Hell, my big ol' Suzuki Intruder 1500LC with a tall windshield, passenger backrest (sissybar), and bags gets 40mpg - nearly 3x that of my 4x4 pickup.
Of course, with a bike you need to contend with car drivers trying to kill you. Aside from that, I'd probably buy one if I didn't live in such a horrid place for bikes (Wash DC suburbs). What does a decent bike cost, anyways?
Your basic gas station has quite a bit of roof space for photovoltaic cells, neh? Nice source of hydrogen, with an added benefit of releasing oxygen as waste or storing it for other purposes.
Your local gas station probably doesn't have enough acreage on its roof to supply even a fraction of its hydrogen, especially using an energy loser like p-v cells. It'd be horribly expensive and weather dependent. Nice try, though.
If you dont have a decent UPS(not aUPS that switches to to the inverter during transients and outages, but where you are always drawing on a AC->DC->AC) and a decenet Backup system, then you shouldnt say "mission critial"
And if you rely on a UPS completely, then you need to say 'Tape Backup' before you find out just how reliable your UPS is.
RAID gives you some added security, it is *not* a silver bullet - even with hot-spares and several replacement drives handy, a simultaneous failure of 3 drives could potentially bring down nearly any RAID array.
But it's also theoretically possible for any number of other things to break, and spontaneous RAM failure seems very, very low on the list of things to worry about.
Well, the thing about RAM failure is that, unless you do something like ECC, you won't detect the errors until it causes a crash. Probably, you'll lose some data to corruption first. The other thing is that RAM errors can be induced by bad power or other transient problems. Finally, it does happen, so better safe than sorry - you're spending $2k on a server, so why cheap out on a $50 part?
two different sets of firmware - one optimized for locality access for desktops and another for the more scatter/gather usage patterns seen on servers.
How about making it configurable with a jumper or a utility. They already do this for a speed/noise tradeoff.
This means that they will start collecting rubbish immediately again and clog up the network. A wise BOFH fills their whole harddisk with pron and deletes all p2p programs - so they can't share any more and more importantly they don't want any more.
Being a BOFH means never having to say you're sorry. As a proper Bastard, your goal is to inspire obedience in your [l]users through abject fear. To this end, your best tool is a policy (backed up by management) against such wasteful activity. Barring that, you can always arrange for a large amount of porn to show up in your victim's PC, at which point HR gets very nervous about sexual harrasment liability and quickly does your dirty work for you.
No, but bandwidth is like sewer pipes: you NEVER try to fill it up. At 10% you start dropping packets. You go much above 25% full and service is degraded. At 50% the network is pretty much useless. I DO work in a NOC. I DO know.
Not so much as you think, else you wouldn't be quoting statistics for unswitched ethernet traffic. a T1 is a point-to-point link - you can use 95% of its bandwidth without dropping packets. Sure, you don't want to go above 50%, but that's mainly so you have room to grow.
and why would you want to render that[P2P] useless?
Because it uses prohibitive amounts of bandwidth?
Cornell students actually pay an added fee of 250$ per year for their network connection
That's roughly the monthly bandwidth charge for a T1; amortized over 9 months, $250 is a better price than you're likely to get for broadband anywhere else in the US.
Why are Americans so paranoid about who knows their SSN?
Because I can use your SSN to apply for a credit card in your name and then, when the bill comes due, it falls on your head (until you explain that that wasn't actually you). Then I can do it again.
What's your fucking plan for how we should stop Saddam from building nukes, funding terrorists and slaughtering and starving the people of his country?
Well, we're doing a pretty good job of that already. Except for that last one. But if that were on our shoulders, then we'd have a long list of people to go after in addition to Saddam. Two examples that spring to mind are Mugabe and the Saudis.
Now, if Slashdot really is populated by bankers (and economists) these days, that last sentence ought to be good for picking a fight;)
Well I'm a programmer and, as such, I'm more concerned with what works than finding support for somebody's pet theory. I wager any actual economist (as opposed to somebody giving expert advice about the impending recovery on CBS) will feel the same way as I do.
If Honda can do for computers what it did for automobiles, in 10 years my PC will use.01 watts, be completely wireless, measure 4 cubic centimeters, have a holographic display and track my eye movement to move the cursor. (provided I have an X Sesion going.:)
I learned a long time ago in eco 101 that the reason Japanese companies often did so well during recessions is that when times got tough, they sunk more money into R&D and borrowed from the bank when they needed to. They would take a loss, knowing that it would be more than compensated for in the future.
The Japanese may not be the best example of fiscal responsibility: their economy has been in the crapper for a decade, due in no small part to their banks' refusal to default the bad loans they made in the 80's. A lot of their prosperity was manufactured by banks giving out loans to people who had no business getting them. Sound familiar?
So, how long does dust stay up on earth? Ignoring the effects of wind and updrafts?
The correct analogy would be a bowling ball. Toss a bowling ball in the air and it comes back in about a second. Do it on the moon, and it takes about 2.3 sec by your numbers.
Remember how clear the sky was on those Apollo pictures?
Not to nitpick (ok, I am nitpicking), there's no sky on the moon - no atmospheric effects whatsoever because there's no atmosphere.
What do you mean by "no where to stick the excess dust"?
Perhaps he thinks that the dust will billow around instead of just falling back down. Most people have trouble thinking about vacuum based environments.
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what's with this:
4 Port Router: $150.00 / Mo
Utterly false. You are charged a one-time $150 charge.
I want a Pony!
Hell, my big ol' Suzuki Intruder 1500LC with a tall windshield, passenger backrest (sissybar), and bags gets 40mpg - nearly 3x that of my 4x4 pickup.
Of course, with a bike you need to contend with car drivers trying to kill you. Aside from that, I'd probably buy one if I didn't live in such a horrid place for bikes (Wash DC suburbs). What does a decent bike cost, anyways?
Your basic gas station has quite a bit of roof space for photovoltaic cells, neh? Nice source of hydrogen, with an added benefit of releasing oxygen as waste or storing it for other purposes.
Your local gas station probably doesn't have enough acreage on its roof to supply even a fraction of its hydrogen, especially using an energy loser like p-v cells. It'd be horribly expensive and weather dependent. Nice try, though.
compared to electricity, oil's very expensive indeed.
I guess you've never heard of Oil-powered power plants.
If you dont have a decent UPS(not aUPS that switches to to the inverter during transients and outages, but where you are always drawing on a AC->DC->AC) and a decenet Backup system, then you shouldnt say "mission critial"
And if you rely on a UPS completely, then you need to say 'Tape Backup' before you find out just how reliable your UPS is.
RAID gives you some added security, it is *not* a silver bullet - even with hot-spares and several replacement drives handy, a simultaneous failure of 3 drives could potentially bring down nearly any RAID array.
Isn't that about average for a nasty power spike?
But it's also theoretically possible for any number of other things to break, and spontaneous RAM failure seems very, very low on the list of things to worry about.
Well, the thing about RAM failure is that, unless you do something like ECC, you won't detect the errors until it causes a crash. Probably, you'll lose some data to corruption first. The other thing is that RAM errors can be induced by bad power or other transient problems. Finally, it does happen, so better safe than sorry - you're spending $2k on a server, so why cheap out on a $50 part?
Well footnotes in the sense that they [6502, z80] have no presence in todays computing
Except for the thousands of embedded z80 applications still being manufactured, of course.
64bit slots are still uncommon on moast boards.
This is why I love supermicro so much.
two different sets of firmware - one optimized for locality access for desktops and another for the more scatter/gather usage patterns seen on servers.
How about making it configurable with a jumper or a utility. They already do this for a speed/noise tradeoff.
I will be damn happy when the current incarnation of the PCI bus goes away.
What, 64bits at 66Mhz too slow?
This means that they will start collecting rubbish immediately again and clog up the network. A wise BOFH fills their whole harddisk with pron and deletes all p2p programs - so they can't share any more and more importantly they don't want any more.
Being a BOFH means never having to say you're sorry. As a proper Bastard, your goal is to inspire obedience in your [l]users through abject fear. To this end, your best tool is a policy (backed up by management) against such wasteful activity. Barring that, you can always arrange for a large amount of porn to show up in your victim's PC, at which point HR gets very nervous about sexual harrasment liability and quickly does your dirty work for you.
No, but bandwidth is like sewer pipes: you NEVER try to fill it up. At 10% you start dropping packets. You go much above 25% full and service is degraded. At 50% the network is pretty much useless. I DO work in a NOC. I DO know.
Not so much as you think, else you wouldn't be quoting statistics for unswitched ethernet traffic. a T1 is a point-to-point link - you can use 95% of its bandwidth without dropping packets. Sure, you don't want to go above 50%, but that's mainly so you have room to grow.
So does my Internet provider (Cable Modem) [single MAC per connection]
Of course, this works just fine - you hook up multiple computers and pay for their aggregate bandwidth usage.
and why would you want to render that[P2P] useless?
Because it uses prohibitive amounts of bandwidth?
Cornell students actually pay an added fee of 250$ per year for their network connection
That's roughly the monthly bandwidth charge for a T1; amortized over 9 months, $250 is a better price than you're likely to get for broadband anywhere else in the US.
Why are Americans so paranoid about who knows their SSN?
Because I can use your SSN to apply for a credit card in your name and then, when the bill comes due, it falls on your head (until you explain that that wasn't actually you). Then I can do it again.
What's your fucking plan for how we should stop Saddam from building nukes, funding terrorists and slaughtering and starving the people of his country?
Well, we're doing a pretty good job of that already. Except for that last one. But if that were on our shoulders, then we'd have a long list of people to go after in addition to Saddam. Two examples that spring to mind are Mugabe and the Saudis.
Now, if Slashdot really is populated by bankers (and economists) these days, that last sentence ought to be good for picking a fight ;)
Well I'm a programmer and, as such, I'm more concerned with what works than finding support for somebody's pet theory. I wager any actual economist (as opposed to somebody giving expert advice about the impending recovery on CBS) will feel the same way as I do.
Sort of a tautologous statement, wouldn't you say? I mean, once they are in the majority, then their behavior is called custom right?
Speaking of tautologies...
If Honda can do for computers what it did for automobiles, in 10 years my PC will use .01 watts, be completely wireless, measure 4 cubic centimeters, have a holographic display and track my eye movement to move the cursor. (provided I have an X Sesion going. :)
And where, exactly, will you fit?
I learned a long time ago in eco 101 that the reason Japanese companies often did so well during recessions is that when times got tough, they sunk more money into R&D and borrowed from the bank when they needed to. They would take a loss, knowing that it would be more than compensated for in the future.
The Japanese may not be the best example of fiscal responsibility: their economy has been in the crapper for a decade, due in no small part to their banks' refusal to default the bad loans they made in the 80's. A lot of their prosperity was manufactured by banks giving out loans to people who had no business getting them. Sound familiar?
So, how long does dust stay up on earth? Ignoring the effects of wind and updrafts?
The correct analogy would be a bowling ball. Toss a bowling ball in the air and it comes back in about a second. Do it on the moon, and it takes about 2.3 sec by your numbers.
Remember how clear the sky was on those Apollo pictures?
Not to nitpick (ok, I am nitpicking), there's no sky on the moon - no atmospheric effects whatsoever because there's no atmosphere.
In summary, I'm bored.
What do you mean by "no where to stick the excess dust"?
Perhaps he thinks that the dust will billow around instead of just falling back down. Most people have trouble thinking about vacuum based environments.
It would be a bad thing if we killed off some never before seen virus or something.
Yeah, the preservation of hypothetical pathogens is pretty high on my list, too.