The lily pad one didn't even take a second thought for me - it was the first answer to pop into my head. Bat and ball I had to think about a second (I knew immediately 10 cents was wrong, and quickly figured it out, but it was the first thing to pop into my head, so my brain did jump to the shortcut first). I would agree that if you have a feel for exponential growth you won't think the "24 day" answer though - I didn't even consider it - I just thought "it was half yesterday then, so 47."
I think you're missing the point - New Egg would want to refurbish the defective parts and resell the laptop at a discount and if the recovery partition isn't there, they wouldn't be able to sell it with the default OS. The other problem is most laptop vendors install via a site license of Windows that requires the laptop manufacturer to embed a code in BIOS, so if BIOS was replaced or modified with GRUB, they may not be able to restore it without sending it back to the manufacturer. I recall having a similar problem to this (trying to restore the OS and needing to send it back to the manufacturer, after BIOS got corrupted - I managed to fix it with BIOS I found online, but then Windows wouldn't boot). I need Windows for VPN, so I don't really have a choice about keeping it around or not.
heh - pico was always self explanatory and didn't really have anything to learn once you knew how to get to the menus. I used it a lot except for classes that forced me to use vi or emacs. At least learning vi had some use outside of vi (God how I love sed, and the search/replace syntax is basically the same). Emacs was awful on the machines I had to use - 2 minutes was a quick start for it in non-X mode, so I preferred vi. I liked XEmacs later on, but that took about 2 minutes to load on the hardware I had (I don't think any of the CPUs were even in the MHz range yet, so we're talking kHz - in fact, the first machine I had access to was a 6 1kHz processor 6502 that was often crashed with the while(1) fork(); command).
The Universe may not care, but Fox News will report that it is patently not true because scientists have not had long enough time to study the effects of climate and pollution, so any "facts" produced by liberal (they would call it that, not me - I find it ironic because of who's talking) media and scientists are wrong. Heck, knowing the religious conservatives I know (like, say my brother, a card carrying member of the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity fan clubs), they would say it can't be true because God wouldn't let it happen.
I just don't fully believe either side in most of these arguments because most have an agenda. I loved it when the crazies panicked when Fukishima had what is essentially a relatively minor leak - I mean, people, we were blowing up islands with fusion devices 50-60 years ago, and obviously we all died from the fallout from that (sorry, forgot my sarcasm tag again). That disaster was a tiny fraction of the radiation released from those devices. Some of these nut jobs don't even realize granite is radioactive or that they need to consume a radioactive alkali metal to survive (Potassium).
My internal network supports IPv6 (at least the machines routed through the switch, since the 4 ethernets in the router is 8 too few for my network), but I have to wait for CenturyLink to replace the old Qwest PPPoE infrastructure to support it on my web server outside the router. I'm not holding my breath. Yeah, I could switch providers, but I live in one of the unmotivated Comcast-CenturyLink areas that is formerly Qwest where lack of competition results in no motivation to upgrade services. This is common in nearly all Comcast-Qwest space - Seattle was even building a wifi network to work around it (note: it was shut down today for budgetary reasons) and several cities I live near also have built wifi networks to work around it, but I am not in one of these (about 2 miles outside one). I could get the recently offered WiMax from Clear, but their reputation is worse than Comcast. Comcast has built some increased network, but their surcharge for not bundling pay TV keeps me away (my personal belief is that bundling services all owned by the same company for a reduced price should be illegal).
you don't even need large scale networks - I need to remote desktop to VMs on a LabManager server - currently every single one of those is an IPv4 IP and I don't think we'll switch to IPv6 anytime soon, but I dread the day we do, since currently all I really need to do is remember the last number and have the first three memorized (the IPv6 auto generation by MAC address will likely make me have to memorize more or all of the IP). All of these are accessed by IP and all of these require hand editing files and injecting the IP into them (so they correctly serve client machines outside of the VM, and these have to be outside the VM because they need hardware graphics acceleration on the head).
By well written do you mean their spelling and punctuation are correct? Everything else seems sensationalistic. Lua is used in tools such as Wireshark and Snort as well - these are packet sniffer and counter-intrusion tools - do these tools have any ties to games? Not at all. Making the tie to gaming is like saying any written Visual Basic script is part of Microsoft Windows, even though the scripts have nothing to do with the operating system itself.
yeah - Comcast is OK if you get Cable and internet, and I can get 20/10 DOCIS as well but I had issues with their fees - for instance, if you just want internet they tack on a $10 fee, and I refuse to get their cable service ever again. I had a lot of issues with their network being oversaturated between about 3PM and 9PM at night and getting horrible ping and data rates, as well, but that was before they added a significant fiber upgrade to the area. When I switched they also wanted $10 more for basic TV HD channels as well, which I get for free from DISH. Oh, and everything their marketing says satellite can't do like remote access and on demand programming? I can do every one, so they lie in their advertising too, so I have no respect for them - they're money grubbing, dirty advertising company. I can't say if they've fixed their service reputation since rebranding as XFinity (my parents get it, and they seem happy with it). In contrast, DISH has been nothing but joy to work with for pay TV - can update programming online, got relatively free equipment for HD (had to pay for a $4 service for 6 months to get it installed free, so technically it was $24), - they even threw in a free year of Starz to celebrate their 30th birthday - the best I got from Comcast as a 10 year subscriber was a few free HBO weekends and frequent price hikes as they absorbed more and more cable providers (actually, I went through 3 in the first year I subscribed to cable, with the third being Comcast, and yes it came with a price hike both times).
Incidentally, I would have stuck with Comcast internet because my DSL options were terrible - Qwest literally had no lines in the area so I went with a Rhapsody network provider despite knowing Rhapsody was a sinking ship (I got burned on Northpoint and it was obvious at that point Rhapsody was doomed as well, so I went with a provider that gave a free modem with 2 year subscription). Rhapsody lasted 8 months and the company ditched my contract since the alternate provider they moved to didn't have service in my area, which also happened to be enough time for Qwest to address their saturation problem, so I went with their service next. Qwest was purchased by Century Link, a company with a mediocre reputation (62% favorable on Broadband Reports), but I think Qwest's was worse. I really hope they replace the infernal ActionTec modems because I would switch in a heartbeat if I could (the ActionTec PPPoE modem provides no local loopback, so I can't see any servers on my local network using my domain name or IP, but I can see them from machines outside my network - Qwest said that was intentional, and I told them that was an asinine decision that made no sense and probably made by a PHB). If Clear didn't have such a horrible reputation I may have tried WiMax, but they do, so I haven't.
Look at the bright side - the US FCC chief wants to charge users by usage with no throttling and no cap, so if, for instance, your kid downloads 100GB of data, you may be paying a variable rate of, say $1000. Making internet access into something like a 2 dollar a minute 1-900 number terrifies me more than bandwidth caps.
As I've seen in the school system, quotas can also be racist, giving preference to minorities and not on merit. At least I haven't seen that at my work - I think the smartest coworkers I work with are minorities (the top two IMO are an Ethiopian an Indian). A couple of the best QA people we have are white women that have no degrees (unless you were grandfathered in, you need a college degree to work where I do). I can definitely say I favor competence over sex or race, and the people I'm talking about are all competent, so I completely agree with you. I have other coworkers that I would not say are competent.
I can't speak for you, but I am. Thought all the sex deprived youngsters went to reddit. Incidentally, I can't name a single video game player with such a problem that is over 30, and I know many that, like me, grew up with video games (some even obsessively - in fact, the guy I warn girls not to sleep with but they do it anyway is probably the worst offender).
The older equipment such as the Dish HD 822 DVR I have already has a skip forward 30 seconds button (and a skip back 10 seconds button). Viewers like me already skip commercials this way, it just isn't as convenient as a button that just skips all of them. If Fox really thinks we're watching commercials and have been for years, they're delusional and need to take some anti-psychotics.
yeah, but funding was largely a sham. Dave is right that studio time and agents don't get paid a percentage of record sales, but there are numerous errors in that chart he shows as well as his rebuttal of it, and I can see where this bass player was coming from. Fees for agents, studio time, and expenses all come out of the musician's pocket, not the studio's pocket. The chart completely missed the 10-15% songwriter cut, which for my band was a slightly larger share than share the entire band got (admittedly it was a bad contract, but we couldn't afford lawyers), divvied between all of us, but we never saw a cent of it - all those earnings went to pay studio time (primarily). Our singer songwriter made money on the album, the rest of us didn't.
All in all it wasn't a failure, though - the band actually made a meager living on the road, and I made a decent living by also playing in both a variety band and as a cellist (solo and quartet) at weddings. In the early-to-mid 1990s both of these gigs paid MUCH better than my band, and both were organized by my variety band's business - I was more like an employee, not an owner, unlike with the band (technically I wasn't an owner, but we divvied the profits) - I'm sure the owner took a large %age, but still $2k-5k (I made 5k twice doing both cello solo and variety band) a gig was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, variety bands ceded to DJs in the mid-1990s and I went back to school and finished my degree so I didn't have to live by random and becoming much more sparse income anymore. The band had broken up by then anyway (mostly over the financial dispute with the record label, and then refusing to make another album without renegotiating our contract - if this sounds familiar, it is hardly rare - see the Stone Roses as an example, and they were much bigger than we were).
Interesting... probably also why, in the 1980s/early 1990s when tube amps started to make a resurgence because of their warm distortion, the only place you could still get vacuum tubes was a supplier in Russia. I remember this distinctly when I obtained three 1970s era vacuum tube amps in the late 1980s and had to order vacuum tube parts from a site in Russia while the cold war was still going on because there were no remaining vacuum tube manufacturers anywhere else in the world (that I could find at least - note this was pre-internet, so I spent a lot of time on the phone with electronic suppliers and paging through catalogs and even shopping surplus stores). Needless to say, commerce was not exactly easy and it took almost 6 months to get them, end-to-end time. We (as in my brother and I) had to modify a few things like the vacuum tube connectors to make it work (the size and connector was different from the originals), but we built our own connectors to replace the existing ones with electronics store parts and the 2 amps we managed to successfully recycle out of the three were awesome.
...or is it minute sort, as in tiny. Minute Maid or Minute Maid? Am I going mad, yes I've gone mad. The article is slashdotted already, and my mad mind will never know.
Sure blame socialists... I bet more corruption is due to lobbies and special interest groups that bribe politicians than any particular economic bend. We should ban economic gain from special interest groups and lobbies and forbid anything but individuals from backing candidates because businesses with special interests that often even go against their employees in the name of profit have too much weight. For instance, Dominoes traditionally has backed Republicans, but most of their workers are poorly paid and back Democrats based on their backing social programs (like health care for the poor). For the poor, socialism is salvation. For the rich, socialism is evil. Having been on both ends of that equation, I can sympathize with both.
Electoral colleges were put into the system by design, so that one part of the country that voted heavily couldn't offset another part of the country with low turnout. The number of voters is representative of the size of the state, so each state has a fair representation no matter what the turnout. In days of yore, an electoral college voter would sometimes vote against his or her candidate, but that is pretty much unheard of these days - in fact, many states have laws that require that the electoral college voter must vote for the popular candidate of their party. Because of this, electoral college members having to cast a vote is a bit silly these days - states should just get representative votes and not require a formal voter, and then people probably would be a lot less adverse to the system.
On the negative side. electoral colleges deter people from voting, especially in states where one side dominates such as Texas (Republican) or Hawaii (Democrat). In states like those, the people just concede to that party, whether they believe in it or not. Your vote really doesn't matter there. In states that are split, voter turnout is usually a lot better.
All of these traits were exhibited by Steve Jobs, and he made Apple one of the most productive companies in the world. Just because the guy's a dick doesn't mean he isn't right - IMO the nuclear industry is lax when it comes to safety and more concerned about their bottom line than their workers. It also stinks of a smear campaign, but I'd have to know more to know if it is - guy doesn't follow lock-step with what the nuclear industry wants, so the nuclear industry uses its leverage to get him ousted.
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LFTR is ignored because the nuclear lobby is entirely backed by owners of light water reactors. It would be stupid for them to back competing technology - heck, they used their leverage to get Jakczko ousted because he was pro safety and they were pro profit. One of the previous lobby groups (the current lobby is a amalgamation of several separate ones from the 1970s) also managed to get Nixon's ear to get Weinberg ousted from Oak Ridge in the 1970s when he wanted us to invest more in molten salt reactors in the name of safety (Weinberg invented the LWR and was running the MSRE or molten salt reactor experiment at the time). Once again, the almighty dollar trumps safety, because as BP proved with their oil well (not to mention numerous refinery issues before the disaster, like the Texas City one that killed 15 people), profits are much more valuable than safety.
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You seem to be referring to #1 here - 1) burning nuclear waste in an MSR - you still have lots of junk left over from the LWR, but at least you use the waste fuel, and LWRs are only.5% fuel efficient vs 99.5% for MSRs with on site fuel reprocessing. The same can be said for using LWR models that burn nuclear waste, such as the one Bill Gates proposed at TED a couple of years back, which I believe is being built in Russia. 2) burning new fuel, specifically thorium enriched to uranium in an MSR - this doesn't generate the long term wastes (as I recall, the worst decays in hundreds of years, no thousands), but does generate some shorter term waste with high signature. This actually is not necessarily bad - as I also recall there is no easy way to separate one of these elements from Uranium, making a high signature identifier that deters its use in nuclear weapons.
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I'm sure they have plenty of chaff to cull from the EDS merger. As a former worker for a *profitable* EDS group that was spun off, they were in what I call the Control Data spiral before being snapped up by HP. The CD spiral is when you sell off all of your profitable divisions to keep your stock from going junk, which in turn dooms your company. Anyway, I have nothing but ill to say about EDS, so I probably shouldn't say anything. Motherfuckers.
The study was 400,000 people - that is a pretty massive sample size, and covers any amount of coffee and even decaf coffee, which contains very little caffeine. My family follows this exactly - if I use my grandparents as an example, my dad's side drank no coffee and both died of natural causes at 83 and 87. My mom's side both drank coffee (grandma decaf) and died at 94 (complications from a broken hip) and 95 (natural causes). Both of my grandpas were farmers, and had relatively sedentary housewife wives, and my grandpa on my mom's side farmed a 4x larger farm. My oldest aunt on my dad's side (since dad was a whoops when grandma thought she was in menopause - my aunt already had kids by the time my dad was born) drinks coffee and is 94.
You mean a lower chance of dying before someone that does not drink coffee; you still have 100% chance of dying until immortality drugs are created, but even then you may still die in a traffic accident or from my brother-in-law's farts, which I'm fairly certain is the most toxic gas on the planet.
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Doubtful - it appears a chunk of the content is stored on the server, like characters, armor, weapons, etc. My guess is all about the auction house and generating revenue, so it is not in Blizzard's best interest to patch it. Blizzard has said that Battle.Net has always been profitable, presumably through advertising (to be honest, I haven't checked in the years just before WoW was rolled in, but that was always the case in the Diablo 2 days).
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The lily pad one didn't even take a second thought for me - it was the first answer to pop into my head. Bat and ball I had to think about a second (I knew immediately 10 cents was wrong, and quickly figured it out, but it was the first thing to pop into my head, so my brain did jump to the shortcut first). I would agree that if you have a feel for exponential growth you won't think the "24 day" answer though - I didn't even consider it - I just thought "it was half yesterday then, so 47."
I think you're missing the point - New Egg would want to refurbish the defective parts and resell the laptop at a discount and if the recovery partition isn't there, they wouldn't be able to sell it with the default OS. The other problem is most laptop vendors install via a site license of Windows that requires the laptop manufacturer to embed a code in BIOS, so if BIOS was replaced or modified with GRUB, they may not be able to restore it without sending it back to the manufacturer. I recall having a similar problem to this (trying to restore the OS and needing to send it back to the manufacturer, after BIOS got corrupted - I managed to fix it with BIOS I found online, but then Windows wouldn't boot). I need Windows for VPN, so I don't really have a choice about keeping it around or not.
heh - pico was always self explanatory and didn't really have anything to learn once you knew how to get to the menus. I used it a lot except for classes that forced me to use vi or emacs. At least learning vi had some use outside of vi (God how I love sed, and the search/replace syntax is basically the same). Emacs was awful on the machines I had to use - 2 minutes was a quick start for it in non-X mode, so I preferred vi. I liked XEmacs later on, but that took about 2 minutes to load on the hardware I had (I don't think any of the CPUs were even in the MHz range yet, so we're talking kHz - in fact, the first machine I had access to was a 6 1kHz processor 6502 that was often crashed with the while(1) fork(); command).
The Universe may not care, but Fox News will report that it is patently not true because scientists have not had long enough time to study the effects of climate and pollution, so any "facts" produced by liberal (they would call it that, not me - I find it ironic because of who's talking) media and scientists are wrong. Heck, knowing the religious conservatives I know (like, say my brother, a card carrying member of the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity fan clubs), they would say it can't be true because God wouldn't let it happen.
I just don't fully believe either side in most of these arguments because most have an agenda. I loved it when the crazies panicked when Fukishima had what is essentially a relatively minor leak - I mean, people, we were blowing up islands with fusion devices 50-60 years ago, and obviously we all died from the fallout from that (sorry, forgot my sarcasm tag again). That disaster was a tiny fraction of the radiation released from those devices. Some of these nut jobs don't even realize granite is radioactive or that they need to consume a radioactive alkali metal to survive (Potassium).
My internal network supports IPv6 (at least the machines routed through the switch, since the 4 ethernets in the router is 8 too few for my network), but I have to wait for CenturyLink to replace the old Qwest PPPoE infrastructure to support it on my web server outside the router. I'm not holding my breath. Yeah, I could switch providers, but I live in one of the unmotivated Comcast-CenturyLink areas that is formerly Qwest where lack of competition results in no motivation to upgrade services. This is common in nearly all Comcast-Qwest space - Seattle was even building a wifi network to work around it (note: it was shut down today for budgetary reasons) and several cities I live near also have built wifi networks to work around it, but I am not in one of these (about 2 miles outside one). I could get the recently offered WiMax from Clear, but their reputation is worse than Comcast. Comcast has built some increased network, but their surcharge for not bundling pay TV keeps me away (my personal belief is that bundling services all owned by the same company for a reduced price should be illegal).
you don't even need large scale networks - I need to remote desktop to VMs on a LabManager server - currently every single one of those is an IPv4 IP and I don't think we'll switch to IPv6 anytime soon, but I dread the day we do, since currently all I really need to do is remember the last number and have the first three memorized (the IPv6 auto generation by MAC address will likely make me have to memorize more or all of the IP). All of these are accessed by IP and all of these require hand editing files and injecting the IP into them (so they correctly serve client machines outside of the VM, and these have to be outside the VM because they need hardware graphics acceleration on the head).
By well written do you mean their spelling and punctuation are correct? Everything else seems sensationalistic. Lua is used in tools such as Wireshark and Snort as well - these are packet sniffer and counter-intrusion tools - do these tools have any ties to games? Not at all. Making the tie to gaming is like saying any written Visual Basic script is part of Microsoft Windows, even though the scripts have nothing to do with the operating system itself.
yeah - Comcast is OK if you get Cable and internet, and I can get 20/10 DOCIS as well but I had issues with their fees - for instance, if you just want internet they tack on a $10 fee, and I refuse to get their cable service ever again. I had a lot of issues with their network being oversaturated between about 3PM and 9PM at night and getting horrible ping and data rates, as well, but that was before they added a significant fiber upgrade to the area. When I switched they also wanted $10 more for basic TV HD channels as well, which I get for free from DISH. Oh, and everything their marketing says satellite can't do like remote access and on demand programming? I can do every one, so they lie in their advertising too, so I have no respect for them - they're money grubbing, dirty advertising company. I can't say if they've fixed their service reputation since rebranding as XFinity (my parents get it, and they seem happy with it). In contrast, DISH has been nothing but joy to work with for pay TV - can update programming online, got relatively free equipment for HD (had to pay for a $4 service for 6 months to get it installed free, so technically it was $24), - they even threw in a free year of Starz to celebrate their 30th birthday - the best I got from Comcast as a 10 year subscriber was a few free HBO weekends and frequent price hikes as they absorbed more and more cable providers (actually, I went through 3 in the first year I subscribed to cable, with the third being Comcast, and yes it came with a price hike both times).
Incidentally, I would have stuck with Comcast internet because my DSL options were terrible - Qwest literally had no lines in the area so I went with a Rhapsody network provider despite knowing Rhapsody was a sinking ship (I got burned on Northpoint and it was obvious at that point Rhapsody was doomed as well, so I went with a provider that gave a free modem with 2 year subscription). Rhapsody lasted 8 months and the company ditched my contract since the alternate provider they moved to didn't have service in my area, which also happened to be enough time for Qwest to address their saturation problem, so I went with their service next. Qwest was purchased by Century Link, a company with a mediocre reputation (62% favorable on Broadband Reports), but I think Qwest's was worse. I really hope they replace the infernal ActionTec modems because I would switch in a heartbeat if I could (the ActionTec PPPoE modem provides no local loopback, so I can't see any servers on my local network using my domain name or IP, but I can see them from machines outside my network - Qwest said that was intentional, and I told them that was an asinine decision that made no sense and probably made by a PHB). If Clear didn't have such a horrible reputation I may have tried WiMax, but they do, so I haven't.
Look at the bright side - the US FCC chief wants to charge users by usage with no throttling and no cap, so if, for instance, your kid downloads 100GB of data, you may be paying a variable rate of, say $1000. Making internet access into something like a 2 dollar a minute 1-900 number terrifies me more than bandwidth caps.
As I've seen in the school system, quotas can also be racist, giving preference to minorities and not on merit. At least I haven't seen that at my work - I think the smartest coworkers I work with are minorities (the top two IMO are an Ethiopian an Indian). A couple of the best QA people we have are white women that have no degrees (unless you were grandfathered in, you need a college degree to work where I do). I can definitely say I favor competence over sex or race, and the people I'm talking about are all competent, so I completely agree with you. I have other coworkers that I would not say are competent.
yeah - when they said "enjoys some capabilities which make it preferable to Apache Choppers" I imagined a * after it...
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I can't speak for you, but I am. Thought all the sex deprived youngsters went to reddit. Incidentally, I can't name a single video game player with such a problem that is over 30, and I know many that, like me, grew up with video games (some even obsessively - in fact, the guy I warn girls not to sleep with but they do it anyway is probably the worst offender).
The older equipment such as the Dish HD 822 DVR I have already has a skip forward 30 seconds button (and a skip back 10 seconds button). Viewers like me already skip commercials this way, it just isn't as convenient as a button that just skips all of them. If Fox really thinks we're watching commercials and have been for years, they're delusional and need to take some anti-psychotics.
yeah, but funding was largely a sham. Dave is right that studio time and agents don't get paid a percentage of record sales, but there are numerous errors in that chart he shows as well as his rebuttal of it, and I can see where this bass player was coming from. Fees for agents, studio time, and expenses all come out of the musician's pocket, not the studio's pocket. The chart completely missed the 10-15% songwriter cut, which for my band was a slightly larger share than share the entire band got (admittedly it was a bad contract, but we couldn't afford lawyers), divvied between all of us, but we never saw a cent of it - all those earnings went to pay studio time (primarily). Our singer songwriter made money on the album, the rest of us didn't.
All in all it wasn't a failure, though - the band actually made a meager living on the road, and I made a decent living by also playing in both a variety band and as a cellist (solo and quartet) at weddings. In the early-to-mid 1990s both of these gigs paid MUCH better than my band, and both were organized by my variety band's business - I was more like an employee, not an owner, unlike with the band (technically I wasn't an owner, but we divvied the profits) - I'm sure the owner took a large %age, but still $2k-5k (I made 5k twice doing both cello solo and variety band) a gig was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, variety bands ceded to DJs in the mid-1990s and I went back to school and finished my degree so I didn't have to live by random and becoming much more sparse income anymore. The band had broken up by then anyway (mostly over the financial dispute with the record label, and then refusing to make another album without renegotiating our contract - if this sounds familiar, it is hardly rare - see the Stone Roses as an example, and they were much bigger than we were).
Interesting... probably also why, in the 1980s/early 1990s when tube amps started to make a resurgence because of their warm distortion, the only place you could still get vacuum tubes was a supplier in Russia. I remember this distinctly when I obtained three 1970s era vacuum tube amps in the late 1980s and had to order vacuum tube parts from a site in Russia while the cold war was still going on because there were no remaining vacuum tube manufacturers anywhere else in the world (that I could find at least - note this was pre-internet, so I spent a lot of time on the phone with electronic suppliers and paging through catalogs and even shopping surplus stores). Needless to say, commerce was not exactly easy and it took almost 6 months to get them, end-to-end time. We (as in my brother and I) had to modify a few things like the vacuum tube connectors to make it work (the size and connector was different from the originals), but we built our own connectors to replace the existing ones with electronics store parts and the 2 amps we managed to successfully recycle out of the three were awesome.
...or is it minute sort, as in tiny. Minute Maid or Minute Maid? Am I going mad, yes I've gone mad. The article is slashdotted already, and my mad mind will never know.
Sure blame socialists... I bet more corruption is due to lobbies and special interest groups that bribe politicians than any particular economic bend. We should ban economic gain from special interest groups and lobbies and forbid anything but individuals from backing candidates because businesses with special interests that often even go against their employees in the name of profit have too much weight. For instance, Dominoes traditionally has backed Republicans, but most of their workers are poorly paid and back Democrats based on their backing social programs (like health care for the poor). For the poor, socialism is salvation. For the rich, socialism is evil. Having been on both ends of that equation, I can sympathize with both.
Electoral colleges were put into the system by design, so that one part of the country that voted heavily couldn't offset another part of the country with low turnout. The number of voters is representative of the size of the state, so each state has a fair representation no matter what the turnout. In days of yore, an electoral college voter would sometimes vote against his or her candidate, but that is pretty much unheard of these days - in fact, many states have laws that require that the electoral college voter must vote for the popular candidate of their party. Because of this, electoral college members having to cast a vote is a bit silly these days - states should just get representative votes and not require a formal voter, and then people probably would be a lot less adverse to the system.
On the negative side. electoral colleges deter people from voting, especially in states where one side dominates such as Texas (Republican) or Hawaii (Democrat). In states like those, the people just concede to that party, whether they believe in it or not. Your vote really doesn't matter there. In states that are split, voter turnout is usually a lot better.
All of these traits were exhibited by Steve Jobs, and he made Apple one of the most productive companies in the world. Just because the guy's a dick doesn't mean he isn't right - IMO the nuclear industry is lax when it comes to safety and more concerned about their bottom line than their workers. It also stinks of a smear campaign, but I'd have to know more to know if it is - guy doesn't follow lock-step with what the nuclear industry wants, so the nuclear industry uses its leverage to get him ousted.
LFTR is ignored because the nuclear lobby is entirely backed by owners of light water reactors. It would be stupid for them to back competing technology - heck, they used their leverage to get Jakczko ousted because he was pro safety and they were pro profit. One of the previous lobby groups (the current lobby is a amalgamation of several separate ones from the 1970s) also managed to get Nixon's ear to get Weinberg ousted from Oak Ridge in the 1970s when he wanted us to invest more in molten salt reactors in the name of safety (Weinberg invented the LWR and was running the MSRE or molten salt reactor experiment at the time). Once again, the almighty dollar trumps safety, because as BP proved with their oil well (not to mention numerous refinery issues before the disaster, like the Texas City one that killed 15 people), profits are much more valuable than safety.
You seem to be referring to #1 here - .5% fuel efficient vs 99.5% for MSRs with on site fuel reprocessing. The same can be said for using LWR models that burn nuclear waste, such as the one Bill Gates proposed at TED a couple of years back, which I believe is being built in Russia.
1) burning nuclear waste in an MSR - you still have lots of junk left over from the LWR, but at least you use the waste fuel, and LWRs are only
2) burning new fuel, specifically thorium enriched to uranium in an MSR - this doesn't generate the long term wastes (as I recall, the worst decays in hundreds of years, no thousands), but does generate some shorter term waste with high signature. This actually is not necessarily bad - as I also recall there is no easy way to separate one of these elements from Uranium, making a high signature identifier that deters its use in nuclear weapons.
I'm sure they have plenty of chaff to cull from the EDS merger. As a former worker for a *profitable* EDS group that was spun off, they were in what I call the Control Data spiral before being snapped up by HP. The CD spiral is when you sell off all of your profitable divisions to keep your stock from going junk, which in turn dooms your company. Anyway, I have nothing but ill to say about EDS, so I probably shouldn't say anything. Motherfuckers.
The study was 400,000 people - that is a pretty massive sample size, and covers any amount of coffee and even decaf coffee, which contains very little caffeine. My family follows this exactly - if I use my grandparents as an example, my dad's side drank no coffee and both died of natural causes at 83 and 87. My mom's side both drank coffee (grandma decaf) and died at 94 (complications from a broken hip) and 95 (natural causes). Both of my grandpas were farmers, and had relatively sedentary housewife wives, and my grandpa on my mom's side farmed a 4x larger farm. My oldest aunt on my dad's side (since dad was a whoops when grandma thought she was in menopause - my aunt already had kids by the time my dad was born) drinks coffee and is 94.
You mean a lower chance of dying before someone that does not drink coffee; you still have 100% chance of dying until immortality drugs are created, but even then you may still die in a traffic accident or from my brother-in-law's farts, which I'm fairly certain is the most toxic gas on the planet.
Doubtful - it appears a chunk of the content is stored on the server, like characters, armor, weapons, etc. My guess is all about the auction house and generating revenue, so it is not in Blizzard's best interest to patch it. Blizzard has said that Battle.Net has always been profitable, presumably through advertising (to be honest, I haven't checked in the years just before WoW was rolled in, but that was always the case in the Diablo 2 days).