Those grey bags *are* conductive. They're what you use to put a toll booth transponder in if you don't want the booth to read it, for example, and they work very well for that. Those things are much higher powered than passport RFIDs.
But that's *not* how ACPI LAN power control works...
On Intel boards with their advanced ACPI (yes, redundant... their terminology) controlers (BMCs), there's a 16Mhz ARM7 computer running even when your machine's power is off. It has a back-door connection to the intel ethernet chip, and can process ACPI packets to do just about anything you could do to your machine if you were standing in front of it, but over the network. It sits between the front panel buttons and the chipset, so it can 'push' any of those, whether your PC is on or off.
Other than in science fiction, where do you have a hydrogen power plant?
A nuclear (fission) plant connected to some electrodes for electrolosys is a practical reality *right now*. Considering where my power comes from, and that I that I have a large transformer a jar, and some salt in my basement as I write this, I could demonstrate the process for you given about an hour and a glue gun. I'd even seperate the hydrogen from the oxygen for you.
Don't dismiss so quickly the negative effects of the massive cultivation and the associated fertilization oand pesticides that would come with growing sufficient grain for ethanol production.
Actually, both countries have performed successful tests. I'm not sure how you get to eight without counting those two... Even then I still only count seven...
We even have technology (gasification, scrubbers, etc...) to make coal burning pass Kyoto.
None of that technology would change the fact that half of our carbon gas emissions come from burning coal. Which would you rather get rid of, cars and trucking, making a 20something% dent in our emissions, or coal, getting rid of 50% of our emissions?
Not only that, but it's still unsafe. There have been more deaths by coal mine accident than nuclear power accident by far.
We should take after the French [shudder] and design the nuclear infrastructure of our country with safety and security in mind.
I completely agree. Though South Africa has some interesting technology going too.
"Computers" and any part thereof seem to qualify on historical merit. Transistor count? Clock speed? HDD size? Take your pick.
Ok. I pick clock speed, and the last 18 months.
No.. That didn't work... How about instructions per second over the last 18 months...
Crap. That doesn't work either.
In this case I presume the journalist felt people didn't know what transistor count meant - but sorta drew the conclusion that it is related to performance or something
So instead of doing his/her job and explaining it properly, or researching it for himself, he passed along invalid information... In the form of a misquote no less! Bad journalist! No cookie!
Why do we need inspections? The US isn't hiding anything. We're pretty up front with telling everybody we've got the bomb. Plus it should be fairly obvious, since we actually used a few of them.
Inspections are to make sure that people who say they *don't* have WMDs aren't lying. If a country admits to having the weapons, you don't need any inspections.
Seems to me more that he is being practical instead of making emotional decisions. Almost universally, people who oppose nuclear power don't understand the tradeoffs, or refuse to believe the reality.
Surely we need to conserve, but that only gets us so far. Nuclear fission is currently safer and far cleaner than what we use now (coal), plentiful enough to reduce our oil consumption while we figure out practical alternatives, and capable of providing us with enough power to transition to renewable sources without reduced economic output of quality of life.
We have three choices essentially, and the best scientists and engineers in the world are explaining this to the president: We can continue to pollute and rely on foreign sources for energy with increasing competition from Asia. We can cut energy consumption to the point where our GDP is reduced, jobs are lost, and people's lifestyles are altered. Or, we can build nuclear power plants, reducing coal emissions, generating hydrogen to ease off oil consumption, and grow economically. Not only that, but it's stupid to let the highly radioactive waste products of older reactors just sit around. We're not going to build bombs with the output, so why not generate more electricity with it instead of burying it in the desert (which the people who oppose reprocessing oppose as well).
the dangers of Nuclear Power (which are there, however big one thinks they are)
I don't think anybody argues that nuclear power isn't dangerous. Only that modern nuclear power technologies are less dangerous than our current fuel of choice: Coal.
Rumsfeld is an interesting figure for many reasons, but the thing that interests me about him most is that he exposes the hypocracy of the electorate.
People are always complaining about the lying and deception in Washington. In Rumsfeld, you have somebody who speaks his mind and tells the blunt truth almost all the time (correctness is an argument for another time), yet because the truth hurts, he is one of the most disliked figures in the Bush administration. No wonder the rest of the government is encouraged to be so secretive.
Without taking sides on the issue, I'd like to point out that when you predict that every year will set a record, eventually you will be right. No matter what you believe, I certainly hope that nobody is stupid enough to believe that this one data point 'proves' anything.
Any geezer geek (or young geek with a jargon file) should know that 'chad' is already plural. 'Chads' is a creation of the US media during the 2000 elections. Apparently american journalists don't know how to do research.
SATA is so much cheaper that it's easy to afford completely 2 or 3 redundant storage servers for the same price as a single SCSI array. We do this at work in fact.
That depends on how much performance you need.
With SCSI around $3-5 per gig, and SATA around 35-70 cents per gig
At 10k RPM, SATA and SAS prices are almost the same. At 15k RPM you can't even get SATA drives. If you're going to pay the higher price anyway, you should pick the technology with the superior controllers.
If you want high avalibility, look into DRBD. It's like RAID1 over a network.
DRBD is great, but it's not high availability by itself. It's just one piece. Without additional software you still have downtime if the primary end dies.
At 10k RPM, the prices are equal per MB, but the SAS (serially attached SCSI) drives will be 2.5" and use less power. Plus, the SAS RAID array would be faster than the SATA RAID array.
Latency also benefits from many disks for the same reason.
Not for writes. All RAID increases write latencies unless you have a battery backed cache.
we went from a LSI MegaRAID 320-1 + 4-drive SCSI RAID config to an Areca 1170 + 1GB RAM + 24-drive SATA RAID. Every aspect of performance is up by big amounts -- throughput, latency, multi-user access.
Gee, you installed modern technology to replace something 4 years old and you got a huge performance boost? What a shocker.
We ended breaking the array into 3 8-drive volumes and mirroring 2 volumes against each other for more redundancy. One of these days, we'll upgrade to faster CPUs and retest a 16-drive volume.
You likely won't see a difference with faster CPUs. You're bottleneck is either your memory bus, your PCI bus, or your controller. Your controller is the likely suspect, and it has nothing to do with throughput. It can probably only process a certain number of IO operations per second, no matter how much data is in each one, and you're probably hitting that limit. With the right benchmark, there is no reason to believe your server couldn't push several hundred megabytes per second, (450MB/second if you've got a dedicated 133Mhz PCI-X bus for your controller), but your cheap SATA controller probably can't handle the IOPS. I'd be surprised if it could push 15,000 IOPS, and well, unless all your IOs are 32K, you're PC isn't the problem... Even if you are, your PCI-X bus is the bottleneck, not your CPU.
It has little to do with the actual interconnect at this point, but...
The best drives are SCSI. Actually these days the best drives are SAS. You won't find higher performance/more reliable 2.5" drives with any other interconnect. 2.5" is the future it seems. It's not even that expensive anymore. 2.5" 15kRPM 36GB drives for around $200. 100+GB for $200 if you only need 10k RPM. You can't even get 15k SATA drives, and you're going to get the same capacity for the same price with SATA at 10kRPM, but you're going to get a 3.5" drive instead of a 2.5" drive.
since this is an M for Mature game and credit cards have generally been the accepted way to verify age/parental persission
Credit cards are a universally poor way to verify age. Anybody who claims to be using them for such is either stupid, or lying. A gift card number from your local mall will be indistinguishable from an actual credit account by 90% of the systems out there (when given to 13 year old boys, they're essentially porn site gift certificates.), and credit card companies will happily give cards to younger people.
Not only that, but if they really don't charge anything on it, junior won't have any issues punching in the one he borrowed temporarily from mom's wallet without her knowledge.
If women have great bodies, why shouldn't they make money with them? I could care less if they're clothed, naked, whoring themselves out -- it is their body to use as they please as long as it is voluntary trade with another consenting adult.
That's not what this is about though.
This isn't about whether people can do all the things you describe, but where they do those things.
I agree that people should have the right to do what they like with their bodies, wear what they like, etc... But I also think that schools should have dress codes, and I don't think it's unreasonable that resturaunts, clubs, even certain public streets, have some base rules on what is acceptable to wear while you're there. Most importantly, though, I don't think those views are contradictory. You see, just as you have the right to wear whatever you like, I have the right to not be around people who are dressed like you so long as there are places for both.
An outright ban would be wrong, and as you say, unconstitutional, but we're not talking about a massive governemnt crack down. We're talking about an isolated locality and a particular event. If a company wants to have a booth babe, they can put her in their private suite where they invite their intended audience for private showings (that sounds so bad... I don't mean it that way!) as they do in every other industry already anyway.
EFI support is theoretically possible, but is still in development.
Yeah, that means that somebody needs to sit down for 10 minutes with Grub 1.9x and an EFI based system. Most of us have been too busy to bother because our EFI systems also do legacy booting and thus the need isn't there. Now these macs are out and people do care...
Elilo isn't the answer. It's a quick and dirty hack, and should be replaced anyway.
I'm convinced people have already gotten Linux running on these machines. Most people just don't feel the need to post about it on the internet. Dispite what it might seem from what you read online, most developers just want their system to work. Getting credit for being the first isn't on their list of goals. This wouldn't be the first time that many people had Linux running on their just-released Mac only to see an announcement in some forum weeks or months later that it 'finally works'.
Go read the article about partisan thinking that was posted earlier today.
I certainly hope this guy doesn't win the republican primary. This guy's views on taxation don't match the traditional republican views on taxation. This guy seems more like a Ralph Nader who found Jesus.
As a fiscal conservative, and an old-school Republican, I say you can take these bottom feeding new conservatives and fire them out of a cannon so we can get back to the stuff that matters instead of evangelizing. I know a large number of other republicans, maybe even half, agree... It's just that the current guys we've got aren't bad enough to justify electing liberal democrats. It's way easier to fix the stuff guys like this do than it is to eliminate huge social programs after they've been around a while.
What we really need are some moderates. I haven't seen one on my ballot recently though...
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Radio can go through those things.
Those grey bags *are* conductive. They're what you use to put a toll booth transponder in if you don't want the booth to read it, for example, and they work very well for that. Those things are much higher powered than passport RFIDs.
Keep your passport in an anti-static mylar bag left over from a recent electronics purchase... You'll be all set.
Why they don't include a layer of this stuff in the cover of the passport is beyond me.
But that's *not* how ACPI LAN power control works...
On Intel boards with their advanced ACPI (yes, redundant... their terminology) controlers (BMCs), there's a 16Mhz ARM7 computer running even when your machine's power is off. It has a back-door connection to the intel ethernet chip, and can process ACPI packets to do just about anything you could do to your machine if you were standing in front of it, but over the network. It sits between the front panel buttons and the chipset, so it can 'push' any of those, whether your PC is on or off.
Other than in science fiction, where do you have a hydrogen power plant?
A nuclear (fission) plant connected to some electrodes for electrolosys is a practical reality *right now*. Considering where my power comes from, and that I that I have a large transformer a jar, and some salt in my basement as I write this, I could demonstrate the process for you given about an hour and a glue gun. I'd even seperate the hydrogen from the oxygen for you.
Don't dismiss so quickly the negative effects of the massive cultivation and the associated fertilization oand pesticides that would come with growing sufficient grain for ethanol production.
India and Pakistan are on the verge
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Actually, both countries have performed successful tests. I'm not sure how you get to eight without counting those two... Even then I still only count seven...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_wi
We even have technology (gasification, scrubbers, etc...) to make coal burning pass Kyoto.
None of that technology would change the fact that half of our carbon gas emissions come from burning coal. Which would you rather get rid of, cars and trucking, making a 20something% dent in our emissions, or coal, getting rid of 50% of our emissions?
Not only that, but it's still unsafe. There have been more deaths by coal mine accident than nuclear power accident by far.
We should take after the French [shudder] and design the nuclear infrastructure of our country with safety and security in mind.
I completely agree. Though South Africa has some interesting technology going too.
"Computers" and any part thereof seem to qualify on historical merit. Transistor count? Clock speed? HDD size? Take your pick.
Ok. I pick clock speed, and the last 18 months.
No.. That didn't work... How about instructions per second over the last 18 months...
Crap. That doesn't work either.
In this case I presume the journalist felt people didn't know what transistor count meant - but sorta drew the conclusion that it is related to performance or something
So instead of doing his/her job and explaining it properly, or researching it for himself, he passed along invalid information... In the form of a misquote no less! Bad journalist! No cookie!
Why do we need inspections? The US isn't hiding anything. We're pretty up front with telling everybody we've got the bomb. Plus it should be fairly obvious, since we actually used a few of them.
Inspections are to make sure that people who say they *don't* have WMDs aren't lying. If a country admits to having the weapons, you don't need any inspections.
Let's not have rational debate and instead make fun of somebody's accent!
Reason? Bush is an asshole.
Seems to me more that he is being practical instead of making emotional decisions. Almost universally, people who oppose nuclear power don't understand the tradeoffs, or refuse to believe the reality.
Surely we need to conserve, but that only gets us so far. Nuclear fission is currently safer and far cleaner than what we use now (coal), plentiful enough to reduce our oil consumption while we figure out practical alternatives, and capable of providing us with enough power to transition to renewable sources without reduced economic output of quality of life.
We have three choices essentially, and the best scientists and engineers in the world are explaining this to the president: We can continue to pollute and rely on foreign sources for energy with increasing competition from Asia. We can cut energy consumption to the point where our GDP is reduced, jobs are lost, and people's lifestyles are altered. Or, we can build nuclear power plants, reducing coal emissions, generating hydrogen to ease off oil consumption, and grow economically. Not only that, but it's stupid to let the highly radioactive waste products of older reactors just sit around. We're not going to build bombs with the output, so why not generate more electricity with it instead of burying it in the desert (which the people who oppose reprocessing oppose as well).
the dangers of Nuclear Power (which are there, however big one thinks they are)
I don't think anybody argues that nuclear power isn't dangerous. Only that modern nuclear power technologies are less dangerous than our current fuel of choice: Coal.
Rumsfeld is an interesting figure for many reasons, but the thing that interests me about him most is that he exposes the hypocracy of the electorate.
People are always complaining about the lying and deception in Washington. In Rumsfeld, you have somebody who speaks his mind and tells the blunt truth almost all the time (correctness is an argument for another time), yet because the truth hurts, he is one of the most disliked figures in the Bush administration. No wonder the rest of the government is encouraged to be so secretive.
Wow, did I call this one. :)
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Without taking sides on the issue, I'd like to point out that when you predict that every year will set a record, eventually you will be right. No matter what you believe, I certainly hope that nobody is stupid enough to believe that this one data point 'proves' anything.
You get round chads too.
Any geezer geek (or young geek with a jargon file) should know that 'chad' is already plural. 'Chads' is a creation of the US media during the 2000 elections. Apparently american journalists don't know how to do research.
RLL drives used MFM (multi-frequency modulation).
Floppy drives still do.
SATA is so much cheaper that it's easy to afford completely 2 or 3 redundant storage servers for the same price as a single SCSI array. We do this at work in fact.
That depends on how much performance you need.
With SCSI around $3-5 per gig, and SATA around 35-70 cents per gig
At 10k RPM, SATA and SAS prices are almost the same. At 15k RPM you can't even get SATA drives. If you're going to pay the higher price anyway, you should pick the technology with the superior controllers.
If you only need 7200RPM, by all means, use SATA.
If you want high avalibility, look into DRBD. It's like RAID1 over a network.
DRBD is great, but it's not high availability by itself. It's just one piece. Without additional software you still have downtime if the primary end dies.
Monitor the damn thing! My last job...
Best advice ever.
At 10k RPM, the prices are equal per MB, but the SAS (serially attached SCSI) drives will be 2.5" and use less power. Plus, the SAS RAID array would be faster than the SATA RAID array.
Latency also benefits from many disks for the same reason.
Not for writes. All RAID increases write latencies unless you have a battery backed cache.
we went from a LSI MegaRAID 320-1 + 4-drive SCSI RAID config to an Areca 1170 + 1GB RAM + 24-drive SATA RAID. Every aspect of performance is up by big amounts -- throughput, latency, multi-user access.
Gee, you installed modern technology to replace something 4 years old and you got a huge performance boost? What a shocker.
We ended breaking the array into 3 8-drive volumes and mirroring 2 volumes against each other for more redundancy. One of these days, we'll upgrade to faster CPUs and retest a 16-drive volume.
You likely won't see a difference with faster CPUs. You're bottleneck is either your memory bus, your PCI bus, or your controller. Your controller is the likely suspect, and it has nothing to do with throughput. It can probably only process a certain number of IO operations per second, no matter how much data is in each one, and you're probably hitting that limit. With the right benchmark, there is no reason to believe your server couldn't push several hundred megabytes per second, (450MB/second if you've got a dedicated 133Mhz PCI-X bus for your controller), but your cheap SATA controller probably can't handle the IOPS. I'd be surprised if it could push 15,000 IOPS, and well, unless all your IOs are 32K, you're PC isn't the problem... Even if you are, your PCI-X bus is the bottleneck, not your CPU.
It has little to do with the actual interconnect at this point, but...
The best drives are SCSI. Actually these days the best drives are SAS. You won't find higher performance/more reliable 2.5" drives with any other interconnect. 2.5" is the future it seems. It's not even that expensive anymore. 2.5" 15kRPM 36GB drives for around $200. 100+GB for $200 if you only need 10k RPM. You can't even get 15k SATA drives, and you're going to get the same capacity for the same price with SATA at 10kRPM, but you're going to get a 3.5" drive instead of a 2.5" drive.
since this is an M for Mature game and credit cards have generally been the accepted way to verify age/parental persission
Credit cards are a universally poor way to verify age. Anybody who claims to be using them for such is either stupid, or lying. A gift card number from your local mall will be indistinguishable from an actual credit account by 90% of the systems out there (when given to 13 year old boys, they're essentially porn site gift certificates.), and credit card companies will happily give cards to younger people.
Not only that, but if they really don't charge anything on it, junior won't have any issues punching in the one he borrowed temporarily from mom's wallet without her knowledge.
Oh, you want an installer too?
Wuss.
If women have great bodies, why shouldn't they make money with them? I could care less if they're clothed, naked, whoring themselves out -- it is their body to use as they please as long as it is voluntary trade with another consenting adult.
That's not what this is about though.
This isn't about whether people can do all the things you describe, but where they do those things.
I agree that people should have the right to do what they like with their bodies, wear what they like, etc... But I also think that schools should have dress codes, and I don't think it's unreasonable that resturaunts, clubs, even certain public streets, have some base rules on what is acceptable to wear while you're there. Most importantly, though, I don't think those views are contradictory. You see, just as you have the right to wear whatever you like, I have the right to not be around people who are dressed like you so long as there are places for both.
An outright ban would be wrong, and as you say, unconstitutional, but we're not talking about a massive governemnt crack down. We're talking about an isolated locality and a particular event. If a company wants to have a booth babe, they can put her in their private suite where they invite their intended audience for private showings (that sounds so bad... I don't mean it that way!) as they do in every other industry already anyway.
EFI support is theoretically possible, but is still in development.
Yeah, that means that somebody needs to sit down for 10 minutes with Grub 1.9x and an EFI based system. Most of us have been too busy to bother because our EFI systems also do legacy booting and thus the need isn't there. Now these macs are out and people do care...
Elilo isn't the answer. It's a quick and dirty hack, and should be replaced anyway.
I'm convinced people have already gotten Linux running on these machines. Most people just don't feel the need to post about it on the internet. Dispite what it might seem from what you read online, most developers just want their system to work. Getting credit for being the first isn't on their list of goals. This wouldn't be the first time that many people had Linux running on their just-released Mac only to see an announcement in some forum weeks or months later that it 'finally works'.
Go read the article about partisan thinking that was posted earlier today.
I certainly hope this guy doesn't win the republican primary. This guy's views on taxation don't match the traditional republican views on taxation. This guy seems more like a Ralph Nader who found Jesus.
As a fiscal conservative, and an old-school Republican, I say you can take these bottom feeding new conservatives and fire them out of a cannon so we can get back to the stuff that matters instead of evangelizing. I know a large number of other republicans, maybe even half, agree... It's just that the current guys we've got aren't bad enough to justify electing liberal democrats. It's way easier to fix the stuff guys like this do than it is to eliminate huge social programs after they've been around a while.
What we really need are some moderates. I haven't seen one on my ballot recently though...