Here the cost monthly for 5watts is about 0.5eur a month, for a basic atom consuming about 55W it would cost 5.5eur a month, making the atom way more costly as an atom would also cost atleast twice as much and costs 10times as much to operate. Sometimes it's about the space used, ATOM board alonce is 17x17cm, in a basic mini-itx case probably more like 30x25x10cm size. Quite a bit larger.
If size & power consumption doesn't matter, i'd buy an used Celeron or P4 for 40-60euros.
Yet, did they even study for the cold then? Has it been globally coldest year as well? No no no, don't even start to think "how can it be coldest when it's hottest?"
Well we just had the coldest winter in a veeery long time, most snow since '56, and i think coldest since like 1930s or something like that. Just like now is hottest in 70 years or so here. So yet, this is the coldest year in ages, while being also the hottest year in ages. How does it average out?
More dramatic change between seasons does not say it's getting warmer, neither does it say it's getting colder, directly. The question is how did they do their study, did they just compare peak hottest months? Did they account for being coldest in ages before saying "it's global warming!".
Did they account for natural cycles? How about what's going at Sun right now? (Lowest activity in solar flares or something like that in ages)
and on top of that 10years, even 120 years is very short timeframe in the scale of earth. Did they compare how's the heat changed on moon during this time? (ofc measurements for very long don't exist). I read an article sometime ago that not only earth but mars was getting warmer as well.
You know what they say, liars, liars and statistics. It's all in how they did their research if it's a valid argument for global warming or not. And then there's the factors if this is just a natural cycle.
We humans, while we are many and are dominant species on earth, and cause a lot of devastation, might have quite irrelevant effect on global scale. But then again we could be causing it. Bottomline is we simply do not know enough of the natural cycles of earth, sun and all the stars around us.
I'm more and more sceptical about global warming every day, especially since all the elitist scams going on about global warming. There are some very powerful organizations which are trying to get financial gain out of global warming.
Almost every single pink car here is higher end model, usually quite much built tuning or street racer car, or otherwise particularly distinctive car. Very few of them are "traditional, off-the-line, direct from factory" cars.
Doesn't mean they are not cool cars, some of them aren't but some were perfect fit for the car and owner.
I drove a pink car for 4 years, chicks digged it like mad, guys were like "oh, do i dare to come into that car" quite often, but in the end didn't think twice about it. And when some guy complained i got to start fucking around telling them to show some self-respect and confidence in their sexuality by not being afraid to sit in a pink car.
You clearly do not know what you are talking about, at all. I can attest to that pink car is very good deterrent against theft, from experience:P
I drove for 4-5 years a pink car. It was a type of car likely to be stolen, in an area where cars are being stolen quite frequently, in a visible, big parking area, where practically no one was watching if there's a car being stolen.
Car was easy to steal type, many cars like that even a ice cream stick was enough of a key, on top of that the trunk couldn't be locked so you could get inside from there, and if that's not enough i frequently forgot to lock the doors. It was never stolen, or attempted even.
Not only that, but all the girls were curious about it always;) It drew eyes like a magnet everytime i drove it around, and girls came talking to me at times just because how the car looked, yet the car had about nothing special in it's looks other than being pink.
Stupid mistake starts with the idea of using DEDICATED RESOURCES on a SAN. SAN's one and of the few perks is central storage to minimize waste, therefore maximize return on the investment. Then again, all SAN implementations i've seen yet in production has been idiotic, moronic and stupid (yes, i know....)
Some of the implementations i've seen has only caused headaches, downtime, poor performance etc. with an insanely huge investment. Tell me again, what's the benefit of having a SAN when it makes the end-result worse and harder to maintain? Redundancy? Well, actually less redundant if you can live with minimum. 2 HDDs per server.
We happily manage about 75-90tb total storage across our servers (really, i've forgotten how much exactly is total across all different server types), with less than 1$ million. Way less than 1$ million.
Then again, when you go the expensive route (say EMC), it's certainly expensive. But if senses are stuck together, and only acquires features required, storage doesn't need to be expensive. There's plenty of ways of running servers with storage costing almost as little as consumer storage, when some thought has been put into cost-savings, while not sacrificing redundancy. That being said, expensive storage systems DO have their perks, but only at the enterprise level.
Self-learning often brings instant positive and false feedback - Did the thing work or not. And self-learning starts with a motivation so big to learn by self.
I find people who are saying that "self-learned people are shit, they can't get the job done" to be usually highly educated, putting very high effort but yet achieving at best only slight above average results. Time and time again.
As a self-taught person, i saw it as teaching me the necessary skills on a deeper level, because actually thought was put it into it, not just sucking information in, but also processing it. This insight of why things are so, and the fundamental understanding of the logic in the background has given me very powerfull skillset and i'm glad to say that today i am very happy in to my achievements (and income level).
in MVP data handling, flow control and view is actually mixed up, while yet having an view layer which is only partly utilized usually.
This can most easily be noticed when there's some HTML formatting happening in the controller. Another incorrect method is fetching and saving data in the view portion (where the actual presentation happens).
MVC is best for maintainability, but only if adhered to quite strictly. This does not impose limits, it does raise some "interesting" questions for MVC newbs, but easy to solve. Unfortunately, very few actually understands what MVC stands for, and just plainly will stick stupid things in the view layer.
View layer should only have to do about the output, nothing else. No input, no actions etc. only output the data correctly.
CakePHP is actually a nightmare, so it's kinda funny you should mention it as an example... CakePHP is one of the worst piece of crap i've seen. Even Zend Framework guidelines does not adhere to MVC guidelines completely, and contains some insanely stupid code, and some even more insanely stupider abstractions, but fortunately, it comes so "bulk" that it can be easily utilized as an MVC framework given even half a brain with half a thought.
apart from the another AC reply there is another flaw: $_GET['s'] does not really describe the param being referenced. S means...?;) of course it's sublety, but all variables and array indexes ought to be named something relating to what they mean for maintainability purposes.
transactions by far are not required component of any database handling in typical web application. requirement for transactions is rare, and transactions should only used where needed.
Using transactions for everything? A bit like using hammer to create something to use for nailing nails.
If you are getting a job where coding is major portion of what you do, and you are unable to code on paper, you are not worth hiring. PERIOD.
Any truly skilled coder can recall the syntax, most used functions with their arguments, language structures etc. easily. Any who cannot: Is lying when claiming to be a skilled developer. (oh, and i'm one of those "losers" who can write pages upon pages of code in paper, later type it up and it works very likely correctly from first try)
Btw, paper+pencil combination is still around today because it's simply put brilliant;) Something easier for quick note taking or short writing? Nothing beats.
People who hate interviews with actual problem solving are plain unskilled liars. (Liars in getting into the interview in the first place) I would suggest my worst enemy to hire you
Everyone concentrates on the negative... Not good. How about the positive? There's lots of works which are successes because of piracy, or increased success because of piracy.
The true winner is a RAID of 2Tb WD Caviar Black & WD Raptors here. Get several of them and RAID, you get all the performance benefits of SSDs to a large degree (still failing a bit short on IOPS probably), at fraction of the cost for a large capacity. 40Gb SSD is still too small for the OS + Apps (w7... so gigantic), and honestly: You really want to enjoy the performance for everything you do for a that pile of cash.
The RealSSD C300 costs 660$ or Corsair Nova 349$. They buy ~6 or ~3, WD 2Tbs. at RAID0 you can expect about 4x and 2-2.25x performance in RAID0 config. Random IO latency stays the same, but manageable count of IOPS without increasing latency, and that's ultimately what you'll want. And you get very high performance for the same cost, yet so much storage you don't need to even consider about upgrade in many years to come. As an icing, you can opt for redundancy as well.
Of course, that comes with bigger wattage, but if you are like most people, it doesn't matter when your computer doesn't run 24/7. Mine does so it kinda matters, but i don't care.
The grandma problem only happens because they are doing it completely wrong. Yeah, i can imagine the evil need to restrict like this, but it's not requirement of "paperless" tickets.
Ultimately they are selling only access to the event (and seat), and this ought not to be restricted by any means, and it's just extra that you need to show CC & photo ID to use that ticket, it's not an requirement.
I work as IT Consultant for a modern ticketing service provider ( http://axs.fi/ ), and we don't need any such. We have quite streamlined ticketing process, where tickets are not tied to certain individuals, and tickets come as PDF, E-Mail attachment and SMS, plus you can download the ticket again via the website by logging in. Ticket scalping is a good kind of a "problem" to have, and scalping ought to be used as educational for promoters. This shows the true value of the tickets.
If you want to curb scalping, you can restrict the # of tickets sold per person for example. But scalping really isn't the problem, there's a supply vs. demand disparity, and then scalping happens. Bottomline is: Efforts like this just lowers total revenue (ticket price or tickets sold), without benefit to the artist/event organizer nor individuals. In other words: To hinder a marginal group of people, everyone else suffers. Sounds a bit like the "anti-piracy" fight, with DRM, MAFIAA etc.? Those 2 things are more similar than you'd think....
Same here. It's just vastly easier for longer reading, and for pretty much anything other than short one time read.
Despite being a web developer, and constantly on cutting edge, i also find paper a way better tool for making notes, sketching designs etc. than anything electronic. People think i'm a bit weird like that, when i'm trying to solve a harder design dilemna i take a piece of paper and start writing, drawing lines etc. but it actually helps me to better visualize the dilemna, and thus better see the patterns for simpliest solution.
No rush, but faster reading usually translates to better comprehension, as the information flow is so slow that mind easily wanders off if you cannot read it fast. Also, calmer reading experience will result from being able to read slightly faster.
Nevermind, time is precious in today's world. Then again, if you have time to read extensively, and more than just occasionally, you probably have enough spare time:)
You forgot 4) Safety of handing out Semtex in mass quantities
Plus, diesel and gasoline burns waaaaayyy slow. So the impulse of semtex would make probably a good very high revving, but very low torque engine, meaning mechanical efficiency would probably be insanely low. Food for thought, still mostly engineering problems in the perspective of just making it happen
Charging likely does not require pressure. Pressure is probably needed to either make it compact (fit a lot into small space) OR to change it's molecular/atomic structure in order to form a material suitable for a battery. In the latter case, in all likeliness it has some damn interesting nano scale structure in it.
Charging could quite well be as easy as plugging into any power source, just like regular nickel-metalhybrid batteries etc. Or it might need something even fancier than LiPos, but not unattainable, and if these pack enough punch in compact enough and lightweight enough package, we would probably see EVs and charging stations, and veeery expensive home chargers.
Imagine, if they can store enough energy in the size of cellphone battery to run it for a month or two, and there's no memory effect, or significant degradation with it, you might see fetching replacements, or general standard chargers so you need just one charger for the small devices, and 1 charger for larger more consuming devices.
Energy... It's the most vital component of our modern life. That's why we have gas stations too, it's not very convenient drive all the way to the gas station, but it's still the best form of transportable energy. Something similar can happen to batteries too, if they offer enough bottomline convenience compared to other energy sources.
and the excess heat can be used to heat water to run turbines, and collect some of the energy pack:) Still inefficient, but does collect some of the waste back into use.
Sending over the network to some dedicated server which allows only appending to the log, and no other access from that particular network (management network only, or from a whitelisted list of servers) is definitely secure. Even better if 2 of such hosts are used where another is in another network completely, and automatic cross comparison are they the same:) (Just make sure their logs are exactly synced)
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Get the model with HDMI out, and use USB dongle for receiving. :) So it exists already :)
Sometimes it's all about the power consumption.
Here the cost monthly for 5watts is about 0.5eur a month, for a basic atom consuming about 55W it would cost 5.5eur a month, making the atom way more costly as an atom would also cost atleast twice as much and costs 10times as much to operate.
Sometimes it's about the space used, ATOM board alonce is 17x17cm, in a basic mini-itx case probably more like 30x25x10cm size. Quite a bit larger.
If size & power consumption doesn't matter, i'd buy an used Celeron or P4 for 40-60euros.
Yet, did they even study for the cold then? Has it been globally coldest year as well?
No no no, don't even start to think "how can it be coldest when it's hottest?"
Well we just had the coldest winter in a veeery long time, most snow since '56, and i think coldest since like 1930s or something like that. Just like now is hottest in 70 years or so here.
So yet, this is the coldest year in ages, while being also the hottest year in ages. How does it average out?
More dramatic change between seasons does not say it's getting warmer, neither does it say it's getting colder, directly. The question is how did they do their study, did they just compare peak hottest months? Did they account for being coldest in ages before saying "it's global warming!".
Did they account for natural cycles? How about what's going at Sun right now? (Lowest activity in solar flares or something like that in ages)
and on top of that 10years, even 120 years is very short timeframe in the scale of earth. Did they compare how's the heat changed on moon during this time? (ofc measurements for very long don't exist). I read an article sometime ago that not only earth but mars was getting warmer as well.
You know what they say, liars, liars and statistics. It's all in how they did their research if it's a valid argument for global warming or not. And then there's the factors if this is just a natural cycle.
We humans, while we are many and are dominant species on earth, and cause a lot of devastation, might have quite irrelevant effect on global scale. But then again we could be causing it. Bottomline is we simply do not know enough of the natural cycles of earth, sun and all the stars around us.
I'm more and more sceptical about global warming every day, especially since all the elitist scams going on about global warming. There are some very powerful organizations which are trying to get financial gain out of global warming.
Almost every single pink car here is higher end model, usually quite much built tuning or street racer car, or otherwise particularly distinctive car. Very few of them are "traditional, off-the-line, direct from factory" cars.
Doesn't mean they are not cool cars, some of them aren't but some were perfect fit for the car and owner.
I drove a pink car for 4 years, chicks digged it like mad, guys were like "oh, do i dare to come into that car" quite often, but in the end didn't think twice about it. And when some guy complained i got to start fucking around telling them to show some self-respect and confidence in their sexuality by not being afraid to sit in a pink car.
You clearly do not know what you are talking about, at all. I can attest to that pink car is very good deterrent against theft, from experience :P
Oh, i found it to be very much to the contrary. But apparently, you've never driven a pink car before, so STFU :D
I drove for 4-5 years a pink car. It was a type of car likely to be stolen, in an area where cars are being stolen quite frequently, in a visible, big parking area, where practically no one was watching if there's a car being stolen.
Car was easy to steal type, many cars like that even a ice cream stick was enough of a key, on top of that the trunk couldn't be locked so you could get inside from there, and if that's not enough i frequently forgot to lock the doors. It was never stolen, or attempted even.
Not only that, but all the girls were curious about it always ;) It drew eyes like a magnet everytime i drove it around, and girls came talking to me at times just because how the car looked, yet the car had about nothing special in it's looks other than being pink.
Best color for a car, ever.
Stupid mistake starts with the idea of using DEDICATED RESOURCES on a SAN. SAN's one and of the few perks is central storage to minimize waste, therefore maximize return on the investment. ....)
Then again, all SAN implementations i've seen yet in production has been idiotic, moronic and stupid (yes, i know
Some of the implementations i've seen has only caused headaches, downtime, poor performance etc. with an insanely huge investment. Tell me again, what's the benefit of having a SAN when it makes the end-result worse and harder to maintain? Redundancy? Well, actually less redundant if you can live with minimum. 2 HDDs per server.
We happily manage about 75-90tb total storage across our servers (really, i've forgotten how much exactly is total across all different server types), with less than 1$ million. Way less than 1$ million.
Then again, when you go the expensive route (say EMC), it's certainly expensive. But if senses are stuck together, and only acquires features required, storage doesn't need to be expensive. There's plenty of ways of running servers with storage costing almost as little as consumer storage, when some thought has been put into cost-savings, while not sacrificing redundancy. That being said, expensive storage systems DO have their perks, but only at the enterprise level.
Self-learning often brings instant positive and false feedback - Did the thing work or not. And self-learning starts with a motivation so big to learn by self.
I find people who are saying that "self-learned people are shit, they can't get the job done" to be usually highly educated, putting very high effort but yet achieving at best only slight above average results. Time and time again.
As a self-taught person, i saw it as teaching me the necessary skills on a deeper level, because actually thought was put it into it, not just sucking information in, but also processing it. This insight of why things are so, and the fundamental understanding of the logic in the background has given me very powerfull skillset and i'm glad to say that today i am very happy in to my achievements (and income level).
Not a necessary stamp on the CV to get through the door, by far.
Atleast not in web development anymore. It used to be, but that's not how it's today.
Many of them are.
in MVP data handling, flow control and view is actually mixed up, while yet having an view layer which is only partly utilized usually.
This can most easily be noticed when there's some HTML formatting happening in the controller. Another incorrect method is fetching and saving data in the view portion (where the actual presentation happens).
MVC is best for maintainability, but only if adhered to quite strictly. This does not impose limits, it does raise some "interesting" questions for MVC newbs, but easy to solve. Unfortunately, very few actually understands what MVC stands for, and just plainly will stick stupid things in the view layer.
View layer should only have to do about the output, nothing else. No input, no actions etc. only output the data correctly.
CakePHP is actually a nightmare, so it's kinda funny you should mention it as an example... CakePHP is one of the worst piece of crap i've seen. Even Zend Framework guidelines does not adhere to MVC guidelines completely, and contains some insanely stupid code, and some even more insanely stupider abstractions, but fortunately, it comes so "bulk" that it can be easily utilized as an MVC framework given even half a brain with half a thought.
apart from the another AC reply there is another flaw: ...? ;) of course it's sublety, but all variables and array indexes ought to be named something relating to what they mean for maintainability purposes.
$_GET['s'] does not really describe the param being referenced. S means
transactions by far are not required component of any database handling in typical web application. requirement for transactions is rare, and transactions should only used where needed.
Using transactions for everything? A bit like using hammer to create something to use for nailing nails.
If you are getting a job where coding is major portion of what you do, and you are unable to code on paper, you are not worth hiring. PERIOD.
Any truly skilled coder can recall the syntax, most used functions with their arguments, language structures etc. easily. Any who cannot: Is lying when claiming to be a skilled developer. (oh, and i'm one of those "losers" who can write pages upon pages of code in paper, later type it up and it works very likely correctly from first try)
Btw, paper+pencil combination is still around today because it's simply put brilliant ;) Something easier for quick note taking or short writing? Nothing beats.
People who hate interviews with actual problem solving are plain unskilled liars. (Liars in getting into the interview in the first place)
I would suggest my worst enemy to hire you
Everyone concentrates on the negative ... Not good. How about the positive? There's lots of works which are successes because of piracy, or increased success because of piracy.
Rendering B5 quality animations today? Probably a medium range desktop. You know, the Moore's law is such a bitch with the expontential growth thing
On other side, it could be rendered even with a 386, it would just take enormous amount of time ;)
The true winner is a RAID of 2Tb WD Caviar Black & WD Raptors here. Get several of them and RAID, you get all the performance benefits of SSDs to a large degree (still failing a bit short on IOPS probably), at fraction of the cost for a large capacity. ... so gigantic), and honestly: You really want to enjoy the performance for everything you do for a that pile of cash.
40Gb SSD is still too small for the OS + Apps (w7
The RealSSD C300 costs 660$ or Corsair Nova 349$. They buy ~6 or ~3, WD 2Tbs. at RAID0 you can expect about 4x and 2-2.25x performance in RAID0 config. Random IO latency stays the same, but manageable count of IOPS without increasing latency, and that's ultimately what you'll want. And you get very high performance for the same cost, yet so much storage you don't need to even consider about upgrade in many years to come. As an icing, you can opt for redundancy as well.
Of course, that comes with bigger wattage, but if you are like most people, it doesn't matter when your computer doesn't run 24/7. Mine does so it kinda matters, but i don't care.
The grandma problem only happens because they are doing it completely wrong. Yeah, i can imagine the evil need to restrict like this, but it's not requirement of "paperless" tickets.
Ultimately they are selling only access to the event (and seat), and this ought not to be restricted by any means, and it's just extra that you need to show CC & photo ID to use that ticket, it's not an requirement.
I work as IT Consultant for a modern ticketing service provider ( http://axs.fi/ ), and we don't need any such. We have quite streamlined ticketing process, where tickets are not tied to certain individuals, and tickets come as PDF, E-Mail attachment and SMS, plus you can download the ticket again via the website by logging in. Ticket scalping is a good kind of a "problem" to have, and scalping ought to be used as educational for promoters. This shows the true value of the tickets.
If you want to curb scalping, you can restrict the # of tickets sold per person for example. But scalping really isn't the problem, there's a supply vs. demand disparity, and then scalping happens. Bottomline is: Efforts like this just lowers total revenue (ticket price or tickets sold), without benefit to the artist/event organizer nor individuals. In other words: To hinder a marginal group of people, everyone else suffers. Sounds a bit like the "anti-piracy" fight, with DRM, MAFIAA etc.? Those 2 things are more similar than you'd think....
Same here. It's just vastly easier for longer reading, and for pretty much anything other than short one time read.
Despite being a web developer, and constantly on cutting edge, i also find paper a way better tool for making notes, sketching designs etc. than anything electronic. People think i'm a bit weird like that, when i'm trying to solve a harder design dilemna i take a piece of paper and start writing, drawing lines etc. but it actually helps me to better visualize the dilemna, and thus better see the patterns for simpliest solution.
No rush, but faster reading usually translates to better comprehension, as the information flow is so slow that mind easily wanders off if you cannot read it fast. Also, calmer reading experience will result from being able to read slightly faster.
Nevermind, time is precious in today's world. Then again, if you have time to read extensively, and more than just occasionally, you probably have enough spare time :)
You forgot 4) Safety of handing out Semtex in mass quantities
Plus, diesel and gasoline burns waaaaayyy slow. So the impulse of semtex would make probably a good very high revving, but very low torque engine, meaning mechanical efficiency would probably be insanely low. Food for thought, still mostly engineering problems in the perspective of just making it happen
Charging likely does not require pressure. Pressure is probably needed to either make it compact (fit a lot into small space) OR to change it's molecular/atomic structure in order to form a material suitable for a battery. In the latter case, in all likeliness it has some damn interesting nano scale structure in it.
Charging could quite well be as easy as plugging into any power source, just like regular nickel-metalhybrid batteries etc. Or it might need something even fancier than LiPos, but not unattainable, and if these pack enough punch in compact enough and lightweight enough package, we would probably see EVs and charging stations, and veeery expensive home chargers.
Imagine, if they can store enough energy in the size of cellphone battery to run it for a month or two, and there's no memory effect, or significant degradation with it, you might see fetching replacements, or general standard chargers so you need just one charger for the small devices, and 1 charger for larger more consuming devices.
Energy ... It's the most vital component of our modern life. That's why we have gas stations too, it's not very convenient drive all the way to the gas station, but it's still the best form of transportable energy. Something similar can happen to batteries too, if they offer enough bottomline convenience compared to other energy sources.
and the excess heat can be used to heat water to run turbines, and collect some of the energy pack :) Still inefficient, but does collect some of the waste back into use.
Doesn't help if whatever writes is compromised.
Sending over the network to some dedicated server which allows only appending to the log, and no other access from that particular network (management network only, or from a whitelisted list of servers) is definitely secure. Even better if 2 of such hosts are used where another is in another network completely, and automatic cross comparison are they the same :) (Just make sure their logs are exactly synced)
Yeah ... I wouldn't want to use anything you've done...