We searched the whole world for Bigfoot, except for this little hut here. There's something we've never seen before inside the hut. So Bigfoot must be in that hut.
One example of laws that do should be geographical is auto emissions.
I live in SoCal, and I love the strict emissions laws. The air quality gets better every year. But those strict emissions laws should not apply to the guy living out in the middle of the desert, or the Illinois farmer living in the middle of a field.
But because that farmer lives in the same state as Chicago, because that desert dweller lives in the same State as 3 of the top 10 largest cities in America, they both have to follow the higher emissions standards. Why should the farmer in southern Illinois (~200 miles away from Chicago) have to, when the farmer in Northern Indiana (~50 miles away from Chicago) doesn't?
I don't think that an hour of planning dampens my creativity. I find it helps. The 2 week deadlines aren't deadlines, they're a scheduling convience. I don't have complete the whole task, or even develop a whole vision of the task, in a single 2 week chunk. But you should be able to point to some progress that you have made in that time.
I like to start out big vague projects with a sprint just to write a proof on concept. That gives me an idea where to start, then I take it 2 weeks at a time, making ideas concrete.
The reason Scrum works is that it makes you break down big (and hard to estimate) tasks into small tasks that can be reliably estimated. Scrum does not say you must use a 2 week sprint, they just recommend it as a place to start. If you need a longer sprint, use a longer sprint. Just make sure you don't make the sprint so long that you're tempted to write big stories that cannot be reliably estimated.
I ran the numbers for prepaid, and pre-paid would be cheaper for my usage patterns. The smallest plan I can buy has 4x the number of minutes I need. For my wife, it's cheaper to stick with a plan that includes free mobile-to-mobile.
The prices for prepaid phone service are frequently twice per minute what it would cost under contract.
You have to run the *actual* cost per minute, not the ideal cost. If I pay $50/month for 1000 minutes, and use 100 minute, I didn't pay 5 cents/minute, I paid 50 cents/minute. Prepaid is cheaper than 50 cents/minute. And before you say that's unrealistic, I use ~150 minutes of 700 for $50/month. It's cheaper to buy 150 minutes at 20 cents/minute. My wife uses ~100 minutes plus ~600 "free" minutes. For her, it's cheaper to pay for a plan with free minutes than pay for 700 prepaid minutes.
Maybe not that good. I figure even cheap camera phones will be recording in 1080p. That's ~8x larger than current 480i. Maybe even ~16x, if you have a full 1080p 3D stream (2x 30fps).
Still, it will happen eventually. I remember converting WAV to MP3 at 0.5x. Rip a track at 2x, convert at 0.5x, rip another track. Transcoding audio is nothing now. Video will get there
I still can't figure out why Gemesis gave in to presumed pressure from De Beers to laser inscribe them as synthetic though.
DeBeers had already dropped prices to match. I would wager that DeBeers threatened to drop prices even more. That's generally fatal to a startup competitor.
I laughed the whole time my iPhone owning carpool buddy tried to join a conference call. He'd dial the number, type in the meeting number, speak his name, and the call would drop. Repeat at least 3 times. I finally had to hand him my sprint phone, so I could concentrate on driving.
You can't cheat, but a catalyst can lower the energy requirements of the chemical reaction. To me (software engineer), catalysts are magically alchemy ingredients; They work, but I don't know why. Somebody that does understand the physic underneath the chemistry should be able to build a nanorobot to be a perfect catalyst for the single reaction you want.
Since the carbon is already suspended in the air, just use it to build a carbon nanotube space elevator. That'll save us the effort of lifting all that coal up into the air.
We're going to see Wii's with bad internal flash start to pop up in a couple years
No you're not. If you did this 100 times a day, MTBF would be 1000 days, or ~3 years. If you do this 5 times a day, MTBF will be 20x that, ~60 years. And those calculations are using the old and outdated 100,000 write cycles MTBF numbers. Newer flash is way better than that.
You must live up north. In the Southern US, we try very hard to keep our bodies below ambient tempature. It avoids all that nasty dizziness, coma, and death business.
I'm not the GP, but I can see his point. When you're setting up a VM hosts that use NFS, iSCSI, or SAN storage, "writing to other parts of my filesystem" can be a deal breaker.
Usually those sorts of environments aren't using VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox, they're using the enterprise versions, which should understand those limitations. At least I hope so, I haven't used any of them.
so that by the time something crawls back out of the muck it will be considerably harder to advance past the club and stick phase.
You're not thinking in the right time spans. Bacteria to Human takes a couple of billion years, give or take. Plenty of time for new mountain ranges to rise and fall, time for continental plates to shift. That will make ore that's currently difficult to access, or currently in the mantle, easily accessible. That's where our current, easy to access, deposits came from.
If you like Science Fiction, check out Brin's Uplift Saga. The sequel trilogy, the Uplift Triology, goes into more details on how a galaxy spanning civilization can cycle worlds in and out of service, giving evolution time.
This is a problem for humans that survive the cataclysm. It's not a problem for lower life forms if humans get wiped out.
I've switched to PostgreSQL, and I must say that I enjoy looking back. It's like gawking at an accident on the side of the road. Reading the MySQL articles is a guilty pleasure now.
So far, I've only changed her default printer to default to black and white. The black toner cartridge has a higher capacity than the color cartridges and costs less. She can print color when she has to, but usually doesn't re-explore the windows print system unless she's desperate.:-)
We're still going through paper just as fast, and I don't have the numbers to prove it yet, but I'm pretty sure that I'm down to a nearly reasonable amount of money per year. I'm still not saving money vs. the ink-jet though.
I really ought to compare electricity usage too, but I think I'd rather not know. Man does the this laser printer suck the electricity. I can tell when she's printing, because the lights will dim 2 rooms away. And this is a new house with good wiring.
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The extend the analogy:
We searched the whole world for Bigfoot, except for this little hut here. There's something we've never seen before inside the hut. So Bigfoot must be in that hut.
One example of laws that do should be geographical is auto emissions.
I live in SoCal, and I love the strict emissions laws. The air quality gets better every year. But those strict emissions laws should not apply to the guy living out in the middle of the desert, or the Illinois farmer living in the middle of a field.
But because that farmer lives in the same state as Chicago, because that desert dweller lives in the same State as 3 of the top 10 largest cities in America, they both have to follow the higher emissions standards. Why should the farmer in southern Illinois (~200 miles away from Chicago) have to, when the farmer in Northern Indiana (~50 miles away from Chicago) doesn't?
Friggen AC...
I see what you did there...
That's what warm spares are for. And yes, I can prove that the warm spare has the same configs as the live members of the cluster.
I don't think that an hour of planning dampens my creativity. I find it helps. The 2 week deadlines aren't deadlines, they're a scheduling convience. I don't have complete the whole task, or even develop a whole vision of the task, in a single 2 week chunk. But you should be able to point to some progress that you have made in that time.
I like to start out big vague projects with a sprint just to write a proof on concept. That gives me an idea where to start, then I take it 2 weeks at a time, making ideas concrete.
The reason Scrum works is that it makes you break down big (and hard to estimate) tasks into small tasks that can be reliably estimated. Scrum does not say you must use a 2 week sprint, they just recommend it as a place to start. If you need a longer sprint, use a longer sprint. Just make sure you don't make the sprint so long that you're tempted to write big stories that cannot be reliably estimated.
I ran the numbers for prepaid, and pre-paid would be cheaper for my usage patterns. The smallest plan I can buy has 4x the number of minutes I need. For my wife, it's cheaper to stick with a plan that includes free mobile-to-mobile.
The prices for prepaid phone service are frequently twice per minute what it would cost under contract.
You have to run the *actual* cost per minute, not the ideal cost. If I pay $50/month for 1000 minutes, and use 100 minute, I didn't pay 5 cents/minute, I paid 50 cents/minute. Prepaid is cheaper than 50 cents/minute. And before you say that's unrealistic, I use ~150 minutes of 700 for $50/month. It's cheaper to buy 150 minutes at 20 cents/minute. My wife uses ~100 minutes plus ~600 "free" minutes. For her, it's cheaper to pay for a plan with free minutes than pay for 700 prepaid minutes.
Maybe not that good. I figure even cheap camera phones will be recording in 1080p. That's ~8x larger than current 480i. Maybe even ~16x, if you have a full 1080p 3D stream (2x 30fps).
Still, it will happen eventually. I remember converting WAV to MP3 at 0.5x. Rip a track at 2x, convert at 0.5x, rip another track. Transcoding audio is nothing now. Video will get there
In 6 years, computers will be 16 times as powerful vs. today. Just transcode the videos then.
You are saving them in high enough quality that you can transcode, right? If not, you're going to have problems eventually.
I want to know which special interest group got that Sol station approved.
Talk about useless to the rest of the galactic population...
And then they wonder why the US is full of Fundis. Same goes for all the debtors prison inmates they shipped over here.
I still can't figure out why Gemesis gave in to presumed pressure from De Beers to laser inscribe them as synthetic though.
DeBeers had already dropped prices to match. I would wager that DeBeers threatened to drop prices even more. That's generally fatal to a startup competitor.
I laughed the whole time my iPhone owning carpool buddy tried to join a conference call. He'd dial the number, type in the meeting number, speak his name, and the call would drop. Repeat at least 3 times. I finally had to hand him my sprint phone, so I could concentrate on driving.
You can't cheat, but a catalyst can lower the energy requirements of the chemical reaction. To me (software engineer), catalysts are magically alchemy ingredients; They work, but I don't know why. Somebody that does understand the physic underneath the chemistry should be able to build a nanorobot to be a perfect catalyst for the single reaction you want.
Since the carbon is already suspended in the air, just use it to build a carbon nanotube space elevator. That'll save us the effort of lifting all that coal up into the air.
We're going to see Wii's with bad internal flash start to pop up in a couple years
No you're not. If you did this 100 times a day, MTBF would be 1000 days, or ~3 years. If you do this 5 times a day, MTBF will be 20x that, ~60 years. And those calculations are using the old and outdated 100,000 write cycles MTBF numbers. Newer flash is way better than that.
since my first slackware CD's
Slackware comes on a CD now? I can finally get rid of my pallet of floppies!
You must live up north. In the Southern US, we try very hard to keep our bodies below ambient tempature. It avoids all that nasty dizziness, coma, and death business.
And do you think that Blackberry will be able to live if only big enterprises use its terminals?
Ask IBM.
I would bet that less than 1% doesn't know what a Tera means.
Of course we know what it means. 2^40.
I'm not the GP, but I can see his point. When you're setting up a VM hosts that use NFS, iSCSI, or SAN storage, "writing to other parts of my filesystem" can be a deal breaker.
Usually those sorts of environments aren't using VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox, they're using the enterprise versions, which should understand those limitations. At least I hope so, I haven't used any of them.
so that by the time something crawls back out of the muck it will be considerably harder to advance past the club and stick phase.
You're not thinking in the right time spans. Bacteria to Human takes a couple of billion years, give or take. Plenty of time for new mountain ranges to rise and fall, time for continental plates to shift. That will make ore that's currently difficult to access, or currently in the mantle, easily accessible. That's where our current, easy to access, deposits came from.
If you like Science Fiction, check out Brin's Uplift Saga. The sequel trilogy, the Uplift Triology, goes into more details on how a galaxy spanning civilization can cycle worlds in and out of service, giving evolution time.
This is a problem for humans that survive the cataclysm. It's not a problem for lower life forms if humans get wiped out.
I've switched to PostgreSQL, and I must say that I enjoy looking back. It's like gawking at an accident on the side of the road. Reading the MySQL articles is a guilty pleasure now.
filled with hacks like the Big Global Lock that used to be in the Linux kernel
The spinning hourglass begs to differ.
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So far, I've only changed her default printer to default to black and white. The black toner cartridge has a higher capacity than the color cartridges and costs less. She can print color when she has to, but usually doesn't re-explore the windows print system unless she's desperate. :-)
We're still going through paper just as fast, and I don't have the numbers to prove it yet, but I'm pretty sure that I'm down to a nearly reasonable amount of money per year. I'm still not saving money vs. the ink-jet though.
I really ought to compare electricity usage too, but I think I'd rather not know. Man does the this laser printer suck the electricity. I can tell when she's printing, because the lights will dim 2 rooms away. And this is a new house with good wiring.