A few months back I was trying to get an appliance installed at a bank data center in Florida. It was 95 degrees outside at the time and their data center racks were full. They were in the middle of a migration over to VMWare's ESX server and I got a 30-minute lecture on the headaches they have with power distribution, air conditioning and their electicity bill.
Talking to the same people recently they went on non-stop about how much they loved VMWare. Yes, ESX server cost them $50,000 or so but they saved that in new server costs and the electricity bill in the first couple of months.
My point is, each data center is a bigger potential savings and much easier to convert. Trying to get EVERY person to change their graphics card just isn't going to happen. There is a much bigger bang for your buck in convincing the server people.
Frankly, the India/Pakistan development of a nuclear arsenol worries me more than what happened historically between the U.S. & Russia.
Really? Do you live over there in that area? Neither have long-range delivery systems so they aren't going to be nuking Europe or North America anytime soon. Even if they did, they're more interested in wiping out each other. China might be real nervous because they have several border disputes with both Pakistan and India.
Most anyone running a data center or who has a lot of servers cares about power and heat. The electricity bill -- including all that extra air conditioning -- is a whopper in some places.
Those people, however, don't give a rat's ass about the latest video card. People with rooms full of server are probably using an IP KVM or running them totally headless.
"I am going to speak today about the most media-hyped environmental issue of all time, global warming. I have spoken more about global warming than any other politician in Washington today. My speech will be a bit different from the previous seven floor speeches, as I focus not only on the science, but on the media's coverage of climate change." --SENATOR JAMES INHOFE CHAIRMAN, SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, SENATE FLOOR SPEECH DELIVERED MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2006
He's right. This issue is being played so much by the media it is hard to get honest science. All in the name of money -- either from the latest blockbuster movie or a never-ending fountain of grant money.
One way would be to market convenience, speed and quality. Thinking of music and movies, while it would be possible to find anything thru newsgroups, torrents or various illegal sites, they all have major drawbacks.
1. Finding the correct material -- decent indexes are almost non-existant, naming schemes are inconsistant, there is no central location to find everything. One place (NOT ONE PER DAMN STUDIO/LABEL) to find everything, with correct meta information, decent indexes and search.
2. Quality of downloaded material is frequently suspect. You have no guarantees that you're actually getting what you think you are. Is it all there? How is the encoding? What format is it in? Guaranteed, consistant quality in a variety of formats is a major selling point.
3. Speed, being able to download the file or stream it in realtime, along with guaranteed access are another point. And online "media locker" that maintains original copies of the items I've purchased so I can access them later or from somewhere else would be great.
While the RIAA seems to think the Russian site allofmp3.com is so successful because of the price, the main reason they are excellent is because the meet all of those items above -- they have almost everything, they're fast, it is easy to find stuff, and it is available in a variety of common formats.
Finally, you're going to have a hard time convincing the RIAA because they have their heads so far up their asses regarding the perceived value of their product. How come a hit movie that cost $100 million to make which I can find the DVD in Walmart for $17-20 costs the same as a new music CD? There is no way in hell the music CD cost $100 million to produce, yet the end cost is the same as a movie DVD.
If you go to the store, they are over 7 dollars in most cases.
Not anymore at Walmart. This explains what I've been seeing for the past month or so. There is a big display of CFLs just as you walk in the door at the Walmart in Post Falls, ID.
My first thought on seeing them was "wow, I wonder what has gotten into Walmart". My second thought was "$3?! Holy shit, those things were $7 each only 6 months ago!"
I'll second this. I've had a couple actually *melt* in ceiling fan light fixtures. To be fair, the wiring in that house was 60+ years old and the power is of shit quality. I had to put all my nice electronics (TV, computers, audio equipment, etc.) on a line-conditioning UPS.
Some of them don't have a warm up time, and some are actually much, much, much brighter than the incadecent equivelent makred on the wrapper. I guess it depends on the brand.
Some private equity firm thinks Microsoft, one of the richest companies in the world, would be better off borrowing money?!? I thought capitalism was about maximizing profit. When did things change?
Never, it has always been this way. The idea is if you can borrow money at x%, and invest your money and get >x% return, then by all means borrow and invest yours! You come out ahead of the game.
As the richest company in the world, they most likely have an excellent credit rating and can borrow cheaply. And, IIRC, their investment division is one of the most profitable.
SFTP over SSH requires an ACK per block sent, greatly slowing it down. FTP is 5-10x faster in transferring files, and that has nothing to do with crypto overhead. SCP's method is great if you're on a noisy 2400 baud dial-up connection, but a total waste if you're using a modern, noise-free connection.
SCP was designed for individual file transfers, not bulk transfers. It can be hacked to do multi-file transfers, etc. but it really is a kludge.
FTP thru SSL/TLS is an excellent -- and much faster -- option that is supported by such nice Windows programs as FileZilla.
Transfer a few hundred megs thru a cable-modem or DSL and you'll see a difference that can be several minutes.
Read your own link. The trap-jaw ant is mentioned in that article.
"Other animals with fast feeding strikes are the trap-jaw ant, at 17 meters per second, and the much smaller nematocysts of the hydra, which accelerate four times faster but achieve much lower speeds."
I read another article about this group the other day that said they have over 400 applications from European scientists who want to investigate their claims.
I'm betting they get an overwhelming number of them to say "this is total B.S." and one or two who say "wow!". The company will then claim "Big Oil" and "Big Government" are suppressing their research, etc.
Why is it all the perpetual energy nuts always start with magnets?
Mac's probably weren't allowed in the house. He probably has a reputation to uphold and who knows WHAT would have happened if he was seen fraternizing with "one of THOSE machines". On the porch or in the barn is perfectly acceptable, though.
For musicians, it's another way to resell their entire catalogs to fans who want the songs in multiple formats, he said.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to do that. If I paid for it once, there is no way in hell I'm going to pay again short of going to a live concert.
I still purchase most of my music on CD. The first thing I do is rip the disc to.ogg then put it away on the shelf. The disc itself is what I consider my "backup" and is never used. My PC is hooked to the stereo and that is how the music plays -- digitally. Some stuff is moved on and off my iRiver so I can listen on a plane or while I drive to work.
I have no problems at all paying for music -- once.
All I know is a lot of what I see being called "HDTV" can't do 1080i or 1080p. The units come with a resolution of 1366 x 768 and I consider that "crippled, almost HDTV".
The first thing that popped into my mind when reading the title was Marlon Brando, but that would have been a star's maximum possible mass. Of course, there is also the ongoing Hollywood research of the maximum possible ego size, for which there seems to be no upper bound.
There is a significant difference between "free from any sort of natural disadvantages" and building a city below sea level, in a bowl, on the coast, in the known path of major hurricanes, at the mouth of one of the largest river systems in the world, adjacent to an artificial lake and surrounded by swamp and marshland.
Post-Katrina analysis by the NOAA had downgraded the strength of the hurricane to a Category 3 and look at what happened. One of these days they really are going to get hit with a Category 5 and that will be all she wrote.
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A few months back I was trying to get an appliance installed at a bank data center in Florida. It was 95 degrees outside at the time and their data center racks were full. They were in the middle of a migration over to VMWare's ESX server and I got a 30-minute lecture on the headaches they have with power distribution, air conditioning and their electicity bill.
Talking to the same people recently they went on non-stop about how much they loved VMWare. Yes, ESX server cost them $50,000 or so but they saved that in new server costs and the electricity bill in the first couple of months.
My point is, each data center is a bigger potential savings and much easier to convert. Trying to get EVERY person to change their graphics card just isn't going to happen. There is a much bigger bang for your buck in convincing the server people.
Frankly, the India/Pakistan development of a nuclear arsenol worries me more than what happened historically between the U.S. & Russia.
Really? Do you live over there in that area? Neither have long-range delivery systems so they aren't going to be nuking Europe or North America anytime soon. Even if they did, they're more interested in wiping out each other. China might be real nervous because they have several border disputes with both Pakistan and India.
Apples and Oranges.
Most anyone running a data center or who has a lot of servers cares about power and heat. The electricity bill -- including all that extra air conditioning -- is a whopper in some places.
Those people, however, don't give a rat's ass about the latest video card. People with rooms full of server are probably using an IP KVM or running them totally headless.
Oops, forgot the actual link.
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http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id
"I am going to speak today about the most media-hyped environmental issue of all time, global warming. I have spoken more about global warming than any other politician in Washington today. My speech will be a bit different from the previous seven floor speeches, as I focus not only on the science, but on the media's coverage of climate change." --SENATOR JAMES INHOFE CHAIRMAN, SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, SENATE FLOOR SPEECH DELIVERED MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2006
He's right. This issue is being played so much by the media it is hard to get honest science. All in the name of money -- either from the latest blockbuster movie or a never-ending fountain of grant money.
Where's George Carlin when you need him?
I can get my Sphere of Annihilation! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find these items? Damn liches seem to have a monopoly on them.
Was there a good chance that it would miss? Was there the possibility of an "unsuccessful" crash?
The only thing I can think of doing to remedy this situation is to move to Alaska to skew the vote, and get this guy out of office.
This will be unnecessary as Sen. Stevens is not expected to run for re-election in 2008. He is expected to retire at age 85.
One way would be to market convenience, speed and quality. Thinking of music and movies, while it would be possible to find anything thru newsgroups, torrents or various illegal sites, they all have major drawbacks.
1. Finding the correct material -- decent indexes are almost non-existant, naming schemes are inconsistant, there is no central location to find everything. One place (NOT ONE PER DAMN STUDIO/LABEL) to find everything, with correct meta information, decent indexes and search.
2. Quality of downloaded material is frequently suspect. You have no guarantees that you're actually getting what you think you are. Is it all there? How is the encoding? What format is it in? Guaranteed, consistant quality in a variety of formats is a major selling point.
3. Speed, being able to download the file or stream it in realtime, along with guaranteed access are another point. And online "media locker" that maintains original copies of the items I've purchased so I can access them later or from somewhere else would be great.
While the RIAA seems to think the Russian site allofmp3.com is so successful because of the price, the main reason they are excellent is because the meet all of those items above -- they have almost everything, they're fast, it is easy to find stuff, and it is available in a variety of common formats.
Finally, you're going to have a hard time convincing the RIAA because they have their heads so far up their asses regarding the perceived value of their product. How come a hit movie that cost $100 million to make which I can find the DVD in Walmart for $17-20 costs the same as a new music CD? There is no way in hell the music CD cost $100 million to produce, yet the end cost is the same as a movie DVD.
If you go to the store, they are over 7 dollars in most cases.
Not anymore at Walmart. This explains what I've been seeing for the past month or so. There is a big display of CFLs just as you walk in the door at the Walmart in Post Falls, ID.
My first thought on seeing them was "wow, I wonder what has gotten into Walmart". My second thought was "$3?! Holy shit, those things were $7 each only 6 months ago!"
I'll second this. I've had a couple actually *melt* in ceiling fan light fixtures. To be fair, the wiring in that house was 60+ years old and the power is of shit quality. I had to put all my nice electronics (TV, computers, audio equipment, etc.) on a line-conditioning UPS.
Some of them don't have a warm up time, and some are actually much, much, much brighter than the incadecent equivelent makred on the wrapper. I guess it depends on the brand.
Do you know which brands/models these are?
I like, "we were friends in university". Even backwater Unis have foreign students.
Universities have extensive records that are easily checked by law enforcement.
Feed them that line and you'll be in for a much longer ride thru hell than the kid with the iPod.
Some private equity firm thinks Microsoft, one of the richest companies in the world, would be better off borrowing money?!? I thought capitalism was about maximizing profit. When did things change?
Never, it has always been this way. The idea is if you can borrow money at x%, and invest your money and get >x% return, then by all means borrow and invest yours! You come out ahead of the game.
As the richest company in the world, they most likely have an excellent credit rating and can borrow cheaply. And, IIRC, their investment division is one of the most profitable.
Just a little FYI:
SFTP over SSH requires an ACK per block sent, greatly slowing it down. FTP is 5-10x faster in transferring files, and that has nothing to do with crypto overhead. SCP's method is great if you're on a noisy 2400 baud dial-up connection, but a total waste if you're using a modern, noise-free connection.
SCP was designed for individual file transfers, not bulk transfers. It can be hacked to do multi-file transfers, etc. but it really is a kludge.
FTP thru SSL/TLS is an excellent -- and much faster -- option that is supported by such nice Windows programs as FileZilla.
Transfer a few hundred megs thru a cable-modem or DSL and you'll see a difference that can be several minutes.
Charles
...on the next day of testing, it again bested the record. This time it was 350.092 MPH. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?t ype=topNews&storyID=2006-08-23T151359Z_01_L2331696 1_RTRUKOC_0_UK-TRANSPORT-DIESEL-RECORD.xml
Read your own link. The trap-jaw ant is mentioned in that article.
"Other animals with fast feeding strikes are the trap-jaw ant, at 17 meters per second, and the much smaller nematocysts of the hydra, which accelerate four times faster but achieve much lower speeds."
Wow, and I honestly thought it was a comment made by an engineer about the design of the New Orleans flood control pumps after Katrina. :-)
I read another article about this group the other day that said they have over 400 applications from European scientists who want to investigate their claims.
I'm betting they get an overwhelming number of them to say "this is total B.S." and one or two who say "wow!". The company will then claim "Big Oil" and "Big Government" are suppressing their research, etc.
Why is it all the perpetual energy nuts always start with magnets?
Mac's probably weren't allowed in the house. He probably has a reputation to uphold and who knows WHAT would have happened if he was seen fraternizing with "one of THOSE machines". On the porch or in the barn is perfectly acceptable, though.
For musicians, it's another way to resell their entire catalogs to fans who want the songs in multiple formats, he said.
.ogg then put it away on the shelf. The disc itself is what I consider my "backup" and is never used. My PC is hooked to the stereo and that is how the music plays -- digitally. Some stuff is moved on and off my iRiver so I can listen on a plane or while I drive to work.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to do that. If I paid for it once, there is no way in hell I'm going to pay again short of going to a live concert.
I still purchase most of my music on CD. The first thing I do is rip the disc to
I have no problems at all paying for music -- once.
How do you install any of those on a ROUTER?
With OpenWRT and any of a number of compatible routers.
http://openwrt.org/
All I know is a lot of what I see being called "HDTV" can't do 1080i or 1080p. The units come with a resolution of 1366 x 768 and I consider that "crippled, almost HDTV".
The first thing that popped into my mind when reading the title was Marlon Brando, but that would have been a star's maximum possible mass. Of course, there is also the ongoing Hollywood research of the maximum possible ego size, for which there seems to be no upper bound.
Charles
There is a significant difference between "free from any sort of natural disadvantages" and building a city below sea level, in a bowl, on the coast, in the known path of major hurricanes, at the mouth of one of the largest river systems in the world, adjacent to an artificial lake and surrounded by swamp and marshland.
Post-Katrina analysis by the NOAA had downgraded the strength of the hurricane to a Category 3 and look at what happened. One of these days they really are going to get hit with a Category 5 and that will be all she wrote.