Years ago I would get sick a lot such that I had to throw up. I would get horrible sewer odor belches as part of the process. I think it's what people politely call "stomach flu". It took me a long time to realize it was because of the plastic cup I was using.
But it wasn't because of "diseases", it was because of mildew growing in the damp narrow bit under the lid where it snapped onto the rest of the cup. That stuff WILL make me throw up if I ingest it. It was just too hard to keep clean. So now I normally use a cup with no lid, and make sure it's empty when I leave at the end of the day so it can dry out. And if I'm going to be lazy with the dishes, I make sure to not let them stay wet in the sink for more than a day or so. Once mildew gets in there, not only is it going to make you sick, it's also a pain in the ass to clean off.
I think that's explicitly for seven years. Google is at least not stupid enough to go "for life" with that. After that point my hunch is they will probably keep it going anyhow, but they're not going to paint themselves into a corner.
(300 bucks = Google Fiber install price, if you pay that they will give you free low-speed for a long time, which is clearly to encourage economy of scale so they can get more plant built at the same time)
The class E space has 268 million addresses and would give us in the order of 18 months worth of IPv4 address use. However, many TCP/IP stacks, such as the one in Windows, do not accept addresses from class E space and will not even communicate with correspondents holding those addresses. It is probably too late now to change this behavior on the installed base before the address space would be needed.
And you forgot to mention class D space, which is pretty sparsely defined. I seem to recall it uses about 5 out of 16/8 size blocks, not to mention that IPv4 multicast is basically a failure anyhow, so really all 16/8 blocks are wasted.
The problem with "global population growth rates" is only in the developing world. As a society develops, birth rate naturally goes down. Right now Japan is facing a top-heavy population due to declining birth rate, and Europe is also below the replacement rate. I think the US is about flat, but because of immigration. The reason is that as infant mortality goes down (less need for "spare" kids), and as lifestyle options increase, children turn from an asset into a liability. Child labor laws also help reduce the value of a large family, and having children at a later age reduces the replacement rate.
You not having kids isn't going to help the planet. People in India and China having fewer kids makes a much bigger difference.
Don't forget the people living on a... um... "government income", who suddenly won't be able to watch Jerry Springer or Dr. Oz or other fine examples of daytime television programming. Once their big-screen TV set shuts down, you know the first thing they're going to do is grab a large kitchen knife and go on a rampage killing everyone in the neighborhood.
I think there's a bit of a difference between having "good English skills" and spending four or more years of your life taking classes about it, instead of taking classes to learn an actual trade.
Where did this "floating barge" thing come from? They're landing it on the water right now so that it doesn't cause property damage if it fucks up. When they feel confident that it can stay under control and on target, they'll have touch down on land. A floating barge is a hell of a lot more difficult than dry land, with no advantages.
The aluminum-era Powerbooks/MacBook Pros were awful for that. I had three of them, 1 PPC and 2 Intel. The DVD drive would become misaligned with the slot and you had to take it apart to get the disc to eject. Also, the latch to keep it closed wouldn't work, and the skin oils from my palms would etch pits in the top of it. The "unibody" case design was a major and overdue fix for all those problems. The only thing I miss is a matte screen option.
I regularly use one with a keypad and digital timer, so no knobs to wear out, but still a genuine Amana RadarRange. Got it for $25 at Goodwill back in 2000 or so.
The other day I needed to open a Visio document. I had created it a few months ago, before my old XP PC got refreshed with a Win 7 box. For some reason, while it still had Office 2007, it was missing Visio. Even worse, it wanted to open IE, which wanted to use an ActiveX viewer plugin... which proceeded to turn the line art into a bitmap when printing to PDF.
So I downloaded OO. No Visio for you! (This was actually the point at which I tried the ActiveX viewer.) Then I decided to check if Libre Office could handle it. Holy crap, yes, it opened it like a native document.
Then I made sure to save a PDF version of my document just in case someone else wanted to see it later.
I never said anything about "our" sports teams and colleges. You can get them on a Texas license plate for almost any major university or NFL team, regardless of what state they're in. I'm sure that's all made easier by group-licensing agreements. Well, that and being able to put any 4-color process art on a plate in low quantity.
I've been using the H&R block off-line software for the past few years, OS X version. The main reason is because they are NOT the #1 in that market, so they won't get cocky like Turbo Tax. And I'm in Texas, so the basic basic version. You also get 5 e-files included for the price, so I got my mom to use it a couple of times.
I get it for $15 at Fry's in January because even though they mail me a new disc every year, the amount they want to activate that online costs more than buying it at Fry's (like ten bucks or so more). At least they sent a cardboard sleeve mailer this time instead of a full snap case, to save postage on something I won't be using anyhow.
Byte was dead by 1993. There was some kind of Computer Shopper clone magazine that took its place (and name) for quite a few years thereafter, but it wasn't Byte. They even managed to get Pournelle's column into this doppelganger of Byte.
Life is also simpler in the Mac world because there isn't a triple.NET update every couple of weeks. And the.NET updaters seem to take a lot more time than regular patches. How badly do you have to fuck up a language runtime library to make it need monthly updates? And I'm not talking about just adding new features to the latest one, like with Java. This is.NET 1.x 2.x and 4.x all getting constantly patched.
Because if the main computer goes out after the launch and before the docking, with the backup already broken, things could get a bit... intense... up there. Since it controls external stuff like the rail car, they really just need to get everything moved where it needs to be ahead of time.
There was a helium leak in the first stage. Next launch opportunity is Friday afternoon. I've been wanting to see this thing go up for weeks. First it was sewing machine oil on some cloth around the cargo, then it was the ground radar on fire, now it's a leak. The only good thing about this is that Friday is a holiday day for me, so I can actually watch the launch live. (or watch it get scrubbed again live)
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Years ago I would get sick a lot such that I had to throw up. I would get horrible sewer odor belches as part of the process. I think it's what people politely call "stomach flu". It took me a long time to realize it was because of the plastic cup I was using.
But it wasn't because of "diseases", it was because of mildew growing in the damp narrow bit under the lid where it snapped onto the rest of the cup. That stuff WILL make me throw up if I ingest it. It was just too hard to keep clean. So now I normally use a cup with no lid, and make sure it's empty when I leave at the end of the day so it can dry out. And if I'm going to be lazy with the dishes, I make sure to not let them stay wet in the sink for more than a day or so. Once mildew gets in there, not only is it going to make you sick, it's also a pain in the ass to clean off.
So this Beowulf cluster... would it be powered by hot grits?
The best part is that he knows how close he is to the trope.
I think that's explicitly for seven years. Google is at least not stupid enough to go "for life" with that. After that point my hunch is they will probably keep it going anyhow, but they're not going to paint themselves into a corner.
(300 bucks = Google Fiber install price, if you pay that they will give you free low-speed for a long time, which is clearly to encourage economy of scale so they can get more plant built at the same time)
As I posted in another sub-thread: http://packetlife.net/blog/201...
Except that when the really big blocks were assigned, it was a one-time fee.
Nope. Microsoft fucked that a long time ago.
http://packetlife.net/blog/201...
The class E space has 268 million addresses and would give us in the order of 18 months worth of IPv4 address use. However, many TCP/IP stacks, such as the one in Windows, do not accept addresses from class E space and will not even communicate with correspondents holding those addresses. It is probably too late now to change this behavior on the installed base before the address space would be needed.
And you forgot to mention class D space, which is pretty sparsely defined. I seem to recall it uses about 5 out of 16 /8 size blocks, not to mention that IPv4 multicast is basically a failure anyhow, so really all 16 /8 blocks are wasted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Just enough extra bandwidth to transmit the keys.
* DRM uses up CPU, not bandwidth.
* BH articles use up bandwidth.
Back in the old days we could filter Jon Katz articles. Is there some way we can black hole BH articles?
It doesn't just look like "a car". It looks like a freaking steampunk Hummer. Except that you can hear yourself think because it doesn't use steam.
The problem with "global population growth rates" is only in the developing world. As a society develops, birth rate naturally goes down. Right now Japan is facing a top-heavy population due to declining birth rate, and Europe is also below the replacement rate. I think the US is about flat, but because of immigration. The reason is that as infant mortality goes down (less need for "spare" kids), and as lifestyle options increase, children turn from an asset into a liability. Child labor laws also help reduce the value of a large family, and having children at a later age reduces the replacement rate.
You not having kids isn't going to help the planet. People in India and China having fewer kids makes a much bigger difference.
Don't forget the people living on a... um... "government income", who suddenly won't be able to watch Jerry Springer or Dr. Oz or other fine examples of daytime television programming. Once their big-screen TV set shuts down, you know the first thing they're going to do is grab a large kitchen knife and go on a rampage killing everyone in the neighborhood.
I think there's a bit of a difference between having "good English skills" and spending four or more years of your life taking classes about it, instead of taking classes to learn an actual trade.
Example: Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
The contractor made changes to save money. Only in this case they got the PE to sign off on their changes without evaluating them.
Where did this "floating barge" thing come from? They're landing it on the water right now so that it doesn't cause property damage if it fucks up. When they feel confident that it can stay under control and on target, they'll have touch down on land. A floating barge is a hell of a lot more difficult than dry land, with no advantages.
The aluminum-era Powerbooks/MacBook Pros were awful for that. I had three of them, 1 PPC and 2 Intel. The DVD drive would become misaligned with the slot and you had to take it apart to get the disc to eject. Also, the latch to keep it closed wouldn't work, and the skin oils from my palms would etch pits in the top of it. The "unibody" case design was a major and overdue fix for all those problems. The only thing I miss is a matte screen option.
I regularly use one with a keypad and digital timer, so no knobs to wear out, but still a genuine Amana RadarRange. Got it for $25 at Goodwill back in 2000 or so.
The other day I needed to open a Visio document. I had created it a few months ago, before my old XP PC got refreshed with a Win 7 box. For some reason, while it still had Office 2007, it was missing Visio. Even worse, it wanted to open IE, which wanted to use an ActiveX viewer plugin... which proceeded to turn the line art into a bitmap when printing to PDF.
So I downloaded OO. No Visio for you! (This was actually the point at which I tried the ActiveX viewer.) Then I decided to check if Libre Office could handle it. Holy crap, yes, it opened it like a native document.
Then I made sure to save a PDF version of my document just in case someone else wanted to see it later.
I never said anything about "our" sports teams and colleges. You can get them on a Texas license plate for almost any major university or NFL team, regardless of what state they're in. I'm sure that's all made easier by group-licensing agreements. Well, that and being able to put any 4-color process art on a plate in low quantity.
They terrorized Boston.
I've been using the H&R block off-line software for the past few years, OS X version. The main reason is because they are NOT the #1 in that market, so they won't get cocky like Turbo Tax. And I'm in Texas, so the basic basic version. You also get 5 e-files included for the price, so I got my mom to use it a couple of times.
I get it for $15 at Fry's in January because even though they mail me a new disc every year, the amount they want to activate that online costs more than buying it at Fry's (like ten bucks or so more). At least they sent a cardboard sleeve mailer this time instead of a full snap case, to save postage on something I won't be using anyhow.
Byte was dead by 1993. There was some kind of Computer Shopper clone magazine that took its place (and name) for quite a few years thereafter, but it wasn't Byte. They even managed to get Pournelle's column into this doppelganger of Byte.
Calculator Watch
GIS for calculator watch
I particularly like the one built around a generic 2x20 text LCD.
Life is also simpler in the Mac world because there isn't a triple .NET update every couple of weeks. And the .NET updaters seem to take a lot more time than regular patches. How badly do you have to fuck up a language runtime library to make it need monthly updates? And I'm not talking about just adding new features to the latest one, like with Java. This is .NET 1.x 2.x and 4.x all getting constantly patched.
Because if the main computer goes out after the launch and before the docking, with the backup already broken, things could get a bit... intense... up there. Since it controls external stuff like the rail car, they really just need to get everything moved where it needs to be ahead of time.
There was a helium leak in the first stage. Next launch opportunity is Friday afternoon. I've been wanting to see this thing go up for weeks. First it was sewing machine oil on some cloth around the cargo, then it was the ground radar on fire, now it's a leak. The only good thing about this is that Friday is a holiday day for me, so I can actually watch the launch live. (or watch it get scrubbed again live)