Every data center that exists has a high carbon footprint. The San Francisco Bay Area is host to a myriad number of data centers that'll now find it convenient to relocate to a more hospitable environment or purchase indulgences in the form of carbon offsets.
When it comes to killing a golden goose, governments have no competitors. That goes double for state governments looking to fill a $15 Billion deficit. That goes triple for messianics.
The hell with the fact that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis remains a hypothesis and is not a fact. That won't stop the true believers from imposing their will on those of us who remain unconvinced they're right.
...all elements with atomic numbers from 27 (cobalt) through 94 (plutonium) were made in crucibles like the one we just took home movies of.
Nucleo-genesis doesn't stop at plutonium. The transuranic elements get created just as well. The only difference between them and the elements up to and including plutonium is longevity. I'll bet a lot of astronomers were vying for scope access so they could look for elements in the island of stability.
From the perspective of a taxpayer, it seems to make more sense to "locate" these transactions based on the location of the purchaser (this is how it is approached in automobile transactions), not the seller.
California tried that scheme in the 80's and it failed miserably. The problem is identifying where a purchaser actually is versus where the tax code boundaries are. Here in California, the tax rates vary by city and county. Zipcodes (the obvious location identifier) ignore those boundaries. In some cases, some cities span state boundaries. We convinced our local tax board to just let us collect tax based on where we were located because even they couldn't figure out how much tax was owed on certain transactions.
What we have now is a mashup policy. It's vendor's choice as to how to collect. For example, car dealers will write your purchase invoice at the lower of the two rates - what you're charged at your home or what the rate is at the dealer's location. On a $30,000 purchase, it can add up to a few hundred bucks.
it is controversial that chaos will ever contribute to science in any way.
I agree that a lot of chaos work produced not much more than chaos. But sometimes a paper can tell you what results to discard out of hand and that in itself is a contribution. From his seminal 1963 paper,
When our results concerning the instability of nonperiodic flow are applied to the atmosphere, which is ostensibly non-periodic, they indicate that that prediction of the distant sufficiently distant future is impossible by any method, unless the present conditions are known exactly.
Several years ago, I was running to catch a plane at SF Airport and Andre the Giant came lumbering down the concourse going the other way. Seeing him in person was quite a shock because it drove home two key points that I hadn't noticed watching the Princess Bride.
He was truly huge. Not knowing how big Robert the Pirate was I didn't get a clear idea how big Andre was when they had their battle. At 7'4" and 500 pounds, he was easily the biggest man I've ever seen by far.
He had several features that suggested he had Neanderthal genes in his blood. He had a very pronounced brow ridge, the lumbering aspect you would expect of a Neanderthal and solid muscle mass.
I know that Neanderthals aren't thought to have cross bred with Cro-Magnon but seeing Andre in the flesh made me seriously doubt that theory. Perhaps we've recovered Neanderthal DNA and I'm all wet but absent definitive proof that no cross breeding was possible, Andre's collection of phenotypes suggests that cross breeding did take place. His acting suggested he was quite bright as playing dumb isn't that easy so if he indeed did have Neanderthal genes, it suggests Neanderthals died out for some reason other than intellect. Maybe they just assimilated over 50,000 years.
It's not a toxicity issue, the gas is CO2. The issue is the flavor it imparts to freshly roasted beans. How major an effect it has probably varies from palate to palate. I've roasted my own coffee and gotten all kinds of results even though I've tried really hard to be consistent. Allowing the bean to out gas does seem to make a better cup but I say that with the proviso that I've never done a full-on double blind study to see if it's true or if I'm fooling myself.
Your idea of de-pressurizing the bean might work but before I went to the expense, it'd be worth doing the double blind to ensure it's necessary.
What makes the biggest difference is the quality of the bean. I've roasted Vietnamese beans that were god awful and Costa Rican beans that were sublime. Green beans come in all kinds of shapes and colors. The Vietnamese beans I sampled were a motley lot of various shapes in the same bag whereas the best beans have a consistent color and shape within the same bag. The color varies from region to region so there isn't a 'right color' as you can find good coffee in all shades of green.
One problem with this guy's business plan is dealing with neighbors who object to roasting coffee. I generate quite a bit of smoke when I roast my piddling pound of coffee and I have to wait until the wind is blowing away from one of my neighbors who has lupus. I can well imagine all sorts of problems trying to roast in a congested area.
If you lived here in California, you could take Virgin to Small Claims Court. No attorneys, just you, the company rep, a judge and a claim for less than $7,000. I've used the court twice to resolve, in my favor, similar kinds of screwups.
Keeping him might be the right thing to do if they can make sure he learns from it--but it's probably the wrong thing to do from a risk-management perspective.
Perhaps you're focusing a bit too much on the developer here. The mistake is so egregious that it suggests a first-year programmer produced it. If that's the case, the person's manager is responsible to see that they got adequate security training before putting her/him on a project where their code would be exposed to the outside world.
Secondly, the fact that the code didn't even undergo rudimentary testing to ensure the obvious holes were covered speaks to an organizational issue - something the manager is responsible for. The manager knows this and as a consequence will probably try to cover the situation up as much as possible so the manager doesn't get fired along with the developer.
Slightly off-topic, but I'm curious how many organizations would have caught this error before the page was published. Does your organization have security and testing policies in place such that this error would have prevented the page from being released? Or are you solely responsible for testing and securing your own code?
Going to jail is a bit over the top. Losing their job is what is called for.
However, if Oklahoma has problems similar to California, then they're faced with a Hobson's choice. They can fire the guy/gal but given the low pay scales, they could well end up with someone just as bad.
I wear glasses because my eyes aren't strong enough to see on their own. If I could, I'd wear glasses that gave me 5/20 vision because I love being able to see well. I wouldn't give a damn that I can't do that without them - I care about the end result.
I drive a car because my legs don't run fast enough to cover my commute. It doesn't diminish my sense of self or release my id, (well maybe a little when the road is empty and there aren't any cops around...)
If a drug gives me another 10 points on an IQ test with no side effects, I'm going to take it for the same reason - the end result of being able to think a little more clearly, and as a result, get more done. I'm not worrying about "is this me or is it the drug?" I'm too busy getting stuff done.
AMD's product line can't beat Intel right now but they started out that way and managed anyway. They had gotten along quite well selling a second-rate cpu that was good enough for a lot of applications whereas Intel was always pushing the performance envelope and charging accordingly.
When the Athlon came along, I think AMD was as surprised as the market was that Intel couldn't compete technically. Those days are gone, at least for awhile, and AMD is back where they started. There'll always be a market for a cheap cpu that does the job.
A typical year has somewhere around 20-30 National Merit scholars in our county (not country). The school, on average, produces 10-16. That's out of a class of 60. It's a very good school with very good teachers.
This was troublesome for both kids and admissions counselors. They thought they were getting a college prep class and/or that they'd be able to score a 4 on the exam, and neither were true. Similarly, the college that admitted them thought that they were either not so smart for failing that AP exam or thought they had a much more rigorous high school career than they did.
Both those mis-perceptions are easily dealt with by simply requiring the schools to divulge their teacher's class average AP score to both incoming students and admission counselors. If a student sees that the average AP score for last year's class was 2, it's a flag to the student that the teacher isn't up to snuff. Similarly, if a college admission's officer sees a student with a 4 in a class whose average is 2, that's a huge flag that the student is exceptional.
The AP test was intended to get around grade inflation. A school can offer loads of "AP Classes" but if the outcomes aren't verified by the tests, then it's an obvious indicator that the school is inflating what they're offering. Requiring a teacher to fill out reams of paper isn't going to improve the outcomes. Especially if she's a good teacher who is already too damn busy teaching and is pissed she's being required to justify her work when her average AP score is a 4.8. The number speaks for itself far better than any form could.
I have a friend who teaches an AP science class at a a local high school. The high school produces about half the National Merit scholars in the county despite the fact it's a tiny school of some 200 students. The science department has battled the humanities department for years over whether to keep AP courses or not. The humanities would just as soon see them gone.
A year ago, the science department almost gave in when the AP organization required each teacher to explain in detail how they met the AP curricula requirements. That added another teacher work day to an already harried schedule. She typically works late into the night grading work and the last thing she wanted to do was to spend an extra unpaid work day justifying her course to the AP organization. She figured it was enough that her average student AP score is 4.8 - the hell with how she does it.
Adding more steps to any program guarantees you'll lose some participants. Perhaps that's what the AP board intended with their new regs.
At&t's DSL isn't any better. I dropped Comcast as well but I'm seeing the same draw-down on download speed. Around 3 years ago, Comcast upgraded and to get business, offered a consistent 6-7M for $20/month which was wonderful. Around a year later, the price almost trebled and the service dropped so I went back to At&t.
At&t had delivered a consistent 1.6 but that's gone. Now I'm lucky when I get 1.6 whereas I'm normally seeing around.5 M with frequent drops down to.1 M. Add to that snail-like speed random DNS outages once a week or so.
I think the underlying problem is the fact that both providers are virtual monopolies, or more accurately, duopolies. If competitors were free to offer service without jumping through lots of regulatory hoops, prices would drop and service would rise.
Intel has this article about the hardware needed to run at 50fps at 1920x1080p. They're claiming you need 8 cores. In a couple of years, that could well be within reach for most gamers.
There's also this John Carmack Interview. Carmack isn't too optimistic about ray tracing replacing rasterized graphics.
Forget 3G. I'm curious if it'll have Michael Uy's Fly Eye Camera. The patent is a couple of years old. I wonder if Apple is just sitting on the patent or if they're actively developing it.
A key benefit of the camera is if you're on a video conference, your image will be looking straight at the camera instead of off screen.
It looks like I get to exercise my right to tell Netsol to take a hike by moving to some other registrar. I've used netsol for 12 years and never realized they'd stoop to this. Godaddy is no better, and quite possibly, worse.
Can anyone recommend a registrar that doesn't have absurd terms of use?
The US Military admitted there were 'some unknown dangers' associated with DU
Citation?
Just because Doug Rokke got radiation poisoning after the first Iraq war doesn't mean the radiation came from the DU. Prior to Desert Storm, Saddam was running Calutrons in an attempt to enrich Uranium. If Rokke came in contact with the junk Saddam was making, that would be far more dangerous.
John Calhoun of Glider fame built a snake robot back in the mid 90's. He showed it to me during the summer of 95. It wasn't water proof, couldn't climb cracks and tubes like this one can but otoh, it was untethered and could amble around his apartment.
The thing that impressed me the most was he built it with hand tools in his apartment as he didn't have access to a machine shop.
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The headlines will look like this one Air quality board to fine Bay Area polluters
Every data center that exists has a high carbon footprint. The San Francisco Bay Area is host to a myriad number of data centers that'll now find it convenient to relocate to a more hospitable environment or purchase indulgences in the form of carbon offsets.
When it comes to killing a golden goose, governments have no competitors. That goes double for state governments looking to fill a $15 Billion deficit. That goes triple for messianics.
The hell with the fact that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis remains a hypothesis and is not a fact. That won't stop the true believers from imposing their will on those of us who remain unconvinced they're right.
...all elements with atomic numbers from 27 (cobalt) through 94 (plutonium) were made in crucibles like the one we just took home movies of.
Nucleo-genesis doesn't stop at plutonium. The transuranic elements get created just as well. The only difference between them and the elements up to and including plutonium is longevity. I'll bet a lot of astronomers were vying for scope access so they could look for elements in the island of stability.
It would be nice to be able to search my static IP or a range of IPs to see if they are on the map.
From the perspective of a taxpayer, it seems to make more sense to "locate" these transactions based on the location of the purchaser (this is how it is approached in automobile transactions), not the seller.
California tried that scheme in the 80's and it failed miserably. The problem is identifying where a purchaser actually is versus where the tax code boundaries are. Here in California, the tax rates vary by city and county. Zipcodes (the obvious location identifier) ignore those boundaries. In some cases, some cities span state boundaries. We convinced our local tax board to just let us collect tax based on where we were located because even they couldn't figure out how much tax was owed on certain transactions.
What we have now is a mashup policy. It's vendor's choice as to how to collect. For example, car dealers will write your purchase invoice at the lower of the two rates - what you're charged at your home or what the rate is at the dealer's location. On a $30,000 purchase, it can add up to a few hundred bucks.
Meanwhile, all you really need the cert for is the encryption.
You need both the encryption and the knowledge that the site on the other end is the one you intended to converse with.
One without the other isn't worth much.
I agree that a lot of chaos work produced not much more than chaos. But sometimes a paper can tell you what results to discard out of hand and that in itself is a contribution. From his seminal 1963 paper,
- He was truly huge. Not knowing how big Robert the Pirate was I didn't get a clear idea how big Andre was when they had their battle. At 7'4" and 500 pounds, he was easily the biggest man I've ever seen by far.
- He had several features that suggested he had Neanderthal genes in his blood. He had a very pronounced brow ridge, the lumbering aspect you would expect of a Neanderthal and solid muscle mass.
I know that Neanderthals aren't thought to have cross bred with Cro-Magnon but seeing Andre in the flesh made me seriously doubt that theory. Perhaps we've recovered Neanderthal DNA and I'm all wet but absent definitive proof that no cross breeding was possible, Andre's collection of phenotypes suggests that cross breeding did take place. His acting suggested he was quite bright as playing dumb isn't that easy so if he indeed did have Neanderthal genes, it suggests Neanderthals died out for some reason other than intellect. Maybe they just assimilated over 50,000 years.It's not a toxicity issue, the gas is CO2. The issue is the flavor it imparts to freshly roasted beans. How major an effect it has probably varies from palate to palate. I've roasted my own coffee and gotten all kinds of results even though I've tried really hard to be consistent. Allowing the bean to out gas does seem to make a better cup but I say that with the proviso that I've never done a full-on double blind study to see if it's true or if I'm fooling myself.
Your idea of de-pressurizing the bean might work but before I went to the expense, it'd be worth doing the double blind to ensure it's necessary.
What makes the biggest difference is the quality of the bean. I've roasted Vietnamese beans that were god awful and Costa Rican beans that were sublime. Green beans come in all kinds of shapes and colors. The Vietnamese beans I sampled were a motley lot of various shapes in the same bag whereas the best beans have a consistent color and shape within the same bag. The color varies from region to region so there isn't a 'right color' as you can find good coffee in all shades of green.
One problem with this guy's business plan is dealing with neighbors who object to roasting coffee. I generate quite a bit of smoke when I roast my piddling pound of coffee and I have to wait until the wind is blowing away from one of my neighbors who has lupus. I can well imagine all sorts of problems trying to roast in a congested area.
If you lived here in California, you could take Virgin to Small Claims Court. No attorneys, just you, the company rep, a judge and a claim for less than $7,000. I've used the court twice to resolve, in my favor, similar kinds of screwups.
Perhaps you have a similar court in England?
Perhaps you're focusing a bit too much on the developer here. The mistake is so egregious that it suggests a first-year programmer produced it. If that's the case, the person's manager is responsible to see that they got adequate security training before putting her/him on a project where their code would be exposed to the outside world.
Secondly, the fact that the code didn't even undergo rudimentary testing to ensure the obvious holes were covered speaks to an organizational issue - something the manager is responsible for. The manager knows this and as a consequence will probably try to cover the situation up as much as possible so the manager doesn't get fired along with the developer.
Slightly off-topic, but I'm curious how many organizations would have caught this error before the page was published. Does your organization have security and testing policies in place such that this error would have prevented the page from being released? Or are you solely responsible for testing and securing your own code?
Going to jail is a bit over the top. Losing their job is what is called for.
However, if Oklahoma has problems similar to California, then they're faced with a Hobson's choice. They can fire the guy/gal but given the low pay scales, they could well end up with someone just as bad.
I wear glasses because my eyes aren't strong enough to see on their own. If I could, I'd wear glasses that gave me 5/20 vision because I love being able to see well. I wouldn't give a damn that I can't do that without them - I care about the end result.
I drive a car because my legs don't run fast enough to cover my commute. It doesn't diminish my sense of self or release my id, (well maybe a little when the road is empty and there aren't any cops around...)
If a drug gives me another 10 points on an IQ test with no side effects, I'm going to take it for the same reason - the end result of being able to think a little more clearly, and as a result, get more done. I'm not worrying about "is this me or is it the drug?" I'm too busy getting stuff done.
AMD's product line can't beat Intel right now but they started out that way and managed anyway. They had gotten along quite well selling a second-rate cpu that was good enough for a lot of applications whereas Intel was always pushing the performance envelope and charging accordingly.
When the Athlon came along, I think AMD was as surprised as the market was that Intel couldn't compete technically. Those days are gone, at least for awhile, and AMD is back where they started. There'll always be a market for a cheap cpu that does the job.
A typical year has somewhere around 20-30 National Merit scholars in our county (not country). The school, on average, produces 10-16. That's out of a class of 60. It's a very good school with very good teachers.
Both those mis-perceptions are easily dealt with by simply requiring the schools to divulge their teacher's class average AP score to both incoming students and admission counselors. If a student sees that the average AP score for last year's class was 2, it's a flag to the student that the teacher isn't up to snuff. Similarly, if a college admission's officer sees a student with a 4 in a class whose average is 2, that's a huge flag that the student is exceptional.
The AP test was intended to get around grade inflation. A school can offer loads of "AP Classes" but if the outcomes aren't verified by the tests, then it's an obvious indicator that the school is inflating what they're offering. Requiring a teacher to fill out reams of paper isn't going to improve the outcomes. Especially if she's a good teacher who is already too damn busy teaching and is pissed she's being required to justify her work when her average AP score is a 4.8. The number speaks for itself far better than any form could.
I have a friend who teaches an AP science class at a a local high school. The high school produces about half the National Merit scholars in the county despite the fact it's a tiny school of some 200 students. The science department has battled the humanities department for years over whether to keep AP courses or not. The humanities would just as soon see them gone.
A year ago, the science department almost gave in when the AP organization required each teacher to explain in detail how they met the AP curricula requirements. That added another teacher work day to an already harried schedule. She typically works late into the night grading work and the last thing she wanted to do was to spend an extra unpaid work day justifying her course to the AP organization. She figured it was enough that her average student AP score is 4.8 - the hell with how she does it.
Adding more steps to any program guarantees you'll lose some participants. Perhaps that's what the AP board intended with their new regs.
AAG, AFAICT = As Far As I Can Tell.
BYR, IS.
At&t's DSL isn't any better. I dropped Comcast as well but I'm seeing the same draw-down on download speed. Around 3 years ago, Comcast upgraded and to get business, offered a consistent 6-7M for $20/month which was wonderful. Around a year later, the price almost trebled and the service dropped so I went back to At&t.
.5 M with frequent drops down to .1 M. Add to that snail-like speed random DNS outages once a week or so.
At&t had delivered a consistent 1.6 but that's gone. Now I'm lucky when I get 1.6 whereas I'm normally seeing around
I think the underlying problem is the fact that both providers are virtual monopolies, or more accurately, duopolies. If competitors were free to offer service without jumping through lots of regulatory hoops, prices would drop and service would rise.
Intel has this article about the hardware needed to run at 50fps at 1920x1080p. They're claiming you need 8 cores. In a couple of years, that could well be within reach for most gamers.
There's also this John Carmack Interview. Carmack isn't too optimistic about ray tracing replacing rasterized graphics.
Forget 3G. I'm curious if it'll have Michael Uy's Fly Eye Camera. The patent is a couple of years old. I wonder if Apple is just sitting on the patent or if they're actively developing it.
A key benefit of the camera is if you're on a video conference, your image will be looking straight at the camera instead of off screen.
It looks like I get to exercise my right to tell Netsol to take a hike by moving to some other registrar. I've used netsol for 12 years and never realized they'd stoop to this. Godaddy is no better, and quite possibly, worse.
Can anyone recommend a registrar that doesn't have absurd terms of use?
Now let Coke, Samsung and Lenovo know you're not going to buy their stuff while they support the Olympics and you'll start being effective.
Lenovo may not give a damn, but Samsung and Coke aren't directly tied to China's teat. It's terrible PR to be tied to repression.
Citation?
Just because Doug Rokke got radiation poisoning after the first Iraq war doesn't mean the radiation came from the DU. Prior to Desert Storm, Saddam was running Calutrons in an attempt to enrich Uranium. If Rokke came in contact with the junk Saddam was making, that would be far more dangerous.
Oh I don't know. It reminds me a bit of Ron Jeremy.
John Calhoun of Glider fame built a snake robot back in the mid 90's. He showed it to me during the summer of 95. It wasn't water proof, couldn't climb cracks and tubes like this one can but otoh, it was untethered and could amble around his apartment.
The thing that impressed me the most was he built it with hand tools in his apartment as he didn't have access to a machine shop.