memory storing images, which aren't affected by the 32->64 change.
Also, 64-bit pointers allow you to go from a max of 4GB of RAM to 16 billion GB, so the assumption is memory prices will keep dropping and you'll have much more than twice as much RAM on your 64-bit system anyway.
There are a lot of reasonable estimates that there are now more trees and forest in the United States than there were when the pilgrims set foot in Plymouth.
No, there aren't. There's an oft-repeated claim about more trees now in the U.S. than in 1900, which is a true lie in that heavily-forested Alaska was added the U.S. in that time.
Forest companies have the same short-term outlook as other U.S. companies, and the ones that don't get bought and looted by others seeking those short-term profits.
Why do you think they're so eager to chop down trees on public lands? If the timber companies were so responsible, they should have their own "fields" that they harvest.
All water is recycled anyway, whether that is by man or by nature.
Exactly. Take a drink. Do you realize you're drinking horse urine? Statistically speaking, some amount of the ~10^24 molecules you just drank (or would have, if you didn't just spew them) were at some point over the last five billion years a component of a little equine piss.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... people put WAY too much weight on the power of the presidency.
Bush has more power than most, simply because he has a Republican house and Senate as well. If the House and Senate were controlled by the Democrats, I'd be less worried about four more years of Bush, simply because he would have that tether. I'm hoping that one (but not both) of the houses of Congress changes over this election, just so the winner of the Presidency doesn't matter so much.
Fortunately, the Repubs don't have a super-majority, so the Dems still have some limiting influence.
The problem with too cold is cold hands; you can't type very well with gloves on. Some days I've used a heating pad just to keep my hands warm enough to type.
But when I've got 200+ CDs to rip, I'm going to go with something where everything works in one player: the rip, the album cover, the ID tags, and the playlists.
Does anything do lyrics? Seems weird you can get cover art but not lyrics. Irrelevant for an in-dash or portable player, of course, but not a PC-based one.
Methinks Slashdot should quietly cease giving moderator points to any moderator who marks a post (like the parent of this one) as overrated -- when it hasn't yet been rated...
If I ever need an amputation operation, you have convinced me to get a perminent marker and indicate which body parts are off limits.
A lot of hospitals have developed protocols to do just that. There's some inconsistencies regarding whether you mark the one to cut or the one to save (many mark both), and what mark to use, but there is progress towards making a uniform system. So if you ever have such an op, expect in the pre-op to be treated like a whiteboard -- and complain if you aren't.
Or C) records (used ones are dirt cheap), legal bootlegs (Grateful Dead, many others), used CDs, and stuff people have made available for free. Not to mention emusic and allofmp3.com, or classical CDs, some of which are available fairly cheaply.
There's a fine line between clever and stupid.
You see, what this does is give Apple and U2 an excuse to get a LOT of free press.
...such as, say, a /. story.
Huh? Most libertarians tend to Republicanism, although the Republicans have been moving away for libertarianism and the Democrats closer to it. (I'd say Clinton and Kerry are closer than Mondale and McGovern were, for example.) The libs will probably be outvoted again, however, by the Nader supporters, who would mostly vote Democrat if Nader were not there.
There does seem to be a recognition among those who would support Nader, however, that doing so just makes a second Bush term even more likely.
Let's make this quite simple and obvious.
Some alcoholics die from their alcoholism, after a long downward spiral into depression and depravity. Nothing heroin, crack, etc. can do to a person is any worse. As bad? Sure. But not worse.
It really is that simple. We live with legal alcohol and the resulting alcoholics; we can live with other drugs being legal.
It is my opinion, that a civil union should only carry those benefits which make sense--such as healthcare, or possibly a tax break if only one member of the union works (and is therefore dependent on the other for their wellbeing)[1].
I'd say the key issue is the legal recognition of the partner as one's next-of-kin, with all that entails, including parental rights over offspring. That's not really a "benefit" the gov't is providing, since it doesn't cost others anything.
Also, the tax situation for married couples isn't necessarily a benefit. For example, for years I had a job with no retirement program, but I couldn't start an IRA because my wife had a retirement program.
I thought it was supposed to be more like the High Seas... ya know with the pirates and all that!
It was, but we ran out of Dramamine, so things got kinda messy...
Works on the national level too, ie, I'm not voting for Kerry b/c I don't see him reducing the welfare state
As opposed to Bush and the Republican-dominated congress, which passed Medicare prescription drug coverage to the tune of an estimated $534 billion?
The medical savings accounts strike me as yet another overly complicated government scheme. We need simpler rules, not more complicated ones, but Bush et al have cut taxes without regards to simplifying the rules, and realistically that's the only time you can simplify.
Oh, and cutting taxes without cutting spending is just borrowing money in everyone's name and doling it out in unequal amounts. Cutting *spending* is the real need; do that and cutting taxes will follow.
(hasbrosucks.us is available, but I dunno...)
A fellow grad student of mine was from Germany. He said that when he first saw a shirt saying "UNC sucks, but Duke swallows", that it was meant as a compliment...
I got 5 caesium atoms free from Ron Popeil when I ordered my Showtime Rotisserie!
It's not real caesium, though! It's qubic zirconium...
The fundamental problem with biofuels is that they are simply too inefficient to produce. In the U.S., at least, our cars use much more energy than we do. So even accounting for the meat part of our diet, we probably would need to cultivate about as much or more land to grow plants for fuel as we already do for human food. That's an immense amount of extra farmland, especially considering that much of the most productive land is already taken, and the drain on our freshwater supplies from farming is quite high.
Really, you want something more efficient. One scheme that I think has a fair amount of potential is pluggable hybrids, with bigger batteries than current hybrids, so you could use mostly or purely electric power for short trips. The gas tank would remain available for longer journeys, so there isn't the limitation of pure electric cars.
right because no time in the history of the planet has one species moved from one area to another.
Pre-historically this would occur much slower, so native species would evolve to compete with the invaders.
the only good reason to have a list like this is if these are pests messing with the economy. otherwise who cares?
I care. I care because I battle those d---ed tiger mosquitos regularly. Also, if you look at the list, many of them are economically harmful.
If you strip the digital information out you'll be left with a blank screen. ;)
For most shows, that would be an improvement...
Re-elect George W Bush... because nothing is more entertaining than an angry liberal.
Wouldn't that reason make more sense voting for Kerry? What with the House and Senate presumably remaining in Republican hands, he would be a frustrated president much of the time.
Why does /. succumb to these blatant types of advertising.
'Cause none of us read the articles anyway...