The US Will have similar wastes of time and money on it's law books. All laws should have a mandatory default time limit of somewhere around one generation, about 25 years after which they have to be renewed or are removed from the books.
The downside is the land area required for the algae ponds, followed by the fact that your output is determined by solar input. They are basically solar panels.
replacing the troughs with floating platforms on the other hand might remove the need for land and pumping seawater.
Cos several hundred million phones produced by the largest phone manufacturers in the world are all just going to go away. Are you living on Android world?
Really? That's it? That's all you can come up with?
All the current OS concepts of file management "suck donkey balls" as they say. You know what I want? A tag based filesystem. WTF should I have to manage directories?
Can't boot to same image, servers are collocated at different providers.
We have servers all over the world, at multiple different providers, you just need a pxe, tftp server at each site.
And I prefer restarting only services, not whole servers, unless really necessary.
Servers provide services. Without a service, the server is useless. You only need to reboot the server when the binaries are updated. i.e. you are performing an upgrade. Anyway. with an OS image, the workflow is:
Add mac address to dhcp server. Confg bios to pxe boot. Power it on.
Image boots and is immediately functional. No additional installation, no performing upgrade steps. No work needing to be done.
Boot to ramdisk... Depending on how big your image is and how much ram you've got.
The problem with puppet, debian/apt etc is the inevitable gradual divergence of systems as time passes; scripts fail, packages don't get installed etc. It's exactly the same problem that life faces, you'll notice that all large multicellular organisms go through a stage where there is initially only a single cell. That's because mutations creep in otherwise and the cells diverge from one another over time. Eventually you're left with a random slime which is widely divergent in code.
Apply all your updates to a single image, boot the image on all the machines you want to run it on, they are now all running identical code. Guaranteed. Arrange your clusters such that any one machine can be offline. Plus, if you have an image you're booting, you can roll back to older versions trivially.
Imagine you could update the map using the gps info in the phone, or even update the information on the map directly. The more people who use a road the more accurate it'll become. That's the big advantage which Nokia have over the competition.
Nokia (the biggest phone producer) for example, have their own mapping software (Nokia Maps, or Ovi Maps depending on whether you use the web site or the phone interfaces) and are including it free with all their phones, so, where does that leave tomtom and garmin?
Dead and buried is where. They just don't know it yet.
One of the things I find interesting is that this all started kicking off about 3 years ago, but nobody at Garmin or TomTom really noticed. Was the management asleep or what?
No need to download 5gb of maps over the cellular line... In fact, I'm sure the admins of these kinds of services would rather you didn't (there are a lot of phones out there).
However, even having downloaded the maps to your phone, you can still get realtime services to them; like traffic data over the wireless line, should you choose to use it.
With Nokia Maps/Ovi Maps, Nokia for example are making it possible to both know exactly where you are, but also where everything you are interested in round about you is, how to get to it and making it possible to share it instantly with anyone else you think might be interested.
It's the end of the locality of local knowledge. Not of the locality or of the knowledge itself. Or put another way, local knowledge goes global.
Fertiliser production. Also using the Haber-Bosch process with obvious implications for the cost of food vs fuel.
There are 4 big things we can do to save the world, and dependency on oil.
1: Stop throwing away 60% of our energy through "waste" heat. Which is pretty much what every electricity generating plant does. 2: Stop using 50% of our 40% efficient electricity to move heat around... See air conditioning. 3: Stop using 17% efficient vehicles to move us around. 4: Stop generating artificial fertilisers.
The solutions?
1: District Heating and District cooling. 2: Insulation, thermal mass. District cooling and/or evaporative cooling. 3: Walk. Battery electric vehicles for relatively short journeys, personal rapid transit for intermediate and rail for longer journeys. 4: Stop discharging human waste into the ocean. Compost it to destroy pathogens and start using it as fertiliser. The current methods simply move NPK from the land to the ocean.
p.s. I don't expect any of this to actually happen. Humans are stupid animals and it's easier to kill others who threaten resource consumption than it is to change.
Slashdot Mirror
I just can't be bothered with slashdot any more. It's full of dummies with mod points. How do I get off the Internet?
Do I need a megabyte of backup capacity for every megabyte of storage? No, I decide what's important and how long it's important for.
I don't know anything about JavaScript or Firefox internals,
But you thought you'd bitch to Slashdot anyway?
This call is used all the time right?
Didn't you just say you don't know shit about JavaScript or Firefox?
When I used OKCupid regularly, I encountered a large number of women I would classify as crazy.
Because they use regression analysis to match people, that means you must correlate with the crazies.
Run by a couple of maths grads. Last time I looked they were using a regression analysis to match people.
The site's also free.
In the salary cheque that is.
No?
The camera doesn't lie:
http://collegeotr.s3.amazonaws.com/images/blogs/b422245a96af7340b70921c641e0b6db.jpg
Simple. Set up a dating site which costs a thousand+ a month for guys but is free for women.
Why do they hypothesize that?
Because it's facile. It's simply an indication about the people producing the hypothesis.
e.g. EU bananna regulation
Take for example European Commission Regulation (EC) 2257/94
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31994R2257:EN:HTML
What The Fuck... As they say.
The US Will have similar wastes of time and money on it's law books. All laws should have a mandatory default time limit of somewhere around one generation, about 25 years after which they have to be renewed or are removed from the books.
The downside is the land area required for the algae ponds, followed by the fact that your output is determined by solar input. They are basically solar panels.
replacing the troughs with floating platforms on the other hand might remove the need for land and pumping seawater.
300 notepad applications, only a couple are going to be worth installing, never mind paying for. The same will be true of any category.
It's primarily angst ridden geeks who worry about all the crap they've accreted.
this step is too little, too late.
Cos several hundred million phones produced by the largest phone manufacturers in the world are all just going to go away. Are you living on Android world?
This is interesting and welcome news.
This particular flu hasn't been isolated in pigs, or any other animals so far.
http://www.oie.int/eng/press/en_090427.htm
and
http://www.oie.int/eng/press/en_090611.htm
So it's origins are currently unknown.
e.g.
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/05/14/swine-flu-shock-claim/expert-says-virus-created-in-lab-by-vaccine-scientists.html
and start making your product better and cheaper.
That's easy. Just outsource to China.
e.g.
http://www.modern-airships.info/en/zeppelin/fossett_record_2004.html
You can fill a bubble with helium and stay up as long as you like.
Linux's file dialogs
Really? That's it? That's all you can come up with?
All the current OS concepts of file management "suck donkey balls" as they say. You know what I want? A tag based filesystem. WTF should I have to manage directories?
Can't boot to same image, servers are collocated at different providers.
We have servers all over the world, at multiple different providers, you just need a pxe, tftp server at each site.
And I prefer restarting only services, not whole servers, unless really necessary.
Servers provide services. Without a service, the server is useless. You only need to reboot the server when the binaries are updated. i.e. you are performing an upgrade. Anyway. with an OS image, the workflow is:
Add mac address to dhcp server.
Confg bios to pxe boot.
Power it on.
Image boots and is immediately functional. No additional installation, no performing upgrade steps. No work needing to be done.
Boot to ramdisk... Depending on how big your image is and how much ram you've got.
The problem with puppet, debian/apt etc is the inevitable gradual divergence of systems as time passes; scripts fail, packages don't get installed etc. It's exactly the same problem that life faces, you'll notice that all large multicellular organisms go through a stage where there is initially only a single cell. That's because mutations creep in otherwise and the cells diverge from one another over time. Eventually you're left with a random slime which is widely divergent in code.
Apply all your updates to a single image, boot the image on all the machines you want to run it on, they are now all running identical code. Guaranteed. Arrange your clusters such that any one machine can be offline. Plus, if you have an image you're booting, you can roll back to older versions trivially.
Imagine you could update the map using the gps info in the phone, or even update the information on the map directly. The more people who use a road the more accurate it'll become. That's the big advantage which Nokia have over the competition.
Nokia (the biggest phone producer) for example, have their own mapping software (Nokia Maps, or Ovi Maps depending on whether you use the web site or the phone interfaces) and are including it free with all their phones, so, where does that leave tomtom and garmin?
Dead and buried is where. They just don't know it yet.
One of the things I find interesting is that this all started kicking off about 3 years ago, but nobody at Garmin or TomTom really noticed. Was the management asleep or what?
No need to download 5gb of maps over the cellular line... In fact, I'm sure the admins of these kinds of services would rather you didn't (there are a lot of phones out there).
e.g.
http://europe.nokia.com/explore-services/maps/download
However, even having downloaded the maps to your phone, you can still get realtime services to them; like traffic data over the wireless line, should you choose to use it.
1. They're not only for navigation.
2. I can walk the wrong way up a one way street.
etc etc
With Nokia Maps/Ovi Maps, Nokia for example are making it possible to both know exactly where you are, but also where everything you are interested in round about you is, how to get to it and making it possible to share it instantly with anyone else you think might be interested.
It's the end of the locality of local knowledge. Not of the locality or of the knowledge itself. Or put another way, local knowledge goes global.
Which revision?
i tried it for a couple of months, and rather like it, but it'd simply stop monitoring stuff, triggers wouldn't fire reliably etc.
Fertiliser production. Also using the Haber-Bosch process with obvious implications for the cost of food vs fuel.
There are 4 big things we can do to save the world, and dependency on oil.
1: Stop throwing away 60% of our energy through "waste" heat. Which is pretty much what every electricity generating plant does.
2: Stop using 50% of our 40% efficient electricity to move heat around... See air conditioning.
3: Stop using 17% efficient vehicles to move us around.
4: Stop generating artificial fertilisers.
The solutions?
1: District Heating and District cooling.
2: Insulation, thermal mass. District cooling and/or evaporative cooling.
3: Walk. Battery electric vehicles for relatively short journeys, personal rapid transit for intermediate and rail for longer journeys.
4: Stop discharging human waste into the ocean. Compost it to destroy pathogens and start using it as fertiliser. The current methods simply move NPK from the land to the ocean.
p.s. I don't expect any of this to actually happen. Humans are stupid animals and it's easier to kill others who threaten resource consumption than it is to change.