I suspect there are some interesting things being doodled on napkins at cafes and bars all over Darmstadt. Yep. That and building a Soyuz capable launch pad in Guinea... Hm.... That does call for some napkin calculations...
Exactly, and I am not particularly sure about the benefits of 10GE vs Fiberchannel or Infiniband. Ethernet tends to have higher latency than these two and latency is what makes people go for SAN instead of NAS in the first place.
We just need to make sure it is in a place like Germany, France or Russia where they still teach terrorist material like mathematics, physics and chemistry in school.
Why knock offs? They are often real. Surplus or night jobs depending on the way the manufacturing is set up.
For example, all of my suits for the last 5-7 years are YSL or PC in anything but a label. I buy them when on holiday in Bulgaria (and I know where to buy them from). When YSL, PC or any of the other usual suspects orders a batch to a specific design the factory always makes 10-20% surplus to ensure that enough of them survive through quality control.
The surplus is after that sold unlabelled on the local market. The resulting product has different buttons, zips, etc which in the original are branded. For the surplus the factory uses generic analogues instead. As there is no branding visible the label is not bothered to make the factory destroy these if they are not sold for export.
End of the day you get a proper suit and it costs a fraction of the cost of the crappiest Chinese slaveshop P.O.S. sold in Walmart.
I have 400+ movies on my Linux file server with any computer around the house being able to work as a proper media player (with a proper IR remote and everything). You also can use a bog standard fanless and diskless thin client for this. No noise, nothing.
Wanna try this with Microcrap Media Center Edition? Dream on...
DVD is actually an area where Linux reigns supreme. I have tried many HD upscalers and I actually play my movies on a Linux box using VLC and Nvidia (with Nvidia drivers). It simply works better than any commercial upscaler I have seen so far. In fact it works so good that I do not see the point of buying and HD media for at least the next few years.
You simply need to chose the _RIGHT_ drive or play off the hard drive. The problems with playing DVDs are usually not with Linux, they are with the DVDs being massively bastardised by Macrovision. As a result if you got the "wrong" DVD drive it will fail to read under anything - Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc. If you rip it all problems disappear. All my DVDs are actually stored on a file server in the loft. I got tired of dealing with scratches, dirt, Macrovision or simply trying to find the right DVD to watch.
The power of linux is mostly irrelevant here. OK, fine, a blade, and so what? It is more expensive than most 1U servers out there.
Now the power of having an API into the Cisco hardware and software is a completely different story. That may be something that is really interesting. It will allow moving many tasks that are now exclusive to big closed and expensive OSS systems to the frontline where they really belong.
By the way, this has been long coming. The first time I heard about this was circa 2003. Nice to see it finally making the light of day.
I admire your optimism if you think that it will be limited to Israel. In fact Israel has enough nuclear potential to fend for itself. It is the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa which will end up being assimilated.
What do you think, that only USA can install puppet states? Other nations know how to do it as well and there is nothing easier than doing this on religious grounds. In fact it is the cheapest way of doing it.
Quickly pulling out of Iraq will create an Iran which is double the size of present. There will be a Kurd fragment in the north (with a tiny bit of oil) which may or may not end up being eaten by Turkey, an arab fragment in the west (with virtually no oil, just camels) which may or may not be eaten by Saudi and a Iraq-Iran shia state in the south, west and center.
All of that with nukes. No thanks. Dealing with the strategic consequences of that in the long run may actually outweight current investment in the Iraq war.
The worst bit here is that if we did not topple Saddam we would have never had this problem on our hands. This is a swamp we drove into ourselves and for the time being there is no way out. There is only a way to continue piling gravel and sandbags and hope that they will stop sinking.
Anyone thinking that "we can pullout fast" is delusional.
Now Afganistan is another matter. Every single army to conquer Afganistan over the centuries went on to do better things and left it alone. It has no resources, no strategic value and pulling out of it makes sense. Chasing one wanker which is not in Afganistan anyway does not justify a war without end. It can be sealed and quarantined from the air for the next century for a fraction of the resources we use at present. Just shoot anything coming in or out and ask questions later.
"Ars Technica reports that a group of companies and organizations it calls 'big content' is CONSTANTLY engaged in a worldwide 'whisper campaign' against Fair Use.
Fixed that for ya. And it does not need to be a "group" to be doing that. They do it anyway as this is what their interests call for.
In a game you can vent build up stress. This is especially valid for games played in a group.
I used to run a small company with two people - a husband and a wife. They were shouting at each other constantly, quarreling, slammed doors and so on. Stress to the roof. I sold my share to them and left.
A year later I came to see them. Nice, quiet, tranquil. I could not understand what was going on until I found out that they play Doom, deathmatch, no monsters every day for at least half an hour... Ahh... The joy of creeping on your best beloved with a double barrel shotgun and blowing his head off... Aaaa.... Wonderful...
By the way, cooperative play does not do it. We tried later on to play Tie-Fighter vs X-Wing and it did not work out.
I have yet to see a Maxtor fail when cooled properly (and I ran the IT for a company which bought only maxtors).
Further to this as far as observations go, DiamondMax series 8 in that company was failing with nearly 100% probability in 2 years when run at 40C+ (inside HP Evo cases and badly designed server enclosures) and with nearly 0% when run at less than 30C (proper case/enclosure).
So based on my first hand experience - if you have a maxtor - cool it. Otherwise it fails.
Here is an example of my server. At 18C ambient in a well cooled and well designed case with dedicated hard drive fans he Maxtors I use for RAID1 run at 29ÂC. My Media server which is in the loft with sub-16C ambient runs them at 24-34 depending on the position in the case (once again, proper high end case with dedicated hard drive fans).
Very few hard disk enclosures can bring the temperature down to 24-25C.
SANs or high density servers usually end up running disks at 30C+ while at 18C ambient. In fact I have seen disks run at 40C or more in "enterprise hardware".
From there on it is not amazing that they fail at a rate different from the quoted one. In fact I would have been very surprised if they did.
This is Germans. They still study chemistry, physics and basic electronics and other freeky terrorist skills in school even today.
I would not be afraid of such nasty things happening in an decent god-fearful rule obiding English Speaking country. This has long been taken care of through the amendments to the school and university curriculum. And if worst comes to worst control orders can be used from people taking high school chemistry courses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7107265.stm
Attractive, Female, Brit? Sorry does not compute. Division by zero when trying to calculate probability distribution.
If you see something attractive on the street here you can bet a few quid that she will be speaking Polish straight away. At best that will be English with NZ or AU accent. Most likely Polish, Lituanian or Russian though. The massive use of pills from early age, junk food, lack of PE in schools along with jaws deformed from being stuffed with a dummy till the age of 4 have created an outright sick looking nation. And if you look at some of the older generation moms it is clear that things did not use to be that way (it is getting better lately, at least some parents have started keeping track of what their children eat).
On a more serious note, I am a parent of an extremely unruly 6 year old who is doing his best to try to compete for the title of "the youngest person expelled from an independent school in GB". I have long noted that the "naughtiness" of children is more or less constant or has a baseline constant component. A quiet person in his early years will be a hellraising teenager and vice versa. There is nothing wrong with children exhibiting "violent" and "erratic" behaviour. They are trying to find their way into the world. They should be helped and directed instead of being marked as future offenders.
Things like that are studied in school in Eastern Europe. If that was what it took to build a bomb the Ayatollah's would have had it long ago.
The reality is that none of these are key steps. They are common knowledge. Now the enrichment is a different story. It takes a lot of design work to get a good centrifuge going. And this is also where the west failed. If we did not tacitly approve the theft of centrifuge design by a "scientist" from Pakistan, if we did not tacitly approve him building a bomb and selling knowhow for many years there would have been much less nutheads with nuclear potential running about. Unfortunately, the usual American desire to perceive all in Black and White along with "the enemy of of my enemy is my friend" made the US ignore this while it was happening.
Too late now. It is now only a matter of time until we have a religious nut with a nuke and we are helping it with our misguided attempts at democracy in Pakistan. Democracy in a poor, hungry country with religious fanatics abound and a bomb. We might as well start blowing our own arsenal in the middle of our capitals. There is not much difference.
The activity of DCA is simply based upon the Warburg effect, not on the inhibition of this specific variety of pyruvate kinase.
AFAIK the results so far could not be explained by the Warburg effect alone and that was the reason why many scientists questioned the DCA results. So this makes the DCA results doubly interesting.
The editors missed the most important fact. This is the enzyme which is actually inhibited by DiChloroAcetic Acid which was recently reported as the Wonder Drug by other groups of scientists. So this discovery already has a matching (though rather nasty) drug which has been shown to work in at least some studies. On top of all the drug is not patent encumbered and you can order it from any large chemical supplier. All that remains is to figure out the therapeutic doze and improve on the drug (DCA does have its side effects).
That and walking at an angle based on your social rank.
I do not have zebrafish nowdays, but IIRC they swim at different angles with the ones on the bottom of the society ladder at the steepest angle and the dominant one in the tank swimming nearly horisontally.
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The greatest miss in russian landing history ended up being "Cosmonavt No 1" in command of the entire space programme.
To be most exact that was Leonov on his Voskhod 2 mission where they landed nearly 1000 km off course in the middle of the forest near Perm.
No.
Serezha, davai vruchnuyu!!!
Exactly, and I am not particularly sure about the benefits of 10GE vs Fiberchannel or Infiniband. Ethernet tends to have higher latency than these two and latency is what makes people go for SAN instead of NAS in the first place.
He is from a country where they teach terrorist sciences like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, etc in school. I would not be so sure.
He would not have the political drive to lie either.
May I ask what exactly did you use to extrapolate the current satellite population to 2029 level?
OK, we more or less know what we are going to launch till 2015. What about later on?
We just need to make sure it is in a place like Germany, France or Russia where they still teach terrorist material like mathematics, physics and chemistry in school.
That should be "Do not start cloning Bruce Willis just yet". Fixed that for ya...
We are talking 2036 after all... Unless it will be a tragicomic spoof of both Space Cowboys and Armageddon.
Why knock offs? They are often real. Surplus or night jobs depending on the way the manufacturing is set up.
For example, all of my suits for the last 5-7 years are YSL or PC in anything but a label. I buy them when on holiday in Bulgaria (and I know where to buy them from). When YSL, PC or any of the other usual suspects orders a batch to a specific design the factory always makes 10-20% surplus to ensure that enough of them survive through quality control.
The surplus is after that sold unlabelled on the local market. The resulting product has different buttons, zips, etc which in the original are branded. For the surplus the factory uses generic analogues instead. As there is no branding visible the label is not bothered to make the factory destroy these if they are not sold for export.
End of the day you get a proper suit and it costs a fraction of the cost of the crappiest Chinese slaveshop P.O.S. sold in Walmart.
DVD work?
What DVD work?
I have 400+ movies on my Linux file server with any computer around the house being able to work as a proper media player (with a proper IR remote and everything). You also can use a bog standard fanless and diskless thin client for this. No noise, nothing.
Wanna try this with Microcrap Media Center Edition? Dream on...
DVD is actually an area where Linux reigns supreme. I have tried many HD upscalers and I actually play my movies on a Linux box using VLC and Nvidia (with Nvidia drivers). It simply works better than any commercial upscaler I have seen so far. In fact it works so good that I do not see the point of buying and HD media for at least the next few years.
You simply need to chose the _RIGHT_ drive or play off the hard drive. The problems with playing DVDs are usually not with Linux, they are with the DVDs being massively bastardised by Macrovision. As a result if you got the "wrong" DVD drive it will fail to read under anything - Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc.
If you rip it all problems disappear. All my DVDs are actually stored on a file server in the loft. I got tired of dealing with scratches, dirt, Macrovision or simply trying to find the right DVD to watch.
Wait for large terrorist act that scares the crap out of the nation
The Burning of the Reichstag?
Pass draconian terror laws suspending civil rights and allowing torture ("But just for terrorists!")
The protection of the state laws voted by Germany in 1934, Bulgaria, Hungary and other German allies in the 1934-1939 interval?
Extend definition of terrorism to include any activity you want to persecute; if met with complaint, answer "Why do you hate Freedom so much?"
Yavol, mein Fuhrer!!!
...
Dictatorship!
Zich Heil!!!
The power of linux is mostly irrelevant here. OK, fine, a blade, and so what? It is more expensive than most 1U servers out there.
Now the power of having an API into the Cisco hardware and software is a completely different story. That may be something that is really interesting. It will allow moving many tasks that are now exclusive to big closed and expensive OSS systems to the frontline where they really belong.
By the way, this has been long coming. The first time I heard about this was circa 2003. Nice to see it finally making the light of day.
I admire your optimism if you think that it will be limited to Israel. In fact Israel has enough nuclear potential to fend for itself. It is the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa which will end up being assimilated.
What do you think, that only USA can install puppet states? Other nations know how to do it as well and there is nothing easier than doing this on religious grounds. In fact it is the cheapest way of doing it.
Quickly pulling out of Iraq will create an Iran which is double the size of present. There will be a Kurd fragment in the north (with a tiny bit of oil) which may or may not end up being eaten by Turkey, an arab fragment in the west (with virtually no oil, just camels) which may or may not be eaten by Saudi and a Iraq-Iran shia state in the south, west and center.
All of that with nukes. No thanks. Dealing with the strategic consequences of that in the long run may actually outweight current investment in the Iraq war.
The worst bit here is that if we did not topple Saddam we would have never had this problem on our hands. This is a swamp we drove into ourselves and for the time being there is no way out. There is only a way to continue piling gravel and sandbags and hope that they will stop sinking.
Anyone thinking that "we can pullout fast" is delusional.
Now Afganistan is another matter. Every single army to conquer Afganistan over the centuries went on to do better things and left it alone. It has no resources, no strategic value and pulling out of it makes sense. Chasing one wanker which is not in Afganistan anyway does not justify a war without end. It can be sealed and quarantined from the air for the next century for a fraction of the resources we use at present. Just shoot anything coming in or out and ask questions later.
Fixed that for ya. And it does not need to be a "group" to be doing that. They do it anyway as this is what their interests call for.
Actually no.
In a game you can vent build up stress. This is especially valid for games played in a group.
I used to run a small company with two people - a husband and a wife. They were shouting at each other constantly, quarreling, slammed doors and so on. Stress to the roof. I sold my share to them and left.
A year later I came to see them. Nice, quiet, tranquil. I could not understand what was going on until I found out that they play Doom, deathmatch, no monsters every day for at least half an hour... Ahh... The joy of creeping on your best beloved with a double barrel shotgun and blowing his head off... Aaaa.... Wonderful...
By the way, cooperative play does not do it. We tried later on to play Tie-Fighter vs X-Wing and it did not work out.
They cannot. AFAIK there was a recent decision that takedowns are subject to copyright as well.
While it is completely bogus and will be repelled one day for the time publishing takedown notices is a bad idea.
I have yet to see a Maxtor fail when cooled properly (and I ran the IT for a company which bought only maxtors).
Further to this as far as observations go, DiamondMax series 8 in that company was failing with nearly 100% probability in 2 years when run at 40C+ (inside HP Evo cases and badly designed server enclosures) and with nearly 0% when run at less than 30C (proper case/enclosure).
So based on my first hand experience - if you have a maxtor - cool it. Otherwise it fails.
Disk MTBF is quoted for 20C.
Here is an example of my server. At 18C ambient in a well cooled and well designed case with dedicated hard drive fans he Maxtors I use for RAID1 run at 29ÂC. My Media server which is in the loft with sub-16C ambient runs them at 24-34 depending on the position in the case (once again, proper high end case with dedicated hard drive fans).
Very few hard disk enclosures can bring the temperature down to 24-25C.
SANs or high density servers usually end up running disks at 30C+ while at 18C ambient. In fact I have seen disks run at 40C or more in "enterprise hardware".
From there on it is not amazing that they fail at a rate different from the quoted one. In fact I would have been very surprised if they did.
I would not be afraid of such nasty things happening in an decent god-fearful rule obiding English Speaking country. This has long been taken care of through the amendments to the school and university curriculum. And if worst comes to worst control orders can be used from people taking high school chemistry courses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7107265.stm
Attractive, Female, Brit? Sorry does not compute. Division by zero when trying to calculate probability distribution.
If you see something attractive on the street here you can bet a few quid that she will be speaking Polish straight away. At best that will be English with NZ or AU accent. Most likely Polish, Lituanian or Russian though. The massive use of pills from early age, junk food, lack of PE in schools along with jaws deformed from being stuffed with a dummy till the age of 4 have created an outright sick looking nation. And if you look at some of the older generation moms it is clear that things did not use to be that way (it is getting better lately, at least some parents have started keeping track of what their children eat).
On a more serious note, I am a parent of an extremely unruly 6 year old who is doing his best to try to compete for the title of "the youngest person expelled from an independent school in GB". I have long noted that the "naughtiness" of children is more or less constant or has a baseline constant component. A quiet person in his early years will be a hellraising teenager and vice versa. There is nothing wrong with children exhibiting "violent" and "erratic" behaviour. They are trying to find their way into the world. They should be helped and directed instead of being marked as future offenders.
Things like that are studied in school in Eastern Europe. If that was what it took to build a bomb the Ayatollah's would have had it long ago.
The reality is that none of these are key steps. They are common knowledge. Now the enrichment is a different story. It takes a lot of design work to get a good centrifuge going. And this is also where the west failed. If we did not tacitly approve the theft of centrifuge design by a "scientist" from Pakistan, if we did not tacitly approve him building a bomb and selling knowhow for many years there would have been much less nutheads with nuclear potential running about. Unfortunately, the usual American desire to perceive all in Black and White along with "the enemy of of my enemy is my friend" made the US ignore this while it was happening.
Too late now. It is now only a matter of time until we have a religious nut with a nuke and we are helping it with our misguided attempts at democracy in Pakistan. Democracy in a poor, hungry country with religious fanatics abound and a bomb. We might as well start blowing our own arsenal in the middle of our capitals. There is not much difference.
AFAIK the results so far could not be explained by the Warburg effect alone and that was the reason why many scientists questioned the DCA results. So this makes the DCA results doubly interesting.
The editors missed the most important fact. This is the enzyme which is actually inhibited by DiChloroAcetic Acid which was recently reported as the Wonder Drug by other groups of scientists. So this discovery already has a matching (though rather nasty) drug which has been shown to work in at least some studies. On top of all the drug is not patent encumbered and you can order it from any large chemical supplier. All that remains is to figure out the therapeutic doze and improve on the drug (DCA does have its side effects).
That and walking at an angle based on your social rank. I do not have zebrafish nowdays, but IIRC they swim at different angles with the ones on the bottom of the society ladder at the steepest angle and the dominant one in the tank swimming nearly horisontally.