The baseload is a silly non-issue. On every continent there's geology available for hydro storage. Do remember that hydro storage is feasible where the river flow is way too low to warrant hydro generation.
The cost of transporting processed uranium can be disregarded for all practical purposes. Don't be silly. There's many orders of magnitude worth of a difference between the cost of transporting coal or oil and uranium fuel, when expressed as cost per generated kWh.
I don't think there's that big of a problem with adding hydroelectric storage. It can be done in valleys that have too low of a flow to support a hydroelectric power generation plant. I think there's enough hydro storage geology available in the U.S. that the entire base load could be from hydro storage only period.
So, realistically, do we know how much HTTP traffic is compressed? Do we know if the gzip compression used is anywhere nearly as good as a dedicated compressing encoding could be? How energy efficient is running all this data through zlib vs. code that knows what it is encoding?
I wonder how much does impact does Java and enterprisy XML-based web services have in all that. XML is a cache hog and memory bandwidth hog, never mind a network bandwidth hog. Java has huge runtime costs of abstractions needed for good software design. I think it's time to come up with something where the abstractions' cost is pushed to compile time. You know, something that has been solved long ago in the form of LISP code-generating macros. Sigh.
Kinesiology, as I understand it, is simply a study of motion of the human body. I'd think of it as a kinematical niche in biomechanics. Or is there more to it?
The New Testament (which supersedes the Old thus avoiding all the violent prescriptions therein according to many Christians, despite that the New Testament itself is contradictory on whether it does or doesn't supersede) at its most violent stops short of commanding believers to kill.
Oh, so that's where the inspiration comes to the seemingly illiterate fools who write the National Electrical Code? If you want thinly veiled ambiguity, look no further than the Bible and NEC;)
It's their problem. I tell all my vendors: if the prices available online are not competitive, I'm not looking any further. Makes it easy for me and them. For me, because I don't have to pester some clueless sales rep about pricing -- it's a waste of my time. For them, because if they want to win my business, they don't have to do anything extraordinary: just provide competitive prices, and I'll make sure the best deal wins. Easy as that.
When I make server purchase decisions, I don't care to talk to anyone at the vendor. I want to read their collateral and make the business decision. If their documentation or collateral is lacking, I won't be prying it from their dead hands -- it's their fucking loss, not mine. Resellers are, I think, a waste of resources. If the list price is there to discourage purchase, then what the heck, I'll just follow their guideline and not buy. Simple as that. I guess it's time to short sell some Oracle stock.
The question is: will doing the DB in hardware even help with anything? I presume it's not that hard to saturate the memory bus on any modern server while doing a database query. If database bottlenecks were actually the CPU power, not memory bandwidth, then it'd make sense.
She is a bitch. That doesn't make her any less human. I'm all for gender equality, but come on -- the lady is upset about overhearing stuff that wasn't directed to her, and wasn't about her either. It takes a particularly far-fetched kind of an idiot to get excited about it, much less to actually go and complain to someone! Yep, she's a stupid bitch allright.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but some of Pascal's syntactic features were conceived by people who demonstrably had no idea how people -- the software developers -- actually process information. You see, programming languages are first and foremost tools for people. The code must be readable long after it has been written. Pascal's arbitrary separation of variable declarations from the first point-of-use is positively unergnomic and runs against the need for locality-of-reference as an aid to understanding. This stupidity has been propagated into IEC 61131 PLC programming languages. I'll take modern C/C++ definition-at-point-of-use any day, thank you so much.
And obviously you think -- I find it a common misconception -- that SpaceX is reengineering everything from scratch, including the engineering process itself. Well, here's a wakeup call for you: they employ plenty of people with lots of legacy space mission experience. The choice of the kernel is a minor thing in the grander scheme of things.
Their Alpha line is IMHO the best bang-for-the-buck in entry-level fixed mirror SLRs. It's faster than similarly priced Canons, for crying out loud -- yeah, I've been testing them in various stores, quite extensively.
I called them and let them know that they won't be getting any more business from me. Easy peasy. They already had some sort of a ridiculous pre-scripted answer -- complete nonsense implying that there was copyrighted content that digitalrev used without permission. Well, the DMCA latter doesn't even raise the issue of anything copyrighted being used illegally, merely alleged trademark law violations. Personally, I want them to apologize, and they better be quick about it. I've had lots of fun recently with Sony Alpha cameras, and I may just get a SONY HDR-AS15 out of spite. It is a slower camera than Hero 2, but hey, Streisand effect FTW:)
Now that's just silly. Those things aren't exactly secret designs, you know, and the engineers who worked on that project haven't all died out. Do you seriously think that SpaceX doesn't have a bunch of folks with relevant experience -- folks who have worked for NASA and/or the subcontractors? Never mind that there's a bunch of unflown F1 engines that you can just go and look at. Oh, and never forget that the Russians have flow engines with slighly more punch on Energia, and engines with that heritage are used in the current Zenit and Atlas V (!!). Yes, Atlas V uses half-sized versions of RD-171.
Of course it doesn't matter much, but it's interesting that there's now a company big enough to do all that and more under one roof. Heck, more than one compan.
Back in high school it was MS DOS, Novell Netware and Borland Pascal. These days it may well be MS Windows, MS CIFS/SMB, and MS Visual Studio. The consolidation of power is a bit scary, that's true.
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The baseload is a silly non-issue. On every continent there's geology available for hydro storage. Do remember that hydro storage is feasible where the river flow is way too low to warrant hydro generation.
The cost of transporting processed uranium can be disregarded for all practical purposes. Don't be silly. There's many orders of magnitude worth of a difference between the cost of transporting coal or oil and uranium fuel, when expressed as cost per generated kWh.
I don't think there's that big of a problem with adding hydroelectric storage. It can be done in valleys that have too low of a flow to support a hydroelectric power generation plant. I think there's enough hydro storage geology available in the U.S. that the entire base load could be from hydro storage only period.
This is one of the most informative comments to this article. That's a reason both to celebrate and to lament :/
So, realistically, do we know how much HTTP traffic is compressed? Do we know if the gzip compression used is anywhere nearly as good as a dedicated compressing encoding could be? How energy efficient is running all this data through zlib vs. code that knows what it is encoding?
I wonder how much does impact does Java and enterprisy XML-based web services have in all that. XML is a cache hog and memory bandwidth hog, never mind a network bandwidth hog. Java has huge runtime costs of abstractions needed for good software design. I think it's time to come up with something where the abstractions' cost is pushed to compile time. You know, something that has been solved long ago in the form of LISP code-generating macros. Sigh.
Kinesiology, as I understand it, is simply a study of motion of the human body. I'd think of it as a kinematical niche in biomechanics. Or is there more to it?
This is full of win -- that's why I read slashdot! Thank you, Pseudonym.
That would be correct, I think. A super-majority of people in general, whether Christian or not, appear not to have half a brain ;)
The New Testament (which supersedes the Old thus avoiding all the violent prescriptions therein according to many Christians, despite that the New Testament itself is contradictory on whether it does or doesn't supersede) at its most violent stops short of commanding believers to kill.
Oh, so that's where the inspiration comes to the seemingly illiterate fools who write the National Electrical Code? If you want thinly veiled ambiguity, look no further than the Bible and NEC ;)
It's their problem. I tell all my vendors: if the prices available online are not competitive, I'm not looking any further. Makes it easy for me and them. For me, because I don't have to pester some clueless sales rep about pricing -- it's a waste of my time. For them, because if they want to win my business, they don't have to do anything extraordinary: just provide competitive prices, and I'll make sure the best deal wins. Easy as that.
When I make server purchase decisions, I don't care to talk to anyone at the vendor. I want to read their collateral and make the business decision. If their documentation or collateral is lacking, I won't be prying it from their dead hands -- it's their fucking loss, not mine. Resellers are, I think, a waste of resources. If the list price is there to discourage purchase, then what the heck, I'll just follow their guideline and not buy. Simple as that. I guess it's time to short sell some Oracle stock.
The question is: will doing the DB in hardware even help with anything? I presume it's not that hard to saturate the memory bus on any modern server while doing a database query. If database bottlenecks were actually the CPU power, not memory bandwidth, then it'd make sense.
She is a bitch. That doesn't make her any less human. I'm all for gender equality, but come on -- the lady is upset about overhearing stuff that wasn't directed to her, and wasn't about her either. It takes a particularly far-fetched kind of an idiot to get excited about it, much less to actually go and complain to someone! Yep, she's a stupid bitch allright.
imagine you would have to use Qt instead of MFC, how bad would that be
LOL!
Why the fuck wasn't the build done automatically before a commit would go through? I mean, what the heck?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but some of Pascal's syntactic features were conceived by people who demonstrably had no idea how people -- the software developers -- actually process information. You see, programming languages are first and foremost tools for people. The code must be readable long after it has been written. Pascal's arbitrary separation of variable declarations from the first point-of-use is positively unergnomic and runs against the need for locality-of-reference as an aid to understanding. This stupidity has been propagated into IEC 61131 PLC programming languages. I'll take modern C/C++ definition-at-point-of-use any day, thank you so much.
They are only non-deterministic if you don't know what you're doing.
And obviously you think -- I find it a common misconception -- that SpaceX is reengineering everything from scratch, including the engineering process itself. Well, here's a wakeup call for you: they employ plenty of people with lots of legacy space mission experience. The choice of the kernel is a minor thing in the grander scheme of things.
Their Alpha line is IMHO the best bang-for-the-buck in entry-level fixed mirror SLRs. It's faster than similarly priced Canons, for crying out loud -- yeah, I've been testing them in various stores, quite extensively.
A.K.A. FUD. A classic.
I called them and let them know that they won't be getting any more business from me. Easy peasy. They already had some sort of a ridiculous pre-scripted answer -- complete nonsense implying that there was copyrighted content that digitalrev used without permission. Well, the DMCA latter doesn't even raise the issue of anything copyrighted being used illegally, merely alleged trademark law violations. Personally, I want them to apologize, and they better be quick about it. I've had lots of fun recently with Sony Alpha cameras, and I may just get a SONY HDR-AS15 out of spite. It is a slower camera than Hero 2, but hey, Streisand effect FTW :)
Now that's just silly. Those things aren't exactly secret designs, you know, and the engineers who worked on that project haven't all died out. Do you seriously think that SpaceX doesn't have a bunch of folks with relevant experience -- folks who have worked for NASA and/or the subcontractors? Never mind that there's a bunch of unflown F1 engines that you can just go and look at. Oh, and never forget that the Russians have flow engines with slighly more punch on Energia, and engines with that heritage are used in the current Zenit and Atlas V (!!). Yes, Atlas V uses half-sized versions of RD-171.
Of course it doesn't matter much, but it's interesting that there's now a company big enough to do all that and more under one roof. Heck, more than one compan.
Back in high school it was MS DOS, Novell Netware and Borland Pascal. These days it may well be MS Windows, MS CIFS/SMB, and MS Visual Studio. The consolidation of power is a bit scary, that's true.