The population in California is particularly striking to me. I'm from Scotland, where the population has gone up roughly 3-fold since the industrial revolution. California's population went up by a factor of 350 in the same period.
X is an over-engineered monstrous relic from the mid-80's, and the window-managers on top of it are lipstick-on-a-pig kludges. Hopefully Google will present something to potentially replace it with when they announce their Chrome OS tomorrow.
I wonder if, given the shrinking US consumer market and growth of the East, there will come a point where the corporations apply 'A * B * C = X' and simply stop selling goods in America because it is cheaper to do that than to pay for the frivolous lawsuits and patent licensing.
I just noticed that although a stock Beagle Board is 500MHZ, it's possible to change the clock speed in the BIOS, so maybe he's already driving/overdriving the processor in this instance.
Do you realize that a constant X% growth rate is exponential? The regular economic growth numbers are based on the size of the economy last year, not some fixed point hundreds of years ago.
The current global economic system seems to be fundamentally broken - it requires endless exponential growth in order for old debts plus interest to be paid off by new money, backed by goods and services to maintain that new money's value. I fear that until this system is re-designed from the bottom up it cannot be sustained for very much longer. I think the current turmoil is evidence for this.
I'd recommend watching Money As Debt for more insight on this.
um, what? I'm assuming the OP meant bonding a separate conductor pair to a high-tensile elevator cable. If the cable is strong enough to support its own weight, it should really be strong enough to support a few extra tonnes of wire.
Data centers would be much more efficient if blade servers had modular water cooling instead of fans. Water is much better at transferring heat than air. Then you could just remove all the fans from the data center and add a network of water pipes (alongside the spaghetti of network and power cabling) around the data center. Then just pump cold water in and dispose of the hot water (pretty cheap to do). Should be reasonable safe too really - the water should only be near low-voltage systems really (voltage stepdown should really be happening at a single point in an efficient data center, not at every rack).
I'm concerned about the idea of 'endless growth in a finite world' that cheap food and energy seem to sustain. If the world population was the same now as it was before the green revolution (2 billion or so) everything would be rosy. That is is now 6.8 billion, set for 7 billion in 2012 and utterly dependent on fossil-fuel centered food production is a worry for me.
If you change 'energy' and 'power' for 'food', you have got what the green revolution achieved from the 50's or so onwards. I think this is a good model for what would happen if cheap energy became universal - consumption simply increases to match what is available and the underlying issue remains unresolved.
By 2036, almost all the oil will be gone, 9 billion people will be struggling to eat as water tables will have dropped to nothing and climate change, deforestation and soil erosion will have turned half the planet into desert; but hey, at least there won't be an asteroid to worry about.
Anybody worrying about 2036 has their priorities seriously out of whack. Life for the moment.
You think that's bad? Here in Edinburgh, Scotland, 12 miles of trams (street cars) is coming in at 750 million pounts, or $1.2 billion, $100 million a mile! (and rising).
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The population in California is particularly striking to me. I'm from Scotland, where the population has gone up roughly 3-fold since the industrial revolution. California's population went up by a factor of 350 in the same period.
X is an over-engineered monstrous relic from the mid-80's, and the window-managers on top of it are lipstick-on-a-pig kludges. Hopefully Google will present something to potentially replace it with when they announce their Chrome OS tomorrow.
I wonder if, given the shrinking US consumer market and growth of the East, there will come a point where the corporations apply 'A * B * C = X' and simply stop selling goods in America because it is cheaper to do that than to pay for the frivolous lawsuits and patent licensing.
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I just noticed that although a stock Beagle Board is 500MHZ, it's possible to change the clock speed in the BIOS, so maybe he's already driving/overdriving the processor in this instance.
The Beagleboard runs at 500Mhz, not 600Mhz (they underclock the processor for reliability. I have one btw)
Do you realize that a constant X% growth rate is exponential? The regular economic growth numbers are based on the size of the economy last year, not some fixed point hundreds of years ago.
The current global economic system seems to be fundamentally broken - it requires endless exponential growth in order for old debts plus interest to be paid off by new money, backed by goods and services to maintain that new money's value. I fear that until this system is re-designed from the bottom up it cannot be sustained for very much longer. I think the current turmoil is evidence for this.
I'd recommend watching Money As Debt for more insight on this.
Are these books mostly written in English? And the OLPC is mainly used in developing countries? I think I see a problem here...
Just equip the lift with a nuclear engine. If it's good enough for submarines it's good enough here. High power output and 40 year lifespan.
um, what? I'm assuming the OP meant bonding a separate conductor pair to a high-tensile elevator cable. If the cable is strong enough to support its own weight, it should really be strong enough to support a few extra tonnes of wire.
Data centers would be much more efficient if blade servers had modular water cooling instead of fans. Water is much better at transferring heat than air. Then you could just remove all the fans from the data center and add a network of water pipes (alongside the spaghetti of network and power cabling) around the data center. Then just pump cold water in and dispose of the hot water (pretty cheap to do). Should be reasonable safe too really - the water should only be near low-voltage systems really (voltage stepdown should really be happening at a single point in an efficient data center, not at every rack).
If you enable /noclip does that mean you can do without insurance?
I'm concerned about the idea of 'endless growth in a finite world' that cheap food and energy seem to sustain. If the world population was the same now as it was before the green revolution (2 billion or so) everything would be rosy. That is is now 6.8 billion, set for 7 billion in 2012 and utterly dependent on fossil-fuel centered food production is a worry for me.
If you change 'energy' and 'power' for 'food', you have got what the green revolution achieved from the 50's or so onwards. I think this is a good model for what would happen if cheap energy became universal - consumption simply increases to match what is available and the underlying issue remains unresolved.
Obligatory xkcd
a poke got you infinite lives, not arrested. /get off my 8-bit lawn
Tell that to the builders of the Library of Alexandria
Oh I don't know. Seems more like free advertising to me. The clothes looked pretty even if the model was modded.
By 2036, almost all the oil will be gone, 9 billion people will be struggling to eat as water tables will have dropped to nothing and climate change, deforestation and soil erosion will have turned half the planet into desert; but hey, at least there won't be an asteroid to worry about.
Anybody worrying about 2036 has their priorities seriously out of whack. Life for the moment.
The Ruttles had it right - "All You Need Is Cash".
You think that's bad? Here in Edinburgh, Scotland, 12 miles of trams (street cars) is coming in at 750 million pounts, or $1.2 billion, $100 million a mile! (and rising).
This goes to prove the importance of 'anonymity' in the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
Dude, I read that as:
and all that remains of me are nipples left behind
I was left wondering what kind of weird donor card you must be carrying.
Got to get some sleep...
Or just use a socket and insert the chip later once things have cooled off, BIOS-chip style, like we've been doing for decades.