But there are some neat tricks you can do with VMs like taking an instant snapshot and use that for debugging. Migrating VMs to another (hardware) server is a non-issue. (just Copy over the image) If you're working with a cluster anyway, creating another node is also mainly a matter of copying the image.
as is filtering itself. I bet even the GP wants his news filtered from every bag of rice that tipped over in china, or the results of some back-country bake-off. (Which might be really important news over there, but not over here.) But not every news from over there is unimportant over here. So you as everyone wants your news filtered. By someone who is likely to share the same important/unimportant threshold as you.
Why would a company employ someone who needs a GPS just to do their job?
100Eur for a GPS plus incompetent driver is cheaper than a experienced truck driver. At least at first glance. And thats what counts for a certain kind of bean-counters in certain positions.
"Free" energy? Tell me, oh wise one, what is the payback time on unsubsidised renewable generation?
Not free? Oh even wiser one, if you're actually paying someone so that you can enjoy the warmth of the sun, then you're rather not-so-wise. Paybacktime would be much shorter if it hadn't to compete with subsidized energy. (Or rather energy industries that are able to externalize some of their costs.)
Hydro, geothermal and wave, fine. Wind and solar? You still have to keep fossil and nuclear plants running 24/7, or eat the brownouts.
Not if you have a backup system that can be brought up within seconds. Then still might be a fossil system, but it wouldnt have to run 24/7. I think there is a company that wants to start such a backup-system. Read about it on slashdot. I think it was here
Power generation figures for wind and solar are bullshit - show me the figures for reductions in fossil and nuclear generation in areas where wind and solar are "contributing" to the load.
You're completly right why wind and solar rarely manage to contribute to the load. But you also completly missed What this news was about.
the term "green" has lost all meaning through over use.
solar, wind and wave can't maintain a consistent load 24/7, so i'm curious as to what alternative you propose.
Simple. Dont call anything that produces CO2 or other toxic waste (liquid, solid or gaseous) green
Then take that "green cant provide sonstant load 24/7" strawman-argument and put it where the sun never shines. Ignoring that almost free energie sources, just because they won't satisfy 100% of your needs is plain stupid. Grab as much as you can get from that free energy pool and then throw in less-green power until you get 100% 24/7.
Thats exactly what they want to do. "Lichtblick" is basicly a energy company selling renewable energy. They simply found out that if you want to sell lots of solar energy, you better should have a backup for..say.. nighttime. Espescially nights that aren't windy...
Alternatively, instead of having hundreds of thousands of CO2 producing generators with the ability to rapidly ramp up and down production, you could have a few nice green nuclear power plants and ramp up and down the load instead (e.g. by using the excess power to do useful stuff like cracking water).
I guess I should buy stocks of every major paint company, just in case if someone really wanted to start building 'green nuclear power plants'. Wouldn't know of any other way to turn them 'green'
Whatever google does, my single-purpose GPS still wont need a unlimited data cellphone-plan that'd cost me an arm and a leg. (compared to my current plan)
Both GPX (ubiquitous) and KML (Google Earth) support routes
But none of them supports actual ROADS.
From what I read, that OpenLR is targetet ad information exchange between different VECTOR BASED maps. (TeleAtlas, and the other company I cant remember right now)
GPX and KML simply say "move from Point A to Point B in a straight line" but this should say "Follow the road from the intersection thats nearest to Point A until it ends near Point B" thus considering a) the actual path the road takes and b) small differences between the measured coordinates of Point A. If in different maps the location of an intersection differs a few meters, both still can agree on the meaning of those coordinates, instead of using it as simnpel raw data.
(FWIW, most directions I've gotten from Google or MapQuest start out by telling me to drive North 1 block. I live on a one-way street. And North isn't the one way.)
It *should* completly replace the need for map reading skills. At least as long as you're seated on the drivers seat. That would make the roads a lot safer too.
For bonus points: Have the turbine control center send out a message to the database when turbines are turning on or off. We have this thing called "the Intarwebs" for that.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh come on....
perhaps meanwhile TNG became a classic too?
Basicly you're right.
But there are some neat tricks you can do with VMs like taking an instant snapshot and use that for debugging.
Migrating VMs to another (hardware) server is a non-issue. (just Copy over the image)
If you're working with a cluster anyway, creating another node is also mainly a matter of copying the image.
I'd expect an API that provides Access to my data NOT to be usable by anyone without some kind of authentification.
Isn't the apache Licence open source? (perhaps except some zealots)
Who said that?
He just did it while he was sober.
Analysis, opinion, these are value-adds.
as is filtering itself. I bet even the GP wants his news filtered from every bag of rice that tipped over in china, or the results of some back-country bake-off. (Which might be really important news over there, but not over here.) But not every news from over there is unimportant over here. So you as everyone wants your news filtered. By someone who is likely to share the same important/unimportant threshold as you.
Oh.. the chinese.. Ahh.. yes.. of course.... riiiight.....
http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/dokument.html?id=13501796&top=SPIEGEL
Short term is all that matters to managers with 2-4 year contracts.
Why would a company employ someone who needs a GPS just to do their job?
100Eur for a GPS plus incompetent driver is cheaper than a experienced truck driver. At least at first glance. And thats what counts for a certain kind of bean-counters in certain positions.
Oh, I liked the carbon much more as it was already collected in a substance called "wood".
"Free" energy? Tell me, oh wise one, what is the payback time on unsubsidised renewable generation?
Not free? Oh even wiser one, if you're actually paying someone so that you can enjoy the warmth of the sun, then you're rather not-so-wise. Paybacktime would be much shorter if it hadn't to compete with subsidized energy. (Or rather energy industries that are able to externalize some of their costs.)
Hydro, geothermal and wave, fine. Wind and solar? You still have to keep fossil and nuclear plants running 24/7, or eat the brownouts.
Not if you have a backup system that can be brought up within seconds. Then still might be a fossil system, but it wouldnt have to run 24/7. I think there is a company that wants to start such a backup-system. Read about it on slashdot. I think it was here
Power generation figures for wind and solar are bullshit - show me the figures for reductions in fossil and nuclear generation in areas where wind and solar are "contributing" to the load.
You're completly right why wind and solar rarely manage to contribute to the load. But you also completly missed What this news was about.
all of the above.
Any energy sources that relies on burning something produces residues I'd sum up as "bad stuff". So do Nucelar plants.
I see them rather as various shades of brown than 'green'
the term "green" has lost all meaning through over use.
solar, wind and wave can't maintain a consistent load 24/7, so i'm curious as to what alternative you propose.
Simple. Dont call anything that produces CO2 or other toxic waste (liquid, solid or gaseous) green
Then take that "green cant provide sonstant load 24/7" strawman-argument and put it where the sun never shines. Ignoring that almost free energie sources, just because they won't satisfy 100% of your needs is plain stupid. Grab as much as you can get from that free energy pool and then throw in less-green power until you get 100% 24/7.
Diversity is the way to success here.
Thats exactly what they want to do. "Lichtblick" is basicly a energy company selling renewable energy. They simply found out that if you want to sell lots of solar energy, you better should have a backup for ..say.. nighttime. Espescially nights that aren't windy...
Alternatively, instead of having hundreds of thousands of CO2 producing generators with the ability to rapidly ramp up and down production, you could have a few nice green nuclear power plants and ramp up and down the load instead (e.g. by using the excess power to do useful stuff like cracking water).
I guess I should buy stocks of every major paint company, just in case if someone really wanted to start building 'green nuclear power plants'. Wouldn't know of any other way to turn them 'green'
No.
Whatever google does, my single-purpose GPS still wont need a unlimited data cellphone-plan that'd cost me an arm and a leg. (compared to my current plan)
Both GPX (ubiquitous) and KML (Google Earth) support routes
But none of them supports actual ROADS.
From what I read, that OpenLR is targetet ad information exchange between different VECTOR BASED maps. (TeleAtlas, and the other company I cant remember right now)
GPX and KML simply say "move from Point A to Point B in a straight line" but this should say "Follow the road from the intersection thats nearest to Point A until it ends near Point B" thus considering a) the actual path the road takes and b) small differences between the measured coordinates of Point A. If in different maps the location of an intersection differs a few meters, both still can agree on the meaning of those coordinates, instead of using it as simnpel raw data.
(FWIW, most directions I've gotten from Google or MapQuest start out by telling me to drive North 1 block. I live on a one-way street. And North isn't the one way.)
Oblig: http://xkcd.com/461/
Lots of GPS do that.
But often transport companys are too much of a cheapskate to buy those truck-gps and go with the low.-end 100eur GPS instead.
It *should* completly replace the need for map reading skills. At least as long as you're seated on the drivers seat. That would make the roads a lot safer too.
That, and most guys just want to be done with the drama and suffer in silence when it ends.
we save that for the next common cold...
And call it the B-Ark!
For bonus points: Have the turbine control center send out a message to the database when turbines are turning on or off. We have this thing called "the Intarwebs" for that.
"Absolutely positively most-whole-heartedly, I concur."
Can't be healthy to recognize that quote after the first line...
- The speaker is too quite. You can't hear your call or music in traffic or on a plane
I'd consider the disability to annoy your seat neighbours with music a good design choice.
- It's actually *more* expensive than an iPhone, once you buy some flash memory for it.
I doubt a flash card for about $10-$15 could change the race between HTC and iPhone THAT much!