Ok, perhaps I should've said that there are just a few reputable schools that have courses that are directly applicable to street driving.:) And if you've got a list, I'd appreciate a URL - I'd like to beat the heck out of someone else's car in a controlled environment, and I'd liek to not have to drive to the Souther states to do so.
I currently ride a Suzuki Burgman 400 150 miles/day, 5 days per week. It gets about 60 MPG, cruising at about 70 (in a 55). It's comfortable to ride, and acceleration is completely adequate (it's no racer, but it's faster than a typical "scooter", it'll outrun most cars at a stoplight, and there's a 650 which will give about a 10MPG hit in exchange for more speed). It handles very well, the automatic transmission (CVT) is quite convenient (everyone forgets what gear they're in at least once on a bike, and moving the rear brake - hich partially applies the front brake at the same time - up to the handlebar frees up your right foot for extra balance when stopping), and it's got locking storage under the seat for two full-face helmets, or a few bags of groceries, etc. It'll do 100MPH if need be, it'll handle riding two-up very well, and it's liquid cooled (which is handy in city's summers). Honestly, the only drawback is that a few of the Harley poseurs will laugh at the guy riding the big scooter - though the 650 version will outrun them too if you really care what some image-focused "weekend biker" thinks - though most of them approve, too, around here. The acceleration on the 400 can be improved a bit, as well - Malossi makes a set of lighter rollers for the CVT that keep the revs a little higher during acceleration and which cost about $35.
$25 to $35 and an afternoon of skimming a pamphelt, taking a written test, and doing some very basic driving in town will get you driving legally for 4-5 years if you're over 18. If you're 16 to 18, some tates are doing a "you can only drive during daylight, maybe with a limit on the number of passengers in the car" thing, some ar not.
The US does have some "performance driving schools", like, two or three, which have courses along the lines of "advanced street driving" to "driving small Formula cars". It usually costs around $1000+ to take those courses, and gains you nothing legally - ie, even after certifying that you're not the worst driver on the road, you still have to obey the inane restrictions put in place because our low requirements for licenses (it's a right, not a priviliedge) allow some really bad drivers to be on the road.
I guess all those stories about people who've beaten cancer - they're just full of crap? Many forms of cancer have been treated succesfully for years (some without chopping random body parts off). Now, a cure for the Cold or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, that'd be something new...
My 350 Chevy Caprice gets around 21 in the summer and in the winter (actually, both the '80 with a 350 I built, and the '96 with an LT-1 350 got the same mileage). How could that be? Well, partially because a 350 is externally the same size as the 305, so you get more displacement with effectively the same weight. Also, the 305 heads are generally poorly designed, due to the diffficulty in getting good airflow in the smaller combustion chamber area. The 350 ends up being more efficient, and can produce enough power to cruise at a lower RPM, decreasing the amount of fuel needed. As far as mine running the same in winter as in summer, well, using a proper thermostat and electric fans help a great deal. The temperature of the incoming air charge isn's as important to engine operating temperature as coolant temperature. You want the *engine* to be hot (around 200-210 degrees for best efficiency), and you want the incoming air to be cold so you can get a more dense fuel/air charge. You also want the exhaust system to keep heat in the exhaust so as to more quickly evacuate the exhaust, in general. So, a free-flowing (not neccesarily loud) exhaust with cast iron manifolds or coated headers, a termostatically controlled eletric fan. and maybe a peice of cardboard over the grille (*not* the radiator) when it gets really cold. Higher compression (around 10:1 or more, the 305 is likely only runing around 8.5 or 9:1) would also help. On that 305, the fan is definitely engine-driven (possibly on a clutch, but it still moves a fair amoutn of air even when cold) - go to Flex-a-lite and get either a Black Magic or the dual fan model if one will fit on your core - you'll get better cooling in summer, more power, and better mileage. And the car will be quieter - no more fan roar when you rev the engine.:)
Yeah - all the broken claims are coming from FL. It's obviously dangerous for laptops to be in FL (the statistics say so!), so of course residents are being punished.:)
The hurricane was a state problem as much as a federal problem, if not moreso. Furthermore, Bush has, at most, another couople years or so in power. I find the idea of a bunch of inexperienced people with their own agendas coming in and changing things just for the sake of change to be far more scary. Besides, what the heck are Bush and friends gonna do to DNS that scares you so much? Basically, they can take it down or poison the results, to which you respond by setting up your own DNS and ignoring the US. Heck, you can do that now. I set up my own root server for an internal fake TLD - it took a few minutes, and I didn't already have a country's TLD set up like most other countries do.
The laptop thing is entirely due to Spring Break. Lots of drunken, stupid, more-money-than-sense kids have laptops now, and some of them go to FL rather than leaving the country.:)
There's a difference between "It can be done - look, I did it" and "It can't be done, look, someone failed - probably due to incompetence". The latter is easily disproved. The former involves simply turning off things you don't need, followed by extracting the apache and php archives to the right place, and running the MySQL GUI installer (which is actually pretty neat, BTW). Anyone claiming to be competent should be able to do that.
Not that I'd recommend Win32 as a server platform for anything, but it can certainly be done, and it's not hard.
Actually, you just have to click the "install updates" button when the alert pops up on Ubuntu. The new version (still in beta, doesn't look too different on the surface but is significantly nicer behind the scenes and in the minor usability things) has an even more seamless update alert thingie.
Also, IIRC, apt-get update runs nightly from cron (in Ubuntu, at least since 5.04), so you really just have to run "upgrade" once in a while.
Intel *does*, however, make a C compiler and a Fortran compiler, as well as an MPI implementation. They all work pretty darned nicely on a cluster of Itaniums. Granted, I'm not getting the java compiler to work right now (I seem to have gcj on here), but then, I'm not positive that I even installed the whole Java setup since I don't really care about Java on this (or any) cluster.:)
In addition/supplement to what the other poster mentioned, there's Oscar: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/ and there's the C3 stuff: http://www.csm.ornl.gov/torc/C3/index.html. There's also ROX, which we're not using (not because it's bad, but because we used something else, and I can't find a URL now anyway).
We're using parts of those first two systems here, combined with some in-house stuff (which we're planning to release when it reaches an acceptable maturity level).
I've been running apache2 and mysql on a Windows XP workstation for three months now. It has not crashed since it was installed. At all. The machine has been rebooted once for a service pack install. Windows sucks, but honestly, Windows admins are often to blame for instability.
Fuck, why the pissing shit didn't I think of that? What about the fucking data? Son of a bitch. And here, the bastard MySQL was behaving just fucking like the damned docs said it would. What a bitch!
No, I understood the example, and agree that MySQL *really* should generate an error just like the "big boy" databases. My point was that the behavior is documented, and that, therefore, someone developing for either of the popular "free" databases should be keeping that in mind along with the myriad other little subtle differences between all the DBMS options.:) Getting bitten by a well documented behavior does not reflect poorly on the DB, it reflects poorly on the programmer for making assumptions - never mind how nice it'd be if those assumptions were universally true.
Waterworld wasn't a bad movie. It simply wasn't as good as the hype predicted, or as good as something with, up to that piont, the largest budget ever *should* have been. Showgirls, OTOH, was actually bad. Almost as bad as "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" or "Meet the Fockers". There was a movie I saw this spring in which I almost got up and left mid-film, but I can't recall the title right now. Either way, Waterworld was only bad in that it was implausible, much like "The Core" and most other movies that involve some kind of science.:)
A real database user that needed to hold a value of 300 would not use a column type that has a range of 0 to 255 or -127 to 127, since they would have read the page on choosing types. I guess *nix isn't a real operating system because it will let you destroy your system by doing things like "rm -rf / path/to/file"? You meant for that space to be there, right?:)
Anyway, from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/numeric-types.ht ml, that will generate a warning if you do an update or a multi-row insert (why not in a single insert, I can't really justify): When asked to store a value in a numeric column that is outside the column type's allowable range, MySQL clips the value to the appropriate endpoint of the range and stores the resulting value instead. Conversions that occur due to clipping are reported as "warnings" for ALTER TABLE, LOAD DATA INFILE, UPDATE, and multiple-row INSERT statements.
BTW - Postgres isn't a real database, either, in the example of storing 32767+1 in a smallint: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/dat atype.html Some of the operators and functions (e.g., addition and multiplication) do not perform run-time error-checking in the interests of improving execution speed. On some systems, for example, the numeric operators for some data types may silently cause underflow or overflow.
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Ok, perhaps I should've said that there are just a few reputable schools that have courses that are directly applicable to street driving. :) And if you've got a list, I'd appreciate a URL - I'd like to beat the heck out of someone else's car in a controlled environment, and I'd liek to not have to drive to the Souther states to do so.
I currently ride a Suzuki Burgman 400 150 miles/day, 5 days per week. It gets about 60 MPG, cruising at about 70 (in a 55). It's comfortable to ride, and acceleration is completely adequate (it's no racer, but it's faster than a typical "scooter", it'll outrun most cars at a stoplight, and there's a 650 which will give about a 10MPG hit in exchange for more speed). It handles very well, the automatic transmission (CVT) is quite convenient (everyone forgets what gear they're in at least once on a bike, and moving the rear brake - hich partially applies the front brake at the same time - up to the handlebar frees up your right foot for extra balance when stopping), and it's got locking storage under the seat for two full-face helmets, or a few bags of groceries, etc. It'll do 100MPH if need be, it'll handle riding two-up very well, and it's liquid cooled (which is handy in city's summers). Honestly, the only drawback is that a few of the Harley poseurs will laugh at the guy riding the big scooter - though the 650 version will outrun them too if you really care what some image-focused "weekend biker" thinks - though most of them approve, too, around here. The acceleration on the 400 can be improved a bit, as well - Malossi makes a set of lighter rollers for the CVT that keep the revs a little higher during acceleration and which cost about $35.
Because lots of children are killed from motorcycle riding on an annual basis?
$25 to $35 and an afternoon of skimming a pamphelt, taking a written test, and doing some very basic driving in town will get you driving legally for 4-5 years if you're over 18. If you're 16 to 18, some tates are doing a "you can only drive during daylight, maybe with a limit on the number of passengers in the car" thing, some ar not.
The US does have some "performance driving schools", like, two or three, which have courses along the lines of "advanced street driving" to "driving small Formula cars". It usually costs around $1000+ to take those courses, and gains you nothing legally - ie, even after certifying that you're not the worst driver on the road, you still have to obey the inane restrictions put in place because our low requirements for licenses (it's a right, not a priviliedge) allow some really bad drivers to be on the road.
I guess all those stories about people who've beaten cancer - they're just full of crap? Many forms of cancer have been treated succesfully for years (some without chopping random body parts off). Now, a cure for the Cold or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, that'd be something new...
http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/ is one option if you insist on even more funding for commonly-known diseases, though.
My 350 Chevy Caprice gets around 21 in the summer and in the winter (actually, both the '80 with a 350 I built, and the '96 with an LT-1 350 got the same mileage). How could that be? Well, partially because a 350 is externally the same size as the 305, so you get more displacement with effectively the same weight. Also, the 305 heads are generally poorly designed, due to the diffficulty in getting good airflow in the smaller combustion chamber area. The 350 ends up being more efficient, and can produce enough power to cruise at a lower RPM, decreasing the amount of fuel needed. As far as mine running the same in winter as in summer, well, using a proper thermostat and electric fans help a great deal. The temperature of the incoming air charge isn's as important to engine operating temperature as coolant temperature. You want the *engine* to be hot (around 200-210 degrees for best efficiency), and you want the incoming air to be cold so you can get a more dense fuel/air charge. You also want the exhaust system to keep heat in the exhaust so as to more quickly evacuate the exhaust, in general. So, a free-flowing (not neccesarily loud) exhaust with cast iron manifolds or coated headers, a termostatically controlled eletric fan. and maybe a peice of cardboard over the grille (*not* the radiator) when it gets really cold. Higher compression (around 10:1 or more, the 305 is likely only runing around 8.5 or 9:1) would also help. On that 305, the fan is definitely engine-driven (possibly on a clutch, but it still moves a fair amoutn of air even when cold) - go to Flex-a-lite and get either a Black Magic or the dual fan model if one will fit on your core - you'll get better cooling in summer, more power, and better mileage. And the car will be quieter - no more fan roar when you rev the engine. :)
Yeah - all the broken claims are coming from FL. It's obviously dangerous for laptops to be in FL (the statistics say so!), so of course residents are being punished. :)
The hurricane was a state problem as much as a federal problem, if not moreso. Furthermore, Bush has, at most, another couople years or so in power. I find the idea of a bunch of inexperienced people with their own agendas coming in and changing things just for the sake of change to be far more scary. Besides, what the heck are Bush and friends gonna do to DNS that scares you so much? Basically, they can take it down or poison the results, to which you respond by setting up your own DNS and ignoring the US. Heck, you can do that now. I set up my own root server for an internal fake TLD - it took a few minutes, and I didn't already have a country's TLD set up like most other countries do.
The laptop thing is entirely due to Spring Break. Lots of drunken, stupid, more-money-than-sense kids have laptops now, and some of them go to FL rather than leaving the country. :)
Look at /etc/cron.daily/apt, which is configured by /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic - it works on my 5.04 boxes just as well as the 5.10 box.
There's a difference between "It can be done - look, I did it" and "It can't be done, look, someone failed - probably due to incompetence". The latter is easily disproved. The former involves simply turning off things you don't need, followed by extracting the apache and php archives to the right place, and running the MySQL GUI installer (which is actually pretty neat, BTW). Anyone claiming to be competent should be able to do that.
Not that I'd recommend Win32 as a server platform for anything, but it can certainly be done, and it's not hard.
Their suits had to be made slightly more breathable.
Why, Bobby Hill ate the whole darned thing right before burning the church down. He counts as a MidWesterner.
Actually, you just have to click the "install updates" button when the alert pops up on Ubuntu. The new version (still in beta, doesn't look too different on the surface but is significantly nicer behind the scenes and in the minor usability things) has an even more seamless update alert thingie.
Also, IIRC, apt-get update runs nightly from cron (in Ubuntu, at least since 5.04), so you really just have to run "upgrade" once in a while.
Intel *does*, however, make a C compiler and a Fortran compiler, as well as an MPI implementation. They all work pretty darned nicely on a cluster of Itaniums. Granted, I'm not getting the java compiler to work right now (I seem to have gcj on here), but then, I'm not positive that I even installed the whole Java setup since I don't really care about Java on this (or any) cluster. :)
In addition/supplement to what the other poster mentioned, there's Oscar: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/ and there's the C3 stuff: http://www.csm.ornl.gov/torc/C3/index.html. There's also ROX, which we're not using (not because it's bad, but because we used something else, and I can't find a URL now anyway).
We're using parts of those first two systems here, combined with some in-house stuff (which we're planning to release when it reaches an acceptable maturity level).
That's what vmware and snapshots are for. :)
I've been running apache2 and mysql on a Windows XP workstation for three months now. It has not crashed since it was installed. At all. The machine has been rebooted once for a service pack install. Windows sucks, but honestly, Windows admins are often to blame for instability.
Fuck, why the pissing shit didn't I think of that? What about the fucking data? Son of a bitch. And here, the bastard MySQL was behaving just fucking like the damned docs said it would. What a bitch!
Explosions could happen. There must be *some* source of breathable - and therefore flammable - air on those ships... :)
No, I understood the example, and agree that MySQL *really* should generate an error just like the "big boy" databases. My point was that the behavior is documented, and that, therefore, someone developing for either of the popular "free" databases should be keeping that in mind along with the myriad other little subtle differences between all the DBMS options. :) Getting bitten by a well documented behavior does not reflect poorly on the DB, it reflects poorly on the programmer for making assumptions - never mind how nice it'd be if those assumptions were universally true.
Not on POP. POP is the friggin' devil (and doesn't lend itself to anything but downloading - not uploading). IMAP, probably.
Waterworld wasn't a bad movie. It simply wasn't as good as the hype predicted, or as good as something with, up to that piont, the largest budget ever *should* have been. Showgirls, OTOH, was actually bad. Almost as bad as "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" or "Meet the Fockers". There was a movie I saw this spring in which I almost got up and left mid-film, but I can't recall the title right now. Either way, Waterworld was only bad in that it was implausible, much like "The Core" and most other movies that involve some kind of science. :)
A real database user that needed to hold a value of 300 would not use a column type that has a range of 0 to 255 or -127 to 127, since they would have read the page on choosing types. I guess *nix isn't a real operating system because it will let you destroy your system by doing things like "rm -rf / path/to/file"? You meant for that space to be there, right? :)
t ml, that will generate a warning if you do an update or a multi-row insert (why not in a single insert, I can't really justify):
t atype.html
Anyway, from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/numeric-types.h
When asked to store a value in a numeric column that is outside the column type's allowable range, MySQL clips the value to the appropriate endpoint of the range and stores the resulting value instead.
Conversions that occur due to clipping are reported as "warnings" for ALTER TABLE, LOAD DATA INFILE, UPDATE, and multiple-row INSERT statements.
BTW - Postgres isn't a real database, either, in the example of storing 32767+1 in a smallint:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/da
Some of the operators and functions (e.g., addition and multiplication) do not perform run-time error-checking in the interests of improving execution speed. On some systems, for example, the numeric operators for some data types may silently cause underflow or overflow.
A simple wall socket won't do anything. If there's no flow of current, there's no EMF. Now, the sockets that have things plugged in to them...