Just out of curiosity, what are you going to tell them when they ask about iTunes or TurboTax or something like that? I did the same thing for the same reason (IE to Firefox) on my wife's PC but I wouldn't think of replacing the OS because it's limiting. And before you list out all the linux alternatives, I know them, I use them. QuickBooks beats the shit out of GNUcash but I still use GNUcash. There is no trustworthy OS tax software. There are few games. I dual boot for the occasional game only and taxes.
That's why I use Google. Every once in a while I try msn or something else and find that they pretty much suck. If they were better, I might use multiple search engines. If they were better than Google, I'd switch.
I bike to work. Once I rolled up behind a Lexus that had one of those things. It was lit up like the sun. It practically hurt my eyes from 10 feet. I don't see how anyone could drive with that thing there.
The going rate was $7.81 a megabyte, 38 percent more than the price of oil at the time.
Huh? What kind of comparison is that?
It's a stupid comparison but if they added 'a barrel' in there it might add a little perspective. Oil was going for about $4/barrel in 1973. Consider now the cost of a barrel of oil gets you 140 gigs of storage. Oil is roughly 20 times more expensive today but efficiency has probably only increased by about a few fold at best. Today's storage dollar goes many, many thousands of times farther than today's oil dollar, as compared to 1973.
He probably works for a company that provides backups to other companies in a data center. He'll still need to move the data offsite and the only practical way to move that amount of data is by tape. Having a $4 million dollar array would probably mean he wouldn't have to drive to the offsite storage facility three times a day to fetch tapes to do recoveries and could spend more time reading slashdot. The money this would cost to buy and maintain could easily cover several FTEs for many years.
This would be quite interesting
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With all this key switching around how come they never move the numbers? Come on - 0 and 1 have to be far more common that any other number. Numbers like 7 should really be shifted numbers. I mean, who uses 7 these days? I can't remember the last time I used a 7. 4, 3 and 6 could probably be shifted too. Anyway, here is my proposal. Note this would be centered where 4 5 6 7 8 9 is on QWERTY. The top row is shifted so if you wanted a 3 for example it would be shift-8.
Shift row 7 3 6 @ + 4
5 8 1 0 2 9
Based on my calculations this would be at least 81% more efficient. In addition, you could reach the same efficiency if the 10 key was reorganized as such:
That drill is going to make about 0.1% of the way.
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Do you know how they can come up with a vaccine for the flu every year? Because they know in advanced what the strain is going to be. You know where the flu comes from 90% of the time? Asia. It goes like this: Bird -> Pig -> Human. It originates in birds, the birds pass it to pigs on the massive farms in Asia and since the pig is very similar to humans in terms of biology, pig to human transmission is very easy. And then it takes time to travel from Asia to here. Biologists can pick the common strains every year and devise vaccinations against them. They are coming whether you got vaccinated against the common strains last year or not. This year there is worry because of the virulance and deadlyness of a particalur strain as well as the fact that it migrating via birds instead of the traditional pig to human transmition and migration via humans. It has nothing to do with vaccinations and never has. My immunity to a certain strain does not travel magically back to Asia, enter a bird and reassort itself.
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Your either drunk, high or extremely fucking stupid. Your post makes no sense and even after distilling the point you are trying to get across, it is complete bullshit. You are confusing the overuse of anti-bacterials with vaccinations. Getting vaccinated does not help the virus mutate. In fact, if you get the flu, once you are well you are vaccinated against in naturally and you will most likely never get that strain again for the rest of your life. In addition, getting vaccinated for the flu each year boosts your immune system in general so you will not get a common cold as easily.
People like you who 'tough it out' are vectors who make the rest of the country sick by spreading highly communicable yet easily preventable diseases.
As long as the space under the floor has a negative or positive atmosphere I can't see how somme turns have anything to do with the air flow.
And sensible data centers have fans at the top of the cabinets to suck the air through. At least they do at my data center. The ambient temperature of the facility is quite warm, but inside the cabinets it's a lot cooler (I have device that samples and records the temp every 5 minutes).
Well, I'm not in the majority here at Slashdot and I figured I'd get modded flamebait for it. Fact is, I have been drinking and brewing beer for more than 20 years and the microbrew arena has become decidedly "gay" over the years. "Oooooo, pumpkin cimmonon licorice wheat stout. Oh, and look at the name - it's called 'Lone Dog Fishbait Trapkill Island Point Stout', what a cool name. This sounds good. Should we get that, honey?" Now irregardless of the fact that I have heard this conversation play out dozens upon dozens of times between hetero couples in the beer aisle, I still consider it "gay".
I tend to disdain the very novelty of redhook beers
I agree Redhook can no longer brew a decent beer. But they were amongst the first in the microbrew revolution and did, up until around 1990, brew pretty good beer. By the way, there is a connection all the way back to day one between Starbucks and Redhook - a guy name Gordon Bowker. He co-founded both companies.
Now someone please patent beers like blackberry honey wheat stout and things like pumpkin spice ale (ie "gay" beers or "beer for people who don't really like beer"). Then please sue the makers and get them off the market.
And look at that floating comma... "According to this article , a British Judge..." They really should stop calling themselves editors and start calling themselves what they really are - cronjobs. They probably spend five minutes in the morning picking stories and play games for the rest of the day.
(No Excel benchmarks since I don't have a similar machine running windows)
On a ~2.4 P4 with 2G RAM running RHE3:
In every following case the processor was being 95+% utilized by OO.
OO2 and 001.14 perform about the same. The file took 5 minutes to open and maxed at 350M ram.
So, I save the test file as Excel in OO2. And OMFG! 1.03G of RAM is sucked up! It frees some of it up once the file is saved but now it's using 661M RAM. The file took about 90 seconds to save.
Anyway, I quit 002, relaunch it and use it to open the Excel file I just saved. It takes 45 seconds and uses 140M RAM. So I save this file as another Excel file and it takes about 15 seconds to save and the RAM only jumps 474M (and stays there even with only one 50M file open doing nothing.)
The test data file is like 3.7 Megs and the saved Excel file is 50 Megs.
LOL, it's funny because it's so stupid.
Luckily most of the data I get from people is in excel or tab delimited format. This 13 column, 16000 line file is nothing. I get 50 column, 50,000 line files all the time. If they were in opendocument format it would take forever.
PS Anyone know a mime-type I can use to get to OO plugin for firefox to open tab-delimeted text files as a spreadsheet?
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Just out of curiosity, what are you going to tell them when they ask about iTunes or TurboTax or something like that? I did the same thing for the same reason (IE to Firefox) on my wife's PC but I wouldn't think of replacing the OS because it's limiting. And before you list out all the linux alternatives, I know them, I use them. QuickBooks beats the shit out of GNUcash but I still use GNUcash. There is no trustworthy OS tax software. There are few games. I dual boot for the occasional game only and taxes.
That's why I use Google. Every once in a while I try msn or something else and find that they pretty much suck. If they were better, I might use multiple search engines. If they were better than Google, I'd switch.
I bike to work. Once I rolled up behind a Lexus that had one of those things. It was lit up like the sun. It practically hurt my eyes from 10 feet. I don't see how anyone could drive with that thing there.
Charge 3 cents per letter. One cent goes to the ISP sending the mail, one cent to the ISP receiving the mail, and one cent to the recipient.
The ISP on either end would credit/debit the sender/receiver's account.
And watch the spam disappear.
If it could be done, you might be right. Even so, the game would then change to, "How do I steal all those pennies?".
But shutting the door and thus muting the conversation about what is going on in the latest edition of American Idol is pretty damn valuable to me.
Being able to control the lighting is also very valuable.
Privacy too. I don't like people to hearing what I am saying unless I actually want them to overhear it regardless of what I am talking about.
Ohhh - closed door meetings - those have lots of value.
I think I'd need at least a 50% raise.
Heh, I'll stick to journals like Science and Nature.
And they are protected by an electronic fence.
From the article:
The going rate was $7.81 a megabyte, 38 percent more than the price of oil at the time.
Huh? What kind of comparison is that?
It's a stupid comparison but if they added 'a barrel' in there it might add a little perspective. Oil was going for about $4/barrel in 1973. Consider now the cost of a barrel of oil gets you 140 gigs of storage. Oil is roughly 20 times more expensive today but efficiency has probably only increased by about a few fold at best. Today's storage dollar goes many, many thousands of times farther than today's oil dollar, as compared to 1973.
Just a guess but...
He probably works for a company that provides backups to other companies in a data center. He'll still need to move the data offsite and the only practical way to move that amount of data is by tape. Having a $4 million dollar array would probably mean he wouldn't have to drive to the offsite storage facility three times a day to fetch tapes to do recoveries and could spend more time reading slashdot. The money this would cost to buy and maintain could easily cover several FTEs for many years.
IF I WAS 12!
That drill is going to make about 0.1% of the way.
Do you know how they can come up with a vaccine for the flu every year? Because they know in advanced what the strain is going to be. You know where the flu comes from 90% of the time? Asia. It goes like this: Bird -> Pig -> Human. It originates in birds, the birds pass it to pigs on the massive farms in Asia and since the pig is very similar to humans in terms of biology, pig to human transmission is very easy. And then it takes time to travel from Asia to here. Biologists can pick the common strains every year and devise vaccinations against them. They are coming whether you got vaccinated against the common strains last year or not. This year there is worry because of the virulance and deadlyness of a particalur strain as well as the fact that it migrating via birds instead of the traditional pig to human transmition and migration via humans. It has nothing to do with vaccinations and never has. My immunity to a certain strain does not travel magically back to Asia, enter a bird and reassort itself.
Your either drunk, high or extremely fucking stupid. Your post makes no sense and even after distilling the point you are trying to get across, it is complete bullshit. You are confusing the overuse of anti-bacterials with vaccinations. Getting vaccinated does not help the virus mutate. In fact, if you get the flu, once you are well you are vaccinated against in naturally and you will most likely never get that strain again for the rest of your life. In addition, getting vaccinated for the flu each year boosts your immune system in general so you will not get a common cold as easily.
People like you who 'tough it out' are vectors who make the rest of the country sick by spreading highly communicable yet easily preventable diseases.
As long as the space under the floor has a negative or positive atmosphere I can't see how somme turns have anything to do with the air flow.
And sensible data centers have fans at the top of the cabinets to suck the air through. At least they do at my data center. The ambient temperature of the facility is quite warm, but inside the cabinets it's a lot cooler (I have device that samples and records the temp every 5 minutes).
You anti-DRM, pro-cheating and stealing hippies must be really conflicted on this one.
Well, I'm not in the majority here at Slashdot and I figured I'd get modded flamebait for it. Fact is, I have been drinking and brewing beer for more than 20 years and the microbrew arena has become decidedly "gay" over the years. "Oooooo, pumpkin cimmonon licorice wheat stout. Oh, and look at the name - it's called 'Lone Dog Fishbait Trapkill Island Point Stout', what a cool name. This sounds good. Should we get that, honey?" Now irregardless of the fact that I have heard this conversation play out dozens upon dozens of times between hetero couples in the beer aisle, I still consider it "gay".
I tend to disdain the very novelty of redhook beers
I agree Redhook can no longer brew a decent beer. But they were amongst the first in the microbrew revolution and did, up until around 1990, brew pretty good beer. By the way, there is a connection all the way back to day one between Starbucks and Redhook - a guy name Gordon Bowker. He co-founded both companies.
Really? I didn't know she started working on 2s. I thought she only worked on 5s and 6s.
Now someone please patent beers like blackberry honey wheat stout and things like pumpkin spice ale (ie "gay" beers or "beer for people who don't really like beer"). Then please sue the makers and get them off the market.
And look at that floating comma... "According to this article , a British Judge..." They really should stop calling themselves editors and start calling themselves what they really are - cronjobs. They probably spend five minutes in the morning picking stories and play games for the rest of the day.
Summary says 3 million, the article clearly, even hyperlinked so it's highlighted, says 5 million.
Lifetime refers to the life of the chip.
Funny story:
(No Excel benchmarks since I don't have a similar machine running windows)
On a ~2.4 P4 with 2G RAM running RHE3:
In every following case the processor was being 95+% utilized by OO.
OO2 and 001.14 perform about the same. The file took 5 minutes to open and maxed at 350M ram.
So, I save the test file as Excel in OO2. And OMFG! 1.03G of RAM is sucked up! It frees some of it up once the file is saved but now it's using 661M RAM. The file took about 90 seconds to save.
Anyway, I quit 002, relaunch it and use it to open the Excel file I just saved. It takes 45 seconds and uses 140M RAM. So I save this file as another Excel file and it takes about 15 seconds to save and the RAM only jumps 474M (and stays there even with only one 50M file open doing nothing.)
The test data file is like 3.7 Megs and the saved Excel file is 50 Megs.
LOL, it's funny because it's so stupid.
Luckily most of the data I get from people is in excel or tab delimited format. This 13 column, 16000 line file is nothing. I get 50 column, 50,000 line files all the time. If they were in opendocument format it would take forever.
PS Anyone know a mime-type I can use to get to OO plugin for firefox to open tab-delimeted text files as a spreadsheet?