Has anyone calculated the Slashdot resource drain - how many power plants (ok, megawatts) it takes to run Slashdot? how many devices? Not just the host servers and infrastructure, but also the power to the (thousands of?) devices multiplied by the time those devices spend on this site, plus the power it takes to build them ( for example, if a laptop has a life of 10,000 hours and an average user spends 50 hours per year on the site and there are 500,000 users per year, then 2500 laptops must be built per year just to allow everyone to read slashdot), plus the network power overhead.
Anybody got realistic estimates?
Can we save a nuclear plant by shutting down this site (ducks and runs for the door)?
Truth is there are many causes of dementia. Alzheimer's is probably the biggest one for people over a certain age (I don't know what that age is).
If you know what is causing it you can treat it accordingly and/or prepare for its progress. If you find yourself or a loved one suffering from dementia, it will help your planning to get diagnosed.
If you've kept your eyes open for the past 6 years you will know that this administration has been unprecedented in its work to politicize "non-political" government agencies. The US Attorneys issue is pretty well-known. Here is a regulatory body that supposedly depends on its objectivism to enforce the law throughout the USA, yet was systematically purged of members who did not prosecute or avoid prosecution when told by political operatives, in many states.
White House political operatives - Rove and his staff - made no secret of conducting dozens of meetings with managers throughout various branches of different government agencies prior to the 2006 election, presenting Powerpoints outlining "how you can help Republicans this fall", in violation of the Hatch Act that specifically prohibits this kind of cronyism.
The Department of the Interior, the guys that manage national parks and public lands, were staffed with new political upper managers whose expressed duties were to oversee decisions from below. Decisions on any logging and development contracts could not be processed without the final word of these asses.
And Fema? Remember Katrina and Fema? Heck of a job. There's lots more, and it contiues to come out. These guys were driven, and funded - pay attention to the stuff that continues to appear from the plea bargains of Abramov, Wilkes, and their teams of corruptionists.
And so I suspect from this article that it is possible that this Qwest CEO's insider trading prosecution by the SEC may well have been spurred by his decision not to commit his company to break the law as he saw it.
For those of you thinking you've been living in the cradle of Democracy, welcome to the road to Stalinist America.
>>the record companies get a substantially smaller percentage of retail CD sales than Reznor's share of live gate receipts
This is just so wrong. Are you arguing that the record companies should get a cut of his live performance too?
I'm sorry for stating the obvious, but they are record companies who sell his records. He is a live performer in addition to a recording artist. His performances sell their (his) records, just as the records attract audiences to his performances. His contract might bundle up both products, but they are different products.
Re-reading the lyrics to "head like a hole", I've got to believe he wrote it about his contract.
god money i'll do anything for you. god money just tell me what you want me to. god money nail me up against the wall. god money don't want everything he wants it all.
no you can't take it no you can't take it no you can't take that away from me
head like a hole. black as your soul. i'd rather die than give you control.
bow down before the one you serve. you're going to get what you deserve.
god money's not looking for the cure. god money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure. god money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised. god money's not one to choose
What's wrong is that music companies believe the production system they have built is the product. Content is secondary. They can take any content and push it through their system and make money. the content they choose should consider itself blessed to be the recipient of as much as 2% of the revenue.
"There is no F*ing them, there is only us, heart like a hole, black as our soul, we'd rather die than give them control."
But besides the IP issues, you signed a contract with Trent Reznor! You signed a contract with a performer who features bondage, torture, humiliation, S&M, and extreme interpersonal conflict.
I think the record company should feel fortunate that they are only being humiliated from the stage, and not in Reznor's basement.
Whoever has the patent for interrupting an application or process with another one can claim prior art here, no? But it's in the operating system! My God!
I mean, can I now write another patent for interrupting a game or program with a telephone call? A tv show? A doorbell signal? Oops, there goes my whole business plan.
Let's see: you all are system administrators, and bean counters want you to create metrics for your productivity.
That seems like it will generate pretty low productivity for you, as your skillset is to fix and prevent failures, while theirs is to derive metrics and measure productivity. They should be more effective at coming up with metrics. Why are they asking you to do their job, and how can you do your job at the same time?
Maybe someone can ask them to patch the north 40 server rack while you scratch your head over metrics.
For decades the left has claimed that much of the government's need to keep various operations a secret is actually a need to keep it secret from voting citizens, keep their political processes off the public record and away from media and scrutiny.
Discussion here often concludes that any bad guys or foreigners must know, or allow for, the fact that US authorities must be doing things (surveillance, torture, renditions, assasinations, overthrows of elected officials not deemed desireable, etc.) they are actually not supposed to be doing.
What do you think? Why the need for secrecy, obscurity?
I agree. Tuition in California at State universities was at one time free, and California was booming. The GI bill allowed many vets to enter college in the 40's and 50's, and we saw the apex of the American century in the 50's and 60's (do I have to prove my correlations too?). Payback? Enormous. People, this is not welfare distribution, it's taking care of our own selves. Keep focusing on the failures of financing education for deadbeats and you'll get nowhere. The majority of us are hardworking and responsible. Let's take care of us!
>>Nah; the copyright system should be abolished because it leads to our current mess in which a few giant companies use it to deprive the artists of their rightful income.
But who's going to pay to pass legislation that abolishes the laws that over-protect the copyrights of the guys making money off them? Not the artists - they're out-gunned by several orders of magnitude; us too.
Conversely, I can see who is going to pay to pass legislation to further strengthen those laws.
This: Harvard University's endowment, valued at $25.9 billion at the end of FY 2005, is a collection of more than 10,800 separate funds established over the years to provide scholarships; to maintain libraries, museums, and other collections; to support teaching and research activities; and to provide ongoing support for a wide variety of other activities. The great majority of these funds carry some type of restriction.
>>Generally speaking if you have to check on them, they are not sev 1. If they are sev 1 you should have been contacted by now via automated(monitoring software) or manual(minions) means.
That's why you check for them.
Nothing ever goes as it should all the time, and pro-active confirmation beats after-the-fact excuses.
The objective is occupation. We are wildly successful.
Despite strong evidence to the contrary, senior management of the Iraq thing (from WH on down) is not completely brain-dead. And they've been doing the same thing for about 4 years. They're occupying, having their way with the environment (in a functional sense), and spending project money on infrastructure - not improving the infrastructure, but spending money on it.
Gotta believe this is what they want to do there, at the cost of ~100 soldiers, X hundreds of civilans, and about $20B per month.
Now that you mention it, quite a few people on Slashdot are nuts about quite a few different things. There are enough browsers, lurkers, and active members to get close to the general population, to have a broad range of sometimes surprising interests, and to interpret reality very differently that you do and than the cliche slashdot reader does (whatever that assumption is).
I don't want you, slashdot, or anyone else assuming what issues are important to me, how I side on them, who my best candidate is, and how I'm going to vote.
Damn it, Jim, I'm not a slashdot voter. I'm a human being.
Maybe the answer is thinking before spewing.
There was a time when writing a letter was time-consuming enough, and permanent enough, that thought was required before writing. Similar thought might leave us with a legacy that we're more proud of.
Slashdot Mirror
Has anyone calculated the Slashdot resource drain - how many power plants (ok, megawatts) it takes to run Slashdot? how many devices?
Not just the host servers and infrastructure, but also the power to the (thousands of?) devices multiplied by the time those devices spend on this site, plus the power it takes to build them ( for example, if a laptop has a life of 10,000 hours and an average user spends 50 hours per year on the site and there are 500,000 users per year, then 2500 laptops must be built per year just to allow everyone to read slashdot), plus the network power overhead.
Anybody got realistic estimates?
Can we save a nuclear plant by shutting down this site (ducks and runs for the door)?
Truth is there are many causes of dementia. Alzheimer's is probably the biggest one for people over a certain age (I don't know what that age is).
If you know what is causing it you can treat it accordingly and/or prepare for its progress.
If you find yourself or a loved one suffering from dementia, it will help your planning to get diagnosed.
If you've kept your eyes open for the past 6 years you will know that this administration has been unprecedented in its work to politicize "non-political" government agencies.
The US Attorneys issue is pretty well-known. Here is a regulatory body that supposedly depends on its objectivism to enforce the law throughout the USA, yet was systematically purged of members who did not prosecute or avoid prosecution when told by political operatives, in many states.
White House political operatives - Rove and his staff - made no secret of conducting dozens of meetings with managers throughout various branches of different government agencies prior to the 2006 election, presenting Powerpoints outlining "how you can help Republicans this fall", in violation of the Hatch Act that specifically prohibits this kind of cronyism.
The Department of the Interior, the guys that manage national parks and public lands, were staffed with new political upper managers whose expressed duties were to oversee decisions from below. Decisions on any logging and development contracts could not be processed without the final word of these asses.
And Fema? Remember Katrina and Fema? Heck of a job.
There's lots more, and it contiues to come out. These guys were driven, and funded - pay attention to the stuff that continues to appear from the plea bargains of Abramov, Wilkes, and their teams of corruptionists.
And so I suspect from this article that it is possible that this Qwest CEO's insider trading prosecution by the SEC may well have been spurred by his decision not to commit his company to break the law as he saw it.
For those of you thinking you've been living in the cradle of Democracy, welcome to the road to Stalinist America.
How far along are they with the DNA patch that will allow brain cells to interpret and transmit XML?
>>a period early in the planet's formation when it is only as large as tiny Pluto.
We know now that Pluto is not a planet.
It merely embodies the concept of a planet, and embryonic planets do not begin at conception.
1. develop a device that creates antimatter
2. pair it with a process that tunnels the antimatter to a remote location
3. profit!
>>the record companies get a substantially smaller percentage of retail CD sales than Reznor's share of live gate receipts
This is just so wrong.
Are you arguing that the record companies should get a cut of his live performance too?
I'm sorry for stating the obvious, but
they are record companies who sell his records.
He is a live performer in addition to a recording artist.
His performances sell their (his) records, just as the records attract audiences to his performances.
His contract might bundle up both products, but they are different products.
Re-reading the lyrics to "head like a hole", I've got to believe he wrote it about his contract.
god money i'll do anything for you.
god money just tell me what you want me to.
god money nail me up against the wall.
god money don't want everything he wants it all.
no you can't take it
no you can't take it
no you can't take that away from me
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.
bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
god money's not looking for the cure.
god money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure.
god money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
god money's not one to choose
you know who you are.
What's wrong is that music companies believe the production system they have built is the product.
Content is secondary.
They can take any content and push it through their system and make money.
the content they choose should consider itself blessed to be the recipient of as much as 2% of the revenue.
"There is no F*ing them, there is only us, heart like a hole, black as our soul, we'd rather die than give them control."
But besides the IP issues, you signed a contract with Trent Reznor!
You signed a contract with a performer who features bondage, torture, humiliation, S&M, and extreme interpersonal conflict.
I think the record company should feel fortunate that they are only being humiliated from the stage, and not in Reznor's basement.
Absolutely.
Whoever has the patent for interrupting an application or process with another one can claim prior art here, no?
But it's in the operating system! My God!
I mean, can I now write another patent for interrupting a game or program with a telephone call? A tv show? A doorbell signal? Oops, there goes my whole business plan.
...are the de-plaqued mice now able to read the paper, recognize their grandchildren, and cook and clean after themselves? If not, what's the point?
Let's see: you all are system administrators, and bean counters want you to create metrics for your productivity.
That seems like it will generate pretty low productivity for you, as your skillset is to fix and prevent failures, while theirs is to derive metrics and measure productivity. They should be more effective at coming up with metrics. Why are they asking you to do their job, and how can you do your job at the same time?
Maybe someone can ask them to patch the north 40 server rack while you scratch your head over metrics.
For decades the left has claimed that much of the government's need to keep various operations a secret is actually a need to keep it secret from voting citizens, keep their political processes off the public record and away from media and scrutiny.
Discussion here often concludes that any bad guys or foreigners must know, or allow for, the fact that US authorities must be doing things (surveillance, torture, renditions, assasinations, overthrows of elected officials not deemed desireable, etc.) they are actually not supposed to be doing.
What do you think? Why the need for secrecy, obscurity?
I agree. Tuition in California at State universities was at one time free, and California was booming. The GI bill allowed many vets to enter college in the 40's and 50's, and we saw the apex of the American century in the 50's and 60's (do I have to prove my correlations too?).
Payback? Enormous.
People, this is not welfare distribution, it's taking care of our own selves.
Keep focusing on the failures of financing education for deadbeats and you'll get nowhere. The majority of us are hardworking and responsible.
Let's take care of us!
>>Nah; the copyright system should be abolished because it leads to our current mess in which a few giant companies use it to deprive the artists of their rightful income.
But who's going to pay to pass legislation that abolishes the laws that over-protect the copyrights of the guys making money off them?
Not the artists - they're out-gunned by several orders of magnitude; us too.
Conversely, I can see who is going to pay to pass legislation to further strengthen those laws.
>>When pressed as to why broadcasters would want to do this, Burger replied simply 'because they want you to pay for that right'."
Of course they want it.
Will we let them have it?
From here: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/guide/finance/index.htm l,
This:
Harvard University's endowment, valued at $25.9 billion at the end of FY 2005, is a collection of more than 10,800 separate funds established over the years to provide scholarships; to maintain libraries, museums, and other collections; to support teaching and research activities; and to provide ongoing support for a wide variety of other activities. The great majority of these funds carry some type of restriction.
I think they can scare up the change.
>>Generally speaking if you have to check on them, they are not sev 1. If they are sev 1 you should have been contacted by now via automated(monitoring software) or manual(minions) means. That's why you check for them. Nothing ever goes as it should all the time, and pro-active confirmation beats after-the-fact excuses.
It often seems as if a non-English speaker writes it.
The objective is occupation. We are wildly successful.
Despite strong evidence to the contrary, senior management of the Iraq thing (from WH on down) is not completely brain-dead. And they've been doing the same thing for about 4 years. They're occupying, having their way with the environment (in a functional sense), and spending project money on infrastructure - not improving the infrastructure, but spending money on it.
Gotta believe this is what they want to do there, at the cost of ~100 soldiers, X hundreds of civilans, and about $20B per month.
>>rich people willing to spend absurd amounts of money to extend their lives by 6 months fund most of medical research.
86% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Yes. They say...
We'd be more excited if Apple increased the bit rate even further, or--even better--if they used a lossless format.
But then they don't test their assumption.
How ascientific. Excitement is all mental anyways.
Now that you mention it, quite a few people on Slashdot are nuts about quite a few different things. There are enough browsers, lurkers, and active members to get close to the general population, to have a broad range of sometimes surprising interests, and to interpret reality very differently that you do and than the cliche slashdot reader does (whatever that assumption is).
I don't want you, slashdot, or anyone else assuming what issues are important to me, how I side on them, who my best candidate is, and how I'm going to vote.
Damn it, Jim, I'm not a slashdot voter. I'm a human being.
Zune development team confirms: Zune bites!
Maybe the answer is thinking before spewing. There was a time when writing a letter was time-consuming enough, and permanent enough, that thought was required before writing. Similar thought might leave us with a legacy that we're more proud of.