The thought of a hundred elephants-worth of water suspended in the sky begs another question -- what keeps it up there?
"First of all, the water isn't in elephant sized particles, it's in tiny tiny tiny particles," explains LeMone.
Ah, I see. So if I cut something heavy into lots of different pieces, I can make it float.
Weight is such a silly concept to even be discussing when it comes to clouds. It would be like weighing yourself underwater and listing that as your true weight.
We may see the click-through license replaced with the sign-through license.
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Very relaxed dress code (shorts, jeans, sandals, hiking boots/sneakers)
Telecommuting
Flex Time ( work longer on Mon/Tue, take Fri off)
Hewlett Packard had all these policies when I worked for them in 1998, and supposedly it wasn't anything new. From what I've heard, a lot of the west coast software companies worked the same way. I left HP around '99, so I don't know if these policies survived the Fiorina debacle.
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I doubt it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Wow, you mean I'm going to get to be an executive vice president of a million dollar corporation again!
Will the buildings automatically power the heaters for the water mains?
Isn't that what they do when the power is on?
I imagine they need the power to keep just the critical services running, not to actually power the entire city (despite what the article says).
Good point. The article doesn't actually say the power is for powering the entire city, just that it would be enough to power 12,000 people for 7 minutes. But then the whole frozen water pipe scenario seems to be but a minor issue. There's no way Golden Valley Electrical Association needs that much power just for the water pipes nearby. It still seems like it would make more sense to put the batteries closer to where the power is needed.
On the other hand, it's important to note that while the backup generators may be able to come online within 7 minutes when they have a battery backup to power them, the situation becomes much more complex when the power is out for them as well.
Well yeah, clearly there needs to be enough backup power to start the system back up again. But this still seems like overkill for that limited need.
This was a major contributing factor in the recent north-eastern blackout.
I remember joking about that during the blackout. The news was reporting that the computer system failed, and I wondered out loud whether it failed because there was no power available.
Starting the diesel engines is not something that can be done by hand, and even if you have that handled with a battery, there is the issue of getting your multiple generators in phase with one another, which is a non-trivial process even when fully powered.
I don't know, maybe you're right, but 40 megawatts of power seems like overkill to me even for fast-starting an entire power station.
Why back up power in a centralized location using batteries when you could just let each building back up itself? It's not like you're going to gain any efficiency using 13,760 NiCad cells in a central location instead of in 13,760 locations. Seems like a huge waste of money to me.
As for water pipes freezing in two hours, they don't freeze in 7 minutes while waiting for the backup generators to kick in.
Sending the MP3 files to someone they knew already had the CD, was ruled to be copyright infringement.
When done for a for-profit purpose. I don't think a court would rule the same way if it was the downloader on trial. That would seem to fall under fair use.
This wouldn't, though, be a defense for the central problem that she made all of these MP3s available for download by millions of anonymous strangers without the consent of the copyright holders.
True, but that could have been an accident. Perhaps she just happened to be sharing her "My Music" folder.
Maybe they have security considerations which prevent them from implementing a network. In any case, I don't see how it's cheaper. You just rotate 2 or 3 memory cards to/from a secure location.
And then the next time you get 880000 bounces, and then the next time you get 770000, and so on until everyone is running an MTA that supports SPF.
Next time? I've only been joe-jobbed once so far. By the time the bounces go down to 550,000 it'll be 2050.
Your argument is one of those "we can't solve all the problems right now so we should just sit here and contemplate our navel" arguments.
No, my argument is one of those "why bother wasting your time implementing a solution which isn't going to actually solve anything since no one else is going to implement it" arguments.
I suppose you have better solutions in mind and you're just polishing up the RFC?
No, I've already implemented my solution. Pipe postmaster@myhost to/dev/null. Who needs bounces anyway?
No, if only the domains which a spammer is joe-jobbing support SPF, then you can block those emails.
That's not going to cut down on spam by any significant amount.
But if you publish SPF records yourself, you can be protected from spammer pretending to be you and spamming a million people and you getting all the bounces!
Instead you'll get 999,000 bounces from all but the 1,000 people who bother to check the SPF records.
Try editing 100+ photos, from a read-only folder, and save the resulting images in a different folder, nested 8 or 9 levels deep. It's needlessly time consuming with GTK.
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96% of your post consisted of material copyrighted by others and not licensed to you. According to copyright law, you are a criminal.
What other reason is there?
No regular user is going to choose Linux over Windoze XP just to save $52.
Depends on whether or not the Linux distro includes Kazaa for them to download a Windows XP ISO with.
I blocked timothy quite a while ago. Maybe I should try putting his stories back again.
And considering the topic of this Ask Slashdot, it was probably sent in thousands of times.
The thought of a hundred elephants-worth of water suspended in the sky begs another question -- what keeps it up there?
"First of all, the water isn't in elephant sized particles, it's in tiny tiny tiny particles," explains LeMone.
Ah, I see. So if I cut something heavy into lots of different pieces, I can make it float.
Weight is such a silly concept to even be discussing when it comes to clouds. It would be like weighing yourself underwater and listing that as your true weight.
That post was not insightful. It was just the combination of certain letters and punctuation that made it appear insightful.
Yes, there is a correlation, but that is not an advantage, it is merely coincidence.
No.
Use IPv6 for your internal network.
We may see the click-through license replaced with the sign-through license.
Very relaxed dress code (shorts, jeans, sandals, hiking boots/sneakers)
Telecommuting
Flex Time ( work longer on Mon/Tue, take Fri off)
Hewlett Packard had all these policies when I worked for them in 1998, and supposedly it wasn't anything new. From what I've heard, a lot of the west coast software companies worked the same way. I left HP around '99, so I don't know if these policies survived the Fiorina debacle.
I doubt it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Wow, you mean I'm going to get to be an executive vice president of a million dollar corporation again!
Will the buildings automatically power the heaters for the water mains?
Isn't that what they do when the power is on?
I imagine they need the power to keep just the critical services running, not to actually power the entire city (despite what the article says).
Good point. The article doesn't actually say the power is for powering the entire city, just that it would be enough to power 12,000 people for 7 minutes. But then the whole frozen water pipe scenario seems to be but a minor issue. There's no way Golden Valley Electrical Association needs that much power just for the water pipes nearby. It still seems like it would make more sense to put the batteries closer to where the power is needed.
On the other hand, it's important to note that while the backup generators may be able to come online within 7 minutes when they have a battery backup to power them, the situation becomes much more complex when the power is out for them as well.
Well yeah, clearly there needs to be enough backup power to start the system back up again. But this still seems like overkill for that limited need.
This was a major contributing factor in the recent north-eastern blackout.
I remember joking about that during the blackout. The news was reporting that the computer system failed, and I wondered out loud whether it failed because there was no power available.
Starting the diesel engines is not something that can be done by hand, and even if you have that handled with a battery, there is the issue of getting your multiple generators in phase with one another, which is a non-trivial process even when fully powered.
I don't know, maybe you're right, but 40 megawatts of power seems like overkill to me even for fast-starting an entire power station.
You cannot survive, be healthy and strong without meat, unless you live in an area where certain plants are available, or you take diet supplements.
So it is possible. You just have to live in an area where certain plants are available, or take diet supplements.
Humans have been eating meat since before recorded time, and you think you are being clever by saying meat isn't food?
I never said meat isn't food. Meat is food. But meat is not necessary, like food is.
Why back up power in a centralized location using batteries when you could just let each building back up itself? It's not like you're going to gain any efficiency using 13,760 NiCad cells in a central location instead of in 13,760 locations. Seems like a huge waste of money to me.
As for water pipes freezing in two hours, they don't freeze in 7 minutes while waiting for the backup generators to kick in.
Sending the MP3 files to someone they knew already had the CD, was ruled to be copyright infringement.
When done for a for-profit purpose. I don't think a court would rule the same way if it was the downloader on trial. That would seem to fall under fair use.
This wouldn't, though, be a defense for the central problem that she made all of these MP3s available for download by millions of anonymous strangers without the consent of the copyright holders.
True, but that could have been an accident. Perhaps she just happened to be sharing her "My Music" folder.
Maybe they have security considerations which prevent them from implementing a network. In any case, I don't see how it's cheaper. You just rotate 2 or 3 memory cards to/from a secure location.
No, meat is not necessary, like food is.
And then the next time you get 880000 bounces, and then the next time you get 770000, and so on until everyone is running an MTA that supports SPF.
Next time? I've only been joe-jobbed once so far. By the time the bounces go down to 550,000 it'll be 2050.
Your argument is one of those "we can't solve all the problems right now so we should just sit here and contemplate our navel" arguments.
No, my argument is one of those "why bother wasting your time implementing a solution which isn't going to actually solve anything since no one else is going to implement it" arguments.
I suppose you have better solutions in mind and you're just polishing up the RFC?
No, I've already implemented my solution. Pipe postmaster@myhost to /dev/null. Who needs bounces anyway?
No, if only the domains which a spammer is joe-jobbing support SPF, then you can block those emails.
That's not going to cut down on spam by any significant amount.
But if you publish SPF records yourself, you can be protected from spammer pretending to be you and spamming a million people and you getting all the bounces!
Instead you'll get 999,000 bounces from all but the 1,000 people who bother to check the SPF records.
If you need to keep it on the cheap, pump your small amount of data to 3 other simple boxen offsite.
They "have no network for backups."
Try editing 100+ photos, from a read-only folder, and save the resulting images in a different folder, nested 8 or 9 levels deep. It's needlessly time consuming with GTK.
Try copying the files before you edit them :).
Everytime I watch that movie that line is like fingernails on a chalkboard because Disneyland opened in 1955.
Yeah, but everything was fine until they opened it in 1956.