Given how many news programs are aired live and CC subs are done in realtime, i bet the research is going to be more limited than you think unless you want to start by analyzing frequently misspelled words.
That could be a fun data analysis project in itself. If only the dataset went back 2 or 3 more years, it would be interesting to chart how long it took to get captioners to properly spell Barack Obama, or any unusual name.
This could help very interesting research regarding how often certain topics are discussed, or certain buzzwords are used. It's pretty exciting I think.
I want to run a Fourier analysis on the human interest stories. I've always been told the tired old "LSD is regaining popularity" has a wavelength around 36 months, roughly every 3 years, blah blah blah.
Also fun to track stories about fads. Remember when every Prius on the road was spontaneously accelerating on the highway?
Another truly weird analysis project would be analyzing coughs and colds, like a graph of each time a newscaster sneezed. I bet that analysis could be fully automated and over a long term with nation wide collection of local news (which, admittedly, this is not) would provide a pretty interesting graph of the spread of illnesses.
where a soldier sits in front of a computer monitor... wedding out false threats.
Human soldier brain pretty good at telling the difference between a bush and a AK-47 wielding freedom fighter / terrorist / same difference when that's what he's looking for.
So give him a different type of bush to look at. I've never really been "into" the whole "naked chicks with guns" genre of pr0n but covering the walls of a village with posters like that would probably totally screw the guy up. "That's a bush! No the other kind! No wait she's holding a AK-47. No wait, she's not moving, thats a poster. No wait, she's moving, she's for real..."
Another tool would be psyops type stuff. So rather than your stereotypical naked woman, trust me straight guys REALLY like to look at that, you could put up 2G1C posters, goatse, rotten dot com pics, tubgirl with a 9mm, stuff like that. Too many icky false positives gross the guy out. Like a weird game of duck duck goose... OK soldier goatse goatse goatse goatse... Oh oh thats a taliban! goatse goatse...
Another thing is screwing around with image capture. So as a kid I had a "wolf's head" tee shirt. Rather than relying on hacking the pattern matching algo in a human brain to mess up by using all kinds of paint blotchy, ghillie suit-y, digital cammo-y stuff, just take two poor bastards and put them in a halloween horse costume and have them walk right in front of the camera. Cam sees "horse" walking around, doesn't bother showing soldier who might not notice anyway. Also hack the rangefinder. Cam algo detects movement. Zooms in and see's VLM's wolf's head tee shirt. Shows soldier a pic of a wolf's head. Soldier says WTF.
Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.
Yeah that's the good news. The bad news is its all links where the text reads "click here for britney spears naked pics" however the URLs actually point to goatse.cx.
I hate to break this to you but there is a little of everything in everything. You just can't tell until you're able to count parts per million.
Parts per billion, actually. 700 of them in fact for glyphosate. Another way to say "700 ppb" is 1 part in 1.5 million. An acre-foot of water is about a quarter million gallons. So if you had a magical cubical pond, that was about 60 feet on every side including 60 feet deep, and an idiot neighbor sprayed a gallon of the stuff to kill the weeds in his driveway (which is only about 10000 times the recommended agricultural dosage, hurray for retail sale of herbicides to the untrained ! ) and it all ran off into your pond, it would be pretty borderline. Luckily the stuff is chemically unstable and biodegrades fast.
You can see how a small inland lake can end up contaminated enough to be undrinkable. Or a river. All you need is about a dozen idiots going to home depot then spraying about 10000 times the recommended dosage "just to make sure" after all more is better, right?
2 kilograms per acre? I think that's about how much bird shit falls on a field annually. I'd have to think about that. Its not exactly the herbicide equivalent of the finale of "cloudy with a chance of meatballs".
I agree with you, eating weird chemicals for the hell of it is not wise, but going all "Refer Madness" and just making stuff up is going to do more to harm the cause than help.
Your neighbor drowning his landscape in bottles and bottles of roundup to control weeds is going to cause about 99.9% of your lifetime exposure anyway. You don't have to apply that stuff until it drowns the plant, farmers know that because its expensive when you're treating 160 acres, but J6P does not.
LOL. Glyphosate kills anything that makes its own tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine. People supposedly cannot synthesize it we can only eat it. Much as oxygen will kill some anaerobic bacteria, it would be a huge shock to discover oxygen causes cancer in people.
A quick "chemists glance" at the MSDS and its about as scary as rubbing alcohol... I would not drink it or wash my hands in it before eating, but I wouldn't freak out either. Everything in a chemistry lab is dangerous, you have to put it in a spectrum, and this is worse than the distilled water but pretty much obviously on the safe edge of the spectrum compared to everything else in a lab. Some of the problem is the solvents and stuff the herbicide is dissolved into to spread it around. I heard there was a court case where some PR clown called it as safe as table salt, which although technically true is misleading because your body has perfectly adequate although extremely unpleasant ways to remove a lethal salt dose from your body, unless you somehow stop it or inject it all at once. Calling it as safe as rubbing alcohol would have been about as true and less likely to get sued.
Its pretty laughable that glyphosate is a "dangerous poison". Try some organic mercury compounds if you want real danger. Its not even useful for biowarfare, not persistent enough, its highly biodegradable. Which mystifies me... so if it all degrades worst case in 100 days, and twinkie sits on the shelf for 4 months before its eaten, how is anyone eating the stuff? Yeah, I know, field to table salad without rinsing or washing, but that doesn't fit the meme of all american diets being hyper processed.
The other funny part is its use will be a footnote in history "soon". Too many resistant weeds are spreading. Why spend big bucks to apply something that'll do nothing. Why agitprop to ban something that no one will want to manufacture pretty soon, anyway?
I make a point to grab a box of "Laver", which is roasted seaweed in salt and oil, every time I go to the local Asian grocer. It's delicious, and way better than corn chips, while still taking care of my need for crunch.
This makes the point that aquaculture "seaweed" is Big Business in Asia, so your best strategy to learn how to grow it is to start by learning to read Japanese and/or Korean and import some of their books / visit their websites.
Despite the article vibe, what they're doing is conceptually a heck of a lot more like farmers starting to grow Ginko plants in Wisconsin, than its like the HP guys inventing their first oscillator in their garage.
Another rather important point is there is no "seaweed plant". There are a zillion plants grown in seawater that are then processed as much as plants grown in dirt. So much as some "dirt plants" get turned into caesar salad, others into egg rolls, and others into chocolate chip cookies, "seaweed" can be a heck of a lot more than sushi roll wrappers and fried chips.
A final weird situation is you'll hear or read people who don't know anything claim that most freshwater algae is toxic in comparison to seaweed. Not so. My freshwater tropical fish tank is hardly a toxic waste dump. Yes I would not eat the algae from the industrial waste dump of a river that passes thru my home town, but that is because anything touching that water is tainted... I wouldn't eat a fish from that river, that does not mean all fish are toxic. For a example of a toxic seaweed try some "red tide". Simply plucking green things out of the ocean and eating them is probably not a recipe for success, anymore than eating random dirt plants is a good idea. "Here, try some green organic vegan fair trade hippy approved recyclable biodegradable freshly brewed hemlock tea"
The problem is in decades in the biz I've never worked with people where 99% of the "small banter" isn't non-work-related:
I know more about what coworkers are doing or not doing,
My cube neighbor's new girlfriend, this guy's landscaping project, new home-moaner's immense list of project (who the hell takes all the lightbulbs outta the house when they move out? Like WTF? These were old fashioned bulbs when the house was being shown not expensive LEDs)
what they're making progress on
Mostly alcoholism. Dude we're going to the bar after work. Oh man I was out till 2am last night I'm so hung over. Also see home-moaner-ship problems above.
what they're stuck on
Plenty of whining about ex's and how the ex is screwing them up / over, also see home-moaner 1st world tragedies (oh noes, the bedroom is the wrong shade of beige, must repaint!).
Also stuck on, as in addicted to a negative activity, we've got endless TV watching and pro sports, both of which bore me.
and if we're on the same page with regards to what we're creating.
And so and so is pregnant and I'm sure you'd never guess but my kids are cute and here's the crayon drawing they made as proof...
Likewise an environmentalist told me, "it doesn't matter if global warming isn't caused by man made CO2, because by forcing a cut of CO2 you cut production and you cut consumption â"â" it is about reducing GREED"
We really need a new term for this kind of person, as they have no actual interest in the environment and often advocate policies--like lowered reliance on nuclear power--that do considerable environmental harm.
Watermelon has been around since AT LEAST the late 80s / early 90s. Aka green on the outside, red on the inside.
Voting libertarian is a vote against everyone's interests, including yours. We're talking about a political philosophy which, at its core
Core doesn't matter. The -D and -R are not going to commit political party suicide. Enough people vote -L to matter, and 'Bama is going to cave in and legalize weed (if not more) and maybe close the borders and the concentration camp in Gitmo because he wants my vote. That would, in fact, probably induce a previously life long pre-neocon -R voter like myself to vote for Obama. Rmoney would prefer winning to losing, so if he flip flopped on hating gays, hating non-evangelical christians, in fact if the SOB would just stop hating everyone other than his rich buddies so much, and maybe close the borders and the concentration camp in Gitmo, I'd probably vote for him...
The idea is not to replace the 45% hardcore -R extremists and 45% hardcore -D extremists with 51% or more -L extremists, but to convince the loser he couldda won if he focused on some -L issues instead of both sides ignoring them and both being pretty much interchangeable hard core fascists / statists.
I'd be thrilled if one of the candidates (don't even care which one) lost because of 100K votes while there were 500K -L votes. Worrying about negative campaigning about what a 51% -L victory would mean is a complete waste of time. A more realistic worst case scenario would be both -R and -D swing hard to -L stances... then the decision between -R and -D would be pretty hard to make because there would be a change of having them actually represent some of my views.
What's so difficult about switching to IPv6 ? I mean where the cost really is ? It is not like I have to buy all of my hardware again, it is mostly a software issue right ?
layer 1 and layer 2, yeah, Pretty Much software only. I say pretty much because there's a trend to F around with upper layer stuff in lower layer gear, think IP DHCP filtering in a "layer 2 smart ethernet switch"
The real killer is the cost of hardware accelerated layer 3 routing equipment that can insta-magically-switch ipv4 but drops down to software switching of ipv6. Luckily, normal size ipv6 bandwidth loads can be easily handled by commodity PC hardware doing solely software routing. Heck normal size ipv4 bandwidth loads work fine when software switched now a days.
Look at the high cost of loud open plan cube farms... imagine being able to lower your salary costs by 10% to 30% by productivity increases, merely by providing a more humane working environment.
Isn't it odd that you never hear people complaining, "I'm trying to concentrate here, so make a bunch of noise, OK?"
They are too expensive and that will be the weapon that will take them down. Not missiles, not submarines - money.
One tangential "money" issue is 1000 suicide boaters in a simultaneous attack is cheaper than one carrier. Carriers are really freaking expensive. That doesn't work well in the middle of an ocean, but near the shore of the Persian gulf, maybe...
Time for a world famous/. vlm engineering estimate.
The tubes are vaporized by the magnetic crunch. Optimistically they're getting a thousand times the power out as in, or far more than a thousand times the power it takes to vaporize the tube (because most of the power is going into squashing the contents, otherwise whats the point...).
I'm sure they're using beryllium because of its legendary stiffness, not because they love toxic dust. Lets say they use aluminum in a later model. Both light low Z metals of decent strength although beryllium is better. If beryllium oxides were not so toxic we've have airplanes made out of it, not just space satellites and the occasional exotic RF transistor ceramic heatsink. But I digress. Off the top of my head it costs about 5 KWh as an order of magnitude engineering estimate to electrorefine a pound of aluminum. It takes immensely more energy to vaporize a pound of aluminum. An hour in a 5 KW ceramics kiln might melt a pound aluminum... but vaporization is much harder. I'll estimate incredibly low and say you can vaporize a pound of aluminum with only 5 KWh. LOL this is probably 1 or maybe even 2 orders of magnitude low, but its best to be extremely pessimistic... I'm not counting the machining energy or transport, both of which will be much smaller.
So I'd feel fairly confident that a pound or so of aluminum tube, costing about 5 KWh to refine, should generate about 5000 KWh when the deuterium inside the tubes gets squooshed. Not bad.
Another crappy engineering order of magnitude estimate is you gotta burn a pound of coal to make a KWh. And you can earn a tidy profit burning coal to make electricity, for better or worse... WRT materials handling transport and mining/ore/coal processing and storage standpoint, those are not an issue as long as you can get more than one KWH out of a pound of the "stuff", since it's clearly no issue with coal at a pitiful KWh per pound. This thing is getting 5000 KWh out of a pound of aluminum tubes (well, once they're filled up with D2).
No as a first approximation I'm not seeing any fundamental issues with the tubes. This isn't like using up 2 barrels of crude oil to grow and refine 1 barrel equivalent of ethanol. The tubes will be a substantial fraction of the operating expense. Not as significant as jetfuel to a airline, or coal to a powerplant, but more significant than say, the cost of in flight cookies to a airline.
The students will be given job placement opportunities at a local firm in the city once they reach a certain proficiency
OK huge call center moving in
The problem: limited electricity, limited computers,
The solution seems obvious, ask the call center how they're dealing with having limited electricity and limited computers. If the problems seem insurmountable to them, then your problem doesn't matter because the call center will not be opening. If they have a solution, presumably you can copy their solution.
Also some simple math here... you've got 500 students and 12 computers. Hmm. You can't really "practice" for too long at a time, even under ideal conditions. So 500 / 12 computers = 41 students per computer. Probably the best way to do this is 48 half hour practice sessions per day. So some kids session will be from 2:30 am to 3 am local, so what, welcome to transcontinental call center operations, he's gonna have to get used to it sooner or later.
Frankly, the biggest call center problem isn't slow typing. As long as the kids know the alphabet and numbers before learning to type, you'll be OK.
The fact that business intelligence tools are also well suited to monitoring dumb animals dedicated to a life of exploitation and eventual slaughter is just one of those crazy coincidences, and has no deeper implications.
Didn't I see this same post in the recent/. article about the call center that wants to track when and how long the employees take a dump? If the cows had paid attention to what skynet was doing to the call center drones and nipped it in the bud, programs like that would never have expanded to the cows.
Maybe simpler explanation. The web is flat so any bar to entry means someone else will provide a lower bar and eat your lunch.
The bar to creating a project on SF is not very high, but there's humans involved and I gotta spec out license and blah blah and write descriptions and it takes about 5 minutes. My project can't have the same name as someone elses project, etc etc. This is how project centric hosting sites work.
On github its click "create a repo" and you don't technically need much other than the name, so that's all they ask and it just works. I'm git cloning my new repo in about 30 seconds, or so. This is how dev/user centric hosting sites work.
A zillion hours and a zillion commits later, here I am still right where I started.
the folks from Dice were very clear about not wanting to interfere with the community.
Hey Soulskill, so far almost all ? the commentary has been negative, near certainty the dilbertian overlords will F stuff up or best case just leave the place alone.
As a contrarian viewpoint has anyone on either side suggested they might actually do something positive, dare I say synergistic?
UTF-8 and ipv6 its 2012 after all.
dice.com initial impression of the story selection is kind of tech journalist / lite stuff. Like for noobs./. could be for people who graduate from dice ("look ma, now I can write hello world") while still being in their fold of sites. Meanwhile the most noobish of/. submissions probably belong on dice. I would be thrilled with more "/. articles" on/. and "dice articles" on dice...
I get the gut level impression that dice might be able to encourage more, and more interesting,/. interviews. Ditto book reviews. Hopefully not all astroturf.
important to tech professionals in their everyday work lives,
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Given how many news programs are aired live and CC subs are done in realtime, i bet the research is going to be more limited than you think unless you want to start by analyzing frequently misspelled words.
That could be a fun data analysis project in itself. If only the dataset went back 2 or 3 more years, it would be interesting to chart how long it took to get captioners to properly spell Barack Obama, or any unusual name.
This could help very interesting research regarding how often certain topics are discussed, or certain buzzwords are used. It's pretty exciting I think.
I want to run a Fourier analysis on the human interest stories. I've always been told the tired old "LSD is regaining popularity" has a wavelength around 36 months, roughly every 3 years, blah blah blah.
Also fun to track stories about fads. Remember when every Prius on the road was spontaneously accelerating on the highway?
Another truly weird analysis project would be analyzing coughs and colds, like a graph of each time a newscaster sneezed. I bet that analysis could be fully automated and over a long term with nation wide collection of local news (which, admittedly, this is not) would provide a pretty interesting graph of the spread of illnesses.
I see an easy way to break this system
where a soldier sits in front of a computer monitor ... wedding out false threats.
Human soldier brain pretty good at telling the difference between a bush and a AK-47 wielding freedom fighter / terrorist / same difference when that's what he's looking for.
So give him a different type of bush to look at. I've never really been "into" the whole "naked chicks with guns" genre of pr0n but covering the walls of a village with posters like that would probably totally screw the guy up. "That's a bush! No the other kind! No wait she's holding a AK-47. No wait, she's not moving, thats a poster. No wait, she's moving, she's for real..."
Another tool would be psyops type stuff. So rather than your stereotypical naked woman, trust me straight guys REALLY like to look at that, you could put up 2G1C posters, goatse, rotten dot com pics, tubgirl with a 9mm, stuff like that. Too many icky false positives gross the guy out. Like a weird game of duck duck goose... OK soldier goatse goatse goatse goatse... Oh oh thats a taliban! goatse goatse ...
Another thing is screwing around with image capture. So as a kid I had a "wolf's head" tee shirt. Rather than relying on hacking the pattern matching algo in a human brain to mess up by using all kinds of paint blotchy, ghillie suit-y, digital cammo-y stuff, just take two poor bastards and put them in a halloween horse costume and have them walk right in front of the camera. Cam sees "horse" walking around, doesn't bother showing soldier who might not notice anyway. Also hack the rangefinder. Cam algo detects movement. Zooms in and see's VLM's wolf's head tee shirt. Shows soldier a pic of a wolf's head. Soldier says WTF.
Is this in addition to or replacement of the logo contest?
http://slashdot.org/logocontest.shtml
Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.
Yeah that's the good news.
The bad news is its all links where the text reads "click here for britney spears naked pics" however the URLs actually point to goatse.cx.
You forgot to count the dupes
I hate to break this to you but there is a little of everything in everything. You just can't tell until you're able to count parts per million.
Parts per billion, actually. 700 of them in fact for glyphosate. Another way to say "700 ppb" is 1 part in 1.5 million. An acre-foot of water is about a quarter million gallons. So if you had a magical cubical pond, that was about 60 feet on every side including 60 feet deep, and an idiot neighbor sprayed a gallon of the stuff to kill the weeds in his driveway (which is only about 10000 times the recommended agricultural dosage, hurray for retail sale of herbicides to the untrained ! ) and it all ran off into your pond, it would be pretty borderline. Luckily the stuff is chemically unstable and biodegrades fast.
http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/glyphosate.cfm
You can see how a small inland lake can end up contaminated enough to be undrinkable. Or a river. All you need is about a dozen idiots going to home depot then spraying about 10000 times the recommended dosage "just to make sure" after all more is better, right?
ungodly amounts of herbicide
2 kilograms per acre? I think that's about how much bird shit falls on a field annually. I'd have to think about that. Its not exactly the herbicide equivalent of the finale of "cloudy with a chance of meatballs".
I agree with you, eating weird chemicals for the hell of it is not wise, but going all "Refer Madness" and just making stuff up is going to do more to harm the cause than help.
Your neighbor drowning his landscape in bottles and bottles of roundup to control weeds is going to cause about 99.9% of your lifetime exposure anyway. You don't have to apply that stuff until it drowns the plant, farmers know that because its expensive when you're treating 160 acres, but J6P does not.
1. Analyze a dangerous poison.
LOL. Glyphosate kills anything that makes its own tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine. People supposedly cannot synthesize it we can only eat it. Much as oxygen will kill some anaerobic bacteria, it would be a huge shock to discover oxygen causes cancer in people.
A quick "chemists glance" at the MSDS and its about as scary as rubbing alcohol... I would not drink it or wash my hands in it before eating, but I wouldn't freak out either. Everything in a chemistry lab is dangerous, you have to put it in a spectrum, and this is worse than the distilled water but pretty much obviously on the safe edge of the spectrum compared to everything else in a lab. Some of the problem is the solvents and stuff the herbicide is dissolved into to spread it around. I heard there was a court case where some PR clown called it as safe as table salt, which although technically true is misleading because your body has perfectly adequate although extremely unpleasant ways to remove a lethal salt dose from your body, unless you somehow stop it or inject it all at once. Calling it as safe as rubbing alcohol would have been about as true and less likely to get sued.
Its pretty laughable that glyphosate is a "dangerous poison". Try some organic mercury compounds if you want real danger. Its not even useful for biowarfare, not persistent enough, its highly biodegradable. Which mystifies me... so if it all degrades worst case in 100 days, and twinkie sits on the shelf for 4 months before its eaten, how is anyone eating the stuff? Yeah, I know, field to table salad without rinsing or washing, but that doesn't fit the meme of all american diets being hyper processed.
The other funny part is its use will be a footnote in history "soon". Too many resistant weeds are spreading. Why spend big bucks to apply something that'll do nothing. Why agitprop to ban something that no one will want to manufacture pretty soon, anyway?
I make a point to grab a box of "Laver", which is roasted seaweed in salt and oil, every time I go to the local Asian grocer. It's delicious, and way better than corn chips, while still taking care of my need for crunch.
This makes the point that aquaculture "seaweed" is Big Business in Asia, so your best strategy to learn how to grow it is to start by learning to read Japanese and/or Korean and import some of their books / visit their websites.
Despite the article vibe, what they're doing is conceptually a heck of a lot more like farmers starting to grow Ginko plants in Wisconsin, than its like the HP guys inventing their first oscillator in their garage.
Another rather important point is there is no "seaweed plant". There are a zillion plants grown in seawater that are then processed as much as plants grown in dirt. So much as some "dirt plants" get turned into caesar salad, others into egg rolls, and others into chocolate chip cookies, "seaweed" can be a heck of a lot more than sushi roll wrappers and fried chips.
A final weird situation is you'll hear or read people who don't know anything claim that most freshwater algae is toxic in comparison to seaweed. Not so. My freshwater tropical fish tank is hardly a toxic waste dump. Yes I would not eat the algae from the industrial waste dump of a river that passes thru my home town, but that is because anything touching that water is tainted... I wouldn't eat a fish from that river, that does not mean all fish are toxic. For a example of a toxic seaweed try some "red tide". Simply plucking green things out of the ocean and eating them is probably not a recipe for success, anymore than eating random dirt plants is a good idea. "Here, try some green organic vegan fair trade hippy approved recyclable biodegradable freshly brewed hemlock tea"
The problem is in decades in the biz I've never worked with people where 99% of the "small banter" isn't non-work-related:
I know more about what coworkers are doing or not doing,
My cube neighbor's new girlfriend, this guy's landscaping project, new home-moaner's immense list of project (who the hell takes all the lightbulbs outta the house when they move out? Like WTF? These were old fashioned bulbs when the house was being shown not expensive LEDs)
what they're making progress on
Mostly alcoholism. Dude we're going to the bar after work. Oh man I was out till 2am last night I'm so hung over. Also see home-moaner-ship problems above.
what they're stuck on
Plenty of whining about ex's and how the ex is screwing them up / over, also see home-moaner 1st world tragedies (oh noes, the bedroom is the wrong shade of beige, must repaint!).
Also stuck on, as in addicted to a negative activity, we've got endless TV watching and pro sports, both of which bore me.
and if we're on the same page with regards to what we're creating.
And so and so is pregnant and I'm sure you'd never guess but my kids are cute and here's the crayon drawing they made as proof ...
Likewise an environmentalist told me, "it doesn't matter if global warming isn't caused by man made CO2, because by forcing a cut of CO2 you cut production and you cut consumption â"â" it is about reducing GREED"
We really need a new term for this kind of person, as they have no actual interest in the environment and often advocate policies--like lowered reliance on nuclear power--that do considerable environmental harm.
Watermelon has been around since AT LEAST the late 80s / early 90s. Aka green on the outside, red on the inside.
Voting libertarian is a vote against everyone's interests, including yours. We're talking about a political philosophy which, at its core
Core doesn't matter. The -D and -R are not going to commit political party suicide. Enough people vote -L to matter, and 'Bama is going to cave in and legalize weed (if not more) and maybe close the borders and the concentration camp in Gitmo because he wants my vote. That would, in fact, probably induce a previously life long pre-neocon -R voter like myself to vote for Obama. Rmoney would prefer winning to losing, so if he flip flopped on hating gays, hating non-evangelical christians, in fact if the SOB would just stop hating everyone other than his rich buddies so much, and maybe close the borders and the concentration camp in Gitmo, I'd probably vote for him...
The idea is not to replace the 45% hardcore -R extremists and 45% hardcore -D extremists with 51% or more -L extremists, but to convince the loser he couldda won if he focused on some -L issues instead of both sides ignoring them and both being pretty much interchangeable hard core fascists / statists.
I'd be thrilled if one of the candidates (don't even care which one) lost because of 100K votes while there were 500K -L votes. Worrying about negative campaigning about what a 51% -L victory would mean is a complete waste of time. A more realistic worst case scenario would be both -R and -D swing hard to -L stances... then the decision between -R and -D would be pretty hard to make because there would be a change of having them actually represent some of my views.
What's so difficult about switching to IPv6 ?
I mean where the cost really is ? It is not like I have to buy all of my hardware again, it is mostly a software issue right ?
layer 1 and layer 2, yeah, Pretty Much software only. I say pretty much because there's a trend to F around with upper layer stuff in lower layer gear, think IP DHCP filtering in a "layer 2 smart ethernet switch"
The real killer is the cost of hardware accelerated layer 3 routing equipment that can insta-magically-switch ipv4 but drops down to software switching of ipv6. Luckily, normal size ipv6 bandwidth loads can be easily handled by commodity PC hardware doing solely software routing. Heck normal size ipv4 bandwidth loads work fine when software switched now a days.
Look at the high cost of loud open plan cube farms... imagine being able to lower your salary costs by 10% to 30% by productivity increases, merely by providing a more humane working environment.
Isn't it odd that you never hear people complaining, "I'm trying to concentrate here, so make a bunch of noise, OK?"
They are too expensive and that will be the weapon that will take them down. Not missiles, not submarines - money.
One tangential "money" issue is 1000 suicide boaters in a simultaneous attack is cheaper than one carrier. Carriers are really freaking expensive. That doesn't work well in the middle of an ocean, but near the shore of the Persian gulf, maybe...
Although both terms are hot... one is several million degrees hotter than the other
Both take 40 years to begin production.
Time for a world famous /. vlm engineering estimate.
The tubes are vaporized by the magnetic crunch. Optimistically they're getting a thousand times the power out as in, or far more than a thousand times the power it takes to vaporize the tube (because most of the power is going into squashing the contents, otherwise whats the point...).
I'm sure they're using beryllium because of its legendary stiffness, not because they love toxic dust. Lets say they use aluminum in a later model. Both light low Z metals of decent strength although beryllium is better. If beryllium oxides were not so toxic we've have airplanes made out of it, not just space satellites and the occasional exotic RF transistor ceramic heatsink. But I digress. Off the top of my head it costs about 5 KWh as an order of magnitude engineering estimate to electrorefine a pound of aluminum. It takes immensely more energy to vaporize a pound of aluminum. An hour in a 5 KW ceramics kiln might melt a pound aluminum... but vaporization is much harder. I'll estimate incredibly low and say you can vaporize a pound of aluminum with only 5 KWh. LOL this is probably 1 or maybe even 2 orders of magnitude low, but its best to be extremely pessimistic... I'm not counting the machining energy or transport, both of which will be much smaller.
So I'd feel fairly confident that a pound or so of aluminum tube, costing about 5 KWh to refine, should generate about 5000 KWh when the deuterium inside the tubes gets squooshed. Not bad.
Another crappy engineering order of magnitude estimate is you gotta burn a pound of coal to make a KWh. And you can earn a tidy profit burning coal to make electricity, for better or worse... WRT materials handling transport and mining/ore/coal processing and storage standpoint, those are not an issue as long as you can get more than one KWH out of a pound of the "stuff", since it's clearly no issue with coal at a pitiful KWh per pound. This thing is getting 5000 KWh out of a pound of aluminum tubes (well, once they're filled up with D2).
No as a first approximation I'm not seeing any fundamental issues with the tubes. This isn't like using up 2 barrels of crude oil to grow and refine 1 barrel equivalent of ethanol. The tubes will be a substantial fraction of the operating expense. Not as significant as jetfuel to a airline, or coal to a powerplant, but more significant than say, the cost of in flight cookies to a airline.
about 500 students
The students will be given job placement opportunities at a local firm in the city once they reach a certain proficiency
OK huge call center moving in
The problem: limited electricity, limited computers,
The solution seems obvious, ask the call center how they're dealing with having limited electricity and limited computers. If the problems seem insurmountable to them, then your problem doesn't matter because the call center will not be opening. If they have a solution, presumably you can copy their solution.
Also some simple math here... you've got 500 students and 12 computers. Hmm. You can't really "practice" for too long at a time, even under ideal conditions. So 500 / 12 computers = 41 students per computer. Probably the best way to do this is 48 half hour practice sessions per day. So some kids session will be from 2:30 am to 3 am local, so what, welcome to transcontinental call center operations, he's gonna have to get used to it sooner or later.
Frankly, the biggest call center problem isn't slow typing. As long as the kids know the alphabet and numbers before learning to type, you'll be OK.
The fact that business intelligence tools are also well suited to monitoring dumb animals dedicated to a life of exploitation and eventual slaughter is just one of those crazy coincidences, and has no deeper implications.
Didn't I see this same post in the recent /. article about the call center that wants to track when and how long the employees take a dump? If the cows had paid attention to what skynet was doing to the call center drones and nipped it in the bud, programs like that would never have expanded to the cows.
Maybe simpler explanation. The web is flat so any bar to entry means someone else will provide a lower bar and eat your lunch.
The bar to creating a project on SF is not very high, but there's humans involved and I gotta spec out license and blah blah and write descriptions and it takes about 5 minutes. My project can't have the same name as someone elses project, etc etc. This is how project centric hosting sites work.
On github its click "create a repo" and you don't technically need much other than the name, so that's all they ask and it just works. I'm git cloning my new repo in about 30 seconds, or so. This is how dev/user centric hosting sites work.
A zillion hours and a zillion commits later, here I am still right where I started.
Thank god. I thought for sure this list would have a goatse joke.
Anyone with a five digit UID or lower gets to be a bit player in the next Dice.com SuperBowl commercial.
... And there it is
the folks from Dice were very clear about not wanting to interfere with the community.
Hey Soulskill, so far almost all ? the commentary has been negative, near certainty the dilbertian overlords will F stuff up or best case just leave the place alone.
As a contrarian viewpoint has anyone on either side suggested they might actually do something positive, dare I say synergistic?
UTF-8 and ipv6 its 2012 after all.
dice.com initial impression of the story selection is kind of tech journalist / lite stuff. Like for noobs. /. could be for people who graduate from dice ("look ma, now I can write hello world") while still being in their fold of sites. Meanwhile the most noobish of /. submissions probably belong on dice. I would be thrilled with more "/. articles" on /. and "dice articles" on dice...
I get the gut level impression that dice might be able to encourage more, and more interesting, /. interviews. Ditto book reviews. Hopefully not all astroturf.
important to tech professionals in their everyday work lives,
(Grizzled tech gladiator raises his arm in salute toward emperor) For those who post to /. while at work, we who are about to be downmodded salute you! SPQR!
Terror of what happens to future earnings when igoogle goes away along with my /. RSS feed.