We have at least SOME protection against monopolies of this kind. Either that or the US will just die while cheering freee market!!!!! As the rest of the world splits the companies.
But yeah, Using thorium and uranium as fuels in breeder reactors nuclear will likely remain the cheapest clean form of widely available energy until we have fusion. It is possible solar could overtake in some areas simply because it is a fast moving tech.
The problem is that the US refuses to build breeder reactors. Much of the world will have no problems at all. The US is simply throwing out a good 80% of the fuel (at incredible costs btw). This is completely a political issue not a technical one.
Also, we sure as fuck won't run out anytime soon. As shown by the pretty graph. Right now uranium is incredifucking cheap. If we raise what we are willing to pay even a tiny tiny bit we will have much more fuel than we know what to do with. Also it will still be much cheaper than any other flexible mass power plant. I'd be comfortable betting a million dollars that we won't run out by 2013 lol.
This is pure FUD.
Btw peak anything is real... buut we'll have figured out fusion loooong before we run out of uranium and other radioactive crap so it doesn't matter.
DaftPunk is entirely samples of music from the 80s but it seems pretty damn popular... Hell people sample daftpunk. Remashing and remixing can be a totally viable form of expression.
Think of it this way, no matter what you do you'll be rubbing up against someone else's work even if you don't sample them. There are only so many musically pleasing chords and tunes. Repeating them is incredibly common. And that doesn't seem to bug anyone.
fine... but w/e you did back in ms dos likely isn't a fraction as complex. And with it being done on another's servers there is no need to hold back on complexity... I'm thinking rendering a birds eye shot in LOTR would have taken a damn long time on a phone...
BTW it took weta 4hrs per frame to render... likely not on a cellphone.
"Not rocking the boat would likely involve not making a scene such as this. In fact, the net effect is that more attention was drawn to the Great Firewall."
That doesn't say much though./. has thousands of Streisand effect stories. But that doesn't mean people are informed of it, in fact the opposite is true. Even really educated people screw it up.
"the big ass Jesus poster would probably be left alone at an event like that."
I don't know... If the topic were the right and wrong of abortions and other groups had posters then that would be fine. I think the interesting thing is that it looked to be more of a meeting with refreshments and conversation afterward. Much like a play or concert. If someone showed up to the refreshment area with a poster I imagine they'd be asked to leave...
"He was UN security that was called in after a request to remove the poster. There was someone who thought it was a bad idea to criticize the Great Firewall."
Again this lines up with the not wanting to cause any problems at the event theory. At international events the kinds the UN hosts they need to be very politically correct. Certainly allow the debate to be lively within said bounds. I can imagine one side showing up with banners and shit to a debate would be frowned upon. And UN events with many countries need to be even more careful. This isn't an unreasonable goal. And it is not siding with the Chinese, it just keeping the event moving.
Anyways we didn't even get to hear the spat between the guard and the poster guy. We know little about the event. We didn't not listen to the other side. No matter what the case we cannot pass judgment with so little to go on.
Also I'm a/. nerd too... I hate the GFoC as much as anyone else. I'm just saying keep it in check and approach this thing logically guys.
"Funds for the project have been cut back..."
FOSS should seriously be cheaper to roll out than XP. Windows would have to reduce the price to near nothing... Does this say something sad about the usability of FOSS?
- You don't know what this has to do with UN policy, it could be a cautious guard that doesn't want anyone rocking the boat during the group. Seems decently reasonable.
- I saw no other posters at the convention. The poster could have been wildly inappropriate. If I went to a dinner about abortion methods for doctors where the topic was to discuss efficient safe methods. And I brought a big ass jesus loves your baby poster to the event it sure as hell would get taken down.
- Maybe the guard was an idiot... Who knocks a poster onto the floor? Taking it away makes sense, so fine do that. But the fact that the guy knocked it onto the floor hints that he was a bit of a nutter. Which would point to him not being the absolute representative of the UN.
- Do try to apply occam's razor.
Anyone else want to play devils advocate with me. The raw emotional responses on/. are a bit worrisome. Lets not all jump to conclusions out of how bad this COULD be.
Err... so we agree mostly then?...Current day role models of manliness aren't very good. BTW nothing based on a comic book is manly... Maybe batman and superman, ironman and spiderman? no.
I've got a question then. Do you think feminine qualities are also good? Or desirable. If so, why wouldn't ALL people strive for these qualities. I think because of the gender divide stereotypical manliness is completely opposed to feminine.
Women are empathic, caring, clean, eloquent, artistic, creative, reserved. When you look at these traits they are good things that any reasonable person should strive for. In our society however these good traits are frowned upon for men to have. In fact I believe that most manly figures will have the opposite qualities. This should be something to be lauded at all.
In fact if a girl were bragging about how I like flowers, I'm compassionate and sensitive, good at cleaning.... I could see myself flipping into denial. Maybe I'll talk about blowing something up. This cultural fear is artificial and pretty illogical don't you agree?
From there it should be easy to see that being manly isn't something to aspire too, merely being a good person is.
Also I do think men and women are better suited to different things. I don't think it is true to the degree TV makes it out to be. That said I also think that it is severely over played. From an evolutionary POV children are meant to be raised by tribes not mothers. And the number of things we do each day that have NOTHING to do with life 30k yrs ago are astounding. I argue that the male-female split is minor compared to the foraging-programmer split.
"hunter-gather societies only worked ~20 hours a week"
Citation? Seriously, my understanding of technological advancement was this: People had to expend all their efforts and time working together to survive. This allowed for say 1/50 to not work on survival and instead on likely religion. Eventually with developments and agriculture this number could increase. Perhaps work animals freed up a person, plough another, irrigation 2 more. These freed people were able to do things like think and experiment leading to further scientific advancements. Following the trend today we only have like 1/1000 people being farmers.
This theory is mostly trashed if they only worked 20hrs a week. Unless hunter gathers were inherently lazy. That too would have its own interesting implications.
And? metal constitutes a pretty big chunk of the dangerous things to get hit by. And all of the things we are royally fucked by if we get hit by. It doesn't need to be complete to help. I imagine sticking a giant magnet in cringley's ship would cost near nothing.
This may not work but it isn't snake oil. I mean snake oil salesmen sell something that doesn't work from the get go. They sell a lie. Its not like all the physicists will be like huzzah, enjoy your free energy if it doesn't work. I mean that doesn't even make sense. They'll go "Fuck, it doesn't work, sorry". Totally different.
Wouldn't something like a big ass electromagnet be useful? I mean, compared to a net... or something along the lines of giant flashlight (to push crap into earth)
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We have at least SOME protection against monopolies of this kind. Either that or the US will just die while cheering freee market!!!!! As the rest of the world splits the companies.
Wind is worthless from a cost pov anyways...
But yeah, Using thorium and uranium as fuels in breeder reactors nuclear will likely remain the cheapest clean form of widely available energy until we have fusion. It is possible solar could overtake in some areas simply because it is a fast moving tech.
Both? Anyways if thorium is plentiful... this story is FUD...
http://pic.srv104.wapedia.mobi/thumb/cee614565/en/max/1440/900/Relative_abundance_of_elements.png?format=jpg,png,gif
Uranium is almost as common as tin and lead...
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The problem is that the US refuses to build breeder reactors. Much of the world will have no problems at all. The US is simply throwing out a good 80% of the fuel (at incredible costs btw). This is completely a political issue not a technical one.
Also, we sure as fuck won't run out anytime soon. As shown by the pretty graph. Right now uranium is incredifucking cheap. If we raise what we are willing to pay even a tiny tiny bit we will have much more fuel than we know what to do with. Also it will still be much cheaper than any other flexible mass power plant. I'd be comfortable betting a million dollars that we won't run out by 2013 lol.
This is pure FUD.
Btw peak anything is real... buut we'll have figured out fusion loooong before we run out of uranium and other radioactive crap so it doesn't matter.
Have google.com have a giant ass banner on why mavs suck...
I meant a poster in general would have been inappropriate. I didn't think the poster itself had goatse on it or w/e
DaftPunk is entirely samples of music from the 80s but it seems pretty damn popular... Hell people sample daftpunk. Remashing and remixing can be a totally viable form of expression.
Think of it this way, no matter what you do you'll be rubbing up against someone else's work even if you don't sample them. There are only so many musically pleasing chords and tunes. Repeating them is incredibly common. And that doesn't seem to bug anyone.
offloading rendering work is clearly not a new idea. Dunno why it is making news.
NO market for super realistic graphics on a phone? (Mind you I do think computers will use this 1million times more...)
fine... but w/e you did back in ms dos likely isn't a fraction as complex. And with it being done on another's servers there is no need to hold back on complexity... I'm thinking rendering a birds eye shot in LOTR would have taken a damn long time on a phone...
BTW it took weta 4hrs per frame to render... likely not on a cellphone.
Seconds to minutes over gsm. The time to raytrace an image on your cellphone... several months... Pretty big difference.
Agreed. My point was that the roll out costs in FOSS should be similar unless we are deficient somewhere. Working on that would be a good thing.
BTW, whoever modded me troll. It was a question, Sorry for wanting to improve FOSS, way to take criticism jackass.
"Not rocking the boat would likely involve not making a scene such as this. In fact, the net effect is that more attention was drawn to the Great Firewall." /. has thousands of Streisand effect stories. But that doesn't mean people are informed of it, in fact the opposite is true. Even really educated people screw it up.
/. nerd too... I hate the GFoC as much as anyone else. I'm just saying keep it in check and approach this thing logically guys.
That doesn't say much though.
"the big ass Jesus poster would probably be left alone at an event like that."
I don't know... If the topic were the right and wrong of abortions and other groups had posters then that would be fine. I think the interesting thing is that it looked to be more of a meeting with refreshments and conversation afterward. Much like a play or concert. If someone showed up to the refreshment area with a poster I imagine they'd be asked to leave...
"He was UN security that was called in after a request to remove the poster. There was someone who thought it was a bad idea to criticize the Great Firewall."
Again this lines up with the not wanting to cause any problems at the event theory. At international events the kinds the UN hosts they need to be very politically correct. Certainly allow the debate to be lively within said bounds. I can imagine one side showing up with banners and shit to a debate would be frowned upon. And UN events with many countries need to be even more careful. This isn't an unreasonable goal. And it is not siding with the Chinese, it just keeping the event moving.
Anyways we didn't even get to hear the spat between the guard and the poster guy. We know little about the event. We didn't not listen to the other side. No matter what the case we cannot pass judgment with so little to go on.
Also I'm a
"Funds for the project have been cut back..."
FOSS should seriously be cheaper to roll out than XP. Windows would have to reduce the price to near nothing... Does this say something sad about the usability of FOSS?
Devil's Advocate here:
/. are a bit worrisome. Lets not all jump to conclusions out of how bad this COULD be.
- You don't know what this has to do with UN policy, it could be a cautious guard that doesn't want anyone rocking the boat during the group. Seems decently reasonable.
- I saw no other posters at the convention. The poster could have been wildly inappropriate. If I went to a dinner about abortion methods for doctors where the topic was to discuss efficient safe methods. And I brought a big ass jesus loves your baby poster to the event it sure as hell would get taken down.
- Maybe the guard was an idiot... Who knocks a poster onto the floor? Taking it away makes sense, so fine do that. But the fact that the guy knocked it onto the floor hints that he was a bit of a nutter. Which would point to him not being the absolute representative of the UN.
- Do try to apply occam's razor.
Anyone else want to play devils advocate with me. The raw emotional responses on
? The video on youtube didn't work for you. Or are you saying that video could have been faked since it was digital...
Err... so we agree mostly then? ...Current day role models of manliness aren't very good. BTW nothing based on a comic book is manly... Maybe batman and superman, ironman and spiderman? no.
I've got a question then. Do you think feminine qualities are also good? Or desirable. If so, why wouldn't ALL people strive for these qualities. I think because of the gender divide stereotypical manliness is completely opposed to feminine.
Women are empathic, caring, clean, eloquent, artistic, creative, reserved. When you look at these traits they are good things that any reasonable person should strive for. In our society however these good traits are frowned upon for men to have. In fact I believe that most manly figures will have the opposite qualities. This should be something to be lauded at all.
In fact if a girl were bragging about how I like flowers, I'm compassionate and sensitive, good at cleaning.... I could see myself flipping into denial. Maybe I'll talk about blowing something up. This cultural fear is artificial and pretty illogical don't you agree?
From there it should be easy to see that being manly isn't something to aspire too, merely being a good person is.
Competition != aggression... for the most part.
Also I do think men and women are better suited to different things. I don't think it is true to the degree TV makes it out to be. That said I also think that it is severely over played. From an evolutionary POV children are meant to be raised by tribes not mothers. And the number of things we do each day that have NOTHING to do with life 30k yrs ago are astounding. I argue that the male-female split is minor compared to the foraging-programmer split.
"hunter-gather societies only worked ~20 hours a week"
Citation? Seriously, my understanding of technological advancement was this: People had to expend all their efforts and time working together to survive. This allowed for say 1/50 to not work on survival and instead on likely religion. Eventually with developments and agriculture this number could increase. Perhaps work animals freed up a person, plough another, irrigation 2 more. These freed people were able to do things like think and experiment leading to further scientific advancements. Following the trend today we only have like 1/1000 people being farmers.
This theory is mostly trashed if they only worked 20hrs a week. Unless hunter gathers were inherently lazy. That too would have its own interesting implications.
And? metal constitutes a pretty big chunk of the dangerous things to get hit by. And all of the things we are royally fucked by if we get hit by. It doesn't need to be complete to help. I imagine sticking a giant magnet in cringley's ship would cost near nothing.
It could use laser light!
This may not work but it isn't snake oil. I mean snake oil salesmen sell something that doesn't work from the get go. They sell a lie. Its not like all the physicists will be like huzzah, enjoy your free energy if it doesn't work. I mean that doesn't even make sense. They'll go "Fuck, it doesn't work, sorry". Totally different.
Wouldn't something like a big ass electromagnet be useful? I mean, compared to a net... or something along the lines of giant flashlight (to push crap into earth)
Hey! Amoeba can have up to 700billion base pairs in their genetic code while humans only have 3billion. How dare you insinuate they are simple.
But yeah I was being a bit emotionally charged, my bad.
Less men are bothering being manly since they know Chuck Norris will always be there to take their women anyways.