The meteorologists DO use variance reports to tweak their computer models and to select which model is currently the most accurate, but I can't imagine there are too many people that want that raw data.
With the current density of information collecting stations anything past about 10 days is just an educated guess, seven day forecasts are pretty darn accurate (generally getting precipitation chance and high and low temperatures to within a percent or two) with an additional three days being fairly accurate.
If you don't know why weather radar needs to be faster then you have never been watching during an active thunderstorm. Sweep periods are quite slow in high resolution mode, they can speed things up but it costs significant resolution loss. What is needed is synthetic aperture radar where you can point a small array of antennas at the storm and get multiple different elevation readings simultaneously. We've had the technology for quite some time but it's just now coming down in price to where we can think of using it broadly for weather stations.
HUGE budget? Not even remotely, we recently went from a data closet to a small datacenter and spent significantly more, and in a simpler manner. We went to all HP servers which can be completely remotely managed through their ilo port, no need for crazy PDU's or IP KVM's.
We did go with APC InfraStruXture for racks, kvm, and PDU's, but went with Liebert/Emerson for HVAC and UPS. We don't have traditional raised floor and the APC inline stuff is a bit on the expensive side.
We went from all servers being serviced by a single 60A breaker and a constantly failing APC AC unit (another big reason for not going APC, their name was tarnished even if it wasn't their fault due to shoddy installation) to dual UPS's powered off of separate generators and redundant chillers with separate condensers on the roof. We even managed to do it with only 5 minutes downtime for email/BES.
Working in the midwest as a sysadmin I make about $60K per year, my house cost less than $150K with 1 acre (.4 hectare) lot in one of the best public school districts in the state. To get an equivalent property near silicon valley would cost millions so I would say $89K is way low. In fact according to a simple online calculator my salary is the same as these engineers as far as cost of living. That's pretty bad considering I'm a college dropout and they work as engineers for an (almost) Fortune 100 company.
The amassing of forces along the border before the international coalition had a significant amount of forces in the region was probably a good indicator...
Well, depending on exactly which compounds come out of this process there might still be a market for dino-petrol, there are some very unique and valuable things that come out of crude that have little to do with fuel production. That market is of course a fraction of the fuel market, but it exists and it is a reason that future generations will hate us for simply burning the stuff.
They'd still have the oligopoly on transportation and refining, those are serious barriers to entry and so should ensure their continued existence. In fact I can think of nothing the oil companies would love better than for the energy source of the future to look like the energy source of today.
At almost 300% profit it wouldn't take very long at all to refund venture capital, so if they can make it work on any kind of scale they won't know what to do with all the money flowing their way. IF what they say is in any way realistic they should have the demo plant finished next quarter, not in 2-3 years.
If they are right then they are instant Billionaires, if the process really worked they would be commercializing it and completely destabilizing OPEC. I'll believe it when I see it and the world will be rejoicing.
The US Mk-54 (SADM) has a variable yield up to 1 kilo-ton and it only weighs 23kg, so a man portable nuke that can take out a good chunk of a city is possible and was made all the way back in 1957. Just for perspective that is 400 times as powerful as the bomb that took out the Oklahoma City federal building.
Except you can limit how much you pay out for each adword, so they just set a limit that will allow them to track you but won't be burdensome if a cluefull user figures it out or someone forwards the email to a listserve.
Here's a way to do hypertargeted tracking to a gmail client, buy an adword for some made up many character 'word' like asdjhfgkjbadjghiougscvo and then include it at the end of or embedded in the html of an email. Then just view the stats on the adword. If you are smart enough there is generally a way to do things to the majority of people who are non-paranoid. Personally that's why I like things like Mozilla and Thunderbird, their defaults are set by people who ARE paranoid =)
Actually, at least in Ohio most minor violations are in fact under civil law with the municipality being the plaintiff. A large part of this shift was the move to automatic enforcement mechanisms such as redlight cameras. Under criminal law you have the right to face your accuser, which is a bit hard for the state to produce when it is a machine so to get around that they switched it to civil penalties.
> code used within the company and never released
Yeah, but what constitutes a software "release"? Hosting a public website with some GPL code linked on the back end may spell trouble. Passing out CDs containing marketing materials at a trade show may constitute a software "release". Not every company is a software company, and when your primary business is not creating software you may not be the most savvy about these sorts of things or have the strictest policies about what your developers, contractors, or consultants can inadvertently do.
Custom software is a major driving factor in most businesses, and there's an understandable undercurrent of cautious distrust of the GPL when the consequences of the smallest touch could unintentionally taint a codebase. Uh, no neither of those cases fall under the GPL, both are examples of documents processed by the software which is explicitly called out as NOT being distribution of the software and hence not invoking the clause. It's not that complex of a document to read and understand (the typical commercial software contract is longer, much more obtuse, and definitely MUCH less friendly to the receiving party.) Please don't spread FUD, MS and company do it well enough without your help.
You really DO know nothing about mainframes, the hypervisor is old and stable on S/390 nee zSeries nee System Z. The hypervisor is called Z/VM and it has its roots in VM/370 which was first introduced 1972, linux ain't replacing it. Also unless you can get JCL and the various other mainframe language/apps to run on Linux it's not going to be the OS-du-jour for the vast majority of installations. They might buy or use some linux licenses because the hardware is there but that won't be the main focus of the box/sysplex and it certainly won't be running the show.
There's already a product out that does exactly what you described, COPAN has a MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) system with a tape library emulation option. Our SAN vendor suggests them to customers who want to go tapeless. They've been doing it for a long time so I'm sure their early products were IDE based but I'm sure they used edge connectors like those is some laptop drives.
Most SAN's aren't built with IDE/SATA drives, they are generally built with fast Fiber Channel or dual port SAS drives so that they don't have a single point of failure even in the backplane. The applications that are hosted on most SAN's care about I/O's per second as much as they do storage space. If you don't care about performance then there are cheaper solutions like a Sun Thumper or an HP DL320s that get you pretty good TB/$ while still being more reliable then most DIY whitebox storage projects. I have plenty of storage on SAN, medium speed direct attached storage and on a couple DL320s's, you use what's most appropriate for the job at hand if you're doing your job right and your management allows.
It's classic torture, ever heard of Chinese Water Torture? That's nothing more than cold water dripping on your head while being restrained. You don't need to break bones or draw blood to torture someone. The way I look at it is, how would we react if a downed US pilot was treated that way. I think most American's would be outraged that our soldiers were almost drowned and so they should be outraged that we would treat foreign fighters that way.
I'm up to 18ft away, all the reviews of the Logitech and similar units said they only went a couple feet. Perhaps I should revisit the issue. I have a keyboard and mouse set made for board rooms and it works well but the mouse movement is often jerky because of the fabric. When reliability matters (gaming) I sit closer and use my wired trackball =) I just don't think I could do any work with my mouse as unreliable as it is, it's ok for use with mediaportal if a bit frustrating.
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The meteorologists DO use variance reports to tweak their computer models and to select which model is currently the most accurate, but I can't imagine there are too many people that want that raw data.
With the current density of information collecting stations anything past about 10 days is just an educated guess, seven day forecasts are pretty darn accurate (generally getting precipitation chance and high and low temperatures to within a percent or two) with an additional three days being fairly accurate.
If you don't know why weather radar needs to be faster then you have never been watching during an active thunderstorm. Sweep periods are quite slow in high resolution mode, they can speed things up but it costs significant resolution loss. What is needed is synthetic aperture radar where you can point a small array of antennas at the storm and get multiple different elevation readings simultaneously. We've had the technology for quite some time but it's just now coming down in price to where we can think of using it broadly for weather stations.
HUGE budget? Not even remotely, we recently went from a data closet to a small datacenter and spent significantly more, and in a simpler manner. We went to all HP servers which can be completely remotely managed through their ilo port, no need for crazy PDU's or IP KVM's.
We did go with APC InfraStruXture for racks, kvm, and PDU's, but went with Liebert/Emerson for HVAC and UPS. We don't have traditional raised floor and the APC inline stuff is a bit on the expensive side.
We went from all servers being serviced by a single 60A breaker and a constantly failing APC AC unit (another big reason for not going APC, their name was tarnished even if it wasn't their fault due to shoddy installation) to dual UPS's powered off of separate generators and redundant chillers with separate condensers on the roof. We even managed to do it with only 5 minutes downtime for email/BES.
Working in the midwest as a sysadmin I make about $60K per year, my house cost less than $150K with 1 acre (.4 hectare) lot in one of the best public school districts in the state. To get an equivalent property near silicon valley would cost millions so I would say $89K is way low. In fact according to a simple online calculator my salary is the same as these engineers as far as cost of living. That's pretty bad considering I'm a college dropout and they work as engineers for an (almost) Fortune 100 company.
The amassing of forces along the border before the international coalition had a significant amount of forces in the region was probably a good indicator...
Well, depending on exactly which compounds come out of this process there might still be a market for dino-petrol, there are some very unique and valuable things that come out of crude that have little to do with fuel production. That market is of course a fraction of the fuel market, but it exists and it is a reason that future generations will hate us for simply burning the stuff.
They'd still have the oligopoly on transportation and refining, those are serious barriers to entry and so should ensure their continued existence. In fact I can think of nothing the oil companies would love better than for the energy source of the future to look like the energy source of today.
At almost 300% profit it wouldn't take very long at all to refund venture capital, so if they can make it work on any kind of scale they won't know what to do with all the money flowing their way. IF what they say is in any way realistic they should have the demo plant finished next quarter, not in 2-3 years.
Uh, the GE stands for Genetically Engineered, not General Electric....
If they are right then they are instant Billionaires, if the process really worked they would be commercializing it and completely destabilizing OPEC. I'll believe it when I see it and the world will be rejoicing.
The US Mk-54 (SADM) has a variable yield up to 1 kilo-ton and it only weighs 23kg, so a man portable nuke that can take out a good chunk of a city is possible and was made all the way back in 1957. Just for perspective that is 400 times as powerful as the bomb that took out the Oklahoma City federal building.
Except you can limit how much you pay out for each adword, so they just set a limit that will allow them to track you but won't be burdensome if a cluefull user figures it out or someone forwards the email to a listserve.
Here's a way to do hypertargeted tracking to a gmail client, buy an adword for some made up many character 'word' like asdjhfgkjbadjghiougscvo and then include it at the end of or embedded in the html of an email. Then just view the stats on the adword. If you are smart enough there is generally a way to do things to the majority of people who are non-paranoid. Personally that's why I like things like Mozilla and Thunderbird, their defaults are set by people who ARE paranoid =)
Actually, at least in Ohio most minor violations are in fact under civil law with the municipality being the plaintiff. A large part of this shift was the move to automatic enforcement mechanisms such as redlight cameras. Under criminal law you have the right to face your accuser, which is a bit hard for the state to produce when it is a machine so to get around that they switched it to civil penalties.
Hehe, well then here's a win for windows, using an Nvidia 8500 card you can do 1080p with almost no CPU usage and drawing very little power.
Here's another vote for the Versapoint, I just wish the optical mouse worked a little better on non-perfect surfaces like the arm of my recliner =)
You really DO know nothing about mainframes, the hypervisor is old and stable on S/390 nee zSeries nee System Z. The hypervisor is called Z/VM and it has its roots in VM/370 which was first introduced 1972, linux ain't replacing it. Also unless you can get JCL and the various other mainframe language/apps to run on Linux it's not going to be the OS-du-jour for the vast majority of installations. They might buy or use some linux licenses because the hardware is there but that won't be the main focus of the box/sysplex and it certainly won't be running the show.
Hehe, yeah ours is but a baby SAN (176 drives) and it can do 16Gbit per second (most I've actually observed is 1.2GB/s but that's still damn fast).
There's already a product out that does exactly what you described, COPAN has a MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) system with a tape library emulation option. Our SAN vendor suggests them to customers who want to go tapeless. They've been doing it for a long time so I'm sure their early products were IDE based but I'm sure they used edge connectors like those is some laptop drives.
Most SAN's aren't built with IDE/SATA drives, they are generally built with fast Fiber Channel or dual port SAS drives so that they don't have a single point of failure even in the backplane. The applications that are hosted on most SAN's care about I/O's per second as much as they do storage space. If you don't care about performance then there are cheaper solutions like a Sun Thumper or an HP DL320s that get you pretty good TB/$ while still being more reliable then most DIY whitebox storage projects. I have plenty of storage on SAN, medium speed direct attached storage and on a couple DL320s's, you use what's most appropriate for the job at hand if you're doing your job right and your management allows.
it should scare the fuck out of all of us a lot more than terrorism ever could.
Of course it should because the government has effectively unlimited resources.
It's classic torture, ever heard of Chinese Water Torture? That's nothing more than cold water dripping on your head while being restrained. You don't need to break bones or draw blood to torture someone. The way I look at it is, how would we react if a downed US pilot was treated that way. I think most American's would be outraged that our soldiers were almost drowned and so they should be outraged that we would treat foreign fighters that way.
I'm up to 18ft away, all the reviews of the Logitech and similar units said they only went a couple feet. Perhaps I should revisit the issue. I have a keyboard and mouse set made for board rooms and it works well but the mouse movement is often jerky because of the fabric. When reliability matters (gaming) I sit closer and use my wired trackball =) I just don't think I could do any work with my mouse as unreliable as it is, it's ok for use with mediaportal if a bit frustrating.