I'm blown away that it's "typical" to have a system that burns 400 watts. In my experience, your CRT monitor will burn more watts than your system will. Then again, my current CRT at work is only burning ~ 60 watts, so that's nowhere near 400. Perhaps my systems are no where near the range of a gaming system.
LCD monitors are much "greener", so that's another plug for the folks promoting laptops too.
While, that is inevitable, at some point, haven't we already covered here on/. that google still feels the pentium II is the best CPU power per watt, and therefore continues to cluster PII's?
If this is true, then I would say that's counter to your "mostly sooner" point.
Regarding the parent's comment about cost of solar panels, I've heard that you get the solar panel manufactures to sell you broken panels for considerably less than non-broken ones. Depending on the damage, they will still operate at 80% plus what they would operate at before the damage.
So, you figure out how much panel you need to cover your electricity needs etc., multiply it by say 1.2 (for discussion purposes), to give you a buffer. Then you contact the manufacturers and get a deal on a slightly damaged panel.
I've heard (but not confirmed) the cost savings is great enough that you can even afford to replace the panels more often (under the assumption that they won't last as long either because they're damaged).
For all these posts that are calling for better security education etc., you're not wrong, but youre missing the real problem. This particular incident just happens to involve computers, the internet, viruses/spam, etc.
The problem is, probably among other things, a combination of the government having too much unchecked power, and judges having too little common sense. This is just another example pointing it out.
Instead of the particulars of a situation, plus a little common sense, affecting the judgement, we get teachers being fired and charged with endangering a minor and this kid's a sex offender for life.
If that's the extent of the common sense going into our Judges' decisions, we can just whip up a Perl script to make these decisiosn and fire all the Judges.
Sorry, I don't have a better solution, but I see (at least part) of the problem.
It does, however, have an excellent user forum that the user community leverages to provide a lot of help to people in need. They also have a lot of excellent HOW-TO documents for various aspects of Gentoo configuration.
I'm not arguing that Gentoo is easy, but if the person is brand new to Linux he's going to have lot's of questions and need a lot of help regardless of distro. If this person is also a very technically saavy person, Gentoo seems as good a distro as any, because of the great help one can get (mentioned above).
$0.45 per song sounds high, but if you think about all that they take care of (advertising, risk of producing your album (which if it's your first could be a total loser bringing in no money), etc.), it doesn't sound too rediculous.
I can't recall where I got this from (TV show, news article?), so it could be wrong, but I think if you're a new "up and commer" artist, your cut is ~ $0.02 - $0.03. And I can't remember if that was per song or per CD! Again these numbers may not be exact, but it puts the RIAA cut back into what I'd call the ridiculous %.
Britney Spears may be getting $0.45 per song, but she probably didn't get near that much on her first couple of albums. Most artists make their money on tour.
I try to use CFL's whenver I can. I have a couple of problems.
I installed Dimming switches in several places, and while I've heard that there are now CFL's that work with Dimmer switches, I've not actually seen any at a store. Can anyone confirm that they do exist, and where you get them?
Also, the color of light they produce is a very stark white. My wife refuses to let me put them in because it hurts her eyes when she's in a room with them on. Again, I've heard rumors that there are CFL's that are softer in color. What "color" would you recommend, and where do you buy them?
The shape of the basic ones look kind of like a soft server ice cream cone. Again, my wife thinks this detracts from the decore of the house when the lights are off (yeah, I know frickin' ridiculous). I've seen some that wrap a normal looking cover over the top, but when the lights are off you can still see the bulb underneath.
So, basically, they're used in the garage and the unfinished section of the basement. Neither of these places are ideal environments for CFL's, so they last ~ 6 months. If I can't find a way to get more use out of them, or a better return on my investment, I'm not planning to buy anymore.
When you buy them keep all receipts and packaging, because you will need to get them replaced under warranty. They don't last the 5 years that they're garaunteed too, so while they may be better for the environment, they're not going to save you any money, if you just toss them and get them replaced.
The big question is can you trust the people with the right to use the technology, not to abuse that right? I'm a law abiding citizen, so the "Why should you object to surveillance if you're not doing anything wrong" mentality is aimed directly at people like me.
But, I also know that power and corruption are directly related. If had some type of assurance (that I believed) that there would be no abuse of the system/technology/whatever, then perhaps I wouldn't care so much if every step of my 20 block walk through (pick your city) was on tape.
The sticking point is, I know there's an outside chance that some corrupt official will abuse his power and turn on me if it benefits him/her, when in reality I've done nothing wrong.
The movie "The Enemy of the State" is a perfect scenario to describe what I'm talking about.
Regarding the U.S., the founding fathers tried to make sure there were checks and balances in place to prevent the government from having that much control on it's citizens. Our job as current day citizens is to do our best to make sure it stays that way. This is why discussions about this type of thing are so important.
If your'e going to do this, check with your insurance company that your'e still covered. Things like draining the water from the pipes can cause your house to fall out of a "liveable" status and cause you to break the conditions of your policy.
I was thinking the same thing. While I think this is a valid concern for the blind, I personally use actual cash for so few things anymore that this almost seems "too late" technology wise to even bother.
There could be considerable expense incurred in designing and implementing changes to our paper currency.
Thanks for the response. Good arguments against the theory I presented.
The reason for the "natural arguments" is because in my experience this existence is often just a reflection of what's happening in the spiritual world. 2 Kings 6:17 is an example of where God had legions of warriors read for battle, but the servent couldn't see them initially. So, I wasn't trying to necessarily explain how God did it or limit God in any way, but perhaps how it would have appeared to us were we around to witness it.
My belief that the flood is a true story isn't because I think I can theorize how it was done, but because I believe it was necessary. When Adam (being a man) fell, God told Satan (the serpent) that he would redeem creation through the woman (Genesis 3:15) (fullfiled through the virgin birth of Jesus through Mary). Satan tries to keep that from happening by poisoning the gene pool. He does this by having fallen angels/deamons conceive children with human women ("Sons of God" Genesis 6:1-5). So, Noah and his family were essentially the only clean bloodline left (Genesis 6:8-9).
So, trying to figure out the "how" is just an interest of mine. Not being able to figure it out, doesn't affect my belief that it happened and was necessary.
Well, first of all, a common misunderstanding by most/all non-believers is that God exists in and is bound within his creation. He is not. Just like you and I are not bound by something that we make/create, He exists outside of his creation and is able to interact with it in ways that things within the creation (like us) are not.
So, as a scientific example: I can prove scientifically, that if an apple's stem breaks and it begins to fall from a tree branch that it will fall to the ground accelerating at 32/second/second etc. If, however, I catch the falling apple, then it would not have hit the ground. This doesn't make the science wrong, it just changes the conditions of the experiment to include my hand intercepting the apple before it hits the ground. In much the same way, God is not bound by the laws of physics he put in place for his creation.
So, your questions about temperature and water etc. are laws that you are bound by, not God.
Having said that, I'm not knowledgible enough to answer all of your questions, but I can explain a few of the working theory's.
Genesis 1:6-7 talks about creating an expanse to separate water under and above it. So, prior to the flood, there was a canopy of water or vapor in the outer atmosphere. Also, land was all connected as a single continent, with water under the land. It didn't rain back in those days, the plants were watered via water seeping up through the ground (reverse osmosis?) (Genesis 2:5-6). This process can assume that the water under the land was held under pressure.
So, to cause the flood, God could have sent a meteor at earth, for example, that would have burst the water canopy in the air and upon impact cracked the land causing water to fall from the sky and shoot up through the cracks in the surface and the also fall. This would have placed a large amount of water in the air, just not in the same way that moisture gets in the air today for rain. Coincidentally, it would have likely also split the single piece of land up into chunks.
Also, when Moses wrote all this down, there was no theory of origin/religion of naturalism/theory of evolution, and there was no science as we have it today. So, he wasn't so concerned about providing all the little minute details to back the claims made, but just getting the information written down to eliminate the need to rely on parents telling thier children generation after generation.
Just like the Bible account doesn't provide scientific proof, it's lack of these proving details doesn't disprove it either.
As an off topic closing comment, I'd just like to state that the comments posted on slashdot articles tend to be a great medium where ideas etc. are debated by a lot of people with varying areas and levels of knowledge. It's unfortunate, that when it comes to articles relating to Evolutionary Theory and faith, that it just turns into a platform to accelrate demeaning and hateful comments.
What OS you gonna run on it? If you're running Linux or BSD, you can run the S.M.A.R.T daemon on it which will tell you when to backup and buy a new drive.
That way you can use the existing drive until it pukes.
I think some versions of Windoze has similar technology, but don't take my word on that.
An like everyone else has already said, backup the important stuff regularly.
I'm not sure I agree with the poster's definition of unsuccessful branching out. They have several interesting products.
However, bolstering your brand is huge. Look at all the non motorcycle stuff you can buy that has Harley Davidson written on it.
Same thing for the Orange County Choppers (OCC) guys on the Discovery channel. I watched a tour of Paul Sr.'s house, and literally every piece of furniture in that place had the OCC logo on it somewhere.
Bolstering brand is not a Google invention, but yes it's an excellent strategy for growing your business.
The parent's suggestion of Deep Freeze sounds promising. An alternative suggestion would be VMWare. I've seen VMWare use their product to lock down a walk up system at a trade show.
It has snapshot functionality, so you can just revert to the point in time snapshot every evening, thereby undoing any changes made after the snapshot.
VMWare can be expensive, but you might be able to buy once copy of VMWare workstation to build all of your guest images, and then install the free VMWare player on the systems to run the guest images.
It might make more sense to use sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.or, and/or sbl-xbl.spamhous.org, instead of www.spamhaus.org, just in case the IP's are different.
As I work for a company that uses a lot of VMWare ESX server, I've had discussions with VMWare about this. It's not VMWare trying to discredit hardware virtualization (Prior to x86 CPUs with the correct instructions, VMWare and thir competitors alike are forced to do it in software). They want to use these CPU instructions too.
It's a simple matter of VMWare's been doing this in software for a long time and has very efficent code to emulate these instructions, versus this is Intel/AMD's first attempt at adding these CPU instructions. VMWare's assumption/home is that future generations of the CPU's will allow this to be done (more) efficiently in hardware so everyone can leverage that capability.
You could try explaining it in dollars and cents, so to speak. I'm sure your insurance companies claims department could explain how medical costs and bodily injury/death related lawsuits tend to cost much more than repair and property damage related lawsuits do.
Some people don't speak physics, so you just have to find their "language".
I suppose it's a little bit comparing apples and oranges, but if seeing how long it's taken them to force everyone to the HD TV format is any indication... I'll place my be on 2018 or so.
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I'm blown away that it's "typical" to have a system that burns 400 watts. In my experience, your CRT monitor will burn more watts than your system will. Then again, my current CRT at work is only burning ~ 60 watts, so that's nowhere near 400. Perhaps my systems are no where near the range of a gaming system.
LCD monitors are much "greener", so that's another plug for the folks promoting laptops too.
While, that is inevitable, at some point, haven't we already covered here on /. that google still feels the pentium II is the best CPU power per watt, and therefore continues to cluster PII's?
If this is true, then I would say that's counter to your "mostly sooner" point.
Regarding the parent's comment about cost of solar panels, I've heard that you get the solar panel manufactures to sell you broken panels for considerably less than non-broken ones. Depending on the damage, they will still operate at 80% plus what they would operate at before the damage.
So, you figure out how much panel you need to cover your electricity needs etc., multiply it by say 1.2 (for discussion purposes), to give you a buffer. Then you contact the manufacturers and get a deal on a slightly damaged panel.
I've heard (but not confirmed) the cost savings is great enough that you can even afford to replace the panels more often (under the assumption that they won't last as long either because they're damaged).
At least worth checking out, no?
These won't be cheap, but you said business, not personal, so give these a try.
The Burton Group http://www.burtongroup.com/
Forrester Research http://www.forester.com/
Wayne: "Well, it certainly does suck!" :)
For all these posts that are calling for better security education etc., you're not wrong, but youre missing the real problem. This particular incident just happens to involve computers, the internet, viruses/spam, etc.
The problem is, probably among other things, a combination of the government having too much unchecked power, and judges having too little common sense. This is just another example pointing it out.
Instead of the particulars of a situation, plus a little common sense, affecting the judgement, we get teachers being fired and charged with endangering a minor and this kid's a sex offender for life.
If that's the extent of the common sense going into our Judges' decisions, we can just whip up a Perl script to make these decisiosn and fire all the Judges.
Sorry, I don't have a better solution, but I see (at least part) of the problem.
It does, however, have an excellent user forum that the user community leverages to provide a lot of help to people in need. They also have a lot of excellent HOW-TO documents for various aspects of Gentoo configuration.
I'm not arguing that Gentoo is easy, but if the person is brand new to Linux he's going to have lot's of questions and need a lot of help regardless of distro. If this person is also a very technically saavy person, Gentoo seems as good a distro as any, because of the great help one can get (mentioned above).
My 2 cents.
$0.45 per song sounds high, but if you think about all that they take care of (advertising, risk of producing your album (which if it's your first could be a total loser bringing in no money), etc.), it doesn't sound too rediculous.
I can't recall where I got this from (TV show, news article?), so it could be wrong, but I think if you're a new "up and commer" artist, your cut is ~ $0.02 - $0.03. And I can't remember if that was per song or per CD! Again these numbers may not be exact, but it puts the RIAA cut back into what I'd call the ridiculous %.
Britney Spears may be getting $0.45 per song, but she probably didn't get near that much on her first couple of albums. Most artists make their money on tour.
I try to use CFL's whenver I can. I have a couple of problems.
I installed Dimming switches in several places, and while I've heard that there are now CFL's that work with Dimmer switches, I've not actually seen any at a store. Can anyone confirm that they do exist, and where you get them?
Also, the color of light they produce is a very stark white. My wife refuses to let me put them in because it hurts her eyes when she's in a room with them on. Again, I've heard rumors that there are CFL's that are softer in color. What "color" would you recommend, and where do you buy them?
The shape of the basic ones look kind of like a soft server ice cream cone. Again, my wife thinks this detracts from the decore of the house when the lights are off (yeah, I know frickin' ridiculous). I've seen some that wrap a normal looking cover over the top, but when the lights are off you can still see the bulb underneath.
So, basically, they're used in the garage and the unfinished section of the basement. Neither of these places are ideal environments for CFL's, so they last ~ 6 months. If I can't find a way to get more use out of them, or a better return on my investment, I'm not planning to buy anymore.
When you buy them keep all receipts and packaging, because you will need to get them replaced under warranty. They don't last the 5 years that they're garaunteed too, so while they may be better for the environment, they're not going to save you any money, if you just toss them and get them replaced.
The big question is can you trust the people with the right to use the technology, not to abuse that right? I'm a law abiding citizen, so the "Why should you object to surveillance if you're not doing anything wrong" mentality is aimed directly at people like me.
But, I also know that power and corruption are directly related. If had some type of assurance (that I believed) that there would be no abuse of the system/technology/whatever, then perhaps I wouldn't care so much if every step of my 20 block walk through (pick your city) was on tape.
The sticking point is, I know there's an outside chance that some corrupt official will abuse his power and turn on me if it benefits him/her, when in reality I've done nothing wrong.
The movie "The Enemy of the State" is a perfect scenario to describe what I'm talking about.
Regarding the U.S., the founding fathers tried to make sure there were checks and balances in place to prevent the government from having that much control on it's citizens. Our job as current day citizens is to do our best to make sure it stays that way. This is why discussions about this type of thing are so important.
If your'e going to do this, check with your insurance company that your'e still covered. Things like draining the water from the pipes can cause your house to fall out of a "liveable" status and cause you to break the conditions of your policy.
I was thinking the same thing. While I think this is a valid concern for the blind, I personally use actual cash for so few things anymore that this almost seems "too late" technology wise to even bother.
There could be considerable expense incurred in designing and implementing changes to our paper currency.
Thanks for the response. Good arguments against the theory I presented.
The reason for the "natural arguments" is because in my experience this existence is often just a reflection of what's happening in the spiritual world. 2 Kings 6:17 is an example of where God had legions of warriors read for battle, but the servent couldn't see them initially. So, I wasn't trying to necessarily explain how God did it or limit God in any way, but perhaps how it would have appeared to us were we around to witness it.
My belief that the flood is a true story isn't because I think I can theorize how it was done, but because I believe it was necessary. When Adam (being a man) fell, God told Satan (the serpent) that he would redeem creation through the woman (Genesis 3:15) (fullfiled through the virgin birth of Jesus through Mary). Satan tries to keep that from happening by poisoning the gene pool. He does this by having fallen angels/deamons conceive children with human women ("Sons of God" Genesis 6:1-5). So, Noah and his family were essentially the only clean bloodline left (Genesis 6:8-9).
So, trying to figure out the "how" is just an interest of mine. Not being able to figure it out, doesn't affect my belief that it happened and was necessary.
exactly, they aren't being violated. Some of the variables in the experiment/situation were changed to prevent it from falling to the ground.
Well, first of all, a common misunderstanding by most/all non-believers is that God exists in and is bound within his creation. He is not. Just like you and I are not bound by something that we make/create, He exists outside of his creation and is able to interact with it in ways that things within the creation (like us) are not.
So, as a scientific example: I can prove scientifically, that if an apple's stem breaks and it begins to fall from a tree branch that it will fall to the ground accelerating at 32/second/second etc. If, however, I catch the falling apple, then it would not have hit the ground. This doesn't make the science wrong, it just changes the conditions of the experiment to include my hand intercepting the apple before it hits the ground. In much the same way, God is not bound by the laws of physics he put in place for his creation.
So, your questions about temperature and water etc. are laws that you are bound by, not God.
Having said that, I'm not knowledgible enough to answer all of your questions, but I can explain a few of the working theory's.
Genesis 1:6-7 talks about creating an expanse to separate water under and above it. So, prior to the flood, there was a canopy of water or vapor in the outer atmosphere. Also, land was all connected as a single continent, with water under the land. It didn't rain back in those days, the plants were watered via water seeping up through the ground (reverse osmosis?) (Genesis 2:5-6). This process can assume that the water under the land was held under pressure.
So, to cause the flood, God could have sent a meteor at earth, for example, that would have burst the water canopy in the air and upon impact cracked the land causing water to fall from the sky and shoot up through the cracks in the surface and the also fall. This would have placed a large amount of water in the air, just not in the same way that moisture gets in the air today for rain. Coincidentally, it would have likely also split the single piece of land up into chunks.
Also, when Moses wrote all this down, there was no theory of origin/religion of naturalism/theory of evolution, and there was no science as we have it today. So, he wasn't so concerned about providing all the little minute details to back the claims made, but just getting the information written down to eliminate the need to rely on parents telling thier children generation after generation.
Just like the Bible account doesn't provide scientific proof, it's lack of these proving details doesn't disprove it either.
As an off topic closing comment, I'd just like to state that the comments posted on slashdot articles tend to be a great medium where ideas etc. are debated by a lot of people with varying areas and levels of knowledge. It's unfortunate, that when it comes to articles relating to Evolutionary Theory and faith, that it just turns into a platform to accelrate demeaning and hateful comments.
What OS you gonna run on it? If you're running Linux or BSD, you can run the S.M.A.R.T daemon on it which will tell you when to backup and buy a new drive.
That way you can use the existing drive until it pukes.
I think some versions of Windoze has similar technology, but don't take my word on that.
An like everyone else has already said, backup the important stuff regularly.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000119
I'm not sure I agree with the poster's definition of unsuccessful branching out. They have several interesting products.
However, bolstering your brand is huge. Look at all the non motorcycle stuff you can buy that has Harley Davidson written on it.
Same thing for the Orange County Choppers (OCC) guys on the Discovery channel. I watched a tour of Paul Sr.'s house, and literally every piece of furniture in that place had the OCC logo on it somewhere.
Bolstering brand is not a Google invention, but yes it's an excellent strategy for growing your business.
I was just about to post the exact same thing. Mod the parent up.
I don't even use greylisting anymore because it gets in the way of me troubleshooting mail problems, and has negligable affect on SPAM anymore.
The parent's suggestion of Deep Freeze sounds promising. An alternative suggestion would be VMWare. I've seen VMWare use their product to lock down a walk up system at a trade show.
It has snapshot functionality, so you can just revert to the point in time snapshot every evening, thereby undoing any changes made after the snapshot.
VMWare can be expensive, but you might be able to buy once copy of VMWare workstation to build all of your guest images, and then install the free VMWare player on the systems to run the guest images.
Anyway, another alternative.
That's just silly. Of course Apple pays Adobe for the ability to integrate PDF functionality into OS X.
That functionality isn't Apple's writing code to try and meet a PDF specification, it's adobe's code. Adobe's not just going to hand that out.
It might make more sense to use sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.or, and/or sbl-xbl.spamhous.org, instead of www.spamhaus.org, just in case the IP's are different.
It's a simple matter of VMWare's been doing this in software for a long time and has very efficent code to emulate these instructions, versus this is Intel/AMD's first attempt at adding these CPU instructions. VMWare's assumption/home is that future generations of the CPU's will allow this to be done (more) efficiently in hardware so everyone can leverage that capability.
You could try explaining it in dollars and cents, so to speak. I'm sure your insurance companies claims department could explain how medical costs and bodily injury/death related lawsuits tend to cost much more than repair and property damage related lawsuits do.
Some people don't speak physics, so you just have to find their "language".
Just a thought.
I suppose it's a little bit comparing apples and oranges, but if seeing how long it's taken them to force everyone to the HD TV format is any indication ... I'll place my be on 2018 or so.