Who cares about whether it's 2-4? People hyping the hybrids talk about long term thinking. Eventually, you WILL throw that battery away, whether it's 5 or 10 years. At that point, how does one convert that to being non-toxic? This is like the solar power argument... ignoring the fact that producing solar panels is an extremely toxic process.
What makes their ability to look the other way from these pollutants any different from other people's desire to look away from the pollutants we regulary produce today? Honestly, if you are going to fight the latter, don't be a hypocrit and ignore the former. Otherwise, you are no different... just filling your time with something that entertains you.
jasonhamilton has it right. Let's see someone add up the pollutants that the car pruduces plus the battery you are throwing away somewhere down the road. Factor in the four-headed babies and other deformities from these things leaking into water supplies, please.
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RSSOwl 1.2 Released
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Be honest. Are you looking at more than one or two sites per day? I don't think so. If you go to one of these favorite sites, and the page hasn't changed since the last time you visited, you've wasted time. How many times do you refresh each site to see if anything new has come in? If you've done so just once, you're still wasting time and an RSS reader can help you save time.
Think about whose time you're using up... your employers', your family's, your own. That's one resource nobody can replenish, so make the best of it. In the end, the browsing philosophy becomes "if it's not in my reader, there's no news." You'll save so much time that you'll be able to add more sites to that "favorites" list you speak of and digest more of it. Generally, the RSS reader checks once an hour - at least that's the minimum time sites want you to wait between updates. The Internet really doesn't move so fast in an hour that you are going to miss out by waiting for the next update. Do something else with that dead time.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could hit Delete to delete mail without applying a crutch like this? I've never archived anything under GMail and don't plan to.
The new Yahoo Mail is just too friggin slow. Waaaay too slow. Bad enough that I keep thinking of abandoning my email address of 10 years for my GMail address. The only thing that keeps me is the uncertainty about whether GMail or any portions of it will ever be a pay service. Yahoo currently has its address book and calendar features (and their sync capability) going for it, but have no doubt that Google will soon have these out with guns blazing and bleeding edge new ideas. My only disappointment lately with Google has been the new Reader for RSS feeds, but Yahoo's completely blows by comparison so they both have room to improve. I prefer Feed On Feeds over both.
This is looking very good for Sun with their new hardware. Solaris 10, though a little more bloated than Linux, is rock stable. This is going to be the answer to their prayers.
Go Network Appliance and you get the same treatment. Their hardware is rock solid and completely hands off for many months at a time. I only ever touch them to add filesystems. You get what you pay for, so remember that if you cheap out YOU have to live with it, not your boss.
I'm not convinced this is any safer. Using the same O-Ring based rocket system, the possibility for disaster is still there and that capsule at the top is not far enough to prevent the resulting explosion from killing the crew, whether it can jetison away or not.
I don't buy it. If you were an omnipotent being who wanted to get rid of some people he didn't want around any more, wouldn't you just will them out of existence and be done with it? After all, these hurricanes might be killing off some of your own worshippers, too. My way is cleaner. =)
Yeah, that's it. They're dead. You pinned it right on the nose. They won't be back tomorrow. All gone.
Reality check: An internet outage, no matter how big, is no different than a power outage. Yeah, here in the US we would be talking about loss of power to both coasts with only the middle left running. But after the outage life goes on.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of finally colonizing the great tracts of unused Canadian land and pushing out the indigenous population to make best use of those existing natural resources.
Darn malwarers can't stand up to the challenge of *nix. They have to hit the weakest thing they can touch, like any script-kiddie. They're the scum of the earth, no better than purse-snatchers or muggers.
Yeah, citizen's revolt my ass. There's Jabber servers aplenty, but lets see anyone join that disjointed mess into something cohesive. That's the real fragmentation. Who is going to gather the resources together and risk a real assault against the big IM? Google has done it - their IM had some real word of mouth behind it at the beginning, but who's talking about it these days?
Riddle me this... why does invention need to come from the government? We live in a free society where you and others, including corporations, can engage in research and then development of the results. Me think you like to rail against the "gummint" any chance you get.
Dude, I've known about tools like Cygwin and Interix for years, prolly since before Unxutils existed. The point I'm making above is, what comes with the OS?
I think if you are a real computer user, whatever does and does not come with the operating system is not a real concern. Honestly, how much effort does it take to download a 300k setup.exe for Cygwin, and then pick your packages and install. If you're not capable of handling that little task without whining, you are not Cygwin's target audience and will probably not care that you can't do a wget. Cygwin is one of the first things I install when I set up a Windows box. I just wish it had some sort of auto update or way of alerting you that there are updates available.
You mean like a hot hydrogen plasma confined in a toroid shaped magnetic field similar to what they use for fusion research? Maybe it doesn't need to be quite that hot to protect the astronauts, but keeping it moving around the outside of the craft may produce the same benefit.
So how would you power a 42U rack full of these 7U IBM BladeCenters given N 30-Amp or M 20-Amp circuits? I would think that this draws around 16A so you wouldn't be able to place two on a 30A circuit - you would want to have one per 20A circuit, or 6 circuits per rack. In a data center with racks and racks of these, that must be some crazy electric bill.
Seriously, I would love to see an article, not on what their render farm is like, but on what their power management for it is like. Do they use remote-managed power strips or are they all just popped in, hoping that they don't blow a fuse. How many UPSs do they have and what kind of on-battery runtime do they shoot for?
What kind of power draw do the blade chassis have? What blades? What version of Red Hat?!?!?!
Unfortunately TFA is very short on details and reads more like "Peter Jackson went out and bought 500 computers! Woo!"
Right on. I always install Adblock with Firefox or Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up or flash advertisement for months. They all seem to come from a few advertisers. Here is my adblock list:
Check out chinesepod.com if you're into podcasting. They have 17 lessons online and they're in a pretty nice teching format. Very loose and fluid style. They're adding new lessons every few days.
Is everyone actually rooting for Blu-Ray only because Microsoft is against it? What kind of logic is that? In this case, MS is actually standing against a copy protection scheme. In all other cases you dopes would be crying out against it and cheering on whoever breaks the protection.
Perhaps we know in all cases the encryption scheme will fail.
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Who cares about whether it's 2-4? People hyping the hybrids talk about long term thinking. Eventually, you WILL throw that battery away, whether it's 5 or 10 years. At that point, how does one convert that to being non-toxic? This is like the solar power argument... ignoring the fact that producing solar panels is an extremely toxic process.
What makes their ability to look the other way from these pollutants any different from other people's desire to look away from the pollutants we regulary produce today? Honestly, if you are going to fight the latter, don't be a hypocrit and ignore the former. Otherwise, you are no different... just filling your time with something that entertains you.
jasonhamilton has it right. Let's see someone add up the pollutants that the car pruduces plus the battery you are throwing away somewhere down the road. Factor in the four-headed babies and other deformities from these things leaking into water supplies, please.
Be honest. Are you looking at more than one or two sites per day? I don't think so. If you go to one of these favorite sites, and the page hasn't changed since the last time you visited, you've wasted time. How many times do you refresh each site to see if anything new has come in? If you've done so just once, you're still wasting time and an RSS reader can help you save time.
Think about whose time you're using up... your employers', your family's, your own. That's one resource nobody can replenish, so make the best of it. In the end, the browsing philosophy becomes "if it's not in my reader, there's no news." You'll save so much time that you'll be able to add more sites to that "favorites" list you speak of and digest more of it. Generally, the RSS reader checks once an hour - at least that's the minimum time sites want you to wait between updates. The Internet really doesn't move so fast in an hour that you are going to miss out by waiting for the next update. Do something else with that dead time.
Wouldn't it be great if we could hit Delete to delete mail without applying a crutch like this? I've never archived anything under GMail and don't plan to.
The new Yahoo Mail is just too friggin slow. Waaaay too slow. Bad enough that I keep thinking of abandoning my email address of 10 years for my GMail address. The only thing that keeps me is the uncertainty about whether GMail or any portions of it will ever be a pay service. Yahoo currently has its address book and calendar features (and their sync capability) going for it, but have no doubt that Google will soon have these out with guns blazing and bleeding edge new ideas. My only disappointment lately with Google has been the new Reader for RSS feeds, but Yahoo's completely blows by comparison so they both have room to improve. I prefer Feed On Feeds over both.
This is looking very good for Sun with their new hardware. Solaris 10, though a little more bloated than Linux, is rock stable. This is going to be the answer to their prayers.
Go Network Appliance and you get the same treatment. Their hardware is rock solid and completely hands off for many months at a time. I only ever touch them to add filesystems. You get what you pay for, so remember that if you cheap out YOU have to live with it, not your boss.
I'm not convinced this is any safer. Using the same O-Ring based rocket system, the possibility for disaster is still there and that capsule at the top is not far enough to prevent the resulting explosion from killing the crew, whether it can jetison away or not.
I don't buy it. If you were an omnipotent being who wanted to get rid of some people he didn't want around any more, wouldn't you just will them out of existence and be done with it? After all, these hurricanes might be killing off some of your own worshippers, too. My way is cleaner. =)
Yeah, that's it. They're dead. You pinned it right on the nose.
They won't be back tomorrow. All gone.
Reality check: An internet outage, no matter how big, is no different than a power outage. Yeah, here in the US we would be talking about loss of power to both coasts with only the middle left running. But after the outage life goes on.
Actually the kids who were exposed to "dirty substances" and did not survive were not alive to answer the survey.
Yes! Finally someone who sees my side of things!
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of finally colonizing the great tracts of unused Canadian land and pushing out the indigenous population to make best use of those existing natural resources.
Darn malwarers can't stand up to the challenge of *nix. They have to hit the weakest thing they can touch, like any script-kiddie. They're the scum of the earth, no better than purse-snatchers or muggers.
I don't think so sonny.
Yeah, citizen's revolt my ass. There's Jabber servers aplenty, but lets see anyone join that disjointed mess into something cohesive. That's the real fragmentation. Who is going to gather the resources together and risk a real assault against the big IM? Google has done it - their IM had some real word of mouth behind it at the beginning, but who's talking about it these days?
Riddle me this... why does invention need to come from the government? We live in a free society where you and others, including corporations, can engage in research and then development of the results. Me think you like to rail against the "gummint" any chance you get.
I think if you are a real computer user, whatever does and does not come with the operating system is not a real concern. Honestly, how much effort does it take to download a 300k setup.exe for Cygwin, and then pick your packages and install. If you're not capable of handling that little task without whining, you are not Cygwin's target audience and will probably not care that you can't do a wget. Cygwin is one of the first things I install when I set up a Windows box. I just wish it had some sort of auto update or way of alerting you that there are updates available.
You mean like a hot hydrogen plasma confined in a toroid shaped magnetic field similar to what they use for fusion research? Maybe it doesn't need to be quite that hot to protect the astronauts, but keeping it moving around the outside of the craft may produce the same benefit.
So how would you power a 42U rack full of these 7U IBM BladeCenters given N 30-Amp or M 20-Amp circuits? I would think that this draws around 16A so you wouldn't be able to place two on a 30A circuit - you would want to have one per 20A circuit, or 6 circuits per rack. In a data center with racks and racks of these, that must be some crazy electric bill.
Seriously, I would love to see an article, not on what their render farm is like, but on what their power management for it is like. Do they use remote-managed power strips or are they all just popped in, hoping that they don't blow a fuse. How many UPSs do they have and what kind of on-battery runtime do they shoot for?
What kind of power draw do the blade chassis have? What blades? What version of Red Hat?!?!?!
Unfortunately TFA is very short on details and reads more like "Peter Jackson went out and bought 500 computers! Woo!"
Right on. I always install Adblock with Firefox or Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up or flash advertisement for months. They all seem to come from a few advertisers. Here is my adblock list:
http://.mediaplex.com/* http://.tribalfusion.com/*
http://.doubleclick.net/* http://.adbureau.net/*
http://.atdmt.com/* http://.emode.com/*
http://.advertising.com/* http://.tickle.com/*
http://.fastclick.net/* http://.falkag.net/*
http://.e.akamai.net/* http://.yieldmanager.com/*
http://.casalemedia.com/* http://.serving-sys.com/*
http://.pointroll.com/* http://.thinktarget.com/*
http://.zedo.com/* http://.com.com/cnwk.*/Ads/*
http://.qnsr.com/* http://ar.atwola.com/*
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/* http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/*
http://.starwave.com/* http://ads.ign.com/advertisers/*
http://ads.space.com/RealMedia/ads/* http://gfx.dvlabs.com/*
Check out chinesepod.com if you're into podcasting. They have 17 lessons online and they're in a pretty nice teching format. Very loose and fluid style. They're adding new lessons every few days.
I have a nice review of Google Reader vs Feed On Feeds at my site. Feed On Feeds is my current feed reader.
Is everyone actually rooting for Blu-Ray only because Microsoft is against it? What kind of logic is that? In this case, MS is actually standing against a copy protection scheme. In all other cases you dopes would be crying out against it and cheering on whoever breaks the protection.
Perhaps we know in all cases the encryption scheme will fail.
Keshie wo schwada pu how.
Ni shi chungkworyen ma?
Wo shi meikworyen.
Gawd that's gotta be really badly put together.