I don't think most American's are blaming BP because they are British, I think they are blaming them because they are a huge corporation with ginormous profits that have done everything possible to avoid proactively stopping something like this from happening. When you are making 10's of Billions each year and not spending the millions it would cost to run your business in a safer manner it's borderline criminal, and in cases like this where that negligence leads to the worst destruction of nature in human history it really SHOULD be criminal.
There are ~402 Trillion acre feet of water in the smallest of the great lakes, it takes ~2 acre feet to produce 12,000lbs of grain which is enough to create 1714lbs of beef by your numbers so just Lake Erie has enough water to make 689,028 trillion lbs of beef or enough to feed each person in the world 100 million pounds of beef. Claiming that water is a reason to go vegan/vegetarian is just asinine. Energy for fertilizer on the other hand might be a more compelling argument.
That's funny, the megawatt class diesel and turbine engines at datacenters get exercised weekly, I don't think we are spending tens of thousands every week starting those up....
The NY Transit Authority is installing a megawatt scale flywheel system to ease peak loading and increase energy efficiency. Such systems installed at most major peak load facilities could help the grid significantly at lower cost than peaking production facilities.
Unless you're in California, then you can only run it for 40 hours a year outside of emergencies (see CARB rules for stationary and portable generators).
Large flywheels and reverse pump hydro plants are the grid scale batteries of choice, in fact I expect there will eventually be flywheels for midsized power consumers like small datacenters in the future to take advantage of cheap offpeak power (this is sometimes done today using frozen block chillers).
I hope AMD does lower their prices because the HD5750 has actually gone UP about 10-15% in the last 8 months! I'd love to get something with more capability than my 9600GSO but because my HTPC is on 24x7 I don't want a power sucking monster so the 5750 is the best bet, unfortunately it's still out of the price range where I can justify it to myself.
Oracle's way ahead of you, they've had programatically partitioned tables for quite some time. Queries don't need to altered, if they call for data outside of the active tables range then the archive table(s) are automatically used.
Partitioning helps by making the indexes in the main table smaller meaning that the number of objects in the data structure is that much smaller and hence faster. My main financials database has significantly more space in indexes than it does in table data because different applications need different sets of indexes. Also if you could shrink your main table to a small enough size that it will fit into an affordable amount of SSD space you really could see a 10-100x speedup in data access.
Look for auto tiering, most of the newer products from EMC now support it. The technology is OS agnostic because it is done at the block level. Compellant and Isilon are two other vendors I'm familiar with that do auto-tiering.
Yep, my friend works for a telemarketer in the nonprofit space and the various DNC lists just reduce the size of the huge database tables he has to work with (hundreds of millions of rows). They spend a great deal of time and energy trying to find the optimum person to call in each neighborhood, they want the person that's most likely to not only say yes, but who will get their neighbors to donate as well. That way they spend the lowest amount per dollar raised.
Do you have more than $67k in net assets outside your 401k or other retirement accounts? If not then it probably makes sense to declare bankruptcy in a case like this.
The industries affected in the Gulf region are worth ~$200B a year and will be affected for many years ergo if BP were to pay real damages they would be bankrupt, and that is how it's supposed to work. The investors aren't personally liable so you will never recover more than the net value of the company, but the company should cease to exist if justice were to be served. Should the company survive it's just more proof that the Libertarian model of letting everyone run wild and the market decide things is fundamentally flawed.
Netapp is claiming that ZFS infringes on multiple core WAFL (the filesystem behind their filer products) patents. They may have a point insofar as software patents are enforceable. Time and again the Sun engineers behind ZFS have referenced WAFL as being the closest comparable filesystem to ZFS. The patent enforcement against ZFS started after Sun in their pre-Oracle takeover death throws came to Netapp expecting $$$ millions for supposed patent infringement.
We have tort reform which limits doctors liability when they screw up someones life, we have oil company liability limited to $75M, but if you trade some bits you are responsible for a months takehome pay for an average US family, sounds about right.
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If you can write a program to solve the problem I think that proves more than a little mastery of the subject at hand =)
Or you know, don't overpopulate areas where water is a scarce resource and don't grow water intensive plants like cotton in the desert.
I don't think most American's are blaming BP because they are British, I think they are blaming them because they are a huge corporation with ginormous profits that have done everything possible to avoid proactively stopping something like this from happening. When you are making 10's of Billions each year and not spending the millions it would cost to run your business in a safer manner it's borderline criminal, and in cases like this where that negligence leads to the worst destruction of nature in human history it really SHOULD be criminal.
There are ~402 Trillion acre feet of water in the smallest of the great lakes, it takes ~2 acre feet to produce 12,000lbs of grain which is enough to create 1714lbs of beef by your numbers so just Lake Erie has enough water to make 689,028 trillion lbs of beef or enough to feed each person in the world 100 million pounds of beef. Claiming that water is a reason to go vegan/vegetarian is just asinine. Energy for fertilizer on the other hand might be a more compelling argument.
That's funny, the megawatt class diesel and turbine engines at datacenters get exercised weekly, I don't think we are spending tens of thousands every week starting those up....
The NY Transit Authority is installing a megawatt scale flywheel system to ease peak loading and increase energy efficiency. Such systems installed at most major peak load facilities could help the grid significantly at lower cost than peaking production facilities.
Unless you're in California, then you can only run it for 40 hours a year outside of emergencies (see CARB rules for stationary and portable generators).
Must be a thermal-electric plant then because natural gas compression engines and gas turbines can be spun up in seconds to minutes.
Large flywheels and reverse pump hydro plants are the grid scale batteries of choice, in fact I expect there will eventually be flywheels for midsized power consumers like small datacenters in the future to take advantage of cheap offpeak power (this is sometimes done today using frozen block chillers).
They also often have to scale down during the hottest times of the year due to problems with thermal pollution of their heat sinks (rivers or lakes).
I hope AMD does lower their prices because the HD5750 has actually gone UP about 10-15% in the last 8 months! I'd love to get something with more capability than my 9600GSO but because my HTPC is on 24x7 I don't want a power sucking monster so the 5750 is the best bet, unfortunately it's still out of the price range where I can justify it to myself.
Flash 10.1 with GPU offload can probably decode 4k video just fine on any modern gaming card.
You do know that you can view ~80% of youtube content in H.264 without flash by using a different URL, right?
Oracle's way ahead of you, they've had programatically partitioned tables for quite some time. Queries don't need to altered, if they call for data outside of the active tables range then the archive table(s) are automatically used.
ZFS DOES have auto tiering, ARC in RAM, L2ARC and ZIL on tier0 SSD and then bulk storage on either teir1 or tier2 storage.
Partitioning helps by making the indexes in the main table smaller meaning that the number of objects in the data structure is that much smaller and hence faster. My main financials database has significantly more space in indexes than it does in table data because different applications need different sets of indexes. Also if you could shrink your main table to a small enough size that it will fit into an affordable amount of SSD space you really could see a 10-100x speedup in data access.
Look for auto tiering, most of the newer products from EMC now support it. The technology is OS agnostic because it is done at the block level. Compellant and Isilon are two other vendors I'm familiar with that do auto-tiering.
Yep, my friend works for a telemarketer in the nonprofit space and the various DNC lists just reduce the size of the huge database tables he has to work with (hundreds of millions of rows). They spend a great deal of time and energy trying to find the optimum person to call in each neighborhood, they want the person that's most likely to not only say yes, but who will get their neighbors to donate as well. That way they spend the lowest amount per dollar raised.
I meant per song.
WRONG, the winning party in a civil court becomes a creditor and can have their liability discharged in bankruptcy just like any other debt.
Do you have more than $67k in net assets outside your 401k or other retirement accounts? If not then it probably makes sense to declare bankruptcy in a case like this.
The industries affected in the Gulf region are worth ~$200B a year and will be affected for many years ergo if BP were to pay real damages they would be bankrupt, and that is how it's supposed to work. The investors aren't personally liable so you will never recover more than the net value of the company, but the company should cease to exist if justice were to be served. Should the company survive it's just more proof that the Libertarian model of letting everyone run wild and the market decide things is fundamentally flawed.
Netapp is claiming that ZFS infringes on multiple core WAFL (the filesystem behind their filer products) patents. They may have a point insofar as software patents are enforceable. Time and again the Sun engineers behind ZFS have referenced WAFL as being the closest comparable filesystem to ZFS. The patent enforcement against ZFS started after Sun in their pre-Oracle takeover death throws came to Netapp expecting $$$ millions for supposed patent infringement.
We have tort reform which limits doctors liability when they screw up someones life, we have oil company liability limited to $75M, but if you trade some bits you are responsible for a months takehome pay for an average US family, sounds about right.
A few million rows is a small database to a RDBMS like SQL Server, Oracle or Postgres.