So, someone may have filmed the video a few years ago, but the video was only posted online recently. Afterwards the story made the rounds on various news sites over the next few weeks. Hardly that old of news...
Correction: The original post about systemd was not complaining about using grep and awk on the scripts. The complaint was that the scripts where calling these commands way too often during the normal boot up procedure.
On my system the scripts in/etc/init.d call grep at least 77 times. awk is called 92 times, cut 23 and sed 74. Every time those commands (and others) are called, a process is spawned, the libraries searched, some start-up stuff like i18n and so on set up and more.
Plus, the more you distribute the data, the more backups you have. I'd hate to loose gigabytes of family photos to a single hard drive failing. There are a few companies, like pogoplug, producing consumer friendly storage devices that are inexpensive ($20) and hide all the complex software pieces behind a nice web interface.
Also, I plan on making a slashdot-inspired site. The website will be called "Pipedot" and be reachable at pipedot.org or pipedot.com. The motto will be "News for nerds, without the corporate slant." Get it? A pipe character looks like a slash without the slant!
I'm committed to providing a free and independent resource without the influence of a parent corporate overlord. The site will be decidedly non-profit and have zero advertisements, zero adobe flash, zero google analytics, etc...
As a special bonus, the site can now be reached at fuckbeta.org! Stay tuned for more updates...
Slashdot has taken the obvious next step and adopted Flash as the new interface for beta.slashdot.org! Adobe, the Industry leader of web technologies, hailed Dice Holdings, Inc. on their commitment to innovation and is in works with Dice to create a premium Dice Toolbar [TM] to further enhance the two companies' browsing authority.
My numbers were based off quotes from my own house solar system. From the installer that I ended up going with, I was quoted $6,073 for a 5.035 kW system or $9,136 for a 7.685 kW system. Some other installer quotes that I got where significantly cheaper, but I went with a local company with known 500+ installed customer base. I also used Enphase micro-inverters that are a bit more expensive than a standard inverter setup.
In my 1000 square foot house I spend $1000 a year on electricity. How exactly would I pay for $15K - $20K worth of solar cells in 5 years?
At that price, you would be looking at a 15-20 kW system. You would also have a hard time fitting that many solar panels on a 1000 square foot house, unless you redesigned the roof specifically for solar. A more realistic estimate for your house would be $5-6k for a 5 kW system.
I guess I could go all electric, which would cost me another $5 in appliances.
A new 40 gallon electric water heater goes for $240 and a new freestanding electric range goes for $350 at Lowes. A new electric heat pump (Air Conditioner/Heater) would be a bit more, but still well under $5k (I'm assuming you meant five thousand with your $5 number)
I might break even in 15 years, about the time I would need to replace the solar cells.
Modern panels decrease their output by less than one half of one percent per year, often with a warranty backing up their claims. For example, the SunPower X-Series solar panel warranty guaranties a less than 0.4% decline per year for 25 years. So at 15 years, you are looking at panels that are still producing at least 94% of their original capacity - hardly needing replacement.
By then they should be cheeper and more efficient. So yea by about 2030 solar would probably take care of my needs.
Solar panels will continue to get cheaper (a few cents per watt) as production scales up. They will also get a bit more efficient (a few percent) as manufacturing processes improve. However, don't plan on any disruptive technology advancements to occur in the next 15 years that fundamentally change how home solar installations work.
In August, I put a 7.685 kW solar system on my small townhouse. The solar cells produce 10-40 kWh per day, depending on weather. In November, I purchased a 2013 Nissan Leaf. The Leaf can go 3-4 miles per kWh of electricity.
Combining both my house and car's electrical usage together only amounts to around 20-30 kWh per day, leaving my electric bill decisively negative for the last 5 months. I'd expect an even greater difference during the summer months.
Or, in other words, lets rename and start a new project every other week!
I got my N900 because it was based on the same GTK and Debian that I was familiar with on my desktop. But I never touched app development on it because of the promise of the "new" project completely obsoleting anything that I would create on the old. Why bother creating a GTK interface when the new UI gets rewritten in QT next month? Why bother creating Debian packages when the new system uses RPM? Meanwhile, the Osborne effect ensures that no mainstream apps get written for the current code base.
I've also been on a jury where the judge flat out tells the jury to disregard the sane result and that we must uphold the strict letter of the law. The fact that the defendant deliberately lied and stole $20k (with malice) didn't matter in the eyes of the state. I was the foreman and was seriously considering nullification until the judge made it very clear that coming to the "wrong" conclusion would have us all dismissed and the trial would just start over again with a new jury until she got the result that she wanted.
Most of Tesla's problems in Texas are from eliminating the dealership. For example, I had no problems when I recently bought my all electric Nissan Leaf from Gunn Nissan in San Antonio, TX.
About 50% of the human race is middlemen and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated. This [state]...we play nice. Got enemies enough as it is.
The far more important battle, switching from gas to electric vehicles, has less to do with Texas.
In the second plot of the book, Peter and Valentine both take on anonymous political roles. After Ender defeats the bugs, Valentine eventually gets on a ship headed toward the dead alien planet to begin a new human colony. During the journey, Valentine (on the ship) ages just a few years while Peter (on Earth) ages a full lifetime.
Pluto's solar day is 6.39 earth days long, so for Pluto "tomorrow" would just be similar to "next week" here on Earth.
While sitting on Pluto and trying to refresh the fedex.com web page hosted on Earth, however, would be significantly more frustrating. A one-way radio transmission between the two currently takes 3.66 hours (increase that to 4.5 hours when New Horizons finally gets there.) I'm pretty sure a TCP connection attempt is going to timeout before the handshake process finishes.
> Vent radioactive gas? (typing) N-O > Venting prevents explosion. Okay, then, vent the stupid gas. (typing) Y-E-S > Decalcify calcium ducts? (typing) Y-E-S > Vent radioactive gas? Well, give me a Y, give me a... Hey! All I have to type is Y. I just tripled my productivity!
But then, if RMS did sleep with a samurai sword, I'm sure he would have gone after them for their taunt mentioning "open source" instead of "free software."
Google only indexed unsecured wifi hotspots, they didn't send any data through them. Street view vehicles take terabytes worth of pictures that all have to be organized and processed (blur license plates, etc) in bulk later. Sending that much data through even the fastest of wifi hotspots would just be infeasible.
Fingerprints are not a valid replacement for passwords. They are not private. You leave them everywhere. Anything you touch can potentially be used against you.
It's only a matter of time until we see YouTube videos of people lifting a thumbprint off a soda can with Scotch tape and pressing it up to an iPhone to unlock it.
But apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what has the government done for us?
Slashdot Mirror
So chronologically ...
2012-06-?? Video filmed
2014-03-05 arXiv.org submission
2012-03-07 Video published on TED
2014-03-07 wired.com article
2014-03-08 pipedot.org story
2014-03-10 slashdot.org first story
2014-03-14 economist.com article
2014-03-15 slashdot.org second story
So, someone may have filmed the video a few years ago, but the video was only posted online recently. Afterwards the story made the rounds on various news sites over the next few weeks. Hardly that old of news...
Apple already makes use of vast numbers of Linux workstations. That office, of course, goes by the name Pixar.
Yep, just launched: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-...
Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real.
Correction: The original post about systemd was not complaining about using grep and awk on the scripts. The complaint was that the scripts where calling these commands way too often during the normal boot up procedure.
On my system the scripts in /etc/init.d call grep at least 77 times. awk is called 92 times, cut 23 and sed 74. Every time those commands (and others) are called, a process is spawned, the libraries searched, some start-up stuff like i18n and so on set up and more.
Plus, the more you distribute the data, the more backups you have. I'd hate to loose gigabytes of family photos to a single hard drive failing. There are a few companies, like pogoplug, producing consumer friendly storage devices that are inexpensive ($20) and hide all the complex software pieces behind a nice web interface.
Also, I plan on making a slashdot-inspired site. The website will be called "Pipedot" and be reachable at pipedot.org or pipedot.com. The motto will be "News for nerds, without the corporate slant." Get it? A pipe character looks like a slash without the slant!
I'm committed to providing a free and independent resource without the influence of a parent corporate overlord. The site will be decidedly non-profit and have zero advertisements, zero adobe flash, zero google analytics, etc...
As a special bonus, the site can now be reached at fuckbeta.org! Stay tuned for more updates...
They even specified a circumference between 80 to 100 kilometers. The Superconducting Super Collider was to be 87.1 kilometers!
Slashdot has taken the obvious next step and adopted Flash as the new interface for beta.slashdot.org! Adobe, the Industry leader of web technologies, hailed Dice Holdings, Inc. on their commitment to innovation and is in works with Dice to create a premium Dice Toolbar [TM] to further enhance the two companies' browsing authority.
My numbers were based off quotes from my own house solar system. From the installer that I ended up going with, I was quoted $6,073 for a 5.035 kW system or $9,136 for a 7.685 kW system. Some other installer quotes that I got where significantly cheaper, but I went with a local company with known 500+ installed customer base. I also used Enphase micro-inverters that are a bit more expensive than a standard inverter setup.
I have been using the 7 kW system since August.
In my 1000 square foot house I spend $1000 a year on electricity. How exactly would I pay for $15K - $20K worth of solar cells in 5 years?
At that price, you would be looking at a 15-20 kW system. You would also have a hard time fitting that many solar panels on a 1000 square foot house, unless you redesigned the roof specifically for solar. A more realistic estimate for your house would be $5-6k for a 5 kW system.
I guess I could go all electric, which would cost me another $5 in appliances.
A new 40 gallon electric water heater goes for $240 and a new freestanding electric range goes for $350 at Lowes. A new electric heat pump (Air Conditioner/Heater) would be a bit more, but still well under $5k (I'm assuming you meant five thousand with your $5 number)
I might break even in 15 years, about the time I would need to replace the solar cells.
Modern panels decrease their output by less than one half of one percent per year, often with a warranty backing up their claims. For example, the SunPower X-Series solar panel warranty guaranties a less than 0.4% decline per year for 25 years. So at 15 years, you are looking at panels that are still producing at least 94% of their original capacity - hardly needing replacement.
By then they should be cheeper and more efficient. So yea by about 2030 solar would probably take care of my needs.
Solar panels will continue to get cheaper (a few cents per watt) as production scales up. They will also get a bit more efficient (a few percent) as manufacturing processes improve. However, don't plan on any disruptive technology advancements to occur in the next 15 years that fundamentally change how home solar installations work.
In August, I put a 7.685 kW solar system on my small townhouse. The solar cells produce 10-40 kWh per day, depending on weather. In November, I purchased a 2013 Nissan Leaf. The Leaf can go 3-4 miles per kWh of electricity.
Combining both my house and car's electrical usage together only amounts to around 20-30 kWh per day, leaving my electric bill decisively negative for the last 5 months. I'd expect an even greater difference during the summer months.
Maemo / Moblin -> MeeGo -> Harmattan -> Mer -> Tizen | Smeegol | Sailfish
Or, in other words, lets rename and start a new project every other week!
I got my N900 because it was based on the same GTK and Debian that I was familiar with on my desktop. But I never touched app development on it because of the promise of the "new" project completely obsoleting anything that I would create on the old. Why bother creating a GTK interface when the new UI gets rewritten in QT next month? Why bother creating Debian packages when the new system uses RPM? Meanwhile, the Osborne effect ensures that no mainstream apps get written for the current code base.
I've also been on a jury where the judge flat out tells the jury to disregard the sane result and that we must uphold the strict letter of the law. The fact that the defendant deliberately lied and stole $20k (with malice) didn't matter in the eyes of the state. I was the foreman and was seriously considering nullification until the judge made it very clear that coming to the "wrong" conclusion would have us all dismissed and the trial would just start over again with a new jury until she got the result that she wanted.
They should just contribute their articles to Linux Weekly News so we don't need to setup another subscription.
Most of Tesla's problems in Texas are from eliminating the dealership. For example, I had no problems when I recently bought my all electric Nissan Leaf from Gunn Nissan in San Antonio, TX.
About 50% of the human race is middlemen and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated. This [state]...we play nice. Got enemies enough as it is.
The far more important battle, switching from gas to electric vehicles, has less to do with Texas.
In the second plot of the book, Peter and Valentine both take on anonymous political roles. After Ender defeats the bugs, Valentine eventually gets on a ship headed toward the dead alien planet to begin a new human colony. During the journey, Valentine (on the ship) ages just a few years while Peter (on Earth) ages a full lifetime.
I saw one in San Antonio last week!
Pluto's solar day is 6.39 earth days long, so for Pluto "tomorrow" would just be similar to "next week" here on Earth.
While sitting on Pluto and trying to refresh the fedex.com web page hosted on Earth, however, would be significantly more frustrating. A one-way radio transmission between the two currently takes 3.66 hours (increase that to 4.5 hours when New Horizons finally gets there.) I'm pretty sure a TCP connection attempt is going to timeout before the handshake process finishes.
> Vent radioactive gas?
(typing) N-O
> Venting prevents explosion.
Okay, then, vent the stupid gas. (typing) Y-E-S
> Decalcify calcium ducts?
(typing) Y-E-S
> Vent radioactive gas?
Well, give me a Y, give me a... Hey! All I have to type is Y. I just tripled my productivity!
This is a reference to: http://xkcd.com/225/
But then, if RMS did sleep with a samurai sword, I'm sure he would have gone after them for their taunt mentioning "open source" instead of "free software."
Google only indexed unsecured wifi hotspots, they didn't send any data through them. Street view vehicles take terabytes worth of pictures that all have to be organized and processed (blur license plates, etc) in bulk later. Sending that much data through even the fastest of wifi hotspots would just be infeasible.
Fingerprints are not a valid replacement for passwords. They are not private. You leave them everywhere. Anything you touch can potentially be used against you.
It's only a matter of time until we see YouTube videos of people lifting a thumbprint off a soda can with Scotch tape and pressing it up to an iPhone to unlock it.
http://xkcd.com/1150/
But apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what has the government done for us?
http://xkcd.com/695/
And a little sad.