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interesting idea but the system is pretty much not able to be used for any task and this type of thing will end up as landfill.

higgs landed almost exactly in the middle of the range between supersymmetry and multiverse - first, the higgs is in the metastable range - a middling result. second - Higgs above the max of 115 GEV needed for supersymmetry to work and less than the 140-145 that make the multiverse theories work out.

Its exactly where none of the theoretical physicists wanted it to be.

back to the drawing board.

my favorite part of this all is that the last generation's retina have: 1) larger batteries, 2) better track pads , 3) magsafe vs crap connector for power USBC 4) horrific keyboards that have no travel, bad feel, no space between keys and 5) on macs with that stupid touch bar no physical ESC key.

not only is it disappointing and boring but things are starting to go backwards.

I wish there was a solution to this. All crap from telus it looks like.

I played wc, wc2 and all the special missions until my fingers bled without cheating and without fearing the 486-dx2-66. i played that game and i never cheated and I made medal of honor on all possible missions. it was the best game ever!!!! :)

That tool looks really, really great. Vector networks.

Ill tell you what. Every single bulb is LED, tv plasma-> led, all appliances and fans upgraded to energy efficient, all HDDs->SSD, all lights on sensors, no heating used, no AC used, and my bills are bigger here in CA than ever. So if there is a glut of power I can also say that datacenters pay less than people in homes and its not cheap to charge electric cars, in fact, they are charging more per kwh and changed a lot of free charging stations to pay-for/metered. As a little guy in a brutal tax bracket its too bad all this energy progress hasnt helped out with the bills.

I've noticed that comments here that are critical of Bezos gets met with downvoting. Sad. Why Microsoft got the 3rd degree and Amazon gets a pass is beyond me. I guess that large unethical companies like Amazon can use AIs to police sentiments about them and do the needful. We should start looking for anti AI mechanisms in discourse as well as work to ensure paid sockpuppeting and gas lighting is not going on. The truth is going to be harder to get at these days.

Bezos creates a boiler room. Bezos, to me, is the most Machiavellian man alive and the arms race he started is being emulated by the likes of Jack Ma. This will not lead to happier people. Spying, advertising, fake and low quality products and constant consumption and consumerism is the goal of scamazon. I do like whole foods, a bit expensive, I use co-ops when possible to source food, but Amazon will make sure to gut headcount and compromise on quality anywhere possible to make an extra penny. Bezos farms all this money simply to be the richest and to play with rockets in space while we all suffer from shrinking middle class, lower education standards for most, cancer and an energy crunch. Bezos is dangerously smart, possibly the smartest business man alive or ever, but he is just not a good man. Every one of his successes requires the original to be sacrificed at their hands. using their infrastructure - aws - guarantees that if you are successful there Bezos will steal your model and compete with you.

I knew whole foods was falling at the hands of Costco, organic for cheaper, but whole foods had great variety and did try harder than all the other big-chain food stores.

Every scamazon victory feels like a loss of the world.

Time to bust this trust. Time for regulators to start breaking scamazon up.

Sometimes space and military programs will produce technology that later becomes commercially very useful, eg, Raytheon and the microwave oven (First introduced Radarange 1946 - and Amana made a more generally consumable model in 1967). The whole "dig holes and fill them up again" was wonderfully covered in Orwell,1984.. The noble version of this would be Space Exploration, search for unlimited energy (eg, fusion), or cancer cures. The military industrial complex speech given by a sitting US president, Eisenhower, here - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp - more or less predicted that the 1984-style approach to perpetual state of war will be taken unless big changes were made.

"War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. "

5.2 is windows 2003 / xp-64-bit. XP is 5.1. 64-bit XP was based off of Windows 2003 code base. All are out of support at this point. Doesnt seem like MP or 64-bit is supported per https://reactos.org/wiki/AMD64.

Actually, FreeBSD does have that ability. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html

I just tried it in VMware Workstation, both on Linux and Windows. Looks to be 32-bit only. Did not install. Rebooted to black screen. Also did not detect multiple CPUs. Tried settings for windows NT, 2000, 2003, Windows XP and Windows XP-64-bit. I've booted Windows NT 3.51 in here as well as OS/2 Warp, Solaris, and other less used OSes in here. This is one of the very few that didnt boot. I dont get how Windows NT 5.2 (2003-level) is going to be very useful anymore as the two OSes at that level, Windows XP-64 and Windows 2003 are out of support so while this project is impressive Im not what the point of it is outside of being an interesting science project. It also didnt support NTFS, only FAT during install.

NOTE: Just got it working. Seems to be UP only, 32-bit only, works under "Windows XP Pro" profile with IDE only.

Impressive clone of windows 2003 32-bit, 13-14 years after...

Try arguing with them about an SLA violation they had with their cloud infrastructure. The game is setup where they can chisel and have these guffaw and aw garsh moments but every adword and every billable second on their cloud will get paid hell or high water.

Yeah, a guy with 80 billion dollars whose company totally denatured a blue collar Boeing engineering city into a city with the top 10% living like kings, brutal real estate situation, bad traffic and transit , no middle class anymore - everything costs too much from housing to tuition. And this guy with 80 billion will put up 200 of the down trodden per night. Yeah, lip service.

I agree with Nick - Nick Hanauer www politico com magazine story 2014 06 the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014 .

The hero worship and the billionaire worship has to stop. And above all Amazon does not create anything of value. They are middle men. And whatever they touch they destroy. Small businesses. POOF, predatory pricing. Walmart, done (Amazon is so bad it makes walmart look like a good guy that hires people in real stores). Sears, gone. And with compute? sure, its cheap, its utility, and margins on hardware, near zero. But if you instantiate an amazon instance for 1 second, oh, you are getting that bill even if the IOPs are trash and it takes 20 minutes to boot.

Make no mistake Bezos is not a "good guy" he is a maniac and a megalomaniac. When he finally manages to get your job (or you manage to finagle a high stress job at Scamazon) youll sing to a different tune.

"So, I don't think this is a conversation I will engage in any further." Confirmation on being called out on confirmation bias confirmed.

So if a girl gets FGM and doesnt cry its ok? Are you insane? So if one is induced with anesthesia and they cut your arm off its ok then? MGM = FGM, and you denied a child a choice when there was no immediate danger. I wish I had the choice. I had the cahones to let me son remain un-mutilated and if he dislikes it so much he can lop it off. Think for yourself. Question authority.

MGM (circumcision) = FGM. You can lie to yourself and others but the person being mutilated is being denied a choice when their lives are not in danger.

Confirmation bias. You will never know if the benefits outweigh the risks and you denied the kid the choice. I wish I had the choice. Mutilations cannot be reversed. You probably did it because - 1 it was done to you, 2 some custom from a desert 2000 years ago and 3 you wanted Jr. to "be like everyone else". I've heard all the reasons. Cut his middle finger off too so he can't flip the bird - that could save him from a potential fight. Also sewing his mouth shut might prevent sass talk

As a middle class person without a property and kids just knowing we maintain salt ponds in an area where housing is in a world-record man-made critical shortage in a state where if fly over at night is mostly empty is beyond me. No houseboats (not many), no more foster city style land creation. Not much building up. Massive swaths of land that isnt a park, nor a preserve, nor "usable", but remains undeveloped. Poor public transit. I visit Japan quite often and wonder if San Fran had gotten firestormed into oblivion in 1945 we would be further along? Makes no sense to me to see Tokyo, starting from near nothing in 1945, holding 5 times as many people, having 525 subway stations, having so much more housing built up and infrastructure and a huge middle class (of course with demographics issues, but still) and to be here and watch basically the worst played game of Sim-City played out in real life. Billionaires club over here. I dont get why they like to live near muddy stinking salt mush while their baristas, kids teachers and man-servants need to rent tents in Gilroy to make it paycheck to paycheck.

My wife always bugs me about the cold. I tell her operating rooms are cold. Heat = entropy, disease vector increase. Any thawing of permafrost will start to revive dormant diseases, viruses and flora. We might as well complete the trifecta and start looking for ancient DNA and revive long gone species for the win. She always tells me cold and drafts = sick, but if you look where the percent of currently diseased - its never in the north - always in tropical places where diseases, worms, parasites have a field day. There will be a day where she'll be begging for the cold :)

To be fair - dropbox has shown considerable restraint here. In all that time hackpad was useful and not apparently neglected. And given dropbox gives a small footprint for free, and a bit more of you make virtual instances and email codes to yourself, its not the worst in rent seeking.

IPv6 solves mAAAAny issues. DNS issues causes MAAAAny more. I dAAAAbble in v6 here AAAAnd there AAAAnd the situAAAAtion is still pretty dire.

I heard on Bloomberg tv / news that Tesla has a target price for the Model 3 in the high 50's/low 60s. So they start in the high 30s and have upgrades that can double the price.

I find it unfortunate that there are this many upgrades. I wish they made an efficient model with a decent array of base features (eg, self driving stuff) without relying heavily on upgrades to get margin.

I hope Tesla comes out with a car in the 30s that is more or less feature complete (luxury upgrades like wood panels, Corinthian leather, etc are fine but tech should be there in base).

The other thing that seems unfortunate is the cost per kwh causes a lot of overlap with hybrid vehicles in terms of cost per mile. To me the holy grail is 100% battery 100% self-driving cars which will reduce smog and particulate pollution and increase air quality and reduce deaths per mile - we need to get there ASAP - but 60k cars DOES NOT HELP get us there faster and I really feel rats like PG&E are really monopolies gouging us on electricity prices terribly. .

Cost per mile kwh/price of gas / mileage: https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf

Honestly, the #1 terminal program is SecureCRT and its worth paying for. The only reason: There are two great and efficient ways of managing logins and session information. I wish there way an open copy of SecureCRT but I've yet to find one and SCRT is cheap enough to where I just stick with it. Kitty is interesting but I wish session management was scrt style.

I think headline means SnapChat crashes more than the twitter app or anything else.

Relative to the cost of living and housing I would say bay area is way underpaid at this point

Japan is in the worst earthquake zone. How are 2 million dollar 4:2 "homes" and stressed and strained schools a good thing? Where are your kids going to live? Do even consider planning for the future?

The bay area. The best, brightest, smartest, pedigreed, hardest working most motivated people on earth. And we cant solve the simplest problems in the Maslow's hierarchy. American Indians solved the housing problems with Teepees and Wigwams - so much for being "smart." There was an article recently where a google employee was living in a 24 ft truck in the google parking lot. This Bay Area mess is a self inflicted joke. What I find amazing is Tokyo. Tokyo, 1945, burned to the ground, population 3.5 million. Today, Tokyo is at 13 million and the Tokyo-Yokohama urban area is 37.8 million. And if you've ever been to japan public transportation is functioning and the society seems to nail basic needs much better than smarty-pants bay area.

Good idea. Too little too late. I suffer horribly with my small family and two good jobs. One job basically pays for the taxes. And housing is so expensive I cant get over the hump to get a mortgage to see any tax benefits. Its really crushing to not be a landed gentry here. We rent is a good school district and have a kind landlord but we cannot build housing equity besides having good jobs.