We're already perilously close to that point, iTunes basically does just that, same with the Xbox 360 and Vista. Next generation? I'd put down money they'll get rid of the pretense and put a "this product requires a 24/7 internet connection" on the package.
You can fit 200 1U machines into 5 racks. According to TFA these guys have 49 4U machines in their production grid. Still comes in at 5 racks, so cut your estimate in half.
They do belch out a lot of heat, but a standard server room A/C unit should be able to handle it.. assuming a bunch of other stuff isn't already putting a load on it.
Well, if it were treated as an individual, "Slashdot" could be an expert on a great many topics, because I guarantee there's quite a few "experts" that read the site, who are probably authorities on a great many different things.
Problem is they're either all too smart to post, or sit at +2 for eternity because they took too long to post, or got ignored to make room for a +5 funny.;) Sometimes going back to a week old article can find some really interesting comments.
Oddly enough, it actually works when you're on the ground.
Like the second link says, it keeps traffic moving surprisingly well, and the signs are done well enough that even a first timer has a good chance of ending up where he wants to be.
Grand Jury, which is like a jury trial before charges are ever filed. If the Grand Jury doesn't think there's enough evidence to reasonably support an indictment, everything stops right there.
It's difficult for the government to get a case going in the first place.
I would wager it's easier than you're letting on. I did the grand jury thing once, 10 years ago. A lot of the stuff that came through was as choreographed as a musical. The DA would bring in grumpy looking convicts when they wanted to push a case for a drug dealer to tweak the jury's sympathies, and they'd bring in a tearful old grandmother when they had a child abuse case. When they couldn't find the perfect actor, they'd "prep" us by explaining how the next witness is an excellent liar, and if she starts crying, it's just a method of control.. etc, etc.
I don't think we voted down a single case in a month of work. I really tried to avoid being a sucker, and I think I pissed off a lot of my fellow jurors because I asked way too many damn questions, but at least I never left that room feeling like I'd been gamed by the system.
I suppose, it's just as likely the DA's office did their research before going to grand jury, and only presented us with winnable cases, making it easy for us to vote in the affirmative. My single experience isn't exactly a viable sample size. What I can say for sure is that the system is finely tuned, and from my limited point of view, it's actually pretty easy for the government to get what they want.
The way I understand it, you're assuming the photon came from a fixed source. It didn't.. it came from an object that was also moving, and probably doing it in a direction pointed away from us. Is much like two vehicles moving opposite directions on a highway: the speed of the other car relative to your car appears faster than it's actually going.
bingo. that's why i store the IP address along with the session ID in the database.
There was a merchant site that I visited quite some time ago that did something like this. Except they screwed it up and, along with putting the session ID in the URL, they "automatically" tied the session id with account information. The effect this had was that anyone who visited a copied URL would pull up the account information of the person who had spread the URL around.
It took some time to figure it out. The URL was posted on a fairly busy forum, and it was a fairly fast selling item, and 50+ people had used the link to try and make a purchase.. and every time someone checked out, the account was updated with their information.
I'm not sure what the lesson here is, other than the fact that any "safe practice" can become insecure in the hands of idiots. Cookies aren't an inherently stupid idea, but the ease of using them invites a lot of abuses.
Because you could download and use pygame, crystal space, irrlicht, ogre, sdl, whatever for free (both beer and speech) and be able distribute the game however you want. The only thing using this Microsoft download earns you is the ability to run the code on the 360.. which Microsoft is already making money on.
A lot of people are going "holy cow! xbox programming! yay!" and ignoring that they're giving us tools that have existed in the pc world for decades. Microsoft isn't giving anyone anything.. they're seeing how much we'll pay for what we can get for free.
Learning what not to do can be as valuable as learning what you should do. The comments can be useful too, the problems get picked apart pretty extensively and can be quite educational. If anything you ever write never ends up on a site like that, you can't be that bad off.
I've always found it amusing that that factoid was never once given to me while I was in school (in the US). When we studied the war of 1812 for a month, and it was never mentioned once.
Wasn't until years later when a Candian friend of mine mentioned it in passing that I was enlightened. Did a bit of a WTF at the time, and later looked up the details of why/when it happened.
Not much of a conspiracy theorist, there's always the chance that I just wasn't paying attention to that stuff in class, but I do find it amusing that certain uncomfortable facts get left by the roadside.
Was a lot about the Civil War that was left "unrevealed" until I read further on the topic post graduation.
All of those areas can have hot summers. Not as consistently hot as California, but it's not like people are wearing parkas 365 days a year. Building a center there and hoping you can simply pipe in air from outside is going to result in some serious disappointment.
One thing I have seen used to good effect is pond water. You still need the huge air conditioners in your server rooms but they can operate on water piped in from a body of water. I'm unclear on what the difference in costs is, but I would expect it's less than a typical compressor. Have to monitor it closely though.. get stuck in a heat wave and the temperature of your cooling pond rises as well, reducing effectiveness. If you're close to pushing the system beyond capacity, just a few days of abnormally hot weather can start overheating machines.
I think the only problem I can imagine with the trick is that you get a relatively small amount of string out of a single can. If you coat every room you enter with this stuff, you'll go through a lot of cans really fast. Can't this stuff be imaged? I would think an infared emitter and a camera to detect reflection off the wires would work too. I guess that assumes the tripwire is actually metal, but I'd think thread or fishing line would be detectable too.
I could also see the terrorists increasing the sensitivity of the trip wires if they learn of this tactic, enough that the weight of the silly string will set off the bomb. Which might also be a benefit, provided it explodes while the guy is trying to set the trap up.
Didn't LEGO outsource their fabrication off to some other company earlier this year? I'm pretty sure it was a fairly long transition, so we may not be seeing these new pieces yet, but the sets I've bought in the past year seem "different" somehow. Colors don't seem as solid as they were years ago, and the plastic feels softer. They still snap together pretty well, but they don't seem to fit against each other as well and seams can be much bigger than I remember.
While I'm sure the machinery and manufacture process isn't changing, it would have been nice if the article could have commented on the changes being made in response to the restructuring LEGO has been doing the past couple years. It's pretty obvious to me that things are changing, but it'd be nice to have it documented.
Because so much about the Zune and (some of) its features depend on the social network aspect to achieve functionality, and that won't happen with this slow of a ramp.
I would wager it has less to do with units sold (though it can't help) and more to do with the fact that people don't listen to music to be social. They do it so they can ignore people.
Apple tries this tactic too in some of their ads, and I don't see how they expect it to work. If you want people to socialize, they need to DO something together.
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That crap aside, nobody is going to kill the iPod, it's a behemoth now.
Somebody will, someday. I doubt it'll be the Zune, but market leaders always get "beat", eventually.
Because it's a fun game? Rhythm games are popular for a reason, because it's an extremely easy concept to grasp but can be extremely hard to pull off perfectly. Doesn't matter if you're a musician or a mill worker, if it's fun, there's no reason not to play it.
It in no way threatans or diminishes "real" music production, it's simply binding together two popular activities: Being a rock star, and playing video games.
Does the HBO show spend any time discussing the three "sides" to the debate? E-Voting, open sourced e-voting software, and paper voting? The last Slashdot article on this topic, when Diebold's complaint was announced, spent some time on this. The worry being, the debate is nothing more than "e-voting good" or "e-voting bad", ignoring the possibility that "open source e-voting" might be a viable middle ground.
How do you think open source could fit into this issue? Or should it?
The question shouldn't be about staying alive, it should be about people with genetic defects procreating. I think it's pretty obvious we're diluting our gene pool with a bunch of shit (the rise of nearsightedness seems like an obvious one to me), a huge number of diseases have their symptoms treated without the problem being fixed. When these people have kids.. they're just perpetuating the decline.
I don't think we can deny these people having children, it's more of a personal responsibility thing. It's why I don't want to have children, wouldn't want to put anyone through what I go through.
Now I get a zillion bounce-spams using my domain (I monitor a catch-all) and randomly generated usernames.
I haven't gotten a single spam to my "real" email address, but my catch-all has been getting hammered the past month with bounces. It seems about time to disable them, I wonder what percentage of emails floating around are actually just errors from spammers sending to nonexistant accounts.
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I'd bet they try to do it anyway.
We're already perilously close to that point, iTunes basically does just that, same with the Xbox 360 and Vista. Next generation? I'd put down money they'll get rid of the pretense and put a "this product requires a 24/7 internet connection" on the package.
Took a few minutes (the map in the article isn't really all that good), but I dug up a photo of the island in google maps:
, -21.726837&spn=0.209418,1.203003&t=k&om=1
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=10&ll=71.476542
Still shows it as connected.. but only barely.
Right, and for Ford to still turn Lucas down says a whole lot.
we're talking maybe 10x the floor space.
You can fit 200 1U machines into 5 racks. According to TFA these guys have 49 4U machines in their production grid. Still comes in at 5 racks, so cut your estimate in half.
They do belch out a lot of heat, but a standard server room A/C unit should be able to handle it.. assuming a bunch of other stuff isn't already putting a load on it.
Well, if it were treated as an individual, "Slashdot" could be an expert on a great many topics, because I guarantee there's quite a few "experts" that read the site, who are probably authorities on a great many different things.
;) Sometimes going back to a week old article can find some really interesting comments.
Problem is they're either all too smart to post, or sit at +2 for eternity because they took too long to post, or got ignored to make room for a +5 funny.
Oddly enough, it actually works when you're on the ground.
Like the second link says, it keeps traffic moving surprisingly well, and the signs are done well enough that even a first timer has a good chance of ending up where he wants to be.
Grand Jury, which is like a jury trial before charges are ever filed. If the Grand Jury doesn't think there's enough evidence to reasonably support an indictment, everything stops right there.
It's difficult for the government to get a case going in the first place.
I would wager it's easier than you're letting on. I did the grand jury thing once, 10 years ago. A lot of the stuff that came through was as choreographed as a musical. The DA would bring in grumpy looking convicts when they wanted to push a case for a drug dealer to tweak the jury's sympathies, and they'd bring in a tearful old grandmother when they had a child abuse case. When they couldn't find the perfect actor, they'd "prep" us by explaining how the next witness is an excellent liar, and if she starts crying, it's just a method of control.. etc, etc.
I don't think we voted down a single case in a month of work. I really tried to avoid being a sucker, and I think I pissed off a lot of my fellow jurors because I asked way too many damn questions, but at least I never left that room feeling like I'd been gamed by the system.
I suppose, it's just as likely the DA's office did their research before going to grand jury, and only presented us with winnable cases, making it easy for us to vote in the affirmative. My single experience isn't exactly a viable sample size. What I can say for sure is that the system is finely tuned, and from my limited point of view, it's actually pretty easy for the government to get what they want.
You can of course then sue for malicious prosecution.
What money will you use to pay for a lawyer to help you with the lawsuit?
The way I understand it, you're assuming the photon came from a fixed source. It didn't.. it came from an object that was also moving, and probably doing it in a direction pointed away from us. Is much like two vehicles moving opposite directions on a highway: the speed of the other car relative to your car appears faster than it's actually going.
bingo. that's why i store the IP address along with the session ID in the database.
There was a merchant site that I visited quite some time ago that did something like this. Except they screwed it up and, along with putting the session ID in the URL, they "automatically" tied the session id with account information. The effect this had was that anyone who visited a copied URL would pull up the account information of the person who had spread the URL around.
It took some time to figure it out. The URL was posted on a fairly busy forum, and it was a fairly fast selling item, and 50+ people had used the link to try and make a purchase.. and every time someone checked out, the account was updated with their information.
I'm not sure what the lesson here is, other than the fact that any "safe practice" can become insecure in the hands of idiots. Cookies aren't an inherently stupid idea, but the ease of using them invites a lot of abuses.
Because you could download and use pygame, crystal space, irrlicht, ogre, sdl, whatever for free (both beer and speech) and be able distribute the game however you want. The only thing using this Microsoft download earns you is the ability to run the code on the 360.. which Microsoft is already making money on.
A lot of people are going "holy cow! xbox programming! yay!" and ignoring that they're giving us tools that have existed in the pc world for decades. Microsoft isn't giving anyone anything.. they're seeing how much we'll pay for what we can get for free.
read LOTS of other people's code (DL a smallish OSS project at first, then larger ones).
Especially here: http://thedailywtf.com/
Learning what not to do can be as valuable as learning what you should do. The comments can be useful too, the problems get picked apart pretty extensively and can be quite educational. If anything you ever write never ends up on a site like that, you can't be that bad off.
I've always found it amusing that that factoid was never once given to me while I was in school (in the US). When we studied the war of 1812 for a month, and it was never mentioned once.
Wasn't until years later when a Candian friend of mine mentioned it in passing that I was enlightened. Did a bit of a WTF at the time, and later looked up the details of why/when it happened.
Not much of a conspiracy theorist, there's always the chance that I just wasn't paying attention to that stuff in class, but I do find it amusing that certain uncomfortable facts get left by the roadside.
Was a lot about the Civil War that was left "unrevealed" until I read further on the topic post graduation.
All of those areas can have hot summers. Not as consistently hot as California, but it's not like people are wearing parkas 365 days a year. Building a center there and hoping you can simply pipe in air from outside is going to result in some serious disappointment.
One thing I have seen used to good effect is pond water. You still need the huge air conditioners in your server rooms but they can operate on water piped in from a body of water. I'm unclear on what the difference in costs is, but I would expect it's less than a typical compressor. Have to monitor it closely though.. get stuck in a heat wave and the temperature of your cooling pond rises as well, reducing effectiveness. If you're close to pushing the system beyond capacity, just a few days of abnormally hot weather can start overheating machines.
I think the only problem I can imagine with the trick is that you get a relatively small amount of string out of a single can. If you coat every room you enter with this stuff, you'll go through a lot of cans really fast. Can't this stuff be imaged? I would think an infared emitter and a camera to detect reflection off the wires would work too. I guess that assumes the tripwire is actually metal, but I'd think thread or fishing line would be detectable too.
I could also see the terrorists increasing the sensitivity of the trip wires if they learn of this tactic, enough that the weight of the silly string will set off the bomb. Which might also be a benefit, provided it explodes while the guy is trying to set the trap up.
Actually it's "improvised", not installed.
Most of us would call them booby traps.
Didn't LEGO outsource their fabrication off to some other company earlier this year? I'm pretty sure it was a fairly long transition, so we may not be seeing these new pieces yet, but the sets I've bought in the past year seem "different" somehow. Colors don't seem as solid as they were years ago, and the plastic feels softer. They still snap together pretty well, but they don't seem to fit against each other as well and seams can be much bigger than I remember.
While I'm sure the machinery and manufacture process isn't changing, it would have been nice if the article could have commented on the changes being made in response to the restructuring LEGO has been doing the past couple years. It's pretty obvious to me that things are changing, but it'd be nice to have it documented.
If he hadn't intended us to look at porn, he wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs.
The current administration can't grasp that simple concept.
The CURRENT administration? The US has been in debt as long as it has existed!
Because so much about the Zune and (some of) its features depend on the social network aspect to achieve functionality, and that won't happen with this slow of a ramp.
I would wager it has less to do with units sold (though it can't help) and more to do with the fact that people don't listen to music to be social. They do it so they can ignore people.
Apple tries this tactic too in some of their ads, and I don't see how they expect it to work. If you want people to socialize, they need to DO something together.
That crap aside, nobody is going to kill the iPod, it's a behemoth now.
Somebody will, someday. I doubt it'll be the Zune, but market leaders always get "beat", eventually.
why play guitar hero?
Because it's a fun game? Rhythm games are popular for a reason, because it's an extremely easy concept to grasp but can be extremely hard to pull off perfectly. Doesn't matter if you're a musician or a mill worker, if it's fun, there's no reason not to play it.
It in no way threatans or diminishes "real" music production, it's simply binding together two popular activities: Being a rock star, and playing video games.
Does the HBO show spend any time discussing the three "sides" to the debate? E-Voting, open sourced e-voting software, and paper voting? The last Slashdot article on this topic, when Diebold's complaint was announced, spent some time on this. The worry being, the debate is nothing more than "e-voting good" or "e-voting bad", ignoring the possibility that "open source e-voting" might be a viable middle ground.
How do you think open source could fit into this issue? Or should it?
The question shouldn't be about staying alive, it should be about people with genetic defects procreating. I think it's pretty obvious we're diluting our gene pool with a bunch of shit (the rise of nearsightedness seems like an obvious one to me), a huge number of diseases have their symptoms treated without the problem being fixed. When these people have kids.. they're just perpetuating the decline.
I don't think we can deny these people having children, it's more of a personal responsibility thing. It's why I don't want to have children, wouldn't want to put anyone through what I go through.
Now I get a zillion bounce-spams using my domain (I monitor a catch-all) and randomly generated usernames.
I haven't gotten a single spam to my "real" email address, but my catch-all has been getting hammered the past month with bounces. It seems about time to disable them, I wonder what percentage of emails floating around are actually just errors from spammers sending to nonexistant accounts.