Uh, about that, the Rance tidal plant in France has operated for 40 years with nothing but sacrificial anode protection and it looks pretty good to me (see page 22). Construction costs have been payed off and ongoing maintenance costs are below the cost of nuclear.
Why on gods green earth would you use Fischer–Tropsch when you can do biodiesel at a much higher EROEI? The only really good use of Fischer–Tropsch I've seen is using a nuclear power plant on a carrier to produce AvGas for the jet fleet to eliminate the long tail supply line, and the navy didn't think it enough of an advantage to include an extra set of power plants in the current generation of carriers (expected to be produced through 2050 and in the fleet through 2100) to do the production.
Uh, about that, the Rance tidal plant in France has operated for 40 years with nothing but sacrificial anode protection and it looks pretty good to me (see page 22).
Interesting, it looks like the Rance build costs (~$650m in current dollars for ~540GWhrs of annual output) have been recovered in under 40 years and the operating costs are lower than nuclear (1.8c/kWhr vs 2.5c/kWhr). Decommissioning costs will be lower than nuclear obviously, and safe operating life is probably longer. So it would seem in areas with high average tidal flow it's pretty obvious that it's worth at least exploring.
Could they have imagined a government where something akin to the Dutch East India Company simply walked in and individually bribed every single Congressman and the President to do their bidding, without the American people even realizing it?
Sure they did:
1. “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1802 letter to Secretary of State Albert Gallatin.
2. “I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” — Thomas Jefferson.
3. “The power of all corporations ought to be limited, [...] the growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.” — James Madison
4.“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.” — John Adams
I'm sorry but x86 has had a 36bit virtual address space since the Pentium Pro, but I have NEVER seen it called a 36bit architecture, because it's not. Also to be pedantic, XP RTM and XP SP1 supported >4GB of ram, and SP2+ support PAE (it's required for NX) but limit the visibility of physical memory above the 4GB line for driver compatibility reasons. MS could easily support PAE and AWE in Windows client versions, they are based on the same code and kernel as the server variants, they just choose not to. I'm not really arguing FOR x86 and against AMD64, just providing a little bit of information and clarifying some statements made in the thread =)
No, AWE allows more than 4GB in a single application, SQL Enterprise or Oracle 10G running on 2003 x86 Enterprise can utilize 32GB just fine, I know because I ran just such a configuration back in 2006 before x64 was mainstream.
This is incorrect, x86 can address up to 64GB of memory with PAE or 16GB if using PAE with AWE and the/3GB switch. MS limited desktop OSs to 4GB partially due to market segmentation, and partially due to a large number of consumer oriented drivers that failed validation if PAE is enabled.
That's just it, you can't. The classic desktop is gone..or hidden to the point where system breaking hacks are needed to bring it back, and it's bugged
What ever are you blabbering about, in Windows 8.1 you can choose to boot to the desktop, and in 8.1 Update it's the default if Windows doesn't detect a touch interface device. Windows 10 is going to extend this to automagically switch back and forth for convertible devices (by default, you will be able to turn the behavior off if you wish) and the desktop view is getting a real start menu with the addition of a live tiles interface (this is an improvement over both Win 7 and 8 as the live tiles give you at a glance information like mobile widgets but they no longer jar you out of the desktop experience like the start screen does in 8).
How are you going to ACL an individual configuration entry within a text file? Because the registry allows you to get as granular as an individual key or even value.
Inner tracks have better seek times, which is why high performance applications often "short stroke" drives (ie artificially restrict the percentage of the drive used so that only the inner tracks are utilized, though with modern drives and transparent sector remapping it's unlikely this practices actually works), outer tracks have better streaming performance because more sectors move under the head in a given timeframe.
YOU don't use 10's of GB at a time, but I bet your organization does. My company has expanded their storage by 50% per year compounded for at least the last 10 years (I've been here 8 and I have 2 years of backup reports from before I started), and I don't think we're that unusual if you look at the industry reports for GB shipped per year.
Adding 10% space AND notifying the sysadmin that autogrowth has happened is probably the best way IMHO, because it keeps things from crashing/locking up (most apps aren't happy to get an out of space notification) while allowing the intelligent person to investigate the root cause if they suspect an unusual cause (ie if my database server is growing its disk it's likely to be a bad query filling tempdb, I don't want the database to halt but I also want to figure out what the bad query is, but if a file server fills a volume it's almost always just the users adding more documents which I can't really tell them to stop doing).
Hasn't the remote desktop client always suppressed those options?
No, and in fact on server 2003 there's a race condition between the RDP process and the server service that will cause a shutdown initiated through RDP to go into limbo over 50% of the time (supposedly fixed in SP1 but it wasn't) so we too always use shutdown.exe with -r -f -t 0.
Granted Windows itself is largely to blame, as it's incapable of understanding that force-quitting apps should never be allowed sans local keyboard interaction (i,e. direct user approval), but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
Yes, because SIGKILL (or the equivalent) doesn't exist on every OS ever...
but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
This part is correct, the way we handle it is to use two deadlines, the first will prompt the user to reboot, if they ignore that for x number of days (generally 2) then it will force reboot. We make sure not to schedule patch deployments around major holidays when many people will be out and likely to miss the soft reminder.
Yeah, but you can't really run a temperature controlled fan stoker for a BBQ pit from a tablet either, which is one of the rPi projects I'm considering, being able to have a touchscreen to do the settings and view the temp graphs on would be kind of cool.
LUA Buglight from MS helps a ton in that regard, it's been around since Vista Beta and with it you should be able to find exactly what calls require elevation.
Yes, but in a well managed environment users won't get a UAC prompt because they won't be local admins, if the folks you've trusted enough to grant local admin to are still dumb enough to click ok to a UAC prompt when opening an Office file then there's literally no security system that will help you.
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It's only 7MB and I did mention page 22 =)
Uh, you are aware that a bat mitzvah is the female version of a bar mitzvah, yes?
Uh, about that, the Rance tidal plant in France has operated for 40 years with nothing but sacrificial anode protection and it looks pretty good to me (see page 22). Construction costs have been payed off and ongoing maintenance costs are below the cost of nuclear.
Why on gods green earth would you use Fischer–Tropsch when you can do biodiesel at a much higher EROEI? The only really good use of Fischer–Tropsch I've seen is using a nuclear power plant on a carrier to produce AvGas for the jet fleet to eliminate the long tail supply line, and the navy didn't think it enough of an advantage to include an extra set of power plants in the current generation of carriers (expected to be produced through 2050 and in the fleet through 2100) to do the production.
Uh, about that, the Rance tidal plant in France has operated for 40 years with nothing but sacrificial anode protection and it looks pretty good to me (see page 22).
Interesting, it looks like the Rance build costs (~$650m in current dollars for ~540GWhrs of annual output) have been recovered in under 40 years and the operating costs are lower than nuclear (1.8c/kWhr vs 2.5c/kWhr). Decommissioning costs will be lower than nuclear obviously, and safe operating life is probably longer. So it would seem in areas with high average tidal flow it's pretty obvious that it's worth at least exploring.
Could they have imagined a government where something akin to the Dutch East India Company simply walked in and individually bribed every single Congressman and the President to do their bidding, without the American people even realizing it?
Sure they did:
1. “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
— Thomas Jefferson, 1802 letter to Secretary of State Albert Gallatin.
2. “I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
— Thomas Jefferson.
3. “The power of all corporations ought to be limited, [...] the growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.”
— James Madison
4.“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”
— John Adams
I'm sorry but x86 has had a 36bit virtual address space since the Pentium Pro, but I have NEVER seen it called a 36bit architecture, because it's not. Also to be pedantic, XP RTM and XP SP1 supported >4GB of ram, and SP2+ support PAE (it's required for NX) but limit the visibility of physical memory above the 4GB line for driver compatibility reasons. MS could easily support PAE and AWE in Windows client versions, they are based on the same code and kernel as the server variants, they just choose not to. I'm not really arguing FOR x86 and against AMD64, just providing a little bit of information and clarifying some statements made in the thread =)
Are you seriously that dense, or just trolling? The bitness is almost always referring to the size of an integer in the chips primary ISA.
No, AWE allows more than 4GB in a single application, SQL Enterprise or Oracle 10G running on 2003 x86 Enterprise can utilize 32GB just fine, I know because I ran just such a configuration back in 2006 before x64 was mainstream.
32 bit cannot utilize more than 4GB ram
This is incorrect, x86 can address up to 64GB of memory with PAE or 16GB if using PAE with AWE and the /3GB switch. MS limited desktop OSs to 4GB partially due to market segmentation, and partially due to a large number of consumer oriented drivers that failed validation if PAE is enabled.
Rate limiting would make ddosing a country club parking lot lots of fun.
They got sued by the UK broadcaster BSkyB and lost so they had to change the name.
Then use rifled slugs, accurate to anything considered self defense and more stopping power at close to medium range.
That's just it, you can't. The classic desktop is gone..or hidden to the point where system breaking hacks are needed to bring it back, and it's bugged
What ever are you blabbering about, in Windows 8.1 you can choose to boot to the desktop, and in 8.1 Update it's the default if Windows doesn't detect a touch interface device. Windows 10 is going to extend this to automagically switch back and forth for convertible devices (by default, you will be able to turn the behavior off if you wish) and the desktop view is getting a real start menu with the addition of a live tiles interface (this is an improvement over both Win 7 and 8 as the live tiles give you at a glance information like mobile widgets but they no longer jar you out of the desktop experience like the start screen does in 8).
How are you going to ACL an individual configuration entry within a text file? Because the registry allows you to get as granular as an individual key or even value.
Inner tracks have better seek times, which is why high performance applications often "short stroke" drives (ie artificially restrict the percentage of the drive used so that only the inner tracks are utilized, though with modern drives and transparent sector remapping it's unlikely this practices actually works), outer tracks have better streaming performance because more sectors move under the head in a given timeframe.
YOU don't use 10's of GB at a time, but I bet your organization does. My company has expanded their storage by 50% per year compounded for at least the last 10 years (I've been here 8 and I have 2 years of backup reports from before I started), and I don't think we're that unusual if you look at the industry reports for GB shipped per year.
Adding 10% space AND notifying the sysadmin that autogrowth has happened is probably the best way IMHO, because it keeps things from crashing/locking up (most apps aren't happy to get an out of space notification) while allowing the intelligent person to investigate the root cause if they suspect an unusual cause (ie if my database server is growing its disk it's likely to be a bad query filling tempdb, I don't want the database to halt but I also want to figure out what the bad query is, but if a file server fills a volume it's almost always just the users adding more documents which I can't really tell them to stop doing).
compmgmt.msc can be called directly =)
Hasn't the remote desktop client always suppressed those options?
No, and in fact on server 2003 there's a race condition between the RDP process and the server service that will cause a shutdown initiated through RDP to go into limbo over 50% of the time (supposedly fixed in SP1 but it wasn't) so we too always use shutdown.exe with -r -f -t 0.
Granted Windows itself is largely to blame, as it's incapable of understanding that force-quitting apps should never be allowed sans local keyboard interaction (i,e. direct user approval), but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
Yes, because SIGKILL (or the equivalent) doesn't exist on every OS ever...
but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
This part is correct, the way we handle it is to use two deadlines, the first will prompt the user to reboot, if they ignore that for x number of days (generally 2) then it will force reboot. We make sure not to schedule patch deployments around major holidays when many people will be out and likely to miss the soft reminder.
Yeah, but you can't really run a temperature controlled fan stoker for a BBQ pit from a tablet either, which is one of the rPi projects I'm considering, being able to have a touchscreen to do the settings and view the temp graphs on would be kind of cool.
LUA Buglight from MS helps a ton in that regard, it's been around since Vista Beta and with it you should be able to find exactly what calls require elevation.
Yes, but in a well managed environment users won't get a UAC prompt because they won't be local admins, if the folks you've trusted enough to grant local admin to are still dumb enough to click ok to a UAC prompt when opening an Office file then there's literally no security system that will help you.