Your data are in 2-6GB chunks. When a user needs a chunk, do they really need the whole chunk, or just a few megabytes of it? Downloading 6GB when you need 6MB really sucks. The solutions mentioned here all work by breaking down the chunk size. Thin client reduces the data transfer to what you need to see on the screen right then. Putting in a filesystem layer allows transfer of bits of files. Using a SQL database reduces it all to queries and the records you actually need to hit. (An aside: I've had a friend beat me over the head with "The single most expensive thing your program can do is open that database connection. Once you have it, USE IT. Make the DBM on the big beefy server do the work...they've optimized the heck out of it.")
Figure out how the data can be broken into smaller chunks and managed...that will probably indicate what sort of tech will enable things for you.
I can't work with my G3 Wall Street on the T or an airplane...screen doesn't open all the way without bumping into the seat in front of me. So I'm saving pennies to find something in a 12-13" that I'll use as a desktop replacement (my desktop is 2xPIII 933).
Now, back when I had a Real Job, and we were lugging around Inspiron 8000's because we wanted heavy-lifting development machines we could also bring to client sites...this would have been a godsend.
only fertilizers used are potash, nitrogen, magnesium, and phosphates
Nobody's actually spraying oil on the ground (that I know of!) But the reactions that produce it are energy-consuming and require fossil fuel as reagents. e.g. Haber-Bosch process.
From seventh grade through high school, I did only what was needed to get by and so my math skills remained below par... I believe that I have a flaw in the basic way I think about numbers.
Seems to me the real problem is that you cruised for six years instead of engaging the material. Those years were there for you to develop a way of approaching math.
Yes, you need to go to your professor's office hours (and your TA's, if you have one.) But you also really, really need to find your university's academic services office (or whatever they call it). Get a tutor. Explain the situation, in complete honesty. You need your own problem-solving method; you can't just lift it from Feynmann (who made it up on his own, remember) or Polya. Only someone working one-on-one with you while you solve problems can point the way out.
any form of mechanised transport which acheives >70% effiency!
Bicycle. Wikipedia claims 88-99% efficiency for a derailer drivetrain (not including metabolic efficiency, obviously). Transportation efficiency is fairly hard to quantify, since power in vs. power out is less useful than passenger-miles or pound-miles. But by just about any measure, a bicycle is a highly efficient mechanism, beating out most of nature.
The first was dropping the iPod in the toilet. The second was admitting a visit to someone met online. In my experience, that immediately puts you on the "long form questionnaire with anal probe" list. Of course, lying about how you met someone doesn't work all that well either... if the first time you met in person is a plausible scenario, that may be useful to claim as "how you met."
The jump from getting everywhere on foot (or bicycle) to driving
Actually, one of the problems with our streets is that there's no traffic safety or law education between "look both ways" and "let's learn to throw two tons of steel around." If you teach a kid to use a bicycle right and expand their horizons as their cognition increases, it's a much more gradual increase in responsibility. Alas, we usually don't, and we have middle school students running down little old ladies on the sidewalk....
Hopefully the Safe Routes to Schools program in the US will help a bit (and build a more savvy pedestrian).
Well, I'm not sure I believe an obit written by someone who's been dead for a decade, although it is eerily appropriate. Top of page: "By WALTER SULLIVAN Published: August 10, 2006" Bottom of page: "Walter Sullivan, science editor of The New York Times, died in 1996."
I'm really, really sad I never got the chance to meet Dr. Van Allen; he was my academic grandfather.
If you're doing pure research, wherever you're doing it, you will have to pursue grant money, write proposals, and then produce papers demonstrating you're doing what you proposed.
If you're doing applied research, you won't have to pursue the money, but you'll have to produce concrete results, on time, on work that's assigned to you.
I'm surprised you're nearly at your Ph.D. and this has not been made clear to you. You really, really need to be having this conversation with your advisor and other faculty (or senior researchers) within your department. Start with your committee--they know you and your work (hopefully!)
Implied consent means that if you're so incapacitated you can't refuse treatment, a trained individual may treat you according to training. That's a little different from trials of an unapproved substance--to extend your analogy, it's closer to rolling up with a class of EMT's-in-training.
It was actually in the original script, but somehow wound up on the cutting room floor. Joe's response was something like "Wha? It wasn't in the cut that first aired? *tape squiggly noises* Holy crap, it wasn't."
And damn, I want to read those books, but I so can't justify the money to buy 'em all.
Re:B5 on iTMS, cropped and cropped again
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B5 was shot widescreen. The CG was rendered 4:3. I believe part of the deal was that the CG would be rerendered for the DVD's (but I'm not positive).
Warner lost the model files. Many conspiracy theories surround this.
The DVD's were made by combining the 16:9 live action footage with CG that was cropped to 16:9, then scaled vertically (to achieve full anamorphic resolution). So scenes that combine live action and CG look a bit weird.
If iTunes is 4:3, it's probably the original broadcast version, where you're missing the sides of the field in live action shots.
(This is an entirely different issue from the first Sci-fi "widescreen" reairing, where they did indeed mess up and just mat out the top and bottom of the original broadcast.)
Y'know, I was about to post "put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye," but you were far more comprehensive. It seems the main thing time estimates do is determine at which point you'll enter panic mode and 100 hour work weeks.
Aren't programming positions usually overtime-exempt due to the difficulty of assigning hours to a creative task?
Oddly, distro-supplied versions of cdrecord seem to work a lot better than the official ones built from source code.
That would be because the distros apply the patches that Schilling doesn't want. Google for "cdrecord linux 2.6" and you'll get plenty of perspectives from all sides of the story. Here is a not-horrible introduction to the whole mess.
If you want to rely on your distro, stick with your distro; if you're more of a roll-your-own and like to track the latest upstream, just move to dvdrtools. cdrecord and Linux have parted ways at this point, and both code and documentation are subject to bit rot.
I should fix up the Wikipedia article at some point; it seems a bit misleading to me at points. In the meantime, I point interested parties to the IBEX web site for basic background info. In particular, Section E of the IBEX Concept Study Report is handy. Of course, I can't find it on the site now....
Apropos of everything, IBEX is a SMEX (Small Explorer) mission. Budget cuts have delayed the next Announcement of Opportunity on the Explorer program (IBEX itself should be fine). This is where science gets done, folks. My pizza fund appreciates you contacting your congresscritter to encourage continued and expanded support of NASA (and NSF, while you're at it).
What sets us apart from the apes Not throwing shit would be high on my list.
(Disclaimer: I eat because of taxpayer-funded basic science research, and firmly believe in ensuring that science keeps getting done in this country. The phrase that tends to crop up with NASA-supported folk is "not eating our seed corn." Still, I realize that indoor plumbing probably impacts more people's lives than my research.)
I forgot whose talk I heard yesterday (they changed the speaking order; session was SH22A) but basically: V1 passed the termination shock (NOT the heliopause; summary is wrong) at the end of 2004; this was the big announcement at last spring AGU meeting. Before that, they were seeing foreshock signatures (plasma and magnetic). V2 is now seeing those signatures, but seeing them a fair bit closer in than V1 was observing them. So, V2 has not passed the heliopause, nor even the termination shock, but appears to be nearing the TS closer to the Sun than V1 did. This is a surprising/interesting result, but not huge overturning of theory or anything. Learning the structure of the outer regions of the Solar System is the whole point of these exercises (and the upcoming IBEX mission).
And the flip side...
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"If you use the CVS, don't expect support." Public CVS access is great--it gives people an opportunity to try out new things and invites outside developers. But it's really only part of "release early, release often." Keeping a stable version reasonably up-to-date keeps users happy (which in turn results in more contributors to your project) and, in my experience, results in better code. Plus, it reduces support headaches.
The duo of "use the CVS" and "we don't support CVS" says "I twiddle with this code but I don't care to have anyone using it"--which is fine, but be honest about that. Or appoint someone to handle stable releases.
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Figure out how the data can be broken into smaller chunks and managed...that will probably indicate what sort of tech will enable things for you.
I can't work with my G3 Wall Street on the T or an airplane...screen doesn't open all the way without bumping into the seat in front of me. So I'm saving pennies to find something in a 12-13" that I'll use as a desktop replacement (my desktop is 2xPIII 933).
Now, back when I had a Real Job, and we were lugging around Inspiron 8000's because we wanted heavy-lifting development machines we could also bring to client sites...this would have been a godsend.
Oh good, only 5%. Clearly we should let them all out.
Nah, just 19 in 20. The question is....which 19?
Nobody's actually spraying oil on the ground (that I know of!) But the reactions that produce it are energy-consuming and require fossil fuel as reagents. e.g. Haber-Bosch process.
Seems to me the real problem is that you cruised for six years instead of engaging the material. Those years were there for you to develop a way of approaching math.
Yes, you need to go to your professor's office hours (and your TA's, if you have one.) But you also really, really need to find your university's academic services office (or whatever they call it). Get a tutor. Explain the situation, in complete honesty. You need your own problem-solving method; you can't just lift it from Feynmann (who made it up on his own, remember) or Polya. Only someone working one-on-one with you while you solve problems can point the way out.
any form of mechanised transport which acheives >70% effiency!
Bicycle. Wikipedia claims 88-99% efficiency for a derailer drivetrain (not including metabolic efficiency, obviously). Transportation efficiency is fairly hard to quantify, since power in vs. power out is less useful than passenger-miles or pound-miles. But by just about any measure, a bicycle is a highly efficient mechanism, beating out most of nature.
Does it actually work with computers? I've been told that switching power supplies can confuse the cheaper Wh meters.
The first was dropping the iPod in the toilet. The second was admitting a visit to someone met online. In my experience, that immediately puts you on the "long form questionnaire with anal probe" list. Of course, lying about how you met someone doesn't work all that well either... if the first time you met in person is a plausible scenario, that may be useful to claim as "how you met."
Actually, one of the problems with our streets is that there's no traffic safety or law education between "look both ways" and "let's learn to throw two tons of steel around." If you teach a kid to use a bicycle right and expand their horizons as their cognition increases, it's a much more gradual increase in responsibility. Alas, we usually don't, and we have middle school students running down little old ladies on the sidewalk....
Hopefully the Safe Routes to Schools program in the US will help a bit (and build a more savvy pedestrian).
Well, I'm not sure I believe an obit written by someone who's been dead for a decade, although it is eerily appropriate. Top of page: "By WALTER SULLIVAN Published: August 10, 2006" Bottom of page: "Walter Sullivan, science editor of The New York Times, died in 1996."
I'm really, really sad I never got the chance to meet Dr. Van Allen; he was my academic grandfather.
They want "Friends" ... but in space. With the foam head of the month "alien".
Baywatch meets wrestling...in space!
SG-1, actually. Some wag posted a "Stargate Command" sign on a door in the Mountain. The door leads to a broom closet.
If you're doing applied research, you won't have to pursue the money, but you'll have to produce concrete results, on time, on work that's assigned to you.
I'm surprised you're nearly at your Ph.D. and this has not been made clear to you. You really, really need to be having this conversation with your advisor and other faculty (or senior researchers) within your department. Start with your committee--they know you and your work (hopefully!)
Implied consent means that if you're so incapacitated you can't refuse treatment, a trained individual may treat you according to training. That's a little different from trials of an unapproved substance--to extend your analogy, it's closer to rolling up with a class of EMT's-in-training.
It was actually in the original script, but somehow wound up on the cutting room floor. Joe's response was something like "Wha? It wasn't in the cut that first aired? *tape squiggly noises* Holy crap, it wasn't."
And damn, I want to read those books, but I so can't justify the money to buy 'em all.
B5 was shot widescreen. The CG was rendered 4:3. I believe part of the deal was that the CG would be rerendered for the DVD's (but I'm not positive).
Warner lost the model files. Many conspiracy theories surround this.
The DVD's were made by combining the 16:9 live action footage with CG that was cropped to 16:9, then scaled vertically (to achieve full anamorphic resolution). So scenes that combine live action and CG look a bit weird.
If iTunes is 4:3, it's probably the original broadcast version, where you're missing the sides of the field in live action shots.
(This is an entirely different issue from the first Sci-fi "widescreen" reairing, where they did indeed mess up and just mat out the top and bottom of the original broadcast.)
after all, it was designed to tape ducts, right?
Actually, nope. Duct usage came later, and really isn't a good idea.
Y'know, I was about to post "put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye," but you were far more comprehensive. It seems the main thing time estimates do is determine at which point you'll enter panic mode and 100 hour work weeks.
Aren't programming positions usually overtime-exempt due to the difficulty of assigning hours to a creative task?
That would be because the distros apply the patches that Schilling doesn't want. Google for "cdrecord linux 2.6" and you'll get plenty of perspectives from all sides of the story. Here is a not-horrible introduction to the whole mess.
If you want to rely on your distro, stick with your distro; if you're more of a roll-your-own and like to track the latest upstream, just move to dvdrtools. cdrecord and Linux have parted ways at this point, and both code and documentation are subject to bit rot.
My opinion: Linus has; Schilling refuses. Slightly closer to "fact": DVD-R Tools works.
Actually, they aren't. Picasa and Earth are the Windows binaries shipped with a Wine binary and config. http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-Ma y/047806.html
Apropos of everything, IBEX is a SMEX (Small Explorer) mission. Budget cuts have delayed the next Announcement of Opportunity on the Explorer program (IBEX itself should be fine). This is where science gets done, folks. My pizza fund appreciates you contacting your congresscritter to encourage continued and expanded support of NASA (and NSF, while you're at it).
Not throwing shit would be high on my list.
(Disclaimer: I eat because of taxpayer-funded basic science research, and firmly believe in ensuring that science keeps getting done in this country. The phrase that tends to crop up with NASA-supported folk is "not eating our seed corn." Still, I realize that indoor plumbing probably impacts more people's lives than my research.)
I forgot whose talk I heard yesterday (they changed the speaking order; session was SH22A) but basically: V1 passed the termination shock (NOT the heliopause; summary is wrong) at the end of 2004; this was the big announcement at last spring AGU meeting. Before that, they were seeing foreshock signatures (plasma and magnetic). V2 is now seeing those signatures, but seeing them a fair bit closer in than V1 was observing them. So, V2 has not passed the heliopause, nor even the termination shock, but appears to be nearing the TS closer to the Sun than V1 did. This is a surprising/interesting result, but not huge overturning of theory or anything. Learning the structure of the outer regions of the Solar System is the whole point of these exercises (and the upcoming IBEX mission).
The duo of "use the CVS" and "we don't support CVS" says "I twiddle with this code but I don't care to have anyone using it"--which is fine, but be honest about that. Or appoint someone to handle stable releases.