Actually keeping you from getting cancer is exactly what antioxidants are good for. Neurons do in fact divide (or at least we now know new neurons do grow, not sure if the genesis of that growth is known). The upper bound on divisions for cells appears to be about 50 (known as the Hayflick limit) which is speculated to be at the heart of current human maximum lifespan with other factors causing the majority of deaths before the limit is reached for key stem cells.
A way to cap telomere's he's not going to see 144. Antioxidants can keep in-gene encoding errors low but when the telomere's unravel there's nothing we can currently do to reverse the effects.
Uh, there's been quite a bit of coverage of the issue in Japan and europe as well, to the point where Toyota Japan in a fairly unprecedented move for a Japanese consumer complaint response agreed to an open investigation by the governments consumer protection arm. The norm is to offer a deep apology and for the followup to be completed behind closed doors.
Chest height generally screws them up, waist height is generally ok in my experience (one of only 2 failed tapes out of the last 4,800 through my library was dropped from chest height, I've dropped multiple from waist height without issue).
LTO has standardized compression in the spec, it's done at line speed and is smart enough not to compress data that is incompressible. Never once had a problem restoring even 6 year old LTO2 tapes. I've also restored data from 10 year old DLTIV tapes with compression without a problem.
It only takes 50TB's for the tape drive to reach parity and every TB past that is half the cost according to your numbers, if each dataset is 3TB's that's only 17 jobs. Add to that the vastly superior shelf life and reliability of tape over HDD's and it seems like a no brainer.
This is the 80's, and pilots we're talking about, right? Because if so I think it was the coke still in the mask and not the O2 that was giving the pick-me-up =)
Exactly, which is why I went back to using FF after trying the last Chrome dev build, the lag waiting for google analytics and other similar information snooping services meant that while rendering was faster browsing was significantly slower than FF with Adblock Pro.
ilo and winimage or floppy images on a bootable cdrom has eliminated any need I've had for an actual floppy drive in a long time and on the plus side it's also generally faster.
DRAC is integrated on the motherboard for all R*** series servers so now all the big guys have BMC on motherboard. iLo's still the best of the bunch but DRAC is at least usable.
Just found some numbers, the SPARC CPU in the SS 20's used for Toy Story were capable of 15 MFLOPS peak, an Alpha 21164 433 which came out about 6 months after the movie could do over 500 MFLOPS peak or about 30 times more. Even the PPro 200 could do 150 MFLOPS.
Well, I was talking about a year after the movie came out, obviously the stuff *before* the movie came out that was used on the multi-year project would have been less powerful. Figure 120 minutes, three doublings of cpu power so divide by eight and you get 15 minutes. Increase ram and you can use better textures or more complex poly's.
Toy Story isn't particularly difficult to render, even at the time you could render scenes with better quality in a matter of minutes so with a decade and a half of doubling every 18 months I'm pretty sure it could be done by your average gaming GPU in realtime. The biggest problem was sufficient memory for texture and model details but with 2GB of ram available on consumer level video card's I don't think that's such a big deal these days.
Most power generators do you zero good in a post-apocalyptic scenario because you no longer have a stream of hydrocarbons to feed into them. Sure you might have a natural gas well onsite, but then you get to the point where the generator requires maintenance and the supply chain for spare parts is no longer there. From that perspective windmills are probably the best form of Armageddon generator =)
They're still a bad investment because of the time value of money, using that money for any other productive purpose for 30 years will give you a greater return. It's one of the reasons solar cells haven't made sense until recently, the expected life of the cells was about the same as the amatorization schedule.
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Very cool. Thanks for the heads up, will have to read the journal articles =)
Actually keeping you from getting cancer is exactly what antioxidants are good for. Neurons do in fact divide (or at least we now know new neurons do grow, not sure if the genesis of that growth is known). The upper bound on divisions for cells appears to be about 50 (known as the Hayflick limit) which is speculated to be at the heart of current human maximum lifespan with other factors causing the majority of deaths before the limit is reached for key stem cells.
Even still it's pretty damn impressive considering Edison who had an entire research and development team working for him only had 1093 patents!
A way to cap telomere's he's not going to see 144. Antioxidants can keep in-gene encoding errors low but when the telomere's unravel there's nothing we can currently do to reverse the effects.
Uh, there's been quite a bit of coverage of the issue in Japan and europe as well, to the point where Toyota Japan in a fairly unprecedented move for a Japanese consumer complaint response agreed to an open investigation by the governments consumer protection arm. The norm is to offer a deep apology and for the followup to be completed behind closed doors.
Yeah my first thought was ATM's =)
No because applying a compression algorithm to incompressible data actually makes it grow.
Chest height generally screws them up, waist height is generally ok in my experience (one of only 2 failed tapes out of the last 4,800 through my library was dropped from chest height, I've dropped multiple from waist height without issue).
LTO has standardized compression in the spec, it's done at line speed and is smart enough not to compress data that is incompressible. Never once had a problem restoring even 6 year old LTO2 tapes. I've also restored data from 10 year old DLTIV tapes with compression without a problem.
I didn't see you mention LTO or DLT in your little rant against tape, both are superior to any other method for the storage of bulk offline data.
It only takes 50TB's for the tape drive to reach parity and every TB past that is half the cost according to your numbers, if each dataset is 3TB's that's only 17 jobs. Add to that the vastly superior shelf life and reliability of tape over HDD's and it seems like a no brainer.
Everclear is pure silky smoothness next to it's backwoods cousin white lightening =)
This is the 80's, and pilots we're talking about, right? Because if so I think it was the coke still in the mask and not the O2 that was giving the pick-me-up =)
Exactly, which is why I went back to using FF after trying the last Chrome dev build, the lag waiting for google analytics and other similar information snooping services meant that while rendering was faster browsing was significantly slower than FF with Adblock Pro.
You know you can use OMSA and syscfg to program the DRAC from the OS, right? Just like HP with hponconfig.
ilo and winimage or floppy images on a bootable cdrom has eliminated any need I've had for an actual floppy drive in a long time and on the plus side it's also generally faster.
DRAC is integrated on the motherboard for all R*** series servers so now all the big guys have BMC on motherboard. iLo's still the best of the bunch but DRAC is at least usable.
Just found some numbers, the SPARC CPU in the SS 20's used for Toy Story were capable of 15 MFLOPS peak, an Alpha 21164 433 which came out about 6 months after the movie could do over 500 MFLOPS peak or about 30 times more. Even the PPro 200 could do 150 MFLOPS.
Well, I was talking about a year after the movie came out, obviously the stuff *before* the movie came out that was used on the multi-year project would have been less powerful. Figure 120 minutes, three doublings of cpu power so divide by eight and you get 15 minutes. Increase ram and you can use better textures or more complex poly's.
Toy Story isn't particularly difficult to render, even at the time you could render scenes with better quality in a matter of minutes so with a decade and a half of doubling every 18 months I'm pretty sure it could be done by your average gaming GPU in realtime. The biggest problem was sufficient memory for texture and model details but with 2GB of ram available on consumer level video card's I don't think that's such a big deal these days.
Most power generators do you zero good in a post-apocalyptic scenario because you no longer have a stream of hydrocarbons to feed into them. Sure you might have a natural gas well onsite, but then you get to the point where the generator requires maintenance and the supply chain for spare parts is no longer there. From that perspective windmills are probably the best form of Armageddon generator =)
Yes, because Google and ebay already have RAED (redundant array of expensive datacenters).
ie - add in a healthy dollop of what is [del]your own[/del] other peoples money anyway.
FTFY.
They're still a bad investment because of the time value of money, using that money for any other productive purpose for 30 years will give you a greater return. It's one of the reasons solar cells haven't made sense until recently, the expected life of the cells was about the same as the amatorization schedule.
Yep, the A8 gets 2 DMIPs/Mhz vs the P3 at ~1.1 DMIPS/Mhz.