Uh, they are doing this to come closer to Intel's TDP numbers which have been average high use numbers instead of worst case for at least the last couple generation of chips. AMD is actually being much more upfront here by offering both worst case and average case numbers, I hope Intel follows their lead and offers both numbers.
Literally. I can't wait to get in our first DL585 G2 with 4 of these beasties and 64GB of ram. The only regret I have is that we probably won't use em for DB servers because of Oracle's asinine policy of charging per core, sometimes I wish we had gone SQL2005 for more stuff as it is going to scale better with improving hardware. Then again maybe the proliferation of quad core (and above) server cpu's will make Oracle rethink their pricing policy again. I hope they go to what the rest of the industry is doing and license per socket.
I think the 2:1 power usage is a total system measure, that is the inverter inefficiency, the heat from the inverter and batteries, the power lost in transit, power factor, etc. I think that a typical datacenter uses about 2x the power draw of the servers it houses.
I know of quite a few that worked out fine. here is a list of successful projects from one of the biggest object database companies. For the areas where they fit in the performance of object database can be significantly better than traditional RDBMS's.
Like all other evidence DNA can either convict people unfairly or free innocent people. It's all down to interpretation. First off not all DNA testing is done to the level where a specific individual can be positively identified, they generally pick N locations and compare the suspect to the sample and state that this combination of markers at these location are likely to occur in X percent of the population. The main reason this kind of testing is done is that it is MUCH quicker and quite a bit cheaper than a full genome workup. Second, just because your DNA is present does not mean you committed a crime, simply that it is likely you were present (your DNA can be planted or incidentally transfered). Also lack of DNA evidence does not mean you are innocent, only that you did not leave any detectable evidence behind.
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel was mandated to be sold at all stations that sell normal diesel as of this time last year, the US is up to (and actually surpassed) international standards for a year now.
They invoke the interstate commerce clause which the Supreme Court (incorrectly in my opinion) ruled allows the federal government broad powers in regulating what rules states can impose on anything that can even be remotely tied to interstate commerce. This is how they impose the swampland provisions of the clean water act (by saying they are tied to interstate navigable waters) and how they have made it illegal to poses cannabis in California despite the fact that the plant is grown, sold or traded, and consumed only within the borders of the state of California.
There's few things in the world more dangerous than a GA aircraft, it has most of the complexity of a commercial plane with little of the maintenance. Even the experimental craft he flew were maintained and checked out MUCH more thoroughly then most GA aircraft.
Actually as long as intelligent chargers were used there would probably be plenty of transmission and generation capacity. Even if you discount surge demand based production capacity like smaller natural gas plants there is still probably 80-85% of peak supply constantly available. Yet, I would bet demand varies by 40% or more from peak to off peak and much of that extra capacity is wasted because plants are optimized for certain load characteristics.
I know that the Clean Air Act as amended does not allow any state to impose more stringent air quality standards than California and only allows certain states to enact rules as stringent as California's. Why this would keep a company from selling a car equipped for California emissions standards in another state I have NO clue, as AFAIK the rules talk about minimum standards for products and maximum standards that the states can impose, not minimum emissions a vehicle can produce.
VW decided to hold out until 2007 when the low sulfur diesel formulation was available which would allow them to pass the emissions tests without redesigning the engine.
Not quite, it was so that they could start using their euro designs in their US fleet. The problem was that before the fall 2006 cutover to ULSD the sulfur in US fuel would have contaminated the catalysts that allow for the much reduced emissions of certain engine byproducts.
I'm sorry but government is WAY too big if simply taking a vote on each bill is too time consuming! Hell we should go back to the legislature being a part time position.
I just figured out where all of the money went to from the tax breaks that was supposed to be for FIOS rollouts, it went into implementing CALEA! $200B sounds about right for something this size run by government contract.
You don't even need to call anymore, just go to
this form and you can get the non regression tested hotfixes by email! Include platform because they will want it even if there is only one applicable fix in the KB article.
That was to limit the number of incoming connected hosts at the SMB level, the throttleing in XPSP2 and Vista is a different limit that applies to all TCP connections.
Or, you use a family of RAID controllers that doesn't suck. I can take a set of disks from any of my HP server and stick em into any other server with the same technology disks and have it just work. This is true all the way from a pizza box with 2 drive up to a SAN controller like the MSA-1500 with a rack full of disk. I've only ever had a major problem caused by a hardware RAID controller. I had an old HP LH server which decided to rebuild the array FROM the hotspare rather than TO the hotspare, still not sure how that happened.
My problem is the whole idea of using the government and tax policy to punish "bad" behavior. I would prefer to include the cost of ALL externalities into the price of the consumable and have everyone pay the same amount per unit used, that way people would be free to use however little or much as they chose and everyone would be paying there fair share. If you want to make the scheme progressive you offer a yearly refund up to a certain amount to allow for lifting up of the disadvantaged.
One book of speculative pseudo-science doesn't mean he's a crackpot
Well, besides the fact that the reviewer never called him a crackpot, there's the fact that the term crackpot means exactly that:
Pejoratively, the term Crackpot is used against a person, subjectively also called a crank, who writes or speaks in an authoritative fashion about a particular subject, often in science or mathematics, but is alleged to have false or even ludicrous beliefs. linky
the cost of making PV panels is still too high compared to the energy you can harvest using them (I choose to use "harvest" specifically because they capture energy from the sun rather than generating from oil for example) over the expected lifetime of the panels. I'm not sure if you're talking about energy cost or economic cost, but either way you are wrong. Solar panels make up their production energy cost in a fraction of their design life, and they are competitive with most non-renewables even at todays cost let alone the expected cost of those sources over the design life of the panels.
I agree that production schedules for military nuclear fuel is probably not something you want published, but blanket classifying everything related to a company is NOT the way the government used to do business in general. There were of course the shell corporations for Northrop activities at Area 51 and the like, but this isn't a situation like that it's a corporation that does some business with the government and has basically been poofed out of existence.
You act like classifying information is something new for this administration. They have gone back and reclassified millions of pages of previously open material without review. The VP had his own "top secret" logo stamp created that carried no weight and would be illegal under the open records act.
My media PC has plugins for Yahoo videos and YouTube, I expect that both will get HD content over the next year or so. If they expose the raw H.264 streams that's fine but I HIGHLY doubt they will, so using the flash container will have to be good enough.
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Uh, they are doing this to come closer to Intel's TDP numbers which have been average high use numbers instead of worst case for at least the last couple generation of chips. AMD is actually being much more upfront here by offering both worst case and average case numbers, I hope Intel follows their lead and offers both numbers.
Literally. I can't wait to get in our first DL585 G2 with 4 of these beasties and 64GB of ram. The only regret I have is that we probably won't use em for DB servers because of Oracle's asinine policy of charging per core, sometimes I wish we had gone SQL2005 for more stuff as it is going to scale better with improving hardware. Then again maybe the proliferation of quad core (and above) server cpu's will make Oracle rethink their pricing policy again. I hope they go to what the rest of the industry is doing and license per socket.
I think the 2:1 power usage is a total system measure, that is the inverter inefficiency, the heat from the inverter and batteries, the power lost in transit, power factor, etc. I think that a typical datacenter uses about 2x the power draw of the servers it houses.
I know of quite a few that worked out fine. here is a list of successful projects from one of the biggest object database companies. For the areas where they fit in the performance of object database can be significantly better than traditional RDBMS's.
Like all other evidence DNA can either convict people unfairly or free innocent people. It's all down to interpretation. First off not all DNA testing is done to the level where a specific individual can be positively identified, they generally pick N locations and compare the suspect to the sample and state that this combination of markers at these location are likely to occur in X percent of the population. The main reason this kind of testing is done is that it is MUCH quicker and quite a bit cheaper than a full genome workup. Second, just because your DNA is present does not mean you committed a crime, simply that it is likely you were present (your DNA can be planted or incidentally transfered). Also lack of DNA evidence does not mean you are innocent, only that you did not leave any detectable evidence behind.
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel was mandated to be sold at all stations that sell normal diesel as of this time last year, the US is up to (and actually surpassed) international standards for a year now.
They invoke the interstate commerce clause which the Supreme Court (incorrectly in my opinion) ruled allows the federal government broad powers in regulating what rules states can impose on anything that can even be remotely tied to interstate commerce. This is how they impose the swampland provisions of the clean water act (by saying they are tied to interstate navigable waters) and how they have made it illegal to poses cannabis in California despite the fact that the plant is grown, sold or traded, and consumed only within the borders of the state of California.
There's few things in the world more dangerous than a GA aircraft, it has most of the complexity of a commercial plane with little of the maintenance. Even the experimental craft he flew were maintained and checked out MUCH more thoroughly then most GA aircraft.
Actually as long as intelligent chargers were used there would probably be plenty of transmission and generation capacity. Even if you discount surge demand based production capacity like smaller natural gas plants there is still probably 80-85% of peak supply constantly available. Yet, I would bet demand varies by 40% or more from peak to off peak and much of that extra capacity is wasted because plants are optimized for certain load characteristics.
I know that the Clean Air Act as amended does not allow any state to impose more stringent air quality standards than California and only allows certain states to enact rules as stringent as California's. Why this would keep a company from selling a car equipped for California emissions standards in another state I have NO clue, as AFAIK the rules talk about minimum standards for products and maximum standards that the states can impose, not minimum emissions a vehicle can produce.
VW decided to hold out until 2007 when the low sulfur diesel formulation was available which would allow them to pass the emissions tests without redesigning the engine.
Not quite, it was so that they could start using their euro designs in their US fleet. The problem was that before the fall 2006 cutover to ULSD the sulfur in US fuel would have contaminated the catalysts that allow for the much reduced emissions of certain engine byproducts.
I'm sorry but government is WAY too big if simply taking a vote on each bill is too time consuming! Hell we should go back to the legislature being a part time position.
Uh, you don't have to be talking for your cellphone to communicate with the tower........
I just figured out where all of the money went to from the tax breaks that was supposed to be for FIOS rollouts, it went into implementing CALEA! $200B sounds about right for something this size run by government contract.
You don't even need to call anymore, just go to this form and you can get the non regression tested hotfixes by email! Include platform because they will want it even if there is only one applicable fix in the KB article.
That was to limit the number of incoming connected hosts at the SMB level, the throttleing in XPSP2 and Vista is a different limit that applies to all TCP connections.
Or, you use a family of RAID controllers that doesn't suck. I can take a set of disks from any of my HP server and stick em into any other server with the same technology disks and have it just work. This is true all the way from a pizza box with 2 drive up to a SAN controller like the MSA-1500 with a rack full of disk. I've only ever had a major problem caused by a hardware RAID controller. I had an old HP LH server which decided to rebuild the array FROM the hotspare rather than TO the hotspare, still not sure how that happened.
My problem is the whole idea of using the government and tax policy to punish "bad" behavior. I would prefer to include the cost of ALL externalities into the price of the consumable and have everyone pay the same amount per unit used, that way people would be free to use however little or much as they chose and everyone would be paying there fair share. If you want to make the scheme progressive you offer a yearly refund up to a certain amount to allow for lifting up of the disadvantaged.
One book of speculative pseudo-science doesn't mean he's a crackpot
Well, besides the fact that the reviewer never called him a crackpot, there's the fact that the term crackpot means exactly that:
Pejoratively, the term Crackpot is used against a person, subjectively also called a crank, who writes or speaks in an authoritative fashion about a particular subject, often in science or mathematics, but is alleged to have false or even ludicrous beliefs.
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From YouTube?
the cost of making PV panels is still too high compared to the energy you can harvest using them (I choose to use "harvest" specifically because they capture energy from the sun rather than generating from oil for example) over the expected lifetime of the panels.
I'm not sure if you're talking about energy cost or economic cost, but either way you are wrong. Solar panels make up their production energy cost in a fraction of their design life, and they are competitive with most non-renewables even at todays cost let alone the expected cost of those sources over the design life of the panels.
I agree that production schedules for military nuclear fuel is probably not something you want published, but blanket classifying everything related to a company is NOT the way the government used to do business in general. There were of course the shell corporations for Northrop activities at Area 51 and the like, but this isn't a situation like that it's a corporation that does some business with the government and has basically been poofed out of existence.
You act like classifying information is something new for this administration. They have gone back and reclassified millions of pages of previously open material without review. The VP had his own "top secret" logo stamp created that carried no weight and would be illegal under the open records act.
Even with a full choke you are lucky to get anything more than 3-500 feet out of a 12 gauge, the US Marines list the effective range as 50 yards.
My media PC has plugins for Yahoo videos and YouTube, I expect that both will get HD content over the next year or so. If they expose the raw H.264 streams that's fine but I HIGHLY doubt they will, so using the flash container will have to be good enough.