I (and around 1m other people) have a nuclear powered train. It's called the RER A.
I like people (with some exceptions). Everything that's interesting or beautiful in the world that we know of has been invented or discovered by people.
Another contributing factor was that the nearby connected platforms Tartan and Claymore continued to pump gas and oil to Piper Alpha until its pipeline ruptured in the heat in the second explosion. Their operations crews did not believe they had authority to shut off production, even though they could see that Piper Alpha was burning.
A cloudy day provides sufficient diffuse light by which the panel will produce electricity. Optimum electrical production occurs with bright and sunny weather conditions. Under a light overcast, the modules might produce about half as much as under full sun, ranging down to as little as five to ten percent under a dark overcast day.
If you defined a perfect number as the sum of all its divisors including itself there wouldn't be very many perfect numbers, would there? (hint: how many numbers are the sum of a set of positive integers including themselves?)
Like what, exactly? I keep hearing that we should all be using green energy, but after looking for it, I have yet to find any. You know why? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST! Sure, you can get ethanol powered cars, but it takes more than a gallon of gas worth of energy to produce a gallon of ethanol. Sure, we have wind and solar power, but my my car doesn't have anywhere to plug it in.
I don't have a car.
And even if it did, it still would not get me to work and back with the AC on, much less to day care. You ever try to drive with a two year old in Texas without the AC on? It gets beyond uncomfortable. It is actually dangerous.
Living in places where you cannot survive outside (with appropriate clothing) is not a good idea. Move to one of the inhabitable pats of planet Earth.
I just wanted to know if the server acts as a bottleneck, or if the usb connection is the tightest bottleneck in the system. As I've already got drives in a usb box that seems to hold them down to 22MB/s (not sure but I think they would hit 70-80MB/s if they were internal)
Uh, if you're getting 22MB/s off the disks then your bottleneck is the network - 100baseT should be giving you somewhere around 10MB/s.
My hardware: ShevaPlug (1.2Mhz Marvell Kirkwood, 512M memory) 2 x 1To USB drives in a raid1 with dm-crypt on top, plugged into single USB port of ShevaPlug via a USB hub.
I ran:
sync; echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
between each test.
On the server itself:
$ dd if=western-africa-1216384334.zip of=/dev/null 1198321+1 records in 1198321+1 records out 613540749 bytes (614 MB) copied, 37.4643 s, 16.4 MB/s
kcryptd is running at about 40% cpu during this test.
Pretty slow, but dm-crypt is obviously not helping.
Run on my laptop, using a NFS mount of the plug:
$ dd if=plug/western-africa-1216384334.zip of=/dev/null 1198321+1 records in 1198321+1 records out 613540749 bytes (614 MB) copied, 51.6017 s, 11.9 MB/s
(Over 100mpbs ethernet, i.e. pretty near max network speed).
You either need a new level of "open source" here or some RMS style ranting to really understand what I assume you mean when you say "open source." A lot of this is specific to the license, of course, but just to scratch the surface of what some people expect:
So, how much did Jobs pay you to hijack this discussion of his stupidity with the usual ill-informed boring slashdot free/open software blather?
"It will take at least another 20 years, with adequate funding, to develop a continuous fusion reaction that could heat water, create steam and turn generators at a commercial fusion power plant, she said."
Not only that, but their current results generate 50% of the input energy without any of the neutron rich dirty output typical of deuterium based fusion.
So they make more energy by not turning it on. Great.
If we had many illegal immigrants from England, Spain, Mexico, and Canada, yet the immigration laws were only enforced against the illegal immigrants who are Mexican, that would be an instance of racism or ethnic discrimination.
Back in the 1970-2000 or so there were thousands if Irish illegals in NYC, from what I heard they didn't get much hassle, now the Haitians...
(Why did the number fall? Ireland got richer 'cos of the EU. Maybe you should agitate for Mexico joining the EU?)
You don't understand - the target of this law isn't Legal Aliens, it isn't even Illegal Aliens, it's US citizens.
Under this law US citizens will be forced to carry papers proving their citizenship or risk spending time in the cells.
It's probable that If you're not of Mexican appearance you won't be asked, but I wouldn't recommend ever annoying a cop in Arizona if you're not carrying your papers.
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Who she?
Oh, you mean the quitter.
Just shows that not all of the web is faux news.
I don't have a prius.
I (and around 1m other people) have a nuclear powered train. It's called the RER A.
I like people (with some exceptions). Everything that's interesting or beautiful in the world that we know of has been invented or discovered by people.
This bit is great:
Poetic justice?
For example:
(From http://www.solarhome.org/solarpanelsfaqs.html#faq8)
A 50% - 95% reduction doesn't sound like "not that bad".
This directly contradicts every single description of solar PV I've ever heard.
Got some numbers, citations, details?
Think.
If you defined a perfect number as the sum of all its divisors including itself there wouldn't be very many perfect numbers, would there? (hint: how many numbers are the sum of a set of positive integers including themselves?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number
Nope.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110478/ is tops.
I think it should be that wonderful book "Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him.".
How did you manage to pull that out of your ass? ITYM by 100% Of course, when you die you reduce your carbon footprint by 100%
Please die now.
I don't have a car.
Living in places where you cannot survive outside (with appropriate clothing) is not a good idea. Move to one of the inhabitable pats of planet Earth.
What are you, some kind of Socialest or someting?
Some people in the US wanted to make acoustic triggers mandatory in the US.
A certain Mr Richard Bruce Cheney had a chat with some of his pals and that idea was abandoned.
Uh, if you're getting 22MB/s off the disks then your bottleneck is the network - 100baseT should be giving you somewhere around 10MB/s.
My hardware: ShevaPlug (1.2Mhz Marvell Kirkwood, 512M memory) 2 x 1To USB drives in a raid1 with dm-crypt on top, plugged into single USB port of ShevaPlug via a USB hub.
I ran:
between each test.
On the server itself:
kcryptd is running at about 40% cpu during this test.
Pretty slow, but dm-crypt is obviously not helping.
Run on my laptop, using a NFS mount of the plug:
(Over 100mpbs ethernet, i.e. pretty near max network speed).
Well, I'm at work. Did you think I read Slashdot at home?
I'll try when I get home.
What kind of test would you like to see? Some copies should be pretty simple. (NFS and Samba).
Good enough. I've only got 100mbit ethernet in house.
The question is - what do you run on your home server?
Mine is mostly a file server, so I moved over to ARM last year (on a SheevaPlug, with 2 1To USB drives, mirrored of course).
If you run a lot of compute bound stuff you might be unhappy, but simple stuff probably doesn't need multicore.
So, how much did Jobs pay you to hijack this discussion of his stupidity with the usual ill-informed boring slashdot free/open software blather?
"It will take at least another 20 years, with adequate funding, to develop a continuous fusion reaction that
could heat water, create steam and turn generators at a commercial fusion power plant, she said."
See the problem now?
So they make more energy by not turning it on. Great.
I think I was trying to imply that if they were selling to just anyone they might be more than the 4th largest.
Or maybe it was just mere corrobarative detail intended to add verisimiltude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
No it wasn't. In a typical piece of British stupidity BAe sold it's share of Airbus in 2006 severing all connections with Airbus and EADS.
Back in the 1970-2000 or so there were thousands if Irish illegals in NYC, from what I heard they didn't get much hassle, now the Haitians...
(Why did the number fall? Ireland got richer 'cos of the EU. Maybe you should agitate for Mexico joining the EU?)
You don't understand - the target of this law isn't Legal Aliens, it isn't even Illegal Aliens, it's US citizens.
Under this law US citizens will be forced to carry papers proving their citizenship or risk spending time in the cells.
It's probable that If you're not of Mexican appearance you won't be asked, but I wouldn't recommend ever annoying a cop in Arizona if you're not carrying your papers.
You forgot, the Geneva convention doesn't apply to non-Americans. Come to think of it it doesn't apply to Americans either.
Makes sense. Be smarter to go for a preemptive strike though.