Grepping when you don't have a hard disk because everything is solid state is much, much faster than you might think. Grepping through billions of lines of text for "bomb" is pretty goddamned simple: grep -i "bomb" *.log
Sheer volume means nothing to anybody who uses computing clusters in their corporate strategy; they have what it takes to parse that volume, and then some.
My clients don't tell me what to do, they tell me what they want. They give me a spec or describe their problem, they don't give me instructions. I'm paid very specifically to know what to do, to know how to solve the problem undirected.
Until you find this magical job that allows you to be the sole developer on your own project
It isn't that magical. Do independent work on a contract basis building one-off utilities or small websites. Then you're self-employed, which even removes the complication of somebody dumber than you telling you what to do.
Division of labor is actually somewhat a curse in larger organizations though, because you need everyone in the same room in order to really accomplish anything. In a lot of situaitons a project is made out to be much larger than it really is because those involved don't want to put forth a real amount of effort. I know all about this sort of thing; I'm a contractor for a certain loathed-by-slashdotters software company in Redmond, Washington. Division of labor is good when discussed as a concept in CS classes, but is badly implemented by MBAs.
I really, honestly, would rather have 1 single, lonely, friendless coder who can rock my socks and doesn't mind working late because he *likes his work* instead of a whole team of guys who're just there for the paycheque and don't feel passionate about their work and spend most of their time thinking about their (boy/girl)friend/wife/kids/friends/hobbies/car/etc instead of the code in front of them.
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You build a PBX because buying one would be too expensive. The opposite is going on here, he's using somebody else's service (blogspot) because rolling his own would be too time consuming/expensive/whatever. I like to say: Don't reinvent the wheel unless that reinvention is done at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
Actually, you just described superconducting to a limited extent. Resistance is often thought of as "bumps in the road" that an electron is travelling on, and superconducting does smooth things over, reducing resistance to 0. Of course, they aren't getting anything nearly cold enough to superconduct, and if they were, well, that would be noteworthy in and of itself.
Evidently you are unaware of the focusing power of a fresnel lens. I was calculating a transmission loss of 10%, which means you'd need about 150W of incident light on a certain surface area (about 2 square feet) which you could then focus down to a miniscule size.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/lens.html Anyhow, the article we're bickering over is obviously mis-translated given the measurements they've quoted. All I'm saying is that concentrated solar power is under-utilized as a power source, and is very viable given the focusing power of cheap and available lenses and equipment.
true, TFA reads like it's been translated once or twice between the time the story broke and when we read it.
The solar constant is 1370 W/m2 and about 900 to 1000 watts per square meter reaches the surface. This works out to about 80 watts per square foot. The full-page magnifiers here are $1.75 each and measure 10" x 7" or about 0.5 square feet. (actually 0.48611111 but who's counting?)
So you'd need 3 or 4 of them to collect the amount of radiant light energy required to produce that 120W. We're still talking about a total investement of less than $10 for the lenses. woo.
Look more closely. The list is not well sorted at all. (I hate that, when the options I want are all there, just not in any sensical manner. It's like the UI has the capability I desire in the most user-unfriendly way possible. A shame Jef Raskin just passed on, he could teach these folks a thing or two about UI design.)
The title of that page is: "All Maximum Supported RAM in Motherboards"
I wish more price search engines supported search on this criteria. Anyhow, go buck wild, there's quite a few options out there.
Supermicro alone has quite a few options: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeo n800/?chp=E7525 "Supporting dual Xeon processors with an 800MHz system bus, the E7525 chipset optimized workstation platform utilizes PCI-Express x16 expansion for top-of-the-line graphics."
Nobody seems to understand the problem here. It isn't about winning auctions. It's about eBay automatically increasing your bid for no real reason.
Here's the scenario:
You bid on an item for, say, $80. Somebody comes along, bids $75. Your bid is auto-incremented to $76 to beat out this other bidder. You, getting nervous that somebody might usurp your spot with a max bid of $80, increase your maximum. When you increase your maximum bid, eBay automatically increments the CURRENT bid value by the increment amount, EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE THE CURRENT HIGH BIDDER TO BEGIN WITH.
This is where the price gouging comes in. You are already the high bidder, you're just increasing your maximum bid. It shouldn't increase the current bid when the current high bidder increases his maximum, though. That is totally nonintuitive. The system interprets your maximum bid increase as a "competing bid" however and checks its max value against the current max bid value, and if greater, it "bids" on the item with the new max value, increasing the cost by the minimum increment, just as if ANOTHER bidder had come along and bid on the item at a higher value.
It's like you're bidding against yourself whenever you increase your maximum bid, and THIS is the price gouge that is to be disliked.
I'm not a fluid dynamicist, but I do believe that at certain velocities, air's behavior as a fluid becomes somewhat nonintuitive. The little edge holes you propose may seem novel, but it could be that the vortices created when the wind is deflected off the leading edge of the blade may create a pressure imbalance that prevents air from flowing into the hole and spinning the mini-turbine. I'm pretty sure that's why the mindset has always been "bigger turbines for more power."
It's to protect the rights of the minority while upholding the preferences and desires of the majority. If a rule doesn't single you out as a minority of some sort and disadvantage you in some way, I don't think you can bitch about it.
Initially I said "current-limited" and it was a geeky faux pas to later reference such a phenomenon as "resistance" when it is possible, indeed, to limit the flow of current without resistance. A properly configured JFET with a feedback loop will do the job, if I recall correctly.
The simple solution is that the battery pack would have a "charge" port and a "discharge" port, and the "discharge" port would be internally current limited, but the "charge" port would not. You could simplify the interface by making one male (disharge, say. like the terminals of a car battery) and the other female (charge) so it would be impossible to discharge the battery through the un-limited charge port. Add some power diodes and your'e set. Then when you're charging, the charger takes care of playng nanny for the battery, ensuring it doesn't explode. When you're discharging, the battery's own internal resistance limits current flow so the battery doesn't explode.
This is just an issue of packaging though and has nothing to do with the new technology of the article itself.
Rhode Island has an area of 4005 square kilometers, including both land and bodies of water (lakes, rivers, etc). We'll assume an average rhode-island thickness of 20 meters, which is 80,100,000,000 cubic meters, or 80.1 cubic kilometers. 800 km * 900 km * 45m = 32,400 cubic kilometers, or about 404, maybe 405 rhode islands, depending on how you do your rounding.
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grep -i "bomb" | grep -v -i "da bomb"
you've never used grep, have you?
Grepping when you don't have a hard disk because everything is solid state is much, much faster than you might think. Grepping through billions of lines of text for "bomb" is pretty goddamned simple: grep -i "bomb" *.log
Sheer volume means nothing to anybody who uses computing clusters in their corporate strategy; they have what it takes to parse that volume, and then some.
Fan? why use a fan? I think you mean "decent LPGA775 quiet aftermarket cooler"
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My clients don't tell me what to do, they tell me what they want. They give me a spec or describe their problem, they don't give me instructions. I'm paid very specifically to know what to do, to know how to solve the problem undirected.
Until you find this magical job that allows you to be the sole developer on your own project
c instead of the code in front of them.
It isn't that magical. Do independent work on a contract basis building one-off utilities or small websites. Then you're self-employed, which even removes the complication of somebody dumber than you telling you what to do.
Division of labor is actually somewhat a curse in larger organizations though, because you need everyone in the same room in order to really accomplish anything. In a lot of situaitons a project is made out to be much larger than it really is because those involved don't want to put forth a real amount of effort. I know all about this sort of thing; I'm a contractor for a certain loathed-by-slashdotters software company in Redmond, Washington. Division of labor is good when discussed as a concept in CS classes, but is badly implemented by MBAs.
I really, honestly, would rather have 1 single, lonely, friendless coder who can rock my socks and doesn't mind working late because he *likes his work* instead of a whole team of guys who're just there for the paycheque and don't feel passionate about their work and spend most of their time thinking about their (boy/girl)friend/wife/kids/friends/hobbies/car/et
You build a PBX because buying one would be too expensive. The opposite is going on here, he's using somebody else's service (blogspot) because rolling his own would be too time consuming/expensive/whatever. I like to say: Don't reinvent the wheel unless that reinvention is done at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
Actually, you just described superconducting to a limited extent. Resistance is often thought of as "bumps in the road" that an electron is travelling on, and superconducting does smooth things over, reducing resistance to 0. Of course, they aren't getting anything nearly cold enough to superconduct, and if they were, well, that would be noteworthy in and of itself.
actually it is unfair, but life is unfair and you just have to deal with it.
well yes, if she is looking in any direction, certainly she is lying. Doesn't matter who she is, either, just that she's a she. :p
Evidently you are unaware of the focusing power of a fresnel lens. I was calculating a transmission loss of 10%, which means you'd need about 150W of incident light on a certain surface area (about 2 square feet) which you could then focus down to a miniscule size.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/lens.html
Anyhow, the article we're bickering over is obviously mis-translated given the measurements they've quoted. All I'm saying is that concentrated solar power is under-utilized as a power source, and is very viable given the focusing power of cheap and available lenses and equipment.
true, TFA reads like it's been translated once or twice between the time the story broke and when we read it.
The solar constant is 1370 W/m2 and about 900 to 1000 watts per square meter reaches the surface. This works out to about 80 watts per square foot. The full-page magnifiers here are $1.75 each and measure 10" x 7" or about 0.5 square feet. (actually 0.48611111 but who's counting?)
So you'd need 3 or 4 of them to collect the amount of radiant light energy required to produce that 120W. We're still talking about a total investement of less than $10 for the lenses. woo.
Ever hear of concentrated solar power? 120W per square inch is easily do-able with a large enough focusing lens.
Look more closely. The list is not well sorted at all. (I hate that, when the options I want are all there, just not in any sensical manner. It's like the UI has the capability I desire in the most user-unfriendly way possible. A shame Jef Raskin just passed on, he could teach these folks a thing or two about UI design.)
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16GB: http://bizrate.lycos.com/buy/products__at_id19--2
32GB: http://bizrate.lycos.com/buy/products__at_id19--1
I've always had a problem with that whole !strcmp(x,y) thing.
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So I made a macro called STRCMP which can be used in a manner which reads better logically.
Actually, I have something to add.
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Something you may find particularly useful.
http://bizrate.lycos.com/buy/refine__at_id--19,
The title of that page is: "All Maximum Supported RAM in Motherboards"
I wish more price search engines supported search on this criteria. Anyhow, go buck wild, there's quite a few options out there.
Supermicro alone has quite a few options: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xe
"Supporting dual Xeon processors with an 800MHz system bus, the E7525 chipset optimized workstation platform utilizes PCI-Express x16 expansion for top-of-the-line graphics."
Sounds like they're right up your alley...
yeah, I was like "Um, Danger Mouse cut an ... album? I didn't think he had the voice for it.."
Nobody seems to understand the problem here. It isn't about winning auctions. It's about eBay automatically increasing your bid for no real reason.
Here's the scenario:
You bid on an item for, say, $80.
Somebody comes along, bids $75.
Your bid is auto-incremented to $76 to beat out this other bidder.
You, getting nervous that somebody might usurp your spot with a max bid of $80, increase your maximum.
When you increase your maximum bid, eBay automatically increments the CURRENT bid value by the increment amount, EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE THE CURRENT HIGH BIDDER TO BEGIN WITH.
This is where the price gouging comes in. You are already the high bidder, you're just increasing your maximum bid. It shouldn't increase the current bid when the current high bidder increases his maximum, though. That is totally nonintuitive. The system interprets your maximum bid increase as a "competing bid" however and checks its max value against the current max bid value, and if greater, it "bids" on the item with the new max value, increasing the cost by the minimum increment, just as if ANOTHER bidder had come along and bid on the item at a higher value.
It's like you're bidding against yourself whenever you increase your maximum bid, and THIS is the price gouge that is to be disliked.
I'm not a fluid dynamicist, but I do believe that at certain velocities, air's behavior as a fluid becomes somewhat nonintuitive. The little edge holes you propose may seem novel, but it could be that the vortices created when the wind is deflected off the leading edge of the blade may create a pressure imbalance that prevents air from flowing into the hole and spinning the mini-turbine. I'm pretty sure that's why the mindset has always been "bigger turbines for more power."
It's to protect the rights of the minority while upholding the preferences and desires of the majority. If a rule doesn't single you out as a minority of some sort and disadvantage you in some way, I don't think you can bitch about it.
Initially I said "current-limited" and it was a geeky faux pas to later reference such a phenomenon as "resistance" when it is possible, indeed, to limit the flow of current without resistance. A properly configured JFET with a feedback loop will do the job, if I recall correctly.
The simple solution is that the battery pack would have a "charge" port and a "discharge" port, and the "discharge" port would be internally current limited, but the "charge" port would not. You could simplify the interface by making one male (disharge, say. like the terminals of a car battery) and the other female (charge) so it would be impossible to discharge the battery through the un-limited charge port. Add some power diodes and your'e set. Then when you're charging, the charger takes care of playng nanny for the battery, ensuring it doesn't explode. When you're discharging, the battery's own internal resistance limits current flow so the battery doesn't explode.
This is just an issue of packaging though and has nothing to do with the new technology of the article itself.
Rhode Island has an area of 4005 square kilometers, including both land and bodies of water (lakes, rivers, etc). We'll assume an average rhode-island thickness of 20 meters, which is 80,100,000,000 cubic meters, or 80.1 cubic kilometers. 800 km * 900 km * 45m = 32,400 cubic kilometers, or about 404, maybe 405 rhode islands, depending on how you do your rounding.
Also more green stuff to throw at the green stuff the northwest is often known for, if you catch my drift.
Or how many vigintillion nanometers there are in a parsec.
Google is our friend, there's 3.26163626 light years per parsec.