Several years ago at the company I worked, we tossed around a few ideas that would take massive computing power (probe design, for one) We realized our end product might take 100+ CPUs 6 weeks to do one set of work and could only do one set at a time. We had a joke that this might be viable business - if we had a time machine.
In the end, it was decided (quickly by some, slowly by others) that it would be foolish to pursue it given the infrastructure we would need start off with. Givin this sort of service, it might have worked. Pay-as-you-go, so to speak.
If your using 100% of the processor 24/7 for a full year, then no, it's not worth it. However if you need a little here and there, it can be worth it.
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Why is everybody going so high-tech about this? I just use the syncmark extension for FF and back the bookmarks file up to a directory on my webspace. It's not pretty, but it works great when I'm on somebody else's PC.
My solution is not really high tech, but it has one major advantage over bookmarks - it's way, way faster. Scrolling through bookmarks is slow and tedious because scrolling in general is slow and tedious. If you have them on your home page, the first thing you are presented with is links. It only takes a fraction of a second to select one. Hell, when I open my browser, my cursor is already on it's way to the position of the link I want before the page is even loaded.
Your solution solves the other reason I use the solution I do. I lost my bookmarks one too many times (and that was back in 1999.) Now, if I lose them, I usually only lose 20-30 unimportant ones. In fact, I lost my bookmarks a few months ago upgrading Firefox and was too lazy to retrieve them from a backup.
My home page is a nicely sorted webpage with all my frequently visited links in a password protected section of my web site. If something gets used enough in my bookmarks, it gets put on that page and gets deleted from my bookmarks. Then, no mater where I am or what computer I am on, I can access my links.
No. The police will ignore you unless there's a guard on the property who has confirmed that he has a burglar caught. There's absolutely no point for the police to up and rush over to your place whenever the wind blows your curtain and a motion detector goes off.
In Seattle, the police will come if your alarm goes off and your alarm company cannot get ahold of you. If it is a false alarm, they fine you $100. Regardless, you have to pay $40/year to the city if you have an alarm system that calls the police. The fines and yearly fees were inacted because of false alarms. Most alarm companies have stopped pushing things like motion detectors that had a high false positive occurance.
if this gets popular, how long till someone is offering ads for it?
Oh, there will be ads from day one. Ads for the viewers to purchase their own video tombstones.
At the end of each video, voiced by Wilford Brimely:
"This persons life brought to you by Vidstone. Select your own vidstone today at www.wtfisthisshit.com. Better buy one soon before it's all fists and elbows."
Does someone have a good example of unreadable, real world Perl code?
Complex regular expressions are pretty much the only thing I think can get hard to follow and even those can be broken down and nicely commented. However, in my experience, most people who write decent readable Perl don't break them down.
Outside of that, Perl is no more readable or unreadable than any other language as long as you have discipline and don't obfuscate just because you can (or because it's easier once you master the language.)
26 plugs with 1 circuit is no better than the octopus plugs
Actually, 26 outlets on one circuit is safer. At least the circuit will be wired with 12 AWG. If you octopus a shitload of devices, your cord will melt, arc and then catch fire way before you draw enough amps to trip the circuit. The 12 AWG won't.
er, yea... I wasn't thinking residential walls. 16" center-to-center is right.
Depends on the age of the house. Really old homes have large variablity in the stud spacing. In my house, built in 1909, the studs are spaced 18 inches center to center with a fair amount of variability. Even older homes can be spaced even further, up to 36 inches. Houses like this usually have real 2x4s as opposed to the wood saving modern 1.5x3.5s. Lots of houses built today are going 24 inches using 2x6 studs. I guess it saves time and money in construction.
Funny thing though, I have had a few contractors out to do some work on my house. Two had said that the majority of their work is fixing newly constructed houses, even in the million dollar range, as opposed to older houses. They just don't build them like they used to. You wouldn't think that someone would have a million dollar home built and want to save $5,000 by using PVC instead of copper, but they do.
Add to this: If you are having a contractor do this work for you, and they don't mention asbestos (could be in old tiles or linoleum buried under carpet or plywood subfloor, taping on your heating ducts as well as insulation) and lead paint, get a different contractor. If they don't mention the possibility of your house having both, they probably cut serious corners in their work.
Asbestos and lead paint were still used in housing until the mid 70s.
how are three circuit per room more dangerous than one?
Aside from kitchens and dining rooms, you might have two in a room at most but they would be grouped and the second circuit would only be there because it is dedicated for a known purpose. Also, that circuit would most likely feed those specific outlets only and not any in other rooms. By dangerous, I meant having your recepticles round-robined on three different circuits so that three outlets within 36 inches of each other are going to be on three different breakers. Besides all that, what are you going to be doing in a room that requires 60 amps all at once?
Also, any room which is technically considered a bedroom (regardless of what you are using it for) will require three 20 amp AFCI breakers which aren't cheap. On top of that, your plan would probably require three or four sub-panels because of how many breakers you want to install. Plus, you'd probably have to upgrade your service to 320 or 400 amps.
i honestly don't think it's too much to ask for one electrical socket on each stud. make sure they're on different circuit breakers, and if possible maybe set up some of them to be uninterruptable. my ideal wall would have a socket on each stud. 2 out of every three would be regular sockets - but on different circuits, and 1 out of three would be on an uninterruptable circuit
One on each stud, huh? That means a 10x10 room will have more than 20 electrical sockets. And three different circuit breakers per room not counting the lighting? That's dangerous and I doubt any qualified electrician would do it. Aside from that, your scheme would cost a fortune due to the excess.
Dude, this is Slashdot. Everything, and I mean everything, from global warming all the way down to the latest fedora core zgrep gzip vulnerability is Bush's fault.
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Several years ago at the company I worked, we tossed around a few ideas that would take massive computing power (probe design, for one) We realized our end product might take 100+ CPUs 6 weeks to do one set of work and could only do one set at a time. We had a joke that this might be viable business - if we had a time machine.
In the end, it was decided (quickly by some, slowly by others) that it would be foolish to pursue it given the infrastructure we would need start off with. Givin this sort of service, it might have worked. Pay-as-you-go, so to speak.
If your using 100% of the processor 24/7 for a full year, then no, it's not worth it. However if you need a little here and there, it can be worth it.
Why is everybody going so high-tech about this? I just use the syncmark extension for FF and back the bookmarks file up to a directory on my webspace. It's not pretty, but it works great when I'm on somebody else's PC.
My solution is not really high tech, but it has one major advantage over bookmarks - it's way, way faster. Scrolling through bookmarks is slow and tedious because scrolling in general is slow and tedious. If you have them on your home page, the first thing you are presented with is links. It only takes a fraction of a second to select one. Hell, when I open my browser, my cursor is already on it's way to the position of the link I want before the page is even loaded.
Your solution solves the other reason I use the solution I do. I lost my bookmarks one too many times (and that was back in 1999.) Now, if I lose them, I usually only lose 20-30 unimportant ones. In fact, I lost my bookmarks a few months ago upgrading Firefox and was too lazy to retrieve them from a backup.
My home page is a nicely sorted webpage with all my frequently visited links in a password protected section of my web site. If something gets used enough in my bookmarks, it gets put on that page and gets deleted from my bookmarks. Then, no mater where I am or what computer I am on, I can access my links.
No. The police will ignore you unless there's a guard on the property who has confirmed that he has a burglar caught. There's absolutely no point for the police to up and rush over to your place whenever the wind blows your curtain and a motion detector goes off.
In Seattle, the police will come if your alarm goes off and your alarm company cannot get ahold of you. If it is a false alarm, they fine you $100. Regardless, you have to pay $40/year to the city if you have an alarm system that calls the police. The fines and yearly fees were inacted because of false alarms. Most alarm companies have stopped pushing things like motion detectors that had a high false positive occurance.
What good is an excellent chip if using it is so difficult? by ChipMonk (711367)
You're not really a Chip Monk, are you? Or is this a "one hand clapping" type of question that Chip Monks ask their students?
That just opened my email reader and created an empty file called creationism.
Not sure why this is flamebait - oh wait - it's Slashdot, the only home of the intelevision spaz with mod points.
Wait, I'm confused. Does that mean it's a Good Idea?
That's because we don't have the technology to physically build a bacteria cell, not because we wouldn't know how to.
Both our current knowledge and technology are not sufficient to build a cell from basic components. Both are a long, long way off.
Yeah and NOT wearing a SHIRT is NOT against the LAW but most restaurants won't let you through the door if you aren't wearing one.
if this gets popular, how long till someone is offering ads for it?
Oh, there will be ads from day one. Ads for the viewers to purchase their own video tombstones.
At the end of each video, voiced by Wilford Brimely:
"This persons life brought to you by Vidstone. Select your own vidstone today at www.wtfisthisshit.com. Better buy one soon before it's all fists and elbows."
and I'll be modded troll again.
"PHP: Because 1,000,000 newbies can't be wrong."
- Someone, not me.
Does someone have a good example of unreadable, real world Perl code?
Complex regular expressions are pretty much the only thing I think can get hard to follow and even those can be broken down and nicely commented. However, in my experience, most people who write decent readable Perl don't break them down.
Outside of that, Perl is no more readable or unreadable than any other language as long as you have discipline and don't obfuscate just because you can (or because it's easier once you master the language.)
26 plugs with 1 circuit is no better than the octopus plugs
Actually, 26 outlets on one circuit is safer. At least the circuit will be wired with 12 AWG. If you octopus a shitload of devices, your cord will melt, arc and then catch fire way before you draw enough amps to trip the circuit. The 12 AWG won't.
er, yea... I wasn't thinking residential walls. 16" center-to-center is right.
Depends on the age of the house. Really old homes have large variablity in the stud spacing. In my house, built in 1909, the studs are spaced 18 inches center to center with a fair amount of variability. Even older homes can be spaced even further, up to 36 inches. Houses like this usually have real 2x4s as opposed to the wood saving modern 1.5x3.5s. Lots of houses built today are going 24 inches using 2x6 studs. I guess it saves time and money in construction.
Funny thing though, I have had a few contractors out to do some work on my house. Two had said that the majority of their work is fixing newly constructed houses, even in the million dollar range, as opposed to older houses. They just don't build them like they used to. You wouldn't think that someone would have a million dollar home built and want to save $5,000 by using PVC instead of copper, but they do.
Add to this: If you are having a contractor do this work for you, and they don't mention asbestos (could be in old tiles or linoleum buried under carpet or plywood subfloor, taping on your heating ducts as well as insulation) and lead paint, get a different contractor. If they don't mention the possibility of your house having both, they probably cut serious corners in their work.
Asbestos and lead paint were still used in housing until the mid 70s.
how are three circuit per room more dangerous than one?
Aside from kitchens and dining rooms, you might have two in a room at most but they would be grouped and the second circuit would only be there because it is dedicated for a known purpose. Also, that circuit would most likely feed those specific outlets only and not any in other rooms. By dangerous, I meant having your recepticles round-robined on three different circuits so that three outlets within 36 inches of each other are going to be on three different breakers. Besides all that, what are you going to be doing in a room that requires 60 amps all at once?
Also, any room which is technically considered a bedroom (regardless of what you are using it for) will require three 20 amp AFCI breakers which aren't cheap. On top of that, your plan would probably require three or four sub-panels because of how many breakers you want to install. Plus, you'd probably have to upgrade your service to 320 or 400 amps.
i honestly don't think it's too much to ask for one electrical socket on each stud. make sure they're on different circuit breakers, and if possible maybe set up some of them to be uninterruptable. my ideal wall would have a socket on each stud. 2 out of every three would be regular sockets - but on different circuits, and 1 out of three would be on an uninterruptable circuit
One on each stud, huh? That means a 10x10 room will have more than 20 electrical sockets. And three different circuit breakers per room not counting the lighting? That's dangerous and I doubt any qualified electrician would do it. Aside from that, your scheme would cost a fortune due to the excess.
And how is this just Bush's fault?
Dude, this is Slashdot. Everything, and I mean everything, from global warming all the way down to the latest fedora core zgrep gzip vulnerability is Bush's fault.
I like my version better.
Again, from all the science it seems like global warming will be a catastrophe, but it would be nice to find a few more bog people.
Yeah, nice consolation prize. Like in Glengary Glenross - first prize is a trip to Hawaii, second prize is you're fired.
On top of that, would you really take a book seriously that has the "word" skillz in the title?
I bet that's energy efficient.
What with the modding down of any conservative opinion and what not.