If it can be used to manufacture methane (or, ideally, longer hydrocarbons such as butanol) it can be used to generate carbon-neutral vehicle fuel from water and atmospheric CO2.
I hope they turn into the Wrestling With Giant Insects channel and leave room for an actual Sci-Fi channel.
Also, "History" can eat a dick, and change their name to the Ice Road Truckers network.
Plus, IFC, you suck balls with commercials now, and have no worthwhile series to show for it. I can barely tolerate or forgive AMC, and only because they have _Breaking Bad_.
Why do channels even have themes anymore? Why not just 'Network Blue' or 'Shazbot' or something stupid? TLC did that, there's no more Learning there (and I fuckin miss the James Burke series' they used to show regularly)..
Meh, who cares, the only 'network' that matters anymore is eztv.it..
Fox is good for _Special Report_ and _Red Eye_, and Fox Biz for Judge Napolitano. Beyond that and net aggregators I have very little need for broadcast or cable news. Besides, the most important stuff going on today is best documented by Zerohedge and the Market Ticker, possibly add Barry Ritholtz to that (though I find he's a bit too chummy with the bankster thieves and more interested in understanding and cashing in on the corruption than in exposing and ending it).
And if Jon Stewart started really skewering Obama et al the same way he did so entertainingly with Bush, it might be worth watching again regularly instead of via the occasional clip. Oh, and no more Cheney or McCain jokes, that's just fuckin lazy.
Yeah, you're absolutely right, you should fly to Teheran and give that Immadinnerjacket a piece of your mind! He just needs to hear your persuasive, modern arguments against building bombs and he'll have no excuse but to bow to your superior insight and sensitivity.
Seriously, between taxes, power costs, employee costs, etc.. Why build datacenters in hightaxland? I figure NV, WA, TX, FL would be better for datacenters, and ideally WY or SD if there's adequate fiber available (and ya gotta wonder, given the military presence especially in western SD)..
Local costs of living are low, utilites and taxes are low, real-estate costs are low.. Do everything remotely and have local monkeys do hands-on if you can't reach remote KVM or serial/ILO, and fly folks out for the occasional builds..
I'm aware that DNSSEC is currently supported in test builds of PowerDNS, but consider this a vote for having it available in stable by the time.com gets signed..
(In the interim, I figure having BIND slaves serving data off of PowerDNS would work, since PDNS can handle DNSSEC RR types)
If you want digital surround sound for a HTPC, you want Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect to transcode into DD/DTS bitstream into your HT receiver.
AFAIK there are currently ZERO onboard sound chips that do this.
Yes, you could run 6 cables from the back of the HTPC into the analog preamp ins on your receiver (assuming it isn't a skinny modern HTPC-in-a-box that only has SPDIF or HDMI in) but you'd likely also end up with hum and other strange sound artifacts from the chintzy DAC..
These days, I'd _REALLY_ prefer a dump of 5.1 LPCM over HDMI, and it's technically probably easier to do to boot, or at least less license-y..
Passwords should have lifetimes dictated by their strength.. Weak passwds rejected, mild passwds say 30 days, medium passwds 60-90 days, strong passwds 180-360 days, and impenetrable passwds should not require changing.
Impenetrable = >= 16 characters, mixed case, numerals, punctuation, and passing all dictionaries. I have 3-5 of these consigned to muscle memory, and rotate thru them whenever I'm forced to change my passwd, it's annoying as FUCK.
I'm actually looking forward to Perl6, but it seems to me the decision to leave implementation up to "the cloud" rather than have a complete reference implementation is delaying it and may destroy it. I don't want to end up with 5 different implementations that each support "a bit" of the spec, and that looks like where Perl6 is right now, unfortunately.
If there is implementation forking, it should not be on different areas of the base language, it should be in different optimization choices. Perhaps a 'slimmed down' optimization would be OK IFF there's a fully-implemented version available for the general case.
... ISTR that each time there has been a shuttle disaster, it was during winter.
These fuckin things are old and rickety, and I don't think they should be permitted to launch when ambient overnight temperatures are lower than, say, 45 degrees. Not hard most of the year in south Florida.
Comment on the author's political ideology and the study's sponsorship, as well as the politicians who seek to use it to scare themselves more money and power. Comment on the politicization of science, and that group consensus does not trump experimental results.
Aside: Historical note on how the 'scientific community' was often wrong and would chide or even censure the 'outsiders', until they had experimental proofs that validated their conjectures, lament about the poisoning of that tradition by big money grant machines both governmental and corporate.
Or has it already, with the ending of OpenSolaris? Perhaps doing that cleared the way to settle, so that any OSol fork would have to reimplement changes to ZFS in Oracle's closed "mainline"?
Incidentally, how much hosting/colo is being offshored from Europe/US? I'd think that power reliability in India and censorship in China would hamper that, but it wouldn't be the first time I underestimated management stupidity..
Yeah, from what I've heard from Oracle folks, seems like Hurd will be a "good fit", at least for the executive tier.
Workers and customers? Not so much.
It's actually pretty damn incestuous, given how in-bed-with-each-other HP and Oracle (DB, middleware, Peoplesoft) are, but if Ora is looking to keep all the money, I guess this is part of what you do to do that..
WDTV Live+ does a pretty good job so far, and it has better Netflix support than Tivo.
However, if you want a bluray player too, PS3 is probably the way to go, I don't know of any DLNA/UPnP-capable bluray players besides a discontinued LG unit.
I had been holding off on the PS3 firmware update until the first jailbreak came out, presumably the USAF/DARPA can use this to 'unlock' any supercomputing PS3s they have?
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If it can be used to manufacture methane (or, ideally, longer hydrocarbons such as butanol) it can be used to generate carbon-neutral vehicle fuel from water and atmospheric CO2.
Looks like they focus light to heat the catalyst, but don't do anything that's specific to photons?
Why wouldn't this work with, say, thorium reactors or wind power or any other means to generate adequate heat for the reactions?
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.. . Now Nobel?
DAAAMN SON!!!
I hope they turn into the Wrestling With Giant Insects channel and leave room for an actual Sci-Fi channel.
Also, "History" can eat a dick, and change their name to the Ice Road Truckers network.
Plus, IFC, you suck balls with commercials now, and have no worthwhile series to show for it. I can barely tolerate or forgive AMC, and only because they have _Breaking Bad_.
Why do channels even have themes anymore? Why not just 'Network Blue' or 'Shazbot' or something stupid? TLC did that, there's no more Learning there (and I fuckin miss the James Burke series' they used to show regularly)..
Meh, who cares, the only 'network' that matters anymore is eztv.it ..
... I'd be reading kuro5hin.org ..
And like alternet is soo fuckin nonbiased...
Fox is good for _Special Report_ and _Red Eye_, and Fox Biz for Judge Napolitano. Beyond that and net aggregators I have very little need for broadcast or cable news. Besides, the most important stuff going on today is best documented by Zerohedge and the Market Ticker, possibly add Barry Ritholtz to that (though I find he's a bit too chummy with the bankster thieves and more interested in understanding and cashing in on the corruption than in exposing and ending it).
And if Jon Stewart started really skewering Obama et al the same way he did so entertainingly with Bush, it might be worth watching again regularly instead of via the occasional clip. Oh, and no more Cheney or McCain jokes, that's just fuckin lazy.
Yeah, you're absolutely right, you should fly to Teheran and give that Immadinnerjacket a piece of your mind! He just needs to hear your persuasive, modern arguments against building bombs and he'll have no excuse but to bow to your superior insight and sensitivity.
goodluckwithtthat
Seriously, between taxes, power costs, employee costs, etc.. Why build datacenters in hightaxland? I figure NV, WA, TX, FL would be better for datacenters, and ideally WY or SD if there's adequate fiber available (and ya gotta wonder, given the military presence especially in western SD)..
Local costs of living are low, utilites and taxes are low, real-estate costs are low.. Do everything remotely and have local monkeys do hands-on if you can't reach remote KVM or serial/ILO, and fly folks out for the occasional builds..
I'm aware that DNSSEC is currently supported in test builds of PowerDNS, but consider this a vote for having it available in stable by the time .com gets signed..
(In the interim, I figure having BIND slaves serving data off of PowerDNS would work, since PDNS can handle DNSSEC RR types)
Neat, the last onboard chipset I'm aware of offhand is the nForce2, which did DDL.. I have a CMI 8788-based PCI card (B-Enspirer)..
Are you kidding? IBM bought a frickin mortgage servicer, and they're probably gonna be liable for "paperwork irregularities" sooner or later..
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/06/ibm_finds_servicing_mortgages.html
(One of the company's founders was convicted of fraud, yet IBM bought them from Bank of America)
Smells like Palmisiano BS if you ask me..
If you want digital surround sound for a HTPC, you want Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect to transcode into DD/DTS bitstream into your HT receiver.
AFAIK there are currently ZERO onboard sound chips that do this.
Yes, you could run 6 cables from the back of the HTPC into the analog preamp ins on your receiver (assuming it isn't a skinny modern HTPC-in-a-box that only has SPDIF or HDMI in) but you'd likely also end up with hum and other strange sound artifacts from the chintzy DAC..
These days, I'd _REALLY_ prefer a dump of 5.1 LPCM over HDMI, and it's technically probably easier to do to boot, or at least less license-y..
So, when will Google be starting their own currency and paying their employees with it?
(oh wait, isn't that what stock options are?)
Passwords should have lifetimes dictated by their strength.. Weak passwds rejected, mild passwds say 30 days, medium passwds 60-90 days, strong passwds 180-360 days, and impenetrable passwds should not require changing.
Impenetrable = >= 16 characters, mixed case, numerals, punctuation, and passing all dictionaries. I have 3-5 of these consigned to muscle memory, and rotate thru them whenever I'm forced to change my passwd, it's annoying as FUCK.
I'm actually looking forward to Perl6, but it seems to me the decision to leave implementation up to "the cloud" rather than have a complete reference implementation is delaying it and may destroy it. I don't want to end up with 5 different implementations that each support "a bit" of the spec, and that looks like where Perl6 is right now, unfortunately.
If there is implementation forking, it should not be on different areas of the base language, it should be in different optimization choices. Perhaps a 'slimmed down' optimization would be OK IFF there's a fully-implemented version available for the general case.
Meh, perhaps they'll sell a USB dongle that enables OS X Server on whitebox servers?
... ISTR that each time there has been a shuttle disaster, it was during winter.
These fuckin things are old and rickety, and I don't think they should be permitted to launch when ambient overnight temperatures are lower than, say, 45 degrees. Not hard most of the year in south Florida.
Did someone knock down his kitties' home or something? I guess he must have gotten out of prison before Julian or Ricky..
What is this "world" thing you speak of?
Comment on the author's political ideology and the study's sponsorship, as well as the politicians who seek to use it to scare themselves more money and power. Comment on the politicization of science, and that group consensus does not trump experimental results.
Aside: Historical note on how the 'scientific community' was often wrong and would chide or even censure the 'outsiders', until they had experimental proofs that validated their conjectures, lament about the poisoning of that tradition by big money grant machines both governmental and corporate.
A 'companion' device to a phone? How well did that work out for Palm again, I forget..
Not to mention an 'brand new' OS?
My prediction: RUNAWAY SUCCESS!!!!!
Seriously, how is Oracle gonna fuck this up?
Or has it already, with the ending of OpenSolaris? Perhaps doing that cleared the way to settle, so that any OSol fork would have to reimplement changes to ZFS in Oracle's closed "mainline"?
Hrmph.
Incidentally, how much hosting/colo is being offshored from Europe/US? I'd think that power reliability in India and censorship in China would hamper that, but it wouldn't be the first time I underestimated management stupidity..
Yeah, from what I've heard from Oracle folks, seems like Hurd will be a "good fit", at least for the executive tier.
Workers and customers? Not so much.
It's actually pretty damn incestuous, given how in-bed-with-each-other HP and Oracle (DB, middleware, Peoplesoft) are, but if Ora is looking to keep all the money, I guess this is part of what you do to do that..
WDTV Live+ does a pretty good job so far, and it has better Netflix support than Tivo.
However, if you want a bluray player too, PS3 is probably the way to go, I don't know of any DLNA/UPnP-capable bluray players besides a discontinued LG unit.
I had been holding off on the PS3 firmware update until the first jailbreak came out, presumably the USAF/DARPA can use this to 'unlock' any supercomputing PS3s they have?