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With all those datacenters the town won't be that cold for long.
From TFS: "The constant, biting wind may have stunted the growth of Lulea's tourism industry..."
If they just build the datacenter a little ways outside town, I imagine the people there wouldn't notice a significant change in temperature.
to CONVENIENTLY send and receive pgp-encrypted gmail that prevents plaintext from ever reaching Google's servers.
I thought Gmail was free because Google's robots scanned the contents of your emails to determine what advertisements to display next to your inbox. If Google can't read your email, they could only show users random advertisements, or maybe ask them to complete some questionnaire to tick off their interests.
Either way, I think Google makes less money if they can't read people's Gmail messages, so I doubt we'll see it.
I visited Germany recently and enjoyed the graffiti tremendously. While there's some utter crap, I found the graffiti to be of significantly higher quality than what I typically encounter in my home country.
USian here, where graffiti is promptly removed, thankfully, because it's usually awful. But I think I know what you mean about Berlin, though I haven't been there personally. I have, however, been to Athens, Greece (around 2007). I swear, that city is just about the ideal environment for graffiti artists:
a. Nearly every building is made from concrete; my tour guide told me that there is a large concrete industry in Athens and that it is basically always the most economical building material.
b. Generally, plain concrete is irrepressibly bland, drab and awful to look at.
c. It's a "Mediterranean country", apparently; I asked a few of the locals, young and old, about the graffiti and their attitudes ranged from indifference to mild appreciation. Even the cops didn't seem to care - I asked one for directions once, and he encouraged me to check out some good graffiti a couple streets away from my destination. I was surprised at how relaxed the locals were about the whole thing.
Practically every wall of every building was screaming "I AM A BLANK CANVAS". Simple tags and anarchy signs were everywhere. Many city blocks had at least one elaborate spray-painted mural. Oddly, nobody seemed to spray-paint over one another's work; I guess there was just so much free space...
But at any rate, I took way more photos of the graffiti I encountered than of the Parthenon or any other famous landmarks. I'm glad I visited the place before all the riots started.
Usually, I would establish "less safe" with video and audio recordings of the driver's inability to maintain lane and other moving violations, as well as my encounter with the driver, and the sobriety tests administered during the stop of the particular individual.
Bravo, dear sir or madam. This is exactly how it should be done.
And a controller is fine for FPS games. I can play Halo as easily as I can play BF3 on the PC with a mouse and keyboard.
Well of course; when you use a controller, auto-aim is enabled. Console shooters have been doing this for a while. Some new pc games support this, too.
Machine guns are already illegal almost everywhere.
I'm pretty sure you have to pass a strict background check and pay a $200 fee, but I know it's possible. Same with silencers/suppressors. Otherwise, this man would be in jail by now.
After noting the higher "efficiencies" of privatizing education, Adam Smith still concludes that a more broadly educated public through public education (even at the expense of wasting a bit more money on less-motivated students) is ultimately for the public good.
The current school system in the US is a bloated government monopoly, indifferent to competing models of schooling. You pay for it through taxes whether you send your kids to public school, private school, or if you homeschool them (or even if you don't have kids at all). There are alternatives to public school in the US, but the government doesn't care. They get their money, even if you shell out for private school or quit your job to homeschool.
At the minimum, parents should receive vouchers equivalent in value to what the local public school system pays per pupil, vouchers that could be redeemed at private schools, or used for homeschooling expenses. This would put real pressure on crappy public schools to reform themselves or face starvation, unlike the misguided "No Child Left Behind Act".
Hell how many even OC or use liquid cooling? if it was more than 5% I'd be surprised.
Not too many people overclock, true. But I sure do; I found that a +20% overclock/overvolt on my aging Kentsfield CPU was well worth the +45% jump in peak power consumption, and it turns out Kentsfields really don't mind running at 80 degrees C under load. Framerates in Crysis 2 and L.A. Noire are playable now, and I didn't have to shell out for new cpu/mobo/ram. Oh and fwiw, it really pisses me off that you can't overclock low-end Intel CPUs anymore. I have fond memories of boosting my C2D e4300 from 1.8Ghz to 2.7Ghz. Props to AMD for unlocking the multipliers on basically all their CPUs these days.
However, a lot of people use cpu and especially gpu coolers with heatpipes, which is a liquid cooling of sorts. The "twin frozr" system MSI uses on my Radeon 7850 has heatpipes galore and keeps my card cool and quiet despite my overclocking.
Heatpipes were really a great idea, bringing many of the benefits of liquid cooling along in a compact, hassle-free package. No risk of leaks or water pumps failing, no need to construct a big radiator rack that requires a full-size or larger case...
Oh also, as awful as Netburst CPUs were (long execution pipeline? blech no thank you - I game...), I'd like to see someone overclock one to 10 Ghz for the lulz.
The Ferrari (or any exotic foreign sports car) can attract women, usually without even turning a wheel. A PC (even with that SSD), not so much.
The Ferrari will attract gold-diggers, and the fancy computer will attract girls who like computers. I'll take the computer.
Also if anyone is considering buying a Ferrari, don't. I'd suggest buying two Corvettes and two walkie-talkies - one for you, one for a friend!
If you sit in front of me, you're likely to find my feet right behind yours. This is part of the reason I no longer fly. The rest being accounted for by the TSA nonsense.
Same here, pretty much. The security took way too long at McCarran Int'l last time I was there. Then the plane ride was uncomfortable, even for a little guy like me.
What we need is a new approach to passenger seating that takes into account security, comfort, and economy. How about this: Replace all the airline seats with padded tubes stacked like firewood (think Bruce Willis's trip to Phloston Paradise in The Fifth Element). Mix nitrous oxide in with the passenger tube's air to sedate them (I imagine it would be hard for a terrorist to hijack a plane while sedated). Safety procedure for an emergency landing is: you do nothing, because you're already limp (and therefore less likely to break bones) and you're wrapped in a giant padded burrito. Awesome. Maybe wake people up if you're ditching the plane in water, but otherwise, nah. Just eject their tubes a safe distance away from the aircraft upon landing.
Imagine boarding a plane in Los Angeles, lying down on a comfy pad, and then the next thing you know... you're waking up in New York, or Paris, or Moscow, hearing the local time and weather from the soothing, confident voice of a captain who you just *know* held an eight-hour orgy with the rest of the flight crew while everyone else was sedated.
Some people would throw up from the gas as they disembarked, sure, but that's a small price to pay. Plenty of people get airsick during turbulence and the airlines just give them a sack.
I am still wanting to see a viable long term storage solution for the waste...
We have one in the US. It's called "Yucca Mountain". It's all ready to go, but Sen. Harry Reid put the kibosh on it, because he's an idiot who unfortunately holds a lot of sway in the senate.
Even bytes get lonely for a little bit.