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I have a good friend in Montana, but if warnings were as good as Katrina's, I'd be just fine. As a Californian, if I see Arnie telling NorCal folks to bail, I'm gone in 60 seconds...
Good plan! Go for it! *Chuckles at fact that, unlike California, Montana borders Yellowstone*
Congratulations, you now hold the unbeatable record for "Shortest +5 Funny Comment Ever". Comments like this are indeed what make reading Slashdot worthwhile.
Large coal plants have physical and mechanical constraints. They can only "ramp up" or "ramp down" their output at certain rates (which are not very high, compared to wind turbines, hydro plants, or gas-fired turbines). It costs money and wear-and-tear on the equipment to ramp up and down as well. Operationally, it is just not mechanically feasible for these huge rotating machines to follow the load up and down twice every day (morning and evening usage peaks). Their ramp times are more on the order of 24 or even 48 hours. For nuclear plants, there is even less opportunity to change their output, they do best (and operate cheapest) running flat-out all the time.
A sort-of corollary to this is that for all new wind power constructed, there has to be a quick-starting fossil-fuel backup somewhere that can pick up the slack at those times the wind isn't blowing. Without this, you risk large-scale blackouts when relying on lots of wind turbines. This is the hidden cost of wind turbines that doesn't get talked about much. For every 100 MW of new wind turbines, you need to keep perhaps 75 MW of expensive, gas-fired machines sitting around doing nothing (except using up your capital) most of the time.
Don't get me wrong, I love using the wind as free fuel. I look forward to having thousands more MWs worth of lovely turbines spinning all across the country. But they won't make fossil plants go away anytime soon.
Not to be pedantic, but it was Windows 98. I am positive of this, because I was in that audience (one of my all-time great memories of tech conferences). I believe the product was a scanner, which some poor, cursed underling engineering lead was demo-ing. And to billg's credit, after a good long hearty laugh from the audience, he was quick on his feet and said something along the lines of "That must be why we're not shipping it yet."
Amen to that. My parents (who were children of the Great Depression) used to say: "It's not what you make, but what you save."
It doesn't matter how much you make straight out of college; if you don't put any of it away (or worse, if you spend more than you make and take on mounds of credit card debt) you'll never be well-off later in life. But if you live on 80% of what you make and put away the other 20% every year after high school, you'll find yourself sitting on piles of growing cash later on, even working at the crappiest of hourly wages.
You can wave your Panamanian flag around all you want to. Any armed naval vessel that takes an interest in you might giggle a bit, but I don't think it would slow them down much. I'd mod that Insightful if I could. If anyone thinks Panama's going to dispatch a battleship to the middle of the Indian Ocean to protect them, just because they once spent a couple hundred Balboas on a piece of nylon and a registration form, they're sadly mistaken. You can't have it both ways - you can't live under your own rule of law in your own fantasy government and receive protection from a different large government's defense force.
I also question who will make the decision to move the rig, when the jurisdiction you've picked becomes unsatisfactory. Is it a democratic vote on board? Is everyone expected to be so like-minded there will be complete consensus? I doubt it. All in all, seems like you'd experience very few of the joys of living in a free society, combined with very many of the worst aspects of social life in a very small town.
My thoughts exactly. I have a thumb drive from about 2003 that holds over 100 MB, and it was a corporate freebie! It is something north of $25,000US per kilogram to send cargo up in the shuttle. Seems like they could have used solid state storage and paid for it many times over in weight savings alone. But, I like happy endings.
Slightly off-topic, but this would mesh really well with the idea I had - to sell home exercise equipment with the odometer pre-set to thousands of miles (or reps) and prominently displayed. That way, when people come over and see your stationary bike hung with towels, you can point to the odometer as proof that you've circled the earth several times on it already and the towels are clearly just temporary.
The side effect of this product, though, would be "odometer inflation" in which our competitors would sell equipment showing an ever-higher odometer reading.
To be fair...
NASA also notes that some, all or none of these features may be selected to be in the design of a rover that eventually goes to the moon. That narrows it down, don't you think? Well, I'm off to explain to my boss that some, all or none of my current project may, will or might not be done either before, during or after the deadline.
Very interesting to hear... I had no idea these kinds of "neighborhood attributes" were flagged onto the roads in systems like this. It's dismaying (but perhaps not surprising) to hear they allowed rich neighborhoods to "opt out" of being thoroughfares, but not poor ones. I wonder who makes the call for each flag? When you think about it, that's quite a large amount of potential economic power secretively wielded by some GPS mapping company mid-level manager.
But what I really keep thinking is... how long before TeleAtlas and similar companies start taking payments to make certain routes or locations more desirable to the mapping algorithms? Any insight on this, as a former insider? I can see it now... "Largest Ball of Twine in Minnesota, here we come! According to the GPS, it's right on the way from Ft. Worth to Ft. Lauderdale!"
For what it's worth, I completely agree. Even my mediocre university health care staff back in 1994 knew enough to send me to 2 or 3 months of physical therapy sessions to rehab my wrists. I also used wrist guards while sleeping for a few months until I had trained my unconscious mind not to bend my wrists so far while sleeping! The occasional exercises and stretching that I learned there, along with using an inexpensive split curvy keyboard at every computer I'm on, have made all the difference. It has been possible for me to have a long, intense career in IT, with enough mouse-use capacity left over (in my wrists) to read Slashdot since near the beginning.
Physical therapy is the way to go, and worth every penny.
> 1.000.000.000 computers all around the world, a number that will double itself in just five more years
> Brazil, China, India or Russia, which will be responsible of 775 new PCs and laptop computers
That does it - I'm going to invest in the American and European markets! They will be responsible for nearly 99.9999225% of all growth in the PC market. Statistics don't lie.
I feel sorry for all those developing-world coders, fighting for time on less than a thousand new PCs.
They seem to have removed their version of events now. There is only a notice stating disciplinary action of the teachers involved.
Wow... two weeks off without pay for two whole people! Seems like rather mild punishment for recklessly instilling the dread of imminent death into a group of pre-teens. I bet there is more to come.
> 1) able to financially support yourself for the rest of your life without continuing to work, and > 2) possibly no longer valuable in the workforce (i.e. too expensive for the quality/quantity of work you can contribute)
Shit, by that definition, at least three-quarters of my so-called professional colleagues are already retired..
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
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I have a good friend in Montana, but if warnings were as good as Katrina's, I'd be just fine. As a Californian, if I see Arnie telling NorCal folks to bail, I'm gone in 60 seconds...
Good plan! Go for it! *Chuckles at fact that, unlike California, Montana borders Yellowstone*
(feints)
So... she's fencing at the same time?
OK, no mod points to give you, but I for one thought it was funny!
Dibs on ShowMeDont.tel, not to mention ShowAnd.tel for my kids. You can have OnWithThe.sho!
I was having exactly the same issue (with exactly the same person, my wife).
You're both married to the exact same woman? Brother, you've got worse problems to worry about than wireless printer issues.
Congratulations, you now hold the unbeatable record for "Shortest +5 Funny Comment Ever". Comments like this are indeed what make reading Slashdot worthwhile.
Why doesn't a coal plant decrease output?
Large coal plants have physical and mechanical constraints. They can only "ramp up" or "ramp down" their output at certain rates (which are not very high, compared to wind turbines, hydro plants, or gas-fired turbines). It costs money and wear-and-tear on the equipment to ramp up and down as well. Operationally, it is just not mechanically feasible for these huge rotating machines to follow the load up and down twice every day (morning and evening usage peaks). Their ramp times are more on the order of 24 or even 48 hours. For nuclear plants, there is even less opportunity to change their output, they do best (and operate cheapest) running flat-out all the time.
A sort-of corollary to this is that for all new wind power constructed, there has to be a quick-starting fossil-fuel backup somewhere that can pick up the slack at those times the wind isn't blowing. Without this, you risk large-scale blackouts when relying on lots of wind turbines. This is the hidden cost of wind turbines that doesn't get talked about much. For every 100 MW of new wind turbines, you need to keep perhaps 75 MW of expensive, gas-fired machines sitting around doing nothing (except using up your capital) most of the time.
Don't get me wrong, I love using the wind as free fuel. I look forward to having thousands more MWs worth of lovely turbines spinning all across the country. But they won't make fossil plants go away anytime soon.
Not to be pedantic, but it was Windows 98. I am positive of this, because I was in that audience (one of my all-time great memories of tech conferences). I believe the product was a scanner, which some poor, cursed underling engineering lead was demo-ing. And to billg's credit, after a good long hearty laugh from the audience, he was quick on his feet and said something along the lines of "That must be why we're not shipping it yet."
Ahh... YouTube to the rescue.
('Course, they shipped it anyway - oh, well).
Amen to that. My parents (who were children of the Great Depression) used to say: "It's not what you make, but what you save."
It doesn't matter how much you make straight out of college; if you don't put any of it away (or worse, if you spend more than you make and take on mounds of credit card debt) you'll never be well-off later in life. But if you live on 80% of what you make and put away the other 20% every year after high school, you'll find yourself sitting on piles of growing cash later on, even working at the crappiest of hourly wages.
I also question who will make the decision to move the rig, when the jurisdiction you've picked becomes unsatisfactory. Is it a democratic vote on board? Is everyone expected to be so like-minded there will be complete consensus? I doubt it. All in all, seems like you'd experience very few of the joys of living in a free society, combined with very many of the worst aspects of social life in a very small town.
My thoughts exactly. I have a thumb drive from about 2003 that holds over 100 MB, and it was a corporate freebie! It is something north of $25,000US per kilogram to send cargo up in the shuttle. Seems like they could have used solid state storage and paid for it many times over in weight savings alone. But, I like happy endings.
Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software Engineers
There, fixed that title for you...
Slightly off-topic, but this would mesh really well with the idea I had - to sell home exercise equipment with the odometer pre-set to thousands of miles (or reps) and prominently displayed. That way, when people come over and see your stationary bike hung with towels, you can point to the odometer as proof that you've circled the earth several times on it already and the towels are clearly just temporary.
The side effect of this product, though, would be "odometer inflation" in which our competitors would sell equipment showing an ever-higher odometer reading.
(Yes, I'm kidding)
Very interesting to hear... I had no idea these kinds of "neighborhood attributes" were flagged onto the roads in systems like this. It's dismaying (but perhaps not surprising) to hear they allowed rich neighborhoods to "opt out" of being thoroughfares, but not poor ones. I wonder who makes the call for each flag? When you think about it, that's quite a large amount of potential economic power secretively wielded by some GPS mapping company mid-level manager.
But what I really keep thinking is... how long before TeleAtlas and similar companies start taking payments to make certain routes or locations more desirable to the mapping algorithms? Any insight on this, as a former insider? I can see it now... "Largest Ball of Twine in Minnesota, here we come! According to the GPS, it's right on the way from Ft. Worth to Ft. Lauderdale!"
For what it's worth, I completely agree. Even my mediocre university health care staff back in 1994 knew enough to send me to 2 or 3 months of physical therapy sessions to rehab my wrists. I also used wrist guards while sleeping for a few months until I had trained my unconscious mind not to bend my wrists so far while sleeping! The occasional exercises and stretching that I learned there, along with using an inexpensive split curvy keyboard at every computer I'm on, have made all the difference. It has been possible for me to have a long, intense career in IT, with enough mouse-use capacity left over (in my wrists) to read Slashdot since near the beginning.
Physical therapy is the way to go, and worth every penny.
> Would we be able to transverse time as easily as space?
Yes!
> Would time itself become irrelevent as we could look "forwards"?
Yes!
> Will the cubs win the world series?
Sadly, the answer is still... No!
> It has an airplaine wireless off mode.
Clearly, in the next version, Apple's designers need to add a "Foreign Cruise Ship Off" mode. Busy people don't have time generalize.
> 1.000.000.000 computers all around the world, a number that will double itself in just five more years
> Brazil, China, India or Russia, which will be responsible of 775 new PCs and laptop computers
That does it - I'm going to invest in the American and European markets! They will be responsible for nearly 99.9999225% of all growth in the PC market. Statistics don't lie.
I feel sorry for all those developing-world coders, fighting for time on less than a thousand new PCs.
They seem to have removed their version of events now. There is only a notice stating disciplinary action of the teachers involved.
Wow... two weeks off without pay for two whole people! Seems like rather mild punishment for recklessly instilling the dread of imminent death into a group of pre-teens. I bet there is more to come.
> 1) able to financially support yourself for the rest of your life without continuing to work, and
> 2) possibly no longer valuable in the workforce (i.e. too expensive for the quality/quantity of work you can contribute)
Shit, by that definition, at least three-quarters of my so-called professional colleagues are already retired..