NZ? NZ...? Hmmm... I think the city of Houston, TX has more people than the entire "country" of NZ. And cycling is not something you see a lot of other than on bike paths. I enjoy riding my bicycle for recreation and exercise, but I won't wear a helmet. Why should I? I have runners pass by me going much faster.
If a motorcyclist isn't required to wear a helmet, why should a cyclist?
Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation.
From the article. They are guessing based on a known configuration how long it would take.
I agree with this. I would go a step further and add in musicians and actors who think they know economics or politics. Shut and and entertain me you useless little monkeys.:-)
If any of you have ever been to a CiscoLive Networkers conference, you would say it is pretty mundane... Until you get to the BlueCat booth. This year (2009 in San Francisco) they had a blonde in a shiny silver VERY TIGHT body suit, with no underwear. How do I know she had no underwear? Well.. um.. diligent observation... I must say I was shocked! Shocked so much I went back daily to see if they were still perpetrating this outrage!!
(Really - this girl was hot!)
County governments regulate things like alcohol and sex toys. Here in Harris County (Houston), I can buy alcohol 6.5 days a week, and sex toys any time the adult store is open. I don't mean novelty items. I saw things in there that made me shudder (butt-cones, fist-shaped dildos, etc), and this was a "classy" adult store.
I grew up in a dry county, and every time the proposal to lift the alcohol ban comes up there - it is voted down. Seems like the government is actually listening to the people - not telling them what to do.
And as far as buying a car, from what I understand, the one-day weekend serves 2 purposes. One is to allow the consumer time to look at cars without being harassed by over-zealous car salesmen. And second, it allows car-salesmen to have at least one day off per week. Most car places are open at least 12 hours a day. Are you sure you can't buy your dream car sometime in that 72 (12 hours x 6 days) hours per week?
Thanks for such an insightful comment on the situation of our state government. You are quite correct in you assessment. Texans want to be left alone, and not be harassed by our local, state or even national government. I'm not sure why you think that Texas being an independent country for a while is unfortunate. Other states were independent countries before joining the US.(Hawaii, Vermont, and maybe California)
We certainly believe in the independence and accountability of the individual. As an example - look at the difference between media coverage of Hurricane Ike (I live in Seabrook, TX) vs coverage of Hurricane Katrina. How many Texas officials have you seen on TV crying about not enough federal aid? Whether we receive aid or not (yes - I did 5 months later - Thanks!), people got up, dusted themselves off, and got to the work of cleaning up.
Anyway - back on topic. I consider myself a conservative, and I totally think that open formats should not only be encouraged, but forced for any government organization. Unfortunately, many politicians in this area are woefully tech-illiterate, and have no clue what this means. Actually, I think this probably applies to most politicians. I know I will be calling my representative to support this bill, no matter who initiated it.
Regarding the calendar issue - GMail now has an Exchange interface that supports calendar and contacts.
Since the iPhone only supports one Exchange server at a time (that's what mine told me) I changed my work email to IMAP only, and set up my personal Gmail account to the Exchange service and now - all my contacts and calendar are synched.
Also - I found an app that synch's my work Outlook/Exchange Calendar with my Google calendar - so I leave it running on my desktop at work, and everything is automagically synched!
Meanwhile billions go hungry. Tens of thousands die every day from malnutrition. But no I'm sure you're right there was no food crisis. That's why the UN didn't just have a FOOD CRISIS SUMMIT this summer.
I stopped reading right there. There is abundant food available for people on this planet. The problem exists in getting it to them. Sometimes, the governments of those starving, malnourished people is the problem. Others are terrified of GM (genetically modified) food.
Maybe you have valid points in your rant - I just get disgusted when people throw out this kind of statement. Sorry - I guess I might get started on ranting also. Bleh.
Your definition of patriotism is very simplistic, and not altogether accurate.
First definition off of Google - and one I wholeheartedly agree with says "love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it". That does not mean that you feel your country is superior - just that you love it and will sacrifice for it. In all honesty, I think that the US has a LOT of problems, and I do NOT feel that we are superior to other nations. BUT - I am still very patriotic.
Google the definition of bigotry and it basically says that it is the obstinate or even ignorant intolerance of others based opinions, lifestyles, or identities. Conversely, it could also be a preference for ones own social/etc group - but with the added intolerance of other groups. Am I bigoted regarding some things? Yes. We all are.
BUT - my bigotry and my patriotism are not related. And your explanation seems to imply that the two are inexorably related.
I submit that you are a bigot against those who are patriots.
Of course - that's just my $0.02USD - now worth less than ever!
True story:
I previously travelled a lot for business and was always shipping packages via FEDEX.
A few times instead of dialing 1800-GO-FEDEX (800-463-3339), I misdialed the last digit and a phone sex line answered.
Anyway - once I was on speakerphone at a client site and misdialed, and the clients looked at me with a variety of shock and mirth.
You know - you were making a good point there until you decided to call approximately 23.5 million people "idiot".
While I may get modded down for this - I believe that Texas is a great state. Also - the state that gave us George W is Connecticut - New Haven to be exact.
So - you went from providing an insightful opinion to insulting my state, and then throwing Bush in the mix. (ugh)
Come on down to Texas and let's go hunting. I am sure I can get Dick Cheney to come along.:-)
QUOTE: I can't understand why anyone would vote for him.
Let me supply an answer just so you understand the opposition. I will probably be modded down for this, but here goes...
1. Being a disabled vet, I would rather vote for someone who served their country and NEVER backed down even after years of torture for their service. This as opposed to someone who refused to wear a lapel pin of a flag for a while. (Whatever his reasons were - things like that don't sit well with us veterans)
2. Associations with terrorists, and anti-american groups. See - this is the sticky part. I DO question the patriotism of people who "damn America", who are not proud of their country, and have business dealings with people or groups who have publicly acknowledged they wished they had blown up more US buildings. (William Ayers...)
3. Someone who is PROMISING to tax me more - doesn't really encourage me. I work hard for what I have. Instead of watching MTV or sitting around drinking and playing football - I studied as a youngster. Don't blame me if my hard work gets me a higher paycheck. I will give to charities or other groups as I see fit - but don't take my money from me by force and give it to groups who did nothing to earn it.
Ok - that's my main list. I am sure there will be plenty of people to tear me down, or down-mod me. I just wanted to make a point that there ARE people who disagree with you, and some of the reasons for it. I personally don't like McCain as a candidate as much as I would have liked Ron Paul (oops - I've said too much!), but I really don't like Obama as a candidate.
There's my $0.02... now get off my lawn!
I have read a lot of Sci-Fi books (even the Firefly series on TV) and the general consensus is that the next superpowers will be India and China.. I guess this just fits right into the timeline...
I work at Johnson Space Center and we are testing this right now. The idea is that in the future (ie when we have a moonbase, etc) that all communication will be in IP packets over RF links.
Currently the RF links use multiplexed frames with different PN sequences and frame sync headers to communicate, so the position of each bit within the frame means something.
With IP packets, we wouldn't really have to decode/demux the frames to get the information. Each entity could send data based on its IP address. As mentioned before - the lag time issue is gonna be pretty messy, unless we used UDP or something similar. We are just in the beginning stages right now for our purposes, so just configuring the routers and getting the data into an RF link and be errorless is what we are fighting.
Hope that sheds some light on why. Also - the frequencies we are talking about are going to be S, K, Ku, Ka, and higher, so it isn't likely that a script kiddy will have access to that kind of equipment. Also - the links will be encrypted and PN spread, making it less likely to be intercepted/hax0r'd...
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NZ? NZ...? Hmmm... I think the city of Houston, TX has more people than the entire "country" of NZ. And cycling is not something you see a lot of other than on bike paths. I enjoy riding my bicycle for recreation and exercise, but I won't wear a helmet. Why should I? I have runners pass by me going much faster. If a motorcyclist isn't required to wear a helmet, why should a cyclist?
Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation.
From the article. They are guessing based on a known configuration how long it would take.
Or a spouse who sees any moment of silence as an aural blank canvas just begging to be worked upon?
Best euphemism EVER to describe a talkative spouse. An Aural Artist. LOL!
I agree with this. I would go a step further and add in musicians and actors who think they know economics or politics. Shut and and entertain me you useless little monkeys. :-)
If any of you have ever been to a CiscoLive Networkers conference, you would say it is pretty mundane... Until you get to the BlueCat booth. This year (2009 in San Francisco) they had a blonde in a shiny silver VERY TIGHT body suit, with no underwear. How do I know she had no underwear? Well.. um.. diligent observation... I must say I was shocked! Shocked so much I went back daily to see if they were still perpetrating this outrage!!
(Really - this girl was hot!)
County governments regulate things like alcohol and sex toys. Here in Harris County (Houston), I can buy alcohol 6.5 days a week, and sex toys any time the adult store is open. I don't mean novelty items. I saw things in there that made me shudder (butt-cones, fist-shaped dildos, etc), and this was a "classy" adult store.
I grew up in a dry county, and every time the proposal to lift the alcohol ban comes up there - it is voted down. Seems like the government is actually listening to the people - not telling them what to do.
And as far as buying a car, from what I understand, the one-day weekend serves 2 purposes. One is to allow the consumer time to look at cars without being harassed by over-zealous car salesmen. And second, it allows car-salesmen to have at least one day off per week. Most car places are open at least 12 hours a day. Are you sure you can't buy your dream car sometime in that 72 (12 hours x 6 days) hours per week?
First off - Welcome to Texas!
Thanks for such an insightful comment on the situation of our state government. You are quite correct in you assessment. Texans want to be left alone, and not be harassed by our local, state or even national government. I'm not sure why you think that Texas being an independent country for a while is unfortunate. Other states were independent countries before joining the US.(Hawaii, Vermont, and maybe California)
We certainly believe in the independence and accountability of the individual. As an example - look at the difference between media coverage of Hurricane Ike (I live in Seabrook, TX) vs coverage of Hurricane Katrina. How many Texas officials have you seen on TV crying about not enough federal aid? Whether we receive aid or not (yes - I did 5 months later - Thanks!), people got up, dusted themselves off, and got to the work of cleaning up.
Anyway - back on topic. I consider myself a conservative, and I totally think that open formats should not only be encouraged, but forced for any government organization. Unfortunately, many politicians in this area are woefully tech-illiterate, and have no clue what this means. Actually, I think this probably applies to most politicians. I know I will be calling my representative to support this bill, no matter who initiated it.
Regarding the calendar issue - GMail now has an Exchange interface that supports calendar and contacts.
Since the iPhone only supports one Exchange server at a time (that's what mine told me) I changed my work email to IMAP only, and set up my personal Gmail account to the Exchange service and now - all my contacts and calendar are synched.
Also - I found an app that synch's my work Outlook/Exchange Calendar with my Google calendar - so I leave it running on my desktop at work, and everything is automagically synched!
Meanwhile billions go hungry. Tens of thousands die every day from malnutrition. But no I'm sure you're right there was no food crisis. That's why the UN didn't just have a FOOD CRISIS SUMMIT this summer.
I stopped reading right there. There is abundant food available for people on this planet. The problem exists in getting it to them. Sometimes, the governments of those starving, malnourished people is the problem. Others are terrified of GM (genetically modified) food.
Maybe you have valid points in your rant - I just get disgusted when people throw out this kind of statement. Sorry - I guess I might get started on ranting also. Bleh.
It could have been worse. They could have taken a cue from the Clinton playbook and removed all the letter "O" keys from the keyboards.
Your definition of patriotism is very simplistic, and not altogether accurate.
First definition off of Google - and one I wholeheartedly agree with says "love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it". That does not mean that you feel your country is superior - just that you love it and will sacrifice for it. In all honesty, I think that the US has a LOT of problems, and I do NOT feel that we are superior to other nations. BUT - I am still very patriotic.
Google the definition of bigotry and it basically says that it is the obstinate or even ignorant intolerance of others based opinions, lifestyles, or identities. Conversely, it could also be a preference for ones own social/etc group - but with the added intolerance of other groups. Am I bigoted regarding some things? Yes. We all are.
BUT - my bigotry and my patriotism are not related. And your explanation seems to imply that the two are inexorably related.
I submit that you are a bigot against those who are patriots.
Of course - that's just my $0.02USD - now worth less than ever!
True story:
I previously travelled a lot for business and was always shipping packages via FEDEX.
A few times instead of dialing 1800-GO-FEDEX (800-463-3339), I misdialed the last digit and a phone sex line answered.
Anyway - once I was on speakerphone at a client site and misdialed, and the clients looked at me with a variety of shock and mirth.
You know - you were making a good point there until you decided to call approximately 23.5 million people "idiot".
:-)
While I may get modded down for this - I believe that Texas is a great state. Also - the state that gave us George W is Connecticut - New Haven to be exact.
So - you went from providing an insightful opinion to insulting my state, and then throwing Bush in the mix. (ugh)
Come on down to Texas and let's go hunting. I am sure I can get Dick Cheney to come along.
but I would have to KILL YOU!!!
Maybe I will kill you anyway!!
What state are you in?
Thank you so much!!!
I really hated the thingy on the left side. This removed it like a charm!
QUOTE: I can't understand why anyone would vote for him. Let me supply an answer just so you understand the opposition. I will probably be modded down for this, but here goes... 1. Being a disabled vet, I would rather vote for someone who served their country and NEVER backed down even after years of torture for their service. This as opposed to someone who refused to wear a lapel pin of a flag for a while. (Whatever his reasons were - things like that don't sit well with us veterans) 2. Associations with terrorists, and anti-american groups. See - this is the sticky part. I DO question the patriotism of people who "damn America", who are not proud of their country, and have business dealings with people or groups who have publicly acknowledged they wished they had blown up more US buildings. (William Ayers...) 3. Someone who is PROMISING to tax me more - doesn't really encourage me. I work hard for what I have. Instead of watching MTV or sitting around drinking and playing football - I studied as a youngster. Don't blame me if my hard work gets me a higher paycheck. I will give to charities or other groups as I see fit - but don't take my money from me by force and give it to groups who did nothing to earn it. Ok - that's my main list. I am sure there will be plenty of people to tear me down, or down-mod me. I just wanted to make a point that there ARE people who disagree with you, and some of the reasons for it. I personally don't like McCain as a candidate as much as I would have liked Ron Paul (oops - I've said too much!), but I really don't like Obama as a candidate. There's my $0.02... now get off my lawn!
I got so excited that I wanted to --PISS OUT MY ASS-- jump for joy!
Please, for the love of god, can we come up with more useless acronyms?
Ugh!
And just to prove his First law - Shut up you freakin' NAZI!!! :-)
I could have sworn that the headline was DESTROYS Genesis2 Space Module...(Note to self: drink more coffee)
Hitler? Stalin? Hmmm - I know you are making good valid points - I am just trying to see if Godwin's law applies here.. :-)
Of course this has nothing to do with hanging chads... I mean - who DOESN'T think Florida has a working voting system in place...
(I didn't see anyone else bring it up...)
I have read a lot of Sci-Fi books (even the Firefly series on TV) and the general consensus is that the next superpowers will be India and China.. I guess this just fits right into the timeline...
I work at Johnson Space Center and we are testing this right now. The idea is that in the future (ie when we have a moonbase, etc) that all communication will be in IP packets over RF links.
Currently the RF links use multiplexed frames with different PN sequences and frame sync headers to communicate, so the position of each bit within the frame means something.
With IP packets, we wouldn't really have to decode/demux the frames to get the information. Each entity could send data based on its IP address. As mentioned before - the lag time issue is gonna be pretty messy, unless we used UDP or something similar. We are just in the beginning stages right now for our purposes, so just configuring the routers and getting the data into an RF link and be errorless is what we are fighting.
Hope that sheds some light on why. Also - the frequencies we are talking about are going to be S, K, Ku, Ka, and higher, so it isn't likely that a script kiddy will have access to that kind of equipment. Also - the links will be encrypted and PN spread, making it less likely to be intercepted/hax0r'd...
You _MUST_ be new here... :-)