The BBC article is not clear on the fuel at all, the site coffeecar.org, states the car uses spent coffee grounds for fuel. So, this isn't as asinine as it originally sounds, just turning waste into syngas, not a useable (valuable, tasty) commodity for syngas.
The article is not clear on this, but the site it references (coffeecar.org) states the fuel is spent coffee grounds. So, it's maybe a little greener than using whole raw beans. At least it's using something that would otherwise go into the garbage, or my garden.
I've often wondered why I "see" spinning disks (as the article described) when on road trips or on hot days. It's very odd to explain, the best analogy I could come up with was a "Video game style targeting system"... But seeing it explained as a hallucination makes sense.
I get the same giddy enthusiasm that I got back in the '80's with the Voyager. But that is a very interesting question about which direction they would fly. I would venture they might take tradewinds/jet stream into account, perhaps some thermal updrafts too, over merely following the sun.
GV uses data service. If you're mobile, it's sending over 3G/EDGE. At home it uses wifi. My usage statement last month showed 245MB data usage Vs only 9 minutes of airtime used. That was for calls that came to my cell phone directly, that didn't dial my GV number.
I fit into this category. I was taking summer school at the local community college so that I could take AP classes the follow school year. In California, we have an exam called the High School equivalency exam. I took this test at 16, and by the time I was 17 I was a college freshman.
On top of that, the school I went to was on the trimester system, so I had a Bachelors of Science by the time I was 20.
My HS classmates at that time were probably in their second year in college by that time.
I would have greatly appreciated having the opportunity to "Walk" with graduating class that year (or what would have been my year), it sounds like this plan would allow over-achievers like myself to have the best of both worlds.
Just wanted to clarify that Ethernet refers to a standard, not a cable. You can have ethernet over UTP, coax, fiber, etc...
If the coax in your walls is RG6, that's probably better than Cat5. Homes with Fios or UVerse have nifty little coax to rj45 boxes that allow for the home networking setup.
As an IT professional, I have a different view on the matter. 1) We all know that the vast majority of security incidents occur from within an organization 2) If you're looking at data, and 1 sample is far beyond the standard deviation, you toss out that 1 data point. 3) If you don't follow manufacturers requirements, you do not get support, and YMMV with that equipment. 4) You use unique ID numbers to associate different data entries
What does this have to do with Landis? 1) The time stamps on the datafiles used in the case against him have differing creation dates and modification dates. This was after the initial red flag went off 2) The SOP for the T/E test specified that a sample outside the standard deviation of 4 was unacceptable. Landis sample B was 14:1... Had they been following their own SOP, they would have tossed this result as erroneous 3) The computer used to interface with the lab equipment ran OS/2, but the manufacturer of the lab equipment had only certified the machine against Windows. 4) The samples used in the case against Landis had a different ID number than Landis.
This whole case just illustrated the level of incompetence at the lab. To this day, I wholeheartedly believe that Floyd Landis won the 2006 TDF. Not because I'm naive, but because the case against him was so flawed. Had this been held in a US Criminal court, it would have been thrown out. But the WADA doesn't follow a typical court model, nor does the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
In regards to the stage in question. Landis was one of the first to race with a power meter, not just in training, but in the race. He had realtime numbers on his wattage output. He was able to determine that his effort was within his limits based off his training. Also, he used a huge quantity of water, but only drank a small portion of it (this is shown on the footage). He actively worked to keep his core temperature down by pouring something like 14 water bottles over himself.
Sounds like a misguided effort. What I really want, is high-quality audio in smaller file sizes. It seems like they're creating a solution without a problem, or for the wrong problem.
I understand the point of incentivizing legitimate downloads, but the incentive here is something I (or just about anyone) can get with a quick google search.
If they really want to incentivize legit downloads, give me exclusive content or, life-like audio... Heck, I'd take the music equivalent of "Director's Commentary" over their proposal.
Just think of ALL the information... Pandora in the background, HDTV at home... pr0n.... SMS messages. I guess this includes things like the Newspaper you'd pick up in the morning, or the leaflet you grab in a lobby of a building. It can all be considered data.
I would be interested in how much *information* we consume also.
Though, it's now "good enough" for most stuff - the T2 systems have a per-thread performance equal to about the old Pentium3 chips.
You must have pretty low expectations of what a system should do for that price... If I'm spending ~$15k for a T5120, it should at least hold it's own against a $4k x86_64...
I'm sure they make great web servers, but all the hype about how it'll be the next big thing in HPC was waay off. IMO, Sun shot itself in the foot when they eliminated the entry-level server. I got decent performance out of V210/V240 at a good price point. Now, if I need sparc, I have to sacrifice for a T-series box that won't do day-to-day operations very well, or spend an arm+both legs for an M-series. That's why we push linux so much....
I've been personally let down time after time by systems that make these claims. I know it's a bit different, but Sun's T2/T2+ chips have been disappointing. Sure psrinfo shows 128 CPUs, but overall performance sucks for anything more than web serving. Sure, the kernel may be thread-aware, but the underlying parts of the OS aren't... Plus, the binutils and misc utilities that comprise day-to-day tasks don't take advantage of that many execution threads... You have to get special gzip that is parallelized.
I'll withhold judgement until I see some benchmarks in real world scenarios.
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The BBC article is not clear on the fuel at all, the site coffeecar.org, states the car uses spent coffee grounds for fuel. So, this isn't as asinine as it originally sounds, just turning waste into syngas, not a useable (valuable, tasty) commodity for syngas.
The article is not clear on this, but the site it references (coffeecar.org) states the fuel is spent coffee grounds. So, it's maybe a little greener than using whole raw beans. At least it's using something that would otherwise go into the garbage, or my garden.
The site coffeecar.org makes reference to using waste from coffee shops. So, I guess that better than wasting perfectly good beans.
Don't you hate pants?
Is that a nuke in your sidecar, or are you just happy to see me?
No, but I did throw a rock and it went right where the convergence point was... it was cool.
I've often wondered why I "see" spinning disks (as the article described) when on road trips or on hot days. It's very odd to explain, the best analogy I could come up with was a "Video game style targeting system"... But seeing it explained as a hallucination makes sense.
Well, it doesn't have much to do with "Your Rights Online" ;)
I get the same giddy enthusiasm that I got back in the '80's with the Voyager.
But that is a very interesting question about which direction they would fly.
I would venture they might take tradewinds/jet stream into account, perhaps some thermal updrafts too, over merely following the sun.
GV uses data service. If you're mobile, it's sending over 3G/EDGE. At home it uses wifi. My usage statement last month showed 245MB data usage Vs only 9 minutes of airtime used. That was for calls that came to my cell phone directly, that didn't dial my GV number.
I use google voice, over wifi while at home.
If you have T-Mobile and a blackberry device, you have use UMA over wifi as well.
I fit into this category. I was taking summer school at the local community college so that I could take AP classes the follow school year.
In California, we have an exam called the High School equivalency exam. I took this test at 16, and by the time I was 17 I was a college freshman.
On top of that, the school I went to was on the trimester system, so I had a Bachelors of Science by the time I was 20.
My HS classmates at that time were probably in their second year in college by that time.
I would have greatly appreciated having the opportunity to "Walk" with graduating class that year (or what would have been my year), it sounds like this plan would allow over-achievers like myself to have the best of both worlds.
Furthermore, googling around for RG6 to RJ45 yielded some results.
Network Video Technologies makes adapters that go from coax to rj45
http://www.nvt.com/
Just wanted to clarify that Ethernet refers to a standard, not a cable. You can have ethernet over UTP, coax, fiber, etc...
If the coax in your walls is RG6, that's probably better than Cat5.
Homes with Fios or UVerse have nifty little coax to rj45 boxes that allow for the home networking setup.
That's actually pretty funny. Mod up!
As an IT professional, I have a different view on the matter.
1) We all know that the vast majority of security incidents occur from within an organization
2) If you're looking at data, and 1 sample is far beyond the standard deviation, you toss out that 1 data point.
3) If you don't follow manufacturers requirements, you do not get support, and YMMV with that equipment.
4) You use unique ID numbers to associate different data entries
What does this have to do with Landis?
1) The time stamps on the datafiles used in the case against him have differing creation dates and modification dates. This was after the initial red flag went off
2) The SOP for the T/E test specified that a sample outside the standard deviation of 4 was unacceptable. Landis sample B was 14:1... Had they been following their own SOP, they would have tossed this result as erroneous
3) The computer used to interface with the lab equipment ran OS/2, but the manufacturer of the lab equipment had only certified the machine against Windows.
4) The samples used in the case against Landis had a different ID number than Landis.
This whole case just illustrated the level of incompetence at the lab. To this day, I wholeheartedly believe that Floyd Landis won the 2006 TDF. Not because I'm naive, but because the case against him was so flawed. Had this been held in a US Criminal court, it would have been thrown out. But the WADA doesn't follow a typical court model, nor does the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
In regards to the stage in question. Landis was one of the first to race with a power meter, not just in training, but in the race. He had realtime numbers on his wattage output. He was able to determine that his effort was within his limits based off his training. Also, he used a huge quantity of water, but only drank a small portion of it (this is shown on the footage). He actively worked to keep his core temperature down by pouring something like 14 water bottles over himself.
Sounds like a misguided effort. What I really want, is high-quality audio in smaller file sizes. It seems like they're creating a solution without a problem, or for the wrong problem.
I understand the point of incentivizing legitimate downloads, but the incentive here is something I (or just about anyone) can get with a quick google search.
If they really want to incentivize legit downloads, give me exclusive content or, life-like audio... Heck, I'd take the music equivalent of "Director's Commentary" over their proposal.
I wish slashdot had a "Like" button.
That was quick
Just think of ALL the information... Pandora in the background, HDTV at home... pr0n.... SMS messages. I guess this includes things like the Newspaper you'd pick up in the morning, or the leaflet you grab in a lobby of a building. It can all be considered data.
I would be interested in how much *information* we consume also.
Though, it's now "good enough" for most stuff - the T2 systems have a per-thread performance equal to about the old Pentium3 chips.
You must have pretty low expectations of what a system should do for that price... If I'm spending ~$15k for a T5120, it should at least hold it's own against a $4k x86_64...
I'm sure they make great web servers, but all the hype about how it'll be the next big thing in HPC was waay off.
IMO, Sun shot itself in the foot when they eliminated the entry-level server. I got decent performance out of V210/V240 at a good price point. Now, if I need sparc, I have to sacrifice for a T-series box that won't do day-to-day operations very well, or spend an arm+both legs for an M-series. That's why we push linux so much....
I've been personally let down time after time by systems that make these claims. I know it's a bit different, but Sun's T2/T2+ chips have been disappointing. Sure psrinfo shows 128 CPUs, but overall performance sucks for anything more than web serving. Sure, the kernel may be thread-aware, but the underlying parts of the OS aren't... Plus, the binutils and misc utilities that comprise day-to-day tasks don't take advantage of that many execution threads... You have to get special gzip that is parallelized.
I'll withhold judgement until I see some benchmarks in real world scenarios.
I was going to post the same thing...
Technically, anything proprietary is monopolistic...
If you're the ONLY one making [mainframes/Macintosh/widget Z], wouldn't that make you an automatic monopoly?
If someone wants to make a work-a-like/compatible product to your proprietary product, are you bound to oblige?
Holy crap... I just realized my UID is only 5 digits... Where did the past 10 years go?