Comment Re:Dear Mr. Popinjay (Score 1) 398
That was one tough ELA!
That was one tough ELA!
Guardians of Peace (GOP) [...] are now threatening to harm the families of Sony employees.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
In the context of Islam, as in 'Islam is a religion of peace', the word 'peace' means 'not struggling against the will of Allah'.
So no, it probably doesn't mean what most people (native speakers of English) think it means.
Well, here we have time of day billing (per kW) -
Off Peak 10pm - 7am ($0.15)
Peak 2pm - 8pm ($0.58); and
Shoulder Otherwise ($0.25)
Being southern hemisphere, the cliche goes that "West is the new North". We did a 50-50 split west and north. Generally the 4kW system we have runs the house after about 8am (I'd have to check the exact time we go over the 1.5ish kW) for a good part of the year, weather permitting, excluding air conditioning. The days on which we run the AC most (and the time of day) are generally when it is really hot and hence sunny, so we get a really good part of our 4kW whilst running the AC despite the west (or north) pointing panels.
So all it takes is "reasonable" time of day billing and west facing panels save a fortune. Nice!
Of course the "scam" from our power company is that they only buy my excess at wholesale (about $0.09) regardless of the time of day and then sell that to my neighbours at retail (thieves!
That's only because Solaris is expensive. (As is the sun/oracle hardware if you're running it on that). Otherwise, its pretty damn stable even if you walk over and pull the power cords
(We have 7 Solaris boxes from the 1u pizza box to the M5000 running)
To have 'done pretty well' it would have to have captured market share.
For websites, probably the easiest usage to quantify, its less than 0.1%
http://w3techs.com/technologie...
Thats not less than 1%, thats less that zero point one percent.
Did pretty well didn't it.
Any idea the market share in other applications, say database servers for example?
What are you talking about, no it doesn't. You're literally saying that with no idea what you're talking about. It doesn't kill anything. It's a modern init system for a modern os. don't be silly. It's a ridiculous idea that startup scripts should be written in SHELL. Solaris went away from it and did pretty well. OS X went away from it and did pretty well. FreeBSD wants to go away from it.
When you say Solaris 'did pretty well', what do you mean by that? It doesn't seem to be doing at all well in terms of popularity in the data center. Same with OSX, its use in the data center is MINIMAL.
The other half...hardware upgrades and a real life.
Arguing "real life" with a hardcore gamer is like arguing the cost of gas with a NASCAR driver. As if they actually give a shit.
If wasting time was any type of real concern, the game would stay in the box and on the store shelf.
IIRC NASCAR uses ethanol for fuel? (so that the flames are invisible and don't frighten the spectators).
Er, don't frighten the spectators?
Because otherwise, a NASCAR race is as quiet and peaceful as a librarians office in the spring?
Points for your accuracy here, but damn if that's not the most pointless reason to use ethanol I've ever heard.
Apparently Americans are afraid of flames... Seriously, this is the reason I read about when I found out that they used ethanol for fuel. People just see a car crash, they don't see the "omg the humanity!!!" flames.
The problem is that the rescue crews also can't see the flames, which increases the risk for them. You might see a NASCAR driver leaping out of his car and rolling around on the ground. Hes on fire but the flames are invisible!
It can be easily argued that CS requires a different style of play than CoD or BF. If it's not your thing then it's not your thing but to act like all shooters are the same game isn't insightful.
It can be easily argued that Canadian football requires a different style of play than American football. If it's not your thing then it's not your thing but to act like all football is the same game isn't insightful.
Actually to people who aren't all wrapped up in it it really IS the same game.
The other half...hardware upgrades and a real life.
Arguing "real life" with a hardcore gamer is like arguing the cost of gas with a NASCAR driver. As if they actually give a shit.
If wasting time was any type of real concern, the game would stay in the box and on the store shelf.
IIRC NASCAR uses ethanol for fuel? (so that the flames are invisible and don't frighten the spectators).
Well, the Samsung 3.2 TB drive claims that you can read/write the entire drive every day for five years before failure. It's my understanding that at one point, SSDs were notorious for gradually declining over time, but that today's generation of SSDs basically has reliability out the wazoo. I can't quote you stats on it, but anecdotally, I've had a couple of SSDs in my computer for several years now, I leave it on 24x7, and I've never had a problem.
...Yet. YMMV.
I certainly hope that's sarcasm.
Its both sarcasm and the reality of how government perceive their needs
I was in China last month, our hotel had CNN. As soon as it reached the segment about Hong Kong, the channel just blacked out. About 10 minutes later it came back on as if nothing happened.
Why be scared of external opinions? You do not see that as censorship? Suppressing history is censorship.
You are basically calling the Chinese populace a bunch of idiots who would not know how to make decisions for themselves.
This is why
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...
the rioters in other cities also got the idea from news media.
News media and social networking blackout on the riots when they started would likely have stopped the riots happening in the other cities. Because the democratic UK had little taste for such media control the situation got very out of hand. Thats part and parcel of being a democracy eh.
Shame it doesn't work on Windows 8.1....
And the build dependencies gave me a lot of trouble when I tried to install it; the recommended packages don't work with one another, the extra python tools didn't even recognise that python was installed.
Silly foreigner, only American citizens are human beings with rights.
I suggest that you go for a drive with $500 in cash in your car. When the police stop you and find this cash, explain this to them. (this assumes you are in the USA, of course)
Couple thoughts... first that people need to quit blaming police for asset forfeiture, and start blaming the people who elect politicians that passed the stupid laws - and the only ones that can revoke them.
Not really. Its not as if a cop who looks in your car and sees a wad of cash is faced with an obvious crime which he, as a cop, is obliged to act on. The cops are totally able to say "oh look, obvious drug money! *yoink*" or to ignore it.
They, the cops, choose to steal from you. In the USA.
Government needs to follow their own laws otherwise what's the whole point?
Government needs to be able to ignore its own laws and selectively apply them as is useful to do at the time. Thats a core function in government.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
