I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults
This is, presuming your are male, because you have no children of your own. If, amazingly, you do have children, then you are Very Bad Man, who deserves his testicles chopped off.
If drilling in the gulf means dealing with methane/ice as a matter of course, and the oil companies haven't yet figured out how to protect their capital investment (rigs) from the operational dangers they represent
Apparently, you don't realize how many decades (3) that oil companies have been drilling deep (300+ meters) into the Gulf of Mexico. And this isn't the 3rd 1600m oil rig in the Gulf, either...
plus a main disconnect breaker on your electrical service. If you for some reason were to exceed your permitted service capacity (think of amperage as being equivalent to your bandwidth like Mbps) of say 100A then the breaker would trip and cut you off the grid.
But that's for actual, physical safety (residential copper wire can only conduct so much current without overheating and burning down the house), not some amorphous "think of the children" hand-waving.
I know of a couple of occasions firsthand where an industrial customer was ORDERED by the electrical utility to shut down production becasue of lack of capactiy
Totally and completely irrelevant to my point, because the shutdown was not due to what that customer was doing with the electricity.
Anyway, the electricity-ethernet analogy can only be stretched so far.
You CANNOT save them like the other utilities I mentioned.
Yet the ISP must still pay for the same fiber no matter whether it's Grandma checking her mail, or Dweezil streaming HD video 16 hours a day.
That's why I think you should pay for a data RATE. Not a data QUANTITY.
Low rate customers transfer "little" amounts of data use just as do infrequent users with high-bandwidth pipes. The multiplication statements are just different.
So, someone who constantly transfers a little data will pay the "same" as someone who occasionally transfers lots of data. And the first guy still has the capacity for that odd time he really does need the speed.
Peter Gibbons wouldn't have been able to (try to) skim off jillion rounding errors if the accounting system had been written in the appropriate domain specific language (which uses BCD).
Some of use actually find *occasional* access to personal email while on vacation to be rather useful, since some communication is better handled in writing than over a phone.
And, last but not least, some people actually write letters home, and email is a great way to ensure that they arrive in a timely manner.
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What makes me laugh is this quote by someone who derides Intelligent Design: design by Mother Nature
The solution was to have multiple snapshots.
Argh!!!!!!
The solution is to use a s/w-h/w combo that doesn't crash on a regular basis.
Actually, I'm a happily married father of 2.
I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults
This is, presuming your are male, because you have no children of your own. If, amazingly, you do have children, then you are Very Bad Man, who deserves his testicles chopped off.
If you're buying a 3TB HD you probably already have a SSD boot drive so it doesn't matter.
Ummm, yeah, sure. That's pretty not obvious.
but how do we know that it's being flung out of it's galaxy at high speed?
If drilling in the gulf means dealing with methane/ice as a matter of course, and the oil companies haven't yet figured out how to protect their capital investment (rigs) from the operational dangers they represent
Apparently, you don't realize how many decades (3) that oil companies have been drilling deep (300+ meters) into the Gulf of Mexico. And this isn't the 3rd 1600m oil rig in the Gulf, either...
plus a main disconnect breaker on your electrical service. If you for some reason were to exceed your permitted service capacity (think of amperage as being equivalent to your bandwidth like Mbps) of say 100A then the breaker would trip and cut you off the grid.
But that's for actual, physical safety (residential copper wire can only conduct so much current without overheating and burning down the house), not some amorphous "think of the children" hand-waving.
I know of a couple of occasions firsthand where an industrial customer was ORDERED by the electrical utility to shut down production becasue of lack of capactiy
Totally and completely irrelevant to my point, because the shutdown was not due to what that customer was doing with the electricity.
Anyway, the electricity-ethernet analogy can only be stretched so far.
You haven't gotten sucked into the "smart grid/meter/thermostat" thing, have you?
Hell no!!! Quite the opposite, in fact.
You CANNOT save them like the other utilities I mentioned.
Yet the ISP must still pay for the same fiber no matter whether it's Grandma checking her mail, or Dweezil streaming HD video 16 hours a day.
That's why I think you should pay for a data RATE. Not a data QUANTITY.
Low rate customers transfer "little" amounts of data use just as do infrequent users with high-bandwidth pipes. The multiplication statements are just different.
So, someone who constantly transfers a little data will pay the "same" as someone who occasionally transfers lots of data. And the first guy still has the capacity for that odd time he really does need the speed.
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Local phone: depends on where you live.
So, that's 50/50 (or sometimes 40/60).
Metering internet service would be a big stick that we can beat Big ISP with to say, "Let me do what I want with my Internet service!!!"
But then people that just check email would only net them $8.07... can't have that, can we?
We should.
The powerco doesn't "rate limit" me depending on what I do with the electricity I use, and neither should my ISP.
net neutrality means "treat the ISP like a utility", and guess what???
Most utilities (even some PPTs) sell metered service: the more you use, the more you pay.
but you make one negative remark about Islam and it suddenly doesn't work that way?
Sure... They don't want their data centers to get bombed.
Wow. Racist shitheads get smarter and smarter every day.
Unless he's reverse astroturfing.
That means that rollover would occur if they were using seconds and borrowing your numbers, about year 320,000,000,000.
One of us has a decimal waaaayyyyy off. I think it's you. Some python code:
So, rollover on approx 07-Feb-31085
2^64 seconds is more time than the entire history of our Universe from beginning to end even in the most ridiculous theory.
OpenVMS keeps time in a 64 bit integer, and the "ticks" are 100ns. Epoch is 17-Nov-1858; rollover is somewhere around the year 32,000.
You need 64 bit integers for holding indexes into arrays with more than 2 billion elements.
Unsigned ints will double that.
But fp is, by nature, slightly imprecise. Really, Really Small numbers would get lost in the noise.
Peter Gibbons wouldn't have been able to (try to) skim off jillion rounding errors if the accounting system had been written in the appropriate domain specific language (which uses BCD).
How is that Hardware Support going?
Very well, on machines designed for business (i.e., mainframes and VAXen).
Maybe because BCD is the worse possible way to do 'proper' decimal arithmetic,
"0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004" doesn't really seem all that proper to me.
But BCD *does* do "0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3".
also it would absolutely be very slow.
Without h/w support.
Instead you can put 20 decimal digits in 64bits (3.2 bits per db) and do math much more faster
I want accurate math, not estimates.
Exactly
Do you pride yourself a Rational Man, or a low down dirty bigot?
how do you express 1/3 in BCD?
Just as in "paper" decimal arithmetic, you must truncate it somewhere.
Since I've long forgotten how to "punch" the sign, this is what it would look like in 8(2) imaginary "unsigned" BCD, in hex: 00000033.
use BCD math. With h/w support it's fast enough...
Why don't any languages except COBOL and PL/I use it?
Wow, the narrowmindedness overwhelms me.
Not everyone is addicted to their Crackberry.
Some of use actually find *occasional* access to personal email while on vacation to be rather useful, since some communication is better handled in writing than over a phone.
And, last but not least, some people actually write letters home, and email is a great way to ensure that they arrive in a timely manner.