So what happens if this little adventure is actually successful. Obviously there will be some side effects, but what if none of them are negative and the fish flourish and the evil carbon is inprisioned? Will they still seek to crucify this guy? Further, what "teeth" does an international "resolution" have to take legal action against him? he didn't break any actual laws.
It seems like he is swimming in a big grey sea and knows it. And is willing as an entrepreneur to take the risks associated with that swim. Makes sense to me.
I am running (6) OCZ Vertex2 256GB drives under heavy use 24/7. Almost 2 years on have only had one fail and it still works, just started kicking random errors.
40 is plenty young enough to re-train...or in this case I would just say "catch up". If you are already familiar with the.net namespace (even older versions), it's not that hard to switch to C#. I had years of experience with VB6 and VB.NET but no C experience of any kind and made the switch to C# on the job and have never looked back. While I still can (and have to to support old code) switch back to VB, I actually prefer C# now and will code in it if given the choice. I spent a few years in Delphi, which was awesome, but after Borland ran it into the ground, there just wasn't any shops around coding in Delphi to work for so rarely fire up a Delphi IDE anymore.
In then end, the advice is simple: just embrace C#. It's really easy to learn when you already understand the.NET framework. And there is a TON of employers that prefer or mandate it.
I don't hate you. Some retired and disabled people are a good fit for Windows 8.
I'm sure most of the people in your assisted living home appreciate the new features. I mean what's not to like about providing easy access to the features the users need with very large icons so you can see them even with your cataracts while hiding everything you might do damage with.
News flash Sherlock: I do live in the USA. Why does everyone assume you must be European to ride a bicycle? And there are plenty of ways to deal with a little perspiration. People do it every day.
It's not really clear how it is supposed to work. The article's descriptions are ambiguous. But it reminds me of the days when you could dial up to a BBS and then access the internet from the BBS server. I can remember doing that for a period of time before widespread direct dial up access was available. Maybe they will also get to use 2400baud modems to surf in text only mode?
Where I live, just about all the people with those shorter commutes already take advantage of the much less expensive and much more environmentally friendly method of transport called the bicycle. It is estimated that 43% of the population of the urban area I live on the fringe of commutes with a bicycle at least 1 day per year with a good share of those using them everyday. It's the longer commutes that require a car...and for those, a short range electric is completely useless. Even for those with a short commute that need a car, it typically doesn't make sense as they need their car for longer trips outside the simple work commute and it's prohibitively expensive and wasteful to have two cars (one for commute and one for other trips).
This whole article sounds like the writer doesn't really know what they are talking about and just hates "servers". To start with, the description of a "server" is only marginally correct. The biggest example of "environmental infractions" was a situation where a company failed to get operation permits they were supposed to have...which were later issued successfully (guessing they probably didn't even know they were supposed to get permits to run an f'ing generator). The only wrongdoing apparently being that they didn't pay the government tax...not any actual pollution issues. Intentional redundancy for critical systems is demonized. Given everything else in it is written with an equally alarmist tone, I have to question it's overall validity and any other "fact" stated.
The parent was modded funny, but really this is the truth. It's sortof an arms race...especially since there has been so much scary talk to get people to move off IPv4. So once things really start moving with v6, silly paranoid companies and governments will start grabbing whatever space they can get their fingers on and voila!, we will be "out of addresses" again, even though billions of addresses go unused. The other side of the coin will be "wasteful spending" of IP addresses when manufacturers start assigning IPv6 addresses to everything they make, even if it doesn't need one. Mark my words...it WILL happen.
The Possum Lodge Institute of Science and Technology would upgrade the super conductor to handle more current and be DIY by using Duct Tape and lantern batteries. http://periodictable.com/Stories/006.2/index.html
I can visualize Red Green demonstrating the project as I type this. Sure miss that show...
An excellent example of physical security...and how physical security will trump electronic security every time. Just ask the crew of the Battlestar Galactica.
How about competition? If I record a better album then you and release it, causing potential customers to buy my CD instead of yours, isn't that also loss of potential sales? Should I get raided by the FBI for that? No court should ever rule in favor of someone claiming damages for loss of potential sales as there is no way to prove that those sales would have actually happened. Such should only be used as a basis for a settlement if someone committed some crime or damage against the owner that could be reasonably shown to result in loss of sales. Bottom line: loss of public sales by itself does not prove criminal activity or civil damages as there is no way to really prove in a court why the loss of sales occurred. Discalimer: IANAL
That being said, WildBlue offers Satellite internet plans with 12Mbps down and 3Mbps up pretty much everywhere in the US starting at $50/mo . I just got back from spending a week at dad's cabin way up in the mountains of northern Idaho and had email, facebook, pandora and youtube all week long courtesy of a WildBlue dish. The ~600MS latency of course makes some applications like VOIP problematic, but it more than meets the basic definition of "broadband internet".
So by their own definition, the figure of 19million Americans not being able to get "broadband" is horse shit.
There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics.
I live in the Portland, Oregon area. I can tell you it's not much less gloomy and wet here. Record rainfall in both June and July. Now it's the beginning of August and I am wearing a coat in the middle of the day to stay warm. Feels more like an ice age then global warming here.
The issue goes beyond the immediate area of the storm though (no matter how big) since the affected datacenter serves the world. If all (or a significant portion) of your servers are in one basket and that basket is offline, destroyed or just dark, it impacts people and businesses in other areas who would not otherwise be affected by the storm. Now suddenly the economic and social impact of a natural disaster is magnified just because it happened to hit one of these concentrated data centers.
There's also the fact that there's nothing about the manufacture of solar panels which requires the production of greenhouse gases
This statement is incorrect. There are greenhouse gases (hexafluoroethane [C2F6], nitrogen trifluoride [NF3], and sulfur hexafluoride [SF6]) that are a bi-products of the chemical processes of creating the layers of material on the glass of the solar panel. Their "greenhouse effect" is 14,000 - 26,000 times more potent then CO2. Manufacturers in the US are required to take steps to capture the gases so it does not escape into the atmosphere, but from what I have read it's pretty much impossible to get all of it. And there is the issue of what to do with the gasses once captured. And I am guessing the cheap panel makers in China are not as environmentally conscious.
We cut the cable cord while having:
Samsung 55" 240hz LED with Onkyo 5.1 surround receiver and Blu-Ray in the family room plus a Samsung 42" Plasma in the bedroom. Most of the OTA HD is actually better quality then much of the cable and satillite I have watched so that actually is a win. And there have only been exactly two shows that I really missed watching that were on cable, not nearly enough to justify the hefty price tag to keep cable (MUCH cheaper to just buy the seasons of those shows on DVD when they come out if you MUST watch them). Watching Blu-Rays/DVDs is of course un-related to if you have cable or not. Not much on Hulu anymore and while we have Netflix, we rarely use it so that will probably get the boot soon too. Not having the extra money in our budget for cable was the factor that caused us to dump it in the first place. But at this point, even if we had extra $100 bills laying around, I would find it difficult to justify buying cable again.
Yes, kids tend to grow oddly enough! The setup you linked works for about the first year of the youngest kid's life, at which point they will grow out of the carrier and you will need 3 regular car seats...which will not fit no matter how you slice it. Unless you have some new type of children I have not heard about that never grow beyond infant size...
Beyond the issues of when the sun does not shine, the costs and environmental impacts of the panels and inverter components of solar make it un-attractive both from an economic and environmental perspective. I have a 3.2Kw system on my roof, but only because I only passively care about the environment and the cost of it was 100% subsidized by local, state and federal grants and tax incentives. If I had to buy it all outright myself, it would have never paid for itself...even with projected increases in utility rates and good luck with the inverter not burning out. As for the environmental impact...I read recently that each panel made results in 4x it's weight in toxic waste and greenhouse gasses produced as a side effect. A bit haunting...but hey, they were free to me:) And don't start with the "you're tax dollars paid for that", I have to pay taxes either way, at least this way I am getting something I can use for it besides the crumbling roads I drive on.
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So what happens if this little adventure is actually successful. Obviously there will be some side effects, but what if none of them are negative and the fish flourish and the evil carbon is inprisioned? Will they still seek to crucify this guy? Further, what "teeth" does an international "resolution" have to take legal action against him? he didn't break any actual laws.
It seems like he is swimming in a big grey sea and knows it. And is willing as an entrepreneur to take the risks associated with that swim. Makes sense to me.
I am running (6) OCZ Vertex2 256GB drives under heavy use 24/7. Almost 2 years on have only had one fail and it still works, just started kicking random errors.
Can't be any worse then those hideous looking Google goggles...
40 is plenty young enough to re-train...or in this case I would just say "catch up". If you are already familiar with the .net namespace (even older versions), it's not that hard to switch to C#. I had years of experience with VB6 and VB.NET but no C experience of any kind and made the switch to C# on the job and have never looked back. While I still can (and have to to support old code) switch back to VB, I actually prefer C# now and will code in it if given the choice. I spent a few years in Delphi, which was awesome, but after Borland ran it into the ground, there just wasn't any shops around coding in Delphi to work for so rarely fire up a Delphi IDE anymore.
.NET framework. And there is a TON of employers that prefer or mandate it.
In then end, the advice is simple: just embrace C#. It's really easy to learn when you already understand the
My parents.
I don't hate you. Some retired and disabled people are a good fit for Windows 8.
I'm sure most of the people in your assisted living home appreciate the new features. I mean what's not to like about providing easy access to the features the users need with very large icons so you can see them even with your cataracts while hiding everything you might do damage with.
Not only that, the Muslims are apparently doing their part as well (they don't eat bacon) http://www.30-days.net/muslims/statistics/islam-growth/
News flash Sherlock: I do live in the USA. Why does everyone assume you must be European to ride a bicycle? And there are plenty of ways to deal with a little perspiration. People do it every day.
Pretty sure Superman already has prior art on the whole data on a crystal thing...
It's not really clear how it is supposed to work. The article's descriptions are ambiguous. But it reminds me of the days when you could dial up to a BBS and then access the internet from the BBS server. I can remember doing that for a period of time before widespread direct dial up access was available. Maybe they will also get to use 2400baud modems to surf in text only mode?
Where I live, just about all the people with those shorter commutes already take advantage of the much less expensive and much more environmentally friendly method of transport called the bicycle. It is estimated that 43% of the population of the urban area I live on the fringe of commutes with a bicycle at least 1 day per year with a good share of those using them everyday. It's the longer commutes that require a car...and for those, a short range electric is completely useless. Even for those with a short commute that need a car, it typically doesn't make sense as they need their car for longer trips outside the simple work commute and it's prohibitively expensive and wasteful to have two cars (one for commute and one for other trips).
This whole article sounds like the writer doesn't really know what they are talking about and just hates "servers". To start with, the description of a "server" is only marginally correct. The biggest example of "environmental infractions" was a situation where a company failed to get operation permits they were supposed to have...which were later issued successfully (guessing they probably didn't even know they were supposed to get permits to run an f'ing generator). The only wrongdoing apparently being that they didn't pay the government tax...not any actual pollution issues. Intentional redundancy for critical systems is demonized. Given everything else in it is written with an equally alarmist tone, I have to question it's overall validity and any other "fact" stated.
The parent was modded funny, but really this is the truth. It's sortof an arms race...especially since there has been so much scary talk to get people to move off IPv4. So once things really start moving with v6, silly paranoid companies and governments will start grabbing whatever space they can get their fingers on and voila!, we will be "out of addresses" again, even though billions of addresses go unused. The other side of the coin will be "wasteful spending" of IP addresses when manufacturers start assigning IPv6 addresses to everything they make, even if it doesn't need one. Mark my words...it WILL happen.
Yes, and they weigh the same as a duck!
The Possum Lodge Institute of Science and Technology would upgrade the super conductor to handle more current and be DIY by using Duct Tape and lantern batteries. http://periodictable.com/Stories/006.2/index.html
I can visualize Red Green demonstrating the project as I type this. Sure miss that show...
An excellent example of physical security...and how physical security will trump electronic security every time. Just ask the crew of the Battlestar Galactica.
How about competition? If I record a better album then you and release it, causing potential customers to buy my CD instead of yours, isn't that also loss of potential sales? Should I get raided by the FBI for that? No court should ever rule in favor of someone claiming damages for loss of potential sales as there is no way to prove that those sales would have actually happened. Such should only be used as a basis for a settlement if someone committed some crime or damage against the owner that could be reasonably shown to result in loss of sales. Bottom line: loss of public sales by itself does not prove criminal activity or civil damages as there is no way to really prove in a court why the loss of sales occurred. Discalimer: IANAL
That being said, WildBlue offers Satellite internet plans with 12Mbps down and 3Mbps up pretty much everywhere in the US starting at $50/mo . I just got back from spending a week at dad's cabin way up in the mountains of northern Idaho and had email, facebook, pandora and youtube all week long courtesy of a WildBlue dish. The ~600MS latency of course makes some applications like VOIP problematic, but it more than meets the basic definition of "broadband internet".
So by their own definition, the figure of 19million Americans not being able to get "broadband" is horse shit.
There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics.
I live in the Portland, Oregon area. I can tell you it's not much less gloomy and wet here. Record rainfall in both June and July. Now it's the beginning of August and I am wearing a coat in the middle of the day to stay warm. Feels more like an ice age then global warming here.
The issue goes beyond the immediate area of the storm though (no matter how big) since the affected datacenter serves the world. If all (or a significant portion) of your servers are in one basket and that basket is offline, destroyed or just dark, it impacts people and businesses in other areas who would not otherwise be affected by the storm. Now suddenly the economic and social impact of a natural disaster is magnified just because it happened to hit one of these concentrated data centers.
There's also the fact that there's nothing about the manufacture of solar panels which requires the production of greenhouse gases
This statement is incorrect. There are greenhouse gases (hexafluoroethane [C2F6], nitrogen trifluoride [NF3], and sulfur hexafluoride [SF6]) that are a bi-products of the chemical processes of creating the layers of material on the glass of the solar panel. Their "greenhouse effect" is 14,000 - 26,000 times more potent then CO2. Manufacturers in the US are required to take steps to capture the gases so it does not escape into the atmosphere, but from what I have read it's pretty much impossible to get all of it. And there is the issue of what to do with the gasses once captured. And I am guessing the cheap panel makers in China are not as environmentally conscious.
We cut the cable cord while having: Samsung 55" 240hz LED with Onkyo 5.1 surround receiver and Blu-Ray in the family room plus a Samsung 42" Plasma in the bedroom. Most of the OTA HD is actually better quality then much of the cable and satillite I have watched so that actually is a win. And there have only been exactly two shows that I really missed watching that were on cable, not nearly enough to justify the hefty price tag to keep cable (MUCH cheaper to just buy the seasons of those shows on DVD when they come out if you MUST watch them). Watching Blu-Rays/DVDs is of course un-related to if you have cable or not. Not much on Hulu anymore and while we have Netflix, we rarely use it so that will probably get the boot soon too. Not having the extra money in our budget for cable was the factor that caused us to dump it in the first place. But at this point, even if we had extra $100 bills laying around, I would find it difficult to justify buying cable again.
They have started putting up wind turbines. There has been much uproar about it though due to how they change the landscape.
Yes, kids tend to grow oddly enough! The setup you linked works for about the first year of the youngest kid's life, at which point they will grow out of the carrier and you will need 3 regular car seats...which will not fit no matter how you slice it. Unless you have some new type of children I have not heard about that never grow beyond infant size...
Beyond the issues of when the sun does not shine, the costs and environmental impacts of the panels and inverter components of solar make it un-attractive both from an economic and environmental perspective. I have a 3.2Kw system on my roof, but only because I only passively care about the environment and the cost of it was 100% subsidized by local, state and federal grants and tax incentives. If I had to buy it all outright myself, it would have never paid for itself...even with projected increases in utility rates and good luck with the inverter not burning out. As for the environmental impact...I read recently that each panel made results in 4x it's weight in toxic waste and greenhouse gasses produced as a side effect. A bit haunting...but hey, they were free to me:) And don't start with the "you're tax dollars paid for that", I have to pay taxes either way, at least this way I am getting something I can use for it besides the crumbling roads I drive on.