I believe this data is higher resolution than what was available to the public via the GRACE project. That said, the first thing I thought when I saw this was "why is this new?"
The humid air introduced into the house is essentially at dew point (if it's lower than dew point, the mesh / jets aren't doing their job forcing the water into the air), so the house will likely be warmer than that, making a few assumptions about the conditions outside. Now, if you had this pre-drier in Alabama, dropping the dew point to 40 or 50, you'd be able to cool the air 20 or so degrees -- about what your air conditioner does.
It's important to realize that it's not just the temperature of the air, it's the humidity that is a problem. With high humidity, it doesn't matter if the the temperature is 70F. Once you do a little light work (sorting boxes?) and your body temperature rises slightly, you will begin to sweat to cool off. With high humidity, the sweat won't evaporate, so your body doesn't cool, and you sweat more. Some of us don't like to be sweaty all of the time.
Neither XP nor OSX featured true DPI scaling, so I'm pretty sure 2002 never called about anything.
The DPI scaling in Vista/Windows 7 is real though, so it is finally a viable option. I've seen a few applications not work exactly right, but even they are usable. DPI scaling is here (for Windows at least).
But they still dropped a nuke, and are the only nation to drop a nuke on an enemy.
Word your way around it all you like, that fact still stands.
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are historically significant, but irrelevant for comparison to modern nuclear weapons.
Nobody is denying it, it's an important historical fact. It is simply irrelevant for this discussion, which is what makes you look like a goober running around with your hands up in the air. It would be like if there were a discussion on the best cellos we should buy or have made, and I kept bringing up Stradivari. Historically significant, and arguably the greatest cello maker ever, but not the least bit relevant for that discussion.
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are historically significant, but irrelevant for comparison to modern nuclear weapons.
The point was that you can't see the forest for all of the trees. It doesn't matter if the bomb used radioactive material or bananas for fuel, in the end it was really only useful for impressing people. Air raids and firestorms were so much more destructive that it's not even funny and he effective radiation was short lived, being measured in days and weeks.
Knowing what we know now AND dropping a multi-megaton weapon simply has no comparison to anything else in history.
Sorry guy. The only country ever to actually drop the bomb on someone else has been the United States. And as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the US is just as if not more likely than any of the aforementioned basket cases to drop one again. All it would probably take is another relatively minor terrorist outrage.
I know it's really fun to wave your hands in the air and yell about how the US is the only country that has ever used a nuclear bomb offensively, but it just makes you look like a goober.
The truth is that the nuclear bombs used on Japan were nothing like later bombs. The highest estimated yield for the Fat Man is 22kt, while Tsar Bomba is 50,000kt, or about 23,000 times the power. Please go educate yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
The US did far more damage in a single raid against Tokyo using conventional weapons than both the nuclear weapons combined. Dropping nuclear weapons was less effective from a destruction standpoint, but that wasn't their point. The whole point of dropping them was "shock and awe", and bluffing they could drop them all month long.
Dropping a modern nuclear weapon is in no way comparable to what was done 65 years ago.
I'll go ahead and comment because our experience was a little different. Because we have multiple locations, we found it was far easier and cheaper to build a storage array at each location and then replicate backups over the network. Using a bunch of 1.5TB drives gave us a lot of space and having the data striped gave us more speed than we needed. It's also a lot more useful when you need to restore something.
Of course, that's committing the sin of online backups. We realized that for offline backups we could just pick up an eSATA dock for $50 that accepts bare drives and have the backups copy to that. The speed copying on to the single drive doesn't matter because the backup has already occurred.
If you have multiple locations and/or don't mind staging data, then tapes really stop being important. If you have a single location AND still need to move backups offsite, then tape might still make sense.
Attic insulation tends to settle, decreasing the size of air pockets, and decreasing efficiency. The solution is usually simply to dump more insulation on top of the old. Granted, this usually only needs to be done every decade or so, but there is a certain amount of upkeep associated with insulation.
It should also be noted that there are often large tax incentives offered to people who upgrade existing equipment/insulation to better levels. And all new homes here are built using double paned windows and other features because otherwise the cooling costs during summer are ridiculously high.
It's basically just easier. As someone that has registered both.gov and.state.us domains, it is a lot easier. I can register a.com domain in minutes anywhere on the internet. For a government address, I have to fill out a bunch of paperwork, mail it in, and then wait for it to be processed.
Also, people are kinda idiots. Most municipalities don't realize that they can register.gov addresses, especially since they can't just go to GoDaddy to do it. Then there is the issue that many government departments like to operate autonomously from the rest of the city. So the city might have CityName.gov, but the police department doesn't want to use Police.CityName.gov because that would somehow mean they aren't operating on their own. So they will pick up CityNamePD.com because they don't know any better.
Towers stagger the frequencies they use so as to limit interference to/from other towers. As you increase density you must decrease power as you would otherwise cause towers using the same frequencies to interfere more frequently. If this weren't the case then all towers would transmit at maximum power and you wouldn't have dead spots anywhere.
Wait, let me get this straight... You are saying that, over time, wireless networks have not increased capacity over time?
Or now that they have, they will not continue to do so?
I didn't say either of those things. What I said is there is a LAW OF NATURE that limits how many bits you can transfer in a given swath of frequencies.
I implied two other things that I will just spell out now:
1. No technological advances will allow you to bypass this limit. That is what laws of nature are all about.
2. We are not at this limit yet, but we are close.
Most technological advances in wireless throughput center around three ideas.
1. Use the bits that we can send more efficiently.
2. Use more frequencies simultaneously.
3. Improve ECC to be able to transmit in otherwise useless frequencies.
Unfortunately, there are only so many frequencies that are usable, and this is why the US government auctions off sections of the spectrum to companies who pay gobs of money for it.
Sadly, I've actually toyed with the idea of placing a grounded metal mesh between my wireless access point and the outside wall of my house to reduce external interference. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to do it without my wife noticing a bunch of metal on the wall.
At some point wireless networks will have capacity that far exceeds demand
This is so absurdly wrong that I'm doing away with moderating in this discussion to comment.
With a wired network you can always run more wire and fiber to increase bandwidth and create full duplex communication. You can multiplex different signals through the same fiber. You can do all of these things to continually increase bandwidth to a location because you can protect the signals from interference by a millimeter of shielding.
With a wireless network you have a limited number of frequencies that are usable. Only a limited number that aren't blocked/reflected by sheetrock, a piece of paper, or water vapor in the air. And the frequencies that do work get interference from reflections, devices that leak EM, and other broadcasting towers. For a given range of frequencies (the bandwidth) there are hard and fast rules about how many bits you can transmit. Not technological limitations, these are laws of the universe.
The only way to work around this is to make the cells smaller, which means you need more towers, and more costs. Say that you have 6 towers to cover an area, if you halve designed transmit distance, you'd need 24 towers to cover the same area. And that only works so far because you have to balance transmit distance with still having enough power to transmit though walls.
Perhaps if some sort of quantum entanglement method is created for cell phones that doesn't require EM radiation to operate, then unlimited wireless for everyone will be a reality. Until that point it's just delusions.
What I mean is proper phone dummies would need to be phones in every way, save for the actual cellular radio. You'd want to remove or disable the radio in an actual phone and have it in there. It would also need to be turned on, as the real phones were. This would make sure it wasn't due to the heat, or light, or mechanical vibration, or any of the other things that the phone might do to disturb the bees.
Large electronics emit a high pitched sound, which is likely present in smaller electronics to a smaller degree. It's certainly possible that bees could hear something like that (this would fall under vibrations).
Also, while powered on and hooked to a power source for charging, the heat from the battery will be causing the plastic to emit various fumes (you can smell warm plastic if you're close). Small amounts of fumes that have no visible effect to humans can be lethal to smaller creatures (such as birds).
What on earth made them think that the inside of the hive was better than a foot away on the outside? If they were really desperate to see the effects of the radios used then they could have just hooked up an antenna to the phone, and put the antenna inside the hive.
I think what the grandparent was talking about was increasing the number of criteria for a law. A cellphone law had two situations that must intersect, 1) operating a motor vehicle and 2) talking on a cell phone. Many laws have 100 required criteria because they are built upon other laws with criteria. In these circumstances it becomes trivial to circumvent the law in any number of ways by a slight modification of your actions so that you don't align with one of the criteria.
Extra legislation to cover edge cases with so many criteria becomes a losing battle, and eventually everyone recognizes the law as useless.
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3G iphones still got for over $225.00 on ebay and craigs list used.
That doesn't make any sense. You can buy a brand new iPhone 3Gs from Walmart for $99.
I believe this data is higher resolution than what was available to the public via the GRACE project. That said, the first thing I thought when I saw this was "why is this new?"
The humid air introduced into the house is essentially at dew point (if it's lower than dew point, the mesh / jets aren't doing their job forcing the water into the air), so the house will likely be warmer than that, making a few assumptions about the conditions outside. Now, if you had this pre-drier in Alabama, dropping the dew point to 40 or 50, you'd be able to cool the air 20 or so degrees -- about what your air conditioner does.
It's important to realize that it's not just the temperature of the air, it's the humidity that is a problem. With high humidity, it doesn't matter if the the temperature is 70F. Once you do a little light work (sorting boxes?) and your body temperature rises slightly, you will begin to sweat to cool off. With high humidity, the sweat won't evaporate, so your body doesn't cool, and you sweat more. Some of us don't like to be sweaty all of the time.
What's your desktop environment?
I do know that the price difference between a regular system and one that can support ECC RAM is very small.
I'm curious about this. Would you provide an example of a motherboard that support a Core i3/5/7 CPU and some RAM that are both ECC?
Neither XP nor OSX featured true DPI scaling, so I'm pretty sure 2002 never called about anything.
The DPI scaling in Vista/Windows 7 is real though, so it is finally a viable option. I've seen a few applications not work exactly right, but even they are usable. DPI scaling is here (for Windows at least).
As mentioned elsewhere, it is only stored internally when no external storage is available.
If you reset the phone's Usage data before night, what does it say in the morning? IE, is there any correlation between the phone's logs and AT&T?
Just use UTF-8, all modern databases accept it as a field type. This isn't exactly a complex issue.
If you can't write your name in UTF-8, it doesn't deserve to be written.
But they still dropped a nuke, and are the only nation to drop a nuke on an enemy.
Word your way around it all you like, that fact still stands.
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are historically significant, but irrelevant for comparison to modern nuclear weapons.
Nobody is denying it, it's an important historical fact. It is simply irrelevant for this discussion, which is what makes you look like a goober running around with your hands up in the air. It would be like if there were a discussion on the best cellos we should buy or have made, and I kept bringing up Stradivari. Historically significant, and arguably the greatest cello maker ever, but not the least bit relevant for that discussion.
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are historically significant, but irrelevant for comparison to modern nuclear weapons.
The point was that you can't see the forest for all of the trees. It doesn't matter if the bomb used radioactive material or bananas for fuel, in the end it was really only useful for impressing people. Air raids and firestorms were so much more destructive that it's not even funny and he effective radiation was short lived, being measured in days and weeks.
Knowing what we know now AND dropping a multi-megaton weapon simply has no comparison to anything else in history.
Sorry guy. The only country ever to actually drop the bomb on someone else has been the United States. And as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the US is just as if not more likely than any of the aforementioned basket cases to drop one again. All it would probably take is another relatively minor terrorist outrage.
I know it's really fun to wave your hands in the air and yell about how the US is the only country that has ever used a nuclear bomb offensively, but it just makes you look like a goober.
The truth is that the nuclear bombs used on Japan were nothing like later bombs. The highest estimated yield for the Fat Man is 22kt, while Tsar Bomba is 50,000kt, or about 23,000 times the power. Please go educate yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
The US did far more damage in a single raid against Tokyo using conventional weapons than both the nuclear weapons combined. Dropping nuclear weapons was less effective from a destruction standpoint, but that wasn't their point. The whole point of dropping them was "shock and awe", and bluffing they could drop them all month long.
Dropping a modern nuclear weapon is in no way comparable to what was done 65 years ago.
Recent tests for 2TB drives show ~100MB/s writes.
I'll go ahead and comment because our experience was a little different. Because we have multiple locations, we found it was far easier and cheaper to build a storage array at each location and then replicate backups over the network. Using a bunch of 1.5TB drives gave us a lot of space and having the data striped gave us more speed than we needed. It's also a lot more useful when you need to restore something.
Of course, that's committing the sin of online backups. We realized that for offline backups we could just pick up an eSATA dock for $50 that accepts bare drives and have the backups copy to that. The speed copying on to the single drive doesn't matter because the backup has already occurred.
If you have multiple locations and/or don't mind staging data, then tapes really stop being important. If you have a single location AND still need to move backups offsite, then tape might still make sense.
It just depends on your situation and needs.
Insulation is a one-time investment
Attic insulation tends to settle, decreasing the size of air pockets, and decreasing efficiency. The solution is usually simply to dump more insulation on top of the old. Granted, this usually only needs to be done every decade or so, but there is a certain amount of upkeep associated with insulation.
> I'd like to find a citation that shows that the people who upgrade their plasma screens also improve their insulation.
Refrigerator efficiency has increased threefold since 1972. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/25opec/sld026.htm
It should also be noted that there are often large tax incentives offered to people who upgrade existing equipment/insulation to better levels. And all new homes here are built using double paned windows and other features because otherwise the cooling costs during summer are ridiculously high.
It's basically just easier. As someone that has registered both .gov and .state.us domains, it is a lot easier. I can register a .com domain in minutes anywhere on the internet. For a government address, I have to fill out a bunch of paperwork, mail it in, and then wait for it to be processed.
Also, people are kinda idiots. Most municipalities don't realize that they can register .gov addresses, especially since they can't just go to GoDaddy to do it. Then there is the issue that many government departments like to operate autonomously from the rest of the city. So the city might have CityName.gov, but the police department doesn't want to use Police.CityName.gov because that would somehow mean they aren't operating on their own. So they will pick up CityNamePD.com because they don't know any better.
Towers stagger the frequencies they use so as to limit interference to/from other towers. As you increase density you must decrease power as you would otherwise cause towers using the same frequencies to interfere more frequently. If this weren't the case then all towers would transmit at maximum power and you wouldn't have dead spots anywhere.
Wait, let me get this straight... You are saying that, over time, wireless networks have not increased capacity over time?
Or now that they have, they will not continue to do so?
I didn't say either of those things. What I said is there is a LAW OF NATURE that limits how many bits you can transfer in a given swath of frequencies.
I implied two other things that I will just spell out now:
1. No technological advances will allow you to bypass this limit. That is what laws of nature are all about.
2. We are not at this limit yet, but we are close.
Most technological advances in wireless throughput center around three ideas.
1. Use the bits that we can send more efficiently.
2. Use more frequencies simultaneously.
3. Improve ECC to be able to transmit in otherwise useless frequencies.
Unfortunately, there are only so many frequencies that are usable, and this is why the US government auctions off sections of the spectrum to companies who pay gobs of money for it.
Sadly, I've actually toyed with the idea of placing a grounded metal mesh between my wireless access point and the outside wall of my house to reduce external interference. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to do it without my wife noticing a bunch of metal on the wall.
At some point wireless networks will have capacity that far exceeds demand
This is so absurdly wrong that I'm doing away with moderating in this discussion to comment.
With a wired network you can always run more wire and fiber to increase bandwidth and create full duplex communication. You can multiplex different signals through the same fiber. You can do all of these things to continually increase bandwidth to a location because you can protect the signals from interference by a millimeter of shielding.
With a wireless network you have a limited number of frequencies that are usable. Only a limited number that aren't blocked/reflected by sheetrock, a piece of paper, or water vapor in the air. And the frequencies that do work get interference from reflections, devices that leak EM, and other broadcasting towers. For a given range of frequencies (the bandwidth) there are hard and fast rules about how many bits you can transmit. Not technological limitations, these are laws of the universe.
The only way to work around this is to make the cells smaller, which means you need more towers, and more costs. Say that you have 6 towers to cover an area, if you halve designed transmit distance, you'd need 24 towers to cover the same area. And that only works so far because you have to balance transmit distance with still having enough power to transmit though walls.
Perhaps if some sort of quantum entanglement method is created for cell phones that doesn't require EM radiation to operate, then unlimited wireless for everyone will be a reality. Until that point it's just delusions.
Still, considering that we have no other even semi-plausible reasons that we have found to date
Please see this:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1670636&cid=32414112
What I mean is proper phone dummies would need to be phones in every way, save for the actual cellular radio. You'd want to remove or disable the radio in an actual phone and have it in there. It would also need to be turned on, as the real phones were. This would make sure it wasn't due to the heat, or light, or mechanical vibration, or any of the other things that the phone might do to disturb the bees.
Large electronics emit a high pitched sound, which is likely present in smaller electronics to a smaller degree. It's certainly possible that bees could hear something like that (this would fall under vibrations).
Also, while powered on and hooked to a power source for charging, the heat from the battery will be causing the plastic to emit various fumes (you can smell warm plastic if you're close). Small amounts of fumes that have no visible effect to humans can be lethal to smaller creatures (such as birds).
What on earth made them think that the inside of the hive was better than a foot away on the outside? If they were really desperate to see the effects of the radios used then they could have just hooked up an antenna to the phone, and put the antenna inside the hive.
The grandparent was being facetious.
I think what the grandparent was talking about was increasing the number of criteria for a law. A cellphone law had two situations that must intersect, 1) operating a motor vehicle and 2) talking on a cell phone. Many laws have 100 required criteria because they are built upon other laws with criteria. In these circumstances it becomes trivial to circumvent the law in any number of ways by a slight modification of your actions so that you don't align with one of the criteria.
Extra legislation to cover edge cases with so many criteria becomes a losing battle, and eventually everyone recognizes the law as useless.