RTFA. Or at least hover over the link to it. "Tantrum" isn't editorializing by Slashdot, but exists within the article itself. At best, it's repeating editorializing without taking a neutral tone.
After reading the Stanford study a few weeks ago, I actually asked a medium-scale organic farmer directly about this (he's apparently well-known in the Minnesota organic farming community, and has been doing it for like 20 years). His comment: organic pesticides do exist, but they're not practical for anything other than your home garden.
Sorry, but no. Canned beer is worse than bottled beer is worse than tap beer.
Modded "informative"? As a homebrewer and craft beer connoisseur, this is totally false. Let's not judge a book by its cover, eh? Canned beer--and really most other canned food--used to be taste awfully worse than its non-canned counterparts, at least before the advent of plastic lined cans... Now-a-days, you can buy some really fantastic craft beer in cans. Moreover, it has fewer detrimental effects due to light spoilage (aluminum being opaque and all), and you can also take it to places you can't take bottles.
If you want to reduce pollution, focus on your primary energy source, not the backup. A data center probably uses 100 times more energy from the primary source than from the backup.
Difference is, from an environmental permitting perspective, the data center isn't responsible for the power plant, but IS responsible for their own generators. And permitting even small units are becoming somewhat of a hassle in the states. When they do run, they can really belch out nitrogen oxides in surprising quantities; despite the "emergency" nature, some environmental regulatory agencies will look at these engines as "operating all the time" units, and will regulate them accordingly strictly.
Sometimes, they'll even make you build on to the short, stub stack on the top of most of these generators, increasing the height to exceed any nearby building height. This added stack is surprisingly costly, and may mean you're relocating the generator onsite (i.e., to anchor it to a building wall, as opposed to trying for a freestanding, 50' stack 8" in diameter).
Given these hassles, I can see these farms moving away from emergency engines.
There is a very real danger that the drive to force prices down is going to harm a lot of businesses. Sure, companies like Amazon don't care that much if that happens, but book retailers, who are forced to attempt to make a living off of thinner and thinner margins are going to have troubles making ends meet. Publishers are similarly going to have troubles paying the bills as their margins shrink further and further.
There's a very real danger of an actual free market. I've been looking to buy an ebook--instead of a hardcover--for the next book in a series I'm reading. Eff HarperCollins. The ebook is listed at $15 on Amazon, right next to Amazon's listing of the _hardcover_ book for $16. How does real-world printing machines, paper, and transportation costs add up to $1? They don't, of course. Someone is artificially controlling ebook prices.
The more slapdowns like this, the better. The only danger is to obsolete business models.
It's not the console stopping them, it's not making good games.
Mod parent insightful. The first thing you'll see for any next-gen system is the same IP being rehashed for another go-around. Metroid, Mario, & Zelda, and that's just Nintendo's IP. It's like the while DVD vs Bluray debacle: same story but new shininess, so please buy it all over again.
...lest we forget aftermarket sales. It's a physical disc that can be sold & resold. These people are not pirates, but their purchases are not going directly to the game production company as attributable to that particular game, either.
It is in area news, but it hasn't hit the national airwaves yet. However, the local news doesn't describe it as a "state of emergency" like the BBC does. Maybe though they just don't want to get people overly scared. What is happening is pretty much the same as what happened in New York a couple years ago.
Hasn't hit the national airwaves yet? I heard about it this morning on NPR, and the report stated that the locals have claimed it a "state of emergency", presumably for receiving/requesting emergency funds to combat it.
Subsequent alerts may include notifications in the form of pop-ups or redirection to a special page displaying the alert. Failure to respond to these alerts will lead to additional steps designed to ensure that the account comes into compliance. These steps, referred to as “Mitigation Measures,” might include, for example: temporary reductions of Internet speeds, redirection to a landing page until the subscriber contacts the ISP to discuss the matter or reviews and responds to some educational information about copyright, or other measures that the ISP may deem necessary to help resolve the matter. These steps will only be taken after multiple alerts and a failure by the subscriber to respond. This system consists of at least five alerts.
I don't see how that's going to work at all. Wouldn't most modern browsers block popups, especially those not at all affiliated with the target site? Wouldn't most third-party DNS providers warn you of a redirection as some kind of hostile activity? Wouldn't a NoScript (or similar) browser also defeat some/all of these "notification" methods?
Maybe I just didn't get the message, but what draws heat away from the die itself? This setup probably does away with thermal paste and similar junctions...
The other thing is that hydrodynamic bearings are only self-supporting and quasi-frictionless after a threshold RPM is reached. Before the whole setup is spinning fast enough for hydrodynamic effects to take over, it's going to grind against the chip die, and unless they came up with something good, it's going to destroy it on startup...
There's an underside view of the mechanism, itself. As others have said, it's a spinning heatsink on top of a baseplate, and the presentation includes a visual the thermal interface between plate & die. I imagine arctic silver isn't going anywhere. The airgap is between the spinning heatsink and the baseplate (also well-illustrated in the presentation).
Piggybacking on this comment, the two senators obviously didn't read the recent WSJ (or was it NYT) article specifically on the benefits of videogames. They had found that gamers--ESPECIALLY gamers who play violent video games--are significantly (like 25%) faster to arrive at the correct decision to a given problem compared with their non-gamer collueagues. Basically, the whole article was a giant middle finger to everyone who's ever said gaming is good for nothing.
I live in DC and we have a reasonable metro system. I'm anticipating the day when they finish the station near my office so i can take it to work. However, even at $5 a gallon gas, it's not going to be any cheaper than driving. assuming $5/gal and my 12 mile commute and my 20 mpg car, it would cost me $6 to go to and from work. I don't know what the fare to the new station will be, but the fare to the closest current station from my house is $6. It costs me twice as much to take mass transit as it does to just drive. Even if gas was $8/gal, it would still cost less to drive. I'm pretty sure that if gas were that expensive, it would somehow push metro prices up too.
Your car probably also costs $250-400/mo in payments, and additional maintenance and repair costs. It's easily an additional $10/day in that, alone--which brings your daily commute to $16---making your cost-benefit analysis a bit more difficult, especially considering you do get added benefit for off-work use of a personal vehicle.
Basically he's just saying that Mohammed is just some guy- an inspirational figure, but just a human being, not necessarily divine or divinely inspired.
See, this is what I don't understand---maybe someone can explain it--because it seems like a perfectly cogent thing to say even for a muslim. Mohammed was NOT a god, but just a prophet. He WAS just a man. So why then is he treated as divinely as god?
Firstly, Pioneer One is a very low production value show, I don't think it'd even be picked up by an American syndicator.
I stopped reading there and ignored the rest of the argument: syndicates are no-value-add groups that skim off the top. They used to be the only way of doing business, and so got away with it. But why would you use one anymore?
the Wall Street Journal has fallen far under murdochs ownership.
Depending on how you word that, I'd agree. It's very obviously under Murdoch's direct influence. The decision to publish this story (as opposed to any other) is almost certainly in retaliation to Google's public opposition to SOPA/PIPA, about which Murdoch has already vociferously expressed his (ahem) disapproval.
But if Google's monopoly power has ensured that they are by far the best search engine, because they can afford (as monopolist) better spiders, more defences against link farms and so on, then the alternatives are no good. As I said, if there are many equal search engines it doesn't matter if one is slanted. But the allegation being raised by the Senate is that there are no other "good" search engines, except Bing. That was my point about monopolists: if Google has destroyed, by being better, all other search engines, then the demands for fairness made on it are higher than if it has face-to-face competitors. Your point is a bit like saying that, if there is a monopoly car manufacturer but you consider its cars unsafe, you can always walk.
I am not sure the allegation of being a monopolist holds water, but my reply was couched on the basis that it is, as alleged. IF Google is a monopolist THEN there are no alternative good search engines SO the government is entitled to demand impartiality from Google. IF the initial premise is false, then the whole response does not apply.
Your real point is whether entry costs for startups are prohibitively high, enough so that a free-market cannot exist: a "natural monopoly." You speculate that they are, and that Google has a "natural monopoly." I, and most others, would disagree. If you want to look at real examples of natural monopolies, you should better focus on the airlines. They are often touted as textbook examples.
I don't watch pro sports because I can't relate to it. It's not interesting. Now college and lower are really interesting. There are huge differences in the athletes and you can see it. Mistakes happen so you can compare perfection to imperfection. Coaches matter too. And everyone is having fun. Pro just kills it. If they are going to go pro I'd like to see them go all the way and allow super modified cyborg humans compete.
I don't know why this was moderated "off-topic", it's relevant, albeit a bit of an "end game" perspective... At some level, the "purity" of a sport comes into play, and this "technological" decision is directly tied to that. Right now, we have human beings playing sports and human beings coaching sports. We disallow unfair augmentation of players (i.e., performance-enhancing drugs), not only because it would become a race-to-the-bottom for player health, but also because it removes that sense of fairness we currently perceive by "limiting" the players to the gifts with which you were born.
If coaching introduced technology without limits, it'd end up like Wall Street: a massive technological arms race to compute the "right" outcome faster than the opponents, and humans would be eliminated from the picture. YMMV, but I'm not interested in watching a sporting contest like that.
Agreed. That is a real problem with the way our legal system approaches these issues. Malicious intent really should be a required component of the crime.
I hope this is a whoosh moment, but mens rea does exist.
I don't want to constantly have to fix things getting broken and I want to be able to fully utilize whatever hardware I have and Linux just doesn't fit the bill.
This. I dual-boot to Win7/Ubuntu, but I almost never use linux anymore. I purchased a Samsung BDROM going on 2-3 years ago, and it's still not supported AT ALL in linux. The kernel hangs on boot for 60-120 seconds, and then it just punts the entire piece of hardware from my system, requiring a hard power off before even my BIOS can find the device.
In Windows 7, it just works. I didn't have to find any device driver, or install anything from disc.
It also doesn't help that Ubuntu up and changed everything and made it now near impossible to use the desktop.
The faster a job gets done, the less juice that's used.
Right. And if you drive home faster you use less fuel. Not.
There's more sources of battery drain on a phone than just the processor working on a set problem. The screen is probably the biggest or second-biggest power drain. If you spend 1/4th of the time with the screen on because you don't need to wait as long for the phone to perform whatever operation, I wager you will see net battery savings.
I pray that the day after this law passes, a biology teacher somewhere in the state walks into his classroom and spends the entire day showing how the fossil record contradicts the silly Genesis story in the Bible--knowing he's now protected by a law that says his principal and angry parents can't do jackshit to stop him.
That's how I read this language: a teacher could, just as easily, discuss Darwinian Evolution or any other of the various scientific topics usually slandered by the Religious Right without any fear of reprisal. The bill doesn't seem to force the discussion, and so is not the issue. If any beef were to arise from it, I'd point my finger at the "science" teacher.
I wouldn't call it voter apathy. I would simply say most voters are more concerned about whether or not they will be able to afford rent or the mortgage next month, or have enough money left after taxes to take their kids on that vacation, or even just be able to put good, healthy food on the table for them. When ordering priorities for a lot of people, being able to listen to music in any format they want or being able to stream the newest episode of whatever TV show online falls pretty low on the list.
+1
In addition to those very fine reasons, I'd add that many people rely upon the news media for an update on "what's important," while it has historically been in the same news media's interest not to discuss IP laws or copyright reform. It needn't be malicious intent, either; discussion on COICA or other complicated topics may simply not "sell" as well as the current local/worldwide disaster. Many topics are worthy for discussion, but there's only so much time in a day.
That's true. You can actually even get cheaper monthly plans and no contract if they don't subsidize your phone. There's quite a few iPhones on TMO's network.
If you already own your own phone, this is true. A while back I did a side-by-side with comparable plans* from within T-Mobile and with comparable plans from Verizon. For the total cost over a 24-month period, it was cheaper to get a subsidized phone and pay the higher monthly fee than it was to lay out the unlocked phone cost and pay the slightly lower monthly fee.
* Family plan with shared minimum amount of minutes, 2 smart phones, both with data packages, no texting or other add-ons.
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RTFA. Or at least hover over the link to it. "Tantrum" isn't editorializing by Slashdot, but exists within the article itself. At best, it's repeating editorializing without taking a neutral tone.
After reading the Stanford study a few weeks ago, I actually asked a medium-scale organic farmer directly about this (he's apparently well-known in the Minnesota organic farming community, and has been doing it for like 20 years). His comment: organic pesticides do exist, but they're not practical for anything other than your home garden.
Sorry, but no. Canned beer is worse than bottled beer is worse than tap beer.
Modded "informative"? As a homebrewer and craft beer connoisseur, this is totally false. Let's not judge a book by its cover, eh? Canned beer--and really most other canned food--used to be taste awfully worse than its non-canned counterparts, at least before the advent of plastic lined cans... Now-a-days, you can buy some really fantastic craft beer in cans. Moreover, it has fewer detrimental effects due to light spoilage (aluminum being opaque and all), and you can also take it to places you can't take bottles.
If you want to reduce pollution, focus on your primary energy source, not the backup. A data center probably uses 100 times more energy from the primary source than from the backup.
Difference is, from an environmental permitting perspective, the data center isn't responsible for the power plant, but IS responsible for their own generators. And permitting even small units are becoming somewhat of a hassle in the states. When they do run, they can really belch out nitrogen oxides in surprising quantities; despite the "emergency" nature, some environmental regulatory agencies will look at these engines as "operating all the time" units, and will regulate them accordingly strictly.
Sometimes, they'll even make you build on to the short, stub stack on the top of most of these generators, increasing the height to exceed any nearby building height. This added stack is surprisingly costly, and may mean you're relocating the generator onsite (i.e., to anchor it to a building wall, as opposed to trying for a freestanding, 50' stack 8" in diameter).
Given these hassles, I can see these farms moving away from emergency engines.
There is a very real danger that the drive to force prices down is going to harm a lot of businesses. Sure, companies like Amazon don't care that much if that happens, but book retailers, who are forced to attempt to make a living off of thinner and thinner margins are going to have troubles making ends meet. Publishers are similarly going to have troubles paying the bills as their margins shrink further and further.
There's a very real danger of an actual free market. I've been looking to buy an ebook--instead of a hardcover--for the next book in a series I'm reading. Eff HarperCollins. The ebook is listed at $15 on Amazon, right next to Amazon's listing of the _hardcover_ book for $16. How does real-world printing machines, paper, and transportation costs add up to $1? They don't, of course. Someone is artificially controlling ebook prices.
The more slapdowns like this, the better. The only danger is to obsolete business models.
It's not the console stopping them, it's not making good games.
Mod parent insightful. The first thing you'll see for any next-gen system is the same IP being rehashed for another go-around. Metroid, Mario, & Zelda, and that's just Nintendo's IP. It's like the while DVD vs Bluray debacle: same story but new shininess, so please buy it all over again.
...lest we forget aftermarket sales. It's a physical disc that can be sold & resold. These people are not pirates, but their purchases are not going directly to the game production company as attributable to that particular game, either.
It is in area news, but it hasn't hit the national airwaves yet. However, the local news doesn't describe it as a "state of emergency" like the BBC does. Maybe though they just don't want to get people overly scared. What is happening is pretty much the same as what happened in New York a couple years ago.
Hasn't hit the national airwaves yet? I heard about it this morning on NPR, and the report stated that the locals have claimed it a "state of emergency", presumably for receiving/requesting emergency funds to combat it.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=158911307
From this link http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/07/ispplan.pdf
Subsequent alerts may include notifications in the form of pop-ups or redirection
to a special page displaying the alert. Failure to respond to these alerts will lead
to additional steps designed to ensure that the account comes into compliance.
These steps, referred to as “Mitigation Measures,” might include, for example:
temporary reductions of Internet speeds, redirection to a landing page until the
subscriber contacts the ISP to discuss the matter or reviews and responds to some
educational information about copyright, or other measures that the ISP may
deem necessary to help resolve the matter. These steps will only be taken after
multiple alerts and a failure by the subscriber to respond. This system consists of
at least five alerts.
I don't see how that's going to work at all. Wouldn't most modern browsers block popups, especially those not at all affiliated with the target site? Wouldn't most third-party DNS providers warn you of a redirection as some kind of hostile activity? Wouldn't a NoScript (or similar) browser also defeat some/all of these "notification" methods?
Maybe I just didn't get the message, but what draws heat away from the die itself? This setup probably does away with thermal paste and similar junctions...
The other thing is that hydrodynamic bearings are only self-supporting and quasi-frictionless after a threshold RPM is reached. Before the whole setup is spinning fast enough for hydrodynamic effects to take over, it's going to grind against the chip die, and unless they came up with something good, it's going to destroy it on startup...
Take a look at the presentation on the parent site: https://ip.sandia.gov/techpdfs/Sandia%20Cooler%20presentation.pdf
There's an underside view of the mechanism, itself. As others have said, it's a spinning heatsink on top of a baseplate, and the presentation includes a visual the thermal interface between plate & die. I imagine arctic silver isn't going anywhere. The airgap is between the spinning heatsink and the baseplate (also well-illustrated in the presentation).
Piggybacking on this comment, the two senators obviously didn't read the recent WSJ (or was it NYT) article specifically on the benefits of videogames. They had found that gamers--ESPECIALLY gamers who play violent video games--are significantly (like 25%) faster to arrive at the correct decision to a given problem compared with their non-gamer collueagues. Basically, the whole article was a giant middle finger to everyone who's ever said gaming is good for nothing.
I live in DC and we have a reasonable metro system. I'm anticipating the day when they finish the station near my office so i can take it to work. However, even at $5 a gallon gas, it's not going to be any cheaper than driving. assuming $5/gal and my 12 mile commute and my 20 mpg car, it would cost me $6 to go to and from work. I don't know what the fare to the new station will be, but the fare to the closest current station from my house is $6. It costs me twice as much to take mass transit as it does to just drive. Even if gas was $8/gal, it would still cost less to drive. I'm pretty sure that if gas were that expensive, it would somehow push metro prices up too.
Your car probably also costs $250-400/mo in payments, and additional maintenance and repair costs. It's easily an additional $10/day in that, alone--which brings your daily commute to $16---making your cost-benefit analysis a bit more difficult, especially considering you do get added benefit for off-work use of a personal vehicle.
they have real intrusions to complain about on the privacy front
You've got me curious. Could you name some? Abortion isn't a privacy intrusion and that's all I can think of.
Birth control.
Basically he's just saying that Mohammed is just some guy- an inspirational figure, but just a human being, not necessarily divine or divinely inspired.
See, this is what I don't understand---maybe someone can explain it--because it seems like a perfectly cogent thing to say even for a muslim. Mohammed was NOT a god, but just a prophet. He WAS just a man. So why then is he treated as divinely as god?
Firstly, Pioneer One is a very low production value show, I don't think it'd even be picked up by an American syndicator.
I stopped reading there and ignored the rest of the argument: syndicates are no-value-add groups that skim off the top. They used to be the only way of doing business, and so got away with it. But why would you use one anymore?
the Wall Street Journal has fallen far under murdochs ownership.
Depending on how you word that, I'd agree. It's very obviously under Murdoch's direct influence. The decision to publish this story (as opposed to any other) is almost certainly in retaliation to Google's public opposition to SOPA/PIPA, about which Murdoch has already vociferously expressed his (ahem) disapproval.
They could have ignored the issue entirely if they were planning to let it pass. It is not like this issue is something covered on Fox ...
Of course Fox isn't going to cover it. I gotta support any action of the Prez that Murdoch hates, really.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/15/murdoch_twitter_rant_sopa/
But if Google's monopoly power has ensured that they are by far the best search engine, because they can afford (as monopolist) better spiders, more defences against link farms and so on, then the alternatives are no good. As I said, if there are many equal search engines it doesn't matter if one is slanted. But the allegation being raised by the Senate is that there are no other "good" search engines, except Bing. That was my point about monopolists: if Google has destroyed, by being better, all other search engines, then the demands for fairness made on it are higher than if it has face-to-face competitors. Your point is a bit like saying that, if there is a monopoly car manufacturer but you consider its cars unsafe, you can always walk.
I am not sure the allegation of being a monopolist holds water, but my reply was couched on the basis that it is, as alleged. IF Google is a monopolist THEN there are no alternative good search engines SO the government is entitled to demand impartiality from Google. IF the initial premise is false, then the whole response does not apply.
Your real point is whether entry costs for startups are prohibitively high, enough so that a free-market cannot exist: a "natural monopoly." You speculate that they are, and that Google has a "natural monopoly." I, and most others, would disagree. If you want to look at real examples of natural monopolies, you should better focus on the airlines. They are often touted as textbook examples.
I don't watch pro sports because I can't relate to it. It's not interesting. Now college and lower are really interesting. There are huge differences in the athletes and you can see it. Mistakes happen so you can compare perfection to imperfection. Coaches matter too. And everyone is having fun. Pro just kills it. If they are going to go pro I'd like to see them go all the way and allow super modified cyborg humans compete.
I don't know why this was moderated "off-topic", it's relevant, albeit a bit of an "end game" perspective... At some level, the "purity" of a sport comes into play, and this "technological" decision is directly tied to that. Right now, we have human beings playing sports and human beings coaching sports. We disallow unfair augmentation of players (i.e., performance-enhancing drugs), not only because it would become a race-to-the-bottom for player health, but also because it removes that sense of fairness we currently perceive by "limiting" the players to the gifts with which you were born.
If coaching introduced technology without limits, it'd end up like Wall Street: a massive technological arms race to compute the "right" outcome faster than the opponents, and humans would be eliminated from the picture. YMMV, but I'm not interested in watching a sporting contest like that.
Agreed. That is a real problem with the way our legal system approaches these issues. Malicious intent really should be a required component of the crime.
I hope this is a whoosh moment, but mens rea does exist.
I don't want to constantly have to fix things getting broken and I want to be able to fully utilize whatever hardware I have and Linux just doesn't fit the bill.
This. I dual-boot to Win7/Ubuntu, but I almost never use linux anymore. I purchased a Samsung BDROM going on 2-3 years ago, and it's still not supported AT ALL in linux. The kernel hangs on boot for 60-120 seconds, and then it just punts the entire piece of hardware from my system, requiring a hard power off before even my BIOS can find the device.
In Windows 7, it just works. I didn't have to find any device driver, or install anything from disc.
It also doesn't help that Ubuntu up and changed everything and made it now near impossible to use the desktop.
The faster a job gets done, the less juice that's used.
Right. And if you drive home faster you use less fuel. Not.
There's more sources of battery drain on a phone than just the processor working on a set problem. The screen is probably the biggest or second-biggest power drain. If you spend 1/4th of the time with the screen on because you don't need to wait as long for the phone to perform whatever operation, I wager you will see net battery savings.
I pray that the day after this law passes, a biology teacher somewhere in the state walks into his classroom and spends the entire day showing how the fossil record contradicts the silly Genesis story in the Bible--knowing he's now protected by a law that says his principal and angry parents can't do jackshit to stop him.
That's how I read this language: a teacher could, just as easily, discuss Darwinian Evolution or any other of the various scientific topics usually slandered by the Religious Right without any fear of reprisal. The bill doesn't seem to force the discussion, and so is not the issue. If any beef were to arise from it, I'd point my finger at the "science" teacher.
I wouldn't call it voter apathy. I would simply say most voters are more concerned about whether or not they will be able to afford rent or the mortgage next month, or have enough money left after taxes to take their kids on that vacation, or even just be able to put good, healthy food on the table for them. When ordering priorities for a lot of people, being able to listen to music in any format they want or being able to stream the newest episode of whatever TV show online falls pretty low on the list.
+1
In addition to those very fine reasons, I'd add that many people rely upon the news media for an update on "what's important," while it has historically been in the same news media's interest not to discuss IP laws or copyright reform. It needn't be malicious intent, either; discussion on COICA or other complicated topics may simply not "sell" as well as the current local/worldwide disaster. Many topics are worthy for discussion, but there's only so much time in a day.
That's true. You can actually even get cheaper monthly plans and no contract if they don't subsidize your phone. There's quite a few iPhones on TMO's network.
If you already own your own phone, this is true. A while back I did a side-by-side with comparable plans* from within T-Mobile and with comparable plans from Verizon. For the total cost over a 24-month period, it was cheaper to get a subsidized phone and pay the higher monthly fee than it was to lay out the unlocked phone cost and pay the slightly lower monthly fee.
* Family plan with shared minimum amount of minutes, 2 smart phones, both with data packages, no texting or other add-ons.