Comment Re:Ivy League Schools (Score 1) 106
Bill Burr says it best
Bill Burr says it best
Is that really the best you can do in understanding the issue? Or are you simply trolling?
How many kilowatt hours do you see all of that using per day?
The Ivy League was basically a formal gentleman's agreement (you know, back from the good old days where they banned women and blacks from campus and had strict quotas on Jews) that they would mutually agree to be terrible at sports in order to maintain high academic standards.
Everyone who attends an Ivy League school to play sports is someone who would have been a serious consideration for admission without their athletic ability.
Of course they're going to be terrible at sports. They don't have any black people on their team!
Dude, you're the worst sort of person to argue with. You've demonstrated poor reading comprehension and a willingness to hand-wave away the distinction between similar words if you don't think they are relevant to you or serve your position. You seriously make me wonder why I even bother trying to express myself precisely
I never used the word explosion. I used the word detonation. I contrasted it with the deflagration that occurs in internal combustion engines like we see in cars.
A detonation occurs when the shock wave expanding out of the reaction zone compresses the unburnt fuel ahead of the wave, and the compressive heating raises the temperature in the unburnt fuel above it's autoignition temperature.
10 m/s is well below the threshold. Try 2000 m/s.
Detonation produces a more efficient combustion than deflagration, gives higher yields, and generates more kinetic force relative to the thermal energy released. It's a whole different kettle of fish.
64-bit CPU with Ultra-Low Power (runs off 3 AAA batteries)
HP preceeded ARM by years but like everything else they do, don't know how to market it.
Somehow you managed to either misunderstand or get wrong nearly all the important points you tried to make.
The A & B example I showed wasn't an illustration of terrorism but of the effect of different levels of information and how they could influence choices of action. How did you both miss and misuse that?
The information about terrorist groups changing communications methods has been in the news on multiple occasions. It wasn't "made up on the spot," you are simply uninformed. And for some reason the logic does not occur to you than when the media says the intelligence agencies watch X that terrorists and others might avoid X. I don't see how you can do that.
What we know from reliable sources is that only the highest levels of the terrorist hierarchy, the senior commanders, that provide high level guidance have generally been protected by the more advanced and labor intensive methods, but the lower levels that actually have to get things done according to some sort of schedule not so much. The lower levels have been much more vulnerable to having their communications intercepted, but Snowden has been tutoring them through the media on the things to avoid.
Snowden's leaks only show technical capability for intercepting communications, what they don't show is the machinery of repression and mass active monitoring that 1984 would require.
You're assuming a lot there. How would you know if osx or windows NT kernels are 'fully parallelized'? Have you seen the source?
someone else answered about OSX. NT, based on the MACH kernel, has been fully re-entrant and multi-threaded for a looong time. also, given that the service control manager (which is a parallelised start/stop daemon service) is fully parallelised i'd be incredibly surprised if the same attention to detail wasn't also carried through on device-driver initialisation as well. although.... the only evidence against that is the "Debug Startup" mode, which initialises drivers in sequence (and shows you the sequence), but that could well be due to the request for "Debug Mode" rather than an underlying design. honest answer: don't know.
I'll be direct: there is nothing wrong with Dallas, it is a fine city. This is about your choice and personal values, not about Dallas.
it's not the bigotry, its the fact they have no zoning laws and some megacorp can build a fertilizer plant next to residential housing and kill people when it explodes
or build some oil refinery next to someone's home and poison their air and water
While I'm sure that Texas has totally managed to avoid the scourge of zoning laws, the California approach has its own drawbacks that are becoming apparent, especially as California is now practically speaking a one party state run by Democrats with super majorities able to pass whatever they want.
California: CEOs Rate It Worst U.S. Business Climate For 8 Years Running
Hundreds of Thousands Flee Democrat-Run California
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California, a bad bet for business - Why would new enterprises come to a state like this?
Texas v. California: The Real Facts Behind The Lone Star State's Miracle
State leaders closely watch migrating millionaires
No, I don't. It wouldn't help if I did. Few people here are up to serious if casual fact based discussions on the matter let alone professional level ones. Fear isn't needed, only an open mind, rational thinking, and knowledge. Many of the threats are already known to various levels but people choose to ignore or disparage them because it suits their purposes, or they aren't up to a serious discussion.
I would have to credit that as yet another of Dallas' charms.
I would die first before moving to texas. most of my friend also feel the same.
That would certainly cut down on your living expenses, and I think most Texans would appreciate the gesture.
The "progressive" techies in Texas gravitate to the most "progressive" parts of Texas.
FTFY
How the Dallas-Fort Worth Tech Sector Has Roared Back
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is one of the most significant high-tech business centers in the United States, with several global leadership brands. With about 3,000 technology companies and nearly 230,000 high-tech employees, DFW is arguably the second-largest technology business center in the country, behind California’s Silicon Valley.
Oh, I see, the only thing that counts is the gravest possible outcome that is also by far the least likely. Lesser outcomes that might kill people by the hundreds, thousand, or tens of thousands don't count? Outcomes that we could not influence that damage friends or allies due to being blinded don't count? Being put at a serious disadvantage to foreign adversaries doesn't count? It's just fine with you that Russia or China seizes territory from whatever other country they care to, and which but for proper warning might have been avoided? Iran getting nuclear weapons to put on top of the missiles they already have that are capable of reaching Europe doesn't count (despite Iranian threats against Europe)? A jihadi from Manchester returning from Syria, evading MI5 and leaving a "little something" in the tube in London doesn't count?
Yes, there is some highly purified BS being peddled here, and you're supplying it. The damage isn't "embarrassment" but rather blinded, now useless intelligence systems, and blueprints to infrastructure and practices to adversaries and enemies that they can exploit for their purposes, including avoiding detection. You don't know what you are talking about.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
