Going to be lots of fun pawing through NASA's dirty climate laundry.
We're collecting the information and will respond with all the responsive relevant information to all of his requests," Mr. Hess said. "It's just a process you have to go through where you have to collect data that's responsive.
Back when ECMAScript 4 was still alive there was a proposed Vector class that had the potential to provide O(1) access. This is very useful for many performance sensitive algorithms including coding, compression, encryption, imaging, signal processing and others. The proposal was bound up with Adobe's parameterized types (as in Vector<T>) and it all died together when ECMAScript 4 was tossed out. Parameterized types are NOT necessary to provide dense arrays with O(1) access. Today Javascript has no guaranteed O(1) mechanism, and version 5 fails to deal with this.
Folks involved with this need to consult with people that do more than manipulate the DOM. Formalizing JSON is great and all but I hadn't noticed any hesitation to use it without a standard... ActionScript has dense arrays for a reason and javascript should as well.
Intel has shown real commitment to supporting their video hardware on Linux with full time staff employed to produce high quality open source drivers in addition to providing open specifications for (most) of their contemporary hardware. Unfortunately this hardware provides only limited 3D acceleration. I was hoping that Larrabee would conflate these two and provide vendor supported, open, high performance accelerated 3D for Linux.
So much for that happening anytime soon...
I can't understand why Intel cedes the GPU market to it's competitors. Have I been getting duped into paying hundreds while everyone else gets free GPUs? People are paying good money for these chips, right? NVidia's got Playstation 3 and Apple. ATI got the 360. Intel has nothing the the discrete GPU market at all. Why? What blocker within Intel prevents them from taking a piece of that pie?
Wasn't lost on me. How could it be with a gem like this:
What ActiveGrid is really providing is a highly tuned "text pump" to occupy the fabric/bus space in a transaction-intensive enterprise data center.
Developing increasing impact systems for next-generation datacenter reoriented bus systems; at the same time reducing the SQL coupling through fabric abstraction! Separation of transaction distribution provides scalable impedance mismatch harmonics.
I have to agree with the parent; compared to Nvidia, ATi makes poor software. The history of crappy ATi drivers is long and colorful.
What little gaming I do anymore is in Planetside. Our outfit requires vent and I get to listen to ATi using members moaning about game lockups, over and over, all day long. I log in with my 4600-TI and play all damn day, no crashes.
Back when it was hard to get stable, free X servers I became a big Matrox fan. Stability is priority #1. When Nvidia started producing good cards and good drivers for win32 and *nix, I jumped on their bandwagon and never looked back. I'm posting this message using Firefox on Solaris 10 x86; no crashes or problems, the Xorg server just works, just like most things Nvidia-related usually does. Can you even get a Solaris X server for ATi stuff? Probably not, and if you did it would fall over with the first OpenGL app you ran...
It's hard to pay the Nvidia premium. Believe me I know. Do it anyhow; performance doesn't mean squat if your system lunches itself frequently.
I would favor the splitting of Electors based on the results of each State's popular vote.
Colorado defeated this soundly. Amendment 36 would have split CO electoral votes proportionally. However, the collective voter knows better than to gimp their own vote by marginalizing their own state.
If Amendment 36 were to apply nationally I think it would win. This requires amending the Constitution. Have we debated the inefficacy of the electoral college long enough for this to happen? I think so.
Strangely I think Bush would be the right president to try it; the thought of a proportional CA has a lot of appeal; finally those 55 odd electoral college votes would represent beyond Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Republicans had a net gain of 8 electoral college votes between 2000 and 2004 due to pro-Republican state legislatures which, in turn, are the result of shifts in the electorate population and demographics. The Republicans should not fear proportional voting.
Bush won a majority of 120 million votes, the largest turnout in American history. This is not a Michael Moore nation. If proportional voting were proposed at the Federal level I'd support it 100% and I think a lot of other Americans would too.
Actually, it does matter which comes first. Hibernate works best (best defined as most clean, simply) if you have the luxury of a well normalized schema where every table contains a surrogate key. Obviously, if you're working from a clean sheet this is an worthy design choice, relatively easy to satisfy.
However, if you are working with a pre-existing design and you can't retrofit surrogate keys, you're in for a lot of additional leg-work with Hibernate. Getting Hibernate to function with composite keys forces extra coding and imposes limitations. This was my experience 9 months ago when I had a look at Hibernate for an "enterprise" application that must work with vendor schemas.
I don't fault Hibernate; persistence is hard. Mapping an object from RAM to relational storage is much easier when you have a simple 1-to-1 relationship between objects and integers. Working well only with simple surrogate keys is not unique to Hibernate by any means. In principle you're correct; it doesn't matter which comes first. In practice, if you're dealing with composite keys or any form of denormalization you're in for a lot of pain.
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If you want to change the world's energy cycles you're going to need something with at least 20 times the productivity of standard farm crops, like the UNH biodiesel-from-algae thing.
The "UNH biodiesel-from-algae" thing is in part based on a DOE study that ran from 1978 to 1996. You can read the close-out report here.
The UNH web pages glosses over a number of real show stoppers. Consider this quote from the UNH web page;
"There are solutions to these problems, but for the purpose of this paper, we will focus instead on the potential such ponds can promise, ignoring for the moment the methods of addressing the solvable challenges remaining when the Aquatic Species Program at NREL ended."
Ok, you go ahead and focus on promises. I'll read the NREL paper. When I do this I learn about how it's damn near impossible to maintain homogenous "pond" species because invaders drift in and quickly displace whatever I'm trying to milk for oil (at one point they gave up and tried to see what they would get from whatever happened to grow.) I find out I need truly staggering quantities of CO2 to get it to grow (coal-fired power plant scale supply.) I find out that small variations in temperature stifles production or kills the crop. I learn that solar efficiency averaged 10%, less than the best solar cells.
That UNH thing is typical of so many advocates; spin all the parameters in the best possible light to prove the alternative is viable, and conclude that current practice is sheer stupidity.
I don't suppose anyone will be surprised to find the link to the WMP download presented in bold, flashing red letters among the list of "High Priority" updates (formerly merely "optional software updates") each and every time a European user runs "Windows Update."
Legislative micromanagement of Microsoft's stack of software is futile. Gate's and crew are quietly snickering as they squeak past another round of legal nonsense with another pointless concession.
Dick waving contests are important, primate. Whether or not nations are respected on the international stage has everything to do with technological prowess. India stands to gain a great deal of leverage when they prove they have the technical cahones to actually land something on the moon. From that moment forward, no one will be the slightest bit confused about whether or not India can put a warhead on Los Angeles or Paris; it will be perfectly crystal fucking clear they can.
When it comes time to; haggle over natural resources, decide who gets what trade deals, enforce a boundary, or do any of the multitude of things a sovereign nation must do, having a great big dick makes all the difference. I, for one, can't imagine why a nation of 800 million souls should expect less.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Kennedy 1962
His vision was not exclusive to the US. A national effort, borne of indigenous ability and resources, will do more for India and others like India then all the social programs and government bureaucracies you will ever imagine in your wildest nanny state dreams.
India, go forth. Take your $88 million and show us how it's done. Best wishes.
FYI, I'm using a Dell 505 laptop right now; no lag. I'm not missing it. I'm not overlooking lag you would think is there; there is no lag whatsoever.
nowhere, and I mean *nowhere* did I read about LCDs having an input lag on them.
I've seen the same lag on every LCD I've ever seen or used, although the problem is not as great as this one. Examples are my laptop, work computers, family computers, etc. If you think that you don't have a lag, you probably do
That settles it; you're a nut job.
On one hand you claim you were uninformed about and surprised by this "lag". On the other, you claim to witness lag in every LCD device you've ever come in contact with.
Hmm.
I recommend the following; First, discontinue playing FPS. They may have more violent content than your mind can tolerate. Second, become an audiophile. This will direct your technical extremism and money somewhere harmless.
Anyway, "Hate corporate run news media" would have been a much more accurate term.
Anyone else notice Air America getting syndicated all over the country via Clear Channel? Perhaps Clear Channel figures they can make Left wing media STFU about media monopolies through syndication. Their opponents end up working for them (for some reason media monopoly is not a popular topic among AA hosts) and they dispel claims of bias in one shot.
Pretty damn smart if you ask me. Guess they didn't wind up owning radio accidentally.
Anyhow, you won't be hearing much about "corporate run news media" from the Left anymore.
You would think after the fiasco about media credulity of Iraq WMDs, the media would be more suspicious of this sort of thing.
Here is ABC reporting on connections between bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and WMDs. That was 5 years ago. The difference is back then Clinton needed support for throwing cruise missiles into Iraq/Sudan/Afgahnistan whenever someone significant was in front of Ken Star's grand jury.
Even old pros like Rather need to learn: just because evidence seems to fit does not make it true.
Dan is an "old pro" because he doesn't get caught very often. When he does get caught he errors on the Left 100% of the time, just like his contemporaries.
Elite media goes wherever the Left needs it to go.
It's the first time that the PUBLIC knows about it
This is hardly the first time the public knew about it. Weapons grade plutonium is shipped about routinely; in weapons.
We put on boats. We fly it around in aircraft. We haul it in trucks on public roads. Shipping significant quantities of weapons grade plutonium has been routine for over half a century.
Yeah, that's great, just tell everyone so they can go attack it. That's really smart. If I were the shipper or receiver, or any territory between which this parcel traveled, I would want it to be at least SOMEWHAT of a secret.
For all you or I know the shipment was complete three weeks ago and this news is just a smokescreen. Wouldn't surprise me at all.
The 2000 Bush-Gore debates were just awful because of their predictability and the absense of real political discourse.
They were awful, but they had an impact on the election. Gore acted like a snotty punk in the first debate and everyone saw it. His demeanor and poor judgement said a lot; anyone playing politics at his level that is still underestimating GWB is a fool. He showed up with a bad attitude and hurt himself.
Kerry won't make that mistake; he's too far down in the polls to have any misunderstanding about who he's dealing with. But Kerry is a career populist and I think his insincerity will show. If he launches into a Michael Moore type tirade he's going to find out just how fringe that crap really is.
A typical office machine and many (most?) home networks today involve switches. The brilliance of a switch (as opposed to a hub) is that collisions are avoided by isolating packets away from unrelated interfaces. This means the only traffic the sniffer is likely to see is traffic destined to arrive at the infected host anyhow.
On the other hand, sniffing traffic is likely to be a better (or at leave alternative) means of snarfing up sensitive info than, say, scanning a harddrive...
Still, it would have been far more effective in the early to mid nineties when "broadcast segment" really was a shared medium (for typical LANs) with packets slamming headlong into each other and entirely visible from almost any drop.
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Going to be lots of fun pawing through NASA's dirty climate laundry.
We're collecting the information and will respond with all the responsive relevant information to all of his requests," Mr. Hess said. "It's just a process you have to go through where you have to collect data that's responsive.
Comply with FOIA
Back when ECMAScript 4 was still alive there was a proposed Vector class that had the potential to provide O(1) access. This is very useful for many performance sensitive algorithms including coding, compression, encryption, imaging, signal processing and others. The proposal was bound up with Adobe's parameterized types (as in Vector<T>) and it all died together when ECMAScript 4 was tossed out. Parameterized types are NOT necessary to provide dense arrays with O(1) access. Today Javascript has no guaranteed O(1) mechanism, and version 5 fails to deal with this.
Folks involved with this need to consult with people that do more than manipulate the DOM. Formalizing JSON is great and all but I hadn't noticed any hesitation to use it without a standard... ActionScript has dense arrays for a reason and javascript should as well.
Intel has shown real commitment to supporting their video hardware on Linux with full time staff employed to produce high quality open source drivers in addition to providing open specifications for (most) of their contemporary hardware. Unfortunately this hardware provides only limited 3D acceleration. I was hoping that Larrabee would conflate these two and provide vendor supported, open, high performance accelerated 3D for Linux.
So much for that happening anytime soon...
I can't understand why Intel cedes the GPU market to it's competitors. Have I been getting duped into paying hundreds while everyone else gets free GPUs? People are paying good money for these chips, right? NVidia's got Playstation 3 and Apple. ATI got the 360. Intel has nothing the the discrete GPU market at all. Why? What blocker within Intel prevents them from taking a piece of that pie?
"LAMP" is marketing-speak and not a platform
Wasn't lost on me. How could it be with a gem like this:
What ActiveGrid is really providing is a highly tuned "text pump" to occupy the fabric/bus space in a transaction-intensive enterprise data center.
Developing increasing impact systems for next-generation datacenter reoriented bus systems; at the same time reducing the SQL coupling through fabric abstraction! Separation of transaction distribution provides scalable impedance mismatch harmonics.
Yadda yadda yadda
I have to agree with the parent; compared to Nvidia, ATi makes poor software. The history of crappy ATi drivers is long and colorful.
What little gaming I do anymore is in Planetside. Our outfit requires vent and I get to listen to ATi using members moaning about game lockups, over and over, all day long. I log in with my 4600-TI and play all damn day, no crashes.
Back when it was hard to get stable, free X servers I became a big Matrox fan. Stability is priority #1. When Nvidia started producing good cards and good drivers for win32 and *nix, I jumped on their bandwagon and never looked back. I'm posting this message using Firefox on Solaris 10 x86; no crashes or problems, the Xorg server just works, just like most things Nvidia-related usually does. Can you even get a Solaris X server for ATi stuff? Probably not, and if you did it would fall over with the first OpenGL app you ran...
It's hard to pay the Nvidia premium. Believe me I know. Do it anyhow; performance doesn't mean squat if your system lunches itself frequently.
Japan ? .. That whole country has bad memories associated with anything Nuklear (for the whole world too).
Do you have any idea how many fisson reactors Japan operates?
LEO satellites move a bit faster than 17,000 Mph, or 2.4 times as fast has the X43A at Mach 10.
I would favor the splitting of Electors based on the results of each State's popular vote.
Colorado defeated this soundly. Amendment 36 would have split CO electoral votes proportionally. However, the collective voter knows better than to gimp their own vote by marginalizing their own state.
If Amendment 36 were to apply nationally I think it would win. This requires amending the Constitution. Have we debated the inefficacy of the electoral college long enough for this to happen? I think so.
Strangely I think Bush would be the right president to try it; the thought of a proportional CA has a lot of appeal; finally those 55 odd electoral college votes would represent beyond Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Republicans had a net gain of 8 electoral college votes between 2000 and 2004 due to pro-Republican state legislatures which, in turn, are the result of shifts in the electorate population and demographics. The Republicans should not fear proportional voting.
Bush won a majority of 120 million votes, the largest turnout in American history. This is not a Michael Moore nation. If proportional voting were proposed at the Federal level I'd support it 100% and I think a lot of other Americans would too.
(doesn't matter which one comes first)
Actually, it does matter which comes first. Hibernate works best (best defined as most clean, simply) if you have the luxury of a well normalized schema where every table contains a surrogate key. Obviously, if you're working from a clean sheet this is an worthy design choice, relatively easy to satisfy.
However, if you are working with a pre-existing design and you can't retrofit surrogate keys, you're in for a lot of additional leg-work with Hibernate. Getting Hibernate to function with composite keys forces extra coding and imposes limitations. This was my experience 9 months ago when I had a look at Hibernate for an "enterprise" application that must work with vendor schemas.
I don't fault Hibernate; persistence is hard. Mapping an object from RAM to relational storage is much easier when you have a simple 1-to-1 relationship between objects and integers. Working well only with simple surrogate keys is not unique to Hibernate by any means. In principle you're correct; it doesn't matter which comes first. In practice, if you're dealing with composite keys or any form of denormalization you're in for a lot of pain.
If you want to change the world's energy cycles you're going to need something with at least 20 times the productivity of standard farm crops, like the UNH biodiesel-from-algae thing.
The "UNH biodiesel-from-algae" thing is in part based on a DOE study that ran from 1978 to 1996. You can read the close-out report here.
The UNH web pages glosses over a number of real show stoppers. Consider this quote from the UNH web page;
"There are solutions to these problems, but for the purpose of this paper, we will focus instead on the potential such ponds can promise, ignoring for the moment the methods of addressing the solvable challenges remaining when the Aquatic Species Program at NREL ended."
Ok, you go ahead and focus on promises. I'll read the NREL paper. When I do this I learn about how it's damn near impossible to maintain homogenous "pond" species because invaders drift in and quickly displace whatever I'm trying to milk for oil (at one point they gave up and tried to see what they would get from whatever happened to grow.) I find out I need truly staggering quantities of CO2 to get it to grow (coal-fired power plant scale supply.) I find out that small variations in temperature stifles production or kills the crop. I learn that solar efficiency averaged 10%, less than the best solar cells.
That UNH thing is typical of so many advocates; spin all the parameters in the best possible light to prove the alternative is viable, and conclude that current practice is sheer stupidity.
Remove WMP from Windows...
Wow.
I don't suppose anyone will be surprised to find the link to the WMP download presented in bold, flashing red letters among the list of "High Priority" updates (formerly merely "optional software updates") each and every time a European user runs "Windows Update."
Legislative micromanagement of Microsoft's stack of software is futile. Gate's and crew are quietly snickering as they squeak past another round of legal nonsense with another pointless concession.
...international dick-waving contest...
Dick waving contests are important, primate. Whether or not nations are respected on the international stage has everything to do with technological prowess. India stands to gain a great deal of leverage when they prove they have the technical cahones to actually land something on the moon. From that moment forward, no one will be the slightest bit confused about whether or not India can put a warhead on Los Angeles or Paris; it will be perfectly crystal fucking clear they can.
When it comes time to; haggle over natural resources, decide who gets what trade deals, enforce a boundary, or do any of the multitude of things a sovereign nation must do, having a great big dick makes all the difference. I, for one, can't imagine why a nation of 800 million souls should expect less.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Kennedy 1962
His vision was not exclusive to the US. A national effort, borne of indigenous ability and resources, will do more for India and others like India then all the social programs and government bureaucracies you will ever imagine in your wildest nanny state dreams.
India, go forth. Take your $88 million and show us how it's done. Best wishes.
I'll be impressed when some 3rd world country builds their first jet
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited did that some time ago.
Lost cost space;
Some Indian engineer will confuse grams for Tola's and the thing will auger into the moon at 68.0e4 kph.
Maybe PATRIOT batteries?
No, no, no. Earth Batteries (tm). Packaging; green. Lots of green.
FYI, I'm using a Dell 505 laptop right now; no lag. I'm not missing it. I'm not overlooking lag you would think is there; there is no lag whatsoever.
nowhere, and I mean *nowhere* did I read about LCDs having an input lag on them.
I've seen the same lag on every LCD I've ever seen or used, although the problem is not as great as this one. Examples are my laptop, work computers, family computers, etc. If you think that you don't have a lag, you probably do
That settles it; you're a nut job.
On one hand you claim you were uninformed about and surprised by this "lag". On the other, you claim to witness lag in every LCD device you've ever come in contact with.
Hmm.
I recommend the following; First, discontinue playing FPS. They may have more violent content than your mind can tolerate. Second, become an audiophile. This will direct your technical extremism and money somewhere harmless.
Good luck.
Anyway, "Hate corporate run news media" would have been a much more accurate term.
Anyone else notice Air America getting syndicated all over the country via Clear Channel? Perhaps Clear Channel figures they can make Left wing media STFU about media monopolies through syndication. Their opponents end up working for them (for some reason media monopoly is not a popular topic among AA hosts) and they dispel claims of bias in one shot.
Pretty damn smart if you ask me. Guess they didn't wind up owning radio accidentally.
Anyhow, you won't be hearing much about "corporate run news media" from the Left anymore.
What about the first amendment?
What about it? It's unconstitutional!
You would think after the fiasco about media credulity of Iraq WMDs, the media would be more suspicious of this sort of thing.
Here is ABC reporting on connections between bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and WMDs. That was 5 years ago. The difference is back then Clinton needed support for throwing cruise missiles into Iraq/Sudan/Afgahnistan whenever someone significant was in front of Ken Star's grand jury.
Even old pros like Rather need to learn: just because evidence seems to fit does not make it true.
Dan is an "old pro" because he doesn't get caught very often. When he does get caught he errors on the Left 100% of the time, just like his contemporaries.
Elite media goes wherever the Left needs it to go.
I find it interesting that voters with passports support John Kerry over...
I find it interesting that citizens with criminal records support candidates like Kerry. I also find interesting the extent to which Trial Lawyers perfer Kerry over Bush.
It's the first time that the PUBLIC knows about it
This is hardly the first time the public knew about it. Weapons grade plutonium is shipped about routinely; in weapons.
We put on boats. We fly it around in aircraft. We haul it in trucks on public roads. Shipping significant quantities of weapons grade plutonium has been routine for over half a century.
Yeah, that's great, just tell everyone so they can go attack it. That's really smart. If I were the shipper or receiver, or any territory between which this parcel traveled, I would want it to be at least SOMEWHAT of a secret.
For all you or I know the shipment was complete three weeks ago and this news is just a smokescreen. Wouldn't surprise me at all.
The 2000 Bush-Gore debates were just awful because of their predictability and the absense of real political discourse.
They were awful, but they had an impact on the election. Gore acted like a snotty punk in the first debate and everyone saw it. His demeanor and poor judgement said a lot; anyone playing politics at his level that is still underestimating GWB is a fool. He showed up with a bad attitude and hurt himself.
Kerry won't make that mistake; he's too far down in the polls to have any misunderstanding about who he's dealing with. But Kerry is a career populist and I think his insincerity will show. If he launches into a Michael Moore type tirade he's going to find out just how fringe that crap really is.
A typical office machine and many (most?) home networks today involve switches. The brilliance of a switch (as opposed to a hub) is that collisions are avoided by isolating packets away from unrelated interfaces. This means the only traffic the sniffer is likely to see is traffic destined to arrive at the infected host anyhow.
On the other hand, sniffing traffic is likely to be a better (or at leave alternative) means of snarfing up sensitive info than, say, scanning a harddrive...
Still, it would have been far more effective in the early to mid nineties when "broadcast segment" really was a shared medium (for typical LANs) with packets slamming headlong into each other and entirely visible from almost any drop.