The excess heat will be used to heat the office space, according to http://opencompute.org/.
The problem is that the heat generated by DCs is pretty low energy and pressure. You can't heat much up with it or travel it very far before you lose it all in transmission inefficiencies.
So yea its essentially a non-nuclear MAD arrangement. +1 Insightful. Whether by decision or by accident, be assured that this is more likely than an other consideration to keep China and the US at peace.
We would almost certainly cancel our debt obligation to the Chinese if they were to do something overtly hostile, like invade Taiwan. And everyone knows it. Now--do we start a war with China just to have the legal precepts to cancel that debt, and erase the US deficit overnight? A war with China would probably be even more expensive, so doubt it.
If when China begins selling our debt, be aware that one of the hurdles to WW III has been removed.
"Admiral Patrick Walsh said Washington is seeking to improve its relationship with the Chiese military, and an officer exchange program would provide a better understanding of Chinese culture, goals and thoughts".
The Native Americans tried the same approach. The US Gov't was happy to let them think that there was some chance at reconciliation as it simply made killing them all a lot easier. br
China won't be so foolish as to Pearl Harbor us. We can't wait for that kind of defining event. We need to treat this like another Cold War, or we will be speaking Chinese in 50 years.
she's annoyed at me because our Rep gave her some rude answer about how they don't know anything about upcoming hardware).
While true, that is, among the other reasons mentioned in this thread, one of the reasons why Apple will never make it in Enterprise. Corporations that are spending millions of $ a year aren't going to learn about their computer hardware strategy from MacRumors. Corporate implementation and testing takes a long time, and with good reason. Apple's lack of interest in committing to a hardware roadmap will forever doom them.
When I finally realized that this was true, and also that the best money was to be made in corporate support (and not consumer), I quit trying to be a Mac Genius and learned linux so I could support that, instead.
Frankly, I think this is because Jobs wants to be able to turn the hardware specs around on a moment's notice, I'm sure there's Apple internal roadmaps.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this
Me too. It's not like it's going to end terrorism by Islamists. I'm sure that Al Queda, like any other paramilitary organization, has already replaced him in the command structure. If it's done anything, it's removed Osama's funding from Al Queda--but if you have most of the Western world looking for you, you have a certain expectation of being caught and killed, and you've made contingency arrangements in the event of your demise.
You're a moron, and your cute euphemism doesn't hide that. More "kinetic resistance" is only going to justify and encourage this kind of response from the police, and not dissuade it.
Call me a bleeding liberal if you will, but the police are more afraid of lawsuits than they are of armed individual resistance. The latter they have training and material to deal with. The former they don't, and civil penalties deprive them of resources to continue criminal acts with.
+1 for the use of "naff". Even as an American, there's not a lot of British slang that I'm unfamiliar with, but "naff" qualifies. Or, qualified. It's my new favorite word. Thanks!
You've actually done it twice already--you're forgetting the SnL bailout from the 90s.
Really, you and I should both go into banking, make a killing for the next ten years, and then when it all comes crashing down have the government rescue us.
I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that a pharma be able to test for all possible side affects of a given medication. Some of them don't seem to have side affects related to their main effect, so the scope of the test to look for all possible effects would have to be so broad it'd result in subject fatigue.
However, I present that in the hypothetical context of pharma operating in good faith. That is, I wouldn't want to hold up a potentially life saving drug just cause I had to test for every possible side effect, including very subjective ones.
In the current state, pharma isn't acting in good faith. They aggressively push drugs onto patients and doctors that don't really need them, their drugs may not work as claimed, and they don't seem to be acting out of medical principle so much as a "throw it against the wall" method of benefit discovery.
So therefore, I don't believe they should have the benefit of operating in good faith, and should be held accountable for everything that they do. If they want to have the license to operate in a free market, they should have to accept the liability of their aggressive risk taking too. If they weren't so aggressive in taking risk, I'd cut them more slack for the rare screwup. But I don't think they deserve that latitude any more.
A million deaths per year sounds inflated. Last year, the us had "only" 42k deaths. I can't believe the rest of the world accounts for 660k deaths, ESP when the US has a disproportionate amount of vehicles.
Stipulating "1m deaths" as fact makes me suspect the rest of this analysis.
What makes them think that these notes have any clue as to the perpetrator of the murder? They could be shopping lists that the victim made in code for his own amusement; apparently he had been doing so his whole life.
Cases of murder are cracked daily without needing a note from the victim, coded or not; the FBI should pursue this case the same way. More than likely, the code is a red herring that's tying up resources and focus.
Your experience is limited. Of course there are generators large enough to run even the largest of datacenters indefinitely--provided fuel source and modulo generator reliability. But their power output is not a problem.
He did neither. He only made those arrangements with someone pretending to be a minor.
Couldn't he just say that the person trying to pretend to be a minor failed their pretense, and he knew he was talking to an adult all along? Or an adult pretending to be a minor?
This is not as abstract as you think. Cops could very well take out ads in the paper for "sex chat" phone lines, and bust anyone that called on the basis that the caller was trying to talk to a minor about sex, when the cops made 0 effort to attempt to portray themselves as minors. You could easily entrap many reasonable adults who had no intention of breaking the law.
The law would have to be written to say that it's illegal to talk dirty to anyone that represents themselves as a minor, regardless if they're actually a minor or not.
And what about minors that represent themselves as adults--should that be illegal as well? cf Tracy Lords.
it will be about credibility. That's exactly the problem the nuclear industry has always suffered from. The contamination is very dangerous and invisible, and the only one that can tell us how bad it is are folks with a strong vested interest in downplaying the issue. As a consequence, no one knows what to think--and so have chosen to believe the worst case scenario. And as a further consequence, the US hasn't built a new reactor in 30 years. These guys have done themselves a disservice by dissembling and being caught at it. The industry would be in much better shape as a whole if nuclear power plant operators would be more straightforward about the dangers when they happen.
The computers in the datacenters may well survive. But the power necessary to run them and keep them cool, the technicians necessary to fix them, and the tubes necessary to provide external connectivity probably won't.
And even if they all do, the distributed clients of those datacenters would all need that stuff too--hosting a web page doesn't do a lot of good if there is no one able to connect to it because they don't have the power to turn their own computer on.
Nuclear hardening datacenters is pretty useless unless you can harden the entire lifecycle of data generation and transmission. It sure makes the PHBs feel important, though.
Even in a "CLOUD" with floating VMs that fly around like Unicorns you want stable predictable hardware underneath.
Simply untrue. When you have a "CLOUD" that's big enough, the failure rate itself is stabilized. But you still need humans to work it. Human techs are way cheaper than machines that are so reliable that they don't need them.
TFA discussed a colo with 2X 3MW suites. If 6MW of space has only 1 or 2 hardware failures per year, they're overpaying for hardware reliability. I guarantee it would be cheaper to have on site staff than pay enough in hardware reliability to not require on site staff, even if they have well-appointed offices.
Hollywood thinks so little of writers that they don't even credit them. They'll credit the Key Grip, for xchrist sakes. And the caterer. But not the writers. The story is a ancillary concern to the 'splosions. And here we are.
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The excess heat will be used to heat the office space, according to http://opencompute.org/.
The problem is that the heat generated by DCs is pretty low energy and pressure. You can't heat much up with it or travel it very far before you lose it all in transmission inefficiencies.
At what speed would it explode?
Are there maths that describe the pressure of metaphysical forces on matter?
So yea its essentially a non-nuclear MAD arrangement. +1 Insightful. Whether by decision or by accident, be assured that this is more likely than an other consideration to keep China and the US at peace.
We would almost certainly cancel our debt obligation to the Chinese if they were to do something overtly hostile, like invade Taiwan. And everyone knows it. Now--do we start a war with China just to have the legal precepts to cancel that debt, and erase the US deficit overnight? A war with China would probably be even more expensive, so doubt it.
If when China begins selling our debt, be aware that one of the hurdles to WW III has been removed.
From TFA:
"Admiral Patrick Walsh said Washington is seeking to improve its relationship with the Chiese military, and an officer exchange program would provide a better understanding of Chinese culture, goals and thoughts".
The Native Americans tried the same approach. The US Gov't was happy to let them think that there was some chance at reconciliation as it simply made killing them all a lot easier.
br China won't be so foolish as to Pearl Harbor us. We can't wait for that kind of defining event. We need to treat this like another Cold War, or we will be speaking Chinese in 50 years.
The key is "comparable Wintel device", as you mention. Once you start adding FW 800 etc to windows machines, the price comparison favors Apples.
OTOH, if you don't ever need FW 800 you can purchase much cheaper windows machines.
she's annoyed at me because our Rep gave her some rude answer about how they don't know anything about upcoming hardware).
While true, that is, among the other reasons mentioned in this thread, one of the reasons why Apple will never make it in Enterprise. Corporations that are spending millions of $ a year aren't going to learn about their computer hardware strategy from MacRumors. Corporate implementation and testing takes a long time, and with good reason. Apple's lack of interest in committing to a hardware roadmap will forever doom them.
When I finally realized that this was true, and also that the best money was to be made in corporate support (and not consumer), I quit trying to be a Mac Genius and learned linux so I could support that, instead.
Frankly, I think this is because Jobs wants to be able to turn the hardware specs around on a moment's notice, I'm sure there's Apple internal roadmaps.
I didn't want to believe it, when I read that post then; but I've thought it often as I've watched it unfold since. Very prophetic.
Interestingly, post of the attacks has 1215 replies, but this story already has 1600+.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this
Me too. It's not like it's going to end terrorism by Islamists. I'm sure that Al Queda, like any other paramilitary organization, has already replaced him in the command structure. If it's done anything, it's removed Osama's funding from Al Queda--but if you have most of the Western world looking for you, you have a certain expectation of being caught and killed, and you've made contingency arrangements in the event of your demise.
I was at Google when the Chinese attacked, and I felt personally violated. I would be more than happy to see the favor returned.
And anyone who doesn't think it was actually the Chinese intelligence agency that mounted that attack against Google is a victim of wishful thinking.
with kinetic resistance
You're a moron, and your cute euphemism doesn't hide that. More "kinetic resistance" is only going to justify and encourage this kind of response from the police, and not dissuade it.
Call me a bleeding liberal if you will, but the police are more afraid of lawsuits than they are of armed individual resistance. The latter they have training and material to deal with. The former they don't, and civil penalties deprive them of resources to continue criminal acts with.
Or, they leave the country and take their jobs with them. I'm not really sure that would work.
And of course, they'd still expect US diplomatic and military protection.
+1 for the use of "naff". Even as an American, there's not a lot of British slang that I'm unfamiliar with, but "naff" qualifies. Or, qualified. It's my new favorite word. Thanks!
You've actually done it twice already--you're forgetting the SnL bailout from the 90s.
Really, you and I should both go into banking, make a killing for the next ten years, and then when it all comes crashing down have the government rescue us.
I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that a pharma be able to test for all possible side affects of a given medication. Some of them don't seem to have side affects related to their main effect, so the scope of the test to look for all possible effects would have to be so broad it'd result in subject fatigue.
However, I present that in the hypothetical context of pharma operating in good faith. That is, I wouldn't want to hold up a potentially life saving drug just cause I had to test for every possible side effect, including very subjective ones.
In the current state, pharma isn't acting in good faith. They aggressively push drugs onto patients and doctors that don't really need them, their drugs may not work as claimed, and they don't seem to be acting out of medical principle so much as a "throw it against the wall" method of benefit discovery.
So therefore, I don't believe they should have the benefit of operating in good faith, and should be held accountable for everything that they do. If they want to have the license to operate in a free market, they should have to accept the liability of their aggressive risk taking too. If they weren't so aggressive in taking risk, I'd cut them more slack for the rare screwup. But I don't think they deserve that latitude any more.
A million deaths per year sounds inflated. Last year, the us had "only" 42k deaths. I can't believe the rest of the world accounts for 660k deaths, ESP when the US has a disproportionate amount of vehicles.
Stipulating "1m deaths" as fact makes me suspect the rest of this analysis.
What makes them think that these notes have any clue as to the perpetrator of the murder? They could be shopping lists that the victim made in code for his own amusement; apparently he had been doing so his whole life.
Cases of murder are cracked daily without needing a note from the victim, coded or not; the FBI should pursue this case the same way. More than likely, the code is a red herring that's tying up resources and focus.
Your experience is limited. Of course there are generators large enough to run even the largest of datacenters indefinitely--provided fuel source and modulo generator reliability. But their power output is not a problem.
http://www.manliftgroup.com/manlift_News_PG.php
He did neither. He only made those arrangements with someone pretending to be a minor.
Couldn't he just say that the person trying to pretend to be a minor failed their pretense, and he knew he was talking to an adult all along? Or an adult pretending to be a minor?
This is not as abstract as you think. Cops could very well take out ads in the paper for "sex chat" phone lines, and bust anyone that called on the basis that the caller was trying to talk to a minor about sex, when the cops made 0 effort to attempt to portray themselves as minors. You could easily entrap many reasonable adults who had no intention of breaking the law.
The law would have to be written to say that it's illegal to talk dirty to anyone that represents themselves as a minor, regardless if they're actually a minor or not.
And what about minors that represent themselves as adults--should that be illegal as well? cf Tracy Lords.
it will be about credibility.
That's exactly the problem the nuclear industry has always suffered from. The contamination is very dangerous and invisible, and the only one that can tell us how bad it is are folks with a strong vested interest in downplaying the issue. As a consequence, no one knows what to think--and so have chosen to believe the worst case scenario. And as a further consequence, the US hasn't built a new reactor in 30 years. These guys have done themselves a disservice by dissembling and being caught at it. The industry would be in much better shape as a whole if nuclear power plant operators would be more straightforward about the dangers when they happen.
When I studied Relig
The computers in the datacenters may well survive. But the power necessary to run them and keep them cool, the technicians necessary to fix them, and the tubes necessary to provide external connectivity probably won't.
And even if they all do, the distributed clients of those datacenters would all need that stuff too--hosting a web page doesn't do a lot of good if there is no one able to connect to it because they don't have the power to turn their own computer on.
Nuclear hardening datacenters is pretty useless unless you can harden the entire lifecycle of data generation and transmission. It sure makes the PHBs feel important, though.
more of a science
I would say it's actually more of a bioscience in many cases.
Even in a "CLOUD" with floating VMs that fly around like Unicorns you want stable predictable hardware underneath.
Simply untrue. When you have a "CLOUD" that's big enough, the failure rate itself is stabilized. But you still need humans to work it. Human techs are way cheaper than machines that are so reliable that they don't need them.
TFA discussed a colo with 2X 3MW suites. If 6MW of space has only 1 or 2 hardware failures per year, they're overpaying for hardware reliability. I guarantee it would be cheaper to have on site staff than pay enough in hardware reliability to not require on site staff, even if they have well-appointed offices.
Are Hollywood writers so creatively bankrupt
Hollywood thinks so little of writers that they don't even credit them. They'll credit the Key Grip, for xchrist sakes. And the caterer. But not the writers. The story is a ancillary concern to the 'splosions. And here we are.