Solar cells will only offset a small portion of our (mostly coal-based) electricity generation. Our main problems are with energy storage and transport, not generation. This is why we need liquid fuels, like oil. Unless you've figured out some radical, new, clean, dense, and lightweight battery source that you're not telling anyone about...
Your "children need choices" bullshit is the reason we have a generation of parents who punish with "time-outs" in a room full of electronic toys and put their kids on Ritalin instead of actually, you know, parenting. Thank you, Dr. Benjamin Spock, for screwing up two generations of American children.
Children do not need more choices. Children need to be loved, taught discipline, respect for others, and of course eduacated. The idea is to give children the tools to be high-functioning, self-reliant, successful adults. Instead of catering to the child's every whim.
And yes, I am a parent. I will not buy them treats to shut them up in a store, and I will spank my children when necessary.
Instead of Blue Water, which is singularly inappropriate for a university located 900 miles from the nearest, wouldn't Boneyard be more appropriate?
I dunno... Lake Michigan is pretty freaking big, and pretty freaking blue. At least from my personal observations. It's only about ~100 miles from UIUC.
And yeah, I know that "Blue Water" means in the Navy world, but then again, the Navy does a lot of training on Lake Michigan.
Inbreeding can result in postitive traits being reinforced, as well as negative traits. You got lucky. It seems that your first-cousin great-great grandpartents were both fairly bright, and your parents didn't share any of the negative, recessive genes that could have left you with a birth defect.
Ground launch adds a lot more that a few minutes to the trip. You have to carry a helluva lot more fuel just to reach escape velocity. Pre-staging large missiles in orbit or on the moon would allow economic construction of "fast" missiles that could extend the range of asteroid interception by millions of miles.
The largest launch booster we have is the Russian Energia. It can carry X amount of payload, which means the nuke plus its post-escape propellant must weigh less than X.
But if we launch in pieces a missile with 4*X propellant mass into orbit, and assemble the missile there, that missile will be able to accelerate to mugh higher velocities relative to earth and "reach further" to deflect incoming asteroids.
This is, essentially, the same reason they talk about starting a mission to Mars from orbit or the moon. You can build up a bunch of stuff over time at your assembly point, and then go much further and faster than with a direct launch from Earth.
According to this, it actually sounds like the functionality is almost exactly the same as Microsoft's Windows 2003 implementation. Do you have any better references that might explain how Files-11 is different or better? Google seems to not be my friend in this case.
but I would dispute why generating wealth is so much more useful than any other job like programming (if by wealth, you mean the net worth of a company). In particular, assuming you are using the economic meaning, they aren't generating it as such, but taking it from somewhere else (e.g.: private individuals or other companies), in general.
You need to study some economics. Economic activity is not a zero-sum game. Wealth can be created, and it happens every day. You do not have to "take from others" to generate wealth.
A small example: You have a stack of wood. I have a hammer and a box of nails. Together, we build a barn. By investing our time, we have created something of value that is worth more than a pile of wood and box of nails. Worth many times more, in fact. This is the essence of how wealth is created. In reality, you don't even need the wood and nails... there are plenty of things that have value without being a physical commodity.
Prices are as low as $15/month, and speeds go as high as 12 Mbps. So it would seem that raw competition does in fact work in densely populated markets, as in Europe and Asia. The problem is in Suburbia and rural areas, where population density is so low that only incumbents can profit.
This is actually one of the reasons (other than the obvious feature and financial reasons) for the different "server" and "workstation" versions of Windows, which are otherwise very similar at the kernel level. The process and IO schedulers, and even the length of the scheduler timeslices, are indeed different on the server editions.
I took the Eurostar from London to Paris and loved it. City-center to city-center, in a couple of hours.
So, we have a train (Eurostar) which goes 465 km in 2.5 hours, for an aveage speed of 186 km/h.
Try the same thing from New York to Los Angeles: that's 4467 km via highway. I assume a rail route would be similar in length. At 186 km/h, the trip is over 24 hours long. It's tough for even a high-speed train to compete with a 4 hour airline flight.
Europeans forget than may of the states in the USA are larger in area than France or Germany, and our cities are far more spread out than they are in Europe. Which is why every American owns a car, and we burn so much damned gasoline.
ZFS was released way back in late 2005. Solaris is still pretty popular in the Fortune 500. I would imagine at least a few of those customers are using ZFS, even if they're only to try to stretch a storage budget that just isn't big enough for EMC this quarter.
...especially based on some 1994 anti-mac bias about networking...
I managed the all-Mac network at a newspaper in 1994, and let me tell you, Macs did suck at networking back then. Unless you used a single, unbridged AppleTalk domain, which scaled up to exactly 5 workstations.
Getting Macs to reliably access the Internet or other TCP/IP resources back then was also pretty much impossible. Reboots were required approximately once every hour.
I've never seen a rusting Chevy left to rot and leak oil in the yard for a decade
You've obviously never been to the South Side of Chicago. It's been "gentrifying" for a decade now, and still looks like Berlin after the Red Army rolled through.
every time you request a packet you have to ACKnowledge its receipt
TCP has supported Selective Acknowledgement for a very long time now. It's even on by default in Windows (since 2000, I believe). Essentially, this TCP option allows the receiver to ACK a range of packets received with a single ACK packet. It even allows multiple ranges to be ACKed, so the sender knows exactly which packets to retransmit. I would assume Linunx and BSD support it as well.
I'll bet you've never actually used Outlook Web Access 2007. It is definitely the best browser-based email I've ever used. It looks and works very much like the full Outlook client, and that level of feature integration makes it very productive.
Outlook is enormously popular for a reason, and it has very little to do with Microsoft being a monopoly. Exchange/Outlook came onto the scene late, but simply blew the once-dominant Lotus Notes straight into also-ran territory, because they were much easier to use and better integrated.
Anyway, the compromises in Google's "keep it simple" interface have started to annoy me after about 3 years, and I am looking to move.
The inspection box is a mostly one one-time capital expenditure. An OC-192 or similar high-speed connection to a Tier-one backbone provider could cost hundreds of thousands of US dollars per month.
Buying bandwidth (or maintaining, leasing, and deploying fiber in the case of Tier-1s) is the #2 recurring cost an ISP faces, second only to employee salaries.
Even very expensive hardware is comparatively cheap.
Okay, so if Wal-Mart is installing solar panels on acres of rooftops to help power their stores, why didn't they start by installing fucking skylights on those roofs instead of solar panels? A skylight is a helluva lot cheaper than a solar panel, and has a lot less environmental impact. It always bugged me to walk into a Home Depot or other big-box store and see 10kW worth of flourescent tubes blazing on a bright summer day. Are these companies really that stupid? My company's warehouse was built in 1955 and almost all of its lighting is from skylights during business hours.
And yes, I know that skylights could increase cooling costs, but infra-red rejecting glass is cheap and solves much of that problem.
It seems that in the past 10 years or so, many corporations have decided to treat anything that denies them revenue as if it's identical to actually taking something they already had. Personally, I think it's an effect of the type of cash-flow accounting and projection that's now overwhelmingly popular, where the entire worth of your business (read: stock price) is based on how much money you think you're going to make. When it turns out that, oops, you didn't actually make that much money, they go absolutely berzerk and start looking for anyone to pin the blame on. Because, to them, they've already made that money, in some weird way, as soon as they started projecting it.
I really hope you don't work in the financial industy. The valuation of a company is actually a fairly stnadardized concrete thing. It is based on the analysis of a rational outsider, not the "projections" of an insider.
As for people being upset and looking for scpegoats when they don't meet budgets or forecasts, well, that's been happening for hundreds of years. Brunswick, the bowling company, was in the 1950s valued very highly by some stock speculators because "bowling was exploding in popularity". Then things collapsed on them as the true, limited market for bowling equipment was saturated. Executives were fired, stock price tanked, etc. There really is nothing new or different about what's happening in some areas of business today.
The AMA is not a union, and Doctor's salaries are not fixed. An anestesiologist not in private practice can make $300K starting in Detroit, but only $150K in Chicago or LA. Because nobody wants to live in Detroit, they have to pay more to attract talent.
What's being fixed are the prices doctors can charge, as Medicare has fixed prices for most procedures, and insurance companies fix their prices to those set by Medicare. That is a bad thing, long-term, as even a terrible doctor gets paid the same as a good one for a lot of procedures, and Doctors don't get rewarded for improving their skills. I know a surgeon who used to make about twice what he does now, because he was known as the best knee surgeon in the area. But now that procedure prices are effectively fixed, he makes just about the same as every other ortho in the area, even the guys that really suck. He also mostly stopped spending $20-30K per year going to seminars and learning new techniques, as it isn't worth the risk. Using new techniques make it much more likely that you get sued, because the lawyers can say, "you meen you didn't use the best practice used by every other doctor?".
It's not the Doctors causing our healthcare problems, it's the lawyers. How in the hell can we ask a bunch of lawyers - most COngressmen are lawyers - to fix it?
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Solar cells will only offset a small portion of our (mostly coal-based) electricity generation. Our main problems are with energy storage and transport, not generation. This is why we need liquid fuels, like oil.
Unless you've figured out some radical, new, clean, dense, and lightweight battery source that you're not telling anyone about...
Your "children need choices" bullshit is the reason we have a generation of parents who punish with "time-outs" in a room full of electronic toys and put their kids on Ritalin instead of actually, you know, parenting. Thank you, Dr. Benjamin Spock, for screwing up two generations of American children.
Children do not need more choices. Children need to be loved, taught discipline, respect for others, and of course eduacated. The idea is to give children the tools to be high-functioning, self-reliant, successful adults. Instead of catering to the child's every whim.
And yes, I am a parent. I will not buy them treats to shut them up in a store, and I will spank my children when necessary.
By the way, I'm from the sticks, and my maternal grandparents were sixth cousins, so I'm not trying to insult you!
Thoroughbred horses are very inbred, for example. As are "show dogs", and even prized livestock. Because the positive traits are reinforced.
Inbreeding can result in postitive traits being reinforced, as well as negative traits. You got lucky. It seems that your first-cousin great-great grandpartents were both fairly bright, and your parents didn't share any of the negative, recessive genes that could have left you with a birth defect.
Ground launch adds a lot more that a few minutes to the trip. You have to carry a helluva lot more fuel just to reach escape velocity. Pre-staging large missiles in orbit or on the moon would allow economic construction of "fast" missiles that could extend the range of asteroid interception by millions of miles.
The largest launch booster we have is the Russian Energia. It can carry X amount of payload, which means the nuke plus its post-escape propellant must weigh less than X.
But if we launch in pieces a missile with 4*X propellant mass into orbit, and assemble the missile there, that missile will be able to accelerate to mugh higher velocities relative to earth and "reach further" to deflect incoming asteroids.
This is, essentially, the same reason they talk about starting a mission to Mars from orbit or the moon. You can build up a bunch of stuff over time at your assembly point, and then go much further and faster than with a direct launch from Earth.
Dude, everyone knows the CTA has cameras and mind-control devices installed on all buses and trains. If you want to be free, you must WALK.
According to this, it actually sounds like the functionality is almost exactly the same as Microsoft's Windows 2003 implementation. Do you have any better references that might explain how Files-11 is different or better? Google seems to not be my friend in this case.
Hmm... NTFS versioning and snapshotting seems to work just fine on our Windows 2003 servers. Read up on Volume Shadow Copies.
You need to study some economics. Economic activity is not a zero-sum game. Wealth can be created, and it happens every day. You do not have to "take from others" to generate wealth.
A small example: You have a stack of wood. I have a hammer and a box of nails. Together, we build a barn. By investing our time, we have created something of value that is worth more than a pile of wood and box of nails. Worth many times more, in fact. This is the essence of how wealth is created. In reality, you don't even need the wood and nails... there are plenty of things that have value without being a physical commodity.
Well, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, I have these choices for boradband:
Comcast Cable
RCN Cable
AT&T DSL
Speakeasy DSL
Sprint Wireless Boradband
Verizon Wireless Broadband
Cingular Wireless Broadband
T-Mobile WiFi
Prices are as low as $15/month, and speeds go as high as 12 Mbps. So it would seem that raw competition does in fact work in densely populated markets, as in Europe and Asia. The problem is in Suburbia and rural areas, where population density is so low that only incumbents can profit.
This is actually one of the reasons (other than the obvious feature and financial reasons) for the different "server" and "workstation" versions of Windows, which are otherwise very similar at the kernel level. The process and IO schedulers, and even the length of the scheduler timeslices, are indeed different on the server editions.
I took the Eurostar from London to Paris and loved it. City-center to city-center, in a couple of hours.
So, we have a train (Eurostar) which goes 465 km in 2.5 hours, for an aveage speed of 186 km/h.
Try the same thing from New York to Los Angeles: that's 4467 km via highway. I assume a rail route would be similar in length. At 186 km/h, the trip is over 24 hours long. It's tough for even a high-speed train to compete with a 4 hour airline flight.
Europeans forget than may of the states in the USA are larger in area than France or Germany, and our cities are far more spread out than they are in Europe. Which is why every American owns a car, and we burn so much damned gasoline.
Umm... I dunno. Maybe Sun Microsystems, which sits at #187?
ZFS was released way back in late 2005. Solaris is still pretty popular in the Fortune 500. I would imagine at least a few of those customers are using ZFS, even if they're only to try to stretch a storage budget that just isn't big enough for EMC this quarter.
I managed the all-Mac network at a newspaper in 1994, and let me tell you, Macs did suck at networking back then. Unless you used a single, unbridged AppleTalk domain, which scaled up to exactly 5 workstations.
Getting Macs to reliably access the Internet or other TCP/IP resources back then was also pretty much impossible. Reboots were required approximately once every hour.
That has got to be the most worthless site I have ever seen. An Empty FAQ, no "about this project", and most of the links are broken.
You've obviously never been to the South Side of Chicago. It's been "gentrifying" for a decade now, and still looks like Berlin after the Red Army rolled through.
TCP has supported Selective Acknowledgement for a very long time now. It's even on by default in Windows (since 2000, I believe). Essentially, this TCP option allows the receiver to ACK a range of packets received with a single ACK packet. It even allows multiple ranges to be ACKed, so the sender knows exactly which packets to retransmit. I would assume Linunx and BSD support it as well.
I'll bet you've never actually used Outlook Web Access 2007. It is definitely the best browser-based email I've ever used. It looks and works very much like the full Outlook client, and that level of feature integration makes it very productive.
Outlook is enormously popular for a reason, and it has very little to do with Microsoft being a monopoly. Exchange/Outlook came onto the scene late, but simply blew the once-dominant Lotus Notes straight into also-ran territory, because they were much easier to use and better integrated.
Anyway, the compromises in Google's "keep it simple" interface have started to annoy me after about 3 years, and I am looking to move.
The inspection box is a mostly one one-time capital expenditure. An OC-192 or similar high-speed connection to a Tier-one backbone provider could cost hundreds of thousands of US dollars per month.
Buying bandwidth (or maintaining, leasing, and deploying fiber in the case of Tier-1s) is the #2 recurring cost an ISP faces, second only to employee salaries.
Even very expensive hardware is comparatively cheap.
Okay, so if Wal-Mart is installing solar panels on acres of rooftops to help power their stores, why didn't they start by installing fucking skylights on those roofs instead of solar panels? A skylight is a helluva lot cheaper than a solar panel, and has a lot less environmental impact. It always bugged me to walk into a Home Depot or other big-box store and see 10kW worth of flourescent tubes blazing on a bright summer day. Are these companies really that stupid? My company's warehouse was built in 1955 and almost all of its lighting is from skylights during business hours.
And yes, I know that skylights could increase cooling costs, but infra-red rejecting glass is cheap and solves much of that problem.
There is Packeteer, but most people can't afford them.
I really hope you don't work in the financial industy. The valuation of a company is actually a fairly stnadardized concrete thing. It is based on the analysis of a rational outsider, not the "projections" of an insider.
As for people being upset and looking for scpegoats when they don't meet budgets or forecasts, well, that's been happening for hundreds of years. Brunswick, the bowling company, was in the 1950s valued very highly by some stock speculators because "bowling was exploding in popularity". Then things collapsed on them as the true, limited market for bowling equipment was saturated. Executives were fired, stock price tanked, etc. There really is nothing new or different about what's happening in some areas of business today.
Better, perhaps, but still about 1/3* of the speed of my Intel Xeon X5365-based system. Who cares if it's correct, so long as it's fast?
*based on Multi-threaded SPECintRate 2006 benchmark for two-socket systems
The AMA is not a union, and Doctor's salaries are not fixed. An anestesiologist not in private practice can make $300K starting in Detroit, but only $150K in Chicago or LA. Because nobody wants to live in Detroit, they have to pay more to attract talent.
What's being fixed are the prices doctors can charge, as Medicare has fixed prices for most procedures, and insurance companies fix their prices to those set by Medicare. That is a bad thing, long-term, as even a terrible doctor gets paid the same as a good one for a lot of procedures, and Doctors don't get rewarded for improving their skills. I know a surgeon who used to make about twice what he does now, because he was known as the best knee surgeon in the area. But now that procedure prices are effectively fixed, he makes just about the same as every other ortho in the area, even the guys that really suck. He also mostly stopped spending $20-30K per year going to seminars and learning new techniques, as it isn't worth the risk. Using new techniques make it much more likely that you get sued, because the lawyers can say, "you meen you didn't use the best practice used by every other doctor?".
It's not the Doctors causing our healthcare problems, it's the lawyers. How in the hell can we ask a bunch of lawyers - most COngressmen are lawyers - to fix it?