It's not even competing with an Apple service... not after June 30 anyway.
Apple is canning idisk. I just had to deal with a user flying off the handle about that yesterday.
OK that settles it, I almost guarantee that something new is coming down from Apple around July 1st vaguely revolving around cloudy file storage.
Could be as simple as making dropbox the official replacement for idisk, maybe they're buying some cloudy company, something's almost certainly on the way...
Its spun as a "30% cut" story but an apple i-competitor to dropbox was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Then I realized apple had i.mac or idrive or some such subscription thing just like dropbox except it costs money, that I never subscribed to, years and years ago. Does apple still have that? Perhaps they're planning a relaunch or rebranding and that's the real story of suddenly coming down on dropbox like a box of bricks.
(disclaimer, I like dropbox because of its flawless linux client. I like it alot, at least until GOOG releases a linux goog-drive client thats as good. Then its bye bye 2 gig dropbox hello 5 gig GOOG-drive. I also have stopped buying idevices and started buying android devices.)
Nope the average just meant that about half the kids died in childbirth or as little kids. Life expectancy of a 20 year old dude hasn't changed by nearly as large of a percentage...
That would assume the variation from place to place for "average" is less than 0.1 Sv, low enough that natural variation is less than a factor of 2. I assure you that a jet aircraft pilot living in Denver in a masonry house with granite countertops drinking deep well water has a much higher exposure than a guy in Florida with wood countertops, walls, no basement, drinking groundwater.
I realize I'm posting way late to this thread, but fiber is ground loop proof... copper, in or out of conduit, is not. I think that is what was killing the gear in the welding shop as they had some whacked out power wiring fed off a different transformer than the offices, and obviously had some severe grounding issues.
I'd call bogus on that with the possible exception of a control center which has always been a GUI thing anyway. Packaging and shipping "the dominant free web browser" and "the dominant free office quite" and KDE and some themes is not innovative.
Well, you could also say that excessive diversity is one of the major problems why desktop Linux is not as mighty as it could be.
Where's the diversity? Isn't it just RPM/redhat without Gnome available to install (in other words, KDE default?). Its not like FF 5.0.1 on Mandriva is going to be any different than FF 5.0.1 on my debian desktops, or libreoffice, or bash, or ssh...
How do they handle annual inspections? Replace the battery pack every year?
On a 200-mile trip in a comparable four-passenger gas-engine private plane, you'd burn $80 worth of avgas
Who cares, annual inspections for a small plane, assuming no real problems are found, are like $1500... every year... and hanger rental monthly nears the cost of renting a bachelor pad apartment (which makes sense, they're about the same size...)
The standard/. car analogy is its like making economic decisions about buying a Lamborghini primarily based on how much the windshield washer fluid is likely to cost. If you're sweating the cost of fuel, there is no way you can afford the other much larger costs of aircraft ownership. Wait until your first landing light replacement, just like a cars headlight but it costs 10 times as much (because its aviation) and is only rated at a fraction of the lifetime of a car headlight. Insurance is quite expensive too. You may find the cheapest cost of owning an aircraft... is the fuel.
What is Mandriva? Yes I know all about the history, Mandrake and Connectiva, blah blah.
I'm talking about the technical marketing message. Why use it instead of a zillion other RPM distros or a zillion other OS where KDE can be installed?
The wikipedia page lists: 1) Its got a control center. Find me an OS without one? 2) Its a boot loader for KDE, essentially. Well, what makes this different than every other KDE OS? 3) It has some themes. Find me an OS without this? I should spend hours wiping and recreating my system because I like this tone of blue? 4) RPM based. OK so its repackaged redhat. 5) Live USBs basically the same as live cdroms are available. Find me a non-commercial OS without this?
The mandriva website lists: 1) Its a "next generation experience" but its actually just KDE (find me a modern OS where you can't install KDE with something like "apt-get install kde") 2) Its "better and simpler" but the details listed describe how that means the icons are bigger. Eh. 3) It has a smart desktop, which is apparently defined as it has some KDE apps, as I would have suspected from #1. 4) It ships with firefox 5.0.1 (thats awesome, says VLM who is reading this page on a FF 12.0 browser) 5) Libreoffice is available (find me a modern OS where libreoffice is not available?) Amazingly it doesn't list any OS features at all, only lists features of the apps that every other distro also has. Mandriva is not FF 5.0.1, its an OS that happens to run FF. Being able to install libreoffice is not a OS feature, any more than its a feature for every other OS that libreoffice can be installed upon (and I never use libreoffice anymore anyway, all GOOG docs aka GOOG drive for me...). I do NOT need to install Mandriva in order to experience FF, or libreoffice, or kde (awesome user both work and home, just gave up on KDE around the "bundle with mysql" era made it a bit heavy for something that does almost nothing for me but run a terminal session with ssh and FF).
So, what, if anything, are they doing to lure me over? What makes mandriva special or stand out from being yet another distro that happens to be yet another RPM distro, and yet another KDE distro? The lack of any answer Might be central to their lack of success.
Assuming you mean natural causes there's a way to analyze geologic cores to detect proton events and it was roughly a 1 in 500 year storm.
On the other hand, since we seem to have "500 year floods" every year in the news reports, we should probably be a little worried.
As a ham radio guy I'd like to see a legendary flare just under the permanent damage rating. Point the 6M beam north, fire up the amp, make aurora contact all the way down to Panama or something... Sucks for the HF guys, but I'd have fun, and its only temporary.
Guys, nobody has these weapons and if they did they wouldn't waste them on you.
Govt is probably worried about an inside job. Their govt loves their Orwellian CCTV cams. Theres a website who's name I forget of pictures of torched and destroyed UK CCTV cameras. Eventually there comes a point where the best way for the citizens (err I mean human property of the govt) to clear the verminous CCTV cams out of an area is a short range EMP weapon... Combine that with 50% youth unemployment in greater europe, racial tensions, its going to be an exciting time.
Across the pond, in a more civilized fashion, we aren't as crazy about cams and we'd just use hunting rifles to take them out anyway instead of quenching a big superconducting magnet. Also apparently no one has found a way for the 1% to get richer by EMP hardening, or a way to make the 99% poorer by EMP hardening. another reason we are never going to do it. So those are the numerous reasons Big Brother UK is doing this but not Big Brother US.
Don't forget the radiation shielding from all the paperwork. Also, they've got cameras everywhere, that'll protect against all threats, right? The sun will not dare have a solar storm if we point CCTV cameras at it.
Sounds like statistical studies. I was thinking of reaction mechanisms. Mystifies me how alcohol could do any good to a liver from a reaction mechanism basis. I could see from a statistical study where "getting a nice buzz" might lower stress levels, lowering blood pressure, increasing lifetime. However, you'd get the same cardio relaxation effects from a nice mild tranq pill without the higher liver toxicity of alcohol, or just tell them to meditate more...
Maybe even a weird secondary effect like moderate dehydration due to the alcohol consumption leads in some strange way to increased health.
The problem with doing everything from statistics is nothing is ever really learned. Imagine trying to learn how to program not by learning the language and how the machine works, but merely by large scale statistical analysis of runtimes of mostly random binaries. I suspect that is the "problem" with these studies. Drink a glass of wine every night lose 6 months liver life gain 12 months cardio life net gain 6 months. Doesn't mean wine is "good" for you, especially if you could reduce your cardio stress level without damaging your liver at all. Go out for a run instead? sex?
Frankly 3 drinks per day every day thats kind of heavy drinking. That can't possibly be good. On a weekly average I probably couldn't have approached that even in my freshman college year. That's a large amount of boozing, 21 drinks per week. Which leads to secondary effects all its own. Buzzed out and dazed and slow due to all that booze I'm not going to play with power tools or go out for a drive, which inherently reduces death rate, but its not the booze that increases the lifespan, its the sitting on the couch instead of doing something more dangerous that increases the lifespan. Reading a book, or taking up DnD or WoW would increase my lifespan without damaging my liver.
Or TLDR is I'm unimpressed by statistical studies without any reaction mechanism. "I randomly F'd around until it seemed to work" is kind of a slap in the face of the engineering mindset. Also it leads to "proving" prayer and astrology work.
RAIN = Redundant Array of Ipod Nanos (or Inexpensive Nanos, since you'll be running off AC power you can buy the cheap ones from ebay with dead batteries instead of buy new)
Buy more than 8 nanos... you need 8 just for background music for each zone. Other nanos do nothing but squirt out a single announcement one time when play is hit. Feed into big ole mixer. All done.
Reprogramming by the end user is not much of a challenge assuming there exists at least one apple fanboy carnie. Another question that depends on your contract, are you trying to encourage substantial "long term support" or discourage substantial "long term support". A bunch of ipod nanos is not going to require much IT guy time, which is either a huge bonus or a huge epic fail, depending on your financial compensation plan.
What are these 8 channels? How closely do they need to be synced up, a tiny fraction of a phase difference of a 44 KHz sine wave like professional audio music mixing, or just synced up close enough that park closing end of day announcements happen "around the same time, plus or minus a couple minutes" on every speaker? The first thing I thought of is 8 NTP time synced machines each running exactly one speaker plus (speaker-1) so when one crashes you cross connect speaker 6 to the Left output of computer 7, or whatever. A huge benefit that when one PC dies, the other 7 will keep working. Explain the benefit of doing all 8 channels off one machine, especially if its going to be all hands off lights out automated anyway.
Another Excellent question is do you need to do live mixing on the fly with dynamic playlists, or are you basically making eight 16 hour mp3s that simply play once per day, every day, all year? The best user interface of all might be 8 ipods each with 16 one hour mp3s. Even the most inept carnie can figure out how to run a ipod.
in essence, they argue it's like finding that periodically (or continuously) scrubbing your RAID-5 to catch read errors and rewrite good data reduces overall data loss risk, despite putting additional wear on the disks.
or in essence its like arguing that running your heart during aerobic exercise helps it age better, or vaccinating yourself by injecting dangerous microbes paradoxically reduces your odds of infectious death. Also you can have fun with a more engineering example like work hardening... who could guess that whacking softened copper with a hammer actually makes it stronger instead of just turning it to mush?
The homeopathy comment was more a measurement, ridiculous biochemically irrelevant concentration, rather than an explanation like "the water remembers it was radioactive once, so it saves itself". you can talk about a measured homeopathic quantity of a substance without also believing it is relevant.
Ah I'm not talking about cancer being like evolution, talking about evolution if you live in a niche of really high radioactive potassium consumption from eating bananas all the time, after a bazillion generations you'd expect the survivors to be better than the average human about excreting radioactive or otherwise K and/or getting by with as little of that nasty stuff inside them as possible, despite it being a big part of their diet.
In humans, small doses of alcohol, a toxin, seems to improve heart health.
alcohol is a liver toxin, just like fructose (insert std flamewar about fructose being a toxin, complete with youtube links).
You can do the pubmed thing but as a crude first approximation alcohol only screws up muscle (like heart) as a secondary effect by first screwing up your digestive system and blood chemistry and nervous system. Muscle itself doesn't met messed up by alcohol until its practically pickled. Notice the ratio in alcoholic deaths of liver vs stomach/intestine cancer (stomach is muscle, more or less)
I'm interested in this stuff, but I'm not a MD, get professional opinion about balancing liver damage vs muscle/heart damage, etc.
The standard/. car analogy breaks down in that running my car engine up to 80% of redline RPM for a half hour a day is a pretty stupid idea that will only wear it out faster. Yet daily aerobic exercise seems to be a brilliant idea for long term cardiovascular health.
You can also have hilarious fun making vaccine analogies. "You mean, you'd intentionally inject small amounts of possibly fatal microbes into a healthy body? Madness I tell you! Madness!" Sadly there are highly educated actresses and pr0n models who pretty much use this argument when providing their valuable medical advice, along with the usual folks doing the FUD-for-profit thing.
Ionizing radiation causes cancer... There is no "safe dose"
You seem to have not read the abstract, the whole point of which is at ultra unrealistically low levels, practically homeopathic low levels, the mechanism, the cause/effect seems to not make much sense or is under debate, both real scientific debate and crackpot astroturfing debate. But the article points out that at any realistic dosage level there is not much debate by anybody. So the article pragmatically suggests to only apply real world numbers to real world exposures and ignore the whole topic of unattainably asymptotic low levels. The article argument is the opposite of yours in some ways.
An example of a realistic question at the ultra-low end is, looking at how naturally radioactive some of our high potassium food is, you'd think we'd evolve a way to pee the bad stuff away. Presumably people evolved in granitic-source / volcanic-source soil would be better at it than people evolved in sedimentary-source soil. Another realistic area of cancer research is proving the presence or absence of two-step or catalysts of cancer. Your body is pretty good at dealing with mutant cells, except when it fails and then you die of cancer, whoops. So figuring out why your body fails to kill cancer cells is in many ways more important than trying to figure out how to reduce the number of cells caused by radiation because even if you zero that, you're still going to have random biochemical accidents. Its an interesting theoretical area of research but the article points out for normal human beings its at a level that doesn't matter.
Model fits, both parametric and nonparametric, to the atomic-bomb data support a linear no-threshold model, below 0.1 Sv.
OK so the data implies there is no safe minimum dose based on models derived from numerology and graphs and experience.
On the basis of biologic arguments, the scientific establishment in the United States and many other countries accepts this dose-model down to zero-dose, but there is spirited dissent.
But that doesn't seem to make biochemical sense. (eventually you end up in the radiation equivalent of homeopathy)
a sizeable percentage of this population will receive cumulative doses from the medical profession in excess of 0.1 Sv, making talk of a threshold or other sublinear response below that dose moot for future releases from nuclear facilities or a dirty bomb.
"moot" in science-speak means it doesn't matter. Its not a 4chan reference.
The risks from both medical diagnostic doses and nuclear accident doses can be computed using the linear dose-response model, with uncertainties assigned below 0.1 Sv in a way that captures alternative scientific hypotheses.
A big F you to both the cranks and the real biochemical / biophysical scientists, because no civilized human can go thru life below 0.1 Sv, you can rock on with your homeopathy or astrology or whatever, none of us doctors cares much about your weird little long tail that no one can live in anyway.
You would still be blown all over the place because of the lack of gravity, it just takes a bit longer to accelerate to speed.
Its only about a 20th not zero.
To a ridiculously crude first approximation, if the force of the wind is equivalent to 1 MPH at earth STP, then factoring in gravity it would be like being in a 20 MPH wind on earth WRT to being tipped over. However you'd have the same inertia you have on earth, so there wouldn't be much tumbling around due to gusts.
Portable is key when you want to resell your house. Unless you can find a like-minded nerd, anything screwed in to the walls is going to turn off buyers.
Oh please. Talk to generations of ham radio guys about "home modification issues".
If you screwed something into the wall, unlike chicks, its pretty easy to unscrew and its as if it never happened. Even holes can be patched.
IF you're taking buyers thru before you bother cleaning up (why? so they can see your dirty underwear laying on the bedroom floor?) then you're screwed. Everyone else will glance, say, oh nice, a smooth freshly painted wall, and move on.
When you install the reinforced concrete footings for three 50 foot ham radio antenna towers in the middle of the backyard and trench conduit from them into the basement thru a 2 foot diameter hole in the basement wall, then you have the right to complain on/. about how hard it'll be to sell the house... till then...
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
Ah but fiber is lightning and EMI proof. Speed is simply not relevant. more than 2 decades ago my employer at the time used ether-fiber converters on the factory floor for obvious reasons, at a whopping 10 megabits/sec. Supposedly they were replacing the gear connecting the arcwelding shop every week until they put in the fiber.
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It's not even competing with an Apple service... not after June 30 anyway.
Apple is canning idisk. I just had to deal with a user flying off the handle about that yesterday.
OK that settles it, I almost guarantee that something new is coming down from Apple around July 1st vaguely revolving around cloudy file storage.
Could be as simple as making dropbox the official replacement for idisk, maybe they're buying some cloudy company, something's almost certainly on the way...
2. Do not compete with services offered by Apple.
Its spun as a "30% cut" story but an apple i-competitor to dropbox was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Then I realized apple had i.mac or idrive or some such subscription thing just like dropbox except it costs money, that I never subscribed to, years and years ago. Does apple still have that? Perhaps they're planning a relaunch or rebranding and that's the real story of suddenly coming down on dropbox like a box of bricks.
(disclaimer, I like dropbox because of its flawless linux client. I like it alot, at least until GOOG releases a linux goog-drive client thats as good. Then its bye bye 2 gig dropbox hello 5 gig GOOG-drive. I also have stopped buying idevices and started buying android devices.)
Nope the average just meant that about half the kids died in childbirth or as little kids. Life expectancy of a 20 year old dude hasn't changed by nearly as large of a percentage...
That would assume the variation from place to place for "average" is less than 0.1 Sv, low enough that natural variation is less than a factor of 2.
I assure you that a jet aircraft pilot living in Denver in a masonry house with granite countertops drinking deep well water has a much higher exposure than a guy in Florida with wood countertops, walls, no basement, drinking groundwater.
I realize I'm posting way late to this thread, but fiber is ground loop proof... copper, in or out of conduit, is not. I think that is what was killing the gear in the welding shop as they had some whacked out power wiring fed off a different transformer than the offices, and obviously had some severe grounding issues.
I'd call bogus on that with the possible exception of a control center which has always been a GUI thing anyway. Packaging and shipping "the dominant free web browser" and "the dominant free office quite" and KDE and some themes is not innovative.
Well, you could also say that excessive diversity is one of the major problems why desktop Linux is not as mighty as it could be.
Where's the diversity? Isn't it just RPM/redhat without Gnome available to install (in other words, KDE default?). Its not like FF 5.0.1 on Mandriva is going to be any different than FF 5.0.1 on my debian desktops, or libreoffice, or bash, or ssh...
How do they handle annual inspections? Replace the battery pack every year?
On a 200-mile trip in a comparable four-passenger gas-engine private plane, you'd burn $80 worth of avgas
Who cares, annual inspections for a small plane, assuming no real problems are found, are like $1500 ... every year ... and hanger rental monthly nears the cost of renting a bachelor pad apartment (which makes sense, they're about the same size...)
The standard /. car analogy is its like making economic decisions about buying a Lamborghini primarily based on how much the windshield washer fluid is likely to cost. If you're sweating the cost of fuel, there is no way you can afford the other much larger costs of aircraft ownership. Wait until your first landing light replacement, just like a cars headlight but it costs 10 times as much (because its aviation) and is only rated at a fraction of the lifetime of a car headlight. Insurance is quite expensive too. You may find the cheapest cost of owning an aircraft... is the fuel.
What is Mandriva? Yes I know all about the history, Mandrake and Connectiva, blah blah.
I'm talking about the technical marketing message. Why use it instead of a zillion other RPM distros or a zillion other OS where KDE can be installed?
The wikipedia page lists:
1) Its got a control center. Find me an OS without one?
2) Its a boot loader for KDE, essentially. Well, what makes this different than every other KDE OS?
3) It has some themes. Find me an OS without this? I should spend hours wiping and recreating my system because I like this tone of blue?
4) RPM based. OK so its repackaged redhat.
5) Live USBs basically the same as live cdroms are available. Find me a non-commercial OS without this?
The mandriva website lists:
1) Its a "next generation experience" but its actually just KDE (find me a modern OS where you can't install KDE with something like "apt-get install kde")
2) Its "better and simpler" but the details listed describe how that means the icons are bigger. Eh.
3) It has a smart desktop, which is apparently defined as it has some KDE apps, as I would have suspected from #1.
4) It ships with firefox 5.0.1 (thats awesome, says VLM who is reading this page on a FF 12.0 browser)
5) Libreoffice is available (find me a modern OS where libreoffice is not available?)
Amazingly it doesn't list any OS features at all, only lists features of the apps that every other distro also has. Mandriva is not FF 5.0.1, its an OS that happens to run FF. Being able to install libreoffice is not a OS feature, any more than its a feature for every other OS that libreoffice can be installed upon (and I never use libreoffice anymore anyway, all GOOG docs aka GOOG drive for me...). I do NOT need to install Mandriva in order to experience FF, or libreoffice, or kde (awesome user both work and home, just gave up on KDE around the "bundle with mysql" era made it a bit heavy for something that does almost nothing for me but run a terminal session with ssh and FF).
So, what, if anything, are they doing to lure me over? What makes mandriva special or stand out from being yet another distro that happens to be yet another RPM distro, and yet another KDE distro? The lack of any answer Might be central to their lack of success.
Assuming you mean natural causes there's a way to analyze geologic cores to detect proton events and it was roughly a 1 in 500 year storm.
On the other hand, since we seem to have "500 year floods" every year in the news reports, we should probably be a little worried.
As a ham radio guy I'd like to see a legendary flare just under the permanent damage rating. Point the 6M beam north, fire up the amp, make aurora contact all the way down to Panama or something... Sucks for the HF guys, but I'd have fun, and its only temporary.
Guys, nobody has these weapons and if they did they wouldn't waste them on you.
Govt is probably worried about an inside job. Their govt loves their Orwellian CCTV cams. Theres a website who's name I forget of pictures of torched and destroyed UK CCTV cameras. Eventually there comes a point where the best way for the citizens (err I mean human property of the govt) to clear the verminous CCTV cams out of an area is a short range EMP weapon... Combine that with 50% youth unemployment in greater europe, racial tensions, its going to be an exciting time.
Across the pond, in a more civilized fashion, we aren't as crazy about cams and we'd just use hunting rifles to take them out anyway instead of quenching a big superconducting magnet. Also apparently no one has found a way for the 1% to get richer by EMP hardening, or a way to make the 99% poorer by EMP hardening. another reason we are never going to do it. So those are the numerous reasons Big Brother UK is doing this but not Big Brother US.
Don't forget the radiation shielding from all the paperwork.
Also, they've got cameras everywhere, that'll protect against all threats, right? The sun will not dare have a solar storm if we point CCTV cameras at it.
Sounds like statistical studies. I was thinking of reaction mechanisms. Mystifies me how alcohol could do any good to a liver from a reaction mechanism basis. I could see from a statistical study where "getting a nice buzz" might lower stress levels, lowering blood pressure, increasing lifetime. However, you'd get the same cardio relaxation effects from a nice mild tranq pill without the higher liver toxicity of alcohol, or just tell them to meditate more...
Maybe even a weird secondary effect like moderate dehydration due to the alcohol consumption leads in some strange way to increased health.
The problem with doing everything from statistics is nothing is ever really learned. Imagine trying to learn how to program not by learning the language and how the machine works, but merely by large scale statistical analysis of runtimes of mostly random binaries. I suspect that is the "problem" with these studies. Drink a glass of wine every night lose 6 months liver life gain 12 months cardio life net gain 6 months. Doesn't mean wine is "good" for you, especially if you could reduce your cardio stress level without damaging your liver at all. Go out for a run instead? sex?
Frankly 3 drinks per day every day thats kind of heavy drinking. That can't possibly be good. On a weekly average I probably couldn't have approached that even in my freshman college year. That's a large amount of boozing, 21 drinks per week. Which leads to secondary effects all its own. Buzzed out and dazed and slow due to all that booze I'm not going to play with power tools or go out for a drive, which inherently reduces death rate, but its not the booze that increases the lifespan, its the sitting on the couch instead of doing something more dangerous that increases the lifespan. Reading a book, or taking up DnD or WoW would increase my lifespan without damaging my liver.
Or TLDR is I'm unimpressed by statistical studies without any reaction mechanism. "I randomly F'd around until it seemed to work" is kind of a slap in the face of the engineering mindset. Also it leads to "proving" prayer and astrology work.
RAIN = Redundant Array of Ipod Nanos (or Inexpensive Nanos, since you'll be running off AC power you can buy the cheap ones from ebay with dead batteries instead of buy new)
Buy more than 8 nanos... you need 8 just for background music for each zone. Other nanos do nothing but squirt out a single announcement one time when play is hit. Feed into big ole mixer. All done.
Reprogramming by the end user is not much of a challenge assuming there exists at least one apple fanboy carnie. Another question that depends on your contract, are you trying to encourage substantial "long term support" or discourage substantial "long term support". A bunch of ipod nanos is not going to require much IT guy time, which is either a huge bonus or a huge epic fail, depending on your financial compensation plan.
What are these 8 channels? How closely do they need to be synced up, a tiny fraction of a phase difference of a 44 KHz sine wave like professional audio music mixing, or just synced up close enough that park closing end of day announcements happen "around the same time, plus or minus a couple minutes" on every speaker? The first thing I thought of is 8 NTP time synced machines each running exactly one speaker plus (speaker-1) so when one crashes you cross connect speaker 6 to the Left output of computer 7, or whatever. A huge benefit that when one PC dies, the other 7 will keep working. Explain the benefit of doing all 8 channels off one machine, especially if its going to be all hands off lights out automated anyway.
Another Excellent question is do you need to do live mixing on the fly with dynamic playlists, or are you basically making eight 16 hour mp3s that simply play once per day, every day, all year? The best user interface of all might be 8 ipods each with 16 one hour mp3s. Even the most inept carnie can figure out how to run a ipod.
in essence, they argue it's like finding that periodically (or continuously) scrubbing your RAID-5 to catch read errors and rewrite good data reduces overall data loss risk, despite putting additional wear on the disks.
or in essence its like arguing that running your heart during aerobic exercise helps it age better, or vaccinating yourself by injecting dangerous microbes paradoxically reduces your odds of infectious death. Also you can have fun with a more engineering example like work hardening... who could guess that whacking softened copper with a hammer actually makes it stronger instead of just turning it to mush?
The homeopathy comment was more a measurement, ridiculous biochemically irrelevant concentration, rather than an explanation like "the water remembers it was radioactive once, so it saves itself". you can talk about a measured homeopathic quantity of a substance without also believing it is relevant.
Ah I'm not talking about cancer being like evolution, talking about evolution if you live in a niche of really high radioactive potassium consumption from eating bananas all the time, after a bazillion generations you'd expect the survivors to be better than the average human about excreting radioactive or otherwise K and/or getting by with as little of that nasty stuff inside them as possible, despite it being a big part of their diet.
In humans, small doses of alcohol, a toxin, seems to improve heart health.
alcohol is a liver toxin, just like fructose (insert std flamewar about fructose being a toxin, complete with youtube links).
You can do the pubmed thing but as a crude first approximation alcohol only screws up muscle (like heart) as a secondary effect by first screwing up your digestive system and blood chemistry and nervous system. Muscle itself doesn't met messed up by alcohol until its practically pickled. Notice the ratio in alcoholic deaths of liver vs stomach/intestine cancer (stomach is muscle, more or less)
I'm interested in this stuff, but I'm not a MD, get professional opinion about balancing liver damage vs muscle/heart damage, etc.
The standard /. car analogy breaks down in that running my car engine up to 80% of redline RPM for a half hour a day is a pretty stupid idea that will only wear it out faster. Yet daily aerobic exercise seems to be a brilliant idea for long term cardiovascular health.
You can also have hilarious fun making vaccine analogies. "You mean, you'd intentionally inject small amounts of possibly fatal microbes into a healthy body? Madness I tell you! Madness!" Sadly there are highly educated actresses and pr0n models who pretty much use this argument when providing their valuable medical advice, along with the usual folks doing the FUD-for-profit thing.
Ionizing radiation causes cancer... There is no "safe dose"
You seem to have not read the abstract, the whole point of which is at ultra unrealistically low levels, practically homeopathic low levels, the mechanism, the cause/effect seems to not make much sense or is under debate, both real scientific debate and crackpot astroturfing debate. But the article points out that at any realistic dosage level there is not much debate by anybody. So the article pragmatically suggests to only apply real world numbers to real world exposures and ignore the whole topic of unattainably asymptotic low levels. The article argument is the opposite of yours in some ways.
An example of a realistic question at the ultra-low end is, looking at how naturally radioactive some of our high potassium food is, you'd think we'd evolve a way to pee the bad stuff away. Presumably people evolved in granitic-source / volcanic-source soil would be better at it than people evolved in sedimentary-source soil. Another realistic area of cancer research is proving the presence or absence of two-step or catalysts of cancer. Your body is pretty good at dealing with mutant cells, except when it fails and then you die of cancer, whoops. So figuring out why your body fails to kill cancer cells is in many ways more important than trying to figure out how to reduce the number of cells caused by radiation because even if you zero that, you're still going to have random biochemical accidents. Its an interesting theoretical area of research but the article points out for normal human beings its at a level that doesn't matter.
Skip past the dry abstract
Dry, but a funny read in some ways.
Model fits, both parametric and nonparametric, to the atomic-bomb data support a linear no-threshold model, below 0.1 Sv.
OK so the data implies there is no safe minimum dose based on models derived from numerology and graphs and experience.
On the basis of biologic arguments, the scientific establishment in the United States and many other countries accepts this dose-model down to zero-dose, but there is spirited dissent.
But that doesn't seem to make biochemical sense. (eventually you end up in the radiation equivalent of homeopathy)
a sizeable percentage of this population will receive cumulative doses from the medical profession in excess of 0.1 Sv, making talk of a threshold or other sublinear response below that dose moot for future releases from nuclear facilities or a dirty bomb.
"moot" in science-speak means it doesn't matter. Its not a 4chan reference.
The risks from both medical diagnostic doses and nuclear accident doses can be computed using the linear dose-response model, with uncertainties assigned below 0.1 Sv in a way that captures alternative scientific hypotheses.
A big F you to both the cranks and the real biochemical / biophysical scientists, because no civilized human can go thru life below 0.1 Sv, you can rock on with your homeopathy or astrology or whatever, none of us doctors cares much about your weird little long tail that no one can live in anyway.
You would still be blown all over the place because of the lack of gravity, it just takes a bit longer to accelerate to speed.
Its only about a 20th not zero.
To a ridiculously crude first approximation, if the force of the wind is equivalent to 1 MPH at earth STP, then factoring in gravity it would be like being in a 20 MPH wind on earth WRT to being tipped over. However you'd have the same inertia you have on earth, so there wouldn't be much tumbling around due to gusts.
Maybe thats the gray market Chinese import version.
Portable is key when you want to resell your house. Unless you can find a like-minded nerd, anything screwed in to the walls is going to turn off buyers.
Oh please. Talk to generations of ham radio guys about "home modification issues".
If you screwed something into the wall, unlike chicks, its pretty easy to unscrew and its as if it never happened. Even holes can be patched.
IF you're taking buyers thru before you bother cleaning up (why? so they can see your dirty underwear laying on the bedroom floor?) then you're screwed. Everyone else will glance, say, oh nice, a smooth freshly painted wall, and move on.
When you install the reinforced concrete footings for three 50 foot ham radio antenna towers in the middle of the backyard and trench conduit from them into the basement thru a 2 foot diameter hole in the basement wall, then you have the right to complain on /. about how hard it'll be to sell the house... till then...
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
Ah but fiber is lightning and EMI proof. Speed is simply not relevant. more than 2 decades ago my employer at the time used ether-fiber converters on the factory floor for obvious reasons, at a whopping 10 megabits/sec. Supposedly they were replacing the gear connecting the arcwelding shop every week until they put in the fiber.