Obviously, you have made a true statement. But, given that the parent I was replying to said, "Brakes of a car can always overpower an engine, even at full throttle" and that I was not trying to prove that all cars would have a brake failure - only that some could (and therefore the parents posit was incorrect) and given that I made no assertions regarding whether the specific car in question would be able to overpower its brakes or not, I fail to see the relevance of your post.
Actually, the only difference between a "bug" and a "feature" is the design specification. If I told you that I designed a bridge that would suddenly develop a large gap in the middle if you pressed on the wrong (right) thing, you would tell me that my bridge has a "bug" and should be fixed. In fact, this is a "feature" because it is in the design specifications for a draw bridge to be able to open at the press of a button.
Take into consideration that the braking power you have when not accelerating (deccelerating from 50) is enhanced by the vacuum assist in the braking system. When your car is under full throttle, there is no vacuum in your intake system - therefore, you only have limited (based on the size of your vacuum reservior) brake assistance. After that, you are entirely without power brakes.
Try this sometime - get in a car with turbos and put it into acceleration such that you are generating boost. Now press the brake pedal without stopping accelerating. You will have 3-5 seconds of power assisted braking. This is obviously an exaggerated situation with being under boost but that allows you to feel the affect in a more pronounced manner.
Take into consideration that the braking power you have when not accelerating (deccelerating from 50) is enhanced by the vacuum assist in the braking system. When your car is under full throttle, there is no vacuum in your intake system - therefore, you only have limited (based on the size of your vacuum reservior) brake assistance. After that, you are entirely without power brakes.
Try this sometime - get in a car with turbos and put it into acceleration such that you are generating boost. Now press the brake pedal without stopping accelerating. You will have 3-5 seconds of power assisted braking. This is obviously an exaggerated situation with being under boost but that allows you to feel the affect in a more pronounced manner.
Have you considered the possibility that the 30-day reboot cycle is supposed to ensure that if they were to experience a crash or something that the system would be able to reboot? I mean, there are plenty of people (probably even here on Slashdot) with servers that have been up 5-7 years but if they have to reboot for some reason, what are the chances that the system will have problems coming up? Many hardware faults are discovered at boot (the stress of boot brings them to a head).
Hello? The idea isn't that you can short-circuit electricity with wood. Heck, 120V won't do that (usually). The idea is that if you were to have a short-circuit inside of the wall (through metal or other conductive substances), the sparks and heat generated could ignite wood pretty quickly. You're slow, huh?
A recent study of California wind farms found that wind can make up as much as 10% of total electricity capacity without significantly impacting the reliability of the electric grid.
Um... So for the low, low price of a 1 cent premium, you too can have the electric grid reliability of California in your very own home? I think I'll stick with my environment-destroying, acid-rain creating, coal-generated power for now.
If you don't believe that 12V can be dangerous and can lead to a fire, I suggest that you take your favorite wrench and drop it across the terminals of your car battery. Please do not hold onto the wrench while doing this and please ensure that the battery is located in a place such that if it were to explode it would not damage anything (including you). If your wrench is still intact when the fireworks are over, you may find two very neat holes melted in it. And if it melts a steel wrench, think of what it can do to all the dry timber in your wall.
If you're interested in the future development of oM then check out http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/plan.html. This shows that 2.6 patches are planned within the next 6-12 months. oMFS is coming out and oGFS, Lustre and PVFS are replacing it. SHM support is to be stabilized. Usability will really make leaps and bounds in the next year if this plan works out.
Well, I'm writing this from 1.0pr and I must say that it's pretty decent. It does seem to have rather serious problems with Terminal Services though. The only theme that is half-way usable via WTS is the default. All the button backgrounds are black and with some themes, all the menus are black with black text. Ugh - please, someone think of us TS users!
Beowulf isn't the only game in town folks. A much easier to maintain and balance cluster can be built using openMosix. openMosix is a single-image-cluster extension for Linux.
Of course there are differences in breed characteristics but to classify pit bulls as mindless attack dogs is just as irresponsible. Why do you think that so many people try to use them as guard dogs? It's because they're been told them make great "attack dogs". They make terrible guard dogs simply because they were originally bred for dog-fighting. A good guard dog does no damage but simply immobilizes the subject. A good attack dog kills. Unfortunately, due to bad (read: evil) trainers or bad breeders, sometimes these dogs are trained to attack humans. This is where the problems come from. As far as dog-human interaction, with a properly bred and trained pit bull, there will be very little inherent difference in the breed characteristics as they relate only to human interaction (though there will be some).
Unfortunately, it is foolish comments like these that have America convinced that some dogs are dangerous simply because of their breed. This is not the case (when speaking of AKC breeds - not dogs bred by dog fighters). The only time that a pit bull is a mindless attack dog is when it is trained to be that way. A German Shepherd can be trained the same as in the story of the person above who was attacked by one at 4 years old.
Unfortunately, there are still those who will try to damage anything you own out of spite. For instance, my wife's car (a worthless beater on which we keep the doors unlocked in order to deter break-ins) recently had the window smashed. It was vandalism - pure and simple.
Except, I tend to buy stuff at WalMart for 2 reasons. For a small part, price (isn't that always a concern?). Mostly, because of their return policy. WalMart will take anything back for any reason - if I don't like it, if it doesn't work, if it fails early, if I'm in a bad mood. I love that about WalMart. I don't need any support but I do want to be able to bring it back if I don't like it. Heck, I once returned a light bulb that died in a short amount of time. I asked for an exchange and the lady just gave me my cash back. Now that's the kind of service I want.
I currently get 4Mbps down and $20/mo (for 3 months). That's a pretty darn good deal. Plus, since there are 2 competing cable companies, I have been switching back and forth for over 2 years and haven't had to pay full price ($40/mo) yet. I even tell them every time that I switch that I have been a customer before but switched to the other for the promo and I'd like to switch back for the promo. Works like a charm.
But usually their homeowners policy will have a $500-$3000 deductible... an additional rider is usually available which will waive the deductible for just your dorm room - and they're cheap so they're worth it! Also consider that usually after about 3 claims on your policy, you are considered high risk and may be dropped. You may have a hard time finding someone else affordable to pick you up. Because of this, mom and dad may not want a $500 claim for your stolen stereo to go on their insurance record. Especially if they already have a few claims.
Because (I could be wrong here but...) the USB ports appear to be USB 2.0 Full Speed (12Mbps). A single drive would give 1.5MB/s max speed. RAID1 (if done properly so reads are split across the drives) would do 3MB/s. RAID 10 Redundancy/Striping would allow reading from 4 drives simultaneously so up to 6MB/s.
If it is USB 2.0 High Speed (up to 480Mbps - 60MB/s) then this advantage is nullified. Although, perhaps a 1GB NIC could be hacked in... maybe not though.
Actually, a lot of scanners in that pricerange have ADF so yes, you do have to put it in the scanner, scan from your machine, then pick it up but you can do up to 50 sheets at a time. Our office is only about 16x24.
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Obviously, you have made a true statement. But, given that the parent I was replying to said, "Brakes of a car can always overpower an engine, even at full throttle" and that I was not trying to prove that all cars would have a brake failure - only that some could (and therefore the parents posit was incorrect) and given that I made no assertions regarding whether the specific car in question would be able to overpower its brakes or not, I fail to see the relevance of your post.
Actually, the only difference between a "bug" and a "feature" is the design specification. If I told you that I designed a bridge that would suddenly develop a large gap in the middle if you pressed on the wrong (right) thing, you would tell me that my bridge has a "bug" and should be fixed. In fact, this is a "feature" because it is in the design specifications for a draw bridge to be able to open at the press of a button.
As I said in the last discussion on this:
Take into consideration that the braking power you have when not accelerating (deccelerating from 50) is enhanced by the vacuum assist in the braking system. When your car is under full throttle, there is no vacuum in your intake system - therefore, you only have limited (based on the size of your vacuum reservior) brake assistance. After that, you are entirely without power brakes.
Try this sometime - get in a car with turbos and put it into acceleration such that you are generating boost. Now press the brake pedal without stopping accelerating. You will have 3-5 seconds of power assisted braking. This is obviously an exaggerated situation with being under boost but that allows you to feel the affect in a more pronounced manner.
Take into consideration that the braking power you have when not accelerating (deccelerating from 50) is enhanced by the vacuum assist in the braking system. When your car is under full throttle, there is no vacuum in your intake system - therefore, you only have limited (based on the size of your vacuum reservior) brake assistance. After that, you are entirely without power brakes.
Try this sometime - get in a car with turbos and put it into acceleration such that you are generating boost. Now press the brake pedal without stopping accelerating. You will have 3-5 seconds of power assisted braking. This is obviously an exaggerated situation with being under boost but that allows you to feel the affect in a more pronounced manner.
Have you considered the possibility that the 30-day reboot cycle is supposed to ensure that if they were to experience a crash or something that the system would be able to reboot? I mean, there are plenty of people (probably even here on Slashdot) with servers that have been up 5-7 years but if they have to reboot for some reason, what are the chances that the system will have problems coming up? Many hardware faults are discovered at boot (the stress of boot brings them to a head).
I believe the old adage is:
Screw myself once, shame on me. Screw myself twice, shame on me. Screw myself three time... wait, I see a pattern emerging here.
Hello? The idea isn't that you can short-circuit electricity with wood. Heck, 120V won't do that (usually). The idea is that if you were to have a short-circuit inside of the wall (through metal or other conductive substances), the sparks and heat generated could ignite wood pretty quickly. You're slow, huh?
Or you could simply click on Prefs and ensure that the following radio box is checked:
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A recent study of California wind farms found that wind can make up as much as 10% of total electricity capacity without significantly impacting the reliability of the electric grid.
Um... So for the low, low price of a 1 cent premium, you too can have the electric grid reliability of California in your very own home? I think I'll stick with my environment-destroying, acid-rain creating, coal-generated power for now.
If you don't believe that 12V can be dangerous and can lead to a fire, I suggest that you take your favorite wrench and drop it across the terminals of your car battery. Please do not hold onto the wrench while doing this and please ensure that the battery is located in a place such that if it were to explode it would not damage anything (including you). If your wrench is still intact when the fireworks are over, you may find two very neat holes melted in it. And if it melts a steel wrench, think of what it can do to all the dry timber in your wall.
If you're interested in the future development of oM then check out http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/plan.html. This shows that 2.6 patches are planned within the next 6-12 months. oMFS is coming out and oGFS, Lustre and PVFS are replacing it. SHM support is to be stabilized. Usability will really make leaps and bounds in the next year if this plan works out.
Well, I'm writing this from 1.0pr and I must say that it's pretty decent. It does seem to have rather serious problems with Terminal Services though. The only theme that is half-way usable via WTS is the default. All the button backgrounds are black and with some themes, all the menus are black with black text. Ugh - please, someone think of us TS users!
1. This is true - does beowulf have shared memory capabilities I wasn't aware of?
2. Not even worth...
3. MPI/PVM and openMosix are like bread and butter - they compliment each other to use the available resources in the most efficient manner.
Did I just get trolled?
Beowulf isn't the only game in town folks. A much easier to maintain and balance cluster can be built using openMosix. openMosix is a single-image-cluster extension for Linux.
Of course there are differences in breed characteristics but to classify pit bulls as mindless attack dogs is just as irresponsible. Why do you think that so many people try to use them as guard dogs? It's because they're been told them make great "attack dogs". They make terrible guard dogs simply because they were originally bred for dog-fighting. A good guard dog does no damage but simply immobilizes the subject. A good attack dog kills. Unfortunately, due to bad (read: evil) trainers or bad breeders, sometimes these dogs are trained to attack humans. This is where the problems come from. As far as dog-human interaction, with a properly bred and trained pit bull, there will be very little inherent difference in the breed characteristics as they relate only to human interaction (though there will be some).
The only mysterious force that has effected any known space probe is humanity. And we're not nearly as mysterious as we claim to be.
They are not mindless attack dogs like pit bulls
Unfortunately, it is foolish comments like these that have America convinced that some dogs are dangerous simply because of their breed. This is not the case (when speaking of AKC breeds - not dogs bred by dog fighters). The only time that a pit bull is a mindless attack dog is when it is trained to be that way. A German Shepherd can be trained the same as in the story of the person above who was attacked by one at 4 years old.
Unfortunately, there are still those who will try to damage anything you own out of spite. For instance, my wife's car (a worthless beater on which we keep the doors unlocked in order to deter break-ins) recently had the window smashed. It was vandalism - pure and simple.
Except, I tend to buy stuff at WalMart for 2 reasons. For a small part, price (isn't that always a concern?). Mostly, because of their return policy. WalMart will take anything back for any reason - if I don't like it, if it doesn't work, if it fails early, if I'm in a bad mood. I love that about WalMart. I don't need any support but I do want to be able to bring it back if I don't like it. Heck, I once returned a light bulb that died in a short amount of time. I asked for an exchange and the lady just gave me my cash back. Now that's the kind of service I want.
I currently get 4Mbps down and $20/mo (for 3 months). That's a pretty darn good deal. Plus, since there are 2 competing cable companies, I have been switching back and forth for over 2 years and haven't had to pay full price ($40/mo) yet. I even tell them every time that I switch that I have been a customer before but switched to the other for the promo and I'd like to switch back for the promo. Works like a charm.
But usually their homeowners policy will have a $500-$3000 deductible... an additional rider is usually available which will waive the deductible for just your dorm room - and they're cheap so they're worth it! Also consider that usually after about 3 claims on your policy, you are considered high risk and may be dropped. You may have a hard time finding someone else affordable to pick you up. Because of this, mom and dad may not want a $500 claim for your stolen stereo to go on their insurance record. Especially if they already have a few claims.
Agreed. So, write a ReiserFS4 plug-in to update the database every time a file is created, renamed or deleted.
Um, he's not exactly a genius with the video idea... it's already being done!
As far as VOIP:
Info from 2002.
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Because (I could be wrong here but...) the USB ports appear to be USB 2.0 Full Speed (12Mbps). A single drive would give 1.5MB/s max speed. RAID1 (if done properly so reads are split across the drives) would do 3MB/s. RAID 10 Redundancy/Striping would allow reading from 4 drives simultaneously so up to 6MB/s.
If it is USB 2.0 High Speed (up to 480Mbps - 60MB/s) then this advantage is nullified. Although, perhaps a 1GB NIC could be hacked in... maybe not though.
Actually, a lot of scanners in that pricerange have ADF so yes, you do have to put it in the scanner, scan from your machine, then pick it up but you can do up to 50 sheets at a time. Our office is only about 16x24.