There are places in California (or SF Bay Area where I live) where cities enact building ordinances that discourage high-density housing, such as max building height, traffic impact, etc. The effect has been a string of large (SF, Oakland, San Jose) and small cities circling the bay. Due to scarcity and high price of housing, many people are forced to live far away from where they go to work. 30-min commute is the average. For the smaller cities, most homes are the "suburban" single-family type.
Also, it's not unusual for your next job to be a different city. Suppose you live 10 mins away from your job in downtown Oakland. You've lived in your house for the past 10 years. But your next job may well be in San Jose. Due to Proposition 13 and the insane real estate price increases in the last decade, you'd want to stay put in your house close to Oakland and do the 45-60 min commute to SJ. Otherwise, even if you find a house with same market value in SJ, you'll end up paying 3-4X in property taxes as you do now. With a median price of over $600K, that's $500/month for real-estate taxes alone, vs about $125 before. You'll then be faced with weighing a $375/month increase vs the shorter commute. For many people, it's not an easy choice to make.
You're welcome to buy him a house closer to work, or buy him a car that burns less gas. I bet you hate the homeless too because they sleep outside and stink up the streets.
I dunno, that whole Cultural Revolution/Red Guard thing was pretty original idea. That's not to say things didn't go to hell in a handbasket. But what about hospitals staffed by people who don't know medicine, or school staffed by people who lacked enough skills to teach, who'd have though of that on a vast national scale? Oh, how about parading your parents in front of the whole village wearing dunce hats for "counter-revolutionary" activities while whipping themselves into a frenzy chanting quotes from the Little Red Book? Invented in China I think.
If you're curious, you can try locating the Dec 26, 2005 issue of Time Magazine where the Gates and Bono are named people of the year.
Then y'all can come back and tell us whether Bill Gates has a heart (aimed at the GP).
Hint: Simply giving away huge sums of money does not land you a Time "Person of the year" award.
Y'all can scream all you want about how Gates and Bono don't need all that money anyway, and they don't have to work another day in their lives so they can afford to spend time on these vexing issues. Fact is a vast majority of people don't do crap after attaining their fame and/or wealth. The rest are either screw ups or media whores. And don't get me started on "Old Money".
Sure, let's all conveniently forget all the time and money he's spending to help the poor all over the world. What have YOU done lately?
A lot of FOSS and/. readers seem to think that working on open source will "make everything all right". Well, it's all nice and well, but let's not kid ourselves. Basically, poor folks living in dumps all over the world don't give a rat's ass about open source.
When I see posts like this I'm reminded of the south park episode where all the hippies gather to "change the world" and "stick it to the little Eichmans" by having a hippie jam festival. It's all just mental masturbation.
No. Kids just want to play and have fun. And I say, "let 'em".
When I was a kid, this means poking at dead animals in the back yard, or watch same scenery go by as we drive cross-country in our station wagon. Why can't kids today do the same?
No I say we kick them out to the street and don't come back until they've poked at least a few dead carcasses a day.
Max, is that you?
No seriously, everytime I see that phrase I have a mental image of armored 18-wheelers barreling down a dusty road running over lesser vehicles.
Yeah, I remember them. Bought some resistor and capacitor assortments from them, plus some DIP ICs. Then they got bought by RadioShack or something. For a while radioshack.com still carried the same items. Don't know if it still does. These days I use digikey.
Let's see, most cell phones come with 500mAh (or smaller) 3.6V batteries. That's 1.8W over 1 hour. Let's assume 1000W microwaves can cook their eggs for 10 seconds before they explode (It's been a long time since I've tried it and I have better things to do nowadays). Let's further assume we can peak the power of cell phone radio to 1000W without frying it. That comes out to about 6.5 seconds before the juice runs out. Not quite long enough to cook. Now the article says you need TWO cell phones, then you may have a case. May be something for the mythbusters to look into.
But in the meantime, the censors make things miserable for many people. It's a rear-guard campaign like the one **AA is fighting. Ultimately they can't win, but they're prepared to inflict as much pain a possible before they lose.
From my experience, of the Chinese students/immigrants staying in California, many have already been indoctrinated in the infallibility and paternal benevolence of the CCP. Most of the rest are apologists towing the party line. They carry with them a lot of political baggage across the Pacific. It'll take more than a simple stay for them to become politically un-ossified because they operate with a different logic (or worldview). If you don't believe me, ask for their opinion on Chinese embassy bombing in the Kosovo air campaign, for example. Or if you're feeling brave, Tibet and Taiwan.
You missed the parent's post entirely. They can fly on commercial jets, even first class if they want to. It's what most businessmen do, even those pressed for time. Big people movers use much less fuel person. But I guess that's only for peons who can't afford a personal jet.
Mogul: "I'll fly to meetings in a fuel-guzzling private jet. But using all that fossil fuel weighs heavily on my soul, and undermines my image as a do-gooder. I know, I'll encourage my employees to drive hybrids, and put out a press release. It should all even all in the end. Works kind of like the Kyoto treaty. Brilliant!"
I heard the same types of arguments from people defending sky-high priced-to-perfection internet stocks back in 1999-2000. It's interesting to see how some people have short memoeries.
I think he meant that processor designers (and chip designers in general) design their chips to work over a certain range of operating conditions. In order to accomplish this they build in margins of safety and simulate their designs to death using expensive workstations or clusters. After production they get speed binned with elaborate tests using multi-million dollar machines.
Of course many users think they can do better with their over/under voltage/clock regimes, all the while claiming that it's a conspiracy by the processor vendors to deliberately throttle down their CPU. But all they're doing is wiping away the safety margins built in by the engineers. It's kind of like ricers cutting springs in their hondas. Never mind that Honda engineers spend thousands of man hours and million of dollars testing, simulating, and tuning their suspension on their expensive workstations and test tracks. I see their cars bobbing up and down like low riders over small imperfections on the highway and shake just my head.
In short, people who think they're smarter than engineers, usually aren't.
The 3ware card supports staggered spin-up, but only some of the newer drives support it. The Seagate 7200.8 I got back in August did not, although 7200.9 does. But once the whole thing's up and running you'd still have to supply a good amount of power to 12 drives. The PowerTrip is a good idea, but you have to find space in your case for 12 of them and stagger them in series. The molex power connector is not as reliable as SATA. Connecting them in series is an even worse idea. To avoid power connection problem associated with molex connectors, I custom-built SATA power fan-outs.
Yes, 3ware cards are very nice, although Promise is no slouch for low drive count setups.
For archival purposes, a RAID5 has enough speed. I would build the biggest one I could afford and stick with it, since expanding RAID5 arrays is a bitch and many things could go wrong in the process. But I think these cards support expansion at a later date.
Get a Lian-Li PC-V2000, build a functioning PC with it, then plug in a 12-port 3ware controller. The Lian-Li has 12 internal 3.5" drive bays that matches up nicely with the controller. Then simply buy as many drives as you can afford, preferably in the 400-500MB range. The 3ware controller has hot-spare support that works just as well as the so-called RAID6.
Only catch is finding a PSU big enough to support all those drives spinning up simultaneously. The Antec TrueII-550 failed miserably, as with all newer ATX 2.01 PSUs. The 12V split power rails is the culprit.
I built a 4TB array this way, and am busy filling it up with you know what.
The 25% budget cut may have seemed to trigger the switch to OSS. But the same parliament that voted for the 25% budget cut also voted for OSS. It's not parliament vote -> government react, but rather parliament vote -> parliament realises its own stupidity and tries to patch things up. Given the unpredictibility of Taiwanese politics, they'd just as soon reverse themselves after a few fistfights.
While it's true that Taiwan, with its strong presidency, is a US-style democracy on the surface, its institutions, rules, and procedures are somewhat different from US norms. This is one of the reason the opposition still controls the legislature. Hard to explain, because Taiwanese politics is very complicated for those of us watching from the US (or other countries).
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Also, it's not unusual for your next job to be a different city. Suppose you live 10 mins away from your job in downtown Oakland. You've lived in your house for the past 10 years. But your next job may well be in San Jose. Due to Proposition 13 and the insane real estate price increases in the last decade, you'd want to stay put in your house close to Oakland and do the 45-60 min commute to SJ. Otherwise, even if you find a house with same market value in SJ, you'll end up paying 3-4X in property taxes as you do now. With a median price of over $600K, that's $500/month for real-estate taxes alone, vs about $125 before. You'll then be faced with weighing a $375/month increase vs the shorter commute. For many people, it's not an easy choice to make.
You're welcome to buy him a house closer to work, or buy him a car that burns less gas. I bet you hate the homeless too because they sleep outside and stink up the streets.
No, just pointing out an alternate ending for that joke. This discussion *is* about the Chinese govt right?
No, it just means only government-approved and government-run email servers can exist. Instead of viagra spam you get propaganda spam.
I'd like to buy that Stanford MSEE degree for $600. Where do I sign up?
I dunno, that whole Cultural Revolution/Red Guard thing was pretty original idea. That's not to say things didn't go to hell in a handbasket. But what about hospitals staffed by people who don't know medicine, or school staffed by people who lacked enough skills to teach, who'd have though of that on a vast national scale? Oh, how about parading your parents in front of the whole village wearing dunce hats for "counter-revolutionary" activities while whipping themselves into a frenzy chanting quotes from the Little Red Book? Invented in China I think.
Then y'all can come back and tell us whether Bill Gates has a heart (aimed at the GP).
Hint: Simply giving away huge sums of money does not land you a Time "Person of the year" award.
Y'all can scream all you want about how Gates and Bono don't need all that money anyway, and they don't have to work another day in their lives so they can afford to spend time on these vexing issues. Fact is a vast majority of people don't do crap after attaining their fame and/or wealth. The rest are either screw ups or media whores. And don't get me started on "Old Money".
A lot of FOSS and /. readers seem to think that working on open source will "make everything all right". Well, it's all nice and well, but let's not kid ourselves. Basically, poor folks living in dumps all over the world don't give a rat's ass about open source.
When I see posts like this I'm reminded of the south park episode where all the hippies gather to "change the world" and "stick it to the little Eichmans" by having a hippie jam festival. It's all just mental masturbation.
When I was a kid, this means poking at dead animals in the back yard, or watch same scenery go by as we drive cross-country in our station wagon. Why can't kids today do the same?
No I say we kick them out to the street and don't come back until they've poked at least a few dead carcasses a day.
Did you hear that thump? It's the sound of a joke sailing over your head and smacking the wall behind you.
Max, is that you?
No seriously, everytime I see that phrase I have a mental image of armored 18-wheelers barreling down a dusty road running over lesser vehicles.
If drivers are bored with driving and want to be less involved, they should take public transit.
Yeah, I remember them. Bought some resistor and capacitor assortments from them, plus some DIP ICs. Then they got bought by RadioShack or something. For a while radioshack.com still carried the same items. Don't know if it still does. These days I use digikey.
These lame protests will be nothing compare to the fallout from my upcoming game: Imam Turkey Shoot.
Yes, the selling out of Taiwan is definitely a disgrace. Or at the very least nothing for us to be proud of.
Let's see, most cell phones come with 500mAh (or smaller) 3.6V batteries. That's 1.8W over 1 hour. Let's assume 1000W microwaves can cook their eggs for 10 seconds before they explode (It's been a long time since I've tried it and I have better things to do nowadays). Let's further assume we can peak the power of cell phone radio to 1000W without frying it. That comes out to about 6.5 seconds before the juice runs out. Not quite long enough to cook. Now the article says you need TWO cell phones, then you may have a case. May be something for the mythbusters to look into.
From my experience, of the Chinese students/immigrants staying in California, many have already been indoctrinated in the infallibility and paternal benevolence of the CCP. Most of the rest are apologists towing the party line. They carry with them a lot of political baggage across the Pacific. It'll take more than a simple stay for them to become politically un-ossified because they operate with a different logic (or worldview). If you don't believe me, ask for their opinion on Chinese embassy bombing in the Kosovo air campaign, for example. Or if you're feeling brave, Tibet and Taiwan.
Mogul: "I'll fly to meetings in a fuel-guzzling private jet. But using all that fossil fuel weighs heavily on my soul, and undermines my image as a do-gooder. I know, I'll encourage my employees to drive hybrids, and put out a press release. It should all even all in the end. Works kind of like the Kyoto treaty. Brilliant!"
A problem to YOU perhaps. Apparently there's nothing wrong with conservatives, since the majority of Canadians voted for them.
I heard the same types of arguments from people defending sky-high priced-to-perfection internet stocks back in 1999-2000. It's interesting to see how some people have short memoeries.
Of course many users think they can do better with their over/under voltage/clock regimes, all the while claiming that it's a conspiracy by the processor vendors to deliberately throttle down their CPU. But all they're doing is wiping away the safety margins built in by the engineers. It's kind of like ricers cutting springs in their hondas. Never mind that Honda engineers spend thousands of man hours and million of dollars testing, simulating, and tuning their suspension on their expensive workstations and test tracks. I see their cars bobbing up and down like low riders over small imperfections on the highway and shake just my head.
In short, people who think they're smarter than engineers, usually aren't.
You actually turn off your PC? You do realize that 99.999% of /. readers run theirs 24/7 right?
The 3ware card supports staggered spin-up, but only some of the newer drives support it. The Seagate 7200.8 I got back in August did not, although 7200.9 does. But once the whole thing's up and running you'd still have to supply a good amount of power to 12 drives. The PowerTrip is a good idea, but you have to find space in your case for 12 of them and stagger them in series. The molex power connector is not as reliable as SATA. Connecting them in series is an even worse idea. To avoid power connection problem associated with molex connectors, I custom-built SATA power fan-outs.
For archival purposes, a RAID5 has enough speed. I would build the biggest one I could afford and stick with it, since expanding RAID5 arrays is a bitch and many things could go wrong in the process. But I think these cards support expansion at a later date.
Get a Lian-Li PC-V2000, build a functioning PC with it, then plug in a 12-port 3ware controller. The Lian-Li has 12 internal 3.5" drive bays that matches up nicely with the controller. Then simply buy as many drives as you can afford, preferably in the 400-500MB range. The 3ware controller has hot-spare support that works just as well as the so-called RAID6.
Only catch is finding a PSU big enough to support all those drives spinning up simultaneously. The Antec TrueII-550 failed miserably, as with all newer ATX 2.01 PSUs. The 12V split power rails is the culprit.
I built a 4TB array this way, and am busy filling it up with you know what.
While it's true that Taiwan, with its strong presidency, is a US-style democracy on the surface, its institutions, rules, and procedures are somewhat different from US norms. This is one of the reason the opposition still controls the legislature. Hard to explain, because Taiwanese politics is very complicated for those of us watching from the US (or other countries).