I suppose you've only got the word of a Slashdot contributor, but I personally experienced one like this twice (at two locations), the only difference being the server wasn't being unplugged, but a high-current device was being mistakenly plugged into the same circuit and tripping a surge protector. In was case it was indeed after hours and it was indeed a floor buffer (the server was SUN Sparc). (The other case was much earlier and involved a kettle in the room next door and incorrect wiring.)
Nice projects! I also have 3 Pis, though only one is currently in use, as a RaspBMC media center. Works great, 1080p is indeed perfectly smooth. I've found the interface improves a lot if you use the fastest SD card you can, say a 30MB/s SanDisk Ultra or something similar (it pays to test the cards, not all "Class 10" are created equal it seems. Disappointingly mine wa slabelled 48MB/s, but tests at a bit over 30).
I've been running RaspBMC since I got my first Pi (first-gen Model B) and it is a great media center, at least if your media is encoded with the codec(s) it has hardware support for and you spend the $3 or whatever for the licence code. I now have a B+doing the job for the extra USB ports (wifi dongle, Logitech K400 dongle, 2 USB disks) and beefier power. It has no problems with full HD video at all.
The one thing I have noticed is that you really need to get a good, fast (micro)SD for the system, something like a 30MB/s Sandisk Ultra. It makes no difference to the video playback, but the UI is much more responsive.
Baltie is being used in several European countries, it's more of a graphical programming tool and perhaps for younger children. I haven't tried it myself, but it might be worth a look:
What is Baltie?
I have in the high thousands of bookmarks, that's another thing FF shines at with the bookmarks sidebar and search, Chrome sucks at finding bookmarks. But it's much easier and quicker to open a bunch of tabs (right-click), keep them open and topically-grouped in one window while needed, and close them after, than bookmarking things which might never be returned to or might not turn out ot be useful, and then trying to find them.
843 today, over about 20 windows... each window to different purpose, yes. Session Manager to save them reliably. Mostly it's documentation and stuff-to-read relating to various projects in parallel. Firefox's tab handling is awesome compared to e.g. Chrome...
fdupes is excellent and I second that (please mod the parent up!)
The only drawback to fdupes is that the files must be identical, so two identical images but where one has some additional metadata e.g. inside the EXIF won't be deduplicated.
That model isn't a climate model at all, it's an energy economy model, as are the models it replaces. This has nothing at all to do with the availability (or otherwise) of climate models...
Her apology pretty much says it right there: "a needless and careless tweet". If it was "darkly ironic" etc etc it wouldn't be "needless and careless".
She's (was) a PR exec - writing heartfelt apologies is part of her job description. Then again, so is not creating PR disasters for her employer (which this was, even if it was indeed meant as a deep commentary on the lot of poor South Africans), so YMMV I suppose. Anyway, I find it hard to believe this was anything deep and meaningful with a history like this:
Worse, they're buying coal power from Poland (Poland does not have any power-generating reactors... yet). All because of shutting down their own nuclear reactors in the wake of the post-Fukushima nuclear-is-bad hysteria.
This is silly. All this talk of work moving to tablets or smartphones, or laptops replacing desktops (a) misses the point of why we use desktops in the first place and (b) focuses on a relatively narrow selection of the workforce.
The advantages are not in processing power or framerates or whatever, that was largely solved years ago and portable devices get better every year. The advantages are in ergonomics, efficiency and maintenance:
Desktops have:
- an arbitrarily large screen (or mutliple screens)
- a screen which is adjustable in height above the desk as well as angle
- a screen which can be mounted on a wall or other convenient location away from the CPU and keyboard
- a separate keyboard and mouse which can (a) be placed arbitrarily on the desk relative to the screen and (b) can be cheaply and easily replaced when you spill coffee on it or when it gets dirty
- the box can be replaced independently of the monitor, which is good for maintenace if something breaks and good for costs in the upgrade cycle
Now some will argue that all the above can be solved by a docked laptop, and that is true (indeed I am typing this from a docked laptop). But for the vast majority of workers they neither need nor want to take their computer home with them (most office workers) nor should they (e.g. hospital workers). In that case it makes no sense at all for their employer to spend more money on a laptop and docking station when the laptop will never move anyway.
Mobile devices are good for managers, marketers, creative people who like to work in cafes etc, people who need to work in the field and people who take their work home.The vast majority of workers are not these people. They are secretaries, accountants, HR staff, middle management, shop workers, clerical staff, workers in healthcare, in retail, etc etc. People who use spreadsheets, full-screen forms, databases etc. These people have nothing at all to gain from mobility in the work place and everything to lose in terms of ergonomics, and their employers in terms of costs and maintenance.
Even for home use the ergonomics of a separet keyboard, mouse and monitor mean the desktop will often stay (kid spills juice on the keyboard? $10-$50. Spills juice on the laptop? $100-$500.)
That's why desktops are not going anywhere; developers, CAD users and the like are just the power user icing on the cake.
Pretty much every other nuclear country reprocesses, either themselves or by sending it to be reprocessed. It's only in the US that very little fuel is reprocessed (some is).
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I suppose you've only got the word of a Slashdot contributor, but I personally experienced one like this twice (at two locations), the only difference being the server wasn't being unplugged, but a high-current device was being mistakenly plugged into the same circuit and tripping a surge protector. In was case it was indeed after hours and it was indeed a floor buffer (the server was SUN Sparc). (The other case was much earlier and involved a kettle in the room next door and incorrect wiring.)
Newtonian physics is not wrong. It is an approximation which is valid at most scales.
Interesting ... thanks for the tip, since it's just an easy card swap I'll find another card and try it out.
Or sails, perhaps? (only half joking, there's a lot of research into modern-technology wind-powered ships)
Nice projects! I also have 3 Pis, though only one is currently in use, as a RaspBMC media center. Works great, 1080p is indeed perfectly smooth. I've found the interface improves a lot if you use the fastest SD card you can, say a 30MB/s SanDisk Ultra or something similar (it pays to test the cards, not all "Class 10" are created equal it seems. Disappointingly mine wa slabelled 48MB/s, but tests at a bit over 30).
I've been running RaspBMC since I got my first Pi (first-gen Model B) and it is a great media center, at least if your media is encoded with the codec(s) it has hardware support for and you spend the $3 or whatever for the licence code. I now have a B+doing the job for the extra USB ports (wifi dongle, Logitech K400 dongle, 2 USB disks) and beefier power. It has no problems with full HD video at all.
The one thing I have noticed is that you really need to get a good, fast (micro)SD for the system, something like a 30MB/s Sandisk Ultra. It makes no difference to the video playback, but the UI is much more responsive.
Quick way to get fired ...
Or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Mate, without the Mint middleman ...
Ok, calling steam an explosive compound is clearly a mistake, but steam boiler explosions have killed many people in the past ...
Baltie is being used in several European countries, it's more of a graphical programming tool and perhaps for younger children. I haven't tried it myself, but it might be worth a look: What is Baltie?
... there goes that refuge then ;)
I have in the high thousands of bookmarks, that's another thing FF shines at with the bookmarks sidebar and search, Chrome sucks at finding bookmarks. But it's much easier and quicker to open a bunch of tabs (right-click), keep them open and topically-grouped in one window while needed, and close them after, than bookmarking things which might never be returned to or might not turn out ot be useful, and then trying to find them.
843 today, over about 20 windows ... each window to different purpose, yes. Session Manager to save them reliably. Mostly it's documentation and stuff-to-read relating to various projects in parallel. Firefox's tab handling is awesome compared to e.g. Chrome ...
fdupes is excellent and I second that (please mod the parent up!)
The only drawback to fdupes is that the files must be identical, so two identical images but where one has some additional metadata e.g. inside the EXIF won't be deduplicated.
That model isn't a climate model at all, it's an energy economy model, as are the models it replaces. This has nothing at all to do with the availability (or otherwise) of climate models ...
The quote comes from: New Energy Model Offers Transparency to Let Others Replicate Findings
The model
If it's a straight cable it's probably a communications cable for a UPS. (really just USB at both ends)
If it has a box in the middle it's most likeley a USB-to-serial cable to connect to a switch, like this one.
Exactly. "Belief" has nothing to do with it.
The brevity of tweets makes it deceptively easy to assume the worst intent on the part of the writer.
... and puts additional responsibility on the author to choose their words carefully.
Her apology pretty much says it right there: "a needless and careless tweet". If it was "darkly ironic" etc etc it wouldn't be "needless and careless".
She's (was) a PR exec - writing heartfelt apologies is part of her job description. Then again, so is not creating PR disasters for her employer (which this was, even if it was indeed meant as a deep commentary on the lot of poor South Africans), so YMMV I suppose. Anyway, I find it hard to believe this was anything deep and meaningful with a history like this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenvesp/16-tweets-justine-sacco-regrets-hxg7
You are reading way too much intelligence into her tweet ....
Worse, they're buying coal power from Poland (Poland does not have any power-generating reactors ... yet). All because of shutting down their own nuclear reactors in the wake of the post-Fukushima nuclear-is-bad hysteria.
This is silly. All this talk of work moving to tablets or smartphones, or laptops replacing desktops (a) misses the point of why we use desktops in the first place and (b) focuses on a relatively narrow selection of the workforce.
The advantages are not in processing power or framerates or whatever, that was largely solved years ago and portable devices get better every year. The advantages are in ergonomics, efficiency and maintenance:
Desktops have:
- an arbitrarily large screen (or mutliple screens)
- a screen which is adjustable in height above the desk as well as angle
- a screen which can be mounted on a wall or other convenient location away from the CPU and keyboard
- a separate keyboard and mouse which can (a) be placed arbitrarily on the desk relative to the screen and (b) can be cheaply and easily replaced when you spill coffee on it or when it gets dirty
- the box can be replaced independently of the monitor, which is good for maintenace if something breaks and good for costs in the upgrade cycle
Now some will argue that all the above can be solved by a docked laptop, and that is true (indeed I am typing this from a docked laptop). But for the vast majority of workers they neither need nor want to take their computer home with them (most office workers) nor should they (e.g. hospital workers). In that case it makes no sense at all for their employer to spend more money on a laptop and docking station when the laptop will never move anyway.
Mobile devices are good for managers, marketers, creative people who like to work in cafes etc, people who need to work in the field and people who take their work home.The vast majority of workers are not these people. They are secretaries, accountants, HR staff, middle management, shop workers, clerical staff, workers in healthcare, in retail, etc etc. People who use spreadsheets, full-screen forms, databases etc. These people have nothing at all to gain from mobility in the work place and everything to lose in terms of ergonomics, and their employers in terms of costs and maintenance.
Even for home use the ergonomics of a separet keyboard, mouse and monitor mean the desktop will often stay (kid spills juice on the keyboard? $10-$50. Spills juice on the laptop? $100-$500.)
That's why desktops are not going anywhere; developers, CAD users and the like are just the power user icing on the cake.
Polysporin contains antibiotics ...
Pretty much every other nuclear country reprocesses, either themselves or by sending it to be reprocessed. It's only in the US that very little fuel is reprocessed (some is).
No one has RTFA it seems ... (I know, I know, /.)
The scientists are being asked to study the effects of climate change on Nebraska, not climate change itself.
in that context restricting them to studying the effects of cyclical changes only is stupid, and the reason for their protest.
See also the longer article here http://www.omaha.com/article/20131024/NEWS/131029338/1707#state-climate-change-study-may-go-begging-for-scientists