Really? I've had the same check book since I first opened my account, 10 years ago. It still has around 10 checks left... might actually have to order another sometime in the next few years.
Megarun's compute resources cost $33,000 through the use of Amazon's low-cost spot instances, we're told, compared with the millions and millions of dollars you'd have to spend to buy an on-premises rig.
Running somebody else's machines for 18 hours costs less than buying a machine that powerful for yourself to run 24/7...
Also, in round accelerators they can achieve much higher energies, iirc, since the particles can travel around the ring many times... while in a linear accelerator its maximum energy is dictated by the length of a single run.
I use a private service to haul away my trash. They cost 30% less than the (public) county service, and every Monday, they haul away my trash around 6am. I have not had a service interruption.
Clearly this means private business is better than public!
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago democrats were hitching on to the idea that republicans were misguided because even under a government shutdown, healthcare is considered essential and would not lose funding?
Pick a stance, guys.
We still have to support a site that we built back when IE6 was the norm, though I don't know of anybody around here who uses it.
A guy who sits 7 feet away from me is using IE8, though. Well, not 'using'... more like... 'pulls up occasionally to test compatibility'
Yeah, 10% seems low, especially when once customers discover the ease of buying books online, they might stop being customers.
On the other hand, I might actually -go- to a book store again if I knew the book purchases through my Kindle would help 'em out a bit...
Pfft, haven't you seen Dr. Who? We'll have force-field satellites that keep planets in living condition until they are no longer deemed useful. And the sole remaining human will be a sack of skin.
I seem to recall reading that the sun should expand to about 1.3AU, Mars is 1.38 AU right now, though it should drift a little further as the sun's gravity field weakens. It might still be a little toasty, so slinging some asteroids together in the asteroid belt might be nice.
Nobody's stopping other countries from doing whatever they want with their portion of the internet. It's as simple as that. Stop bitching and do something about it. Look at China.
One issue I've always had with this... anybody familiar with firing a weapon would notice the significant difference in recoil of a real bullet vs a blank.
For as long as I've had cable internet, during peak usage the max bandwidth tends to drop. Not all 300 units are going to demand 24mbps at the same time, most of the time. I have 25mbps service right now and I actually -use- that much less than an hour a day on average.
I still don't get 1080p over digital cable, I don't see 4k coming anytime soon. The only 1080p content I have that gets displayed on my TV is blu-ray, video games, and digital downloads.
I should add that yes, at certain pressures there is probably solid diamond (there are theories of exoplanets that are almost entirely diamond, in fact), but the 'rain' would be liquid carbon.
Where were the stress tests? Not sure about the rest of you who are web devs, but when we're putting out a new product, we hit it with around 2-3x of what we expect our capped demand to be ahead of time to see what happens. I work in the financial industry so we -do- get in trouble if our new web apps fail, and we're still contracted under a certain amount of money so if we go over what we give as an estimate, we eat the loss(which directly changes what our profit-sharing take will be, which is motivation to not screw up).
And if I ever put out something like this, I probably wouldn't be working here much longer. Though a file like that would never make it into production anyways because somebody else would see it and go 'WTF'.
My grandma bought a house 20 years ago in Topeka, KS, and had the entire thing reconstructed. She still couldn't get a basement, so she had steel-reinforced concrete put around her closet. Bam. Tornado-proof-house-in-a-house. This is a non-story.
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We use paper checks for everything.
Really? I've had the same check book since I first opened my account, 10 years ago. It still has around 10 checks left... might actually have to order another sometime in the next few years.
Megarun's compute resources cost $33,000 through the use of Amazon's low-cost spot instances, we're told, compared with the millions and millions of dollars you'd have to spend to buy an on-premises rig.
Running somebody else's machines for 18 hours costs less than buying a machine that powerful for yourself to run 24/7...
NEWS AT 11!
This'll be about as successful as getting a laptop to every student. Now, 3D printers in, say, shop class in middle/high school? Much more reasonable.
Dump a bunch of supposed important people into an underground tunnel? Sounds good!
Also, in round accelerators they can achieve much higher energies, iirc, since the particles can travel around the ring many times... while in a linear accelerator its maximum energy is dictated by the length of a single run.
Because anecdotes are SO valuable:
I use a private service to haul away my trash. They cost 30% less than the (public) county service, and every Monday, they haul away my trash around 6am. I have not had a service interruption.
Clearly this means private business is better than public!
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago democrats were hitching on to the idea that republicans were misguided because even under a government shutdown, healthcare is considered essential and would not lose funding? Pick a stance, guys.
Pat-a-Cake Pat-a-Cake, Baker's Man... "You're suspended!"
We still have to support a site that we built back when IE6 was the norm, though I don't know of anybody around here who uses it. A guy who sits 7 feet away from me is using IE8, though. Well, not 'using'... more like... 'pulls up occasionally to test compatibility'
Yeah, 10% seems low, especially when once customers discover the ease of buying books online, they might stop being customers. On the other hand, I might actually -go- to a book store again if I knew the book purchases through my Kindle would help 'em out a bit...
Quick, go fix Wikipedia.
Pfft, haven't you seen Dr. Who? We'll have force-field satellites that keep planets in living condition until they are no longer deemed useful. And the sole remaining human will be a sack of skin.
I seem to recall reading that the sun should expand to about 1.3AU, Mars is 1.38 AU right now, though it should drift a little further as the sun's gravity field weakens. It might still be a little toasty, so slinging some asteroids together in the asteroid belt might be nice.
Nobody's stopping other countries from doing whatever they want with their portion of the internet. It's as simple as that. Stop bitching and do something about it. Look at China.
One issue I've always had with this... anybody familiar with firing a weapon would notice the significant difference in recoil of a real bullet vs a blank.
and? What the hell else is their?
Considering 90% of the content I watch comes through my cable box, a lot?
For as long as I've had cable internet, during peak usage the max bandwidth tends to drop. Not all 300 units are going to demand 24mbps at the same time, most of the time. I have 25mbps service right now and I actually -use- that much less than an hour a day on average.
I still don't get 1080p over digital cable, I don't see 4k coming anytime soon. The only 1080p content I have that gets displayed on my TV is blu-ray, video games, and digital downloads.
nobody is going to buy steam OS
Well, considering Steam OS itself will be free...
You must hate hobbyist quadcopter pilots. Or hobbyist -anything- that is essentially spending money for nothing other than the cool/fun factor.
I should add that yes, at certain pressures there is probably solid diamond (there are theories of exoplanets that are almost entirely diamond, in fact), but the 'rain' would be liquid carbon.
Aren't they essentially saying there might be oceans of carbon, but using diamond to make better headlines?
Where were the stress tests? Not sure about the rest of you who are web devs, but when we're putting out a new product, we hit it with around 2-3x of what we expect our capped demand to be ahead of time to see what happens. I work in the financial industry so we -do- get in trouble if our new web apps fail, and we're still contracted under a certain amount of money so if we go over what we give as an estimate, we eat the loss(which directly changes what our profit-sharing take will be, which is motivation to not screw up).
And if I ever put out something like this, I probably wouldn't be working here much longer. Though a file like that would never make it into production anyways because somebody else would see it and go 'WTF'.
Here is one of the .js files I happened upon...
No.
My grandma bought a house 20 years ago in Topeka, KS, and had the entire thing reconstructed. She still couldn't get a basement, so she had steel-reinforced concrete put around her closet. Bam. Tornado-proof-house-in-a-house. This is a non-story.
I want to know what'll happen if he's NOT Muslim. How will they spin that story?
Because a shooting in DC is not uncommon? The only thing that makes this special is that it's near the capitol.