If shit is going to hit the fan, the company (Datagram) that advertises "highly secure and fully redundant Disaster Recovery Solutions (DRS) ensure your company’s information is safe, duplicated and available immediately and at any time." probably should have its personal Disaster Recovery Solution in another state, not in the basement OR upstairs.
Seriously. Why didn't they have as an insurance/contingency plan a relationship with another server network in a state that doesn't share the same power grid as NY?
Instead, they went with: "As several of its best known customer sites went dark, Datagram began a week-long struggle to bring its storm-ravaged infrastructure back online."
They allow the possibility of going faster than wind speed going straight downwind as well... almost three times as fast, so far.
(hint: if the sail is a propeller, it's blades are not moving in the same direction as the rest of the craft).
Not everyone should be socially conscious as a job requirement. Only if it is in fact part of the job. I mean I wouldn't want a nurse or doctor who were sociopaths. But a banker? Why not? If it makes them better bankers, then more power to them.
It's part of the job if they have direct authority over other employees or access to personal information of clients or personnel. I think that lets out most bankers.
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists
Cutting an article up into ten pieces to get more ad clicks is about as fun as what Sentrion was suggesting.
On the other hand, once I see that something is formatted as a "listicle" I can be almost certain that I'm not missing anything by skipping it. These days I think of it as the editor kindly flagging the article as being too low in interesting content to be bothered with and sparing me the wasted time.
Who prints PDF's when they can just view the document on their PC and make the calls,
He was supposed to bring the document with him to the polls (along with the poll checker certificate they did not tell him he needed to get) where he would be all day keeping track of who had voted and reporting in. If he didn't print it out he would need a portable device to view it at the polls. Great if you have a tablet, but probably a pain if you have a smartphone and have to keep switching between a PDF reader and the ORCA website they were supposed to use to report who voted.
Agreed - "on offer" - but I wonder if Obama was all like, "I'm gonna come to Washington and kick. some. ass!" and then he found out that reality is different from idealism.
To this humble observer it seemed Obama was all like, "Now I'm in Washington, I'm gonna attempt to reach bipartisan solutions! Hey Pelosi - catch!" despite direct and repeated Republican behavior and statements demonstrating how impossible that would be. I hope we get the "kick. some. ass!" version this time around.
But what are the principles in this case? A competitor company enlists the dark services of a DDOS attack.
Doubtful. The extortionist just mentioned the competitor so as to pretend he has a BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement) and set a floor on his price. If anything I'd expect the extortionist to pull the same trick on OP's competitors as well. Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars ensues.
The warranty on the reference cell is 10 years product workmanship, 25 years linear power.
So the value of the cell over its 25-year life span is $3.15/watt, with a cost of $1/watt.
This all neglects installation and grid-tie costs, but 50% average illumination per daylight-hour is conservative in most areas. Solar cells ARE worthwhile TODAY and WITHOUT government subsidies.
Efficiencies in solar cells are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the $/Watt.
Efficiencies in solar cells are irrelevant - as long as they are constant.
The 25 year linear power guarantee is that you will be at 80-90% of the rated power after 10 years, and 60-80% after 25 years. I don't think you will reach a value of $3/watt under those conditions; on the other hand investing that initial dollar at 5% will get you to at least $3.30 by year 25.
If you're looking at it as a straight investment proposition I think you need to consider the subsidy vs installation/maintenance/degradations costs to see if you might break even vs putting it in a retirement account. If the new chemistries are more stable (doubtful) and cut installation costs (possible, if you only need to install half as many m^2 of panels) they could improve the balance.
The best solar cells are about 300W/kg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panels_on_spacecraft), and the best electric engines are about 6 kW/kg. So
Unfortunately the exposed surface area of solar panels scales directly with mass, unlike jet engines. To match two 6kW jet engines you would need 40000 m^2 (best case scenario) of solar panels. That would add just a bit of drag.
So what is the "black and white" constitutional definition of an "arm", as used in the 2nd amendment?
Why should we believe your particular definition is that which the authors intended?
Well if you were already used to pasting together molecular biology code snippets, you'd be impressed that someone found a way to combine that many in one system without something going wrong. You wouldn't see it as something that different from what has been going on for the past ~25 years. If you want a direct ancestor they were doing three logic gates back in 1999.
If you were interested in using this to do something industrial or medical (not just research in a research lab) you would focus on the "something close to what you want" part and realize that you would end up going with a specialized solution that gives you what you want, not something close to it.
Actually, we are very likely to outperform nature when it comes to specialized jobs like eating crude oil in the gulf. We would start off with the organisms that are there naturally and optimize them for better metabolism in that specific environment, or hybridize them with other bacteria to make them more efficient in other environments. The trade off is the resulting microbes are crap at living under other conditions, but we don't care about that. Nature makes horses fast but evolution balances speed against fragility. People breeding horses make horses much faster - and then watch in horror as their legs break like matchsticks. When it comes to industrial bacteria, people turn mustangs into the equivalent of eight legged quarterhorses on steroids that keel over just after finishing their first race.
I don't see Moon's research conferring much of an advantage in industrial, remediation, or medical uses; those are best off with a single control mechanism. Most of the decision making process for those situations will continue to be most efficient if it is done outside of the bacteria. For an analogy: a factory could have four sensors hooked up to four smartphones to tell it how much it has in stock of four diffeerent parts and automatically order more when the levels get too low. Or instead a factory could have a sensor and a smart phone phone attached to each and every individual part to do that job. Each part would have to carry that sensor and phone which would inflate its cost without contributing to its final use. Ditto for distributing the control architecture to the bacteria.
I think the use for Moon's control architecture will be in research; the rest (like you said) will be hype.
We're already pretty good at programming life to do what we want. It's what molecular biologists have been spending their time doing for 40 years: getting bacteria to express new proteins or express/not express not express proteins in response to certain stimuli. You can buy the modular 'genetic parts' from catalogs like New England Biolabs, complete with digital or analog on/off switches that react to the presence of stimuli such as particular sugars, antibiotics, peptides, or small molecules.
There are kits you use to insert the gene for the protein(s) you're interested in into those modules, and other kits with bacteria primed and ready to receive the modules.
What Moon did was add more switches to the process. This really isn't useful for the making fuels or getting rid of pollutants. If you want to do that you'd use a bacterial strain that is highly optimized for the process, not one that's burdened down with general purpose or overly complicated modules. I can't really see this as useful in cancer either - there are better ways of localizing and delivering chemotherapeutics than bacteria. Similarly if you want to kill off infectious bacteria you don't need a bunch of sensors in bacteria to tell you the patient is septic; you already know that. Targeted antibiotics would be nice, but again they don't need a bacterium to do that.
Where this type of technique will be useful is in molecular biology research - specifically where they are trying to deconvolve or reconfigure complicated pathways in real time. The rest is hype.
Wouldn't they just use the same standards that apply to the "made in the U.S.A." label? I.e., 75% of the manufacturing cost and a tranformative step (assembly, molding, etc) would have to be domestic.
by large agribusinesses. The board that determines what practices are allowed under the 'organic' label is pretty much filled by those large agribusinesses and the largest purchaser of organic products is Walmart. As a result the label is increasingly being managed so as to maximize profits - just like any other brand.
Small farmers need to come up with a new label and certification process if they want one that remains centered on the original philosophy; I don't think they can get the 'organic' one back.
Like I said, it's legal. and I don't care what other think. If they can turn up their stereo, if they can argue with their spouses at the top of their lungs, of they can yell for their kids instead of going and getting them, if they can hammer something or run an electric saw or anything else that makes a loud noise, so can I.
In most places if your neighbors do any of those things at night you can call the police and if they agree that your neighbors are too loud your neighbors will be cited. Heck, in my neighborhood a loud party can cost people $1k or get them evicted.
and then puts very expensive pipes with certain sound characteristics, usually that he can tune, so that it makes people around him aware he is there: you just cannot see someone on a small vehicle like a scooter or motorcycle
If awareness is the goal, put a fiberglass pole with an orange flag on the back of your bike like dune buggies do. Heck, put two of them up, and a sparkly pinwheel on the front for good measure. Problem solved. All other vehicles use visual cues to get people to pay attention - why not motorcycles?
Easy solution for that: "I meet your local statute judge, and raise you one interstate commerce clause: you pulled me over in the process of driving to another state, and I think the Feds want to have a word with you." Of course you don't say it that way, but you talk to your lawyer about it. You could make quite a stink about regulations imposed for reasons of others' comfort when it endangers the lives (and infringes their right to safe transport on the roads) of others. See above again, there may be people who make their bikes loud to be "cool", but I know plenty who do it for the right reasons.
Cite for a study showing louder bikes are safer? Just so you know, it's completely legal for deaf people to drive.
Some things right, some things wrong as far as the physics goes. Both the Harrington series and the Lost fleet series attempt to recreate the ship vs ship naval battles of old in space, necessarily selling out physics and 3D strategy for entertainment value in doing so. Jack Campbell keeps up the tradition of surface ships that have accelerated having more freedom to maneuver than the ships that are "at rest". That's very true for big boats moving through water, but absolutely irrelevant for ships in space. The only exception would be if at least one of the ships was in a big gravity well - i.e., in close orbit around a planet.
Both are still fun, especially if you like the style of older fiction.
If I were to design spaceships for the current human capabilities I will add sound simulation to the cockpit, human detection of things in 3D is greatly enhanced by sound, see the advantage of FPS video gamers using 5.1 sound against someone using the plain TV sound
Why have a person involved at that stage? I'd think there would be a position, a vector, an IFF type beacon, and whatever ancillary information is available presented as a whole before a person could hope to be involved.
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In this context doesn't it mean "your company’s information is safe, duplicated and available immediately and at any time."?
If shit is going to hit the fan, the company (Datagram) that advertises "highly secure and fully redundant Disaster Recovery Solutions (DRS) ensure your company’s information is safe, duplicated and available immediately and at any time." probably should have its personal Disaster Recovery Solution in another state, not in the basement OR upstairs. Seriously. Why didn't they have as an insurance/contingency plan a relationship with another server network in a state that doesn't share the same power grid as NY? Instead, they went with: "As several of its best known customer sites went dark, Datagram began a week-long struggle to bring its storm-ravaged infrastructure back online."
They allow the possibility of going faster than wind speed going straight downwind as well ... almost three times as fast, so far.
(hint: if the sail is a propeller, it's blades are not moving in the same direction as the rest of the craft).
Not everyone should be socially conscious as a job requirement. Only if it is in fact part of the job. I mean I wouldn't want a nurse or doctor who were sociopaths. But a banker? Why not? If it makes them better bankers, then more power to them.
It's part of the job if they have direct authority over other employees or access to personal information of clients or personnel. I think that lets out most bankers.
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists
Cutting an article up into ten pieces to get more ad clicks is about as fun as what Sentrion was suggesting.
On the other hand, once I see that something is formatted as a "listicle" I can be almost certain that I'm not missing anything by skipping it. These days I think of it as the editor kindly flagging the article as being too low in interesting content to be bothered with and sparing me the wasted time.
Thanks!
That being said, TCP/IP overhead accounting for 20-30%?
He's also being charged for the amount of data the NSA captures and transfers from his account, BwaHaHa!
Political canvassing can not be restricted under anti-solicitation rules.
Random google search reference: http://www.virginianewmajority.org/index.php/voter-resources/canvasser-rights
I spent some time doing GOTV the weekend before the election. We can be restricted by
-you never removing any of the door hangers on your doorknob
-Angry pit bulls. Leave front door open and only a flimsy screen door closed for best effect.
-voting by mail ASAP.
The last one is really the best. It should get you off the call and door to door lists for all of the (competent) campaigns.
Who prints PDF's when they can just view the document on their PC and make the calls,
He was supposed to bring the document with him to the polls (along with the poll checker certificate they did not tell him he needed to get) where he would be all day keeping track of who had voted and reporting in. If he didn't print it out he would need a portable device to view it at the polls. Great if you have a tablet, but probably a pain if you have a smartphone and have to keep switching between a PDF reader and the ORCA website they were supposed to use to report who voted.
Agreed - "on offer" - but I wonder if Obama was all like, "I'm gonna come to Washington and kick. some. ass!" and then he found out that reality is different from idealism.
To this humble observer it seemed Obama was all like, "Now I'm in Washington, I'm gonna attempt to reach bipartisan solutions! Hey Pelosi - catch!" despite direct and repeated Republican behavior and statements demonstrating how impossible that would be. I hope we get the "kick. some. ass!" version this time around.
Bonus: If the picture is sitting on top of the subwoofer, it might fool any "lack of motion" detector algorithm as well.
But what are the principles in this case? A competitor company enlists the dark services of a DDOS attack.
Doubtful. The extortionist just mentioned the competitor so as to pretend he has a BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement) and set a floor on his price. If anything I'd expect the extortionist to pull the same trick on OP's competitors as well. Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars ensues.
PV = $1, A = $0.01826, i = 0.004074
n = 62 months = 5.17 years
The warranty on the reference cell is 10 years product workmanship, 25 years linear power.
So the value of the cell over its 25-year life span is $3.15/watt, with a cost of $1/watt.
This all neglects installation and grid-tie costs, but 50% average illumination per daylight-hour is conservative in most areas. Solar cells ARE worthwhile TODAY and WITHOUT government subsidies.
Efficiencies in solar cells are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the $/Watt.
Efficiencies in solar cells are irrelevant - as long as they are constant. The 25 year linear power guarantee is that you will be at 80-90% of the rated power after 10 years, and 60-80% after 25 years. I don't think you will reach a value of $3/watt under those conditions; on the other hand investing that initial dollar at 5% will get you to at least $3.30 by year 25. If you're looking at it as a straight investment proposition I think you need to consider the subsidy vs installation/maintenance/degradations costs to see if you might break even vs putting it in a retirement account. If the new chemistries are more stable (doubtful) and cut installation costs (possible, if you only need to install half as many m^2 of panels) they could improve the balance.
The best solar cells are about 300W/kg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panels_on_spacecraft), and the best electric engines are about 6 kW/kg. So
Unfortunately the exposed surface area of solar panels scales directly with mass, unlike jet engines. To match two 6kW jet engines you would need 40000 m^2 (best case scenario) of solar panels. That would add just a bit of drag.
So what is the "black and white" constitutional definition of an "arm", as used in the 2nd amendment? Why should we believe your particular definition is that which the authors intended?
The principal cost for Lasik surgery is equipment leasing/licensing fees. The principal cost for most medical procedures is skilled labor.
If you were interested in using this to do something industrial or medical (not just research in a research lab) you would focus on the "something close to what you want" part and realize that you would end up going with a specialized solution that gives you what you want, not something close to it.
I don't see Moon's research conferring much of an advantage in industrial, remediation, or medical uses; those are best off with a single control mechanism. Most of the decision making process for those situations will continue to be most efficient if it is done outside of the bacteria. For an analogy: a factory could have four sensors hooked up to four smartphones to tell it how much it has in stock of four diffeerent parts and automatically order more when the levels get too low. Or instead a factory could have a sensor and a smart phone phone attached to each and every individual part to do that job. Each part would have to carry that sensor and phone which would inflate its cost without contributing to its final use. Ditto for distributing the control architecture to the bacteria.
I think the use for Moon's control architecture will be in research; the rest (like you said) will be hype.
There are kits you use to insert the gene for the protein(s) you're interested in into those modules, and other kits with bacteria primed and ready to receive the modules.
What Moon did was add more switches to the process. This really isn't useful for the making fuels or getting rid of pollutants. If you want to do that you'd use a bacterial strain that is highly optimized for the process, not one that's burdened down with general purpose or overly complicated modules. I can't really see this as useful in cancer either - there are better ways of localizing and delivering chemotherapeutics than bacteria. Similarly if you want to kill off infectious bacteria you don't need a bunch of sensors in bacteria to tell you the patient is septic; you already know that. Targeted antibiotics would be nice, but again they don't need a bacterium to do that.
Where this type of technique will be useful is in molecular biology research - specifically where they are trying to deconvolve or reconfigure complicated pathways in real time. The rest is hype.
Wouldn't they just use the same standards that apply to the "made in the U.S.A." label? I.e., 75% of the manufacturing cost and a tranformative step (assembly, molding, etc) would have to be domestic.
Small farmers need to come up with a new label and certification process if they want one that remains centered on the original philosophy; I don't think they can get the 'organic' one back.
Like I said, it's legal. and I don't care what other think. If they can turn up their stereo, if they can argue with their spouses at the top of their lungs, of they can yell for their kids instead of going and getting them, if they can hammer something or run an electric saw or anything else that makes a loud noise, so can I.
In most places if your neighbors do any of those things at night you can call the police and if they agree that your neighbors are too loud your neighbors will be cited. Heck, in my neighborhood a loud party can cost people $1k or get them evicted.
and then puts very expensive pipes with certain sound characteristics, usually that he can tune, so that it makes people around him aware he is there: you just cannot see someone on a small vehicle like a scooter or motorcycle
If awareness is the goal, put a fiberglass pole with an orange flag on the back of your bike like dune buggies do. Heck, put two of them up, and a sparkly pinwheel on the front for good measure. Problem solved. All other vehicles use visual cues to get people to pay attention - why not motorcycles?
Easy solution for that: "I meet your local statute judge, and raise you one interstate commerce clause: you pulled me over in the process of driving to another state, and I think the Feds want to have a word with you." Of course you don't say it that way, but you talk to your lawyer about it. You could make quite a stink about regulations imposed for reasons of others' comfort when it endangers the lives (and infringes their right to safe transport on the roads) of others. See above again, there may be people who make their bikes loud to be "cool", but I know plenty who do it for the right reasons.
Cite for a study showing louder bikes are safer? Just so you know, it's completely legal for deaf people to drive.
Both are still fun, especially if you like the style of older fiction.
If I were to design spaceships for the current human capabilities I will add sound simulation to the cockpit, human detection of things in 3D is greatly enhanced by sound, see the advantage of FPS video gamers using 5.1 sound against someone using the plain TV sound
Why have a person involved at that stage? I'd think there would be a position, a vector, an IFF type beacon, and whatever ancillary information is available presented as a whole before a person could hope to be involved.