Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Exactly. The original purpose was subverted by the Internet access providers -- I refuse to call them Internet providers -- who began selling people dynamic IP, or worse NATed addresses, hoarded outgoing bandwidth to themselves to sell to "web providers", even explicitly banned people from running servers others could access.
But to be fair, much of this can be traced to simply providing Internet access to people who hadn't the knowledge to set up a server web space, or the desire to do so. Blogs, Wikis, et cetra are simply getting around this by letting web browsers be clients letting people put data on the web servers that have the big bandwidth.
Those discoveries are by "the huge number of dedicated scientists and technicians who spend their whole lives carefully taking measurements, building and proving (or disproving) theories, based on painstaking work". They just are not always the expected discoveries. The giant 1859 solar flare Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson was seen by both of them because they were - watching. Nevertheless it was serendipity, not only that they were watching but (from the preserved ice record) that the flare even occurred after telescopes were invented.
Basically it was management decisions to not spend the money on the computer storage.
Sometimes really stupid ones. I know a programmer who was disciplined because management decided that, statistically, the "skip a leap year if the year is divisible by 100" correction for date change was important enough to include but not the "unless the year is also divisible by 400" rule. Therefore he was somehow "wasting storage" by removing the first correction to fix things until the year 2100, even though the program got smaller.
There were quite a few systems with BIOS/CMOS clocks, OSes, etc that were going to screw up one way or the other without being replaced or upgraded. Said screwups, with rare exceptions, might seem disasters to managers who treat any unexpected problem as one, but not by the general population; still fixing them in advance was probably cheaper than after the fact.
The Y2K problem is only one expression of the common problem of a data value occurring greater in magnitude than what that given data type can store or represent. This still can occur and presents as much of a problem for critical computer systems. I've found a bug that would have suddenly adjusted the suspension of police cruisers or other models of a vehicle very poorly if they exceeded 128.5 MPH before it ended up in a production vehicle. That did not stop me from wincing back in 1999 at radio commercials from a used car dealer trying to scare people into buying his "Y2K-verified" products, lest they perhaps be left stranded if their car suddenly died on New Years day.
Can someone explain to me why the set of meteorites are considered more likely to have originated on Mars than from an impact on Earth itself?
Are there Earth-origin ones known to distinguish them from, since debris from such an earth impact would more likely have orbits intersecting earth's, or is some other evidence used? I'm having trouble finding it.
However, according to the article, they found the same anticancer mechanism in other small, long-lived rodents like common gray squirrels, so this is probably not related to any of those other abilities.
If creating a Higgs Boson would destroy the universe, then to exist, this universe would have to be one of those few universes where random occurrences just happen to have, by chance, have sabotaged all attempts to create one so far. Otherwise it would not be here.
Actually the 441-line system was a Nazi-developed format, exported to occupied France. Propaganda evidently required a better format than the crappy 180-line system they used for the 1936 Olympics.
You can't walk on slate shingles either yet people still find ways to work on slate roofs. I doubt that they don't have a solution.
A point that deserves modding up. Include tile roofs and probably other kinds. I think this amounts to scaffolding, temporary platforms, and generally avoiding such walking.
"Major" data center or not, the one your company employing you at the time is using is the important one. In my experiences, data center backups fail about a third the time power is interupted somewhere.
Servers in an Oakland California center were the victim of the loss of one of three power phases, while the monitoring that would have switched over to the diesel generators was looking at the power level of other phases. UPS systems ran out of power. An extra level of redundancy in the form of rack mount UPSes allowed servers to shut down properly despite the data center's loss of routing.
Data center #2 was the victim of a simple power outage and immediate failure of the main data center UPS system. According to a security guard I talked to, "it exploded". The diesel backup never had a chance to start.
Then the doubly-sourced Power Distribution Unit supplying a rack at a third ISP failed in a way that turned off both sources supplying the servers.
Hint: Add an extra level of UPS redundancy and safe shutdown software daemons, at least. Multiple data centers if you need more nines.
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Where will I plug in my high-fidelity stereo aux?
I paid a few dollars more and got a Xeon W3520.
That gives me a 130W thermal envelope, and ECC if I want it.
Exactly. The original purpose was subverted by the Internet access providers -- I refuse to call them Internet providers -- who began selling people dynamic IP, or worse NATed addresses, hoarded outgoing bandwidth to themselves to sell to "web providers", even explicitly banned people from running servers others could access.
But to be fair, much of this can be traced to simply providing Internet access to people who hadn't the knowledge to set up a server web space, or the desire to do so. Blogs, Wikis, et cetra are simply getting around this by letting web browsers be clients letting people put data on the web servers that have the big bandwidth.
Those discoveries are by "the huge number of dedicated scientists and technicians who spend their whole lives carefully taking measurements, building and proving (or disproving) theories, based on painstaking work". They just are not always the expected discoveries. The giant 1859 solar flare Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson was seen by both of them because they were - watching. Nevertheless it was serendipity, not only that they were watching but (from the preserved ice record) that the flare even occurred after telescopes were invented.
Basically it was management decisions to not spend the money on the computer storage.
Sometimes really stupid ones. I know a programmer who was disciplined because management decided that, statistically, the "skip a leap year if the year is divisible by 100" correction for date change was important enough to include but not the "unless the year is also divisible by 400" rule. Therefore he was somehow "wasting storage" by removing the first correction to fix things until the year 2100, even though the program got smaller.
There were quite a few systems with BIOS/CMOS clocks, OSes, etc that were going to screw up one way or the other without being replaced or upgraded. Said screwups, with rare exceptions, might seem disasters to managers who treat any unexpected problem as one, but not by the general population; still fixing them in advance was probably cheaper than after the fact.
The Y2K problem is only one expression of the common problem of a data value occurring greater in magnitude than what that given data type can store or represent. This still can occur and presents as much of a problem for critical computer systems. I've found a bug that would have suddenly adjusted the suspension of police cruisers or other models of a vehicle very poorly if they exceeded 128.5 MPH before it ended up in a production vehicle. That did not stop me from wincing back in 1999 at radio commercials from a used car dealer trying to scare people into buying his "Y2K-verified" products, lest they perhaps be left stranded if their car suddenly died on New Years day.
Can someone explain to me why the set of meteorites are considered more likely to have originated on Mars than from an impact on Earth itself?
Are there Earth-origin ones known to distinguish them from, since debris from such an earth impact would more likely have orbits intersecting earth's, or is some other evidence used? I'm having trouble finding it.
Cool.
However, according to the article, they found the same anticancer mechanism in other small, long-lived rodents like common gray squirrels, so this is probably not related to any of those other abilities.
I'm waiting for the nuclear heptaluge.
If creating a Higgs Boson would destroy the universe, then to exist, this universe would have to be one of those few universes where random occurrences just happen to have, by chance, have sabotaged all attempts to create one so far. Otherwise it would not be here.
Not disputed by me. I was simply noting the origin of the 441 line system mentioned in the parent link.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/german_prewar.html
Actually the 441-line system was a Nazi-developed format, exported to occupied France.
Propaganda evidently required a better format than the crappy 180-line system they used for the 1936 Olympics.
You can't walk on slate shingles either yet people still find ways to work on slate roofs. I doubt that they don't have a solution.
A point that deserves modding up. Include tile roofs and probably other kinds. I think this amounts to scaffolding, temporary platforms, and generally avoiding such walking.
But then there would be about 678 quadrillion people in the world.
With Number 1 spiraling back to earth from his trip aboard his spacecraft?
To me, this seems to imply that pretending to be stunned stupid would be a good ploy for a male.
Goodness knows he wouldn't want to seem too witty from the start, and make her think he considers her ugly.
This is drearily likely to be the driving force behind the growth of the technology.
Look at history. Video cassettes, the Internet, silicone rubber formulae...
California doesn't have weather. It has climate.
would be using isotopically pure carbon-12 diamond dust.
It works better without the C-13 mixed in.
But it's so hard to not make a mess when you lift your quill from the parchment for every letter, instead of a new dip in the inkpot for a new word.
That is the opposite of the argument against enhanced radiation ("neutron bomb") weapons.
Would bombs that wreck buildings, but kill fewer though many people, make generals more likely to use them?
I'm more worried some nation stockpiling it will cause a preemptive war on themselves.
How would Israel view Iran deciding to provide each of its citizens with a self-injector?
"Major" data center or not, the one your company employing you at the time is using is the important one.
In my experiences, data center backups fail about a third the time power is interupted somewhere.
Servers in an Oakland California center were the victim of the loss of one of three power phases, while the monitoring that would have switched over to the diesel generators was looking at the power level of other phases. UPS systems ran out of power. An extra level of redundancy in the form of rack mount UPSes allowed servers to shut down properly despite the data center's loss of routing.
Data center #2 was the victim of a simple power outage and immediate failure of the main data center UPS system. According to a security guard I talked to, "it exploded". The diesel backup never had a chance to start.
Then the doubly-sourced Power Distribution Unit supplying a rack at a third ISP failed in a way that turned off both sources supplying the servers.
Hint: Add an extra level of UPS redundancy and safe shutdown software daemons, at least. Multiple data centers if you need more nines.
Actually it was CAN'T WAIT UNTIL {Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.}
But you had to yell to be heard over the machinery inside the Teletype.
That makes perfect sense.
You must be liquidated
Nah, you Godwin German measles discussions by latching onto the peripheral abortion issue that can be attached.