did you miss the part where microsoft did hostile takeovers of Yahoo, and more recently, Nokia? this is not a new concept, particularly not to microsoft.
4 billion years of evolution, and 99% of living creatures have a pair of eyes. Even flies, with compound eyes, have a pair of them. There seems to be something useful - such as a wider field of view - to having two, rather than one. Humans and most primates have stereoscopic vision, but that's a relatively rare event in nature.
Every time I go on a trip and skip slashdot for 2-3 days straight, a couple weeks after I come back all of a sudden they will throw mod points at me about once a week for a month or two.
I noticed in the second video, they only show the process of pulling the computer out. Wiping everything down with an oil-absorbent cloth is suspiciously absent, I noticed. Secondly, there doesn't seem to be a refined system for catching oil drips. I guess once the system is in the oil, it's not coming out but once or twice a year at most, but it's still a flammable liquid that is accumulating inside of an enclosed space. Raised floor systems aren't the easiest to clean up oil spils, I would assume. I'm no clean freak, but running this sort of system without further details on the cleanup leave me very wary.
Oh please, that's quite possibly the lamest excuse in this day and age. 2006 called, they want their lame Micro$haft excuses back. A 1080p Roku box runs $99 these days. The 720p model is even cheaper. Want more utility out of your box? Try a used Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, Mac Mini... or just repurpose an old PC as an HTPC. Anything built in 2008 will run 1080p just fine (mine does). A good number of TVs and Blu-Ray players ($60) have netflix/pandora support built in.
Get over yourself, and look in to getting that penguin tattoo removed from your ass.
I crash out constantly. But then again I am connecting to a server on another continent. Lag seems to have a strange effect on the game, especially when multiple players are crafting and building things.
While it makes sense, in the long run having the month first helps with planning things. Often things have a firm deadline by the month, but the actual day on which it is finished in the month is very flexible. For historical dates, except in rare instances, months are accurate enough to follow what happened so long ago (and often so are years). Being as specific as listing the day is pedantic in most cases, particularly after the fact.
a) they are trying to switch you to their unlimited plan (fixed income) b) punishing you for using a metered service instead of fixed monthly rate billing
People have been writing articles about how Japan migrated to the phone from the computer in 2005. Wether or not the rest of the world decides to do something similar is up to local social norms, customs, and wealth. The iPad and similar tablets are definitely a step in that direction though.
Argh, this rumor needs to be put to rest! The generators arrived, but the fuel got contaminated by sea water from the Tsunami, which only allowed the generators to run for a few hours before they were eaten up by the saltwater.
Devil's advocate: you need tens of millions of dollars of rail infrastructure in place to deliver coal to said power plants (I take it you've seen a coal train or two in your time). In some cases coal travels over the same lines as freight, but in many remote areas, that infrastructure had to be built out at the time of the plant's construction. A similar, expensive (refining) infrastructure exists for uranium.
I'm pretty sure that the number listed is somewhere between 5-10% the budget of a single, regular episode (where they don't leave the UK/land a helicopter on the roof of an SUV). I have some trust that JC will apologize (although with a snarky zing).
Dude on GB up from your office? No need to pay for hosting! Just put up a server at your office.
Agreed, this will be hugely helpful. I don't need Class A server hosting, but I'd gladly rent a $100/mo office and split the bill between 5-10 of my friends for 1gbps unmetered up/down. $33/mo (plus internet connection) for that kind of hosting is a dream come true.
In addition to the direct cost, living here in the south (Dallas), running 4x100w light bulbs is the equivalent of running a standard single room space heater (800w) 50% of the time. This is great if you live somewhere cold like Detroit or London, but in Texas you have to pay to pump that heat out of the house, with an efficiency of around 33%. That gets rather expensive when it's 100F/37C for weeks on end, with temps dropping down only to 88F/31C at night for the entire months of July and August.
TL;DR: For every 300W you burn up lighting a house, you spend another 200W pumping that incandescent heat out of the house.
The second part of your statement is correct. Investment banks are simply the financial "plumbing" for the money system. The only unusual thing is that we pay them so much for such a basic service.
There's a nuclear power plant that is right on the ocean just south of Miami, near Homestead (the location of the only Whataburger in southern FL also). If you zoom in on it in google maps you'll see that they've got some sort of m.c. escher water flowing uphill scheme going on over an area of a couple hundred acres. As I understand it, the original plan was to use seawater directly, but the EPA put the nix on that and they went with the current solution instead. I've personally canoed past water inlets for nuclear power plant heat exchangers on the columbia river, the largest river west of the mississippi, so they're certainly doing it already, and have been for quite a while.
Regan shut down the last breeder reactor in the US based on fears that it could be used by terrorists to create weapons grade plutonium, or something equally ridiculous. I think the Japanese and French are using breeder reactors these days.
We only reached 1989 supercomputer power (in GFLOPS) around 2008. That was about 40 GFLOPS then and now. The i7 950s clock in just over 100 GFLOPS IIRC (108 according to wikipedia).
You realize you're comparing durable goods against consumables (textiles), right. Durable goods have a very well defined growth pattern and can be projected years and sometimes decades in advance. GE makes domestic products like microwaves and fridges, and has yet to go out of business.
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did you miss the part where microsoft did hostile takeovers of Yahoo, and more recently, Nokia? this is not a new concept, particularly not to microsoft.
"hostile takeover"
is also in "quotation marks"?
Did you want to Drop Some Knowledge on slashdot, or did you not read the last sentence in full? What part of "relatively rare" was unclear?
4 billion years of evolution, and 99% of living creatures have a pair of eyes. Even flies, with compound eyes, have a pair of them. There seems to be something useful - such as a wider field of view - to having two, rather than one. Humans and most primates have stereoscopic vision, but that's a relatively rare event in nature.
People have trained email spam filters to play chess. This is well within the realm of possibility.
Every time I go on a trip and skip slashdot for 2-3 days straight, a couple weeks after I come back all of a sudden they will throw mod points at me about once a week for a month or two.
I noticed in the second video, they only show the process of pulling the computer out. Wiping everything down with an oil-absorbent cloth is suspiciously absent, I noticed. Secondly, there doesn't seem to be a refined system for catching oil drips. I guess once the system is in the oil, it's not coming out but once or twice a year at most, but it's still a flammable liquid that is accumulating inside of an enclosed space. Raised floor systems aren't the easiest to clean up oil spils, I would assume. I'm no clean freak, but running this sort of system without further details on the cleanup leave me very wary.
It's mean spirited because his post is redundant and nauseating clichéd. I make no apologies.
Oh please, that's quite possibly the lamest excuse in this day and age. 2006 called, they want their lame Micro$haft excuses back. A 1080p Roku box runs $99 these days. The 720p model is even cheaper. Want more utility out of your box? Try a used Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, Mac Mini... or just repurpose an old PC as an HTPC. Anything built in 2008 will run 1080p just fine (mine does). A good number of TVs and Blu-Ray players ($60) have netflix/pandora support built in.
Get over yourself, and look in to getting that penguin tattoo removed from your ass.
But not available for instant streaming tailored to your connection's bitrate.
I'd rather stream it via netflix legally (which I already pay for), rather than hoard it illegally on a drive I then have to buy and maintain.
Where were you unable to get a GSM signal in the US?
I crash out constantly. But then again I am connecting to a server on another continent. Lag seems to have a strange effect on the game, especially when multiple players are crafting and building things.
While it makes sense, in the long run having the month first helps with planning things. Often things have a firm deadline by the month, but the actual day on which it is finished in the month is very flexible. For historical dates, except in rare instances, months are accurate enough to follow what happened so long ago (and often so are years). Being as specific as listing the day is pedantic in most cases, particularly after the fact.
They charge you so damn much because
a) they are trying to switch you to their unlimited plan (fixed income)
b) punishing you for using a metered service instead of fixed monthly rate billing
People have been writing articles about how Japan migrated to the phone from the computer in 2005. Wether or not the rest of the world decides to do something similar is up to local social norms, customs, and wealth. The iPad and similar tablets are definitely a step in that direction though.
Argh, this rumor needs to be put to rest! The generators arrived, but the fuel got contaminated by sea water from the Tsunami, which only allowed the generators to run for a few hours before they were eaten up by the saltwater.
Devil's advocate: you need tens of millions of dollars of rail infrastructure in place to deliver coal to said power plants (I take it you've seen a coal train or two in your time). In some cases coal travels over the same lines as freight, but in many remote areas, that infrastructure had to be built out at the time of the plant's construction. A similar, expensive (refining) infrastructure exists for uranium.
I'm pretty sure that the number listed is somewhere between 5-10% the budget of a single, regular episode (where they don't leave the UK/land a helicopter on the roof of an SUV). I have some trust that JC will apologize (although with a snarky zing).
Agreed, this will be hugely helpful. I don't need Class A server hosting, but I'd gladly rent a $100/mo office and split the bill between 5-10 of my friends for 1gbps unmetered up/down. $33/mo (plus internet connection) for that kind of hosting is a dream come true.
In addition to the direct cost, living here in the south (Dallas), running 4x100w light bulbs is the equivalent of running a standard single room space heater (800w) 50% of the time. This is great if you live somewhere cold like Detroit or London, but in Texas you have to pay to pump that heat out of the house, with an efficiency of around 33%. That gets rather expensive when it's 100F/37C for weeks on end, with temps dropping down only to 88F/31C at night for the entire months of July and August.
TL;DR: For every 300W you burn up lighting a house, you spend another 200W pumping that incandescent heat out of the house.
The second part of your statement is correct. Investment banks are simply the financial "plumbing" for the money system. The only unusual thing is that we pay them so much for such a basic service.
There's a nuclear power plant that is right on the ocean just south of Miami, near Homestead (the location of the only Whataburger in southern FL also). If you zoom in on it in google maps you'll see that they've got some sort of m.c. escher water flowing uphill scheme going on over an area of a couple hundred acres. As I understand it, the original plan was to use seawater directly, but the EPA put the nix on that and they went with the current solution instead. I've personally canoed past water inlets for nuclear power plant heat exchangers on the columbia river, the largest river west of the mississippi, so they're certainly doing it already, and have been for quite a while.
Regan shut down the last breeder reactor in the US based on fears that it could be used by terrorists to create weapons grade plutonium, or something equally ridiculous. I think the Japanese and French are using breeder reactors these days.
We only reached 1989 supercomputer power (in GFLOPS) around 2008. That was about 40 GFLOPS then and now. The i7 950s clock in just over 100 GFLOPS IIRC (108 according to wikipedia).
You realize you're comparing durable goods against consumables (textiles), right. Durable goods have a very well defined growth pattern and can be projected years and sometimes decades in advance. GE makes domestic products like microwaves and fridges, and has yet to go out of business.