Are you serious? This thing is the antithesis of server class hardware. It's a consumer toy, designed as cheaply as possible, with tons of things attempting to prevent you from doing computer-like things with it.
If even one of these things makes it into a commercial server environment, I will be very surprised.
There are other things going on also, the resistance of the wire itself will come into play even at fairly low amperage.
Lets assume that the wire is 1 ohm, lets also assume all loads are purely resistive. At 120 volts the voltage drop is going to be negligible because the wires will burn up long (breaker will flip) before you can connect a load that has a low enough resistance to get close to the wires resistance.
However, at 12 volts, we can pull the same 20 amps through the 12 guage wire as at 120 volts, but to do so, we are hooking up a 0.6 ohm load, which is smaller than the wire's ohmage, so we don't see the full voltage drop across our load, most of the drop is in the wire itself.
Do you see my point? Long runs of low voltage are going to run into problems...
My only problem with the current system is that the bs that is health "insurance" isn't insurance at all, but very socalistic, filled with kickbacks and price fixing.
In a real free market the prices would be lower, and insurance would have a deductible that would rarely be hit, if ever, the way insurance is supposed to be. You don't make a homeowner insurance claim every time a doorknob breaks or a window cracks, why should you have health insurance kick in at $20? That's no longer insurance, that's socialism, and it allows doctors, insurance companies, and hospitals to collude to screw over the consumer. There is little real competition, because there is no real free market, due to effective price fixing through insurance.
When the voltage is higher, the resistance of a 12 guage wire is negligible. At 12 volts, in a large house, you'd have to run really huge wires for the 12 volt system.
This gnu.org petition shows why. Many open source advocates view software patents as the biggest risk to freely available open source software. Lawsuits against many authors of smaller open source programs would bankrupt them personally (no corporate entity to hide behind), and also sour them on open source permanantly.
The whole point of open source is to gain a sort of core set of freedom from direct corporate control, being under the thumb of Thomson, no matter how much they insist they aren't going to slit your throat with that knife they have against it, isn't a comforting throught.
Isn't this more akin to what rap "artists" do? Taking the original without authorization in most cases and changing it some, and then presenting it as their own?
That is on a much larger scale, this was an almost private proposal, with only a few copies made.
Oh, come on man. Loss of tenure? Probation? Don't you think you are being just a little harsh? This was borderline fair use, only a few copies of the proposals were made.
You act like students don't get away with much larger shit all the time. Back in college, my roommate stole code from my final project, large pieces of code. His program still sucked, because he only got a copy of a buggy earlier version of my code and had no idea how to debug it. I told the professor immediately, and met with him several times. He talked me out of persuing any honor code violations, he said that he personally didn't want to take it to honor court, but if I insisted, then he would show up and support me. Even if I would have taken it all the way through, it would have still at most resulted in a slap on the wrist punishment for a first violation.
This has been done, Slashdot ran a story about a DVD technology that would allow you to apply various "patches" to movies to reduce their ratings to different levels. You could select the rating you wanted to view the movie at, and it would cut it to that level.
MS demands subscriptions, people get upset, they don't want to have to upgrade. Redhat offers subscriptions, yippie skippie, the world will move to Linux. uhh why?
Hydrogen is not an energy source though, only a means of (pretty) inefficient storage. If you get it from solar, sure it's a little better, but it still makes more sense to use that solar energy to grow an oil producing crop like hemp, and then burn that oil in a biodiesel vehicle.
Too bad even non-psychoactive hemp is illegal, it would be a very environmentally friendly way to collect solar energy. We could also use the fiber to almost completely replace cotton and a lot of wood paper logging. The current cotton and paper logging industries are major reasons for it being illegal.
The thing about job ads is they always represent the worst job offers out there.
If a job offer is reasonable, it will be filled from internal personnel, or from personal networks. The only reason a job hits sites like dice.com in a market like this is because they are being unreasonable in their request.
I just saw an ad for tigerdirect on Slashdot. Yes, the scam artist company with the horrible BBB rating and the FTC investigation against them. It is highly irresponsible for Slashdot to show these ads. I warn all Slashdotters, do not order from tigerdirect
Another thing I forgot, if you bought Opera 4, you got 6 at a discount, student or not. I didn't even take the student discount when I bought 6, because of this. I remembered since the first message I posted because I finally decided to dig up my registration email to disable the banner ads.
I had reinstalled Linux because my file system ate itself. I deserved it though, I was going back and forth between ext2/3 kernels, and the times I booted in ext2, the init scripts thought I was still runnning ext3, so they didn't force checks on unclean shutdowns. Word to the wise, if you go ext3, stay ext3, or be very very careful not to miss an unclean shutdown.
Aren't we talking about almost negligible gravitational forces from the asteroid itself? If escape velocity from the asteroid itself were an issue, I'd think we were screwed no matter what at that point, that thing would be really huge.:)
We worry about less important things, like the War on Drugs. There are only a tiny amount of emergency room visits caused by most illegal drugs compared to most normal human activities (like home improvement), and yet we spend billions per year fighting this "war". People like to latch on to things that are relatively unimportant, but that have appeal because they are hyped up. The asteroid disaster movies are to asteroids as reefer madness is to the war on (some) drugs.
Why not just shatter the asteroid? Seems like that would take less energy than either your or his sugesstion. Let the atmosphere do the work, just break it up is chunks that are small enough to ablate down to non-threatning pieces.
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OK, I probably took your comment out of context, sorry.
Are you serious? This thing is the antithesis of server class hardware. It's a consumer toy, designed as cheaply as possible, with tons of things attempting to prevent you from doing computer-like things with it.
If even one of these things makes it into a commercial server environment, I will be very surprised.
There are other things going on also, the resistance of the wire itself will come into play even at fairly low amperage.
Lets assume that the wire is 1 ohm, lets also assume all loads are purely resistive. At 120 volts the voltage drop is going to be negligible because the wires will burn up long (breaker will flip) before you can connect a load that has a low enough resistance to get close to the wires resistance.
However, at 12 volts, we can pull the same 20 amps through the 12 guage wire as at 120 volts, but to do so, we are hooking up a 0.6 ohm load, which is smaller than the wire's ohmage, so we don't see the full voltage drop across our load, most of the drop is in the wire itself.
Do you see my point? Long runs of low voltage are going to run into problems...
My only problem with the current system is that the bs that is health "insurance" isn't insurance at all, but very socalistic, filled with kickbacks and price fixing.
In a real free market the prices would be lower, and insurance would have a deductible that would rarely be hit, if ever, the way insurance is supposed to be. You don't make a homeowner insurance claim every time a doorknob breaks or a window cracks, why should you have health insurance kick in at $20? That's no longer insurance, that's socialism, and it allows doctors, insurance companies, and hospitals to collude to screw over the consumer. There is little real competition, because there is no real free market, due to effective price fixing through insurance.
Ohms law.
When the voltage is higher, the resistance of a 12 guage wire is negligible. At 12 volts, in a large house, you'd have to run really huge wires for the 12 volt system.
Mod me up if you agree, or mod me down if you think it's a bad idea.
:)
Hah, that's the normal moderation standard around here.
http://www.petitiononline.com/pasp01/petition.html
This gnu.org petition shows why. Many open source advocates view software patents as the biggest risk to freely available open source software. Lawsuits against many authors of smaller open source programs would bankrupt them personally (no corporate entity to hide behind), and also sour them on open source permanantly.
The whole point of open source is to gain a sort of core set of freedom from direct corporate control, being under the thumb of Thomson, no matter how much they insist they aren't going to slit your throat with that knife they have against it, isn't a comforting throught.
Isn't this more akin to what rap "artists" do? Taking the original without authorization in most cases and changing it some, and then presenting it as their own?
That is on a much larger scale, this was an almost private proposal, with only a few copies made.
Wait, is taking IP stealing today or not? If this were an mp3 thread I guess it would be different?
Oh, come on man. Loss of tenure? Probation? Don't you think you are being just a little harsh? This was borderline fair use, only a few copies of the proposals were made.
You act like students don't get away with much larger shit all the time. Back in college, my roommate stole code from my final project, large pieces of code. His program still sucked, because he only got a copy of a buggy earlier version of my code and had no idea how to debug it. I told the professor immediately, and met with him several times. He talked me out of persuing any honor code violations, he said that he personally didn't want to take it to honor court, but if I insisted, then he would show up and support me. Even if I would have taken it all the way through, it would have still at most resulted in a slap on the wrist punishment for a first violation.
I'm having a house built. I can't touch things until I move in, but then I can retrofit.
Man, you're getting ripped off then. How did the contractor convince you to buy into that bullshit plan? You might want to get a lawyer.
I can sum it up more simply...
If you know all the right questions to ask, you have already done all the work.
The answer is the trivial part, finding the right questions is the part that requires real intelligence.
Don't ever, EVER order from tigerdirect, read my journal.
I thought the point of an Imac was it was all integrated. G4s can use any normal monitor.
This has been done, Slashdot ran a story about a DVD technology that would allow you to apply various "patches" to movies to reduce their ratings to different levels. You could select the rating you wanted to view the movie at, and it would cut it to that level.
MS demands subscriptions, people get upset, they don't want to have to upgrade.
Redhat offers subscriptions, yippie skippie, the world will move to Linux. uhh why?
That's why.
Hydrogen is not an energy source though, only a means of (pretty) inefficient storage. If you get it from solar, sure it's a little better, but it still makes more sense to use that solar energy to grow an oil producing crop like hemp, and then burn that oil in a biodiesel vehicle.
Too bad even non-psychoactive hemp is illegal, it would be a very environmentally friendly way to collect solar energy. We could also use the fiber to almost completely replace cotton and a lot of wood paper logging. The current cotton and paper logging industries are major reasons for it being illegal.
When they were written, it did. That's the point of the story at hand. Most of your hacker texts were written in the early to mid 80s.
The thing about job ads is they always represent the worst job offers out there.
If a job offer is reasonable, it will be filled from internal personnel, or from personal networks. The only reason a job hits sites like dice.com in a market like this is because they are being unreasonable in their request.
I just saw an ad for tigerdirect on Slashdot. Yes, the scam artist company with the horrible BBB rating and the FTC investigation against them. It is highly irresponsible for Slashdot to show these ads. I warn all Slashdotters, do not order from tigerdirect
A quick google search
One of the worst ratings on resellerratings.com
Tigerdirect also is apparently a frequent user of spam marketing.
So what's next Slashdot? Alex Chiu life rings?
Another thing I forgot, if you bought Opera 4, you got 6 at a discount, student or not. I didn't even take the student discount when I bought 6, because of this. I remembered since the first message I posted because I finally decided to dig up my registration email to disable the banner ads.
I had reinstalled Linux because my file system ate itself. I deserved it though, I was going back and forth between ext2/3 kernels, and the times I booted in ext2, the init scripts thought I was still runnning ext3, so they didn't force checks on unclean shutdowns. Word to the wise, if you go ext3, stay ext3, or be very very careful not to miss an unclean shutdown.
Aren't we talking about almost negligible gravitational forces from the asteroid itself? If escape velocity from the asteroid itself were an issue, I'd think we were screwed no matter what at that point, that thing would be really huge. :)
His statistics are derived from the following formula, often used in scientific research of this type.
(Wanted Research Budget / Current Research Budget) / 200000
We worry about less important things, like the War on Drugs. There are only a tiny amount of emergency room visits caused by most illegal drugs compared to most normal human activities (like home improvement), and yet we spend billions per year fighting this "war". People like to latch on to things that are relatively unimportant, but that have appeal because they are hyped up.
The asteroid disaster movies are to asteroids as reefer madness is to the war on (some) drugs.
Why not just shatter the asteroid? Seems like that would take less energy than either your or his sugesstion. Let the atmosphere do the work, just break it up is chunks that are small enough to ablate down to non-threatning pieces.