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Originally Posted by .//TuNdRa
If AMD goes Bankrupt; Intel wouldn't be allowed to buy them up in Liquidation, another company would have to take possession, to ensure that Intel still has competition.
Originally Posted by Harlequin
and what if no one bought them?
Originally Posted by .//TuNdRa
I was suspecting that was the case, from the absolute lack of information i'd heard about a different stepping, while AMD was busy pushing Piledriver as hard as they could.
Originally Posted by Harlequin
so if AMD goes bankrupt , how wouldnt it happen?
Originally Posted by Anfield
As the financial crisis has taught us, they'll simply get tax money if they are risk of going under, so no need anymore for buying amd cpus as a charitable act.
Originally Posted by fluxtatic
They've sunk enough into it now that they'll keep on with the BD-derivations to the end of the roadmap they laid out (2014 or so, iirc), I suspect. I wouldn't be surprised if they bailed after that and concentrate on the low- and mid-range in the consumer space. What'll really kill them is if they can't come up with competitive server procs. AMD and Intel both make an absolute killing on server platforms, and things aren't so rosy for AMD there, either. BD is awesome at some very specific server applications, but that can't carry them. They need to get back to the drawing board and figure out how they'll beat Intel in the server space again.
Originally Posted by Elton
For some reason I get the inkling of a feeling that AMD might end up combining K10 and BD architectures. I'm sure there's still some way to pull it off. After all Intel did it before.
Originally Posted by Action_Parsnip
Intel never merged Pentium M (Conroe predecessor) and Pentium 4. Hyper Threading and a trace cache are not things that made the P4 a P4, a very long pipeline, high latencies for even common, simple instructions and horrendous branch-missprediction penalties were those things.
Originally Posted by .//TuNdRa
Who knows? At this point in time; they're just upping clock speeds and IPC, which means they'll have to alleviate some of that branch prediction penalty that's kicking the IPC in the teeth.
Does mean, however, that Piledriver might have lower temps. Bulldozer is wieeeerd with the temperature scales. Phenom II Chips went through reasonable curves. BD chips just jump. There's no curve there. 30-*load*-50. 51. 52. So on and so forth. Even did the same thing under water, cheeky bugger! (Yes. I had a good application of thermal paste. Yes. The block was unclogged. And yes, I checked all of this on first install on air anyhow. BD is just weird.)
Originally Posted by Harlequin
i cant see Piledriver being a huge step from BD - its the one after which should fix the issues.
Originally Posted by Harlequin
and what if no one bought them?
Originally Posted by .//TuNdRa
It's not the engineers. AMD is using artificially generated CPU Silicon designs, not the original Hand-designed, carefully planned pathways that wound up more efficient and smaller. Which is letting them down in some areas.
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Town Square
We can be the greenest city of all
Original post made by Cut down carbon emissions, Fairmeadow, on Oct 22, 2007
Web Link
WE should consider making it mandatory that residents of PA cut down their carbon footprint, with limits for carbon emissions per year and stiff fines for those that do not comply.
It seems to work in England.
In a couple of years when Mayor Kishimoto steps down from the council this would be the perfect position for her to take on.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 22, 2007 at 8:23 am
Here comes 1984.
LibLud Malthusian Lysynkoist science.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2007 at 8:26 am
The global warming doxy is not only the new Marxism - it's a new mental disease! Too bad that increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere LAG the actual warming, so I'm not sure what this type of self-imposed deprivation will actually accomplish. As for your post - it's one thing if the deprivation is voluntary - we need to fight any politician who proposes to control us through enviromental extremism.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:52 am
It's one thing for 160 loonies in the UK to voluntarily do this; it's completely idiotic to expect that a city of close to 60,000 will stand still for it. The population demographic of Palo Alto differs significantly from a woman who lives on a coal barge and converts waste from her toilet into fertilizer (see web site cited previously). And burning wood for heat??? Can you imagine the environmental impact of everyone in Palo Alto doing that???
Most live in Palo Alto because we want and can afford the amenities that life in an affluent city provides. We're not about to revert to living in caves. Or carrying fresh water home by bicycle to a converted barge.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:04 am
Jim and ten18 fail to take into account the well established fact that (as Al Gore said in his recent Palo Alto appearance), the earth is in dire crisis right now. We have only a few years to take drastic action to curb carbon emissions.
It is the responsibility of us all to take actions that will save the planet. None of us can be exempt from the sacrifices it will take. In Palo Alto, we are fortunate that there is a high level of environmental consciousness. So many of the required reductions in high-carbon lifestyles can be implemented on a voluntary basis.
As in all socially responsible iniatives, there will be some recalcitrants. For these, there is nothing wrong with economic encouragement in the form of high taxation of energy-intensive lifestyles. ANd if that fails, of course there are mandatory measures that can (and must) be made for the good of the planet and for us all. The time for dithering is past.
I do not see the measures taken by the responsible people in the UK as burdensome. Here in California, the weather is so mild, that we do not even have to heat our large homes most of the time. (Try an extra sweater or a jacket when it gets cool.) And what a wonderful place we have for bicycling! We could virtually eliminate private cars here, which might be an inconvenience - but a small one compared to the environmental benefits we'd enjoy with our sacrifice.
Let's show the rest of our wasteful country how it can be done!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:10 am
Al Gore is a self-important, self-promoting gasbag who has obviously brainwashed the weaker minded of us with his propaganda movie, which has already proved false in many areas. There is NO imminent crisis looming due to "carbon emissions."
I'm all for clean (although I'm sick of "green"), non-polluting (and carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant) energy sources. Energy efficieny is also a noble goal. However, I haven't worked like an animal all my life so that I can sacrifice for dubious "environmental benefits."
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:11 am
As I recall, the gloom and doomers have been saying that the "time for dithering is past" for the last 30 years. We're all still here, so either nothing is going to happen - or, it's too late, so why bother?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:32 am
I always kind of wonder about people that promote this level of energy savings. Where are they getting the energy to post messages about it? What about the energy to deliver it, store it, retrieve it?
Hard to take them seriously.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 12:17 pm
looks like a few people in town need to look at this logically, including most of thew above posters
Web Link
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 22, 2007 at 12:33 pm
That little high logic course left out an imprtant choice: Choose column "A" (action), but WITH nuclear power as the main action. That would solve the problem much better than any luddite schemes, AND it would prevent a worldwide deprssion. Doesn't get any better than that!
Come on, Mike, you gotta support nukes... if only because you wanna be logically sensible.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Do the same truth table exercise with nukes, and deploy worst case scenarios. the answer is pretty clear. Go ahead, try it.
What you keep leaving out are important innovations happening as we speak - including nano-nased solutions, and sophisticated incentive-based programs to change behavior.
Nuclear power is a losing proposition, leading to short term gains, and ultimately less innovation in the power supply sector. The downside to nukes are massive.
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 22, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Nukes are both short term and moderatley long run (several decades)successes. If nanotech, etc. cannot compete, as long promised, they will need to wait their turn.
I cannot think of any serious downsides to nukes, as long as they are properly regulated by the U.S. government for safety issues. The fuel is cheap, and long lasting, and it can be recylced into even more fuel (until all the U-238 is gone, via Plutonium-239 fuel cycle). Nukes do not emit greenhouse gasses.
The global warming hysteria was started by Margaret Thatcher as a ploy to get nukes approved in Britain. The irony is that she was right about nukes, and she got caught up in her scare tactics about global warming. She must be cringing, at this point!
Back to your chart: Please go ahead and add another row called "go nukes" (under the action column, "A" and the inaction coumn "B"). What would you put in those boxes, Mike?
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 22, 2007 at 2:08 pm
If one follows the logic of the video, we'd never do anything at all in any field of human endeavor.
If I considered the worst thing that could happen to me driving to the grocery store (I'd be in an accident and die), and took the necessary action to avoid that possibility (stay home and grow my own food), most people would say I'm over-reacting to a small possibility of a great harm.
Moreover, the chase of staying home and growing my own food isn't risk-free either because I'd likely eat a less varied diet, making me less healthy possibly. And if I were spending all my time growing food, I'd be poorer - making me less able to afford good medical care and other things that being better off would afford me that might extend my life.
Same thing in the video. Spending a lot of money avoiding the chance of global warming will make the world a poorer place. Poorer societies have more brutish lives, higher (infant and adult) death rates, less medical care...and you get the rest.
In sum, we all weigh risks and benefits, calculating the odds as we go. The video glosses over the very real deleterious effects on health, happiness, and even of actual existence for people who are made poorer by the global recession he posits might occur from spending to avoid global warming. (And it can be bad: check out some descriptions of life in the 30's depression - which the video says may be less drastic than the depression caused by spending to avert a climate crisis that may not happen.)
So unless we have some more information on what the odds are of catastrophic global warming that might be averted by spending a lot of money and impoverishing much of mankind, the video really makes no logical sense.
We can't say how much we should spend to avoid global warming without more information about the costs of doing so, and without knowing more about the probablity distribution of various global warming scenarios than we do.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 2:20 pm
You're bringing in a variable that creates an argumentum ad absurdum. We're talking about nuclear power. If you believe your own argument, and take your logic in the other direction, anything goes, including unbridled pollution. Think about it, or go read Copi's "Introduction to Logic".
Again, I asked you to do the SMAE excercise for nukes - what did you come up with? Please don't try to intoroduce a variable that has known negative consequences, without bringing in those consequences.
What I would like to see form you - without introducing variables that are absurd, oro whose negative consequences are well known - is "how is the argument presented in the video mistaken, on its own merits?"
Can you do that. if not, you've just lost this debate.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Don't look at the UK as the B all and End all of being green. There may be some good programs around the country, but they are isolated and not the norm. I have relatives all over the country. Generally speaking, they are not as green conscious as we are here. They are not able to recycle anything like the amount of products that we do here, and when they can, it is usually more effort on their part, e.g. taking all their glass to bottle banks in the community where they have to sort the glass by colour. They may be more into re-using, composting and organics than we are here, but that is often done as leftover habits from WWII when rationing and the like was very strict. They never really got into using paper products and other throwaway items as we have here. They have had very strict laws about burning smoke and pollution fuels, e.g. coal and wood fires, since the 60s when there was a big effort to get rid of the city smogs - and it worked.
So, for the average Brit nowadays, there may be some programs going on for some green cities, but for the most part they are far from being the norm. It seems that our mayor was only shown the very best and travelled long distances (comparatively of course) to see them.
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 22, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Arrogant tone aside, Mike is correct when he implys that [without knowing the probability distribution] we cannot make good dscisions about what, if anything should rationally be done to avoid the potential untoward outcome of any risk. Nuclear power, global warming...anything with uncertainty associated ....has to be measured by the risk of going forward, the benefits of doing so verses the cost of acting (or not) and the probabilities of each.
Nuclear power has risks. Global warming has risks. We cannot say whether its worth taking on the risk of Nuclear power to reduce the risk of global warming without knowing more about each. This is the mistake made in the video, and the omission in Mike's arguments.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 22, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Davey is not wrong, the video does underplay the consequences of a Depression. A depression will bring about also death and other calamities that he only placed in the global warming column.
Also the video's choices are too limited. Perhaps there is a another column to stand in. a column explored by RMI where energy is conserved and the world's economy prospers. Where even if you don't buy into global warming, you still can reap economic benefits by participating.
In that column,
if climate change is wrong, you save money.
if climate change is right, you save money and save the planet.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Raising energy costs above the budget of the bottom half has the highest ptice of all, and we are approaching that now.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Saving money through conservation sounds reasonable enough, I cannot accept mandatory conservation and lifestyle change through punitive and regressive environmental taxes. This government gets more of our hard-earned dollars than they deserve. What are they going to do with more but waste it?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:15 pm
RMI talks about conservation through innovation, not deprivation.
They have rolled out solutions for corporations where the ROI is less than 12 months.
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:17 pm
"whose negative consequences are well known"
The reason I cannot come up with a negative box for nuclear is that I don't know of any serious issues. Please tell us what the negatives are. There have been many scare tactics over the years, but they all fall apart, upon rational analysis.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:23 pm
How much is it worth to avert any possibility of human caused global warming?:
1. Nothing
2. All the GDP of every country in the world, leaving nothing for food, shelter, or anything else.
3. Something in between.
Obviously one can't answer this without knowing something about the chances of global warming without action, and under any given level of anti-warming spending between 0 and "everything".
The flaw in the video is that it attempts to do so.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:37 pm
In my opinion, this debate is primarily politcal. Republicans had gay marriage as a way to drive their base to the polls. Democrats haven't been successful using the war as that driving force, so they turned to human-caused climate-change.
Now, I'm not saying humans haven't contributed - who knows, in reality there are probably a lot of factors. It needs more study before you start managing people's private lives.
I think a lot of people are getting sick of the far right and far left. I'm voting libertarian from now on!
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 22, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I hope there is global warming; I find most days in Palo Alto a little too cool.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 22, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Cut Down, I think you and the Mayor, and any others you can get, should lead us all by example. You'll cut down emissions and besides, it will be fun to watch. Just a guess, but I think the Mayor may just do it long enough to generate the photo op (and then have the City hire someone to stand in for her).
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 22, 2007 at 8:50 pm
From viewing the video, it appears that the worst-case scenario associated with global warming (a high probability, if we listen to the nay-sayers) is far more severe than even the worst, most catastrophic accident conceivable involving a nuclear plant (exceptionally low probability), especially if evaluated at a global level. If using more nuclear energy could reduce global warming, the choice is a no-brainer. It's classic risk/reward analysis.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 22, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Let's go back to the premise of the original post. Palo Alto should try this because "It seems to work in England". Following the web link given, it "works" in England because 160 people are doing it. ??????
So, if I can find 160 people in England who survive through odd behavior, we should try to mandate that behavior in Palo Alto, because it "works" in England???
I can probably find 160 people in England who eat rocks and set small animals on fire for heat. Wouldn't that be a great, precedent-setting future for Palo Alto?
Do we want to solve a problem, or make Palo Alto the laughing stock of the entire world???
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 9:32 pm
"The reason I cannot come up with a negative box for nuclear is that I don't know of any serious issues. Please tell us what the negatives are."
Nuclear waste, nuclear accidents (are nuke plants 100% safe?)
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Yes, there are risks associated with nuclear power. The risks need to be addressed -- and weighed with the benifits. The risks can be minimized. The risks associated with global warming apparently can't be.
The idea that coastal cities may be destroyed by oceans that rise 20 feet worries me. The idea that a nuclear plant may have a problem also worries me, but not nearly to that extent.
Right now, something like 85% of the power in Lithuania comes from nuclear power. I don't stay awake at night worrying about that. The EU is forcing Lithuania to re-evaluate that, but the "cure" may be worse than the "disease". Here's a quote from the Central Europe Review (1999) - Web Link:
"Lithuania has already experimented with the import of heavy fuel oils and even the environmentally disastrous Orimulsion for use in its other power plants, but further reliance on such imported fuels could prove to be financially and environmentally catastrophic in the long term."
"Environmentally catastrophic". Isn't that what we're trying to prevent? And, that's from the alternatives to nuclear energy.
Do you stay awake at night worrying that Lithuania might have a nuclear accident??? Personally, I have a lot more faith in our research and regulation here, than I do about a small former Soviet republic. And, I'm not worried about their reactors.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Ah, the protection offered by distance. Are you writing from Lithuania? I doubt it.
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:36 pm
The "nuclear waste" that you are so worried about is really a tremendous asset. It has an enormous amount of U-238 in it. U-238 can be put in a breeder reactor, bombarded with neutrons to become Plutonium-239, which can then be used as a fision fuel. The remaining residual radioactive waste can be stored undergroud (Yucca Mountain or injected into subduction zones. It is not an issue. It is just a scare tactic.
Accidents, with modern designs are highly unlikely. However, if they do occur they will be contained by the structure around the core. Three Mile Island was a safety success, not a failure. Chernobyl was a faulty Soviet design, and it had no conatinment building. Even so, the disaster was not nearly as big as many predicted.
Nuclear power is an amazing opportunity to go green. Let's take it.
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Mike -
I'm not there now, but I've spent time there - and in that part of the world. I've spent a lot of time in Kaliningrad, Russia -- only a few hundred miles from the reactor in question.
I didn't think that distance was an issue for "global warming". It doesn't happen in Lithuania, or Australia, or the U.S. - it happens to the whole planet. An isolated nuclear accident affects a wide area - but doesn't destroy the whole planet we live on.
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Mike - I'll add another comment.
Palo Alto survived Chernobyl, it survived Three Mile Island. And we don't glow in the dark (except for the few who have too many Mojitos at Nola's on a Friday night).
Can Palo Alto as we know it survive a 20-foot rise in the oceans (and, by definition, the Bay) caused by global warming? Palo Alto, and the world as we know it, can survive the worst nuclear accident. It can't survive the doom-sayers predictions about global warming.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Nuke FUD
It's not gonna happen guys - look to other solutions...
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:12 pm
I'm not familiar with the term "Nuke FUD". Could you elaborate, explicitly?
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:46 pm
F = Fear
U = Uncertainty
D = Doubt
Lots of fear raised by the nuke community about how we're not going to be able to meet electricity demand w/onukes
Lots of uncertainty created by the nuke community about the chaos that will ensue
Lots of doubt sown by the nuke community about the sufficiency of other solutions.
Why is the EU trying to decommission all nuke plants? Why is there no VC investment in nuke technology?
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 23, 2007 at 12:03 am
we've just passed peak oil
Web Link
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 23, 2007 at 12:07 am
I find this discussion fascinating.
We're talking about global destruction caused by global warming.
Yet - we're still paranoid about nuclear power.
There's no way in hell that a nuclear reactor can blow up in the way we think it can (mushroom cloud, etc.) -- unless it's designed to do that (think Iran, Iraq). We're all conditioned by the "cold war" fears that we grew up with. A reactor just CAN'T do that. It's physically impossible. It may release radiation, unless it's contained. The worst that can happen is that it can overheat, and without appropriate containment apparatus, radioactive steam can escape.
Sounds to me like it's a lot less threatening than "gloabal warming".
If we listen to idiots like Al Gore, we're all dead. I'll take my chances on a few, strategically placed, reactors. I'm not afraid of Uranium or Plutonium. I'm afraid of morons.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 23, 2007 at 1:32 am
There's a new study showing that CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than predicted, possibly because the earth is losing its ability to hold it. See Web Link
Something drastic needs to be done, both in reducing our own release of CO2, but also to spend money figuring out how to capture it back and store it. I'm fairly sure that going nuclear is not the answer here, though, if only because it would scare people from voting for harder measures on fossil fuels.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 23, 2007 at 8:23 am
Palo Alto is going to waste a lot of money over the next few years just to do the trendy thing. Guess what, it won't have any affect at all on the future of the world's climate. But it's typical of our City to find something useless to waste our money on.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 23, 2007 at 11:23 am
Kyle, Let's pretend you're in a boat that sinking, taking on water in a slow, steady stream. What would you do?
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 23, 2007 at 11:54 am
Key phrase in Mike's hypothetical: "Let's pretend...".
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 23, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I believe nuclear power plants use a tremendous amount of water for cooling, and various places in the US are in long term droughts. That said, if they could fix that problem and the problem that no one has ever built a safe nuclear power plant (corrupt governments and businesses do shoddy construction and shoddy operations), this would be a good plan.
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 23, 2007 at 3:44 pm
If the Guardian article mentioned by footprint is true, then maybe Gore et al should stop excusing their own personally large levels of energy use (private planes, monster homes) with "carbon credits."
I believe that mandatory conservation is a wasteful, dangerous effort incompatible with democracy. Focus on other solutions that may be out there that may allow us to "clean" the environment without altering energy consumption. In the modern world of globalization and democratic ideals, there's no way to accomplish the conservation needed to stave off the most dire of predictions.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 23, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Did someone once say that there was an inverse correlation between the size of one's foot, and the size of one's intelligence?
Rafael, Yes, "let's pretend", the way that environmental naysayers have been pretending that the science behind global warming is a fantasy.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 23, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I stand corrected. There is not truly an inverse relationship between the size of one's foot and the intelligence. Other factors have to be taken into consideration. For example, the ratio of foot size to nostril inner dimension (deducting the mass of nasal hair) can be a determining factor. Additionally, if one is a practicing Buddhist, the length of the toenails becomes a factor. Sorry for the confusion.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 23, 2007 at 7:18 pm
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 24, 2007 at 3:11 am
Yes, nuclear uses a lot of water, as does other types of thermoelectric plants (coal, natural gas, oil). That is why nukes are generally located near large bodies of water. On the coasts ocean water can be used. Of course, the water is not destroyed, so it reenters the hydrologic cycle.
I've often thought that putting nukes on sturdy ocean rigs (like oil drilling platforms) would be a good idea. They would not have close neighbors, cooling water would be abundant, the electricity would be transferred via undersea cable to the grid. We already have a version of that with nuclear subs and ships.
A number of hard core environmental types have come to the conclusion that nukes make sense. New filings for nukes are happening...it is just a matter of time. There is no other realistic answer for the foreseeable future, if one wants to produce electricity with no carbon footprint.
There is no reason to risk a possible catastrophic economic depression by limiting ourselves to luddite prescriptions. We can have a healthy economy, as we move away from fossil fuels. Solar and wind can ramp up as their efficiencies improve.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 24, 2007 at 9:36 am
One word: tsunami
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 24, 2007 at 9:45 am
It's interesting that the same people who complain about "naysayers" blocking needed solutions to urgent problems with picayune objections and complaints when applied to city government, suddenly change their tune, and become naysayers themselves, when commenting on solutions to climate change problems.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 24, 2007 at 10:10 am
Tsunamis are very small when out in deep water. The wave height only becomes large when the water gets shallow. Putting a rig in deep water will make it much more tsunami-proof than putting it on the shore.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 24, 2007 at 10:17 am
The viros will oppose any "solution" because their ultimate position is that man should not change nature in ANY way.
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 24, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for pointing out, to Mike, Science 101 about ocean waves. Tsunamis are not even noticeable in relatively deep water. Normal storms, even bad ones, like hurricanes, are manageable with current technology.
Nukes are not opposed for realistic reasons. They are opposed, because they provided an alternative to the luddite schemers. Nukes are the greenest of the green technologies. They provide economic opportunity and growth, while also shutting down the carbon footprint. I wonder if Al Gore is investing any his carbon credit monies into nuclear power?
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 24, 2007 at 12:33 pm
BTW, here is an example of a sea-borne nuke that will be built. Supposed to be in service by 2010.
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Uncharted Movie - Actors that would really fit well (Opinion)[ Edited ]
When it comes to a movie version of Uncharted, i'm always very skeptical about who's working on it and who will be the actors.
For an Uncharted Movie, i think it would really need the actors that not only look familiar, but also have the most familiar attidude.
Here's my 'some' of own personal list of actors for an Uncharted Movie:
Bradley Cooper as Nathan Drake. (Don't google him, click on the link instead)
Now his face doesn't really look that much similar to Drake, but he seems to have a VERY familiar attidude/personality and voice.
Tommy Lee Jones as Victor Sullivan. (Link)
Tommy Lee Jones always reminded me a bit of Sully, same for his voice. I think he would be a good pick for an Uncharted Movie.
Jasan Statham as Charlie Cutter (Link)
IMO a perfect example! He looks and sounds a lot like Charlie Cutter, so could easily be a good pick.
What are your thoughts and opinions of this? Do you know any other fitting character for a Movie version? Let me know!
Re: Uncharted Movie - Actors that would really fit well (Opinion)
Now, if you really do the film, it is a good opportunity to release more games and get more profits with the franchise. It's a good time to understand what Naughty Dog has in hand a good source of profit, and not abandon the franchise, how are they doing with U2. Can also be a failure if this movie is not well made, I quote here the last two series Resident Evil, what's that? Only 3D effects and nothing more, numerous scenes in slow motion, very tiring. If you were to choose an actor for the role of Drake, it was still new, the Harrison Ford would be the guy for this role. If this film is produced, is doing good well done, keep the personality of each character as the game, and especially write a story that holds the audience, because I'm tired of this empty lot of special effects. I miss the good writers, they lack they make


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The NSW police assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch said the 58-year-old man parked his white sedan on the footpath outside parliament just before midday on Friday, prompting calls to the police.
Murdoch said when police arrived the man threatened to set the liquid on fire, causing Macquarie Street to be closed and parliament house locked down.
Negotiators spoke to the man for two hours and in that time he wrote at least two notes containing demands to police, Murdoch said. A police officer was seen to approach the car with his hands up and take one of the notes before walking away and giving it to tactical response police wearing bulletproof vests.
Murdoch would not go into the detail of the demands but it is believed he wanted to see the premier, Barry O'Farrell, who was inside parliament at the time.
Police were not in a position to meet or entertain those demands, said Murdoch. "We're still trying to get to the bottom of exactly why he did it," he said.
Negotiators maintained a distance from the car of several metres. Out of the man's sight, police approached the car with a firehose.
Murdoch later told reporters that when the man produced a lighter, officers decided to storm the car using "tactical gas" and crowbars to break open the vehicle.
Shortly after 2pm police moved the crowds back a further 30 metres before launching the assault. There were three loud bangs and then white smoke could be seen coming from the car.
Police hosed down the car and several officers opened the car, dragging the man onto the footpath before putting him in handcuffs.
The man was then treated on the side of the road by an ambulance officer before being taken to St Vincent's hospital with "minor injuries".
The 58-year-old man from Wollongong was "known to police", Murdoch said.
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Art, we are told, is in crisis.
For the past couple of weeks, we have been treated to a flurry of debates about whether contemporary art is actually any good or is simply a big confidence trick.
The BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz kicked things off with his claim that curators have been moaning about how the works of the so-called Young British Artists — that generation of enfants terribles who erupted on to the scene in the late Eighties and Nineties — were "greatly overrated".
These curators complain that the Marc Quinns and Tracey Emins dominate the galleries solely because of the vast sums their art fetches in the auction houses, rather than any intrinsic artistic value.
They seem to be suggesting that really good, new art is struggling to elbow its way on to the scene because these (not so) YBAs don't give them a look-in.
I can't agree. You see, I spend a fair bit of time around galleries, artists and curators. And I'm afraid the truth is somewhat simpler. The reason there are so few new pretenders to art's top table is that more than two decades on from that gilded Goldsmiths generation, frankly they're still the best reflection of our times, now more than ever.
You only had to suffer the tide of rubbish at Frieze this year to realise that there is nothing anywhere near as explosive or revolutionary as, well, Freeze — the 1988 show led by Damien Hirst which planted his generation on the London art scene map. The best art at Frieze over the years has still been by the likes of the Chapman brothers, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume.
It has become the fashion to blame this paucity of radical new movements on the megabucks industry that has built up around contemporary art. Influential US critic Dave Hickey says he is packing his bags and leaving modern art altogether.
But he and Gompertz are missing the point. The galleries and dealers they say are conspiring to inflate prices aren't doing anything wrong. In fact, I admire them. If they can persuade a rich idiot to spend a million dollars on bad art, so what? Who gets hurt? It's not a fraud, they're not Bernie Madoff. From what I know of these kinds of collectors, the dealer makes his money far more honestly than the guy he's selling to.
No, the "problem", if there is one, lies in our society and its values. Art will only ever reflect and react to the culture around it. We live in a non-spiritual world. All the best art over the centuries has been inspired by religion. Who can argue that Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is not the greatest masterpiece of all time?
Rather than a world of spirituality, today we live in one obsessed by celebrity, money, consumerism, greed. Little surprise, then, that art is, too.
Art college lecturers and tutors whom I talk to say young artists themselves are influenced by the same obsessions. Where the Hirsts and Chapman brothers would have asked their tutors: "How can I find truth in my art?" the most common questions now are: "How do I get the right gallery to represent me?" and "How do I get the right articles printed about me in the right places?" In other words: "How do I get rich and famous?"
Perhaps we live in too comfortable times — for the echelons of society who buy art, at least. Historically, great art has been born from war, famine, poverty, the Black Death, revolution. Less violently, new movements can be triggered simply by reactions to cultural norms.
So the Renaissance was born from the uprooting of medieval society, Impressionism was a response to the reactionary salons of the era, the aesthetic group led by Whistler was responding to the oppressive moralising of the bourgeois Victorians. Skip forward to the YBAs, and you see BritArt being born in a generation divided by Thatcherism.
Like her or loathe her, Margaret Thatcher, with her conviction politics, was good for artistic creativity. Not just in art, but in literature, comedy, theatre, film. The radicalism of the times spawned a cultural rebirth.
But what conviction politicians do we have now? Where is the sharp political debate, unfettered by fear of treading on toes? Our politics are obsessed by trivial issues — George Osborne's train ticket, Plebgate. Perhaps we shouldn't wonder that the kids in our art colleges aren't plotting work to change the world.
As King Lear said to Cordelia: "Nothing will come of nothing." Without a major upheaval or clash in ideals and values, I suspect the YBAs are the best we can hope for.
But let's not forget that some of these are great artists, loved by huge numbers of people. The Hirst show at Tate Modern was the most popular exhibition by a solo artist in the gallery's history.
Their work engages people's imagination and, crucially, grips them emotionally. The Chapman brothers' Fucking Hell, depicting thousands of Nazi figurines being tortured in the underworld, is one of the greatest artworks of the 21st century. Hirst's shark in formaldehyde is a deeply thoughtful contemplation of life and death. Antony Gormley's meditations on the human body make us feel and think, which is what art should do. Thousands of people have been moved by these works.
And that's saying something, given how the closed club of gallerists, curators and museum directors these days have created this perception that art is impossible for normal people to understand. I sympathise with people who are trying to cut through the intimidating philosophising that galleries put us through. The public must have the self- confidence to make up their own minds. Don't be put off by those laborious explanatory notes on the wall; instead, think: how does this art make me feel?
With work of such quality, London's art world doesn't feel much like a place in crisis to me. But if it's revolutionary movements you are after, I may have discovered an answer.
Buddhist lamas predict that a three-day global collapse will start on December 21. No sun, no electricity, no internet. Birds and animals will hide, people will go crazy, the TOWIE girls will keep their clothes on. A world turned upside down.
Bonkers, of course. But maybe we should hope they're right. Perhaps that would trigger the next generation of YBAs.
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I started with the potatoes. I scooped the chicken fat into my cast iron skillet and turned up the heat. I sliced the red potatoes in half and added them all cut side down, sprinkling everything with lots of salt and pepper and sliced garlic.
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Oh, and parsley too. And see that bowl on the upper left? That's a bowl of toasted breadcrumbs leftover from this pasta. Those would figure in later also.
After about 25 minutes, the potatoes came out of the oven sizzling. I flipped a few over to check the color. Perfection!
Then it was just a question of plating. I scooped potatoes on to two plates, fried up some eggs and put them on the other side and bridged the two things together with the salsa. Breadcrumbs and parsley got showered on top. And behold the Instagram version:
There was so much going on here, flavor-wise, you'd think I planned it. But as I said, it had nothing to do with planning or recipe-following and everything to do with using what I had on hand. It's my favorite way to cook.
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Today's topic: What are the most effective websites for job placement:
Today's entry:
Hi Brian, I have a son in college who will graduate later this year. We want to get a head start on the job hunt and were wondering what the best websites are to use for finding job opportunities. There are so many these days it's hard to know which ones to use.
Bottom Line: I'll share with you research from two different compressive reviews of the job related websites. Information by Forbes & PCMag.com along with a little color from my perspective…
Starting with Forbes… Their career expert first suggests that for someone who is seeking employment they should spend their time searching for work this way:
· 80% of the time spent job searching should be networking and reaching out to those of influence within your circle
· 10% of your time should be spent on job sites
· 10% of your time on all other methods (filling out applications, reaching out to recruiters, out in the field looking for postings, etc.)
PC Mag rates the job related sites for effectiveness accordingly:
1. Indeed.com 2. CareerBuilder.com 3. Monster.com 4. Craigslist 5. LinkendIn
Commenting first on the Forbes guidance… It's still true that most of the best opportunities, especially in white collar related fields, aren't posted openly on many of the job sites online. Tapping into a sphere of influence of business professions still is the best way to find good leads that turn into actual job offers. Given that we're talking about your son, this may mean working your professional network assuming that he hasn't established a network himself. With regard to the sites…
LinkendIn is the best website for recruiters to identify talent. Given that your son doesn't likely have an extensive resume this may not turn into success on the job hunt front right away but it does make sense to establish a profile and update it over time. Craigslist tends to be a good website to find opportunities for local companies, often entry level or sales opportunities. You do have as many scammers as legit opportunities though so be careful. Monster.com is meh in my view. Yeah they have many job postings but they're often redundant, heavy in MLM related situations and often will have dated postings that stay active. Moving on to the top two.
CareerBuilder does multiple things well. It's a good job posting aggregator from various resources online and an excellent resource site. It has excellent tools for resume building, experts with advice on interviewing and standing out in the job hunt – etc. Indeed.com is the single best job aggregator online. It pulls job postings from virtually all credible websites and organizes them to easily understanding by category and geography what's available.
It sounds like with your diligence at this stage of the job hunt (prior to your son's graduation) that he'll be ahead of the curve come graduation time.
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DirectTV has offered streaming services to existing DirectTV customers for a few years now. Recently DirectTV announced an expansion of the streaming services to those who don't have a satellite. This lead to a great deal of misinformation. Here's the key… You can only stream the NFL Sunday ticket without the DirectTV TV service if you live in a complex that doesn't allow satellite dishes. So if you have a different TV service provider by choice… No streaming for you. Now if you do live in a complex that bans dishes here's what you can do:
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It may be true that we only use 10% or less of our brain at any given time but the key is at any given time. Our brain is effectively 100% active all of the time (else a section of our brain would be dead). The key is that our brain has different regions and cells that are designed to take on certain tasks and activities. For that reason we don't generally if ever use more than 10% of our brain at any given time (hence the misconception) but we do use almost all of our brain at least some of the time depending on what we're doing.
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· Florida still has the highest overall rate of foreclosure activity nationally and South Florida highest in the country – bad news
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Features of Windows that Apple should steal, er, borrow, uh,
My favorite feature in Windows is the ability to right-click on the desktop and, from the contextual menu that pops up, create a new file, be it .wav, .txt, .zip, .xls (Excel), Word, PowerPoint, eFax, etc.
I'd love for Apple to steal it and claim that they invented it. Which features would you like to see Apple blatantly steal and incorporate in to the OS?
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Well, I don't know if this is quite on topic, but there are a number of shareware/freeware programs already available for OS 9 (as well as OS X) which I *strongly* feel Apple should buy out and incorporate (or would that be TOO "Microsoftian?" lol)...
These include:
DragThing: Bar none, the best multi-functional launchers/docks/etc. known to man. (although I know Drop Drawers has many fans as well). Available for OS X as well, and superior to the "official" Dock in many ways. Buy 'em out and merge one or both of 'em in with the Dock, says I.
GoMac: Hasn't been updated in forever, but hasn't really needed to be. Brings to the Mac the only true Innovation MSFT has ever actually come up with on their own, to my knowledge—the Task Bar. Not to be confused with DragThing above. GoMac's best feature IMHO is that it doesn't allow icons or windows to drop behind it, which is the biggest annoyance I have with the Dock in OS X.
FINDERPOP!!: If Apple is going to insist on keeping a one-button mouse as the default, then PLEASE toss a few bucks to the developer of this essential—and nearly free—contextual-menu enabler (as it happens, I have a Logitech 2-button mouse anyway, but you get the idea)...
Kaleidoscope: Apple should really get off this creepy obsession with snuffing out customization themes. Yes, Aqua is gorgeous…so what? The Mona Lisa is beautiful; that doesn't mean I don't want to look at other artwork from time to time. So what if 2/3 of the Kaleidoscope themes are annoying or make the GUI incomprehensible? If that's what people want to do with their computer…I say Apple should *encourage* customization as much as possible. Expand on the Theme/Scheme technology instead of trying to quash it.
Scroll Bars and Scrollability: I'm glad that Apple added the ability to move both scroll arrows to the end of the window, but Scroll Bars adds double arrows to *both* ends, which I find indispensable (I think Kaleidoscope does this as well, could be wrong). Scrollability goes along with FinderPop in making up for the single-button mouse problem: It lets you scroll up or down windows without needing the scroll bar at all!
If Apple would incorporate some of the above features into the OS, it would be a vast improvement. Of course, this would also constitute "stealing" one of Microsofts' most infamous traits: Wiping out the little guy by either buying him out or making him irrelevent. Ah well…just my opinion…
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One thing I miss from windows:
Ability to select n number of files and then get propriety of all of them together (in windows by right clicking and then propriety, on a mac option + i). This feature allow us to check the size of n number of files without the need to put them into a separate folder. In the mac, when you do this, it opens the info for each file… really annoying.
Or, maybe there is a shortcut on the mac to do this, someone help me…
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I like the ability to copy and paste files in Windows Explorer, to move them from one location to another. Apple needs to get on the ball with their MPEG-4 implementation and the ability to play DVD movies in OS X. I wish Apple documented as well as Microsoft does, and spent a little more money trying to woo developers. Maybe give them a little more incentive.
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Yes, I would have to say that's the biggest thing that Apple should emulate, Microsoft's efforts to work with its developers. Things seem to have improved at Apple, but the company still treats developers like the enemy when compared to Microsoft.
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I gotta tell ya. I'm not impressed by the two button mouse. When I use a windows machine—which is not often—I can't wait to get done. I hate. it. Like listening to hardcore metal music. Stop already. When I sit in front of a mac, it's like an amazing symphony. I don't want to leave. Sure there are things that Apple could do that Microsoft does, but I don't think there's anything that Microsoft really does better, per se.
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Scottk, that's a great way of describing how it feels to use a PC and Mac. However, I find two button mice quite convenient, and I use one on my Mac for easy access to contextual menus.
But, there is still a big difference between multiple buttons on a Mac vs on a PC. It seems that on a PC, right clicking is a integral part of the OS and it's often harder to do things without it. On the Mac, on the other hand, it's an added feature. It's not inconvenient to not have one, it's just that it can help if you do. When it's an extra feature, not a requirement, it makes all the difference in the world.
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On 2001-06-30 16:23, scottk wrote:
I gotta tell ya. I'm not impressed by the two button mouse. When I use a windows machine—which is not often—I can't wait to get done. I hate. it.
I use Excel and Access on Win95 at least 8 hours/day. The right click is like second nature, on the Windows machine. I too would like to see better incorporation of the "control" click aspect of the Mac. On my Mac I have been using a 4 button Turbo mouse and thoroughly enjoy it - using all four buttons constantly.
Program integration with the system and with each other seems better - at least on the MS programs, and that's to be expected.
That said, I also feel like you, Scott, when I get home, I feel like working on my Mac. I use Windows because I have no choice at work. But your description ...
When I sit in front of a mac, it's like an amazing symphony. I don't want to leave.
is absolutely right. I enjoy the Mac, the feel of it. I don't I would spend nearly as much time on the computer if it were a Windows machine. Maybe my wife would appreciate me getting a Windows machine!
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patience - now that's a virtue I can't wait for!
I apologize - but if I wanted to use a PC I would own one.
That said, I am fortunate that I work for a company that only owns two PC's - the rest of the 30 computers are Mac's. We love our mac's. And whenever we get a new employee it doesn't take long for them to ask why anyone ever uses a PC.
But I do have to agree that a two button mouse is much more effective. I have a logitech trackball - two button mouse at home and keep threatening to take it to work . But I'll probably just buy one for my office mac. Whatever makes the job easier.
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David Nelson: I think your take on the right button is right on. And I never really thought about it that way before. For a programmer creating a program for Windows, they are given more allowance to make a crappy UI because they have so many options. They forget that it is important to make several ways to trigger most actions. With a Mac, this is crucial since 90% of Mac users probably use the included mouse.
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Ok…you hit a subject that bugs me every day I work on Mac and PC (which is every day ). First, from what I have read, OS X takes advantage of 2 button mice. WOOHOO! Second, I WANT A MAXIMIZE BUTTON! Third, more keyboard shortcuts to cut down on haveing to reach for the mouse all the time (better text selection via keyboard). Fourth, A STANDARDIZATION! I work on Macs all day, I have 4 different CD's to boot various models of iMacs. On a PC I can take any bootable CD and put it into a system that supports booting to the CD and it boots…I dont have to hunt down which version of the CD I need. I have one CD that boots every PC I put it in.
I cant wait till OS X (or XI, or XII, or XIII, etc.) is a standard (more running it than OS 9.1 and lower).
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About CDs, any bootable CD will boot any Mac that supports that OS. I have used iMac CDs on PowerMacs, and PowerMac CDs on PowerBooks dozens of times.
At this point, I will also point out that Macs have been bootable from CDs many years longer than Windows.
Also, I think that you just may not know about all the outstanding keyboard shortcuts. In fact, I am going to start a thread about keyboard shortcuts.
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Douglas Hofstadter believes that analogy lies at the core of all cognition. Even if you don't subscribe to this unorthodox opinion, it is hard to argue against the value of a good analogy when getting to grips with a new subject. The danger, of course, is in overextending the analogy; conversely, the key to its effective use is knowing when to stop.
Is the term "Software Engineering" an analogy that has been overextended? It was originally coined by the organisers of the NATO Software Engineering Conferences:
In the fall of 1968 and again the in fall of 1969, NATO hosted a conference devoted to the subject of software engineering. Although the term was not in general use at that time, its adoption for the titles of these conferences was deliberately provocative. As a result, the conferences played a major role in gaining general acceptance, perhaps even premature, for the term.
It is worth reading the thoughts of Brian Randell, who was one of the editors of the proceedings of the two conferences. For me, the key statement is:
Unlike the first conference, at which it was fully accepted that the term software engineering expressed a need rather than a reality, in Rome there was already a slight tendency to talk as if the subject already existed. And it became clear during the conference that the organizers had a hidden agenda, namely that of persuading NATO to fund the setting up of an International Software Engineering Institute. However things did not go according to their plan. The discussion sessions which were meant to provide evidence of strong and extensive support for this proposal were instead marked by considerable scepticism, and led one of the participants, Tom Simpson of IBM, to write a splendid short satire on "Masterpiece Engineering".
And so the bandwagon started rolling. I think it was reasonable to adopt the term "Software Engineering" to indicate that producing large software systems is analogous to established engineering disciplines in terms of some of the disciplines required in order to be successful. However, that does not imply that it is similar to more traditional engineering disciplines in all ways: in particular, it does not imply that the "design then build" construction analogy is valid.
This was best explained by Jack Reeves in three articles on Code as Design. I think these articles should be mandatory reading for anyone involved in software development projects, so please take the time to read them for yourself. His key point is that:
The overwhelming problem with software development is that everything is part of the design process. Coding is design, testing and debugging are part of design, and what we typically call software design is still part of design.
Almost 20 years ago he had great insights into the nature of software development, and yet our industry still hasn't fully grasped the implications. Design is an inherently creative, unpredictable process; construction is an inherently rote (though often very skillful), predictable process. They require different kinds of people and different approaches to project delivery.
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– Speaking of complimentary, eating breakfast before you go stand in the security line helps make that process go much more smoothly (and more economical – airport food can be pricey!). When I am at a Best Western I often grab a quick muffin and a coffee and it always seems to take the edge off.
– Look for reward promotions. Best Western ran a recent promotion that rewarded travelers when they stayed on two separate occasions – pre-trip and post-trip certainly qualify! Cha-ching!
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