Comment Re:Not just for weapons (Score 1) 214
To pretend to be legit, Iran should start a deep space program. Then use the Pu-239 method to get their "desired" Pu-238.
Skip uranium enrichment and go right for plutonium!
To pretend to be legit, Iran should start a deep space program. Then use the Pu-239 method to get their "desired" Pu-238.
Skip uranium enrichment and go right for plutonium!
Exactly. It's quite difficult to walk or ride a horse while very ill. But lying on the floor on a steam ship or train car will spread the illness around.
The researchers say the finger of blame points to the invention of railways and steamships which allowed large numbers of people, and the diseases they carried, to travel long distances for the first time.
Or sick people didn't travel. Or the long-distance traveler stopped traveling after they became ill. Or a horse drawn cart didn't hold as many rats as ships or trains.
It would be neat to see a visualization of the spread of various diseases in our known history.
Windows went through many, many UI changes between Windows 3.1 and Windows 7. Almost all of those changes were improvements, and relatively few people complained.
No, lots of people complained, they just didn't have any choice. A minor change to Windows vs a major change with a new operating system. However, if Ubuntu ships with a new desktop environment like Unity, Linux users have a choice -- change the distribution but not the full OS.
I do agree that:
companies are trying to forcibly merge the dual-monitor-desktop experience and the smartphone experience in to a single unified experience and this grand experiment has spectacularly failed.
One size does not fit all.
A growing minority are turning their wide screen monitors on their side, enabling a large vertical space. With the wasted sidebar on the story detail page, all of the comments are squished into a narrow column. This results in much more scrolling, even on a vertical monitor!
At least let me resize the main comment column so I can make it wider or narrower!
When reading product (and book) reviews, I read all of the 1-2 star reviews first. I sense more honesty in criticism than praise.
If you also use Certificate Patrol, at least you'll know when you've been MITM'd.
It's nice to see a negative review here, and not gushing enthusiasm or downplayed mediocrity.
Um, lots of people liked Nokia phones and platforms before they switched to Windows Phone. Similarly, people liked Blackberry devices and would have continued buying them had RIM not stalled out for a few years letting iOS and Android devices eclipse them.
We might as well have a laugh at failed tech companies to soothe our sadness. (I'm still sad about Oracle swallowing Sun.)
The dual-booters could swing the numbers a bit, but we'll need more "It Just Works" when using a Linux desktop to get large numbers of gamers to move operating systems.
(That or somehow convince Nvidia/AMD to eek out more FPS on linux using the same hardware.)
rsync can easily compress the stream when sending and decompress when receiving.
This company could market their service as an appliance + service; have whatever computing and data storage power on-site, so only analysis would be sent over the network instead of the raw data.
Yes, --link-dest is how to make incremental backups with rsync so you don't actually use --delete.
If you deleted a file, then the newest incremental simply won't have it in it's directory tree.
YOU publish your own reproduce-able (and tweak-able, if you don't like their chosen settings such as -O3) benchmarks, and I'll be happy to look at them instead of Phoronix.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
