Computers in the 70's and early 80's were immensely difficult to work on. They were huge, had, at best, text based interfaces assuming that they weren't older models with card readers, were programmed in either C or Assembler
You're mixing things up a bit. The 70s and early 80s were the years of the minicomputer, not really huge, and mostly that's where you'd find C programming.
had disk drives that required physical mounting (as in you picked up the big heavy assed disk and "mounted" it on the drive, that's where the term comes from)...
Sure, but typically the programmer wouldn't do that; the operator would do that. The operator wasn't letting any programmers put their mitts on his machines.
Said attitude being that geeks (presumably male) would like females to be willing to have sex with them? Yeah, that's a hell of a misogynistic attitude.
This isn't news; the satellite data frequently fail to show the warming trends observed at surface locations. Then someone just recalibrates the satellite data, and everything matches up just fine.
So it boils down to a conspiracy theory. So we have the Creationists claiming a cabal of biologists intentionally attacking Creationism, the asbestos industry questioning the legitmacy of research indicating the health risks, the tobacco industry questioning research that smoking causes lung and cardiovasular disease, an climatologists in a vast conspiracy to lie about climate change.
I do. NSA was chartered for the purpose of gathering electronic intelligence of our enemies abroad (at the time of its inception, the Soviet Union). I worked at NSA in the late '80s, and at the time, there were signs posted all over warning that NSA was specifically prohibited by executive order from conducting surveillance on U.S. citizens within the United States. The FBI is tasked with domestic law enforcement, not NSA; NSA has no business whatsoever conducting surveillance on American citizens within the U.S.
I think you'll find that directive went right out the window with 9/11.
As jobs have become scarcer and the applicant-per-opening ratio kicks up, companies have gone to using the master's to filter out applicants. IMO, this is a waste of 2 years of the student's life and a lot of money, but it may be a cost that students have to pay to be considered for a job nowadays. Unfortunately, I suspect that even if the downturn ends, the inflated educational requirements will remain.
Do you have any sort of formal (that is, university-level) training in Computer Science or Computer Engineering? Based on your comment, it really doesn't look like you have any at all.
I have, but I didn't come upon the term "embarrassingly parallel" until much later. Possibly because I'm embarrassingly old; the first use I can find of the term is in 1989, and it doesn't seem to have become mainstream even within computer science until a few years later.
This is completely wrong. The Republican Party is terrified of the Tea Party, which has repudiated Republicans such as John Boehner and Lindsey Graham. In fact, the Tea Party has threatened Republicans who have tried to make a deal with President Obama over raising the debt limit.
Ah, you've never heard of the little game called "Good cop, bad cop"? This is just a variant. D: We want X R: You know, I'd like to give you X, but those scary bastards over there (T obligingly growls menacingly and froths at the mouth), they'd tear me apart if I gave it to you. They really want -20X, but I think we can satisfy them with -X/2.
We have laws against negligence where if some person fails to take proper precaution to protect the safety of someone else, the negligent person can be found guilty.
This only holds when the person who didn't take proper precautions had some duty to protect that other person's safety.
Then, we have the philosophical question: Can speech influence behaviour?
Of course it can; it's not much of a question. Ask any Internet troll.
If we can agree that one person's speech can influence another person's actions, can we then come to the conclusion that one person's speech can put a third person (or her/his possessions) in danger? If we think that the answer to that question is yes then the natural question to follow up is: Are we allowed to put another person (or her/his possessions) in danger?
Your logic doesn't hold together. The intermediary matters. If I point a gun at a person's head and pull the trigger, I've "influenced" the bullet to kill the person, but I'm the one responsible for the death; neither the gun nor the bullet is capable of judgement and cannot be held to blame.
On the other hand, if I merely say that the world would be a better place with that person dead, I may influence some listener into killing that person. My speech has indirectly caused someone else's death. But this time I'm not culpable; the other person is not an automaton, they have the capacity to make their own decisions, and I am not responsible for them even if they got their bad ideas from me.
Of course there are grey areas; perhaps I have some authority over the second person and perhaps I'm in the habit of giving orders by making offhand remarks like that. In that case I might be culpable, both morally and legally. This decision says the prosecutors have to demonstrate that this is the case.
You can't use dryer air directly both because of lint and humidity, and exhaust products in the case of a gas dryer. You'd have to use a heat exchanger. This would probably be OK for the inside air, but you'd have to do something about the condensate from the heat exchanger (air from a dryer is typically saturated, so cooling it will cause condensation), and also somehow keep the lint from clogging the exchanger.
And why does the A/C try to release heat into the atmosphere at a moment when it is already hot (instead of dumping it into a cold buffer it prepared during the night), i.e. at a time when it is the hardest to get rid of that heat?
A "cold buffer"? You know of a practical way to produce this "cold buffer"? Freeze a ton of water, then efficiently release the heat from same? Easier said than done.
And why does the A/C try to release heat at a time when electricity demand is already at peak level (instead of during the night)?
Why limit the conversation to just servers, when this occurs everywhere in common life? Why does my refrigerator take heat out of the inside, and dump it into my house - requiring my A/C to then take it and again put it outside?
Why does my A/C in a house take all the heat and discharge it outside into the atmosphere, which meanwhile a pool heater is running 5 feet away using energy to generate more heat for the pool?
Mostly because trying to use small temperature differences is difficult; solutions tend to be bulky, inefficient, costly, inflexible, and/or complicated.
Figure out a practical and flexible way to do it and you could get rich. So you've got to take the heat from the refrigerator and dump it outside in the winter (either with ducting or plumbing), but in the summer keep it in. Your HVAC outside unit can heat the pool in parts of the spring, summer, and fall (but what if the pool is already too hot? No A/C for you?), but you probably don't want to use it as a heat pump to freeze the pool in winter.
The reason pizza ovens don't have fins and fans for wintertime heating is likely cleanliness.
First, your entire discussion of "dB" is meaningless without an additional "unit". dB, by and of itself, is a baseless unit. It's dBSPL, or dBm, or even the cheat-of-all-cheats, dBu. But NEVER just dB.
When you're dealing strictly in the digital domain, dB on its own is pretty common, and is (as the original poster said) understood to be referenced to 0dB = the maximum signal level the format can produce. Some searching reveals this is sometimes called dBFS (for dB Full Scale), but when I was working on that stuff, I never ran into that term.
Which makes me think that somehow I might be staying away from the new "sealed" MacBooks with the unreplaceable batteries, especially because searching for "bulging battery" brings up nothing but horror stories about Apple batteries. Apparently they've had this problem for over five years and have never bothered fixing it.
The bulging is a symptom, not a problem. A lot of problems with lithium-polymer cells will cause them to swell up. Overheat them, they swell. Short them, they swell. Overcharge them (which the microcontroller is supposed to prevent), they swell. There have been bad runs of batteries (search for sony battery recall), and they (not just Apple, but the other OEMs affected) HAVE done something about it, namely recall the affected batteries.
In Austin, Texas, when the police shoot someone they've pulled over, they are allowed to review the dash camera before having to give a statement or answer any questions about the incident. This policy was instituted by police chief Art Acevedo to ensure that the descriptions of the incidents given by officers would align with the video taped evidence. Civilians are not afforded this privilege, however.
Actually, they are. It's called the Fifth Amendment. If you assert it long enough, it becomes moot because it's hard to talk with your teeth broken and a PR-24 shoved down your throat.
This is great news! Only 20 years until the patent expires and products can start being made using this technology.
Only if they're dicks about it. It seems more likely that they'd want to actually make the products and/or license the technology rather than sit on them and sue anyone who makes anything remotely similar. So you'll pay more for 20 years, but it'll be available.
Aluminium is 8% of the planet's crust. it's not a rare earth metal: it's available in unbelievably large quantities. Europositron, a company that has also developed a 100% rechargeable high-capacity cell (5x that of NiMH) - that doesn't degrade or require chemical or mechanical re-processing - has recognised the capacity of aluminium for years. unfortunately, despite working demos, nobody's believed them.
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You're mixing things up a bit. The 70s and early 80s were the years of the minicomputer, not really huge, and mostly that's where you'd find C programming.
Sure, but typically the programmer wouldn't do that; the operator would do that. The operator wasn't letting any programmers put their mitts on his machines.
Said attitude being that geeks (presumably male) would like females to be willing to have sex with them? Yeah, that's a hell of a misogynistic attitude.
This isn't news; the satellite data frequently fail to show the warming trends observed at surface locations. Then someone just recalibrates the satellite data, and everything matches up just fine.
The irony is strong in this one.
I think you'll find that directive went right out the window with 9/11.
As jobs have become scarcer and the applicant-per-opening ratio kicks up, companies have gone to using the master's to filter out applicants. IMO, this is a waste of 2 years of the student's life and a lot of money, but it may be a cost that students have to pay to be considered for a job nowadays. Unfortunately, I suspect that even if the downturn ends, the inflated educational requirements will remain.
I have, but I didn't come upon the term "embarrassingly parallel" until much later. Possibly because I'm embarrassingly old; the first use I can find of the term is in 1989, and it doesn't seem to have become mainstream even within computer science until a few years later.
Ah, you've never heard of the little game called "Good cop, bad cop"? This is just a variant.
D: We want X
R: You know, I'd like to give you X, but those scary bastards over there (T obligingly growls menacingly and froths at the mouth), they'd tear me apart if I gave it to you. They really want -20X, but I think we can satisfy them with -X/2.
This only holds when the person who didn't take proper precautions had some duty to protect that other person's safety.
Of course it can; it's not much of a question. Ask any Internet troll.
Your logic doesn't hold together. The intermediary matters. If I point a gun at a person's head and pull the trigger, I've "influenced" the bullet to kill the person, but I'm the one responsible for the death; neither the gun nor the bullet is capable of judgement and cannot be held to blame.
On the other hand, if I merely say that the world would be a better place with that person dead, I may influence some listener into killing that person. My speech has indirectly caused someone else's death. But this time I'm not culpable; the other person is not an automaton, they have the capacity to make their own decisions, and I am not responsible for them even if they got their bad ideas from me.
Of course there are grey areas; perhaps I have some authority over the second person and perhaps I'm in the habit of giving orders by making offhand remarks like that. In that case I might be culpable, both morally and legally. This decision says the prosecutors have to demonstrate that this is the case.
It runs just fine, but it's dim as hell with poor contrast, right?
Not because they've gotten what they want, but because they've received confirmation that complaining doesn't help.
Diesel and heating oil are from the same fraction, so when heating oil is more in demand, diesel prices go up relative to gasoline.
You can't use dryer air directly both because of lint and humidity, and exhaust products in the case of a gas dryer. You'd have to use a heat exchanger. This would probably be OK for the inside air, but you'd have to do something about the condensate from the heat exchanger (air from a dryer is typically saturated, so cooling it will cause condensation), and also somehow keep the lint from clogging the exchanger.
A "cold buffer"? You know of a practical way to produce this "cold buffer"? Freeze a ton of water, then efficiently release the heat from same? Easier said than done.
The A/C causes the peak demand.
Mostly because trying to use small temperature differences is difficult; solutions tend to be bulky, inefficient, costly, inflexible, and/or complicated.
Figure out a practical and flexible way to do it and you could get rich. So you've got to take the heat from the refrigerator and dump it outside in the winter (either with ducting or plumbing), but in the summer keep it in. Your HVAC outside unit can heat the pool in parts of the spring, summer, and fall (but what if the pool is already too hot? No A/C for you?), but you probably don't want to use it as a heat pump to freeze the pool in winter.
The reason pizza ovens don't have fins and fans for wintertime heating is likely cleanliness.
When you're dealing strictly in the digital domain, dB on its own is pretty common, and is (as the original poster said) understood to be referenced to 0dB = the maximum signal level the format can produce. Some searching reveals this is sometimes called dBFS (for dB Full Scale), but when I was working on that stuff, I never ran into that term.
3.2 megawatts in 2 years? Great job, guys. In 200 years you might be able to replace a coal plant.
The bulging is a symptom, not a problem. A lot of problems with lithium-polymer cells will cause them to swell up. Overheat them, they swell. Short them, they swell. Overcharge them (which the microcontroller is supposed to prevent), they swell. There have been bad runs of batteries (search for sony battery recall), and they (not just Apple, but the other OEMs affected) HAVE done something about it, namely recall the affected batteries.
Except for a security clearance, an arrest without a conviction doesn't matter worth a damn even if you're over 18.
Now that's true; a conviction is a conviction, even if you get a light sentence.
Dying for your beliefs doesn't help. The line attributed to Patton about "the other bastard" is quite applicable.
Actually, they are. It's called the Fifth Amendment. If you assert it long enough, it becomes moot because it's hard to talk with your teeth broken and a PR-24 shoved down your throat.
Well, until the Vikings sue them over the patent violation on their business method. It's Danegeld, after all, not Somaligeld.
Your charts are not consistent; the second one shows a maximum of 350 Wh/l, whereas the first shows 580 Wh/l.
Only if they're dicks about it. It seems more likely that they'd want to actually make the products and/or license the technology rather than sit on them and sue anyone who makes anything remotely similar. So you'll pay more for 20 years, but it'll be available.
This Europositron?
See, it's stuff like this which makes slashdotters wary of battery breakthroughs, even when they may actually be legitimate.