I remember Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson: the data haven is built underground on some island with brand new huge pipes / data cables.
Who's going to be the Sultanate of Kinakuta ?
Where the middle button shines, is when one need to copy and paste two pieces of junk from one window to another:
Select the first part, Ctrl-C, select the second part, then move on the target window and Ctrl-V to paste the first part and middle click to paste the second part.
There's no way one can easily do this without the middle button paste. Is there ? (and desktop clipboard history isn't very ergonomic, last time I tried)
I must admit I don't use this feature very often, but I like it a lot when it comes handy.
Of course you're right to ironically point out that tax payers money should have been better spent, especially for struggling sectors.
In that case I would rather have mixed feelings: too bad for the country, those wasted resources are a shame. Still good news for IT jobs. And employees are not the ones to blame. We are not parasites fed in an ecosystem maintained by a deficient management. Or are we?
Usually when I hear about a doomed IT project, I share my optimism with other colleagues:
this means that we still have plenty of IT job offers guaranteed by these failing managements.
Biolite team has done extensive field test for their homestove, it really works (and rocks) for those people who do the daily cooking with wood stove. And they use it to charge their cell phones and home light batteries, while saving on wood.
I use the summer camp smaller "geek" version of this stove, I'm happy with it even if it has some limitations the home version hasn't.
Out of 15 SSD tested, only 2 are failure proof under power fault (only one maker and model).
(yes, I've read the pdf)
I'd like to know who is the winner, the anonymous vendor/model called "A-2".
It is not the most expensive, almost the cheapest, but it has at least a power-loss protection.
Another vendor has power-loss protection but his models failed the tests.
We recommend system builders either not use SSDs for important information that needs to be durable or that they test their actual SSD models carefully under actual power failures beforehand. Failure to do so risks massive data loss.
Thanks again for this link to the Usenix study, too bad you posted anon (patent need mod up).
This isn't inner waves, but water moving back and forth in a U shaped tank (water is pushed by compressed air on the tops of the U shape, alternatively).
So there's no wave at all in the tank.
I just wonder:
Is the counter-reaction mainly cause by the counter-weight of the water which fills only one side of the U tank, or by the momentum (acceleration) given to the water rolling in the tank ?
In either case, it could be more easily done with some solid weight on rails, with less energy lost (air compression and fluid displacement).
If I copy huge files, while doing video processing, running a VM, and switching from one tab to another in the web browser, the system become quite unusable...
He could still be responsive with dynamic I/O priority handled by GUI and kernel.
What we lack most is some intention-aware GUI and OS kernel, working together so that the right process get the right priority and that I/O bottlenecks are handled gracefully.
Content creation activities are often I/O and CPU demanding, and even on creativity praised OS such as Mac OS we have this big problem of I/O channel unawareness.
Example:
One need to be able to start a huge file copy with a background intent so it will be throttled when the user starts a video effect preview which writes temporary files on one of the same disks of the copy.
The GUI gives the video preview higher priority, even on I/O, and the kernel detects the bottleneck on one of the disks and decide to almost freeze the file copy.
But then the user start the full video rendering in background, the GUI assigns the lower priority and the file copy resume to full I/O speed.
Apple, in their next Mac, is considering a cylindrical tower, w/ an internal 3 plane cooling that cools everything.
Nice design, with the heat sink in the core like a funnel or chimney.
Its shape isn't compact, the cylinder is hollow, and this is not passive cooling:
"The form factor also echoes the shape of the single large fan located in the bottom of the machine."ref
A Plague of Pythons (good but not his best) : I remember I've read this book picked up randomly from sci-fi collection. Nice novel I still remember well.
I'll check later for novel advice here, I surely missed the best ones he wrote.
France might help also. Areva has a lot of experience with nuclear reactors and wastes. They were willing to help during the meltdown, but at this moment Tepco seemed too proud to accept any help from the foreign countries. They accepted later, as they bought some water filtering equipment to capture radionucleids.
Next time such a disaster occurs, I hope that the host country will not wait to aks help from the most competent companies in the world.
Bottom line: Muslims must hate infidels, it is a key part of their religion.
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Let the crazies kill each other, if that is what they want to do. It is part of their culture, I guess.
Am I alone on/. to be surprised that comment is "5 Insightful" ?
Some music groups have switched to Pay What You Want for a digital copy (mp3 download) of their album.
I bet they will have much more money than with any other distribution model.
For example, Psygnosis band started with this model, along with other merch and bonuses for those who want extra.
Even if I'm not a big fan, I paid a whooping 8€ for their album, digital copy, because I was happy to have it DRM free, and to be trusted by the band which feels confident that their listeners will pay a fair price.
All this money goes to the band, this is at least three times what they could get with physical sales.
What would be your reaction facing the same harassment ?
- Do as if he does not exist, or as if he were transparent.
- Film him with a phone camera, but for how long ?
- Run away, faster than him.
- Freeze, but for how long ?
- Make a fake call, calling for an imaginary team of tough guys to get him and beat him bad.
- Start talking a lot, as if it were an interview, a VIP interview for something big, and answer imaginary questions.
- Hold a mirror, big enough, toward the camera.
- Do the same thing as Cowboy Neal.
I understand what you mean and you are not completely wrong. I know that the wind doesn't turn the propeller, the wheels are. This isn't an harvest as usual with a turbine.
The point is that the energy comes from the wind, or air momentum. A mass of air is stoped, or at least slowed down, and the energy gathered is transfered to the cart.
The only thing that can interfere (significatively) with the wind is the propeler. So it is not wrong at all to say that with the propeller the cart has gathered wind energy.
Again this doesn't mean it works like a turbine. It doesn't. That is why this mecanism is not easily understood.
I would like to thank the original poster, this is one of the best story I've read for weeks. I should have known this earlier but I didn't... Thanks again for pointing out this enlightening discovery.
First I really doubt it was real, then I wondered how it could be possible, now I understand how it works !
My short explaination: the propeller harvests the wind energy (relative to ground) that was in front of the vehicle. The more it moves forward, the more it stops different masses of air, accumulating wind's forward momentum.
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I remember Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson: the data haven is built underground on some island with brand new huge pipes / data cables.
Who's going to be the Sultanate of Kinakuta ?
Where the middle button shines, is when one need to copy and paste two pieces of junk from one window to another:
Select the first part, Ctrl-C, select the second part, then move on the target window and Ctrl-V to paste the first part and middle click to paste the second part.
There's no way one can easily do this without the middle button paste. Is there ?
(and desktop clipboard history isn't very ergonomic, last time I tried)
I must admit I don't use this feature very often, but I like it a lot when it comes handy.
Of course you're right to ironically point out that tax payers money should have been better spent, especially for struggling sectors.
In that case I would rather have mixed feelings: too bad for the country, those wasted resources are a shame. Still good news for IT jobs.
And employees are not the ones to blame. We are not parasites fed in an ecosystem maintained by a deficient management. Or are we?
Usually when I hear about a doomed IT project, I share my optimism with other colleagues:
this means that we still have plenty of IT job offers guaranteed by these failing managements.
Biolite team has done extensive field test for their homestove, it really works (and rocks) for those people who do the daily cooking with wood stove.
And they use it to charge their cell phones and home light batteries, while saving on wood.
I use the summer camp smaller "geek" version of this stove, I'm happy with it even if it has some limitations the home version hasn't.
Out of 15 SSD tested, only 2 are failure proof under power fault (only one maker and model).
(yes, I've read the pdf)
I'd like to know who is the winner, the anonymous vendor/model called "A-2".
It is not the most expensive, almost the cheapest, but it has at least a power-loss protection.
Another vendor has power-loss protection but his models failed the tests.
Direct link to pdf and figures erratum.
Bit Corruption: SSD#11, SSD#12, SSD#15
Flying Writes: none
ShornWrites: SSD#5, SSD#14, SSD#15
UnserializableWrites: SSD#2, SSD#4, SSD#7, SSD#8, SSD#9, SSD#11, SSD#12, SSD#13, HDD#1
Metadata Corruption: SSD#3
Dead Device: SSD#1
No failure: SSD#6, SSD#10, HDD#2
Their last word conclusion :
We recommend system builders either not use SSDs for important information that needs to be durable or that they test their actual SSD models carefully under actual power failures beforehand. Failure to do so risks massive data loss.
Thanks again for this link to the Usenix study, too bad you posted anon (patent need mod up).
This isn't inner waves, but water moving back and forth in a U shaped tank (water is pushed by compressed air on the tops of the U shape, alternatively).
So there's no wave at all in the tank.
I just wonder:
Is the counter-reaction mainly cause by the counter-weight of the water which fills only one side of the U tank, or by the momentum (acceleration) given to the water rolling in the tank ?
In either case, it could be more easily done with some solid weight on rails, with less energy lost (air compression and fluid displacement).
If I copy huge files, while doing video processing, running a VM, and switching from one tab to another in the web browser, the system become quite unusable...
He could still be responsive with dynamic I/O priority handled by GUI and kernel.
What we lack most is some intention-aware GUI and OS kernel, working together so that the right process get the right priority and that I/O bottlenecks are handled gracefully.
Content creation activities are often I/O and CPU demanding, and even on creativity praised OS such as Mac OS we have this big problem of I/O channel unawareness.
Example:
One need to be able to start a huge file copy with a background intent so it will be throttled when the user starts a video effect preview which writes temporary files on one of the same disks of the copy.
The GUI gives the video preview higher priority, even on I/O, and the kernel detects the bottleneck on one of the disks and decide to almost freeze the file copy.
But then the user start the full video rendering in background, the GUI assigns the lower priority and the file copy resume to full I/O speed.
The famous joke is allready at equilibrium and the site knows this !
BTW, thanks for the link
Apple, in their next Mac, is considering a cylindrical tower, w/ an internal 3 plane cooling that cools everything.
Nice design, with the heat sink in the core like a funnel or chimney. :
Its shape isn't compact, the cylinder is hollow, and this is not passive cooling
"The form factor also echoes the shape of the single large fan located in the bottom of the machine." ref
After a ball or compact rounded shape, the cube is the worst shape for passive cooling efficiency.
Also the shape must have been chosen only for aesthetic and not with any pratical considerations: this is not what I call design.
I'll check later for novel advice here, I surely missed the best ones he wrote.
France might help also. Areva has a lot of experience with nuclear reactors and wastes. They were willing to help during the meltdown, but at this moment Tepco seemed too proud to accept any help from the foreign countries.
They accepted later, as they bought some water filtering equipment to capture radionucleids.
Next time such a disaster occurs, I hope that the host country will not wait to aks help from the most competent companies in the world.
Bottom line: Muslims must hate infidels, it is a key part of their religion. .
. .
Let the crazies kill each other, if that is what they want to do. It is part of their culture, I guess.
Am I alone on /. to be surprised that comment is "5 Insightful" ?
I've seen a scientific documentary that shows how crows can learn just by looking at other fellows and imitate them to solve practical problems.
Human, apes and dogs are hardly the only species to do so.
> Psygnosis
I asked them to pay me.
Still waiting for my check...
Maybe you are talking about Psygnosis - the company, but I am talking about Psygnosis - the band
Thanks for the refs, I forgot that...
So... do you also know why did they not carry on with this model ?
Some music groups have switched to Pay What You Want for a digital copy (mp3 download) of their album.
I bet they will have much more money than with any other distribution model.
For example, Psygnosis band started with this model, along with other merch and bonuses for those who want extra.
Even if I'm not a big fan, I paid a whooping 8€ for their album, digital copy, because I was happy to have it DRM free, and to be trusted by the band which feels confident that their listeners will pay a fair price.
All this money goes to the band, this is at least three times what they could get with physical sales.
The first thing the theft will do: an offline OS installation.
I bet the stolen Linux laptop will have its OS erased to either to run MS Windows or an other Linux distro.
It can perform change block tracking on database datafiles to allow increment backups "ALTER DATABASE ENABLE BLOCK CHANGE TRACKING USING FILE ;".
Note: block change tracking is used to reduce reads in case of incremental backup. It is not required to allow incremental backup.
What would be your reaction facing the same harassment ?
- Do as if he does not exist, or as if he were transparent.
- Film him with a phone camera, but for how long ?
- Run away, faster than him.
- Freeze, but for how long ?
- Make a fake call, calling for an imaginary team of tough guys to get him and beat him bad.
- Start talking a lot, as if it were an interview, a VIP interview for something big, and answer imaginary questions.
- Hold a mirror, big enough, toward the camera.
- Do the same thing as Cowboy Neal.
XKCD has great ideas and methodology. Also finds out that...
2018
Jesus returns to Earth
2021
Restored Caliphate unifies Middle East
2023
Jesus returns to Earth (again)
2025
US power fades
2026
Rock bands die out
2028
Tobacco outlawed
... and up to 2101. It's almost mesmerizing.
Check out some funny paradox at 2032 and 2044 :)
Maybe we should google bomb the empty years and ask XKCD for a refresh!
I understand what you mean and you are not completely wrong. I know that the wind doesn't turn the propeller, the wheels are. This isn't an harvest as usual with a turbine.
The point is that the energy comes from the wind, or air momentum. A mass of air is stoped, or at least slowed down, and the energy gathered is transfered to the cart.
The only thing that can interfere (significatively) with the wind is the propeler. So it is not wrong at all to say that with the propeller the cart has gathered wind energy.
Again this doesn't mean it works like a turbine. It doesn't. That is why this mecanism is not easily understood.
I would like to thank the original poster, this is one of the best story I've read for weeks. I should have known this earlier but I didn't... Thanks again for pointing out this enlightening discovery.
First I really doubt it was real, then I wondered how it could be possible, now I understand how it works !
My short explaination: the propeller harvests the wind energy (relative to ground) that was in front of the vehicle. The more it moves forward, the more it stops different masses of air, accumulating wind's forward momentum.
Seen on international glider contest:
A RC glider launched by hand upright stays high for minutes.
some random example of glidder thrown upright
The Stanford's has moving wings that lock but its design doesn't seem to help a lot when we see other fixed wings gliders performance.