Am I the only one who read this and immediately thought of a Doctor Who episode? I can't recall the name, but I know it was a David Tennant episode. It was also his first season as he was still travelling with Rose Tyler. Come on, Slashdot! I know you guys know!
I'm English, we have a ( far from perfect ) National Health System ( NHS ). To me it seems barbaric that a citizen of a society would be seriously ill/die because they don't have money to access available treatments.
No but when certain procedures have a cost deemed "excessive" by the system, even if they're absolutely required they get deprecated or delayed ridiculously.
So, allowing someone to become ill and die because they can't afford it? Or allowing someone to become ill and die because the government doesn't want to foot the bill in a timely manner?
Under track conditions (with one of those jackasses pushing the pedal to the floor), yeah, the mileage on the Tesla is probably going to be atrocious.
As for the rest, not sure who exactly takes Top Gear seriously. It's a fun show, but I don't really look at it for good car facts. Nor should anyone else.
Seriously. Any sort of enterprise-level should be swearing off these things as a storage medium then. Well, maybe for a boot drive. But anything with massive amount of writes should be kept as far away from an MLC drive as possible.
I believe that you're underestimating the amount of space (and cost) that would be taken up by such systems (not to mention the various storage systems).
There are some areas of the country where implementing this sort of thing just is NOT feasible due to climatic issues. The proposal would essentially turn these areas into permanent clients to sections of the country with space to spare and no climatic issues to overcome.
With sufficiently massive and widespread deployment of wind/solar, they *become* the base load,
This right here shows that you don't even know what base load is.
You also don't understand that wind/solar cannot be depended on for always-on power generation. PERIOD.
Solar panel and wind farm facilities are space prohibitive and have operational windows drastically affected by local climate.
Solar/Salt facilities are highly dependent on local climate and also space prohibitive.
Hydro-based power in this country is about as far along as it's going to get. As it is also hamstrung by factions of the environmental movement.
As such, the output from any or all of these facilities can range from adequate to nothing.
These technologies are supplementary power technologies at best (and expensive ones at that). Trying to depend on them for base load would be ridiculous.
Sorry, but if you think Wind/Solar can be used for baseline power, you're on drugs.
You have NO idea exactly how huge the battery capacity you're suggesting is. Nor how expensive and high-maintenance such an array is. And if you're adverse to the environmental impact of a few tons of recyclable nuclear waste, how adverse are you to the environmental impact of a few megatons of battery medium?
Please put some thought into what you're trying to suggest.
Yup. Due to the news media's disgusting exaggeration of the event, , and the 60+ years of "all radiation = bad = kill you dead", a bunch of people who don't understand a thing about nuclear power generation from the 60's, let alone modern reactor technologies are going to browbeat the power industry into the least effectual, most expensive forms of power generation. And it'll be the power industry's fault when power prices skyrocket. It'll also be the power industry's fault when these sources of power fail at maintaining baseline power levels.
Way to fucking go. Decision by committee of imbeciles.
But you tell someone who's been indoctrinated into the Church of "Radiation Is All Bad", and they're going to just blank the minute you say it. It won't even register.
In other news, the government has continued to squeeze blood from stone and instituted a tax on breathing.
"We generously provide all this air for you. It's only just that we be compensated" said Ima Asshat, a government spokesperson during a press conference today.
Seriously, while this is going to be useful in some cases, it's just going give a whole group of people license to freak out. Or worse, try to be socially active to "clean up" the world of all radiation.
Part of the issue here is people have been indoctrinated with "all radiation is bad and will kill you no matter what the dose is".
Never mind that people are living in a sea of constant ultra-low-level exposure and would likely become ill were all sources of radiation eliminated.
Literally a 60mm cube fan. Held in your hand, it was inaudible and move an assload of air.
Put it in the case, it caused so much vibration, and due to the metal mesh over the fan port, turbulence, that it sounded like someone hooked a dustbuster up to the back of my computer.
My system isn't silent by any means, but it isn't loud either. However I don't care for playing with speakers on. I COULD, and they'd be booming. But I'm in an apartment and my neighbors would know EXACTLY what I was doing.
A nice pair of headphones goes a long way.
Barring that, there are other noise elimination strategies available.
Should you HAVE to? No. But remember you're dealing with the high-end performance cards. You're sacrificing many types of elegant design in favor of BRUTE FORCE POWER! *Tears a chunk of meat off a joint with his teeth*.
Why? So you can play Duke Snookums For Never at 61 fps instead of 59 with all the settings turned up and spread across 5 monitors.
It also really doesn't help that we have vast acreage diverted to non-essential crops as well. You have corn being grown for Ethanol, and various other crops that aren't going to food or clothing or medicine.
This when we're talking about a world population in excess of 6 billion people and increasing at roughly 10% a year.
I'm not saying some of these research crops aren't important, or that some of the products coming off these crops aren't necessary. But when it comes down to "eat and recycle your plastics" or "have new biodegradable stuff and starve" I'd rather recycle the fucking plastic.
Not just that it's easily measurable, but that it's also cheap and ubiquitous.
People have been so flooded with the notion "radiation will kill you", that there has been no attempt to differentiate between types and and exposure levels of radiation.
Plus there's the fact that the world is literally awash in varying forms of radiation all day every day (background radiation), and that we'd probably become quite ill (possibly even die) were we completely cut off from said radiation.
But Uverse video is NOT delivered the same way as Netflix, iTunes, and the rest... It's not competition; Uverse programming is "broadcast" in a very traditional sense, you watch what's on the stream coming down the pipe and while you have control over *your* stream you have little/no control over all the streams of content coming from the very center. They distribute a LOT of hardware and connectivity to make that all possible, and while I am not trying to defend them or over-hype their service, it is really fundamentally *not* just another source of IP information.
Netflix, hulu, and the rest need to realize that IP unicast from a central hub for TV programming is fundamentally flawed, and start aggressively peering with service providers like AT&T to get a content source *inside* the network where it won't be capped (and where, conveniently enough, its VERY VERY efficient since it saves gateway bandwidth for unique data services that actually NEED it.)
Bullshit. While you get the broadcast stuff like always, you're ALSO getting U-Verse On-demand stuff too. That doesn't count against your limit.
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Am I the only one who read this and immediately thought of a Doctor Who episode? I can't recall the name, but I know it was a David Tennant episode. It was also his first season as he was still travelling with Rose Tyler. Come on, Slashdot! I know you guys know!
Hungry! HUNGRY!
I'm English, we have a ( far from perfect ) National Health System ( NHS ). To me it seems barbaric that a citizen of a society would be seriously ill/die because they don't have money to access available treatments.
No but when certain procedures have a cost deemed "excessive" by the system, even if they're absolutely required they get deprecated or delayed ridiculously.
So, allowing someone to become ill and die because they can't afford it? Or allowing someone to become ill and die because the government doesn't want to foot the bill in a timely manner?
Which is more barbaric?
This may or may not be an uphill battle for them.
Under track conditions (with one of those jackasses pushing the pedal to the floor), yeah, the mileage on the Tesla is probably going to be atrocious.
As for the rest, not sure who exactly takes Top Gear seriously. It's a fun show, but I don't really look at it for good car facts. Nor should anyone else.
Come on! Fire, water, and now beams of electricity! What could happen!
Thanks for getting to this first.
Seriously. Any sort of enterprise-level should be swearing off these things as a storage medium then. Well, maybe for a boot drive. But anything with massive amount of writes should be kept as far away from an MLC drive as possible.
I believe that you're underestimating the amount of space (and cost) that would be taken up by such systems (not to mention the various storage systems).
There are some areas of the country where implementing this sort of thing just is NOT feasible due to climatic issues. The proposal would essentially turn these areas into permanent clients to sections of the country with space to spare and no climatic issues to overcome.
With sufficiently massive and widespread deployment of wind/solar, they *become* the base load,
This right here shows that you don't even know what base load is.
You also don't understand that wind/solar cannot be depended on for always-on power generation. PERIOD.
Solar panel and wind farm facilities are space prohibitive and have operational windows drastically affected by local climate.
Solar/Salt facilities are highly dependent on local climate and also space prohibitive.
Hydro-based power in this country is about as far along as it's going to get. As it is also hamstrung by factions of the environmental movement.
As such, the output from any or all of these facilities can range from adequate to nothing.
These technologies are supplementary power technologies at best (and expensive ones at that). Trying to depend on them for base load would be ridiculous.
Depending on what data is being captured by the ISP for management purposes, this COULD be true.
But, if they can track you well enough to meter you (Comcast, AT&T, etc), they can track you down to your IP too.
Sorry, but if you think Wind/Solar can be used for baseline power, you're on drugs.
You have NO idea exactly how huge the battery capacity you're suggesting is. Nor how expensive and high-maintenance such an array is. And if you're adverse to the environmental impact of a few tons of recyclable nuclear waste, how adverse are you to the environmental impact of a few megatons of battery medium?
Please put some thought into what you're trying to suggest.
Yup. Due to the news media's disgusting exaggeration of the event, , and the 60+ years of "all radiation = bad = kill you dead", a bunch of people who don't understand a thing about nuclear power generation from the 60's, let alone modern reactor technologies are going to browbeat the power industry into the least effectual, most expensive forms of power generation. And it'll be the power industry's fault when power prices skyrocket. It'll also be the power industry's fault when these sources of power fail at maintaining baseline power levels.
Way to fucking go. Decision by committee of imbeciles.
Essentially they just need to add an interrogatory screen that says "This will actually SEND the message out. Are you SURE you want to do this?"
I know this.
You know this.
But you tell someone who's been indoctrinated into the Church of "Radiation Is All Bad", and they're going to just blank the minute you say it. It won't even register.
In other news, the government has continued to squeeze blood from stone and instituted a tax on breathing.
"We generously provide all this air for you. It's only just that we be compensated" said Ima Asshat, a government spokesperson during a press conference today.
Seriously, while this is going to be useful in some cases, it's just going give a whole group of people license to freak out. Or worse, try to be socially active to "clean up" the world of all radiation.
Part of the issue here is people have been indoctrinated with "all radiation is bad and will kill you no matter what the dose is".
Never mind that people are living in a sea of constant ultra-low-level exposure and would likely become ill were all sources of radiation eliminated.
Reminds me of a 60mm fan I used to own.
Literally a 60mm cube fan. Held in your hand, it was inaudible and move an assload of air.
Put it in the case, it caused so much vibration, and due to the metal mesh over the fan port, turbulence, that it sounded like someone hooked a dustbuster up to the back of my computer.
Loud? What?
Headphones!
My system isn't silent by any means, but it isn't loud either. However I don't care for playing with speakers on. I COULD, and they'd be booming. But I'm in an apartment and my neighbors would know EXACTLY what I was doing.
A nice pair of headphones goes a long way.
Barring that, there are other noise elimination strategies available.
Should you HAVE to? No. But remember you're dealing with the high-end performance cards. You're sacrificing many types of elegant design in favor of BRUTE FORCE POWER! *Tears a chunk of meat off a joint with his teeth*.
Why? So you can play Duke Snookums For Never at 61 fps instead of 59 with all the settings turned up and spread across 5 monitors.
What? Doesn't EVERYONE have a 2 kilowatt power supply and vapor phase-change cooling on every available source of heat in the case?
FLUSH! FLUSH DAMN YOU!
And get some stink slayer in here. God! What crawled up inside of you and died?
Typo/brainfart.
Should have been 10% per DECADE.
It also really doesn't help that we have vast acreage diverted to non-essential crops as well. You have corn being grown for Ethanol, and various other crops that aren't going to food or clothing or medicine.
This when we're talking about a world population in excess of 6 billion people and increasing at roughly 10% a year.
I'm not saying some of these research crops aren't important, or that some of the products coming off these crops aren't necessary. But when it comes down to "eat and recycle your plastics" or "have new biodegradable stuff and starve" I'd rather recycle the fucking plastic.
Not just that it's easily measurable, but that it's also cheap and ubiquitous.
People have been so flooded with the notion "radiation will kill you", that there has been no attempt to differentiate between types and and exposure levels of radiation.
Plus there's the fact that the world is literally awash in varying forms of radiation all day every day (background radiation), and that we'd probably become quite ill (possibly even die) were we completely cut off from said radiation.
Because at this point you have Netflix inside AT&T's network and billing structure.
The problem is still last mile bandwidth use.
LIES!
ALL LIES!
But Uverse video is NOT delivered the same way as Netflix, iTunes, and the rest... It's not competition; Uverse programming is "broadcast" in a very traditional sense, you watch what's on the stream coming down the pipe and while you have control over *your* stream you have little/no control over all the streams of content coming from the very center. They distribute a LOT of hardware and connectivity to make that all possible, and while I am not trying to defend them or over-hype their service, it is really fundamentally *not* just another source of IP information.
Netflix, hulu, and the rest need to realize that IP unicast from a central hub for TV programming is fundamentally flawed, and start aggressively peering with service providers like AT&T to get a content source *inside* the network where it won't be capped (and where, conveniently enough, its VERY VERY efficient since it saves gateway bandwidth for unique data services that actually NEED it.)
Bullshit. While you get the broadcast stuff like always, you're ALSO getting U-Verse On-demand stuff too. That doesn't count against your limit.
So yes, this IS anti-competitive.