When you have money for an armour that costs 12 oxen (8th century) to 2 oxen (17th century), not to mention horses, servants etc. - you won't suffer from malnutrition. People paying you various taxes for "the protection" you provide, for the use of your land, or simply cause you are the big burly guy in armour, on a horse and with some very sharp and pointy instruments and looking like you know how to use them - those people would have a far better chance to experience malnutrition.
At least until there is a prolonged period of peace time. Then, if you've invested all your loot from various conflicts into wine and ladies - you might find yourself starving. Fortunately, there was plenty of wars and skirmishes back then.
Those pristine museum pieces belonged to teenagers and various noblemen who never fought anything stronger than a cold, and pranced in the back of the battlefield wearing armour instead of charging at the front. The ones used by big burly zweihander wielding men mostly ended up rusting in some field somewhere in the end. Knights died in their armours or if they've managed to retire - were buried in them. Those things had cost back then as much as a car would today - only they were "tailor-fitted" for each individual. Spares were an option only for VERY rich.
Also... one word... arquebus. Nobles that trained since their teens to be knights and later charged at lines of peasants who got handed their arquebuses to them whole two weeks earlier - haven't made it home so their armour could be preserved for posterity.
Of 37 stem-cell lines created by reprogramming, three yielded 27 live offspring. One of these pups, a seven-week-old male named "Tiny," mated with a female and produced young of its own.
Any more viable and he would have an never-ending copyright extension attached to him.
After realizing what he did, he flicked that comet as far away from Earth as possible. And he said he was sorry.
The comet was never seen again. Lexell, after conducting further work in cooperation with Pierre-Simon Laplace, argued that a subsequent interaction with Jupiter had further perturbed its orbit, either placing it too far from the Earth to be seen or perhaps ejecting it from the Solar System altogether.
I don't want to get caught in the slamming door. How about some information, please!
We have reason to believe that you have fallen a victim to weapons of psychological warfare. For your own good, turn of your audio and video receiving devices as well as any audio or video player and go get some sleep.
The Earth has not yet faced a galaxy coming straight at it.
This reminds me of that anti-tiger rock I keep in my sock drawer? That rock is so good, damn tigers are dieing out in India. Maybe Jupiter has similar effect on galaxies?
Kingston Communications is the primary supplier of telecommunications and data services in the City of Hull.
British Telecoms has no lines in the area, and with no other choice of ISP, the residents of Hull often have no choice but to use Karoo if they want an internet connection.
KCOM's Hull operation covers a relatively small geographical area. Although it is under the same Ofcom and EU obligations with respect to local loop unbundling the addressable market is so small that the economics do not - by and large - justify entry by other companies.[4]
To add more complications for any would-be rival of Kingston Communications is the fact that in Hull the first 1 km of wire from the exchange has a cross-section of 0.3 mm sq, as opposed to the standard 0.5 mm sq, requiring a more expensive DSLAM in the telephone exchange for providing an ADSL service.
Karoo, an ISP in Hull, in the UK, is disconnecting subscribers without warning if they file-share, or are even suspected of file-sharing. Karoo is the only ISP in the area.
Spiders are small enough for us not to give a damn about them, and they hatch from eggs that we don't eat, so like flies, ants or cockroaches we let them live as long as they don't step into our path. Should they become a significant enough menace... I can very well see them going the way of the tribble.
And we grow coconuts so we could eat them. So much for them standing up to us.
IANAT (I am not a tigerologist), so there might be some truth to that, but main reason is usually stated as human invasion of their territory. As someone else has put it already - they require quite a bit of their own private space.
Besides dogs and cats (unless we are counting those in Korea and Vietnam) those are all domestic animals that we are keeping in cages of various sizes to fatten them up. So we could eat them.
That is not evolution. That is domestication. Done by us. Humans.
Tigers are at least keeping some of their dignity cause you have to actually shoot the beast with a gun. You can't just walk up to it and hit it between the eyes with a hammer. Also, had you said chickens, I might have to argue how we have actually created the modern chicken and how we keep actively modifying it to produce more meat. But waterfowl? Come on...
I did read the PP and I've even replied to it. And I thought that I was clear enough in my reply, but apparently not.
See... the game is not most power-efficient cooling, or even best cooling. The game is "most bang per buck invested in the server infrastructure".
Now... Saving money by reducing the cooling costs by using huge passive cooling farms is a nice idea, but not as easily calculable as simply switching to cheaper electricity. Sure, should you move your servers to Siberia you would get shitload of passive cooling, but unless polar bears are going to start using broadband internet - servers will never make it above 50% efficiency. Cause, even on 100% usage - they will still be in the middle of the f-in desert. No local traffic. Too far from civilization for the global traffic. Any money you would save by running those "virtualized workloads" through such power-efficient servers would be overshadowed by higher maintenance costs to the infrastructure and higher energy costs.
On the other hand - switching to servers running on cheaper electricity at the moment is a quite clear and easily calculable way to save money.
There is a compromise solution though. Mountains. Don't go north, go up. Granted, there are not always readily available, but Europe and USA's west coast are really close to both major internet backbones and mountains.
Still... You would probably save more by "zone switching" than with passive cooling.
There were no lasers prior to 1960s. Way to late for them to start evolving one.
On the other hand... HAD they evolved 'frickin' lasers on their heads human armed conflicts would have been far more interesting. If we could pry some of those lasers of off their heads and used them ourselves. And if all those lawyers on their backs would let us.
UPS! Lost a couple of words there, putting that link in. That last sentence should read:
As for placing datacenters beyond the arctic circle - my guess is that they are going to keep building their datacenters closer to the internet backbones for some time to come.
1 - You are thinking too small and apparently you are falling for the idea that Google is "just a search engine". It's OK. Many people do that. It is not all "web", nor do they have to use all their power for themselves.
The idea is to offer "virtualized workloads" to your customers - workloads that you then shift around the world to the "cheapest work-area at the moment" Which MIGHT cost you a pretty penny - unless you have your own global network of datacenters built for just such a purpose. You know... something a company like Google just might have.
2 - You are thinking too big. You don't need to go to the "dark side" (of the planet). Just shift your workloads couple of hours to the east-northeast. In most cases they would not be chasing night-time - just those couple of hours of off-peek electricity during the dawn (read: cheaper) and possibly colder servers. It is actually mentioned in TFA. RTFA it.
As for placing datacenters beyond the arctic circle - my guess is that they are going to keep building their datacenters closer to the for some time to come.
An Enabler for "Follow the Moon"? The ability to seamlessly shift workloads between data centers also creates intriguing long-term energy management possibilities, including a "follow the moon" strategy which takes advantage of lower costs for power and cooling during overnight hours. In this scenario, virtualized workloads are shifted across data centers in different time zones to capture savings from off-peak utility rates.
This approach has been discussed by cloud technologists Geva Perry and James Urquhart as a strategy for cloud computing providers with global data networks, who could offer a "follow-the-moon" service to enterprise customers who would normally build data centers where power is cheap. But this approach could also produce energy savings for a single company with a global network - someone like Google.
They should have evolved a bulletproof skin, a gun on their forehead and a lawyer on their back. One to protect them from direct attack by humans, one to protect their home with force and the third to do the same - only in court.
And even that probably wouldn't do them much good considering that "civilized" humans had up until recently found "local" humans to be less than those tigers and little more than apes. When I say "civilized" and "local" I mean white and brown.
Heck! White humans have nearly killed off an entire continent's population of red humans - who had guns and horses and whatnot... And oversized cats should "evolve". Yeah, sure...
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It could be a symptom of a Venereal disease. You should have that looked at.
Thank you. Thank you. Try the veal.
Still alive... still alive...
We still haven't killed ourselves.
Not exactly immortality though...
People, as "in general".
When you have money for an armour that costs 12 oxen (8th century) to 2 oxen (17th century), not to mention horses, servants etc. - you won't suffer from malnutrition.
People paying you various taxes for "the protection" you provide, for the use of your land, or simply cause you are the big burly guy in armour, on a horse and with some very sharp and pointy instruments and looking like you know how to use them - those people would have a far better chance to experience malnutrition.
At least until there is a prolonged period of peace time.
Then, if you've invested all your loot from various conflicts into wine and ladies - you might find yourself starving.
Fortunately, there was plenty of wars and skirmishes back then.
No battle marks on them.
Those pristine museum pieces belonged to teenagers and various noblemen who never fought anything stronger than a cold, and pranced in the back of the battlefield wearing armour instead of charging at the front.
The ones used by big burly zweihander wielding men mostly ended up rusting in some field somewhere in the end.
Knights died in their armours or if they've managed to retire - were buried in them.
Those things had cost back then as much as a car would today - only they were "tailor-fitted" for each individual. Spares were an option only for VERY rich.
Also... one word... arquebus.
Nobles that trained since their teens to be knights and later charged at lines of peasants who got handed their arquebuses to them whole two weeks earlier - haven't made it home so their armour could be preserved for posterity.
From TFA:
Of 37 stem-cell lines created by reprogramming, three yielded 27 live offspring. One of these pups, a seven-week-old male named "Tiny," mated with a female and produced young of its own.
Any more viable and he would have an never-ending copyright extension attached to him.
This is Slashdot after all...
Although... where are they going to get THOSE cells is beyond me. Unless he is referring to the surrogate.
To an earlier story, perhaps?
I'm just sayin'... Bein' No.1 pr0n browser has its advantages...
Wanted to type "dying", typed diing, spell checker corrected to dieing, didn't preview text myself...
It happens.
I remember once I mistyped "Queue" as "Que", to which someone replied "Que?"... we laughed... good times.
He just had a bad day.
After realizing what he did, he flicked that comet as far away from Earth as possible. And he said he was sorry.
The comet was never seen again. Lexell, after conducting further work in cooperation with Pierre-Simon Laplace, argued that a subsequent interaction with Jupiter had further perturbed its orbit, either placing it too far from the Earth to be seen or perhaps ejecting it from the Solar System altogether.
I don't want to get caught in the slamming door. How about some information, please!
We have reason to believe that you have fallen a victim to weapons of psychological warfare.
For your own good, turn of your audio and video receiving devices as well as any audio or video player and go get some sleep.
The Earth has not yet faced a galaxy coming straight at it.
This reminds me of that anti-tiger rock I keep in my sock drawer?
That rock is so good, damn tigers are dieing out in India. Maybe Jupiter has similar effect on galaxies?
With hookers and blackjack I presume?
From TFA:
Kingston Communications is the primary supplier of telecommunications and data services in the City of Hull.
British Telecoms has no lines in the area, and with no other choice of ISP, the residents of Hull often have no choice but to use Karoo if they want an internet connection.
There is no other Telecom company in the area, as Hull has its own telephone system.
And the company running it behaves like a true monopoly is expected to.
Also,
KCOM's Hull operation covers a relatively small geographical area. Although it is under the same Ofcom and EU obligations with respect to local loop unbundling the addressable market is so small that the economics do not - by and large - justify entry by other companies.[4]
To add more complications for any would-be rival of Kingston Communications is the fact that in Hull the first 1 km of wire from the exchange has a cross-section of 0.3 mm sq, as opposed to the standard 0.5 mm sq, requiring a more expensive DSLAM in the telephone exchange for providing an ADSL service.
Karoo, an ISP in Hull, in the UK, is disconnecting subscribers without warning if they file-share, or are even suspected of file-sharing. Karoo is the only ISP in the area.
Aside from lions, spiders and coconuts, all of those are on the endangered species list. Lion is on a vulnerable species list.
Spiders are small enough for us not to give a damn about them, and they hatch from eggs that we don't eat, so like flies, ants or cockroaches we let them live as long as they don't step into our path.
Should they become a significant enough menace... I can very well see them going the way of the tribble.
And we grow coconuts so we could eat them. So much for them standing up to us.
IANAT (I am not a tigerologist), so there might be some truth to that, but main reason is usually stated as human invasion of their territory.
As someone else has put it already - they require quite a bit of their own private space.
And the lack of resistance to bullets.
Besides dogs and cats (unless we are counting those in Korea and Vietnam) those are all domestic animals that we are keeping in cages of various sizes to fatten them up.
So we could eat them.
That is not evolution. That is domestication. Done by us. Humans.
Tigers are at least keeping some of their dignity cause you have to actually shoot the beast with a gun.
You can't just walk up to it and hit it between the eyes with a hammer.
Also, had you said chickens, I might have to argue how we have actually created the modern chicken and how we keep actively modifying it to produce more meat.
But waterfowl? Come on...
I did read the PP and I've even replied to it.
And I thought that I was clear enough in my reply, but apparently not.
See... the game is not most power-efficient cooling, or even best cooling.
The game is "most bang per buck invested in the server infrastructure".
Now... Saving money by reducing the cooling costs by using huge passive cooling farms is a nice idea, but not as easily calculable as simply switching to cheaper electricity.
Sure, should you move your servers to Siberia you would get shitload of passive cooling, but unless polar bears are going to start using broadband internet - servers will never make it above 50% efficiency.
Cause, even on 100% usage - they will still be in the middle of the f-in desert. No local traffic. Too far from civilization for the global traffic.
Any money you would save by running those "virtualized workloads" through such power-efficient servers would be overshadowed by higher maintenance costs to the infrastructure and higher energy costs.
On the other hand - switching to servers running on cheaper electricity at the moment is a quite clear and easily calculable way to save money.
There is a compromise solution though. Mountains. Don't go north, go up.
Granted, there are not always readily available, but Europe and USA's west coast are really close to both major internet backbones and mountains.
Still... You would probably save more by "zone switching" than with passive cooling.
...that can make a stand to a post-gunpowder human?
And unicorns and aliens don't count.
There were no lasers prior to 1960s. Way to late for them to start evolving one.
On the other hand... HAD they evolved 'frickin' lasers on their heads human armed conflicts would have been far more interesting.
If we could pry some of those lasers of off their heads and used them ourselves. And if all those lawyers on their backs would let us.
UPS! Lost a couple of words there, putting that link in.
That last sentence should read:
As for placing datacenters beyond the arctic circle - my guess is that they are going to keep building their datacenters closer to the internet backbones for some time to come.
1 - You are thinking too small and apparently you are falling for the idea that Google is "just a search engine". It's OK. Many people do that.
It is not all "web", nor do they have to use all their power for themselves.
The idea is to offer "virtualized workloads" to your customers - workloads that you then shift around the world to the "cheapest work-area at the moment"
Which MIGHT cost you a pretty penny - unless you have your own global network of datacenters built for just such a purpose.
You know... something a company like Google just might have.
2 - You are thinking too big.
You don't need to go to the "dark side" (of the planet). Just shift your workloads couple of hours to the east-northeast.
In most cases they would not be chasing night-time - just those couple of hours of off-peek electricity during the dawn (read: cheaper) and possibly colder servers.
It is actually mentioned in TFA. RTFA it.
As for placing datacenters beyond the arctic circle - my guess is that they are going to keep building their datacenters closer to the for some time to come.
An Enabler for "Follow the Moon"?
The ability to seamlessly shift workloads between data centers also creates intriguing long-term energy management possibilities, including a "follow the moon" strategy which takes advantage of lower costs for power and cooling during overnight hours. In this scenario, virtualized workloads are shifted across data centers in different time zones to capture savings from off-peak utility rates.
This approach has been discussed by cloud technologists Geva Perry and James Urquhart as a strategy for cloud computing providers with global data networks, who could offer a "follow-the-moon" service to enterprise customers who would normally build data centers where power is cheap. But this approach could also produce energy savings for a single company with a global network - someone like Google.
They should have evolved a bulletproof skin, a gun on their forehead and a lawyer on their back.
One to protect them from direct attack by humans, one to protect their home with force and the third to do the same - only in court.
And even that probably wouldn't do them much good considering that "civilized" humans had up until recently found "local" humans to be less than those tigers and little more than apes.
When I say "civilized" and "local" I mean white and brown.
Heck! White humans have nearly killed off an entire continent's population of red humans - who had guns and horses and whatnot...
And oversized cats should "evolve".
Yeah, sure...