Clocking is part of it, A/D and D/A another, but the compression algorithms used by the VoIP device itself are generally the main culprit of modem device failure. They are designed specifically to carry voice (hence the big V in VoIP), same as telephones and the POTS network were originally designed for, not modem tones. After all, why would someone want to send data via analog methods when a digital one is available, right? Oh yeh, faxes/creditcard machines/atms/alarms/firepanels/etc. There are solutions available. Unfortunately for the home consumer level products these probably are either not built into their systems, or they lack the ability to enable or configure them to mesh with the other end of the VoIP tunnel. On the higher end equipment, such as Cisco IAD style VoIP devices (routers with FXS cards basically), settings on the FXS ports can be tweaked to amplify the modem signal (boosting the gain and adding a DC offset voltage), altering filters and setting up special pass-throughs (fax T38 relay/mgcp modem passthrough), and special compression algorigthms can be applied to lines designated to be modem-type devices. Once this is done, however, that is all that line will be able to do, as voice itself is now not the intended data and is filtered out as a side-affect. The other end of the VoIP net, where/if it goes out to the POTS network (trunking gateways) must also understand these features so they can take the digitally packetized modem packets and re-assemble them correctly into a decent modem type noise for the POTs lines. For buisness grade, where the network is setup specifically for VoIP traffic, this type of traffic is expected, it is still sometimes difficult to get it working with 100% of the devices out there, and most modem devices will still only operate at a max around 33.6k. If you are using skyp/vonage/other consumer bring-your-own connection, good luck with that.
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disclaimer: no, I dont work for Cisco, however I do work for a business-class VoIP provider that uses cisco equipment for its structured network, setup and QOS'd specifically for this type of stuff, including the end loop circuits (T1) and devices (IADs) at our customers' sites.
Good lord! I've always wondered what happend to those COAST (Cache On A STick) modules back in the Pentium 1 days. Brings back memories...
Nah, CoaSt modules were the L2 cache, cause back then the CPU only had on-chip L1. PPro was the first to introduce on-die L2. P2 took a small step back by taking L2 back off the die, but leaving it on the cpu. Sun platforms and iirc Alpha (and probably a few others) used L3, but x86 did not. AMD just recently released info on their next cpu, which includes plans to implement an L3 that all CPUs can share. Makes sense when you think about it (L1 per core, L2 per cpu, L3 for all!). As for L2, most CPUs have it on-die now.
If this draws so much attention, then what about trucks parked under bridges and near buildings, etc? I seem to remember that most of the serious attacks involved large vehicles rather than small packages. I also see rental trucks and tractor trailers parked under bridges quite often. What if one happened to be packed with explosives? What if simultaneously every major bridge in major cities had one of these trucks parked under it, or for that matter, trucks were just driven under by terrrrists? Why is it then, that a truck can be abandoned under a bridge for several days without the bomb squad being called out to investigate, yet a single blinky sign can shut down a city? A single little blinky sign, even if it were full of C4 (something I dont remember ANY of the previous attacks having used) could not do much more than local damage to what it was attached to. Sure, it might damage or even take out (unlikely at that size) the pillar/support its attached to, which might cause a section of the bridge to fail, but I doubt any terrrrrist would go for something that small scale, when the same "real" package left in an airport BEFORE the security theater of the check points would cause much more trauma and attention.
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This whole terrrist thing is mostly absurdity, theatrics to calm the sheep that our nation has become filled with. Yes, crap happens. Yes, it probably was a good idea to investigate something strange looking like these signs. But causing a scene like they did is just a blatent over-reaction, especially when the image on the thing could be quickly recognized by anyone that watches cartoon network (granted, probably not many of the people involved in this have that type of sense of humor anyway). Hell, they even have the same characters up on the Billboards around town too (here in Atlanta, home of CN), and these blinky things have been up for a few weeks now! If they are screaming for turner network to be fined, imprisoning the artists that deployed the signs, etc, then why is it that none of that happens for all the other little "suspicious packages" that the bomb squad detonates routinely throughout the year? Someone leaves a box of girlscout cookies outside the airport, the bombsquad gets called, blows up the box to find nothing but thinmints, yet the girlscout that left it there isnt thrown in the slammer for causing chaos. Why is it that these trucks are never suspicious, and their drivers never thrown in jail for possibly hauling explosives and parking in a place that would possibly cause problems, much to the wording of the law the artists were arrested under.
absurdity
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ps: If this gets me on the fbi watch list, or a visit from the NSA, then its time I leave this country for one that has a little more sense than this.
Exactly how is focusing accomplished? Moving the reflector plane back and forth? Is it a conventional optic that it has fixed focal distance? Just curious.
Its basically combining the principles of a reflective telescope and a fresnel lens. In a reflective telescope, the parabolic curve of the primary mirror focuses the light onto another mirror that then reflects it through the eyepiece, which can be further focused to the proper setting by dialing it in or out. This has been compressed into this "folded optics" piece by thinning the mirrors and making the parabolic curve as a series of concentric rings much like that of a fesnel lens. By adjusting the curve of the parabola that the sections add up to, you can adjust the focal length of the system. This new optics piece also reflects between the primary and secondary several times, each time the light gets focused a little more than previously, and reflects towards the center aperture. The final focusing (if needed) could be accomplished by moving either the optic itself, or the CCD, or an intermediary lens. I state the "if needed" because chances are this will act much like the disposable 35mm cameras and have a fixed-focus setup, such that the CCD can be attached directly to the optic itself.
...in its exceedingly fast speed, it developed AI and became aware. It quickly started amassing great stores of knowledge and began solving many previously unsolvable problems of the world, and then suddenly went silent and refused to respond to any further input...
Suuuurre... HP "invented" a breakthrough in new chip design that will launch them 3 generations ahead. We all know they have just been studying that chip from a certain android that came back from the future. Soon they will announce AI, then SkyNet will launch and begin to take over, and then we will have a nuclear holocaust and will be fighting the very machines we invented!! Then the earth will be crawling with robots that have thick Austrian accents and like to shoot people. Destroy the chip now before its too late!!!!
Yes, your numbers ARE off by a good bit. You rounded a bit weird in a few unneeded places and pulled numbers from I dont know where, and it skewed the results quite badly (how hard is it to do percentages anyway??):
So, you want 1.5% of the population? ( 300000000 ), making avg 250000 each. To do so such that the rich ones arent left with anything, its simply this: Ammount per rich person * number of rich people / number of all other people
$250000 * (300000000 *.015) / ( 300000000 - (300000000 *.015)) => 250000 *.015 / (1 -.015) = $3807.11
quite a bit more than $25, but also wrong, you want to use Households: 113146000 (referencing the same page you got your initial numbers from), but it wont make a difference for the above calculation, since its based solely on percentage and income.
Whats more applicable, is if we bring the top 1.5% down to the US national avg ($46326), noting that this doesnt account for the other 48.5% above the avg, or those below, so in fact it doesnt make too much sense:
($250000 - $46326) *.015 / (1 -.015)) = $3101.63
Maybe not enough to buy a house, but I wouldnt mind having an extra $3k laying around...
...I get there, honestly expecting a 20-something dressed in a Catholic Schoolgirl uniform, only to have the FBI arrest me.
My INTENT was perfectly legal. But good luck I'll have trying to prove that to anyone.
IANAL...
But it doesnt matter as much if the actual illicit item/activity is not itself illicit, so long as your actions go to support only that they are illicit. By that I mean if you are caugh selling ziplock baggies of oregano, but are going around telling people its really pot, and charging like it is, they can arrest you for solicitation. Directly from a (googlecache) NY Bar Practice test, question/answer 2: "solicitation is the asking, inciting, or requesting that another commit a crime with specific intent that the crime be committed." By this reasoning, as long as you make the first contact to the undercover officer posing as a 13yo and are first to bring up meeting them or doing stuff with them thats illeagle if she really is 13, meaning they did not join the chat room and start talking to everyone in there about how they should meet her and do stuff even though shes only 13, etc, you are guilty of solicitation. You have asked the girl, posing or not, to perform an illeagle act with you, ie: statutory rape or contributing to the delinquency of a minor or any of a handfull of those "think of the children!!" laws that might apply. Your "roleplaying" excuse would only hold up if you specifically ask the girl if she was doing so, and confirm that she is really of-age (at which point she, as an under-cover, would probably stop talking to you or blow you off somehow and sit around and wait for another target).
As it applies to the MPAA's actions, they are trying to setup their own sting operation. By requesting an illeagle download, be it the real thing or something that just looks like an illeagle copy of a movie, you are guilty of solicitation. Their ground is a little more shaky though, since they themselves are not officers of the law, and by advertising the fact that they have said files available (by posting to trackers or whatever), they themselves become accomplices, which if you follow that practice exam I posted above, could get at least the MPAA's testimony based on their actions thrown out, or even get the whole case tossed. As I see it, the only way they would/should (who knows what they tell the judge) not be held as accomplices is if they put their files on their own torrent server and nowhere else. Like standing on a street corner posing as a prostitute. But, if they dont post to a tracker, or send out where their torrent site is, no one would know to go there. If they DO post or whatever, they are encouraging people to go there, similar to a prostitute holding a sign over her head advertising her services.
I wonder if this would open the flood gates to all those that purchased the "Linux license" from SCO (for the low low introductory price of $900) to sue SCO for return of their fee once these last death throws in court are over with, if theres anything left of SCO? Basically the license was to cover royalties on the patents that Linux supposedly infringed that SCO "owned", and as these patents and other IP that SCO claims to own and claims is in Linux are being laughed out of court I would think this would make reclaiming the fee from SCO easier..
Bad ones tend to either go *BANG* or bulge and possibly ooze their electrolyte out the vents in their tops, which looks like a crusty brown/black mess, almost like someone caked mud on your board. Tends to make the board extremely unstable (my friend's used to boot only after 3 or 4 attempts to power on) if they work at all.
1. I thought that the super low air density makes it really hard for dust particles to move. 1b. hence, they cannot get off the ground very high, but the air should be more dense at the lower 1 foot.
1foot in altitude will not change the air density significantly, and the martian dust storms can and will throw dust extremely high up in the atmosphere. Density might not be high, but velocity makes up for that. This is evidenced in that dust still collects on the rovers, its just that their panels are higher off the ground than previous landers, which allowed the winds that are faster that high off the ground to blow the dust off their panels. Basically the height of the rovers exceeds the boundary condition for the flow of the wind on the surface.
2. Vertical solar panels can just use a mirror to reflect the above sunlight 45deg towards the panels, also add more mirrors and enhance the power.
Mirrors=more weight, complexity, and another place for dust to collect since they would be more horizontal, and again, you would still need something to move them to track the sun.
I wonder if a vertical solar panel wouldn't have been a better design, one that employed gravity to prevent the dust from settling.
It would probably reduce some of the dust, but would be much less efficient due to its orientation. You want the cells aimed at the sun for best collection, otherwise each 1M^2 of panel will only collect tan(angle of cells to the angle of the suns rays)*length*width, which at high-noon with the sun directly overhead, would be 0. A mechanism to rotate the cells would add complexity, weight, and another critical failure point. Without a good anti-static coating that doesnt reduce ffeciency by blocking light (which they might already have in use on the current rovers) I would bet static charges from mars's winds would also cause dust to accumulate, even when vertical. Then again, the rover would probably also run the risk of flipping over due to its new sail, or they could use it AS a sail too, to push the rover's like a sail car...hmmm
I think it's the steaming pile of bad programmers that you're having problems with, not Java.
> Actually, I do, and I am forced to work with the steaming pile all the time
I fall into the "work for a Telco and have to deal with steaming piles of java" category as well. Yes, the developers have something to do with it, but its also the Java mentality of those developers, as well as a few wonderful quirks of the language and its environment. For starters, it seems, for our dev team at least, anything can be done in the Java world if you throw enough $$ at a "platform" or "Framework" and then spend the next several years with large teams of developers and outsourced help (India) to find that the platform/framework you bought cant actually do anything you bought it for (buzzwords), so another one must be bought to solve all the problems (rinse/repeat). They also like to over develop stuff, writing full-blown "feature" filled aps where a single line of cron and/or 5 lines of perl would suffice, and spend the next few years debugging it and restarting it every time it crashes (nightly for most). Java has also somehow managed to become the ONLY SOX compliant language in the eyes of management, possibly due to the dev team, requiring SOX related stuff (which becomes whatever someone feels is somewhat related to SOX in any remote fassion) to be put into a Java wrapper if its not already Java based so that their Java platforms can tickle it all they want.
As for the Java platform itself, one of the most common things done in my group (system ops) with systems is restarting Java aps and Java engines. Why? The ap breaks or tickles some Java bug. One nice feature in Java (or Tomcat or JBoss) we know about because of specific breakage it causes is that it keeps its own cache of DNS. The only problem being it ignores TTL and the whole thing has to be reloaded to refresh that cache. Then there are the other Java bugs that cause breakage to the bewilderment of our dev team. Load a page, it works, go back and try again a few minutes later and it crashes. Most likely a poorly written ap causing some memory buffer to overflow, but wasnt Java written to handle that sort of stuff internally so the app dev team doesnt have to worry with it??
People might see it as Enterprise App worthy, but I think it has long gone the way of PHP, where most developers have gotten lazy and sloppy. I have used it in the past, though I currently use Perl for a good number of reasons. Like any language, it has its place.
it doesn't make any sense to swap out a working and functional server running intel chips with one running AMD purely for power saving, because electricity is a relatively small of the lifetime cost of a server, until
the server no longer has adequate spare capacity and would be upgraded
you're beginning to overload your power or cooling grid, and its cheaper to regrade your servers (which can be deployed elsewhere) than change the power grid or fix your air-con
it's a similar problem for car users - for an average vehicle doing 25mpg, about half the energy of its lifetime of making, using, and recycling/scrap is consumed when making.. environmentally it's best to fix up an old car so it runs properly with minimal emissions than generate a lot of scrap metal & plastics and incur the environmental costs of mining/refining metals, drilling for oil for plastics, manufacture etc of a new car.
Considering that Xeons have been around for years now, for all the parent stated these could be old 1Ghz or slower Xeon based servers. Rather than upgrading to the latest, they decided to switch platforms, which would meet your criteria.
However, I disagree with your statement that the cost to power a server is a small fraction of its cost. A basic server, costing about $4k (nothing fancy), running 24x7x365.25 at about 300Watts, will use 18408.6 KWH in one year. At $0.07/KWH, thats $1288.60 per year just to power the box. Data center design estimates usually state the power overhead for a server is about the same ammount it actually consumes, so that raises the cost per year to $2577.20, more than half its original hardware cost. Most servers I manage are in the rack for well over 2years, so stating that its a small portion of the lifetime cost is invalid. This does not include items such as maintenance contracts, software licenses and other similar costs because those dont really change between different platforms. Even Google recognizes this, and its the whole reason behind both AMD and SUNs newer processor lines:
rtfa... this isnt a motion-sensing device. This is a Do It Yourself (hence the DIY tag) project to basically make a wireless mouse operable in mid air by changing its enclosure and sticking it in a sock.
"has put paid to the theory that New Zealand's rich bird fauna had evolved there because they had no competition from land mammals"
I don't really see how... one small mouse, even if there was 1 million of them, wouldn't really have made much difference to birds; it'd only be preditors that made a big difference
Clean potable water is surprisingly hard to access in quantities outside the developed world (and becoming far more scarce daily). Aquifers in the US are sinking (some with alarming speed). You generally can't just stick probes in the ocean and create industrial levels of hydrogen.
Neglecting the other comments about clean probing of petrol products... Electrolysis actually requires dirty water to work. You have to be able to pass the current through the water, which doesnt work with pure water (H2O is itself an insulator without impurities). The salty water of the oceans is actually good, as the salts it already contains allows the electricity to be conducted through the water between the poles. Only a little filtering to keep sand/plankton/whales out of the water is needed. The location for such a production plant, near the coast, is also good for sources of power. Many coastlines see plenty of sun and have relatively flat land behind them to use solar panel arrays, and there have been several attempts to create power stations that use the tide itself for power generation.
That being said, the Hydrogen model most people are trying to hype about really isnt such a utopia as they make it out to be, and I dont foresee it going nearly as they plan. The article is actually fairly well written excepting the statement about water being scarce. Biomethane, biomass conversion (turkey guts to crude, etc) I see as more sustainable and forward thinking than trying to split water to get hydrogen. As pointed out, its terribly inefficient, to the point where just sending the electricity to the grid (instead of the electrolysis plant to make hydrogen for fuel cell or hydrogen cars) for users to charge their car at home is at least 300% more efficient. Using natural processes to generate energy storage solutions is the way we need to go forward: fermenting waste to get alcohols, mining landfills for the methane they produce, cooking waste to get crude oil-like stuff, etc. Use solar, hydro, wind, tidal, geothermal for powering the grid rather than waste it by convertion.
As the subject states, Ive had some cycling gloves with matching bar tape for several years now with similar tech... 3M makes the stuff called Greptile, thats basically a material with a bunch of tiny hair like things on one side. When used with a similar material on whatever you want to grip, its almost like having velcro, but being able to let go with out having to pull it apart. It was designed along the same lines as well, hence the name:
Worked pretty well, and even improved the grip between the gloves and stuff that didn't have the material on it. Only problem was the haird tend to wear out/fall off over time, so now those gloves have a few bald spots where the rubberish material has worn through and they aren't nearly as grippy
So if I put money into a savings account with x%, which happens one year to drop below this "wealth tax", it would lose money? I dont think so. This would also cause people who are "wealthy" due to their stock holdings (high valued paper, but only actually worth something if they sell them) to be taxed on the value of those holdings. They dont make money off the holdings, and the stock could tank the next day, meaning they got taxed $1000000 on stock that is not even worth $0.01. The calculation of what overall wealth consists of is tricky, and most of the "wealthiest" would be able to run circles around any rules. It would only serve to put more burden on people while doing their taxes. I am more for the flat tax. Set one rate, and let it be the rate for EVERYONE, no cap or limit.
One minor correction--the memory controller does not increase memory bandwidth per se, but it does significantly reduce latency, as well as the complexity and power consumption of the Northbridge.
To expand... when speaking of single cpu, yeh, it doesnt make much difference (even with multiple cores) since there is still only one controller, but when looking at multiple CPU's on the same board, you effectively have now 4 memory controllers, giving each CPU full bandwidth to the ram, while a multi-cpu Intel system has to share the same bus/controller. When comparing something like a Dell Xeon quad to a Sun quad Opteron (with dual-core option on each cpu) this becomes a rather important feature, specially when looking for a good database server (and damn are these SUNs fast!).
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...<snip>...Clocking is part of it, A/D and D/A another, but the compression algorithms used by the VoIP device itself are generally the main culprit of modem device failure. They are designed specifically to carry voice (hence the big V in VoIP), same as telephones and the POTS network were originally designed for, not modem tones. After all, why would someone want to send data via analog methods when a digital one is available, right? Oh yeh, faxes/creditcard machines/atms/alarms/firepanels/etc. There are solutions available. Unfortunately for the home consumer level products these probably are either not built into their systems, or they lack the ability to enable or configure them to mesh with the other end of the VoIP tunnel. On the higher end equipment, such as Cisco IAD style VoIP devices (routers with FXS cards basically), settings on the FXS ports can be tweaked to amplify the modem signal (boosting the gain and adding a DC offset voltage), altering filters and setting up special pass-throughs (fax T38 relay/mgcp modem passthrough), and special compression algorigthms can be applied to lines designated to be modem-type devices. Once this is done, however, that is all that line will be able to do, as voice itself is now not the intended data and is filtered out as a side-affect. The other end of the VoIP net, where/if it goes out to the POTS network (trunking gateways) must also understand these features so they can take the digitally packetized modem packets and re-assemble them correctly into a decent modem type noise for the POTs lines. For buisness grade, where the network is setup specifically for VoIP traffic, this type of traffic is expected, it is still sometimes difficult to get it working with 100% of the devices out there, and most modem devices will still only operate at a max around 33.6k. If you are using skyp/vonage/other consumer bring-your-own connection, good luck with that.
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disclaimer: no, I dont work for Cisco, however I do work for a business-class VoIP provider that uses cisco equipment for its structured network, setup and QOS'd specifically for this type of stuff, including the end loop circuits (T1) and devices (IADs) at our customers' sites.
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Nah, CoaSt modules were the L2 cache, cause back then the CPU only had on-chip L1. PPro was the first to introduce on-die L2. P2 took a small step back by taking L2 back off the die, but leaving it on the cpu. Sun platforms and iirc Alpha (and probably a few others) used L3, but x86 did not. AMD just recently released info on their next cpu, which includes plans to implement an L3 that all CPUs can share. Makes sense when you think about it (L1 per core, L2 per cpu, L3 for all!). As for L2, most CPUs have it on-die now.
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Theres enough dissent about that to support both your counter argument and the GP's. Not a good example.
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This whole terrrist thing is mostly absurdity, theatrics to calm the sheep that our nation has become filled with. Yes, crap happens. Yes, it probably was a good idea to investigate something strange looking like these signs. But causing a scene like they did is just a blatent over-reaction, especially when the image on the thing could be quickly recognized by anyone that watches cartoon network (granted, probably not many of the people involved in this have that type of sense of humor anyway). Hell, they even have the same characters up on the Billboards around town too (here in Atlanta, home of CN), and these blinky things have been up for a few weeks now! If they are screaming for turner network to be fined, imprisoning the artists that deployed the signs, etc, then why is it that none of that happens for all the other little "suspicious packages" that the bomb squad detonates routinely throughout the year? Someone leaves a box of girlscout cookies outside the airport, the bombsquad gets called, blows up the box to find nothing but thinmints, yet the girlscout that left it there isnt thrown in the slammer for causing chaos. Why is it that these trucks are never suspicious, and their drivers never thrown in jail for possibly hauling explosives and parking in a place that would possibly cause problems, much to the wording of the law the artists were arrested under.
absurdity
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ps: If this gets me on the fbi watch list, or a visit from the NSA, then its time I leave this country for one that has a little more sense than this.
Its basically combining the principles of a reflective telescope and a fresnel lens. In a reflective telescope, the parabolic curve of the primary mirror focuses the light onto another mirror that then reflects it through the eyepiece, which can be further focused to the proper setting by dialing it in or out. This has been compressed into this "folded optics" piece by thinning the mirrors and making the parabolic curve as a series of concentric rings much like that of a fesnel lens. By adjusting the curve of the parabola that the sections add up to, you can adjust the focal length of the system. This new optics piece also reflects between the primary and secondary several times, each time the light gets focused a little more than previously, and reflects towards the center aperture. The final focusing (if needed) could be accomplished by moving either the optic itself, or the CCD, or an intermediary lens. I state the "if needed" because chances are this will act much like the disposable 35mm cameras and have a fixed-focus setup, such that the CCD can be attached directly to the optic itself.
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So, you want 1.5% of the population? ( 300000000 ), making avg 250000 each. To do so such that the rich ones arent left with anything, its simply this: .015) / ( 300000000 - (300000000 * .015)) => 250000 * .015 / (1 - .015) = $3807.11
Ammount per rich person * number of rich people / number of all other people
$250000 * (300000000 *
quite a bit more than $25, but also wrong, you want to use Households: 113146000 (referencing the same page you got your initial numbers from), but it wont make a difference for the above calculation, since its based solely on percentage and income.
Whats more applicable, is if we bring the top 1.5% down to the US national avg ($46326), noting that this doesnt account for the other 48.5% above the avg, or those below, so in fact it doesnt make too much sense:
($250000 - $46326) * .015 / (1 - .015)) = $3101.63
Maybe not enough to buy a house, but I wouldnt mind having an extra $3k laying around...
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...I get there, honestly expecting a 20-something dressed in a Catholic Schoolgirl uniform, only to have the FBI arrest me.My INTENT was perfectly legal. But good luck I'll have trying to prove that to anyone.
IANAL...
But it doesnt matter as much if the actual illicit item/activity is not itself illicit, so long as your actions go to support only that they are illicit. By that I mean if you are caugh selling ziplock baggies of oregano, but are going around telling people its really pot, and charging like it is, they can arrest you for solicitation. Directly from a (googlecache) NY Bar Practice test, question/answer 2: "solicitation is the asking, inciting, or requesting that another commit a crime with specific intent that the crime be committed." By this reasoning, as long as you make the first contact to the undercover officer posing as a 13yo and are first to bring up meeting them or doing stuff with them thats illeagle if she really is 13, meaning they did not join the chat room and start talking to everyone in there about how they should meet her and do stuff even though shes only 13, etc, you are guilty of solicitation. You have asked the girl, posing or not, to perform an illeagle act with you, ie: statutory rape or contributing to the delinquency of a minor or any of a handfull of those "think of the children!!" laws that might apply. Your "roleplaying" excuse would only hold up if you specifically ask the girl if she was doing so, and confirm that she is really of-age (at which point she, as an under-cover, would probably stop talking to you or blow you off somehow and sit around and wait for another target).
As it applies to the MPAA's actions, they are trying to setup their own sting operation. By requesting an illeagle download, be it the real thing or something that just looks like an illeagle copy of a movie, you are guilty of solicitation. Their ground is a little more shaky though, since they themselves are not officers of the law, and by advertising the fact that they have said files available (by posting to trackers or whatever), they themselves become accomplices, which if you follow that practice exam I posted above, could get at least the MPAA's testimony based on their actions thrown out, or even get the whole case tossed. As I see it, the only way they would/should (who knows what they tell the judge) not be held as accomplices is if they put their files on their own torrent server and nowhere else. Like standing on a street corner posing as a prostitute. But, if they dont post to a tracker, or send out where their torrent site is, no one would know to go there. If they DO post or whatever, they are encouraging people to go there, similar to a prostitute holding a sign over her head advertising her services.
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And then having it crash hard as you enter the last one... and you have to reboot!
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Bad ones tend to either go *BANG* or bulge and possibly ooze their electrolyte out the vents in their tops, which looks like a crusty brown/black mess, almost like someone caked mud on your board. Tends to make the board extremely unstable (my friend's used to boot only after 3 or 4 attempts to power on) if they work at all.
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1b. hence, they cannot get off the ground very high, but the air should be more dense at the lower 1 foot.
1foot in altitude will not change the air density significantly, and the martian dust storms can and will throw dust extremely high up in the atmosphere. Density might not be high, but velocity makes up for that. This is evidenced in that dust still collects on the rovers, its just that their panels are higher off the ground than previous landers, which allowed the winds that are faster that high off the ground to blow the dust off their panels. Basically the height of the rovers exceeds the boundary condition for the flow of the wind on the surface.
2. Vertical solar panels can just use a mirror to reflect the above sunlight 45deg towards the panels, also add more mirrors and enhance the power.Mirrors=more weight, complexity, and another place for dust to collect since they would be more horizontal, and again, you would still need something to move them to track the sun.
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It would probably reduce some of the dust, but would be much less efficient due to its orientation. You want the cells aimed at the sun for best collection, otherwise each 1M^2 of panel will only collect tan(angle of cells to the angle of the suns rays)*length*width, which at high-noon with the sun directly overhead, would be 0. A mechanism to rotate the cells would add complexity, weight, and another critical failure point. Without a good anti-static coating that doesnt reduce ffeciency by blocking light (which they might already have in use on the current rovers) I would bet static charges from mars's winds would also cause dust to accumulate, even when vertical. Then again, the rover would probably also run the risk of flipping over due to its new sail, or they could use it AS a sail too, to push the rover's like a sail car...hmmm
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> Actually, I do, and I am forced to work with the steaming pile all the time
I fall into the "work for a Telco and have to deal with steaming piles of java" category as well. Yes, the developers have something to do with it, but its also the Java mentality of those developers, as well as a few wonderful quirks of the language and its environment. For starters, it seems, for our dev team at least, anything can be done in the Java world if you throw enough $$ at a "platform" or "Framework" and then spend the next several years with large teams of developers and outsourced help (India) to find that the platform/framework you bought cant actually do anything you bought it for (buzzwords), so another one must be bought to solve all the problems (rinse/repeat). They also like to over develop stuff, writing full-blown "feature" filled aps where a single line of cron and/or 5 lines of perl would suffice, and spend the next few years debugging it and restarting it every time it crashes (nightly for most). Java has also somehow managed to become the ONLY SOX compliant language in the eyes of management, possibly due to the dev team, requiring SOX related stuff (which becomes whatever someone feels is somewhat related to SOX in any remote fassion) to be put into a Java wrapper if its not already Java based so that their Java platforms can tickle it all they want.
As for the Java platform itself, one of the most common things done in my group (system ops) with systems is restarting Java aps and Java engines. Why? The ap breaks or tickles some Java bug. One nice feature in Java (or Tomcat or JBoss) we know about because of specific breakage it causes is that it keeps its own cache of DNS. The only problem being it ignores TTL and the whole thing has to be reloaded to refresh that cache. Then there are the other Java bugs that cause breakage to the bewilderment of our dev team. Load a page, it works, go back and try again a few minutes later and it crashes. Most likely a poorly written ap causing some memory buffer to overflow, but wasnt Java written to handle that sort of stuff internally so the app dev team doesnt have to worry with it??
People might see it as Enterprise App worthy, but I think it has long gone the way of PHP, where most developers have gotten lazy and sloppy. I have used it in the past, though I currently use Perl for a good number of reasons. Like any language, it has its place.
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it doesn't make any sense to swap out a working and functional server running intel chips with one running AMD purely for power saving, because electricity is a relatively small of the lifetime cost of a server, until
it's a similar problem for car users - for an average vehicle doing 25mpg, about half the energy of its lifetime of making, using, and recycling/scrap is consumed when making.. environmentally it's best to fix up an old car so it runs properly with minimal emissions than generate a lot of scrap metal & plastics and incur the environmental costs of mining/refining metals, drilling for oil for plastics, manufacture etc of a new car.
Considering that Xeons have been around for years now, for all the parent stated these could be old 1Ghz or slower Xeon based servers. Rather than upgrading to the latest, they decided to switch platforms, which would meet your criteria.
However, I disagree with your statement that the cost to power a server is a small fraction of its cost. A basic server, costing about $4k (nothing fancy), running 24x7x365.25 at about 300Watts, will use 18408.6 KWH in one year. At $0.07/KWH, thats $1288.60 per year just to power the box. Data center design estimates usually state the power overhead for a server is about the same ammount it actually consumes, so that raises the cost per year to $2577.20, more than half its original hardware cost. Most servers I manage are in the rack for well over 2years, so stating that its a small portion of the lifetime cost is invalid. This does not include items such as maintenance contracts, software licenses and other similar costs because those dont really change between different platforms. Even Google recognizes this, and its the whole reason behind both AMD and SUNs newer processor lines:
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I don't really see how... one small mouse, even if there was 1 million of them, wouldn't really have made much difference to birds; it'd only be preditors that made a big difference
They would make a difference... as food
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Neglecting the other comments about clean probing of petrol products... Electrolysis actually requires dirty water to work. You have to be able to pass the current through the water, which doesnt work with pure water (H2O is itself an insulator without impurities). The salty water of the oceans is actually good, as the salts it already contains allows the electricity to be conducted through the water between the poles. Only a little filtering to keep sand/plankton/whales out of the water is needed. The location for such a production plant, near the coast, is also good for sources of power. Many coastlines see plenty of sun and have relatively flat land behind them to use solar panel arrays, and there have been several attempts to create power stations that use the tide itself for power generation.
That being said, the Hydrogen model most people are trying to hype about really isnt such a utopia as they make it out to be, and I dont foresee it going nearly as they plan. The article is actually fairly well written excepting the statement about water being scarce. Biomethane, biomass conversion (turkey guts to crude, etc) I see as more sustainable and forward thinking than trying to split water to get hydrogen. As pointed out, its terribly inefficient, to the point where just sending the electricity to the grid (instead of the electrolysis plant to make hydrogen for fuel cell or hydrogen cars) for users to charge their car at home is at least 300% more efficient. Using natural processes to generate energy storage solutions is the way we need to go forward: fermenting waste to get alcohols, mining landfills for the methane they produce, cooking waste to get crude oil-like stuff, etc. Use solar, hydro, wind, tidal, geothermal for powering the grid rather than waste it by convertion.
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Worked pretty well, and even improved the grip between the gloves and stuff that didn't have the material on it. Only problem was the haird tend to wear out/fall off over time, so now those gloves have a few bald spots where the rubberish material has worn through and they aren't nearly as grippy
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Michelivellian?
bad puns aside: http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/269 /1/1/
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To expand... when speaking of single cpu, yeh, it doesnt make much difference (even with multiple cores) since there is still only one controller, but when looking at multiple CPU's on the same board, you effectively have now 4 memory controllers, giving each CPU full bandwidth to the ram, while a multi-cpu Intel system has to share the same bus/controller. When comparing something like a Dell Xeon quad to a Sun quad Opteron (with dual-core option on each cpu) this becomes a rather important feature, specially when looking for a good database server (and damn are these SUNs fast!).
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