Well, at least for areas where natural gas is used you are going to see an increase of around 12% in the coming years. Federal standard are requiring that all furnaces sold after next year are high efficiency. That means that instead of extracting 80% of the energy from the fuel, they must extract at least 92%. This helps out everyone because lower demand means lower prices and the payoff period for high efficiency furnaces is only a couple years even with todays lower volume production of the higher efficiency units.
Actually you could probably chemically bind hydrogen to the structure of the fuel. We do it all the time with fats. It's called partially hydrogenated soybean oil, you'll find it in all sorts of things that are bad for you, like twinkies. I don't know how easy it would be to add some percentage by volume to diesel, but it's worth looking into since it leads to better milage and more complete combustion.
The problem is there is a finite amount of processed lead in the system. Ramping up the amount of lead in the system to meet such a massive new use will require large scale mining of new lead. Which is itself a very damaging process for the environment, requiring massive amount of energy and leading to serious polution of waterways.
I guess this explains why linux boxes do so much better than windows boxes at high load, it takes the windows computer almost 8x as long to start a new process! That's something where a little bit of optimising really helps =)
Is this only the 4 banger Duratec's or does it affect the V-6 too? I have a 99 Taurus with 173K miles on the 24 valve engine and I haven't had many problems so far, but it did get a little hot during the peak of the summer months, just wondering if I should be looking at replacing the water pump.
I hope they don't mean by default, or if they do I hope that it retains my settings for blocking IDN! IDN for a native English speaker has basically zero benifit and can only lead to many problems like phishing sites that use UNICODE character replacements for legit sites.
How about just get a Pentium M motherboard? Newegg has one, it's a little pricey as $250, but that's not super unreasonable. Power usage for the slowest Pentium M that Newegg carries is 21W nominal. The biggest problem you are going to have is the HDD's. It seems no one makes 5400RPM desktop HDD's anymore. So spinup power requirements are 16-30W per drive! A RAID 5 array with 3 more expensive drives is obviously superior to the 4 smaller, cheaper drives I normally advocate.
All the Microsoft certifies with a WHQL driver is that it survives their very extensive battery of tests. The do not, and cannot certify that driver is bug free. Besides which I don't think that WHQL certification extends to the 3D portion of the driver at this point but only to the normal 2D modes, I imagine that this will change with Vista.
Creationism isn't competing with Evolution. One is a theory based on evidence, the other is a religious view based on belief. One is taught in a science class, the other can be taught in a comparitive religions class. I think that all children should be exposed to comparitive religions, the world would be a much better place if we did. Unfortunatly the same people who preach Creationism will often be the ones who scream the loudest if we tried to expose their children to different views on religion.
By optimizing for the benchmark the have optimized for a specific class of problem that the cluster may need to do in it's "real" job, ergo they have made better at doing what is supposed to do.
LINPACK is a collection of Fortran subroutines that analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-squares problems.
You backup a Petabyte with a StorageTek Powderhorn or Timberwolf storage silo. The maximum configuration for the Powderhorn is 28.8PB using LTO2 drives (a more modern version with LTO3 would double that, or half the number of carts used). Of course a PB equipped Powderhorn with a decent number of drives is going to cost over a million dollars without cartridges.
This guy is worried about budget, yet even with the "low power" usage of the petabox it would still use 50kW for one petabyte of storage! When you combine the cooling for that with the cost of electricity you are talking some serious money. If you have trouble getting the capital funds for something like this how are you ever going to pay the operating costs?
$50K for a design and prototype isn't a lot, but since student labor is basically free most of the money can go towards building the prototype. The biggest problem seems to be that the energy source available seems to be the light energy from a couple hundred watt lamp. Assuming that the bulb is 50% efficient that doesn't leave a lot of energy to move even the motors at the required speed, let alone the entire vehicle.
Uses Print rasterizers: I have printers with imaging engines capable of 30+ppm but I rarely achieve it in the real world because the printers are hobled by a measly ~500Mhz rasterizer. Networking equipment:If you want to do any kind of complex routing or switching in a truely flexible manner without ASICS you are going to need as fast of a processor as possible. Complex analyisis of data in an appliance:Antispam appliances are often limited in the algorithms they use because the cost in processing time for some of the better ones are too expensive to apply to the volume of messages they are supposed to handle. etc.
While I am aware that there are large swaths of the embedded market where nothing more complex than a microcontroller is needed I am also cognizant of the fact that there are many areas where a more powerfull embedded processor which is still energy efficient is still very usefull.
Debian current takes 5.6MB(4x1.44MB) of compressed floppy images to create a working boot set, using a conservative 1.5x deflation that means your 8MB system is using almost all of its RAM just to hold the boot floppy image, leaving very little room if any for the Citrix client. As for the gigabit adapters, I have had zero problem getting drivers. If I did I would be hollering because our Norton Ghost distribution mechanism uses a DOS client to download the ghost file. If I couldn't ghost over the network I would be a very unhappy sysadmin.
Just about every NIC I've seen has a DOS driver available. You'd have to try to find one that didn't. Linux is great for a lot of things but stripping a system down to where it would run on an 8MB 486 would be a lot of work, much more than downloading a bootable DOS image and changing out the driver.
I use it regularly for turning old PC's into Citrix clients. When a donated 486 can be turned into a functioning PC for free there's a lot of value in that. I would love a version of DOS with a built in TCP/IP stack and a LANMAN client, it would save me a lot of work having to do all the voodoo magic that it takes to get that stuff working under plain old MSDOS or its clones.
Yeah....
An all Aluminum block, three valve per cylinder, electonic fuel controlled, variable camshaft timed engine really has a lot in common with a cast iron, two valve, carborated, pushrod engine. Of course maybe that's your point =)
Actually the height of the high lift bay in the VAB was the major constraint in how high the could built the thing. There is no way NASA was going to propose something that requied a new VAB. The one thing I haven't been able to find out is if any of the existing launch facilities can handle a rocket this high, or if they will have to design a new launch facility.
Set it's virtual root partition to a path under your main OS. That way changes to preferences can be saved along with data files, but the application and guest os are freshly loaded each time and seperated from the host os and its applications. This will actually work nicely for me. My boss had told me that I am not allowed to install Firefox when I get my next new PC so that I match the corporate desktop when I do application upgrade testing, now I can just download a Linux distro and run it under VMWare =)
Uh, the windows print system has nothing to do with postscript. The native windows format is EMF or Enhanced MetaFile. This is its own unique format and is tied to the windows GDI subsystem. It would not be overly difficult to create a print driver which could grab the information from the EMF file and process it into a working OpenDocument formatted document.
I would posit a counterpoint, subsistance farmers in India using internet terminals to check market prices, weather forcasts, etc to determine when to plant and harvest their crops and where to take them. The poor people of the world probably don't need access to Holywood Insider, or even downloadable video, but access to information can be a very powerfull tool, whether the recipients are rich or poor.
It's easy to think of a system using a single channel that could be secure against MITM attacks, simply do mutual authentication with smartcards. Your smartcard has the banks public key built into it. During the crypto negotiation phases one of the initial steps is to exchange session keys, just setup the tunnel for the session key exchange using the banks private key authenticated by the public key on the smart card.
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Well, at least for areas where natural gas is used you are going to see an increase of around 12% in the coming years. Federal standard are requiring that all furnaces sold after next year are high efficiency. That means that instead of extracting 80% of the energy from the fuel, they must extract at least 92%. This helps out everyone because lower demand means lower prices and the payoff period for high efficiency furnaces is only a couple years even with todays lower volume production of the higher efficiency units.
Actually you could probably chemically bind hydrogen to the structure of the fuel. We do it all the time with fats. It's called partially hydrogenated soybean oil, you'll find it in all sorts of things that are bad for you, like twinkies. I don't know how easy it would be to add some percentage by volume to diesel, but it's worth looking into since it leads to better milage and more complete combustion.
The answer is YES. All major manufacturers are onboard with the US and other governments desire to have printers trackable.
The problem is there is a finite amount of processed lead in the system. Ramping up the amount of lead in the system to meet such a massive new use will require large scale mining of new lead. Which is itself a very damaging process for the environment, requiring massive amount of energy and leading to serious polution of waterways.
I guess this explains why linux boxes do so much better than windows boxes at high load, it takes the windows computer almost 8x as long to start a new process! That's something where a little bit of optimising really helps =)
Is this only the 4 banger Duratec's or does it affect the V-6 too? I have a 99 Taurus with 173K miles on the 24 valve engine and I haven't had many problems so far, but it did get a little hot during the peak of the summer months, just wondering if I should be looking at replacing the water pump.
* Fixed: 313490 - Enable IDN for .org.
I hope they don't mean by default, or if they do I hope that it retains my settings for blocking IDN! IDN for a native English speaker has basically zero benifit and can only lead to many problems like phishing sites that use UNICODE character replacements for legit sites.
How about just get a Pentium M motherboard? Newegg has one, it's a little pricey as $250, but that's not super unreasonable. Power usage for the slowest Pentium M that Newegg carries is 21W nominal. The biggest problem you are going to have is the HDD's. It seems no one makes 5400RPM desktop HDD's anymore. So spinup power requirements are 16-30W per drive! A RAID 5 array with 3 more expensive drives is obviously superior to the 4 smaller, cheaper drives I normally advocate.
All the Microsoft certifies with a WHQL driver is that it survives their very extensive battery of tests. The do not, and cannot certify that driver is bug free. Besides which I don't think that WHQL certification extends to the 3D portion of the driver at this point but only to the normal 2D modes, I imagine that this will change with Vista.
Pirates are a major concern from the horn of Africa to SE Asia.
Seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant problem (with estimated worldwide losses of $13 to $16 billion USD per year)
More info can be obtained form Wikipedia.
Creationism isn't competing with Evolution. One is a theory based on evidence, the other is a religious view based on belief. One is taught in a science class, the other can be taught in a comparitive religions class. I think that all children should be exposed to comparitive religions, the world would be a much better place if we did. Unfortunatly the same people who preach Creationism will often be the ones who scream the loudest if we tried to expose their children to different views on religion.
By optimizing for the benchmark the have optimized for a specific class of problem that the cluster may need to do in it's "real" job, ergo they have made better at doing what is supposed to do.
LINPACK is a collection of Fortran subroutines that analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-squares problems.
You backup a Petabyte with a StorageTek Powderhorn or Timberwolf storage silo. The maximum configuration for the Powderhorn is 28.8PB using LTO2 drives (a more modern version with LTO3 would double that, or half the number of carts used). Of course a PB equipped Powderhorn with a decent number of drives is going to cost over a million dollars without cartridges.
This guy is worried about budget, yet even with the "low power" usage of the petabox it would still use 50kW for one petabyte of storage! When you combine the cooling for that with the cost of electricity you are talking some serious money. If you have trouble getting the capital funds for something like this how are you ever going to pay the operating costs?
$50K for a design and prototype isn't a lot, but since student labor is basically free most of the money can go towards building the prototype. The biggest problem seems to be that the energy source available seems to be the light energy from a couple hundred watt lamp. Assuming that the bulb is 50% efficient that doesn't leave a lot of energy to move even the motors at the required speed, let alone the entire vehicle.
Uses
Print rasterizers: I have printers with imaging engines capable of 30+ppm but I rarely achieve it in the real world because the printers are hobled by a measly ~500Mhz rasterizer.
Networking equipment:If you want to do any kind of complex routing or switching in a truely flexible manner without ASICS you are going to need as fast of a processor as possible.
Complex analyisis of data in an appliance:Antispam appliances are often limited in the algorithms they use because the cost in processing time for some of the better ones are too expensive to apply to the volume of messages they are supposed to handle.
etc.
While I am aware that there are large swaths of the embedded market where nothing more complex than a microcontroller is needed I am also cognizant of the fact that there are many areas where a more powerfull embedded processor which is still energy efficient is still very usefull.
Debian current takes 5.6MB(4x1.44MB) of compressed floppy images to create a working boot set, using a conservative 1.5x deflation that means your 8MB system is using almost all of its RAM just to hold the boot floppy image, leaving very little room if any for the Citrix client. As for the gigabit adapters, I have had zero problem getting drivers. If I did I would be hollering because our Norton Ghost distribution mechanism uses a DOS client to download the ghost file. If I couldn't ghost over the network I would be a very unhappy sysadmin.
Just about every NIC I've seen has a DOS driver available. You'd have to try to find one that didn't. Linux is great for a lot of things but stripping a system down to where it would run on an 8MB 486 would be a lot of work, much more than downloading a bootable DOS image and changing out the driver.
I use it regularly for turning old PC's into Citrix clients. When a donated 486 can be turned into a functioning PC for free there's a lot of value in that. I would love a version of DOS with a built in TCP/IP stack and a LANMAN client, it would save me a lot of work having to do all the voodoo magic that it takes to get that stuff working under plain old MSDOS or its clones.
Yeah....
An all Aluminum block, three valve per cylinder, electonic fuel controlled, variable camshaft timed engine really has a lot in common with a cast iron, two valve, carborated, pushrod engine. Of course maybe that's your point =)
Actually the height of the high lift bay in the VAB was the major constraint in how high the could built the thing. There is no way NASA was going to propose something that requied a new VAB. The one thing I haven't been able to find out is if any of the existing launch facilities can handle a rocket this high, or if they will have to design a new launch facility.
Set it's virtual root partition to a path under your main OS. That way changes to preferences can be saved along with data files, but the application and guest os are freshly loaded each time and seperated from the host os and its applications. This will actually work nicely for me. My boss had told me that I am not allowed to install Firefox when I get my next new PC so that I match the corporate desktop when I do application upgrade testing, now I can just download a Linux distro and run it under VMWare =)
Uh, the windows print system has nothing to do with postscript. The native windows format is EMF or Enhanced MetaFile. This is its own unique format and is tied to the windows GDI subsystem. It would not be overly difficult to create a print driver which could grab the information from the EMF file and process it into a working OpenDocument formatted document.
I would posit a counterpoint, subsistance farmers in India using internet terminals to check market prices, weather forcasts, etc to determine when to plant and harvest their crops and where to take them. The poor people of the world probably don't need access to Holywood Insider, or even downloadable video, but access to information can be a very powerfull tool, whether the recipients are rich or poor.
It's easy to think of a system using a single channel that could be secure against MITM attacks, simply do mutual authentication with smartcards. Your smartcard has the banks public key built into it. During the crypto negotiation phases one of the initial steps is to exchange session keys, just setup the tunnel for the session key exchange using the banks private key authenticated by the public key on the smart card.