Science is fluid and ever changing. What scientists call "facts" are really just the best understanding of the world around us at this point based on the information we have. Case in point. Astronomy. Our best and brightest at one point calculated the size of the universe and with that it's age. Then they built a telescope that could see well beyond the edge. What did they find? More galaxies and stars and well... more universe. So they went back and calculated again.
That's just how science is. You only think you know everything when you know almost nothing. My own belief system/world view straddles both science and religion. I.e. I do believe that evolution happened and is continuing today. I don't believe it was all random. Note: I used the word "believe", The evidence is somewhat shaky.
I guess my mind is just too limited to accept that this universe, as wonderful, orderly and chaotic as it is was the result of random chance and the application physical laws.
Just for fun: If I was god and saw mankind label and categorize lifeforms into mammal, reptile, bird etc... I would probably sneak in something like the duck billed platypus as a practical joke.
BTW: If you missed the story about T-Rex meat see lazy links below.
On the subject of climate change we are in a different level of argument. You see the Earth's temperature is anything but stable. History suggests that in recent times our planet has been much colder than it is now and at other times much warmer.
Ever wondered why the icecaps are littered with Mammoth and Sabertooth corpses but not a single dinosaur? The formed long after those creatures were extinct.
What is in dispute however is: 1. Is the Earth warming up too fast. I.e. Will this trigger an effect outside the normal cycle.
2. What effect is that? Will we go into a Greenhouse spiral and become a humid furnace like Venus? or breakup the icecaps so that when they reform the planet plunges into a freeze cycle and becomes a virtual snowball with no summer.
3. Is the current warming cycle being hurried along by humans?
BTW: Ever notice how really ancient cities are mostly inland while recent constructions are mostly on the coast?
The word you are looking for is Hypothesis. That's when it's well reasoned but not thoroughly analyzed. Lower than that you have hunches and guesses. Where it just seems like it could make sense but you haven't worked out the details yet. Above Ordinary theories are "Natural Laws". Those are the theories that have been analyzed to death and tested extensively and still hold up. Newton's Law of Gravity is such a theory.
The users most in need of a feature like this are the ones who mare least tech savvy and also those new to the Internet. They will not know how or why to turn this feature on. (Think 12:00 flashing). Meanwhile those among us, who know our way around the net and can spot even the most subtle fraud can and will turn off this protection.
Jamaica produces Sugar from cane and sells it at a loss (weird Jamaican politics that I won't get into). However Appleton estate is profitable, unlike the rest. Why? they grow sugarcane to make rum. That rum attracts premium prices.
Rum is technically byproduct of the waste from sugar production. Just like Molasses and Bagas (wood substitute). Since these goys figured out how to cover the total cost off a single byproduct any money made from selling the other stuff is pure profit.
Hydrogen transportation dose not make sense. 18 weal tankers loaded with the stuff going from plant to Gas stations? Pipelines? Nope.
What I envision is small scale (relatively speaking) Hydrogen production plants for gas stations. Simply a box to which you connect an electric line and a watter pipe. On the other side you get out Hydrogen which can be stored in underground tanks and pumped into cars. You also get oxygen which can be pumped into the air or sold to hospitals and welders for less than they pay now.
With research and competitive engineering the amount of electricity required to produce a litre of Hydrogen will come close to the amount of electricity required to propel an electric car of similar capabilities as far as a hydrogen car will go on a liter.
The other gunk in tap watter can be pumped directly into the sewers where it belongs.
The biggest obstacle is once you get to the point of manufacturing hydrogen from two established and well distributed commodities (electricity and watter) on a small scale (like what would be needed at rural gas stations), The none commercial fuel pump becomes more common. It will start with large companies and government agencies.
I don't suspect the Oil companies are oblivious to this so look out for a fight.
1. If you don't update your Spamhous block list it will take time for Spamers to change IPs and start sending from unblocked addresses. The flood will come gradually.
2. How many of the email admins on Slashdot are ready willing and able to start grabbing SPAM lists from spamhouse.co.uk ?
I think the threat is slightly overblown. Reminds me of Y2K.
If it's one of the 1st 2 then OK. Maybe they crossed the Red Sea in boats and told it different. There is independent (I.e. None biblical) evidence of a Jewish slave nation in Egypt.
As for the crossing story. It has 2 parts. Not only did the Red sea open up so the Jews could walk through, it also closed behind them and drowned the Egyptian army. Now follow me....
To let through whole families with luggage and Livestock and infants and old people the see would have had to part pretty wide and stay open for a long time. How fast can you Cary grandma?
To drown an army, the watter would have had to come in real hard or cover them deep.
That combination rules out all the common natural explanations. Tsunamis are too fast, and if Wind moves enough watter those families couldn't walk through that Hurricane, Take it from a guy who has been outside in a storm far too puny to do that (Hurricane Gilbert at Category 3 in Jamaica 1988)
The possibilities: 1. This was some still unknown phenomenon, 2. This was straight Devinne intervention 3. This was Alien Intervention (The old God is ET concept) 4. Moses and his palls cooked up a really cool story.
Not to worry. When we die, some of us will get to ask people who were there at the time how it actually happened.
Long answer, Image sizes vary a lot. Depending on what software is on the particular desktop. The largest image we dealt with included 2 OS,s: a full blown Suse instalation and Windows XP With MSOffice, Visio and some grphics stuff. (Both CAD and DTP).
It weighd in a 25 GB and loaded in 27 minutes on GB ethernet. In the lung run including all the sample files, templates and extras _saved_ time and network resorces (Image load is done on an el chepo Switch in my lab, that's not conected to the LAN at all.
You don't know how true that cost is. Even with my chosen methodology of keeping a disk image of each unique system installation.
Physically replace the hard drive -: 5 to 10 minutes. Restore disk image -: 3 to 90 minutes (depending on NIC speed and configuration size) Patch and reboot -: 30 minutes.
Too bad the Dell techs only replace the hardware and enough software to make sure it work. Which means that if your hard disk dies, they would just format and load on io.sys and the other core DOS files.
I did what research I could and this information just isn't out there. I do not have the resources to perform the test. If I did, I would perform the tests, document my methodology and the results and sell the information for add views or in paperback.
So, yes, I _AM_ asking others to do my lab work for me.
I am crafting a more detailed version of the parent post to send to people who do this kind of research for a living. I.e. ZD, Tom's hardware etc...
This has been bugging me for a long time now. I have googled the question a lot of different ways and not come back with any clear benchmarks. Is someone knows a link, please post it. If not, any slashdotter with access to a proper test lab and drives could generate the info.
My Hypotheses is simple:
1. What really matters for a RAID implementation is Reliability, Size, cost and Speed. In that order.
2. SATA drives come close to SCSI drives in individual performance. Greater data densities help and lower spin rates hurt.
3. So how dose a 7 disk RAID 5 arrays comprised of 300 GB SCSI drives compare to one made up of 500 GB or 750 GB SATA drives ?
Comparisons should be based on High traffic storage intensive applications. Is there still a justification for the price premium on SCSI hard drives or is it now down to tradition?
I know that. I even read the Fantastic Four episode titled "Secret Wars 3" which ended with him merging with the Molecule Man to form a cosmic cube. Aside from not likening the whole "Man Merging with Man" thing a cosmic cube is not something I picture myself as.
Pure Energy or that female form, same problem. Hell, at one point the Beyonder was a Universe on his own complete with habitable planets.
However, the form he created by copying Captain America's body and Micheal Jackson's Hair combined with his own unique fashion seance. Loose fitting cloths huge boots, shoulder pads. In other words. He doesn't ware tights.
My favorite line of all to do with him went something like this:
"12 seconds to buy the land and process the titles, 17 seconds to pay all the taxes and get the plans approved. 22 seconds after after starting construction, The Beyonder's new headquarters is almost complete. He could have done it all instantly but he has chosen to take things slow and try to fit in"
"Sparta Ilonoise has a new resident."
It's not usually sane to comment on moderation, but... The topic is an upcoming Marvel Universe MMORG. I pick out which character I want to be in that game and state why.
Dibs on "Beyonder" from "Secret Wars 2". Not any of the weird latter incarnations or the "Secret Wars 1" pure energy form.
For those who don't know, This is the guy that at one point KILLED DEATH despite the objections of Eternity and all the other Cosmic beings. Then he brought her back.
I did some art and it was much easier to draw nudes than people in cloths. easier than all of those is heavy armor, robots and aliens.
In those casses you can outright invent the apearance. So a munster that's only seen in a single panel of a comic is the absolute easiest thing to draw.
Step 1. Create "HIV compounds" with work, educational, residential, recreational and medical facilities.
Step 2. Test the entire population for HIV.
Step 3. Move all infected persons to the HIV compounds and provide them, food, shelter, Medical care and training (where necessary) in one of the jobs that are performed at those locations.
Step 4. routine retesting of high risk groups, like Havana prostitutes (Winners go to step 3).
The end result is that Cuba has essentially stopped the spread of AIDS within it's borders. Also, as WTO and UNAIDS will tell you "Early detection + free medicine and adequate nutrition = Long life for HIV victims". They did it via the "backward measure" of imposing a quarantine.
Before you judge this "repressive action" consider the alternative in places like Haiti and Jamaica (Cuba's closest neighbors and the countries I know best).
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Science is fluid and ever changing. What scientists call "facts" are really just the best understanding of the world around us at this point based on the information we have. Case in point. Astronomy. Our best and brightest at one point calculated the size of the universe and with that it's age. Then they built a telescope that could see well beyond the edge. What did they find? More galaxies and stars and well... more universe. So they went back and calculated again.
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That's just how science is. You only think you know everything when you know almost nothing. My own belief system/world view straddles both science and religion. I.e. I do believe that evolution happened and is continuing today. I don't believe it was all random. Note: I used the word "believe", The evidence is somewhat shaky.
I guess my mind is just too limited to accept that this universe, as wonderful, orderly and chaotic as it is was the result of random chance and the application physical laws.
Just for fun: If I was god and saw mankind label and categorize lifeforms into mammal, reptile, bird etc... I would probably sneak in something like the duck billed platypus as a practical joke.
BTW: If you missed the story about T-Rex meat see lazy links below.
http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/headline_sc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/
Science is not religion.
Onless we are dealing with evolution. Then you get a very dogmatic response when any aspect is chalenged.
I.e. Gee... Here is a dinosour bone with meat inside, maybee the dinosourse died out less than 65 million years ago and that's why it's not all rock.
Response? "It can't be that. We are not sure what it is but we know the timelines cannot be even a little bit off"
On the subject of climate change we are in a different level of argument. You see the Earth's temperature is anything but stable. History suggests that in recent times our planet has been much colder than it is now and at other times much warmer.
Ever wondered why the icecaps are littered with Mammoth and Sabertooth corpses but not a single dinosaur? The formed long after those creatures were extinct.
What is in dispute however is:
1. Is the Earth warming up too fast. I.e. Will this trigger an effect outside the normal cycle.
2. What effect is that? Will we go into a Greenhouse spiral and become a humid furnace like Venus? or breakup the icecaps so that when they reform the planet plunges into a freeze cycle and becomes a virtual snowball with no summer.
3. Is the current warming cycle being hurried along by humans?
BTW: Ever notice how really ancient cities are mostly inland while recent constructions are mostly on the coast?
The word you are looking for is Hypothesis. That's when it's well reasoned but not thoroughly analyzed. Lower than that you have hunches and guesses. Where it just seems like it could make sense but you haven't worked out the details yet. Above Ordinary theories are "Natural Laws". Those are the theories that have been analyzed to death and tested extensively and still hold up. Newton's Law of Gravity is such a theory.
You can sell a Slashdot UID on eBay?
What's the going rate?
Not that I'm planing to sell mine, but I now have a child and his main occupations require a constant supply of food and diapers.
Yes.
After they confiscate the phone and flog you with a skillet in the cafeteria as a warning to others.
I'll give you 2-1 odds he is a lttle dislexic.
Trust me. I should know.
I disagree strongly with that idea.
The users most in need of a feature like this are the ones who mare least tech savvy and also those new to the Internet. They will not know how or why to turn this feature on. (Think 12:00 flashing). Meanwhile those among us, who know our way around the net and can spot even the most subtle fraud can and will turn off this protection.
Ahh... You get my point. A little anecdote.
Jamaica produces Sugar from cane and sells it at a loss (weird Jamaican politics that I won't get into). However Appleton estate is profitable, unlike the rest. Why? they grow sugarcane to make rum. That rum attracts premium prices.
Rum is technically byproduct of the waste from sugar production. Just like Molasses and Bagas (wood substitute). Since these goys figured out how to cover the total cost off a single byproduct any money made from selling the other stuff is pure profit.
Same concept in my post.
Hydrogen transportation dose not make sense. 18 weal tankers loaded with the stuff going from plant to Gas stations? Pipelines? Nope.
What I envision is small scale (relatively speaking) Hydrogen production plants for gas stations. Simply a box to which you connect an electric line and a watter pipe. On the other side you get out Hydrogen which can be stored in underground tanks and pumped into cars. You also get oxygen which can be pumped into the air or sold to hospitals and welders for less than they pay now.
With research and competitive engineering the amount of electricity required to produce a litre of Hydrogen will come close to the amount of electricity required to propel an electric car of similar capabilities as far as a hydrogen car will go on a liter.
The other gunk in tap watter can be pumped directly into the sewers where it belongs.
The biggest obstacle is once you get to the point of manufacturing hydrogen from two established and well distributed commodities (electricity and watter) on a small scale (like what would be needed at rural gas stations), The none commercial fuel pump becomes more common. It will start with large companies and government agencies.
I don't suspect the Oil companies are oblivious to this so look out for a fight.
You don't really have to.
1. If you don't update your Spamhous block list it will take time for Spamers to change IPs and start sending from unblocked addresses. The flood will come gradually.
2. How many of the email admins on Slashdot are ready willing and able to start grabbing SPAM lists from spamhouse.co.uk ?
I think the threat is slightly overblown. Reminds me of Y2K.
Either the story is made up, or it's not.
If it's one of the 1st 2 then OK. Maybe they crossed the Red Sea in boats and told it different. There is independent (I.e. None biblical) evidence of a Jewish slave nation in Egypt.
As for the crossing story. It has 2 parts. Not only did the Red sea open up so the Jews could walk through, it also closed behind them and drowned the Egyptian army. Now follow me....
To let through whole families with luggage and Livestock and infants and old people the see would have had to part pretty wide and stay open for a long time. How fast can you Cary grandma?
To drown an army, the watter would have had to come in real hard or cover them deep.
That combination rules out all the common natural explanations. Tsunamis are too fast, and if Wind moves enough watter those families couldn't walk through that Hurricane, Take it from a guy who has been outside in a storm far too puny to do that (Hurricane Gilbert at Category 3 in Jamaica 1988)
The possibilities:
1. This was some still unknown phenomenon,
2. This was straight Devinne intervention
3. This was Alien Intervention (The old God is ET concept)
4. Moses and his palls cooked up a really cool story.
Not to worry. When we die, some of us will get to ask people who were there at the time how it actually happened.
What are you loading, 3-4 Gig images??
Short Answer. Yes.
Long answer, Image sizes vary a lot. Depending on what software is on the particular desktop. The largest image we dealt with included 2 OS,s: a full blown Suse instalation and Windows XP With MSOffice, Visio and some grphics stuff. (Both CAD and DTP).
It weighd in a 25 GB and loaded in 27 minutes on GB ethernet. In the lung run including all the sample files, templates and extras _saved_ time and network resorces (Image load is done on an el chepo Switch in my lab, that's not conected to the LAN at all.
Then buy an Iguana or a Turtle.
Both are cute and cuddly (by reptilian standards).
You don't know how true that cost is. Even with my chosen methodology of keeping a disk image of each unique system installation.
Physically replace the hard drive -: 5 to 10 minutes.
Restore disk image -: 3 to 90 minutes (depending on NIC speed and configuration size)
Patch and reboot -: 30 minutes.
Too bad the Dell techs only replace the hardware and enough software to make sure it work. Which means that if your hard disk dies, they would just format and load on io.sys and the other core DOS files.
I did what research I could and this information just isn't out there. I do not have the resources to perform the test. If I did, I would perform the tests, document my methodology and the results and sell the information for add views or in paperback.
So, yes, I _AM_ asking others to do my lab work for me.
I am crafting a more detailed version of the parent post to send to people who do this kind of research for a living. I.e. ZD, Tom's hardware etc...
This has been bugging me for a long time now. I have googled the question a lot of different ways and not come back with any clear benchmarks. Is someone knows a link, please post it. If not, any slashdotter with access to a proper test lab and drives could generate the info.
My Hypotheses is simple:
1. What really matters for a RAID implementation is Reliability, Size, cost and Speed. In that order.
2. SATA drives come close to SCSI drives in individual performance. Greater data densities help and lower spin rates hurt.
3. So how dose a 7 disk RAID 5 arrays comprised of 300 GB SCSI drives compare to one made up of 500 GB or 750 GB SATA drives ?
Comparisons should be based on High traffic storage intensive applications. Is there still a justification for the price premium on SCSI hard drives or is it now down to tradition?
Nope. root can prevent comands from running Including "kill" and "rm". root can also undo those changes.
I know that. I even read the Fantastic Four episode titled "Secret Wars 3" which ended with him merging with the Molecule Man to form a cosmic cube. Aside from not likening the whole "Man Merging with Man" thing a cosmic cube is not something I picture myself as.
Pure Energy or that female form, same problem. Hell, at one point the Beyonder was a Universe on his own complete with habitable planets.
However, the form he created by copying Captain America's body and Micheal Jackson's Hair combined with his own unique fashion seance. Loose fitting cloths huge boots, shoulder pads. In other words. He doesn't ware tights.
My favorite line of all to do with him went something like this:
"12 seconds to buy the land and process the titles,
17 seconds to pay all the taxes and get the plans approved.
22 seconds after after starting construction, The Beyonder's new headquarters is almost complete. He could have done it all instantly but he has chosen to take things slow and try to fit in"
"Sparta Ilonoise has a new resident."
It's not usually sane to comment on moderation, but... The topic is an upcoming Marvel Universe MMORG. I pick out which character I want to be in that game and state why.
How dose that become "Off Topic" ?
Dibs on "Beyonder" from "Secret Wars 2". Not any of the weird latter incarnations or the "Secret Wars 1" pure energy form.
For those who don't know, This is the guy that at one point KILLED DEATH despite the objections of Eternity and all the other Cosmic beings. Then he brought her back.
You just don't get more powerful than that.
You are dead on with the tights thing.
I did some art and it was much easier to draw nudes than people in cloths. easier than all of those is heavy armor, robots and aliens.
In those casses you can outright invent the apearance. So a munster that's only seen in a single panel of a comic is the absolute easiest thing to draw.
Or Dr. House.
You make more sense than all the other responses to my post.
MRD (Mad Reporter Disease) strikes again.
Cuba did essentially that.
Step 1. Create "HIV compounds" with work, educational, residential, recreational and medical facilities.
Step 2. Test the entire population for HIV.
Step 3. Move all infected persons to the HIV compounds and provide them, food, shelter, Medical care and training (where necessary) in one of the jobs that are performed at those locations.
Step 4. routine retesting of high risk groups, like Havana prostitutes (Winners go to step 3).
The end result is that Cuba has essentially stopped the spread of AIDS within it's borders. Also, as WTO and UNAIDS will tell you "Early detection + free medicine and adequate nutrition = Long life for HIV victims". They did it via the "backward measure" of imposing a quarantine.
Before you judge this "repressive action" consider the alternative in places like Haiti and Jamaica (Cuba's closest neighbors and the countries I know best).
As a further clarification. The Wikipedia page on Mad cow disease lists the countries with infected cattle and/or infected people.
Interestingly the poorest country on the list is Thailand, with a GDP per capita of $8,300.00 (Middle income).
Strangely enough they only made the list for the human form of the disease, suggesting that it came from imported beef.