Nokia; (the largest mobile phone company in the world) is Finnish.
As an aside and as a fellow Albanach, I'm largely ashamed of my country of origin. Finland have a similarly sized population. Living in Berlin for a couple of years, the only things we are known for is whisky and kilts. I can go and buy for example, Irish beer, cheese, milk, butter in any shop. Scotland's major production appears to be social security claimants.
Can you get a loan to buy a house? Yes... but only if there is more demand for housing than there is supply. Remember, supply and demand determine value... A bank isn't going to give you that loan if the future value of the house is certain to be lower than the current value.
So, if there are ever enough houses for everyone, they will become valueless because the demand has been satisfied. There is no profit then to be found in housing. Basically, under our economic system, this can never be allowed to happen because there would be no profit the loans are never made. The houses are never built. This is why there is (and must always be) still homelessness, poverty etc. This is also why fashion exists. The key irony of capitalism which purports to be a way of satisfying needs is that the needs must *never* be satisfied.
So... Our money... Paper money makes up only around 5% of all the money which exists. The rest, the other 95% is "borrowed into existence". You go to a bank and get a loan, they *create* $NNN,NNN worth of credit and loan it to you. The bank expects you to pay interest on the loan debt. They expect profit.
What if... Money was created without debt and interest attached? What if you had to pay a penalty for hoarding money, rather than being rewarded for it?
Our worldwide society is defined by the monetary system which we use. Why do you think that we have huge multinational corporations? "progress"? Why? It's because organizations *must* grow to service their debts + interest. They have to keep getting bigger and bigger or they will fail.
When you know how many connections per second your application can handle without failing you are an engineer. When you know how much RAM per connection, per user. How much logging per connection, per user. How much bandwidth... You get the point. Engineers know when and how their systems perform and particularly when and where they break.
Developers on the other hand, don't know shit. They are crystal ball gazers. They have a vague idea that instantiating an object will use a bit of memory, but will have no clue how much or how many of them they can fit into system RAM. Developers delegate scalability and high availability to the RDBMS, or the OS.
There are vast numbers of developers out there calling themselves engineers but who are simply not... They think that an engineering degree makes you an engineer... It doesn't, and they aren't.
Hell, you can virtually photocopy the stuff these days. If you're going to defraud people of goods and services, then you might as well go the universal route.
Machinery without energy is scrap metal. Food production correlates directly with energy production. What we are doing these days is converting oil into food. You can only produce as much food as the horsepower you have available lets you.
And hell, I rather eat food thats *NOT* made in cow shit just because its "natural" based on human history and was the only way to make it at the time.
Jeez. It has fuck all to do with naturalness, but nitrates, phosphates and potassium (NPK).
If you keep taking them out of the soil as you grow crops, the soil degrades till it's no use any more. So you've taken all these nitrates out and you've eaten them. Where do you think they end up? They end up in your shit and piss and they have to be dealt with by the sewage treatment plants. Or dumped in the rivers and oceans, causing algal blooms. That's just dumb.
The other alternative is that you manufacture nitrates. That is called the Haber Bosch process and it involves burning a shit load of fossil fuels to produce the hydrogen and energy required convert the nitrogen in the atmosphere to ammonia. The phosphates and potassium are usually mined. All of which require vast amounts of energy and leave big holes in the ground. As long as energy is plentiful and cheap you can just about get away with this.
Is this like magic or something? The miraculous Walmart magic food onto their shelves? The evil miners and chemical producers dig big holes and burn fossil fuels solely to anger the woolly headed (but nice) environmentalists? America goes to war with *iraq* despite the terrorists being *Saudi* and the supposed terrorist ring being resident in *Afghanistan* and *Pakistan*.
so hackers == terrorists in the minds of the people and politicians.
Could you justify draconian laws against teenage nuisances? It's much easier to create the laws you need against indefensible groups; paedophiles, terrorists etc. So you just need to make more people into terrorists and paedophiles.
They are looking at evolution from the completely wrong point of view. From the point of view of the anthropomorphic species.
Lets start at the beginning.
1. There was a chemical in an environment which caused it to replicate. 2. Large numbers of these chemical replicators were created. Some with slight variations because no analog copying is perfect. 3. Some of the varied replicators were more efficient at replication than others. Some of the variations allowed the replicators to replicate in slightly different environments. 4. GOTO 2 until 4 billion years have passed.
And so the replicators colonised the planet.
That's it. That's all evolution is.
All humans (or any species) are is an environment which allows the chemical replicators to replicate efficiently.
I'm sorry, but you seemed to have lost me here. FYI all engines ignite just before TDC. If you ignited the mixture at or after TDC, you will have a loss of power because of the delay in flame propagation.
Think spark position, not timing. At the moment, the spark is created by a physical electrode, it has to be out of the way of the piston. On the F650 anyway, the positioning is such that it can cause poor running. Simply moving the spark using a projected tip plug improves this noticeably. Where you have fuel injection it's entirely likely you're going to get poor mixing, lean and rich areas within the cylinder.
Single spark plug. And it sucks with the standard plugs installed, particularly round the 3,500 rpm mark where they test the emissions.
In order to get the thing to run smoothly it needs a projected tip iridium plug. Now, this is only an obvious problem because it is a single cylinder machine and it's a relatively large cylinder, but other engines are going to have exactly the same problem with stratification of the fuel/air mixture and combustion efficiency but hide it behind multiple cylinders. A LI plug will allow engine designers to put the spark where they need it, possibly even beyond TDC since there is nothing to get in the way.
Dusty environments are a nightmare with tape. If you keep them enclosed they're fine, but the instant you take them out of the unit, especially if they are going off site in the back of a van, the dust totally destroys the reliability of the drives.
Treat dust like a disease. Quarantine tapes and drives which are used for offsite.
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So it may actually be more efficient thermodynamically.
IPMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseboard_management_controller
But yeah they're not terribly compatible between vendors.
And developers are not engineers.
Wood pulp and mobile phones...
Nokia; (the largest mobile phone company in the world) is Finnish.
As an aside and as a fellow Albanach, I'm largely ashamed of my country of origin. Finland have a similarly sized population. Living in Berlin for a couple of years, the only things we are known for is whisky and kilts. I can go and buy for example, Irish beer, cheese, milk, butter in any shop. Scotland's major production appears to be social security claimants.
Oh wait... shortbread. I can get shortbread...
Perhaps there is an "optimum" brain....
If a brain is basically a network, then there comes a size where it's no longer efficient as a whole. And are 2 brains better than 1?
Infinite exponential growth is bullshit. There is *always* a real physical limit.
It goes like this...
Can you get a loan to buy a house? Yes... but only if there is more demand for housing than there is supply. Remember, supply and demand determine value... A bank isn't going to give you that loan if the future value of the house is certain to be lower than the current value.
So, if there are ever enough houses for everyone, they will become valueless because the demand has been satisfied. There is no profit then to be found in housing. Basically, under our economic system, this can never be allowed to happen because there would be no profit the loans are never made. The houses are never built. This is why there is (and must always be) still homelessness, poverty etc. This is also why fashion exists. The key irony of capitalism which purports to be a way of satisfying needs is that the needs must *never* be satisfied.
So... Our money... Paper money makes up only around 5% of all the money which exists. The rest, the other 95% is "borrowed into existence". You go to a bank and get a loan, they *create* $NNN,NNN worth of credit and loan it to you. The bank expects you to pay interest on the loan debt. They expect profit.
What if ... Money was created without debt and interest attached?
What if you had to pay a penalty for hoarding money, rather than being rewarded for it?
Our worldwide society is defined by the monetary system which we use. Why do you think that we have huge multinational corporations? "progress"? Why? It's because organizations *must* grow to service their debts + interest. They have to keep getting bigger and bigger or they will fail.
developers (oh sorry "software engineers")
When you know how many connections per second your application can handle without failing you are an engineer.
When you know how much RAM per connection, per user. How much logging per connection, per user. How much bandwidth... You get the point. Engineers know when and how their systems perform and particularly when and where they break.
Developers on the other hand, don't know shit. They are crystal ball gazers. They have a vague idea that instantiating an object will use a bit of memory, but will have no clue how much or how many of them they can fit into system RAM. Developers delegate scalability and high availability to the RDBMS, or the OS.
There are vast numbers of developers out there calling themselves engineers but who are simply not... They think that an engineering degree makes you an engineer... It doesn't, and they aren't.
Hell, you can virtually photocopy the stuff these days. If you're going to defraud people of goods and services, then you might as well go the universal route.
The answer is clearly not obvious.
The answer is oil.
Machinery without energy is scrap metal. Food production correlates directly with energy production. What we are doing these days is converting oil into food. You can only produce as much food as the horsepower you have available lets you.
And hell, I rather eat food thats *NOT* made in cow shit just because its "natural" based on human history and was the only way to make it at the time.
Jeez. It has fuck all to do with naturalness, but nitrates, phosphates and potassium (NPK).
If you keep taking them out of the soil as you grow crops, the soil degrades till it's no use any more. So you've taken all these nitrates out and you've eaten them. Where do you think they end up? They end up in your shit and piss and they have to be dealt with by the sewage treatment plants. Or dumped in the rivers and oceans, causing algal blooms. That's just dumb.
The other alternative is that you manufacture nitrates. That is called the Haber Bosch process and it involves burning a shit load of fossil fuels to produce the hydrogen and energy required convert the nitrogen in the atmosphere to ammonia. The phosphates and potassium are usually mined. All of which require vast amounts of energy and leave big holes in the ground. As long as energy is plentiful and cheap you can just about get away with this.
Is this like magic or something? The miraculous Walmart magic food onto their shelves? The evil miners and chemical producers dig big holes and burn fossil fuels solely to anger the woolly headed (but nice) environmentalists? America goes to war with *iraq* despite the terrorists being *Saudi* and the supposed terrorist ring being resident in *Afghanistan* and *Pakistan*.
organic food has pesticides used on them too. The only difference is the pesticides are organic
The world wants to know.
It's a bug in the language.
The purpose is to conflate hacker with terrorist.
so hackers == terrorists in the minds of the people and politicians.
Could you justify draconian laws against teenage nuisances? It's much easier to create the laws you need against indefensible groups; paedophiles, terrorists etc. So you just need to make more people into terrorists and paedophiles.
Your standard propaganda.
Women get more attractive. Men develop bigger wallets.
Get a life people...
Multiple interfaces and lots of block servers.
Does anyone actually still use NFS?
They are looking at evolution from the completely wrong point of view. From the point of view of the anthropomorphic species.
Lets start at the beginning.
1. There was a chemical in an environment which caused it to replicate.
2. Large numbers of these chemical replicators were created. Some with slight variations because no analog copying is perfect.
3. Some of the varied replicators were more efficient at replication than others. Some of the variations allowed the replicators to replicate in slightly different environments.
4. GOTO 2 until 4 billion years have passed.
And so the replicators colonised the planet.
That's it. That's all evolution is.
All humans (or any species) are is an environment which allows the chemical replicators to replicate efficiently.
Sometimes you have to remind people that *everyone* is touchable.
I'm sorry, but you seemed to have lost me here. FYI all engines ignite just before TDC. If you ignited the mixture at or after TDC, you will have a loss of power because of the delay in flame propagation.
Think spark position, not timing. At the moment, the spark is created by a physical electrode, it has to be out of the way of the piston. On the F650 anyway, the positioning is such that it can cause poor running. Simply moving the spark using a projected tip plug improves this noticeably. Where you have fuel injection it's entirely likely you're going to get poor mixing, lean and rich areas within the cylinder.
http://www.atsltd.co.uk/media/videos/
Single spark plug. And it sucks with the standard plugs installed, particularly round the 3,500 rpm mark where they test the emissions.
In order to get the thing to run smoothly it needs a projected tip iridium plug. Now, this is only an obvious problem because it is a single cylinder machine and it's a relatively large cylinder, but other engines are going to have exactly the same problem with stratification of the fuel/air mixture and combustion efficiency but hide it behind multiple cylinders. A LI plug will allow engine designers to put the spark where they need it, possibly even beyond TDC since there is nothing to get in the way.
There must be a million of them. Yeah, you can get autodiscovery as well.
Google is your friend.
I mean, you're completely right... So it seems kind of unlikely that someone would kill themselves over a phone.
Tiny pink unicorns flying round the solar system. Could be... could be....
Dusty environments are a nightmare with tape. If you keep them enclosed they're fine, but the instant you take them out of the unit, especially if they are going off site in the back of a van, the dust totally destroys the reliability of the drives.
Treat dust like a disease. Quarantine tapes and drives which are used for offsite.