I hope you know how volatile RAID 0 can be. A problem with any single one of those drives will screw up the whole works until you can restore from a backup
Oh my, pardon me, I am rolling on the floor laughing, biting the carpet and frightening the cat (ROFLBTCAFTC).
I remember reading these exact same arguments in articles written during the early days of computing, when people were complaining of the multi-platter nature of modern disk packs. These started hitting the market around 1963 I think. The argument went -- if you stack all those platters together, the failure of one platter would trash the entire set! Oh noes...
We operate as teams and berating a persons skills because they are not the "business" is getting tiresome, and usually a sign of confused and dysfunctional management
Thanks, mate. Now I have to explain to my co-workers why I just sprayed coffee all over the keyboard. Got it in one.
RTFA, they're wind powered. Although I can forsee a lot of people commandeering, or riding upon those ships for their own use. What an amazing change to the global economy that will present!
Speaking of MIPS, isn't that something you measure x86 chips (or any chips) with? As in millions of instructions per second. I've never heard of an architecture based off a speed rating.
MIPS was one of the first successful manufacturers of a CPU chip with a reduced instruction set (from which of course the RISC acronym arose) as an alternative to the Intel x86 complex instruction set (CISC). The idea was that you could get a faster computer by being able to execute an entire instruction in a single clock cycle, rather than accept the overheads in silicon required by an architecture that takes more than one clock cycle to execute a single instruction. If you can do it in one clock cycle, it means that the whole instruction must fit within the instruction register, that is operation code, address, and any modifying flags that go with it. CISC instruction sets have to make a branch decision based on the opcode as to whether there's more to read into that register before the operation can complete. Less silicon to navigate meant more efficient structures, thus higher speed.
For many years, this worked quite well. Intel had to work very hard to make their CISC instruction set as fast as it is; market forces meant that MIPS couldn't keep up in the prime PC market, thus settled out into the small, high efficiency and inexpensive niche. You still see a lot of embedded systems using RISC chips.
This is also the basis of the controversy you encounter when using the term "MIPS" in it's meaning of "Millions of Instructions Per Second" as a fundamental metric of computer speed -- it's hard to compare a million RISC instructions with a million CISC instructions, in the same way that it's hard to rate an engine by the number of cylinders it has. Myer-Drake Indy cars had a lovely 4-cylinder engine that burned pure alcohol (the "Offenhauser", or "Offy") for many years that had a much higher output than your commercial V8. It's difficult to find a good standard metric some times.
Indeed, 40 minutes one-way light time at some points in the orbit. Or at least it was during the 1976 Viking I landing, but I'm so out of touch they could have changed the universal constants since then.
Stipulated. However, my original point was aimed slightly differently -- that simply having the domain based on your real name is no guarantee that someone couldn't challenge it, and win.
"perfect" is a malleable term for "flawless within the constraints and granularity of one's ability to measure". It may be perfect on the molecular level, and on the atomic, but... some of thoze particalzorz haz a deviant spin!!
Vermont being the two states I know from experience has recycling available to them with even pick-up at the house
In the city and surrounding suburbs of Melbourne, Australia (I live near Moorabbin) the local councils provide us with two or three wheelie bins with colour-coded lids. Red is for garbage, yellow for recyclables, and green for garden waste. You can get jumbo-sized recycles or garden bins, but only one smaller size for garbage. (You can get cheap composting bins from the council as well, but that's another story). The wheelie bins are standardised (Nylex make them http://nylex.com.au/) and the trucks that collect them are special side-loaders with hydraulic lifting gadgets that pick up the bins, tip them in, and set them back down in place. Can't get much cheaper to operate, because the process is nearly automatic and takes very little time per bin. It took us absolutely no time to adapt when this scheme went in a few years back. The bins are all made out of recycled plastic themselves, are rugged and the whole process is very quiet. One of the local collection companies is http://www.visy.com.au/recycling/index.php/ so you can probably contact them for ideas if you're in the business. There's an image of one of the bins on their home page, the one on the right.
It isn't that hard to get recycling happening if you just apply a little bit of technology and standardise the collection and processing.
Anti-disclaimer -- I'm not affiliated with these good peeps
And I would certainly mention that you own it because it is your name.
That didn't work too well for Mike Rowe, of Mike Rowe Software. It was genuinely his name, but a certain agressive trademark defender made him give up his domain. (Ref:JFGI)
Note the Japanese example of the Samurai Crab (JFGI). One fishing villiage threw back every crab they caught that had patterning on its shell that appeared to suggest a Samurai's face. After not too many years every crab in the pool had a carapace that looked very much like the sort of scowling Samurai you see in ink paintings, unmistakably so. Unnatural Selection, of course, but definitely evolved. The fact that it was seen as the result of a local supersition did not change the result, which was an evolved crab. Eee. Vo. Looo. Tion. Not Intelligent Design.
I wonder if each candidate is willing to tell the religious groups to grow up and let science be?...
Obama made it pretty clear that he believes in the independence of religion and education:
"I'm a Christian, and I believe in parents being able to provide children with religious instruction without interference from the state. But I also believe our schools are there to teach worldly knowledge and science. I believe in evolution, and I believe there's a difference between science and faith. That doesn't make faith any less important than science. It just means they're two different things. And I think it's a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don't hold up to scientific inquiry."[7] http://sharp.sefora.org/people/presidential-candidates/barack-obama-presidential-candidate/url
One of my most talented (and well paid) co-workers had a degree in Saxophone from a conservatory.
Strange you should mention that. The very best programmers -- the genius coders -- I had working for me, with rare exception, had a background in classical music and played one or more instruments. I'm not sure that's causative, but there was a clear trend.
outside of academia, nobody really cares where you went to school only what you can actually do."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- G.Marx
I've hired about 100 programmers in my career. There were a few rare gems among the self-educated, but you had to apply a bit of focus to the educated, too. The ones who brought samples of their work and were willing to enthuse over it in the interview were the ones I kept. Sometimes their code was a little off, but I found it fairly easy to get someone to change direction when they were actually covering ground. The theorists I bought a coffee and sent them politely on their way. Which school they went to was utterly irrelevant, except that I did get a larger proportion of twits from the more expensive schools (some good folk too, but the better-school twits were ferociously attitudinal)
I'm not sure if it was Joe Spolsky or Sergy Brin who said it -- hire people who are smart and get things done. Brains plus energy, gotta have both.
The best idea I've seen is to use enclosed racks, sealed with weatherstripping except for vents at the bottom, and put a duct in the top that leads to an exhaust fan on the roof
You've got that right. You're moving heat, that's your core challenge.
I'd add however that for proper dramatic effect you need a Stirling engine to use that spare heat, with a large flywheel driving a large number of random brass gears and rotating cylinders, with vapour venting through coils of copper pipe. Why do server rooms have to be boring?
I can't complain about the selling out, because it is hard see putting money into research, that may or may not be profitable in 40 years.
Which is why Japan, who started 40 years ago, is so far ahead of us all now.
It starts by force-training infant potential physicists into using their imagination by encouraging them to dream of technical wonders, then encouraging them to believe that learning is wonderful, then giving them wonderful educational environments. The result is a world of wonders.
Ah well, I'm too old for this. At least I have Megatokyo and WoW to console me.
A major retailer in the US (and our single big customer at the time) built their own little computer rooms in their dispatch centres. We supplied a little GA-440-based computer and software that did a bit of inventory work for them back in the late 70's. They installed one of the domestic air conditioners they sold (which did match the BTU rating we specified). One of the service calls we had was traced to fried equipment, so we investigated -- 55 degrees C in the computer room -- turns out they did everything pretty much spot on, except for having the aircon's air inflow and outflow both in the same little room.
Sometimes there is no substitute for basic knowledge of physics...
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Last night I was at a restaurant and being one of those people who can't spend more than one minute of idleness without something to read
*sob* And I thought I was alone in this world...
There are support groups for that, but I got tired of reading their newsletters.
I hope you know how volatile RAID 0 can be. A problem with any single one of those drives will screw up the whole works until you can restore from a backup
Oh my, pardon me, I am rolling on the floor laughing, biting the carpet and frightening the cat (ROFLBTCAFTC).
I remember reading these exact same arguments in articles written during the early days of computing, when people were complaining of the multi-platter nature of modern disk packs. These started hitting the market around 1963 I think. The argument went -- if you stack all those platters together, the failure of one platter would trash the entire set! Oh noes...
We operate as teams and berating a persons skills because they are not the "business" is getting tiresome, and usually a sign of confused and dysfunctional management
Thanks, mate. Now I have to explain to my co-workers why I just sprayed coffee all over the keyboard. Got it in one.
RTFA, they're wind powered. Although I can forsee a lot of people commandeering, or riding upon those ships for their own use. What an amazing change to the global economy that will present!
Speaking of MIPS, isn't that something you measure x86 chips (or any chips) with? As in millions of instructions per second. I've never heard of an architecture based off a speed rating.
MIPS was one of the first successful manufacturers of a CPU chip with a reduced instruction set (from which of course the RISC acronym arose) as an alternative to the Intel x86 complex instruction set (CISC). The idea was that you could get a faster computer by being able to execute an entire instruction in a single clock cycle, rather than accept the overheads in silicon required by an architecture that takes more than one clock cycle to execute a single instruction. If you can do it in one clock cycle, it means that the whole instruction must fit within the instruction register, that is operation code, address, and any modifying flags that go with it. CISC instruction sets have to make a branch decision based on the opcode as to whether there's more to read into that register before the operation can complete. Less silicon to navigate meant more efficient structures, thus higher speed.
For many years, this worked quite well. Intel had to work very hard to make their CISC instruction set as fast as it is; market forces meant that MIPS couldn't keep up in the prime PC market, thus settled out into the small, high efficiency and inexpensive niche. You still see a lot of embedded systems using RISC chips.
This is also the basis of the controversy you encounter when using the term "MIPS" in it's meaning of "Millions of Instructions Per Second" as a fundamental metric of computer speed -- it's hard to compare a million RISC instructions with a million CISC instructions, in the same way that it's hard to rate an engine by the number of cylinders it has. Myer-Drake Indy cars had a lovely 4-cylinder engine that burned pure alcohol (the "Offenhauser", or "Offy") for many years that had a much higher output than your commercial V8. It's difficult to find a good standard metric some times.
Look at the lag the Martian robots have
Indeed, 40 minutes one-way light time at some points in the orbit. Or at least it was during the 1976 Viking I landing, but I'm so out of touch they could have changed the universal constants since then.
If you're going to have robots interacting with robots, skip the metal and play Warcraft.
There is a long history in science fiction for robotic girlfriends
The current best being Megatokyo, with its semi-autonomous PS3 peripheral. Oldest/best may well be the android in the Fritz Lang movie "Metropolis".
Stipulated. However, my original point was aimed slightly differently -- that simply having the domain based on your real name is no guarantee that someone couldn't challenge it, and win.
RC helis are quite expensive.
$29.95. http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/
"perfect" is a malleable term for "flawless within the constraints and granularity of one's ability to measure". It may be perfect on the molecular level, and on the atomic, but ... some of thoze particalzorz haz a deviant spin!!
And a puppy? Not a very good deal unless he got a puppy out of it too.
Vermont being the two states I know from experience has recycling available to them with even pick-up at the house
In the city and surrounding suburbs of Melbourne, Australia (I live near Moorabbin) the local councils provide us with two or three wheelie bins with colour-coded lids. Red is for garbage, yellow for recyclables, and green for garden waste. You can get jumbo-sized recycles or garden bins, but only one smaller size for garbage. (You can get cheap composting bins from the council as well, but that's another story). The wheelie bins are standardised (Nylex make them http://nylex.com.au/) and the trucks that collect them are special side-loaders with hydraulic lifting gadgets that pick up the bins, tip them in, and set them back down in place. Can't get much cheaper to operate, because the process is nearly automatic and takes very little time per bin. It took us absolutely no time to adapt when this scheme went in a few years back. The bins are all made out of recycled plastic themselves, are rugged and the whole process is very quiet. One of the local collection companies is http://www.visy.com.au/recycling/index.php/ so you can probably contact them for ideas if you're in the business. There's an image of one of the bins on their home page, the one on the right.
It isn't that hard to get recycling happening if you just apply a little bit of technology and standardise the collection and processing.
Anti-disclaimer -- I'm not affiliated with these good peeps
And I would certainly mention that you own it because it is your name.
That didn't work too well for Mike Rowe, of Mike Rowe Software. It was genuinely his name, but a certain agressive trademark defender made him give up his domain. (Ref:JFGI)
Really? There are direct observations of that?
Note the Japanese example of the Samurai Crab (JFGI). One fishing villiage threw back every crab they caught that had patterning on its shell that appeared to suggest a Samurai's face. After not too many years every crab in the pool had a carapace that looked very much like the sort of scowling Samurai you see in ink paintings, unmistakably so. Unnatural Selection, of course, but definitely evolved. The fact that it was seen as the result of a local supersition did not change the result, which was an evolved crab. Eee. Vo. Looo. Tion. Not Intelligent Design.
Anyone who does not believe in human evolution has never banged their head on an English doorway. Those lads from the 7th century were short.
Yes, but does it support -- World of Warcraft?
I wonder if each candidate is willing to tell the religious groups to grow up and let science be? ...
Obama made it pretty clear that he believes in the independence of religion and education:
"I'm a Christian, and I believe in parents being able to provide children with religious instruction without interference from the state. But I also believe our schools are there to teach worldly knowledge and science. I believe in evolution, and I believe there's a difference between science and faith. That doesn't make faith any less important than science. It just means they're two different things. And I think it's a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don't hold up to scientific inquiry."[7] http://sharp.sefora.org/people/presidential-candidates/barack-obama-presidential-candidate/url
One of my most talented (and well paid) co-workers had a degree in Saxophone from a conservatory.
Strange you should mention that. The very best programmers -- the genius coders -- I had working for me, with rare exception, had a background in classical music and played one or more instruments. I'm not sure that's causative, but there was a clear trend.
outside of academia, nobody really cares where you went to school only what you can actually do."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- G.Marx
I've hired about 100 programmers in my career. There were a few rare gems among the self-educated, but you had to apply a bit of focus to the educated, too. The ones who brought samples of their work and were willing to enthuse over it in the interview were the ones I kept. Sometimes their code was a little off, but I found it fairly easy to get someone to change direction when they were actually covering ground. The theorists I bought a coffee and sent them politely on their way. Which school they went to was utterly irrelevant, except that I did get a larger proportion of twits from the more expensive schools (some good folk too, but the better-school twits were ferociously attitudinal)
I'm not sure if it was Joe Spolsky or Sergy Brin who said it -- hire people who are smart and get things done. Brains plus energy, gotta have both.
They still haven't nailed down how to make the inside part work or how to build a real one
From TFA: "...and we have made full, working batteries." "
I dated a psychic once, but she broke with me two years before we met.
The best idea I've seen is to use enclosed racks, sealed with weatherstripping except for vents at the bottom, and put a duct in the top that leads to an exhaust fan on the roof
You've got that right. You're moving heat, that's your core challenge.
I'd add however that for proper dramatic effect you need a Stirling engine to use that spare heat, with a large flywheel driving a large number of random brass gears and rotating cylinders, with vapour venting through coils of copper pipe. Why do server rooms have to be boring?
I can't complain about the selling out, because it is hard see putting money into research, that may or may not be profitable in 40 years.
Which is why Japan, who started 40 years ago, is so far ahead of us all now.
It starts by force-training infant potential physicists into using their imagination by encouraging them to dream of technical wonders, then encouraging them to believe that learning is wonderful, then giving them wonderful educational environments. The result is a world of wonders.
Ah well, I'm too old for this. At least I have Megatokyo and WoW to console me.
A major retailer in the US (and our single big customer at the time) built their own little computer rooms in their dispatch centres. We supplied a little GA-440-based computer and software that did a bit of inventory work for them back in the late 70's. They installed one of the domestic air conditioners they sold (which did match the BTU rating we specified). One of the service calls we had was traced to fried equipment, so we investigated -- 55 degrees C in the computer room -- turns out they did everything pretty much spot on, except for having the aircon's air inflow and outflow both in the same little room.
Sometimes there is no substitute for basic knowledge of physics...