Although amazing progress has been made in synthetics, for heavy duty use (read, racing, trackdays, etc.) leather is still king. We've known for a while that there are benefits to the way cows are cared for. The most protective leather comes from cows that aren't kept in barbed wire fences, and raised above the mosquito lines; there is less damage to the hide that way, making for fewer potential points of failure.
Large sheets of leather are also valuable, as they reduce the number of seams in the leather, and permit them to be moved away from common abrasion zones.
Type of leather is also important to us... Good cow leather is usually at least 1.4mm thick, and a full leather suit can be quite heavy (>10lbs.) Kangaroo leather is desirable for this application, since it's lighter and often stronger than cow leather.
I'll be interested seeing what comes of these materials.
Generally, we let the developers do what they like in the test environment, since it typically has resources that their own sandboxes don't (e.g. database back end.) With that said, I'm personally in favor of a periodic re-flash of the dev hosts, so that they don't stray too far from production.
My answer is mostly 'no'. The only benefit I see is that developers will become more motivated to have a simpler and better installation process. And that's a pretty nifty benefit.
In practice, I find that the opposite of this is true. A good developer understands their software pretty well, and can generally get it going fairly quickly without the need for a good install process. I find that when the install process needs to be handed off to another team, development is better motivated to make the install process simple and smooth, so that the handoff doesn't require a lot of documentation, and is less likely to need to be rolled back.
I find this is true even for my own projects (I do dev-ops.) For my test environments, I'm usually pretty casual about tracking dependencies, packaging, etc. Where I put a lot more effort into making sure that my production deploys are clean and well documented (it helps avoid 3:00AM calls, among a lot of other benefits.)
The best case I experienced, was at a previous company where the QA team maintained their own testing environment. They would perform a full deployment and upgrade of the software before it was handed off to Ops. Deployment issues would be filed back to development. The result was one of the cleanest and smoothest series of software deployments ever.
There is one huge difference between gold and diamonds... Supply of gold is naturally limited by it's availability, where as supply of diamonds is artificially limited by the DeBeers company. The value is propped up by those limitations, and by a marketing campaign to convince people that a diamond actually has intrinsic value.
If a way to mine 10x the quantity of goals was suddenly discovered, the price of gold would fall. On the other hand, many many times the amount of diamonds available on the market have already been discovered, and artificial limitations are simply in place.
Paper money is totally different. Everyone understands and agrees that the paper has no intrinsic value, but faith is placed in the issuer to properly control supply. The difference between diamonds and cash is relative transparency - we know what's going on with our money... As this article proves, we don't really know what's going on with Diamonds.
Even bigger difference between Diamonds and cash: If I trade an object with real value, such as a loaf of bread for cash at market price, I can be pretty confident that I could buy another loaf of bread for the same price. If you buy a $3000 diamond at retail, how much would you expect to be able to sell it for? (Hint... With all the cash4gold places floating around... How many cash4diamond shops do you see?)
The original sentiment seems to be somewhat Libritarian leaning. Most of the Libritarians I've met tend to vote conservative, due to their image as being the party of smaller government. GP is probably basing his comment on that.
You're kind of a tool. The house has a super-majority (70%) voting yay for this piece of legislation, so it probably won't make a damn bit of difference whether or not Obama vitos it.
95% of the republicans in the house voted for this bill 39% of the democrats voted for this bill.
Clearly there's no difference between the parties on this issue *rolls eyes.* Keep telling yourself that your vote, and everyone else's doesn't matter.
It's not the democrats who are ruining america... It's not the republicans... Apathy is ruining america. And it's pathetic little people like you who are pushing it along.
There is a 3rd way to win: convince the people who are undecided to ignore the crazy person.
You really can't win everyone over, especially if you are trying to debate them on individual issues rather than the deeper philosophy that drives them to distrust society, and accept crazy over scientific theory. But you can do your best to direct those who are undecided away from their crazy world view.
I think the quote from "Thank you For Smoking" nailed it:
[Nick Naylor and his son arguing about ice cream] Joey: So, what happens when you're wrong? Nick: Well, Joey, I'm never wrong. Joey: But you can't always be right. Nick: Well, if it's your job to be right, then you're never wrong. Joey: But what if you are wrong? Nick: Okay, let's say that you're defending chocolate and I'm defending vanilla. Now, if I were to say to you, "Vanilla's the best flavor ice cream", you'd say ? Joey: "No, chocolate is." Nick: Exactly. But you can't win that argument. So, I'll ask you: So you think chocolate is the end-all and be-all of ice cream, do you? Joey: It's the best ice cream; I wouldn't order any other. Nick: Oh. So it's all chocolate for you, is it? Joey: Yes, chocolate is all I need. Nick: Well, I need more than chocolate. And for that matter, I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom and choice when it comes to our ice cream, and that, Joey Naylor, that is the definition of liberty. Joey: But that's not what we're talking about. Nick: Ah, but that's what I'm talking about. Joey: But you didn't prove that vanilla's the best. Nick: I didn't have to. I proved that you're wrong, and if you're wrong, I'm right. Joey: But you still didn't convince me. Nick: Because I'm not after you. I'm after them.
In general, I think conspiracy theorists tend to have some deep issues that you can't really address at a surface layer. If I had to guess, it's the theory that we tend to blame our faults on external factors. "I'm a good, hard working person. I should be successful, but I'm not. Why? Someone must be working against me. The man is keeping me down! It's a conspiracy."
Another reason chem propellants suck is the projectile can never, ever travel faster than the speed of sound of the column of compressed high pressure gas in the barrel, but at least in theory theres no reason an infinitely complicated coil gun couldn't launch stuff at any ridiculous speed.
I may be misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're saying that bullets can't travel faster than the speed of sound? If so, this information is incorrect... Most rifle rounds can exceed the speed of sound quite easily. If I recall correctly, one reason you don't see that many silenced rifles is the fact that the bullets themselves make a pretty tremendous amount of noise traveling at super-sonic speeds.
I know, for example, that the P90 uses a special sub-sonic ammunition when firing with a silencer for this reason. The standard AP ammo flys a little too fast.
Here is the actual context of the quote, rather than your out of context quote:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
Pretty much anyone who's given speeches in public without a teleprompter can tell you that sometimes we trip up. The context and the meaning of the quote is pretty obvious.
If you're running a datacenter of any reasonable size, there's lots of common automation that makes pulling a 1u server convenient and easy. At the most basic level, kickstart + puppet + a load balancer makes the process pretty seamless - shut the machine down, and it's automatically removed from the pool. Pulling the box, and re-installing require far less human time than troubleshooting hardware problems.
If you use OSS, that approach is actually simple and free. Cobbler, puppet, and haproxy make this kind of environment more or less trivial to setup. Puppet is best practices for maintaining even a small site.
If you invest heavily in virtualization, it's usually sufficient to live migrate your VMs onto your spare capacity.
A lot of the really big sites I've worked at went much further... We'd usually just pull the bad machine out of production, and replace it with a warm spare. This approach works really well for the kind of site that would use oil cooling. Leave failed hardware where it is, and just spin up a little spare capacity.
My laptop at home is a Dell D610, from 2005. It's 7 years old. It has a modern browser, modern video codecs, and clients to connect to pretty much anything I need to work with. As an added bonus, it has a physical serial port.
I'll replace it because stuff is finally starting to fail, not because I need an upgrade. I'll probably replace it with another 2-3 year old dell business class laptop.
Not sure which western country you're coming from, but we see a lot of that here in the US as well. There is a strong call to turn back 300 years of progress and make religion a guiding force in our government and educational systems.
Huh? Lots and lots of us in the US played Final Fantasy 1, Final Fantasy 4, and Final Fantasy 6. A bunch of us also played fan translations of Final Fantasy 5. I also played 7, but I haven't tried anything more recent... I just don't have the time or energy to play Final Fantasy games anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit of a generational gap between those of us who played FF1-6, and those that play FF7+
My bet is that the guys who played FF1-6 are the same group who miss reading Nintendo Power.:)
There seems to be a good cross section between the people claiming "Personal responsibility" the people saying "Fuck you, I've got mine" and the people who's plan is "I'm lawsuit proof."
I recently did a survey in a local motorcycle community form asking about the cost of medical care for an injury. Options ran the gammut from $500 > $500,000+. Turns out there was an even distribution of prices, with several guys responding $1M+
If you have to go to the hospital for anything, you are lucky to get out for $10K. One person had a $22K bill just to make sure he was okay following a crash (turns out, he was fine and needed no medical assistance.)
Personal experience:
Kidney stones: $2.5K Dislocated Arm: $4K
In both cases, I was in and out the same day. With the dislocation, I was released early enough to go back to the race track and watch my girlfriend run a few more laps.
You probably already know this, but perhaps it would be informative to the rest of slashdot:
I have a close friend who used to be a commercial pilot. His statement on lap babies: "If anything bad happens during the flight, all the lap babies will die. The only reason the FAA allows it is that bringing a lap baby aboard a plane is still safer than driving."
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As a motorcyclist, I'm really interested in this.
Although amazing progress has been made in synthetics, for heavy duty use (read, racing, trackdays, etc.) leather is still king. We've known for a while that there are benefits to the way cows are cared for. The most protective leather comes from cows that aren't kept in barbed wire fences, and raised above the mosquito lines; there is less damage to the hide that way, making for fewer potential points of failure.
Large sheets of leather are also valuable, as they reduce the number of seams in the leather, and permit them to be moved away from common abrasion zones.
Type of leather is also important to us... Good cow leather is usually at least 1.4mm thick, and a full leather suit can be quite heavy (>10lbs.) Kangaroo leather is desirable for this application, since it's lighter and often stronger than cow leather.
I'll be interested seeing what comes of these materials.
Generally, we let the developers do what they like in the test environment, since it typically has resources that their own sandboxes don't (e.g. database back end.) With that said, I'm personally in favor of a periodic re-flash of the dev hosts, so that they don't stray too far from production.
In practice, I find that the opposite of this is true. A good developer understands their software pretty well, and can generally get it going fairly quickly without the need for a good install process. I find that when the install process needs to be handed off to another team, development is better motivated to make the install process simple and smooth, so that the handoff doesn't require a lot of documentation, and is less likely to need to be rolled back.
I find this is true even for my own projects (I do dev-ops.) For my test environments, I'm usually pretty casual about tracking dependencies, packaging, etc. Where I put a lot more effort into making sure that my production deploys are clean and well documented (it helps avoid 3:00AM calls, among a lot of other benefits.)
The best case I experienced, was at a previous company where the QA team maintained their own testing environment. They would perform a full deployment and upgrade of the software before it was handed off to Ops. Deployment issues would be filed back to development. The result was one of the cleanest and smoothest series of software deployments ever.
Out of curiosity, have you considered purchasing used mechanical typewriters?
There is one huge difference between gold and diamonds... Supply of gold is naturally limited by it's availability, where as supply of diamonds is artificially limited by the DeBeers company. The value is propped up by those limitations, and by a marketing campaign to convince people that a diamond actually has intrinsic value.
If a way to mine 10x the quantity of goals was suddenly discovered, the price of gold would fall. On the other hand, many many times the amount of diamonds available on the market have already been discovered, and artificial limitations are simply in place.
Paper money is totally different. Everyone understands and agrees that the paper has no intrinsic value, but faith is placed in the issuer to properly control supply. The difference between diamonds and cash is relative transparency - we know what's going on with our money... As this article proves, we don't really know what's going on with Diamonds.
Even bigger difference between Diamonds and cash: If I trade an object with real value, such as a loaf of bread for cash at market price, I can be pretty confident that I could buy another loaf of bread for the same price. If you buy a $3000 diamond at retail, how much would you expect to be able to sell it for? (Hint... With all the cash4gold places floating around... How many cash4diamond shops do you see?)
The original sentiment seems to be somewhat Libritarian leaning. Most of the Libritarians I've met tend to vote conservative, due to their image as being the party of smaller government. GP is probably basing his comment on that.
You're kind of a tool. The house has a super-majority (70%) voting yay for this piece of legislation, so it probably won't make a damn bit of difference whether or not Obama vitos it.
95% of the republicans in the house voted for this bill
39% of the democrats voted for this bill.
Clearly there's no difference between the parties on this issue *rolls eyes.* Keep telling yourself that your vote, and everyone else's doesn't matter.
It's not the democrats who are ruining america... It's not the republicans... Apathy is ruining america. And it's pathetic little people like you who are pushing it along.
I suspect they declared a 'maintenance window' 5 minutes into the outage.
There is a 3rd way to win: convince the people who are undecided to ignore the crazy person.
You really can't win everyone over, especially if you are trying to debate them on individual issues rather than the deeper philosophy that drives them to distrust society, and accept crazy over scientific theory. But you can do your best to direct those who are undecided away from their crazy world view.
I think the quote from "Thank you For Smoking" nailed it:
In general, I think conspiracy theorists tend to have some deep issues that you can't really address at a surface layer. If I had to guess, it's the theory that we tend to blame our faults on external factors. "I'm a good, hard working person. I should be successful, but I'm not. Why? Someone must be working against me. The man is keeping me down! It's a conspiracy."
Oh, you know how it is... a couple of friends come to visit, and forget to bring their toothbrush home.
Seriously though, toothbrushes are awesome. Always like having a couple spares around when I'm working with cars.
I may be misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're saying that bullets can't travel faster than the speed of sound? If so, this information is incorrect... Most rifle rounds can exceed the speed of sound quite easily. If I recall correctly, one reason you don't see that many silenced rifles is the fact that the bullets themselves make a pretty tremendous amount of noise traveling at super-sonic speeds.
I know, for example, that the P90 uses a special sub-sonic ammunition when firing with a silencer for this reason. The standard AP ammo flys a little too fast.
Here is the actual context of the quote, rather than your out of context quote:
Pretty much anyone who's given speeches in public without a teleprompter can tell you that sometimes we trip up. The context and the meaning of the quote is pretty obvious.
If you're running a datacenter of any reasonable size, there's lots of common automation that makes pulling a 1u server convenient and easy. At the most basic level, kickstart + puppet + a load balancer makes the process pretty seamless - shut the machine down, and it's automatically removed from the pool. Pulling the box, and re-installing require far less human time than troubleshooting hardware problems.
If you use OSS, that approach is actually simple and free. Cobbler, puppet, and haproxy make this kind of environment more or less trivial to setup. Puppet is best practices for maintaining even a small site.
If you invest heavily in virtualization, it's usually sufficient to live migrate your VMs onto your spare capacity.
A lot of the really big sites I've worked at went much further... We'd usually just pull the bad machine out of production, and replace it with a warm spare. This approach works really well for the kind of site that would use oil cooling. Leave failed hardware where it is, and just spin up a little spare capacity.
Out of curiosity, what part of the country do you live in?
It's what you make of it. I was going for the irony angle, but I'm just as happy people found it funny.
I have a Google Nexus S. My wife has an Iphone 4. Quality and user experience really have nothing to do with it these days.
Removing the penis completely will provide significant savings in:
- UTI/STD related treatments
- Contraceptive costs
- Pregnancy related expenses
I'm just going to leave this here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_blind_study
This.
My laptop at home is a Dell D610, from 2005. It's 7 years old. It has a modern browser, modern video codecs, and clients to connect to pretty much anything I need to work with. As an added bonus, it has a physical serial port.
I'll replace it because stuff is finally starting to fail, not because I need an upgrade. I'll probably replace it with another 2-3 year old dell business class laptop.
You guys still swear allegiance to one nation, under God don't you?
As of June 14, 1954 we are. Prior to that, we were one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Not sure which western country you're coming from, but we see a lot of that here in the US as well. There is a strong call to turn back 300 years of progress and make religion a guiding force in our government and educational systems.
Huh? Lots and lots of us in the US played Final Fantasy 1, Final Fantasy 4, and Final Fantasy 6. A bunch of us also played fan translations of Final Fantasy 5. I also played 7, but I haven't tried anything more recent... I just don't have the time or energy to play Final Fantasy games anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit of a generational gap between those of us who played FF1-6, and those that play FF7+
My bet is that the guys who played FF1-6 are the same group who miss reading Nintendo Power. :)
You make an interesting point...
There seems to be a good cross section between the people claiming "Personal responsibility" the people saying "Fuck you, I've got mine" and the people who's plan is "I'm lawsuit proof."
I recently did a survey in a local motorcycle community form asking about the cost of medical care for an injury. Options ran the gammut from $500 > $500,000+. Turns out there was an even distribution of prices, with several guys responding $1M+
If you have to go to the hospital for anything, you are lucky to get out for $10K. One person had a $22K bill just to make sure he was okay following a crash (turns out, he was fine and needed no medical assistance.)
Personal experience:
Kidney stones: $2.5K
Dislocated Arm: $4K
In both cases, I was in and out the same day. With the dislocation, I was released early enough to go back to the race track and watch my girlfriend run a few more laps.
You probably already know this, but perhaps it would be informative to the rest of slashdot:
I have a close friend who used to be a commercial pilot. His statement on lap babies: "If anything bad happens during the flight, all the lap babies will die. The only reason the FAA allows it is that bringing a lap baby aboard a plane is still safer than driving."
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/mcgee/2008-07-29-lap-children_N.htm
You did the right thing.