Comment Re:Ugly..... (Score 2) 164
I order 25 black shirts every couple of months and hence I always know what to wear
I knew Steve Jobs wasn't dead!
I order 25 black shirts every couple of months and hence I always know what to wear
I knew Steve Jobs wasn't dead!
What does this translate to in jiggawatts?
500,000. Aren't SI units wonderful?
One application of this type of engineering is to serve as an ignition swith for a fusion energy plant.
They should totally tell the guys at the National Ignition Facility about this. </sarcasm>
The Tor project is designing ways to pass Tor in what looks like regular https traffic. It won't help North Koreans, but it does help (right now) Chinese people.
In an environment where its use can be dictated, DPISSL defeats this.
I find it funny how easy it is to order an AMD system with 256GB of ram (or even 512GB, just much more expensive) yet the Intel ones all seem to max out at 192 or really, really expensive 384GB.. I know it has to do with the memory controllers, but our loads are very, very memory dependent..
The Dell PE820 (a 4-socket intel server) supports up to 1.5TB of RAM. With 2-CPUs, though, it's only 768GB...
Like gman, I also get 15 consistently, and have been for a couple of years now.
But you only get mod points if you've commented recently, so if he hadn't commented, he'd get no points with which to be unable to mod.
Depending on your definition of "recently," I don't believe this is true. I've noticed that, even though I can go months without posting, I have mod points regularly (at least once a week).
286 is 16bit I believe? I believe this is the first time anyone has actually run the linux kernel on less than 16bit which is the base the first linux was designed to run on.
From the summary, Linux is actually running on an emulated 32-bit ARM, it just so happens that the emulator is running on an 8-bit CPU.
Ender is a school child who kicks another school child to death in the school bathroom. Nobody has any question that it's happened, but not much seems to happen to Ender because of it.
Nothing happens to Ender, legally--he's a child, and has been placed in that situation by the authorities, who are pretty much hoping for the response that they get. Later on (either at the end of Ender's Game, or in Ender's Shadow) it's revealed that Graff was indeed court-martialed for the deaths of both Bonzo and Stilson, though he is acquitted because of his statements that the war would have been lost if not for his actions in turning Ender into the weapon that humanity needed.
Graff aside, Ender did most certainly suffer for those deaths, and the billions more that he caused. Mentally, emotionally, and, later, being equated to another Adolf Hitler by the very people he saved.
Except that it's Obama's Federal attorney who got the money back. It's Republican Bloomberg who helped SAIC rob it.
You Republicans have a very limited playbook: commit a crime, and blame the Democrat who catches you. It's a mental disease.
Calling Bloomberg a Republican isn't exactly accurate... until 2001, he was a Democrat. Then he switched to the Republican party--until he declared himself an Independent in 2007. I think it's fair to simply call him a corrupt, opportunistic scumbag. Of course, this is true of most politicians.
Dell still has AMD Optiplex machines, so I don't quite see where you're going with this...
That is the problem with the entire stock trading mentality. Stocks are viewed as commodity that makes the investor rich, no one views them as investing a company that will succeed with the investor's money.
Given that so many companies don't pay dividends, I can't help but wonder what "investors" are actually investing in? I mean, I'll grant it's not true across the board, but pick any tech company, and if they're making money, it's for the sole purpose of sticking it in the bank. Apple has, what, $100B in the bank? To what end? It's not hard to see why we have this mentality, and why our market is all about finding a bigger idiot.
FWIW, my money says that one day we're going to find that something like the Teamster's pension scandal has happened again.
> he traded immortality for the knowledge of good and evil. Essentially for a loss of innocence. Pretty crappy trade if you ask me.
You think that's bad? The Highlander fought and beat every other immortal to gain "the prize". What was "the prize" you ask? He lost his immortality and gained mind-reading. That's like picking the goat behind door number 3.
Ignoring the mind-reading bit, the loss of immortality as the prize does make quite a bit of sense--I mean, listen to the words of "who wants to live forever."
The US military budget exceeds the rest of the world's combined military budget by $200 billion. Our military budget represents about 43% of world military spending.
I'm, not disagreeing with your basic point, but the above two statements are mutually exclusive.
The military (in any country) are driven by matters of life and death which trump merely economic matters. If the US military goes metric it's a hint that metric is superior to imperial units..
"Superior" doesn't enter into it--it's because of NATO.
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.
