My impression from the before and after photos (see http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/Sealand_Fire/S ealand_Fire.html) is that the entire site was feeling its age and was in rather poor repair all around. It strikes me that the most cost-effective method over the long haul might be to scrape the platform down to the naked deck, and build a new facility from scratch. The existing remainder appears to be a maintenance nightmare in the making.
Even better:) Not only that, but it's one of the few foods that has gone down in price over the past 3 decades, but hasn't gone downhill in quality. Ramen now tastes much as it did when I was in college.
Vonage's major TV advertising blocks run in the same timelots as, and seem to be geared toward the same demographic as the infamous "Smiling Bob" and ITT-Tech. That in itself inclines me to back off and eye them with suspicion, rather than leap gladly into subscribing.
I've noticed even the commercial grocery ramens are not all alike. I've come to prefer Maruchan, as the noodles seem more like "food" and the packet has more flavour and less salt.
Also, it's $4.88 for a 48-pack at Costco or Sam's Club:) Where else can you get a quick-and-dirty meal for 10 cents??
Some of us instead learned to cook ramen, in weird and wonderful ways:)
My two favourites:
Put 2 cups COLD water into quart glass bowl (has to start off cold or the eggs will fall apart). Add 2 or 3 eggs. Punch a small hole in each yolk (so it won't explode). Smash up a packet of ramen, dump it into the water. Microwave for 3 to 4 minutes, until eggs are set. Drain excess liquid. Add random quantity of grated cheese and a SMALL amount of the flavour packet. Stir, let cheese melt, enjoy. (Note: eggs are optional here, but make it a lot more substantial meal.)
Smash ramen inside packet. Open one end. Rinse ramen in warm water and dump out the excess, using the packaging as a funnel. The idea here is to cut the crunch down a little bit without making it soggy, get the condiments to stick to the noodles, and avoid having to use a colander:) Dump rinsed ramen into bowl. Add random amount of finely chopped meat (optional; bacon or turkey work well). Add 3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese. Sprinkle liberally with lemon pepper and Tone's "Salmon and Seafood seasoning". Add a VERY LIGHT sprinkling of the flavour packet. Mix well. Makes a satisfying breakfast that will stick by you all day long.
These both take longer to describe than to prepare.:)
Oh, did I mention that I'm writing the quintessential geek cookbook? It's entitled "Why No One Eats At My House".
While reading your post, I got a Better Idea (if you don't like it, it's your own fault cuz you gave me the idea:) Don't know if this is technically feasible, but:
What if the download itself was either at a very nominal price, or even free, and essentially unencumbered (you could watch it on your PC as many times as you like, and generally treat it like any other file). But to burn it to a *physical DVD*, it would require special media. Then they could sell the media with the download price built into its retail price. (Obviously the price would have to be pretty low, say around a buck per blank -- about what cheapo DVD movies cost now.)
That way, if you want to make a dozen copies and give them to your friends (or sell them on the street corner, for that matter), that would be fine (and legal) because each *physical copy* has already effectively been paid for when you bought the blank disk.
And if the original download is watermarked, you'd have incentive not to go sharing it with 3 million of your not-so-close online friends, and perhaps be a bit picky about who gets physical copies.
I know this scenario needs work, but may be something to look at... akin to the "music tax" on blank audio CDs, but with the *intent* that end users can effectively act as legal distributors for hardcopy DVDs.
Not to mention air conditioning, which at a WAG might take as much as half of the power consumed, especially when you're fighting not only heat produced in the data center, but also California's warm climate, so it's that much harder to dump the waste heat.
Maybe they oughta relocate 'em all to the Arctic, and just leave the windows open;)
The chemistry building at my university had a similar setup, except for phones (this was not only before computers and networking, it was before phone systems got extended to every room).
The building was L-shaped, with 3 floors and a basement, with the main office along the short leg and the stairwell at the top of the long leg. There were only two phones in the building -- one in the main office, and an extension in a professor's office on the 2nd floor (about the middle of the long leg of the L). The building had no intercom.
When a call came into the main office, the standard method of paging someone upstairs was to relay the call to the 2nd floor extension, then whoever answered would hike to the stairwell, stick their head in, and YELL. Eventually someone upstairs would hear the racket and relay the YELL to whoever was being paged.
It typically took about 15 minutes from the time a call was answered, til when the desired party was located and had tramped down to the extension to take the call.
Back around 1995, someone I knew then traced their email hops... turned out that a good chunk of the email going from the eastern US to the west coast regularly did so by way of Singapore. WTF??!
Seems someone had stuck the company file server, running Netware v2, into a closet -- which during later renovations wound up being sealed and forgotten. I forget the circumstances by which the server was rediscovered, but at the time it had been cranking along, without a reboot, for about 12 years.
Just curious -- couldn't the conduit have been labeled "Max voltage NN" or "low voltage only" or something like that, instead of doing away with it entirely??
And at this point, most Americans heat water in the microwave, by the single cup. No need for a water heating appliance at all.
But 30-40 years ago, every American household had a "hot pot" -- a small electric kettle used almost exclusively to heat water for tea or instant coffee (but sometimes to heat soup), usually sized around 4 cups. I still have two old ones, but haven't used them since the microwave came along.
I have a similar situation -- a tub which is not used in winter, so its trap dries out and emits Eau de Septic Tank. Its tap does not drip, so 2 or 3 times a season I have to run a little water down the drain to refill the trap. No cost involved, and not enough of a bother to worry about.
Primer trap is doubtless a much better and more controlled solution where you have a choice... at the price, possibly a good initial construction feature for secondary bathrooms, washroom drains, etc. Might be tough to retrofit some setups, tho. And are these things prone to clog with very hard water? Ours is so hard that it forms calcium-salt crusts.
Recently I saw a stat that about 40% of the power consumption in California goes to feed server farms. Given that, even a 1% savings is millions, possibly billions of dollars worth.
That's why up above I suggest that the counter-risk needs to be sufficiently high that people in power think twice and three times before deciding something is an "emergency". Perhaps on the order of this: if they open what proves to be innocent mail, they should lose their jobs.
"Does this look suspicious enough that I'm willing to lose my job if I'm wrong, and open an innocent letter by mistake?"
Because unless there is significant counter-risk to those who abuse such powers, the definition of "emergency" is going to get broader and broader, until "whim of the moment" is sufficient cause.
I don't know about elsewhere, but in the American livestock feed industry, "corn flour" is the extremely fine dust remaining from the production of cornmeal. It's essentially fine-ground whole corn, but the texture is about the same as cornstarch or cake flour. It's very digestible and is commonly used in livestock and pet foods, but in recipes I don't imagine it would behave the same as cornstarch.
[laugh] Actually, that might be a nifty way to get the plot rolling -- I don't know why the hat would be in the museum, but it would certainly be a way to get a retired archeologist to trip over something interesting, then off we go adventuring.
Sounds like you're talking about essentially a "social phonebook" where users would be listed by name and/or handle(s), and under each person's entry, a list of sites they use. This could be used in a variety of ways; frex, friends could agree on a "common meeting place" online, or get back in touch with someone after a site vanishes. It would no doubt also be much beloved of marketers, especially if the root entry included the user's profile.
Consider that the present legal default is "everything someone creates is automatically copyrighted".
Given that, the "legally responsible" way for the DRM-conscious OS to respond is "All content is assumed to be copyrighted, therefore all use is assumed to be infringement until proven otherwise," and for the OS to accordingly lock down everything you don't have a key for.
Imagine if every piece of clipart required a key before you could use it...... on second thought, that might reduce website clutter:)
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My impression from the before and after photos (see http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/Sealand_Fire/S ealand_Fire.html) is that the entire site was feeling its age and was in rather poor repair all around. It strikes me that the most cost-effective method over the long haul might be to scrape the platform down to the naked deck, and build a new facility from scratch. The existing remainder appears to be a maintenance nightmare in the making.
Even better :) Not only that, but it's one of the few foods that has gone down in price over the past 3 decades, but hasn't gone downhill in quality. Ramen now tastes much as it did when I was in college.
Vonage's major TV advertising blocks run in the same timelots as, and seem to be geared toward the same demographic as the infamous "Smiling Bob" and ITT-Tech. That in itself inclines me to back off and eye them with suspicion, rather than leap gladly into subscribing.
I've noticed even the commercial grocery ramens are not all alike. I've come to prefer Maruchan, as the noodles seem more like "food" and the packet has more flavour and less salt.
:) Where else can you get a quick-and-dirty meal for 10 cents??
Also, it's $4.88 for a 48-pack at Costco or Sam's Club
Some of us instead learned to cook ramen, in weird and wonderful ways :)
:) Dump rinsed ramen into bowl. Add random amount of finely chopped meat (optional; bacon or turkey work well). Add 3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese. Sprinkle liberally with lemon pepper and Tone's "Salmon and Seafood seasoning". Add a VERY LIGHT sprinkling of the flavour packet. Mix well. Makes a satisfying breakfast that will stick by you all day long.
:)
My two favourites:
Put 2 cups COLD water into quart glass bowl (has to start off cold or the eggs will fall apart). Add 2 or 3 eggs. Punch a small hole in each yolk (so it won't explode). Smash up a packet of ramen, dump it into the water. Microwave for 3 to 4 minutes, until eggs are set. Drain excess liquid. Add random quantity of grated cheese and a SMALL amount of the flavour packet. Stir, let cheese melt, enjoy. (Note: eggs are optional here, but make it a lot more substantial meal.)
Smash ramen inside packet. Open one end. Rinse ramen in warm water and dump out the excess, using the packaging as a funnel. The idea here is to cut the crunch down a little bit without making it soggy, get the condiments to stick to the noodles, and avoid having to use a colander
These both take longer to describe than to prepare.
Oh, did I mention that I'm writing the quintessential geek cookbook? It's entitled "Why No One Eats At My House".
While reading your post, I got a Better Idea (if you don't like it, it's your own fault cuz you gave me the idea :) Don't know if this is technically feasible, but:
What if the download itself was either at a very nominal price, or even free, and essentially unencumbered (you could watch it on your PC as many times as you like, and generally treat it like any other file). But to burn it to a *physical DVD*, it would require special media. Then they could sell the media with the download price built into its retail price. (Obviously the price would have to be pretty low, say around a buck per blank -- about what cheapo DVD movies cost now.)
That way, if you want to make a dozen copies and give them to your friends (or sell them on the street corner, for that matter), that would be fine (and legal) because each *physical copy* has already effectively been paid for when you bought the blank disk.
And if the original download is watermarked, you'd have incentive not to go sharing it with 3 million of your not-so-close online friends, and perhaps be a bit picky about who gets physical copies.
I know this scenario needs work, but may be something to look at... akin to the "music tax" on blank audio CDs, but with the *intent* that end users can effectively act as legal distributors for hardcopy DVDs.
You musta got our winter by mistake. Here in SoCal we've set a bunch of record lows this year!
So you get a piece of mail with several digits attached, and that way you know how many itchy fingers were once inside it :)
Not to mention air conditioning, which at a WAG might take as much as half of the power consumed, especially when you're fighting not only heat produced in the data center, but also California's warm climate, so it's that much harder to dump the waste heat.
;)
Maybe they oughta relocate 'em all to the Arctic, and just leave the windows open
The chemistry building at my university had a similar setup, except for phones (this was not only before computers and networking, it was before phone systems got extended to every room).
The building was L-shaped, with 3 floors and a basement, with the main office along the short leg and the stairwell at the top of the long leg. There were only two phones in the building -- one in the main office, and an extension in a professor's office on the 2nd floor (about the middle of the long leg of the L). The building had no intercom.
When a call came into the main office, the standard method of paging someone upstairs was to relay the call to the 2nd floor extension, then whoever answered would hike to the stairwell, stick their head in, and YELL. Eventually someone upstairs would hear the racket and relay the YELL to whoever was being paged.
It typically took about 15 minutes from the time a call was answered, til when the desired party was located and had tramped down to the extension to take the call.
Back around 1995, someone I knew then traced their email hops ... turned out that a good chunk of the email going from the eastern US to the west coast regularly did so by way of Singapore. WTF??!
The longest "lost server" tale I ever heard:
Seems someone had stuck the company file server, running Netware v2, into a closet -- which during later renovations wound up being sealed and forgotten. I forget the circumstances by which the server was rediscovered, but at the time it had been cranking along, without a reboot, for about 12 years.
Just curious -- couldn't the conduit have been labeled "Max voltage NN" or "low voltage only" or something like that, instead of doing away with it entirely??
And at this point, most Americans heat water in the microwave, by the single cup. No need for a water heating appliance at all.
But 30-40 years ago, every American household had a "hot pot" -- a small electric kettle used almost exclusively to heat water for tea or instant coffee (but sometimes to heat soup), usually sized around 4 cups. I still have two old ones, but haven't used them since the microwave came along.
I have a similar situation -- a tub which is not used in winter, so its trap dries out and emits Eau de Septic Tank. Its tap does not drip, so 2 or 3 times a season I have to run a little water down the drain to refill the trap. No cost involved, and not enough of a bother to worry about.
Primer trap is doubtless a much better and more controlled solution where you have a choice... at the price, possibly a good initial construction feature for secondary bathrooms, washroom drains, etc. Might be tough to retrofit some setups, tho. And are these things prone to clog with very hard water? Ours is so hard that it forms calcium-salt crusts.
Recently I saw a stat that about 40% of the power consumption in California goes to feed server farms. Given that, even a 1% savings is millions, possibly billions of dollars worth.
That's why up above I suggest that the counter-risk needs to be sufficiently high that people in power think twice and three times before deciding something is an "emergency". Perhaps on the order of this: if they open what proves to be innocent mail, they should lose their jobs.
I think a better emergency criterion might be:
"Does this look suspicious enough that I'm willing to lose my job if I'm wrong, and open an innocent letter by mistake?"
Because unless there is significant counter-risk to those who abuse such powers, the definition of "emergency" is going to get broader and broader, until "whim of the moment" is sufficient cause.
I don't know about elsewhere, but in the American livestock feed industry, "corn flour" is the extremely fine dust remaining from the production of cornmeal. It's essentially fine-ground whole corn, but the texture is about the same as cornstarch or cake flour. It's very digestible and is commonly used in livestock and pet foods, but in recipes I don't imagine it would behave the same as cornstarch.
Judge to RIAA: "I'm awarding you Russia. The whole country. Enjoy!"
[laugh] Actually, that might be a nifty way to get the plot rolling -- I don't know why the hat would be in the museum, but it would certainly be a way to get a retired archeologist to trip over something interesting, then off we go adventuring.
Sounds like you're talking about essentially a "social phonebook" where users would be listed by name and/or handle(s), and under each person's entry, a list of sites they use. This could be used in a variety of ways; frex, friends could agree on a "common meeting place" online, or get back in touch with someone after a site vanishes. It would no doubt also be much beloved of marketers, especially if the root entry included the user's profile.
Also, even on 1.5Mbit, it took so long to download and render that at first I thought the site had stalled. Probably a good 20 seconds.
And it didn't render at all in my everyday browser.
Consider that the present legal default is "everything someone creates is automatically copyrighted".
... on second thought, that might reduce website clutter :)
Given that, the "legally responsible" way for the DRM-conscious OS to respond is "All content is assumed to be copyrighted, therefore all use is assumed to be infringement until proven otherwise," and for the OS to accordingly lock down everything you don't have a key for.
Imagine if every piece of clipart required a key before you could use it...
On somewhat the same tack, I offer this exchange between myself: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213318&cid=17
and NewYorkCountryLawyer: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213318&cid=17
the gist of which was "If the RIAA wins now, next target Microsoft... now with deeper pockets!" and "Yeah... and next, The Internet."
Businesses have been demanding lockdowns for years, but one also has to wonder how much of Vista's DRM handling is, at root, lawsuit-dodging.