VladRussian2

When you have lets say 4 CPU cores and 1 active thread, Windows [by default config] wouldn't let the other CPU cores go into deep sleep [core parking] by intentionally moving the active thread from core to core. That supposedly improves performance on some tests as bringing a core from deep sleep takes some time noticeable by the tests. Keeping the cores "warm" also means increased power consumption.

when dogs play they frequently visibly take turns ( basically it goes something like this - Malamut to Chihuahua to "Now i'm doing to issue an attack call and you are to respond with jumping back" and after that call-response sequence Chihuahua to Malamut "And now is my turn.."), and it seems quite possible if monkey would be orchestrating their speech call-response sequences similarly.

How about 3x3x3x3 cube?

first episode of [modern] Battlestar Galactica.

may be we willn't as we already did. Google "sleep deprivation experiment".

>It seems possible that torturing animals for days on end could be fatal to the victim.

yes, all the things we humans call science...

well, whatever moves the science forward i'm all for it.

it is definitely targets market outside of Russia. Otherwise they would name it like "Samogon" (moonshine :)

>You're always going to have things that are scarce. They might not be the things that are scarce today, but not everyone can have everything.

you forgot the Continuum - they have no scarcity at all, so no economics (yet, surprise!, they still have politics)

well, to me it was expressed in the phrase i read somewhere "the year Magna Carta was signed <something about state of my old country 800 years ago>"

And curiously enough, 800 years later, my old country still hasn't reached the mental state that "the power of the king may be limited by the people". When i read about Latin/South America a lot of things sound familiar. The article compares AngloSaxon world against Spanish when it is basically AngloSaxon world against any other - i mean pick any place in Africa or Eurasia ...

and if the OEM continue to put all the trials and other bloat (and why not? :), now in Android version, it would allow for those $100 saving

well, imagination can run pretty wild - instead of Hellfire one can just arm them with a good 50KWt solid state laser - no resupply necessary:

http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52628

"The device cut through a 15-mm-thick steel girder at a range of 1000 m, shot down several diving target unmanned aerial vehicles at a range of 2 km flying more than 50 m/s, and engaged an 82-mm-diameter steel ball representing a mortar round and traveling approximately 50 m/s. "

250lb - can carry Hellfire. New incarnation of a multi-month-on-station [previously nuclear] bomber/cruise missile concept.

Tzar transferring wealth from (and publicly humiliating and stripping them of all the privileges, etc...) non-110%-loyal to him rich people (who built their wealth by "stealing from people" - in Russian mentality there is no other way to build a wealth) to the loyal ones is the national reality show in Russia. People there just love a "strict, yet just tzar".

are you kidding?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev

ruled 1969-1987, 1993-2003, passed the throne to his son:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Aliyev

"In 2009, following his reelection as president, Aliyev passed a referendum which removed the presidential consecutive term limit, thereby allowing him to run for president as many times as he wishes. Opposition claimed this to be a violation of the Azerbaijani constitution and the European convention on human rights.[13] It is widely expected that Aliyev will win the 2013 presidential elections.[14]"

and i have no doubts he will win :)

it is like this guy has never looked at http://www.despair.com/lithographs.html, even Barney Stinson has posters from there :)

the geometric rationale - the axiom of parallel lines.

On classic, Euclid, plane a pair of parallel lines would never intersect. Given a line and a point outside of the line, there can be only one line through the point which would be parallel to the first line.

If one modify the axiom to allow for many such lines through the point (the lines which would never intersect the first line) - that would result in hyperbolic plane geometry.

If one modify the axiom to state that no such line through the point is possible (i.e. any line through the point would intersect the original line) - that would result in the Riemann sphere geometry.

>Grokking two lines will take less time than grokking six lines.

when your mental/visual pattern machinery have been trained for 15+ years on the latter case? :)

"fail miserably" would be fine. Unfortunately it is "live miserably".

>Also keep in mind furloughs are not layoffs - just unpaid leave.

they pay back the salary for the furloughed days once shutdown ends - at least that happened to gov employees after previous shutdowns

the flying versions of these things are already killing. Or do you mean a robot/drone killing at their own will?

thank you, sounds interesting about brainstem BIOS/etc... , while other staff (i looked up from Wikipedia):

" The federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs.[3] Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in sovereign, gated housing developments. ... . The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the dynamic society around them."

sounds very similar to USSR/Russia around 1989-92. It were a fun times :)

well, not going to argue whether Lord of the Rings or the Dragon Tatoo Girl is a one or three separate books each.

Though "Hobbit" becoming 3-movie series would undoubtfully generate more money this way, so it seems Republicans is right on the money here :)

you're mistaking Continuing Resolution (Congress giving President(Exec Branch) weekly(or whatever) allowance - current drama) for Debt Ceiling (the source of the money for the Continuing Resolutions - next show coming in a couple of weeks)

>Frankly, I'd like it if it stayed this way. The government shouldn't tax-and-force in "non-essential" areas.

you must be kidding.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/2/irs-collectin...

"IRS collecting money but not sending tax refunds during shutdown"

not until Bezos becomes President. How about Government-as-a-Service? (I mean for regular citizens :)

>predator/herd dichotomy creates a needless dichotomy

"predator" is a role, it is the one who uses force/violence as a tool.

>predators and prey obviously don't agree in the state of nature

exactly. It took about million years of evolution for humans to get to the state where they became able to produce current agreement between predators and prey (i.e. some kind of government and society). Once they did, the humans took over the planet.

>the natural state of our existence is a very bloody anarchy

nope. At least during last hundred thousand of years (and well before), humans (the Cro-Magnon we're as well as other humans) have pretty much always had tribal organization. As you said yourself: "How I tend to view things is that humans are inherently pack animals. " Pack/tribe isn't anarchy. It is first and explicit step away from it.

>See, e.g., the French Revolution.

that isn't natural state. That is exactly what happens when predators transgress beyond the patience limit of the herd and the herd gets angry enough to throw out the agreement. It is also shows that such unnatural for humans situation wouldn't go for long, and the new pack would naturally emerge and the herd would rush into new agreement.

>The concept of "natural rights" is motivated by protection against the government.

yes, there is no natural rights in Nature, except may be the right to run as fast as one able to away from the next up in the food chain.

The current stage of human society is akin to a situation when a pack of predators and a herd of prey make an agreement that the prey willn't be hunted as long as it stays withing specified bounds. The pack will also protect the herd there from other predators. It is a win-win for both parties - the prey get relaxed and spend all its energy grazing and procreating and thus becomes fatter and the herd's headcount grows tremendously (the bounds were extended several times and now it is a pretty complicated patchwork), while predators hunt smaller percentage (the ones who can't keep themselves inside the bounds) of the much bigger herd of much fatter/slower/tastier prey with total amount of meat consumed by predators being higher than before the agreement.

The herd with time starts to believe that not being hunted down while inside the bounds is the natural right.

The predators sometimes can't resist and snatch some very tasty prey from inside the bounds - as long as such transgressions are kept below some low percentage, the herd wouldn't make big fuss of it to avoid risk of destabilizing of the agreement that works so great for the herd (true story, some members of the herd even have time and energy now to develop various theories about the thing they call Universe and why a prey and a predator got created(or evolved?)) .

They are afraid of droning, not work. Fine with me as the droning pays my mortgage.

edit: and it is pretty applicable to any generation - Gates or Zuckerberg (saying with all my distaste for FB or its creator) could have continue droning in Harvard and beyond, yet they declined, and as far as i know they are very far from being slackers.

hiring and onboarding 300 "hot" mobile developers (well more probably something like 100 devs plus 100 PM/mgr/etc plus 100 GSA) - this way they paid 200K/head and have them from day 1. Add client book too.