The average Dutch per-household consumption was 3300-3500kWh last year, depending on who you'd like to believe. As far as I know the average American household consumes 11.256kWh per year.
After correcting for the different sizes of households (2.5 person in the Netherlands, 3.4 in America) you'll still have a factor 2.5 between the two.
At 70-75mph driving on WV interstate highways I get about 20-21 MPG.
My milage does vary. When driving 74 miles per hour (the legal speedlimit over here) I get 56.5 miles to the gallon (or, in Euro-measure: 1:24). Just let it sink in. I'm not driving a hybrid, just a regular car. Which is good, given the current price of fuel over here. 7.15 dollar per gallon.
Project Orion showed several designs with speeds up to 0.1c for 'conventional' thermonuclear propulsion, up to 0.5-0.8c for a theoretical matter/antimatter-design.
To achieve similar thrust and specific impulse with an electrical drive would need a propulsion-subsystem the size of Switzerland. (And yes, CERN could be considered to be a small-scale prototype).
Almost EVERY engineering endeavor has involved catastrophic failures at one point or another. A pity you didn't say 'engineering succes', robbing me of a chance to point out that engineering failures involve failures as well.
However, in a failure-in-the-making the failures tend to confirm existing knowledgde, while a wannabee-succes tends to reveal new knowledge. "I told you it wasn't strong enough" versus "that is not supposed to happen".
It's interesting to see who you are calling 'brown shirts'. Mister Wilders is a lot more than plain 'anti-immigration'. One of the authors of his program is a self-declared follower of Carl Schmitt, the lawyer who doctored legal aspects of Hitler's 'coup' in 1933 in Germany. However, after writing the party-program this Bart-Jan Spruyt left, and later called it a shame that Wilders movement wasn't joined by the likes of Eerdmans (who's vague about any tendency to racism) and Pastoors (who is openly racist). Again later he called Wilders movement 'panic conservatism' and accused them of having a fear-driven natural tendency to fascism.
One of Carl Schmitt's central dogma's is that politics needs an all-encompassing enemy. In case of Schmitt that turned out to be Jews, and Wilders has picked Moroccan moslims as his target of choice.
I'd say Wilders PVV is as racist as the NSDAP in 1919. His target is different, but his ways are eerily similar.
If you read on and visit Rowling's site you will notice something. The story is quite different from what the grandfather-post suggests. Rowling has been helping the lexicon so for. But now the makers of the lexicon intend to make money by publishing a book, and that is where Rowling has to draw the line. She's happy helping fans, but selling books based on her work is a bridge to far.
I take no pleasure in the fact that publication has been prevented for the present. On the contrary, I feel massively disappointed that this matter had to come to court at all. Despite repeated requests, the publishers have refused to even countenance making any changes to the book to ensure that it does not infringe my rights. (source
Given the notorious ambigue prompts Windows is best known for, shouldn't that be
'Missile launch interrupted. Press Y to aquire next target, N to fire next missile or ESC to abort and re-aquire?'
Guess what would be the main consideration for a company pushing 4.5-6Gbit/s of data every day while a customer pays 7.50 or 10 euro's a month for his unlimited usenet account?
There aren't many PCI (full or half height) cards that can do ATM with OC3, etc....
I've been able to live in ISP-land for over ten years without ever coming close to ATM. Big exchanges like the AMS-IX (biggest public IX worldwide) have been pure ethernet since their inception. Getting ethernet in some form from a transit-provider is just a checkbox in the right place. Current commodity hardware will do linespeed GigE over PCI-X. Current high-end PC's have sufficient bandwidth available. 66MHz 64bits PCI-X might sound like 266MB/s, but keep in mind that equates to well over 2.5Gbit/s. The right hardware has 3 independant PCI busses and busmasters, so should be able to move 7.5Gbit/s of data via busmastering DMA, and thus with low CPU load. Keeping a full routing table and a bgp-daemon running doesn't require odd hardware. Juniper has been doing that on a Pentium MMX 333 with 768Mbyte since 2001, and a dual Xeon 2.4 will giggle at that 'workload'.
Combining the above will give you a 3U box (smaller than a 7200) which will route (not switch) 4-5Gbit/s reliable. A 7600 is a lot bigger and a serious sh*tload more expensive. You could buy several identical boxes for redundancy and still keep some change left.
Support is the only serious objection one could have in a FastEthernet-, GigE- or 10GE-world. Luckily I don't need support. I have been supporting stuff like above for ten years so I can manage. I can even support your Cisco and Juniper-platforms as well. I can handle my monthly exabyte by myself, thank you very much.
My former employer is using three relatively simple Tyan dual Xeons with a couple of Syskonnekt cards to shove 4-5 gigabits per second of traffic over the internet (yes, full routing, and over 240 peers on AMS-IX and NL-IX). Most of that is usenet (http://www.top1000.org/top1000.current.txt look for 'tweaknews') but well over a gigabit is DSL end user traffic and some hosting. Those boxes cost in the order of 7000 euro's a piece, and are about as stable as a cisco running an current IOS (not as stable as you'd like). 7 grand buys me a single linecard for a 7200 on the secondhand market, and no 7200 will do as much traffic.
I use graylisting. My mailserver gives you a temporary error, instead of a permanent one. Your mailserver will keep on trying to deliver the mail. If you got listed on spamcop for any reason other than spam, you *will* get delisted pretty quickly. A listed spammer will not try again to deliver mail. Too much effort. If some idiot with windows and a virus at your ISP does manage to earn a spamcop-listing it will delay your mail anywhere from a couple of hours to two full days, mostly depending on the alertness of your ISP. But the mail will get delivered, eventually.
This simple measure (returning a 4**-errorcode, and not a 5**) got rid of over 2000 spams per hour, without affecting the number of complaints spamfiltering generated. 1 of my 17.000 users noticed once that a specific message had spent 24 hours in a queue somewhere.
That silly mis-representation pops up every time. It isn't true.
"Technically you could supply all of the world's energy needs by covering 4% of the world's desert area with photo-voltaic panels," says Martin Green from the Advanced Silicon Photo-voltaics and Photonics research centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
That's 4% of the deserts, not the entiry surface of the earth. If one would use thermal-, tidal- and windenergy as well the amount of land needed would be neglible.
I would have rather been 5'10" 200lbs at 12 with a 5 o-clock shadow than at 20, would have made Jr. High and High school so much easier.
No, it wouldn't. I'm 6'9", 273lbs, started early on puberty (and sex) and growing up still wasn't easy, despite being the tallest, broadest boy in the class. Extra points for the first to dig up a snide remark about being tall I haven't heard a gazillion times before. It's not about size.
"unlimited bandwidth" can mean either no limit to the bandwidth itself, or no limits applied to your consumption of the available bandwidth. Take my current hoster. I'm on a 100Mbit/s ethernet link, and thus could burst up to around 95Mbit/s. On the other hand: If I expect heavy traffic I could arrange for GE or 10GE links to my hoster. Which in turn has a 2x10GE trunk to the nearest exchange, so 18Gbit/s should be possible. As long as I keep that under 12-24 hours I won't even have to pay for bandwidth, only traffic consumed. It pays to have a cluefull, friendly hoster with nice gear and links and a taste for fine brandy.
That's close to 'unlimited' for my uses. I'd be thrilled with 72.000 viewers for a webcast. That's ten times over my current peak.
The report comes a day after the Defense Ministry said it had lost a computer memory stick containing confidential Military Intelligence Agency data. In December, a Dutch district court sentenced a former AIVD translator to four and a half years imprisonment for passing on state secrets to alleged terrorists. Last year, a secret service employee left several CD-ROMs of confidential intelligence in the trunk of a rental car.
Every culture used to do some weird/nasty/mean things at some point.
Cannibalism isn't weird/nasty/mean in many cultures. Many cultures have cannibalistic rituals for other reasons. Papuas eat the brain of their elders to keep their wisdom and experience as part of their heritage, just as an example. Others eat brains of defeated enemies to steal their warcraft. No taboo, obviously.
Prices in the Netherlands: mobile: mobile plan is 20 euro's per month with 250 free minutes. After that it's 15 cent per minute, and free unmetered calls to collegue's. Landline: 1.3 all the way up to 3.6 cent per minute for calls in the netherlands. Calling to Japan will cost 6.5 to 7 cent a minute, America is 3.5 to 4.5 cent a minute and so on.
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You missed the third explanation.
The single reporter that said Atom support was missing screwed up. He f*cked his sh*t up and cried wolf.
WOLF! WOLF!
HTH, HAND
It might block much of your spam, but blocks a lot of legitimate mail too.
Given the availability of better alternatives, SORBS has been 'not an option' for me since like what. 2003 or so?
The average Dutch per-household consumption was 3300-3500kWh last year, depending on who you'd like to believe. As far as I know the average American household consumes 11.256kWh per year.
After correcting for the different sizes of households (2.5 person in the Netherlands, 3.4 in America) you'll still have a factor 2.5 between the two.
You're 47, I'm 42, and timothy might be 21.
Yeah, chilling thought, I know.
At 70-75mph driving on WV interstate highways I get about 20-21 MPG.
My milage does vary. When driving 74 miles per hour (the legal speedlimit over here) I get 56.5 miles to the gallon (or, in Euro-measure: 1:24). Just let it sink in. I'm not driving a hybrid, just a regular car. Which is good, given the current price of fuel over here. 7.15 dollar per gallon.
Project Orion showed several designs with speeds up to 0.1c for 'conventional' thermonuclear propulsion, up to 0.5-0.8c for a theoretical matter/antimatter-design.
To achieve similar thrust and specific impulse with an electrical drive would need a propulsion-subsystem the size of Switzerland. (And yes, CERN could be considered to be a small-scale prototype).
It's interesting to see who you are calling 'brown shirts'. Mister Wilders is a lot more than plain 'anti-immigration'. One of the authors of his program is a self-declared follower of Carl Schmitt, the lawyer who doctored legal aspects of Hitler's 'coup' in 1933 in Germany. However, after writing the party-program this Bart-Jan Spruyt left, and later called it a shame that Wilders movement wasn't joined by the likes of Eerdmans (who's vague about any tendency to racism) and Pastoors (who is openly racist). Again later he called Wilders movement 'panic conservatism' and accused them of having a fear-driven natural tendency to fascism. One of Carl Schmitt's central dogma's is that politics needs an all-encompassing enemy. In case of Schmitt that turned out to be Jews, and Wilders has picked Moroccan moslims as his target of choice. I'd say Wilders PVV is as racist as the NSDAP in 1919. His target is different, but his ways are eerily similar.
If you read on and visit Rowling's site you will notice something. The story is quite different from what the grandfather-post suggests. Rowling has been helping the lexicon so for. But now the makers of the lexicon intend to make money by publishing a book, and that is where Rowling has to draw the line. She's happy helping fans, but selling books based on her work is a bridge to far.
I take no pleasure in the fact that publication has been prevented for the present. On the contrary, I feel massively disappointed that this matter had to come to court at all. Despite repeated requests, the publishers have refused to even countenance making any changes to the book to ensure that it does not infringe my rights. (source
So one needs to have a leg shot off to really appreciate patriotic symbolism?
It explains why I never understood all the fuzz.
Somebody stole us the OS!
Given the notorious ambigue prompts Windows is best known for, shouldn't that be
'Missile launch interrupted. Press Y to aquire next target, N to fire next missile or ESC to abort and re-aquire?'
Guess what would be the main consideration for a company pushing 4.5-6Gbit/s of data every day while a customer pays 7.50 or 10 euro's a month for his unlimited usenet account?
Combining the above will give you a 3U box (smaller than a 7200) which will route (not switch) 4-5Gbit/s reliable. A 7600 is a lot bigger and a serious sh*tload more expensive. You could buy several identical boxes for redundancy and still keep some change left.
Support is the only serious objection one could have in a FastEthernet-, GigE- or 10GE-world. Luckily I don't need support. I have been supporting stuff like above for ten years so I can manage. I can even support your Cisco and Juniper-platforms as well. I can handle my monthly exabyte by myself, thank you very much.
My former employer is using three relatively simple Tyan dual Xeons with a couple of Syskonnekt cards to shove 4-5 gigabits per second of traffic over the internet (yes, full routing, and over 240 peers on AMS-IX and NL-IX). Most of that is usenet (http://www.top1000.org/top1000.current.txt look for 'tweaknews') but well over a gigabit is DSL end user traffic and some hosting. Those boxes cost in the order of 7000 euro's a piece, and are about as stable as a cisco running an current IOS (not as stable as you'd like). 7 grand buys me a single linecard for a 7200 on the secondhand market, and no 7200 will do as much traffic.
Cisco and Juniper: start getting scared *now*
I use graylisting. My mailserver gives you a temporary error, instead of a permanent one. Your mailserver will keep on trying to deliver the mail. If you got listed on spamcop for any reason other than spam, you *will* get delisted pretty quickly. A listed spammer will not try again to deliver mail. Too much effort. If some idiot with windows and a virus at your ISP does manage to earn a spamcop-listing it will delay your mail anywhere from a couple of hours to two full days, mostly depending on the alertness of your ISP. But the mail will get delivered, eventually.
This simple measure (returning a 4**-errorcode, and not a 5**) got rid of over 2000 spams per hour, without affecting the number of complaints spamfiltering generated. 1 of my 17.000 users noticed once that a specific message had spent 24 hours in a queue somewhere.
That's 4% of the deserts, not the entiry surface of the earth. If one would use thermal-, tidal- and windenergy as well the amount of land needed would be neglible.
I'm not allowed to listen to my own music on my own musicplayer?
Isn't there some kind of hunting-permit for out-of-control corporate idiots? Somebody should stop this madness!
No, it wouldn't. I'm 6'9", 273lbs, started early on puberty (and sex) and growing up still wasn't easy, despite being the tallest, broadest boy in the class. Extra points for the first to dig up a snide remark about being tall I haven't heard a gazillion times before. It's not about size.
"unlimited bandwidth" can mean either no limit to the bandwidth itself, or no limits applied to your consumption of the available bandwidth. Take my current hoster. I'm on a 100Mbit/s ethernet link, and thus could burst up to around 95Mbit/s. On the other hand: If I expect heavy traffic I could arrange for GE or 10GE links to my hoster. Which in turn has a 2x10GE trunk to the nearest exchange, so 18Gbit/s should be possible. As long as I keep that under 12-24 hours I won't even have to pay for bandwidth, only traffic consumed. It pays to have a cluefull, friendly hoster with nice gear and links and a taste for fine brandy.
That's close to 'unlimited' for my uses. I'd be thrilled with 72.000 viewers for a webcast. That's ten times over my current peak.
Ethanol made from plants will form a closed carbon-cycle. Ethanol sythesized from non-fossil sources will form a closed carbo-cycle.
The Dutch 'Secret' Service (AIVD) recenlty lost a memorystick containing 'secret' documents:
in Dutch: http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/39418l ioNotizieOggi/1,3243,2@1332658,00.html )
from an Italian newspaper: ( http://www.intesatrade.it/IntesaTrade/News/Dettag
Is there some plot I failed to see? Or is it just a case of semi-intelligent cliche-dropping?
Cannibalism isn't weird/nasty/mean in many cultures. Many cultures have cannibalistic rituals for other reasons. Papuas eat the brain of their elders to keep their wisdom and experience as part of their heritage, just as an example. Others eat brains of defeated enemies to steal their warcraft. No taboo, obviously.
Prices in the Netherlands: mobile: mobile plan is 20 euro's per month with 250 free minutes. After that it's 15 cent per minute, and free unmetered calls to collegue's. Landline: 1.3 all the way up to 3.6 cent per minute for calls in the netherlands. Calling to Japan will cost 6.5 to 7 cent a minute, America is 3.5 to 4.5 cent a minute and so on.
And I have an iPod (and iTMS-account) as well.