Roundabouts do scale well with traffic, that is in Europe. America is a different story because better than half the drivers treat the roundabout entrance as a stop. I've seen dozens of roundabouts that pass less traffic than a 4 way stop, in the US. A good portion of this is because most of the smaller ones are designed by land developers who think roundabout means circle when in a properly designed roundabout traffic rarely moves purely circular.
From what I seen the only thing they claim is splash proof ratings like IP66 (even if their marketing shows dunking in water) which only account for incidental water and can't be in direct rain for extended periods of time. There is a significant difference between splash proof and rated to 100m underwater. Heck there is a significant difference between splash proof and 1 foot underwater. Any depth of water over a few inches requires heavily secured and reinforced rubber seals (typically under pounds of pressure) to ensure water can't penetrate. And frankly I don't see any way you could do that unless you had a watertight pigtail hanging off.
As I said this and battery life are the most significant issues for me because they are tied together. When you replace the battery on a watch with a waterproof to depth watch you MUST replace all the seals or you can't guarantee water resistance. Even though the coin battery powering a standard phone can be had for about $10, you've got to remove the seals, clean the seats and put new seals in. If you have a jeweler (where 90% of watches are sold and often the only qualified people to do the work) do this you can often end up paying anywhere from $50 to $100 to have this done right. On an inexpensive watch this could be more than a new watch costs, and even on a moderately priced consumer watch (such as mine) it's 1/4 of the value. Only with high end multi-thousand dollar watches is this even a small percentage of the price. And though you can probably buy the seals these days on the internet back even 10 years ago the only place you could even get them was from an authorized dealer for the brand which was pretty much a Jeweler and 90% of them would refuse to sell just the seals to you.
If I have to attach a cable it's not waterproof. If it uses enough energy that it must be charged everyday (my current watch can go 6 months or so without exposure to a single source of light) the battery is unlikely to last much more than a couple years meaning the whole battery replacement thing is back. I want watch that will not require a single battery swap in it's lifetime (this is the single most expensive part of watch ownership and replacing the battery always destroys the water resistance unless all the seals are replaced with the battery), will last at least a decade, is waterproof (my preference is for at least 100m but I could tolerate as little as 20m), it must keep time, have a perpetual calendar and look like jewelry, have an adjustable, removable and replaceable band that's interchangeable with standard bands used in the watch industry, it needs at least one local time setting so I don't have to reset the clock when traveling and a stopwatch function would be nice though not required and I'd prefer a sapphire crystal for the face.
I've got all of that in my current watch except for the sapphire so the face has a few scratches on it. But Citizen was smart enough to put a raised metal edge around the face so it's less prone to being scratched.
Dirt isn't free and neither is the fuel to run them.
Your main point is true, we can engineer pretty much anything (for example we could manually build a real mountain more than 10,000 feet high, it would just take hundreds of trillions of dollars), it's just a question of cost.
Nothing will stop the immigration just like nothing will stop the drug trade. All you can do is make it more expensive. They'll dig a thousand mile tunnel two hundred feet underground if necessary.
If you want to stop illegal immigration you have to shut off the jobs and that means going after the employers. Nothing else will stop it.
I think of this like string theory. They've got an answer searching for a problem.
Dark matter is one of those as well. They've theorized dark matter and attributed each unexplained item in astrophysics to it but have no real evidence it exists. As the other reply said to you this is not any different than the luminiferous aether that preceded it. Dark mater may or may not exist, but it would be foolish to attribute that which we can't explain to something that we can't see or measure. All those attributes of dark matter could easily be explained by other possible items including cosmic strings, wormholes, etc.
Dark matter is currently in vogue, that doesn't mean it's reality. Much of the hype behind dark matter is that if it exists and there is enough of it then it would explain the big bang. This has created a desire among some in the scientific community to want it to be true because it presents a nice clean solution with a recyclable universe. My personal feeling on it is that we're missing something big, that something is the explanation for where all the anti-matter went and it might explain many of these other anomalies that some are attributing to dark matter. I'm probably wrong, but I'm willing to bet so are the dark matter proponents.
I currently wear a Citizen Eco-Drive watch. I think I bought it 10 years ago. The watch face is a solar panel that charges itself when it's exposed to light. The watch also has a perpetual calendar (don't have to set the date), it has stop watch and chronograph functionality and it looks like jewelry.
But the two single most important features for me were the never having to change the battery and the perpetual calendar (never having to set the date, even on leap years). I just shake my head at this "smart" watches, I'd go insane if I had to charge the watch every day and a bit of rain could ruin it.
The most interesting part about Germany's Solar deployment is that they have almost no utility scale deployments. Almost every deployed panel is on the roof of a building of a privately owned residence or business.
This is contrast to the US were better than 50% of the deployed panels are utility scale deployments. Fact is if everyone deployed panels on their homes and businesses south facing roof's we'd have more power than we could ever use. Germany is proof of that.
When the Philippines got hit by that Typhoon and they had the opportunity to inject soft power into the Philippines and offset public opinion about their territorial claims that are in conflict with the Philippines you know what they did? The offered a couple million dollars cheap tents that were probably worth less than a million dollars.
You know what the US did? We deployed a carrier group and starting rescuing people directly, feeding them, setting up housing and providing medical care onboard the navy ships including emergency surgery for those critically injured. That relatively cheap soft power exercise for the US bought long term good will in the Philippines, in fact they actually started talking about maybe letting us open a base there again (it's bared by their constitution). We didn't really spend that much more than the Chinese claim to have spent but we got 200000x the value from it.
Yes that's what we should definitely do, lock people up for doing something they like. Lets line up the smokers, alcoholics, gamblers and everyone else with a form of addiction and put them behind bars for 20 years. They'll sure solve societies problems.
I can't say this politely, you are a fucktard.
How about we let people do whatever they want as long as they aren't physically hurting anyone else.
At the time these were developed NATO did not believe they could beat the Soviet forces without them. The soviets had something like a 3:1 armor advantage to the NATO forces and when combined with Warsaw pact forces they outnumbered NATO forces as well. The late 40's and 50's were pretty scary in this regard because western Europe was devastated and trying not to starve to death and the US had mostly demobilized while the Soviets still had their entire army and had increased heavy weaponry in the interim. If the Russians hadn't poisoned Stalin we probably would have had WWIII as he'd already put in motion the plan to create an incident that would lead to war.
When the ICBM and Submarine based nukes came online in the mid to late 60's it ended the need for the tactical nukes as you could assure MAD at that point. In the late 40's and early 50's the lack of these weapons prevented an effective strategic nuclear MAD strategy as the only way to hit internal strategic targets was with long range bombers which were susceptible to being shot down with conventional weaponry. It's arguable that until long range weapons against which there was little defense were developed MAD didn't really exist and that tactical weapons were the only thing that prevented war.
There was a MASSIVE soviet tank army standing by in Eastern Europe after the end of the war. The Soviets never stopped building armor after the end of the war and kept piling tanks in the East. The official NATO defense strategy was to drop nukes on the line of that army as soon as it crossed the border. This required quick deploy nukes. The M388 was actually one of the larger rounds, there was a very tiny jeep launched one as well that would only go about 5 miles (think about that job for a minute).
The point was NATO and the US developed these weapons, deployed them and let the Soviets know we had them. It likely helped prevented WWIII. The third world at this point was still trying to acquire weapons like machine guns. You shouldn't look at history through the warped lens of todays concerns. The Soviets were the concern, not some third world country without semi-automatic rifles.
All the last mile networks WILL be traffic asymmetric. In the past that was never an issue. Now that they see the opportunity to increase revenue AND protect their own video offerings they see an opportunity to extract rent on the traffic. This won't hurt Netflix but it will be a major barrier to entry to the video streaming field. And that is exactly the problem with it, it is anti-competitive at it's core.
There is a reason that pre-9/11 there were laws on the books that limited the powers of the FBI and other federal police service's. We relaxed a LOT of those restrictions after 9/11 and a we're reaping the corruption those laws used to prevent.
There is not much that's scarier than a someone who thinks they are doing the right thing by violating someone else's rights. It's a quick jump right into real fascism (not the word bandied about around the internet that most people don't know what it means and are misusing it). What makes real fascism so scary is that the people behind it are true believers that they are doing the right thing.
It said in the article that the plastic itself, once converted to fuel is used to fuel the process which is converting the plastic to fuel. In other words they pull off a little of the fuel converted from the plastic to fuel the process going forward. Other than the initial startup energy it should be energy independent.
Plastic is a nasty waste product (it doesn't biodegrade and it kills living things) that we need to find a way to either reuse or properly destroy. Converting the several trillion tons of plastic waste in US landfills into fuel oil not only saves the space in the landfills it recovers energy from a waste product. It's a good idea if the total economics of the setup are profitable enough to justify hauling it to a disposal site or small enough to build these at landfills. It's a damn good waste reduction technique that will ensure we don't end up with the planet in the movie Wall-E (which was buried in garbage like plastic waste).
The IPMI on my supermicro motherboard only works through one of network ports. In fact it has it's own dedicated port that is only for IPMII (the regular OS doesn't even see it). Though I have seen older motherboards that work like yours I think supermicro has moved in more recent products to dedicated IPMI ports, maybe because of this very reason. You should be configuring the IPMI even if you don't plan to use it, set it an IP and then blackhole that IP on your network. If you don't configure it you don't know what it's doing.
It's not to late to file letters with the court dropping out of the class to pursue your own case because the settlement doesn't fit what you think is fair.
If enough people protest the settlement and drop out they will be forced to redo it.
It's a VNC connection to the graphics output (and some switches) independent of the main hardware. You can essentially VNC in and reboot the server, adjust bios options, mount a CD from your workstation to the server and install an OS. All while never having to touch the actual server.
It's very handy and a total security nightmare if it's not secured properly which should be obvious from the fact that you can power cycle and have full bios access. As others have said, it should be totally obvious to anyone with any computer literacy that IPMI could be very dangerous.
There is a limit we'll hit eventually, we're approaching circuits that are single digit atoms wide. No matter what we'll never get a circuit less than a single atom. Don't get me wrong, I don't think 10nm is going to be the problem but somewhere around single digit atoms wide we're going to run out of options to make them smaller.
And had you been buying directly from the manufacturer you would have paid less, significantly less. No matter how good of a deal you think you got the dealer still make that non-negotiable markup on top of the manufacturers wholesale price. What price concession you negotiated against was the cream profit on top of all that, and that isn't real price competition. That's the pretend circus on top of the purchasing that allows you to think you got a good deal, when in fact you didn't.
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Roundabouts do scale well with traffic, that is in Europe. America is a different story because better than half the drivers treat the roundabout entrance as a stop. I've seen dozens of roundabouts that pass less traffic than a 4 way stop, in the US. A good portion of this is because most of the smaller ones are designed by land developers who think roundabout means circle when in a properly designed roundabout traffic rarely moves purely circular.
From what I seen the only thing they claim is splash proof ratings like IP66 (even if their marketing shows dunking in water) which only account for incidental water and can't be in direct rain for extended periods of time. There is a significant difference between splash proof and rated to 100m underwater. Heck there is a significant difference between splash proof and 1 foot underwater. Any depth of water over a few inches requires heavily secured and reinforced rubber seals (typically under pounds of pressure) to ensure water can't penetrate. And frankly I don't see any way you could do that unless you had a watertight pigtail hanging off.
As I said this and battery life are the most significant issues for me because they are tied together. When you replace the battery on a watch with a waterproof to depth watch you MUST replace all the seals or you can't guarantee water resistance. Even though the coin battery powering a standard phone can be had for about $10, you've got to remove the seals, clean the seats and put new seals in. If you have a jeweler (where 90% of watches are sold and often the only qualified people to do the work) do this you can often end up paying anywhere from $50 to $100 to have this done right. On an inexpensive watch this could be more than a new watch costs, and even on a moderately priced consumer watch (such as mine) it's 1/4 of the value. Only with high end multi-thousand dollar watches is this even a small percentage of the price. And though you can probably buy the seals these days on the internet back even 10 years ago the only place you could even get them was from an authorized dealer for the brand which was pretty much a Jeweler and 90% of them would refuse to sell just the seals to you.
You would think a lawyer would know better than to talk to the police.
If I have to attach a cable it's not waterproof. If it uses enough energy that it must be charged everyday (my current watch can go 6 months or so without exposure to a single source of light) the battery is unlikely to last much more than a couple years meaning the whole battery replacement thing is back. I want watch that will not require a single battery swap in it's lifetime (this is the single most expensive part of watch ownership and replacing the battery always destroys the water resistance unless all the seals are replaced with the battery), will last at least a decade, is waterproof (my preference is for at least 100m but I could tolerate as little as 20m), it must keep time, have a perpetual calendar and look like jewelry, have an adjustable, removable and replaceable band that's interchangeable with standard bands used in the watch industry, it needs at least one local time setting so I don't have to reset the clock when traveling and a stopwatch function would be nice though not required and I'd prefer a sapphire crystal for the face.
I've got all of that in my current watch except for the sapphire so the face has a few scratches on it. But Citizen was smart enough to put a raised metal edge around the face so it's less prone to being scratched.
Dirt isn't free and neither is the fuel to run them.
Your main point is true, we can engineer pretty much anything (for example we could manually build a real mountain more than 10,000 feet high, it would just take hundreds of trillions of dollars), it's just a question of cost.
Nothing will stop the immigration just like nothing will stop the drug trade. All you can do is make it more expensive. They'll dig a thousand mile tunnel two hundred feet underground if necessary.
If you want to stop illegal immigration you have to shut off the jobs and that means going after the employers. Nothing else will stop it.
I think of this like string theory. They've got an answer searching for a problem.
Dark matter is one of those as well. They've theorized dark matter and attributed each unexplained item in astrophysics to it but have no real evidence it exists. As the other reply said to you this is not any different than the luminiferous aether that preceded it. Dark mater may or may not exist, but it would be foolish to attribute that which we can't explain to something that we can't see or measure. All those attributes of dark matter could easily be explained by other possible items including cosmic strings, wormholes, etc.
Dark matter is currently in vogue, that doesn't mean it's reality. Much of the hype behind dark matter is that if it exists and there is enough of it then it would explain the big bang. This has created a desire among some in the scientific community to want it to be true because it presents a nice clean solution with a recyclable universe. My personal feeling on it is that we're missing something big, that something is the explanation for where all the anti-matter went and it might explain many of these other anomalies that some are attributing to dark matter. I'm probably wrong, but I'm willing to bet so are the dark matter proponents.
Although there is sometimes a weight gain with marriage, it's usually the kids that cause the waistline expansion.
I currently wear a Citizen Eco-Drive watch. I think I bought it 10 years ago. The watch face is a solar panel that charges itself when it's exposed to light. The watch also has a perpetual calendar (don't have to set the date), it has stop watch and chronograph functionality and it looks like jewelry.
But the two single most important features for me were the never having to change the battery and the perpetual calendar (never having to set the date, even on leap years). I just shake my head at this "smart" watches, I'd go insane if I had to charge the watch every day and a bit of rain could ruin it.
All the hydrogen they use in these cars will be produced by steam reforming natural gas. It's the far cheapest way to make the gas.
At that point why don't you just use a natural gas ICE and skip the whole convert to hydrogen and all the losses it generates.
The real price is $70,000. The target $20k price is subsidized by the Japanese government, don't expect similar subsidies in the US.
The most interesting part about Germany's Solar deployment is that they have almost no utility scale deployments. Almost every deployed panel is on the roof of a building of a privately owned residence or business.
This is contrast to the US were better than 50% of the deployed panels are utility scale deployments. Fact is if everyone deployed panels on their homes and businesses south facing roof's we'd have more power than we could ever use. Germany is proof of that.
The Chinese government is TERRIBLE at soft power.
When the Philippines got hit by that Typhoon and they had the opportunity to inject soft power into the Philippines and offset public opinion about their territorial claims that are in conflict with the Philippines you know what they did? The offered a couple million dollars cheap tents that were probably worth less than a million dollars.
You know what the US did? We deployed a carrier group and starting rescuing people directly, feeding them, setting up housing and providing medical care onboard the navy ships including emergency surgery for those critically injured. That relatively cheap soft power exercise for the US bought long term good will in the Philippines, in fact they actually started talking about maybe letting us open a base there again (it's bared by their constitution). We didn't really spend that much more than the Chinese claim to have spent but we got 200000x the value from it.
The Chinese don't get soft power at all.
Yes that's what we should definitely do, lock people up for doing something they like. Lets line up the smokers, alcoholics, gamblers and everyone else with a form of addiction and put them behind bars for 20 years. They'll sure solve societies problems.
I can't say this politely, you are a fucktard.
How about we let people do whatever they want as long as they aren't physically hurting anyone else.
At the time these were developed NATO did not believe they could beat the Soviet forces without them. The soviets had something like a 3:1 armor advantage to the NATO forces and when combined with Warsaw pact forces they outnumbered NATO forces as well. The late 40's and 50's were pretty scary in this regard because western Europe was devastated and trying not to starve to death and the US had mostly demobilized while the Soviets still had their entire army and had increased heavy weaponry in the interim. If the Russians hadn't poisoned Stalin we probably would have had WWIII as he'd already put in motion the plan to create an incident that would lead to war.
When the ICBM and Submarine based nukes came online in the mid to late 60's it ended the need for the tactical nukes as you could assure MAD at that point. In the late 40's and early 50's the lack of these weapons prevented an effective strategic nuclear MAD strategy as the only way to hit internal strategic targets was with long range bombers which were susceptible to being shot down with conventional weaponry. It's arguable that until long range weapons against which there was little defense were developed MAD didn't really exist and that tactical weapons were the only thing that prevented war.
There was a MASSIVE soviet tank army standing by in Eastern Europe after the end of the war. The Soviets never stopped building armor after the end of the war and kept piling tanks in the East. The official NATO defense strategy was to drop nukes on the line of that army as soon as it crossed the border. This required quick deploy nukes. The M388 was actually one of the larger rounds, there was a very tiny jeep launched one as well that would only go about 5 miles (think about that job for a minute).
The point was NATO and the US developed these weapons, deployed them and let the Soviets know we had them. It likely helped prevented WWIII. The third world at this point was still trying to acquire weapons like machine guns. You shouldn't look at history through the warped lens of todays concerns. The Soviets were the concern, not some third world country without semi-automatic rifles.
All the last mile networks WILL be traffic asymmetric. In the past that was never an issue. Now that they see the opportunity to increase revenue AND protect their own video offerings they see an opportunity to extract rent on the traffic. This won't hurt Netflix but it will be a major barrier to entry to the video streaming field. And that is exactly the problem with it, it is anti-competitive at it's core.
The president is not omnipotent.
There is a reason that pre-9/11 there were laws on the books that limited the powers of the FBI and other federal police service's. We relaxed a LOT of those restrictions after 9/11 and a we're reaping the corruption those laws used to prevent.
There is not much that's scarier than a someone who thinks they are doing the right thing by violating someone else's rights. It's a quick jump right into real fascism (not the word bandied about around the internet that most people don't know what it means and are misusing it). What makes real fascism so scary is that the people behind it are true believers that they are doing the right thing.
It said in the article that the plastic itself, once converted to fuel is used to fuel the process which is converting the plastic to fuel. In other words they pull off a little of the fuel converted from the plastic to fuel the process going forward. Other than the initial startup energy it should be energy independent.
Plastic is a nasty waste product (it doesn't biodegrade and it kills living things) that we need to find a way to either reuse or properly destroy. Converting the several trillion tons of plastic waste in US landfills into fuel oil not only saves the space in the landfills it recovers energy from a waste product. It's a good idea if the total economics of the setup are profitable enough to justify hauling it to a disposal site or small enough to build these at landfills. It's a damn good waste reduction technique that will ensure we don't end up with the planet in the movie Wall-E (which was buried in garbage like plastic waste).
The IPMI on my supermicro motherboard only works through one of network ports. In fact it has it's own dedicated port that is only for IPMII (the regular OS doesn't even see it). Though I have seen older motherboards that work like yours I think supermicro has moved in more recent products to dedicated IPMI ports, maybe because of this very reason. You should be configuring the IPMI even if you don't plan to use it, set it an IP and then blackhole that IP on your network. If you don't configure it you don't know what it's doing.
It's not to late to file letters with the court dropping out of the class to pursue your own case because the settlement doesn't fit what you think is fair.
If enough people protest the settlement and drop out they will be forced to redo it.
In simple language.
It's a VNC connection to the graphics output (and some switches) independent of the main hardware. You can essentially VNC in and reboot the server, adjust bios options, mount a CD from your workstation to the server and install an OS. All while never having to touch the actual server.
It's very handy and a total security nightmare if it's not secured properly which should be obvious from the fact that you can power cycle and have full bios access. As others have said, it should be totally obvious to anyone with any computer literacy that IPMI could be very dangerous.
There is a limit we'll hit eventually, we're approaching circuits that are single digit atoms wide. No matter what we'll never get a circuit less than a single atom. Don't get me wrong, I don't think 10nm is going to be the problem but somewhere around single digit atoms wide we're going to run out of options to make them smaller.
He's a full time shill. Paid to present the views of the highest bidder.
And had you been buying directly from the manufacturer you would have paid less, significantly less. No matter how good of a deal you think you got the dealer still make that non-negotiable markup on top of the manufacturers wholesale price. What price concession you negotiated against was the cream profit on top of all that, and that isn't real price competition. That's the pretend circus on top of the purchasing that allows you to think you got a good deal, when in fact you didn't.