dunno why you got modded "troll", i thought it was funny.
the mods are smoking shitty crack i guess... Because the losers who have minishitty sites get mod points every now and then too.... It balances out after a while, though......
In a press release sent out yesterday, controversial attorney Jack Thompson claims he has found a correlation between the gaming industry and the US Department of Defense, who, he adds, are using videogames to teach "an entire generation of kids that war is glamorous, cool, desirable, and consequence-free." All that schooling, and he never learned that correlation does not equal causality, and correlation with small populations are as meaningless as his opinions....
In the suburbs, you have a huge sub division with cookie cutter houses and 2.5 children per house. No public transportation nothing. If you have to drive somewhere, you're probably going to want to drive one place rather than 100. This is where walmart is thriving. As population density drops it makes more sense. It's more complicated than "they win in the Suburbs" I live in Jax, Florida,we have (last time I counted) 15 Wally Worlds within 30 miles of Downtown, over half are in the city proper, and all of them have had a positive impact on commercial enterprises in the areas they are in, except for the small business owners who competed directly with them. On the other hand, small and large retail outlets the don't compete directly, (like restaurants, and specialty stores) seem to thrive in those areas, and some low level competition that offer either big box competition (Best Buy and Circuit city) or compete directly but have a special gimmick (the Apple store, or some smaller hardware stores) seem to do well.
The neighborhood objections we've seen here have a two pronged motivation; either they don't want commercial establishments in the neighborhood or there is some objection specifically to Walmarts business practices. In either case, rejection of the Walmart in a given area here is pretty meaningless, since you are a maximum of 6 miles from any Walmart, and the vast majority of this city owns a vehicle. (Mass Transit in Jax is a joke...) so you are pretty much 10 minutes from a Walmart, no matter where you are (even if they atopped building them here, which they won't)
Except that geothermal power is only really available on a handful of ISLANDS, the biggest one of which is Iceland in the North sea. I'm assuming you're unaware of this otherwise you wouldn't be suggesting everyone on Earth move to Iceland. Hmmmm That might have been one of the better straw man attempts I've seen on slashdot, but, alas, it still falls far short. Perhaps if you remember to avoid global structures, you could have made a better case. It is, after all, virtually impossible to convience anyone except the rare moron that I was advocating "Everyone on Earth" move to a couple of islands in the far north. Whats more, only that rare moron would assume that the only source of geothermal power is on one of the Islands you mention. There are a number of sources of Geothermal power across the planet unrelated to the few islands you mention. I also note that the original post to which I responded referred not only to geothermal power, but to a lack of Solar, Wind, or Hydro power in the area that the poster lives in.
Since you seem to be that rare moron, I'll try to use small words: I was comparing living in a location devoid of environmentally friendly energy potential to living in an area unfriendly to the production of food. A desert of a different sort. I was saying that the two are pretty much the same, and, like the desert, there maybe good reasons to live there. The trade off is cost, energy is going to cost more. If you don't like it move AWAY from the energy desert.
What I didn't say was that there are many different eco-friendly options for power, if you have a hill, and rainfall (the second of which you probably have if you don't have sun) then there is a personal hydro-electric generation option that can be driven from 2" pvc and a cistern, you just need 100 foot of altitude to get enough head to drive it or, a Stirling engine is capable of using the temperature differential from a few feet underground and air temp, in some locations.
The long and the short of it is that if you want to get into a flamewar, do it more creatively, or sniff someone else's butt....
Sure, but there are plenty of areas where none of the above apply. I live in an area where that is not near any water, has only intermittent sun and wind so another power source is necessary. Geothermal looks great on paper but AFAIK there are still tech barriers involved. Nuke power is certainly better to coal or oil/gas. That's a lot like living in the desert and complaining that there is no food and water, right?
A friend missed renewing her domain and it was snatched up instantly by a farmer who wanted her to make an offer to reclaim it. it was definitely a unique name that would be of no use to anyone who didn't have her (very unusual) name and her line of work.
A lawyer friend sent a letter to the new owner, basically saying the obvious: you have no use for this domain, and you need to give it back or we'll come after you.
The company returned the domain to her instantly, with apologies for their "mistake".
I'm sure the letter arriving on stationary from a huge, powerful international law firm didn't hurt.
Anyway, what they are doing is obviously cybersquatting, which is illegal. And if they're trying to make a quick buck here and there, they certainly can't afford to defend themselves against thousands of lawsuits. Either you left out an important bit of information in your anecdote, the "Cybersquatter" blinked in the game of chicken, or this is a cute story that propagates a myth.
I can register any domain I want (and do look at the recently available lists most registrars offer to their clients) without any legal ramifications... The only time it's illegal, as I understand the rules, is when a domain is grabbed up with the intention of profiting off of someones trademark and bad faith registration can be demonstrated (I remember the Mike Rowe Soft thing from a few years back... He was fine until he offered to sell the domain to Microsoft, at that time, the extraordinary fee (Several grand for the domain I believe) was proof of bad faith...
Pardon my french but a cluster of 216 AMD processors can't simulate shit. Nuclear simulations are less than useless on anything resembling a "cluster". You need tightly coupled high bandwidth interconnects (NUMA) that are much more difficult to get ones grubby little hands on. So, you're new here, I see....
Damn... all that nuclear work done over the last 50 ears was useless... total garbage... geez, why didn't you speak up earlier! You'd have saved the US and others trillions of dollars.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, usefull simulations for nuclear tests have been done for decades, on far less powerfull equipment.
10 years ago, yes. But, seriously, it takes only about $30k to build a tera-scale system with commodity parts. And, if single precision is OK, $2400 will get you 900 "gig-flops" worth of PS3s. Last time I went through Bahrain, you could buy those in the airport for your kids, so they shouldn't be too hard for the Iranian government to buy.
Not sure what the story is here...
-Chris My guess: The real story is that the joiurnalist and his/her editors couldn't wrap their noodles around the idea that that anyone except a select fer universities and think tanks could build a machine that can produce theoretical "Giga-"s.... And are equally clueless that the "Banned AMD technology" is anything more than commodity pc parts.....
All that fancy schmancy adaptve optics will still suck when it's raining. It doesn't rain very often in West Texas. If you made your snarky comment out of a misguided need to defend the Hubble, you should have mentioned UV or other frequencies you can't image from the ground. Did you REALLY miss the humor in my remark? or were you trolling?
I'm impressed as hell with the adaptive optics in the new Scope. Adjusting for turbulence and refraction is impressive all by itself, doing it realtime is just short of magic.
When the "mastermind" is arrested, does a botnet die or continue some sort of pointless frankenstenian existence?
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. Okay, yours was better....
When the "mastermind" is arrested, does a botnet die or continue some sort of pointless frankenstenian existence? Well, If he was an {evil mad} or {misguided naive} scientist, we'd know how the story ended..... Torches, Windmills, misunderstood botnets that just wanted to be loved....
But, it's the real world, so the story ends with as much hyperbole as the "journalist" can dish out.
Tag this 'commonsense'. Finally a record label who is starting to 'get it'. I disagree, tag this "CYA" because there is a reasonable likelihood of a class action suit going through the RIAA to the Major lables that fund it. Backing off the funding of the RIAA now might be enough to separate them from that action.
I believe that the class action will be more intrusive in terms of public opinion than in dollars, eight now, it seems like the majority of Americans still see the RIAA suits as "justified punative measures against pirates".... Once the majority sees it as a "Shotgun, let's see who drops" public opinion will, I believe, shift much more quickly. I think the class action will do a lot towards changing that opinion.
The Anarchist Cookbook was written by a single author. Not really, The original was Compiled by one author from a large amount of reference material floating around as pass-by-xerox underground material.
It's also not Anarchist, and it's a terrible cookbook. I dunno, the original I read in the late 70's has some Anarchistic phlegm strewn through it. But as a "cookbok" you are absolutely correct; it was near worthless: Varying between stuff to get you hurt or killed if you tried it and total time wasters.
According to wikipedia, methane takes up 0.0001745% of the Earth's atmosphere. It certainly seems like there are more productive lines of research to pursue. particularly when we could just feed the cows and pigs "Bean-O".... No point in inventing a new solution when the old one works.....
I a total lack of reference to The Anarchist Cookbook which seems like a natural for an article that references re-purposing tech for war and making stupid associations with the Open Source Movement.
"United by that vision, they exchange information and work collaboratively on tasks of mutual interest." I mention the latter because the association is tenuous at best, and could as easily be made with any other information sharing that occurs. In other words, it's not Open Source, it's the connectivity itself. It seems to me that virtually any group sharing situation utilizing the internet would apply, including MMRPG teams, Teacher-to-Teacher networks that develop course ware for some subject or other, and pimp-my-ride or mod-my-box communities.
Oh, the processing power will be there... But we will have redefined what a "SuperComputer" is before then, so the term will change before the power gets there.
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the mods are smoking shitty crack i guess... Because the losers who have minishitty sites get mod points every now and then too.... It balances out after a while, though......
They missed AlephOne - the OS marathon development... Still very playable even on very lightweight equipment.
The neighborhood objections we've seen here have a two pronged motivation; either they don't want commercial establishments in the neighborhood
or there is some objection specifically to Walmarts business practices. In either case, rejection of the Walmart in a given area here is pretty meaningless, since you are a maximum of 6 miles from any Walmart, and the vast majority of this city owns a vehicle. (Mass Transit in Jax is a joke...) so you are pretty much 10 minutes from a Walmart, no matter where you are (even if they atopped building them here, which they won't)
The pot just called the kettle black.....
Since you seem to be that rare moron, I'll try to use small words: I was comparing living in a location devoid of environmentally friendly energy potential to living in an area unfriendly to the production of food. A desert of a different sort. I was saying that the two are pretty much the same, and, like the desert, there maybe good reasons to live there. The trade off is cost, energy is going to cost more. If you don't like it move AWAY from the energy desert.
What I didn't say was that there are many different eco-friendly options for power, if you have a hill, and rainfall (the second of which you probably have if you don't have sun) then there is a personal hydro-electric generation option that can be driven from 2" pvc and a cistern, you just need 100 foot of altitude to get enough head to drive it or, a Stirling engine is capable of using the temperature differential from a few feet underground and air temp, in some locations.
The long and the short of it is that if you want to get into a flamewar, do it more creatively, or sniff someone else's butt....
--Wade
And be thankful for the privilege!
Get off my lawn ya whippersnapper!
A lawyer friend sent a letter to the new owner, basically saying the obvious: you have no use for this domain, and you need to give it back or we'll come after you.
The company returned the domain to her instantly, with apologies for their "mistake".
I'm sure the letter arriving on stationary from a huge, powerful international law firm didn't hurt.
Anyway, what they are doing is obviously cybersquatting, which is illegal. And if they're trying to make a quick buck here and there, they certainly can't afford to defend themselves against thousands of lawsuits. Either you left out an important bit of information in your anecdote, the "Cybersquatter" blinked in the game of chicken, or this is a cute story that propagates a myth.
I can register any domain I want (and do look at the recently available lists most registrars offer to their clients) without any legal ramifications... The only time it's illegal, as I understand the rules, is when a domain is grabbed up with the intention of profiting off of someones trademark and bad faith registration can be demonstrated (I remember the Mike Rowe Soft thing from a few years back... He was fine until he offered to sell the domain to Microsoft, at that time, the extraordinary fee (Several grand for the domain I believe) was proof of bad faith...
Damn... all that nuclear work done over the last 50 ears was useless... total garbage... geez, why didn't you speak up earlier! You'd have saved the US and others trillions of dollars.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, usefull simulations for nuclear tests have been done for decades, on far less powerfull equipment.
Not sure what the story is here...
-Chris My guess: The real story is that the joiurnalist and his/her editors couldn't wrap their noodles around the idea that that anyone except a select fer universities and think tanks could build a machine that can produce theoretical "Giga-"s.... And are equally clueless that the "Banned AMD technology" is anything more than commodity pc parts.....
It doesn't rain very often in West Texas. If you made your snarky comment out of a misguided need to defend the Hubble, you should have mentioned UV or other frequencies you can't image from the ground. Did you REALLY miss the humor in my remark? or were you trolling?
I'm impressed as hell with the adaptive optics in the new Scope. Adjusting for turbulence and refraction is impressive all by itself, doing it realtime is just short of magic.
All that fancy schmancy adaptve optics will still suck when it's raining.
it depends on whether or not Verizon modified the code. If they did, they need to make the source available.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. Okay, yours was better....
But, it's the real world, so the story ends with as much hyperbole as the "journalist" can dish out.
I believe that the class action will be more intrusive in terms of public opinion than in dollars, eight now, it seems like the majority of Americans still see the RIAA suits as "justified punative measures against pirates".... Once the majority sees it as a "Shotgun, let's see who drops" public opinion will, I believe, shift much more quickly. I think the class action will do a lot towards changing that opinion.
"The system works..... it works slowly, it costs huge amounts of money, but it does work......"
Three simple reasons to say "the system" does NOT work:
justice delayed is justice denied - and it was obvious a LONG time ago that this was a frivolous case
justice might be blind, but its even MORE blind if you don't have $$$$
justice's slow wheels allowed Darl and Co to pocket a LOT of money over the last 5 years, enabling their dump-and-pump scheme.
Justice my arse! If the software industry worked as slowly as justice, and as expensively, we'd be using a $5,000 abacus instead of a computer.
Fortunately for me, Ironic Content isn't lost on allThink of it - there's still all the BS appeals. Justice isn't looking all that appealing now, is it, unless you, like justice, are blind AND slow.
The system works..... it works slowly, it costs huge amounts of money, but it does work......
Oh, the processing power will be there... But we will have redefined what a "SuperComputer" is before then, so the term will change before the power gets there.