It's amazing to me that this type of thing only gets implemented due to a crisis when it should be obvious from the get go that developing and improving the methods of recycling and reclamation should always be part of the way we do anything.
Not everywhere...
I'm currently sitting less than a mile upwind of one of the great lakes... The energy requirement for this sewage filtration process has a far larger environmental impact than just regular sewage treatment combined with pumping a bit more water out of the lake. We could probably reduce out draw out of the lake 50% with this technology, at the mere cost of kilotons of extra fly ash and mercury dumped into the lake from our coalburners... the same lake we're getting our drinking water out of...
California / desert SW solutions are not appropriate everywhere. If anything, on average, east of the mississippi river, we have way too much fresh water and need to focus tech on dealing with floods caused by rain. Much like fixing failing school systems or sick care systems, just dumping more money on the problem doesn't seem to help.
has enough processing power to consume but not enough to effectively create
Why? Anyone in the biz for more than 2 years was using less "power" to create 2 years ago, perfectly acceptably. And certainly nothing has changed since then.
Anyone with a longer than, say, 2 years upgrade cycle, would find the netbook specs to be an upgrade over their present full size laptop...
Fiberglass cases ? Double-punishment if you drop your "Ultrabook": - Fiberglass breaks easily; - If will spread a fine cloud of fiberglass shards after the impact - breathe those and your lungs are fubar.
Well, duh, then a year after the fiberglass cased models are released we'll be "permitted" to "upgrade" to a "new plastic case" which fortunately only costs $200 more.
netbook - plastic case + fiberglass case = ultrabook
"general public" who ignore the marketing materials, like my wife and sister in law, continue to refer to any clamshell design with a keyboard as a "laptop".
Nothing has changed that makes the US more likely to default.
I would strongly disagree.
Almost all bond issuers can only default by not repaying the principle and interest. I do agree with you that is infinitely unlikely, since the US Govt can simply print the money on demand. Of course no one expected the USSR to collapse when it did, so, its slightly more likely the USA could collapse now.
The failure mode is the US is one of the few bond issuers who controls global inflation. What exactly is the difference, financially, between "not repaying" and "repaying a hyperinflated nominal value"?
Real world example: You buy a 10 year, $1K t-note. I agree completely the odds are excellent, although not quite 100% perfect, that in 10 years you'll have your $1K plus a tiny bit of interest returned to you. I disagree in that the odds are pretty high that due to high to hyper inflation, that $1K t-note will only be worth approximately one restaurant meal.
lukewarm reviews criticizing the... poor battery live
Just how bad is it? Merely journalistic hyperbole where it runs about 5 minutes less than a ipad, or is it so bad you can't watch a full length movie on one charge?
Much of a tablet's success is based on the ecosystem of apps that is available to the end-user.
B.S. journalist doesn't know anything, just repeating what other journalists say. Every user I know spends 99.99% of their time in safari, mail, facebook app, or the video/music player. With an honorable mention of the kindle app.
No one buys based on which platform has the most fart soundboard apps or the most "20 pictures of attractive women for 99 cents" apps.
everyone has a minimum 50 inch HD TV and a 27 inch HD computer screen
Means you can't signal importance / wealth / conspicuous consumption on a big screen. You signal by owning expensive little screens now.
Back when 50 inch TVs cost more than a used car, I couldn't afford one so I didn't care. Now that they give them away with the purchase of a bag of pork rinds at walmart, it would be uncool for me to be seen buying one. There was a momentary sweet spot a couple years ago where they were cheap, but not yet ghetto, but I missed it. So believe it or not, my "daily viewer" is a 80s era magnavox CRT that just won't quit working. If only it was engineered like a modern TV to burn out in a year or two, then I could toss it and buy a giant disposable TV, but it just won't quit working...
But that's a retarded failing of MythTV that can be worked around with X11 as a band-aid...
And after X11 is gotten rid of, and there is no bandaid... The only benefit the GUI provides over a config file is its semi-adaptive. From memory, you set up the capture card, THEN it shows up as an option in the thingy that links cap card hardware to channel lineups or whatever. The only benefit the GUI provides over a text CLI is during channel icon selection. The only benefit the GUI provides over a web based interface, is you don't need to set up / maintain / security patch a web server and some operations like channel scanning can take minutes to return results, far longer than most browsers/servers will tolerate.
It can probably be worked around with some effort and annoyance. Which is not worth it if the only benefit of the new technology platform is useless trendy eyecandy "now, with see thru xterm backgrounds".
Do you really need a fancy graphics card just to run MythTV?
Isn't the whole point of the Wayland project that you'd require a "fancy graphics card" just to run a xterm / konsole / xfce terminal? Might not be able to make it past the animated 3-D video login screen without a $500 card.
Any more, that's the only thing I want to display remotely, because any old janky computer has enough power to run apps locally.
Sometimes, power doesn't matter. I can't run mythtv-setup locally. Unfortunately, its the only way I know of to configure a mythtv-backend, and its a X11 GUI. My mythtv-backend doesn't even have a graphics card, certainly not the mandatory $500 super 3-d type you'd need, and I'd not want to remove a tuner card to plug in a fancy 3-d card, just for occasional channel lineup changes...
.NET doesn't magically stop people from developing brittle, poorly designed software. That's what you get competent developers and give them the resources they need to do the job right for. Or, at least, if you don't, you shouldn't blame the platform.
Why does it only happen with.net and java? Must be some peculiarity of the language that leads them to it. Much as its easier to make write-only Perl than write-only python. Or it seems easier to make object oriented Ruby than object-oriented Perl.
I have some secret corporate knowledge about this game... Here comes my NDA violation.... wait for it... "you run around and shoot things and people."
My god I can't believe I gave away the secret. Sorry if I ruined it for anyone; can't blame me, I used a "spoiler" tag in the subject. Everyone act surprised when it turns out I was correct, mkay?
When you consider the gravitational field rather than line of sight then the "shadow" that Earth casts is really quite large.
How so? I agree the gravity field of the earth screws around with "lots" of incoming trajectories. But that still means it hits just about as often.
Lets say, for the sake of argument, that "the system" is contained within a cubical volume of space, a tenth of an A.U. on a side. Something passes thru that cube. No matter how much it curves (more or less) the percentage volume of space represented by the moon is a constant within that cube. So the percentage of impacts is roughly constant.
From the moon, calculate the percentage of the sky hemisphere covered by the earth. Its really small. Assuming a random distribution of meteors from every direction, the shadow of the earth isn't that impressive.
Another way to look at it, is as a thought experiment, imagine magically all the meteors came from the sun, as a magical point source, rather than randomly everywhere. What percentage of the time does the moon spend in a lunar eclipse? Answer is practically zero.
Note that in low earth orbit, "most of" the hemisphere facing the earth is... the earth. That's why the cooling system for the ISS is optimized to dump into "earth radiative temperature" whereas the moon landing ships were optimized to dump into mostly empty space. The ISS would not work very well away from low earth orbit.
"People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves," said neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, "The brain is very good at deluding itself."
spare me... Its like saying "people can't run very well" or "people aren't very tall". There's a nice bell curve and both jobs and personal satisfaction naturally select following the Peter Principle. The village idiot maxes out his Peter Principle at doing about one thing at a time. The short order cook from the article apparently maxes out around two dozen or whatever. Everyone else bell curves in the middle.
Most of my G+ circles are technical people (no family members, old school friends, or tech-illiterate friends yet).
Same here... G+ circles would be a killer feature if there were any meatspace friends, family members, or coworkers on G+. Seems entirely populated by two groups: 1) Techies 2) Tech journalists
That's about the only two circles you actually can use on G+.
Also, you want a weird stat? I have observed G+ is about 50% atheist / agnostic / unaligned / lawful neutral or whatever you want to call it, and I only know of one evangelical christian on G+ out of about a hundred in my circles..
Seems somewhat wrong that paying customers get left in the lurch as often as we do.
You can keep us ipad and ipod touch users company. The app only installs on the iphone, although supposedly it works on anything you can ram it into.
If you have osx 10.6 (which I do not) then you can install the iphone configurator utility and violently force it to install, at which point I've heard it works perfectly. If anyone has a suggestion that forces the G+ app onto an ipod touch or ipad, that doesn't require osx 10.6 or newer, then let me know.
Most? More like all, unless the small business is an IT consulting firm. Or at best you've got someone's college age kid who can help out... who probably owns a mac laptop / ipod / other apple products etc.
If they use a Mac Mini as a server and a Time Capsule as a backup, then they can get a new Mac Mini and restore the backup without needing any technical competence in house.
And if it doesn't work, isn't the local apple store where they bought it pretty much unique in the industry? The closest thing I know of to an apple store is the Best Buy guys, and lets face it, the only technical skill they're experts on is maximizing their sales commissions...
I'm told the main difference between installation of postgres vs mysql is [which package to install]
Is this for one user and one database on a box, or potentially hundreds of databases, one for each hosting customer?
A dozen boxes, more or less one admin, either one customer or a dozen departments or hundreds of users depending how you look at it, dozen databases, hundreds of tables.
Currently backup and deployment of new boxes are currently pretty tightly linked... bring up a new box, run a script to inject last nights backup of the schema and data from another box, run a script to tweak local box config values in the DB (just a bunch of SQL update table blah set blah = 'new' where blah='old'). Essentially bringing up a new box is the automated "restore" script followed by automated "customization" script. Lots of Puppet, if you're familiar with that automation system. Hoping I can keep on doing things that way, same concepts just a different backend.
Conceptually I'm dreaming swapping out the backend DB should be about as complicated as swapping out the mysql db engine from innodb to myisam and back. During a maint window, automation to dump it, modify it, import it, theoretically a quick hands off change. Realistically its looking like a whole heck of a lot of work. All to get Kerberos logins. Which has successfully generated a loss of motivation to actually do it.
Maybe its just ignorance... China is really freaking big. Saying "its china" is about as pointlessly vague as saying "it was done by young males". In both cases theres about a billion suspects.
Also all the PCs in China are unpatched, owned zombies. Don't waste time claiming they based it on IP addrs.
Postgres has a much more robust (and as a result considerably more complicated) security setup.Authentication can happen through one or many different means.. most of which require a little configuration and more importantly you need to know they exist/how they work! This also complicates connecting to the database.
For me that's a feature not a bug. Let face it, mysql has had kerberos as a todo for bout a decade now.. its just never gonna happen, and mysql is the only thing I have left that doesn't use kerberos...
One agony is mythtv absolutely does not and will never support postgres, according to the flames I've read from the developers, so I must keep a vestigal legacy install of mysql at home. Everywhere else, work and home, I can flush mysql.
Additionally where MySQL has an ultra friendly console app with built in help for creating users and databases.. postgres has a series of scripts. The default way ot creating a new table is to copy one from a provided template (called template1). Again, this is all stuff you need to learn before doing. Someone can run the mysql command, run help, see "CREATE DATABASE" and kinda go from there. To use postgres you need to know that this template exists, how to use it, and what the hell you are actually doing... and then you need to figure out how to control who has acess to it.
OK now I'm getting confused. Most of my apps do the rails thing or the Perl DBI/DBD thing, so I'm getting conflicting responses both here and in google searches WRT to ye olde fashioned "rake db:create:all". either that works transparently with postgres just like mysql, or using postgres means I have to go back to something like JCL card decks on my old MVS DB2 box. Or occasionally both, depending on bugs and failure modes.
I am absolutely not able to use a web or graphical interface... I don't want to make over 5000 non automatable non documentable mouse clicks that can never be stored in a VCS and can never be reviewed nor backed up nor deployed to new servers at a keystroke. That's a complete non-starter, both at work and home. Admining the DB with a mouse is right up there with submitting my data on punchcards... no thanks.
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They should bottle and market it. First we had astronaut ice cream. Now we have astronaut water!
The funeral industry could follow the Dune / Arrakis model... anything to make the cost of death higher...
Well, it does have plenty of Nitrogen, which is something plants like. You may want to dilute it a bit, though.
Dilution... finally a purpose exists for American "lite" beer...
It's amazing to me that this type of thing only gets implemented due to a crisis when it should be obvious from the get go that developing and improving the methods of recycling and reclamation should always be part of the way we do anything.
Not everywhere...
I'm currently sitting less than a mile upwind of one of the great lakes... The energy requirement for this sewage filtration process has a far larger environmental impact than just regular sewage treatment combined with pumping a bit more water out of the lake. We could probably reduce out draw out of the lake 50% with this technology, at the mere cost of kilotons of extra fly ash and mercury dumped into the lake from our coalburners ... the same lake we're getting our drinking water out of...
California / desert SW solutions are not appropriate everywhere. If anything, on average, east of the mississippi river, we have way too much fresh water and need to focus tech on dealing with floods caused by rain. Much like fixing failing school systems or sick care systems, just dumping more money on the problem doesn't seem to help.
...then you're drinking filtered sewage anyway.
Not news.
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BMO
Wells are also fundamentally the same concept.
I suppose if you reclaimed some cometary ice, it might be "organic free"... or maybe not.
has enough processing power to consume but not enough to effectively create
Why? Anyone in the biz for more than 2 years was using less "power" to create 2 years ago, perfectly acceptably. And certainly nothing has changed since then.
Anyone with a longer than, say, 2 years upgrade cycle, would find the netbook specs to be an upgrade over their present full size laptop...
Fiberglass cases ? Double-punishment if you drop your "Ultrabook":
- Fiberglass breaks easily;
- If will spread a fine cloud of fiberglass shards after the impact - breathe those and your lungs are fubar.
Well, duh, then a year after the fiberglass cased models are released we'll be "permitted" to "upgrade" to a "new plastic case" which fortunately only costs $200 more.
See coke, new coke, classic coke, repeat...
So... to help filter past the marketing filters:
laptop - dvd drive = netbook
netbook - plastic case + fiberglass case = ultrabook
"general public" who ignore the marketing materials, like my wife and sister in law, continue to refer to any clamshell design with a keyboard as a "laptop".
Nothing has changed that makes the US more likely to default.
I would strongly disagree.
Almost all bond issuers can only default by not repaying the principle and interest. I do agree with you that is infinitely unlikely, since the US Govt can simply print the money on demand. Of course no one expected the USSR to collapse when it did, so, its slightly more likely the USA could collapse now.
The failure mode is the US is one of the few bond issuers who controls global inflation. What exactly is the difference, financially, between "not repaying" and "repaying a hyperinflated nominal value"?
Real world example: You buy a 10 year, $1K t-note. I agree completely the odds are excellent, although not quite 100% perfect, that in 10 years you'll have your $1K plus a tiny bit of interest returned to you. I disagree in that the odds are pretty high that due to high to hyper inflation, that $1K t-note will only be worth approximately one restaurant meal.
That is an inflationary default.
lukewarm reviews criticizing the ... poor battery live
Just how bad is it? Merely journalistic hyperbole where it runs about 5 minutes less than a ipad, or is it so bad you can't watch a full length movie on one charge?
Much of a tablet's success is based on the ecosystem of apps that is available to the end-user.
B.S. journalist doesn't know anything, just repeating what other journalists say. Every user I know spends 99.99% of their time in safari, mail, facebook app, or the video/music player. With an honorable mention of the kindle app.
No one buys based on which platform has the most fart soundboard apps or the most "20 pictures of attractive women for 99 cents" apps.
everyone has a minimum 50 inch HD TV and a 27 inch HD computer screen
Means you can't signal importance / wealth / conspicuous consumption on a big screen. You signal by owning expensive little screens now.
Back when 50 inch TVs cost more than a used car, I couldn't afford one so I didn't care. Now that they give them away with the purchase of a bag of pork rinds at walmart, it would be uncool for me to be seen buying one. There was a momentary sweet spot a couple years ago where they were cheap, but not yet ghetto, but I missed it. So believe it or not, my "daily viewer" is a 80s era magnavox CRT that just won't quit working. If only it was engineered like a modern TV to burn out in a year or two, then I could toss it and buy a giant disposable TV, but it just won't quit working...
But that's a retarded failing of MythTV that can be worked around with X11 as a band-aid...
And after X11 is gotten rid of, and there is no bandaid... The only benefit the GUI provides over a config file is its semi-adaptive. From memory, you set up the capture card, THEN it shows up as an option in the thingy that links cap card hardware to channel lineups or whatever. The only benefit the GUI provides over a text CLI is during channel icon selection. The only benefit the GUI provides over a web based interface, is you don't need to set up / maintain / security patch a web server and some operations like channel scanning can take minutes to return results, far longer than most browsers/servers will tolerate.
It can probably be worked around with some effort and annoyance. Which is not worth it if the only benefit of the new technology platform is useless trendy eyecandy "now, with see thru xterm backgrounds".
Do you really need a fancy graphics card just to run MythTV?
Isn't the whole point of the Wayland project that you'd require a "fancy graphics card" just to run a xterm / konsole / xfce terminal? Might not be able to make it past the animated 3-D video login screen without a $500 card.
It could be nice to run a huge CPU and RAM hog on your PC at home and have just the display on your mobile.. I could see a use case in that.
VNC?
Its not a two way race, but at least a three way race.
Any more, that's the only thing I want to display remotely, because any old janky computer has enough power to run apps locally.
Sometimes, power doesn't matter. I can't run mythtv-setup locally. Unfortunately, its the only way I know of to configure a mythtv-backend, and its a X11 GUI. My mythtv-backend doesn't even have a graphics card, certainly not the mandatory $500 super 3-d type you'd need, and I'd not want to remove a tuner card to plug in a fancy 3-d card, just for occasional channel lineup changes...
why would you waste time writing your own whole system?
1) The writing is cheap. The debugging is expensive.
2) Nothing is easier to debug than a desktop/pc class machine. Nothing harder to debug than an embedded machine.
3) Security support is easy if you let Debian or others do it for you. Hard if you have to do it by yourself.
Why does it only happen with .net and java? Must be some peculiarity of the language that leads them to it. Much as its easier to make write-only Perl than write-only python. Or it seems easier to make object oriented Ruby than object-oriented Perl.
spilled the beans
I have some secret corporate knowledge about this game... Here comes my NDA violation.... wait for it... "you run around and shoot things and people."
My god I can't believe I gave away the secret. Sorry if I ruined it for anyone; can't blame me, I used a "spoiler" tag in the subject. Everyone act surprised when it turns out I was correct, mkay?
When you consider the gravitational field rather than line of sight then the "shadow" that Earth casts is really quite large.
How so? I agree the gravity field of the earth screws around with "lots" of incoming trajectories. But that still means it hits just about as often.
Lets say, for the sake of argument, that "the system" is contained within a cubical volume of space, a tenth of an A.U. on a side. Something passes thru that cube. No matter how much it curves (more or less) the percentage volume of space represented by the moon is a constant within that cube. So the percentage of impacts is roughly constant.
From the moon, calculate the percentage of the sky hemisphere covered by the earth. Its really small. Assuming a random distribution of meteors from every direction, the shadow of the earth isn't that impressive.
Another way to look at it, is as a thought experiment, imagine magically all the meteors came from the sun, as a magical point source, rather than randomly everywhere. What percentage of the time does the moon spend in a lunar eclipse? Answer is practically zero.
Note that in low earth orbit, "most of" the hemisphere facing the earth is ... the earth. That's why the cooling system for the ISS is optimized to dump into "earth radiative temperature" whereas the moon landing ships were optimized to dump into mostly empty space. The ISS would not work very well away from low earth orbit.
"People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves," said neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, "The brain is very good at deluding itself."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794
spare me... Its like saying "people can't run very well" or "people aren't very tall". There's a nice bell curve and both jobs and personal satisfaction naturally select following the Peter Principle. The village idiot maxes out his Peter Principle at doing about one thing at a time. The short order cook from the article apparently maxes out around two dozen or whatever. Everyone else bell curves in the middle.
Most of my G+ circles are technical people (no family members, old school friends, or tech-illiterate friends yet).
Same here... G+ circles would be a killer feature if there were any meatspace friends, family members, or coworkers on G+. Seems entirely populated by two groups:
1) Techies
2) Tech journalists
That's about the only two circles you actually can use on G+.
Also, you want a weird stat? I have observed G+ is about 50% atheist / agnostic / unaligned / lawful neutral or whatever you want to call it, and I only know of one evangelical christian on G+ out of about a hundred in my circles..
Still no profiles/google+ for us Apps folks.
Seems somewhat wrong that paying customers get left in the lurch as often as we do.
You can keep us ipad and ipod touch users company. The app only installs on the iphone, although supposedly it works on anything you can ram it into.
If you have osx 10.6 (which I do not) then you can install the iphone configurator utility and violently force it to install, at which point I've heard it works perfectly. If anyone has a suggestion that forces the G+ app onto an ipod touch or ipad, that doesn't require osx 10.6 or newer, then let me know.
Most of them don't have IT staff
Most? More like all, unless the small business is an IT consulting firm. Or at best you've got someone's college age kid who can help out... who probably owns a mac laptop / ipod / other apple products etc.
If they use a Mac Mini as a server and a Time Capsule as a backup, then they can get a new Mac Mini and restore the backup without needing any technical competence in house.
And if it doesn't work, isn't the local apple store where they bought it pretty much unique in the industry? The closest thing I know of to an apple store is the Best Buy guys, and lets face it, the only technical skill they're experts on is maximizing their sales commissions...
I'm told the main difference between installation of postgres vs mysql is [which package to install]
Is this for one user and one database on a box, or potentially hundreds of databases, one for each hosting customer?
A dozen boxes, more or less one admin, either one customer or a dozen departments or hundreds of users depending how you look at it, dozen databases, hundreds of tables.
Currently backup and deployment of new boxes are currently pretty tightly linked... bring up a new box, run a script to inject last nights backup of the schema and data from another box, run a script to tweak local box config values in the DB (just a bunch of SQL update table blah set blah = 'new' where blah='old'). Essentially bringing up a new box is the automated "restore" script followed by automated "customization" script. Lots of Puppet, if you're familiar with that automation system. Hoping I can keep on doing things that way, same concepts just a different backend.
Conceptually I'm dreaming swapping out the backend DB should be about as complicated as swapping out the mysql db engine from innodb to myisam and back. During a maint window, automation to dump it, modify it, import it, theoretically a quick hands off change. Realistically its looking like a whole heck of a lot of work. All to get Kerberos logins. Which has successfully generated a loss of motivation to actually do it.
Maybe its just ignorance... China is really freaking big. Saying "its china" is about as pointlessly vague as saying "it was done by young males". In both cases theres about a billion suspects.
Also all the PCs in China are unpatched, owned zombies. Don't waste time claiming they based it on IP addrs.
Postgres has a much more robust (and as a result considerably more complicated) security setup.Authentication can happen through one or many different means.. most of which require a little configuration and more importantly you need to know they exist/how they work! This also complicates connecting to the database.
For me that's a feature not a bug. Let face it, mysql has had kerberos as a todo for bout a decade now.. its just never gonna happen, and mysql is the only thing I have left that doesn't use kerberos...
One agony is mythtv absolutely does not and will never support postgres, according to the flames I've read from the developers, so I must keep a vestigal legacy install of mysql at home. Everywhere else, work and home, I can flush mysql.
Additionally where MySQL has an ultra friendly console app with built in help for creating users and databases.. postgres has a series of scripts. The default way ot creating a new table is to copy one from a provided template (called template1). Again, this is all stuff you need to learn before doing. Someone can run the mysql command, run help, see "CREATE DATABASE" and kinda go from there. To use postgres you need to know that this template exists, how to use it, and what the hell you are actually doing... and then you need to figure out how to control who has acess to it.
OK now I'm getting confused. Most of my apps do the rails thing or the Perl DBI/DBD thing, so I'm getting conflicting responses both here and in google searches WRT to ye olde fashioned "rake db:create:all". either that works transparently with postgres just like mysql, or using postgres means I have to go back to something like JCL card decks on my old MVS DB2 box. Or occasionally both, depending on bugs and failure modes.
I am absolutely not able to use a web or graphical interface... I don't want to make over 5000 non automatable non documentable mouse clicks that can never be stored in a VCS and can never be reviewed nor backed up nor deployed to new servers at a keystroke. That's a complete non-starter, both at work and home. Admining the DB with a mouse is right up there with submitting my data on punchcards... no thanks.