Not really, fresh local foodstuffs are only available from about mid June to late October around here. If it weren't for imported foods we'd have to go back to using canned, jarred, and otherwise preserved foods for half the year. Now it might be a bit of a stretch because a lot of things can be moved by ship and rail, but that too has consequences as it leads growers to try to minimize losses in shipping which leads to monoculture and a less healthy and tasty products that are more durable.
I'd rather not eat gruel for half the year TYVM. Now as to electric planes, I'm not sold. Even if the electric system is twice or even four times as efficient per unit of energy you still have to deal with the fact that kerosene/JP1 is about 40x more dense per unit weight and 80 times per unit volume than Lithium Ion batteries.
We're already shipping power from Texas to California, this is a significantly shorter trip. Also death valley is IN California, not to mention the Mojave and Senoran deserts.
Really, we aren't performing drone strikes, incursions, and firefights with Pakistan's border patrols on a daily basis? No, nuclear weapons alone does not make you immune from US military involvement, having a stable and friendly government is the only way to partially insure that.
What? This is Gates giving away his personal fortune! This has NOTHING to do with corporations so keep your anti-corporate rants to yourself please. Gates has a goal of giving away 99% of his personal wealth, he isn't looking for tax credits, he's looking for ways to better the human condition.
It's not about money, it's about parental involvement and student motivation. The large urban school district in the area where I'm from spends about 30% more per student to achieve MUCH worse results than either the school system I attended or the one my children attend. The difference is that when either of those suburban school district have an open house they have to lay out a strict schedule for meetings with teachers because there is too much demand on their time, while in the urban district a typical turnout is five of thirty parents (according to my aunt who teaches in the district).
There's a company out there selling 100kW gas turbines where the waste heat is used to power absorption chillers, a complete datacenter solution without reliance on grid power.
That's not true at all for datacenters. Heat density in the datacenter is increasing, so fast in fact that datacenters built just 5 years ago are largely insufficient to power and cool bladecenters. In my datacenter we ran out of power and cooling capacity long before we ran out of physical space to fit everything, for us the saving grace has been virtualization but in the commercial datacenter sector there is a lot of floorspace going unused because of increasing power density. Some facilities are expanding power and cooling if they can in order to not waste that space but it can be tricky because it is often cheaper to do a greenfield design for a new more dense facility than it is to retrofit an existing one.
So you're saying a $600 phone is better than a $99 tablet, well no crap. I'm not buying my kids a smartphone with a one or two year commitment. Hell I'm not going to buy them the same phone as my wife ($150 LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile, no contract required), but a tablet where they can usefully browse the web AND play their favorite games is in the realm of reasonable.
Really? I thought the Nook Color was the cheapest 2.x tablet. If there are seriously $99 color tablets I'll have to pick one up for the kids so they stop bugging the wife and I to use our phones to play Angry Birds.
And besides only tablets with the "with Google" mark and where the tablet maker has an agreement with Google get counted in their activation numbers, all of the nook color units for instance are not counted.
Really? While I loved my two trips to the Governors Summer Institute I wouldn't trade my time in regular summer camp for anything. 250 acres of wilderness and a 35 acre lake were incredible fun to explore. We got to play with bb guns, bow and arrows, rifles, and all sorts of watercraft. Oh, and my first time making out was at summer camp.
Why not? Having parity even when you've lost a disk is a good thing (you can do the same with RAIDZ2 obviously). They are going to be CPU/network latency/network bandwidth limited LONG before they are storage bandwidth limited so the double parity calculation isn't a big deal. Heck I run almost two thirds of my enterprise on vRAID6 on my EVA, other than a bad firmware update it would take a machine gun to make me lose data.
Because most slashdot users still have their first computer in a corner or in the attic. I know until recently my 486 SX25 was still at my parents house and I still have my first Athlon based system in the basement where it gets occasional use.
Oh, I completely disagree. The ISM band has been by far the most used chunk of the spectrum because it's not supervised and lacks all but the lightest of oversight (making sure devices don't spew all over other spectrum and conform to max power requirements). I say we need to make about 10x the amount of spectrum that is currently held over for the general public available for unlicensed use. There should absolutely be licensed bands available for semi-exclusive use to insure reliable communications for certain applications but they shouldn't constitute 99% of the spectrum like the well bought Congress seems to be pushing for.
Our email tapes have been reused ~30 times each, due to the way we were doing legal retention most of the others were only used once. If your data isn't worth $.10 a GB (or less with newer than LTO 2 tape systems) then I have to ask why you are even bothering to generate it.
Are you claiming you can use any old Thunderbolt accessory with an ipad2, because I don't believe that for a second. I'm sure they check for Apple's approved chip/license key before talking to an accessory just like they do for iPhone and iPad 1.
Well, I guess that's true to a point. For instance for my Oracle BI database server we put as many 8GB DIMM's as would fit into the system (at full speed) and the next biggest bang for the buck was using a 640GB MLC flash card from FusionIO, the card cost about as much as swapping the DIMM's for 16GB units but provided significantly more performance improvement than adding another 96GB of ram would have. Now if you told me to put 4 or 8GB of ram in the box and add flash I would laugh at you.
Dude, I've put 6400+ LTO 1-4 tapes through 4 different libraries over the last 5 years and had exactly 3 failures to read, two of those cartridges were dropped and so the failure was not unexpected, the third had a manufacturing flaw where an extra piece of tape somehow got into the cartridge. We verify every tape after writing using a different drive in the library and do restores almost daily so it's not like I'm blindly trusting the backup reports. I've restored data from old DLT IV carts that were almost 15 years old without issue. People having problems with tape reliability were almost always using Traven, DAT/DSS, or QIC tape systems, enterprise grade DLT or LTO tapes (or IBM or StorageTek's proprietary formats) have always been reliable.
For that small of files the most reliable inexpensive method is probably a small LTO2 library with each backup going to multiple tapes. $20 per tape with each capable of holding quite a few projects (200GB native). I just checked ebay and there are a ton of 2x LTO2 libraries for ~$500.
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The flavor and texture suck compared to fresh and they normally use salt as a preservative which I need to avoid over-consumption of.
Not really, fresh local foodstuffs are only available from about mid June to late October around here. If it weren't for imported foods we'd have to go back to using canned, jarred, and otherwise preserved foods for half the year. Now it might be a bit of a stretch because a lot of things can be moved by ship and rail, but that too has consequences as it leads growers to try to minimize losses in shipping which leads to monoculture and a less healthy and tasty products that are more durable.
I'd rather not eat gruel for half the year TYVM. Now as to electric planes, I'm not sold. Even if the electric system is twice or even four times as efficient per unit of energy you still have to deal with the fact that kerosene/JP1 is about 40x more dense per unit weight and 80 times per unit volume than Lithium Ion batteries.
We're already shipping power from Texas to California, this is a significantly shorter trip. Also death valley is IN California, not to mention the Mojave and Senoran deserts.
Really, we aren't performing drone strikes, incursions, and firefights with Pakistan's border patrols on a daily basis? No, nuclear weapons alone does not make you immune from US military involvement, having a stable and friendly government is the only way to partially insure that.
What? This is Gates giving away his personal fortune! This has NOTHING to do with corporations so keep your anti-corporate rants to yourself please. Gates has a goal of giving away 99% of his personal wealth, he isn't looking for tax credits, he's looking for ways to better the human condition.
It's not about money, it's about parental involvement and student motivation. The large urban school district in the area where I'm from spends about 30% more per student to achieve MUCH worse results than either the school system I attended or the one my children attend. The difference is that when either of those suburban school district have an open house they have to lay out a strict schedule for meetings with teachers because there is too much demand on their time, while in the urban district a typical turnout is five of thirty parents (according to my aunt who teaches in the district).
You honestly believe that this recession was caused by *OVER* regulation? HAHAHAHAHA
There's a company out there selling 100kW gas turbines where the waste heat is used to power absorption chillers, a complete datacenter solution without reliance on grid power.
Why do you need to use a pool heater at all? Solar pool covers basically eliminate the need for heating even here in Northeast Ohio.
RHEV (commercial KVM) already does this as well.
That's not true at all for datacenters. Heat density in the datacenter is increasing, so fast in fact that datacenters built just 5 years ago are largely insufficient to power and cool bladecenters. In my datacenter we ran out of power and cooling capacity long before we ran out of physical space to fit everything, for us the saving grace has been virtualization but in the commercial datacenter sector there is a lot of floorspace going unused because of increasing power density. Some facilities are expanding power and cooling if they can in order to not waste that space but it can be tricky because it is often cheaper to do a greenfield design for a new more dense facility than it is to retrofit an existing one.
No, it wasn't, it was YMCA camp though the site was originally a Boy Scout camp.
So you're saying a $600 phone is better than a $99 tablet, well no crap. I'm not buying my kids a smartphone with a one or two year commitment. Hell I'm not going to buy them the same phone as my wife ($150 LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile, no contract required), but a tablet where they can usefully browse the web AND play their favorite games is in the realm of reasonable.
Really? I thought the Nook Color was the cheapest 2.x tablet. If there are seriously $99 color tablets I'll have to pick one up for the kids so they stop bugging the wife and I to use our phones to play Angry Birds.
And besides only tablets with the "with Google" mark and where the tablet maker has an agreement with Google get counted in their activation numbers, all of the nook color units for instance are not counted.
Ordinary camp was bad.
Really? While I loved my two trips to the Governors Summer Institute I wouldn't trade my time in regular summer camp for anything. 250 acres of wilderness and a 35 acre lake were incredible fun to explore. We got to play with bb guns, bow and arrows, rifles, and all sorts of watercraft. Oh, and my first time making out was at summer camp.
Why not? Having parity even when you've lost a disk is a good thing (you can do the same with RAIDZ2 obviously). They are going to be CPU/network latency/network bandwidth limited LONG before they are storage bandwidth limited so the double parity calculation isn't a big deal. Heck I run almost two thirds of my enterprise on vRAID6 on my EVA, other than a bad firmware update it would take a machine gun to make me lose data.
Because most slashdot users still have their first computer in a corner or in the attic. I know until recently my 486 SX25 was still at my parents house and I still have my first Athlon based system in the basement where it gets occasional use.
Oh, I completely disagree. The ISM band has been by far the most used chunk of the spectrum because it's not supervised and lacks all but the lightest of oversight (making sure devices don't spew all over other spectrum and conform to max power requirements). I say we need to make about 10x the amount of spectrum that is currently held over for the general public available for unlicensed use. There should absolutely be licensed bands available for semi-exclusive use to insure reliable communications for certain applications but they shouldn't constitute 99% of the spectrum like the well bought Congress seems to be pushing for.
Our email tapes have been reused ~30 times each, due to the way we were doing legal retention most of the others were only used once. If your data isn't worth $.10 a GB (or less with newer than LTO 2 tape systems) then I have to ask why you are even bothering to generate it.
Are you claiming you can use any old Thunderbolt accessory with an ipad2, because I don't believe that for a second. I'm sure they check for Apple's approved chip/license key before talking to an accessory just like they do for iPhone and iPad 1.
Well, I guess that's true to a point. For instance for my Oracle BI database server we put as many 8GB DIMM's as would fit into the system (at full speed) and the next biggest bang for the buck was using a 640GB MLC flash card from FusionIO, the card cost about as much as swapping the DIMM's for 16GB units but provided significantly more performance improvement than adding another 96GB of ram would have. Now if you told me to put 4 or 8GB of ram in the box and add flash I would laugh at you.
Dude, I've put 6400+ LTO 1-4 tapes through 4 different libraries over the last 5 years and had exactly 3 failures to read, two of those cartridges were dropped and so the failure was not unexpected, the third had a manufacturing flaw where an extra piece of tape somehow got into the cartridge. We verify every tape after writing using a different drive in the library and do restores almost daily so it's not like I'm blindly trusting the backup reports. I've restored data from old DLT IV carts that were almost 15 years old without issue. People having problems with tape reliability were almost always using Traven, DAT/DSS, or QIC tape systems, enterprise grade DLT or LTO tapes (or IBM or StorageTek's proprietary formats) have always been reliable.
For that small of files the most reliable inexpensive method is probably a small LTO2 library with each backup going to multiple tapes. $20 per tape with each capable of holding quite a few projects (200GB native). I just checked ebay and there are a ton of 2x LTO2 libraries for ~$500.