You probably could replace a decent little data center with a single server. It wouldn't be a tiny one, though. You ever seen those massive IBM mainframes? I mean the big ones. Yeah.
You might be surprised how pure some family lines are. Some of us call people like that "inbred" and roll their eyes at how snooty and better-than-thou they try to be when they're making complete fools of themselves for chasing some nigh-unto-utterly-useless metric of "purity" instead of things that really matter.
Realistically, as Lincoln said, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." Funny, I don't recall him saying that one. Ah well, it's like Lincoln said, "the world will little note nor long remember what we say here".
I'm in California. They practically give away CFLs for free here. I'd use them, but the main light fixtures they'd be good for have these dimmer-type switches, and I couldn't get the darned things to stop flickering like crazy.
That, and the lamp I've been using most instead is this halogen type thing I got from Ikea. It has a much nicer color temperature.
p.s. we need better CFL recycling programs or there's gonna be a huge mercury-in-our-landfills problem before too long.
New York also used to have a crazy pneumatic tube system that took mail from one part of the island to another. They shut it down after the invention of the Automobile.
I suspect the advent of that, along with refinements in sorting, let them deliver more mail with fewer mailmen (with the side effect of it being less often). Considering that Labor these days is a lot more expensive than it used to be, that has to be a huge cost savings overall. That's probably better for most people's mail usage than five-times-a-day service.
By reform I'm guessing that you mean reform via gravity? And since we are dealing with asteroids would it be safe to say that 'later' is later on an astrological time scale? An astrological timescale?
./~ when the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aliiiigns with Mars....
If Nature is a game, is it skill based or class based? Einstein has already postulated that it is a dice-less game. Modern quantum physics however suggests at least some die rolling is involved, but the number and type of dice is unknown. Is the dice bag full of uniform D6, or is it a nerdy mixture of shapes, such as D-up, D-down, D-strange, D-charm, etc? D-nothing; it's an E-8.
This has been documented here on Slashdot before.
I'm reluctant to make this suggestion, however, as many people see the approximation of an ideal as being as good as the ideal itself. This is not necessarily the case and I feel that banning addictive drugs is likely one of those situations. Developing drugs which provide a similar high without the dangerous addiction is an option.. as is providing the means for addicted individuals to get off the drug safely and painlessly. Banning addictive drugs causes scarcity and that just spreads the damage from the individual to society.
At some level, the high is the addiction; triggering the reward center of the brain, releasing dopamine. The mechanism of is simple enough: it feels good, so you want to do it (more and more). You can't really have a 'pleasure' drug that doesn't activate this. The best you can hope for is to somehow neutralize the way the brain acclimatizes itself to expect a new level of pleasure which can only be provided with drugs (with which Real Life (tm) cannot really compete) to minimize the crippling trauma of withdrawal.
Space navigation *does* involve having boosters to prevent orbital decay, though - and guess what the ISS has? Boosters! Go figure. The ISS has orbital decay because it's in a pretty low orbit with a fair amount of atmospheric drag to worry about. For a little extra thrust and delta-V on launch, you can stick your stuff up a little higher in the sky, and you don't have that problem anymore. This probably makes sense if you're not trying to visit it regularly like the ISS.
Yes, since (as we all know) genetics, not upbringing or education, is the number one, undisputed, primary factor in determining intelligence (and income, and value to society!)
Aptera does look fun. And their venture-capital firm is the same as my current employer's, so it's also fun to cheer them on. (However, it's also the same firm originally behind New.net, so, umm.) Production in late 2008? We'll see!
See the sibling post below parent . . . this figure is way low for modern processors. There's a reason that there aren't many upstart processor manufacturers. The fabs are expensive and require significant expertise to work out all the fiddly problems that tend to crop up when dealing with a 65 nm process.
Take, for example, the recent $2.5 Billion Intel plant in China. Yeah, but the Intel plant is designed to create thousands, millions, of low-power / high-performance devices. A hobbyist might be content with just a few.
Law and Order episode? I think it's been done. Multiple times.
I had a friend (have a friend) who was trying, training, to become an elementary school teacher.
He had some clashes with The Administration he was dealing with (and, quite frankly, I think they were probably right about a lot of it; the guy is a nut) and eventually, one of the teachers there initiated some trumped-up, ridiculous (really- deserving of ridicule and lots of it- vampires were involved) sexual harassment charge against him on behalf of one of the girls.
It was ultimately dropped after not-too-long, but he sure wasn't going to be a teacher anymore - and if it had gone further, it would have been a terrible injustice (though a likely one) for him to end up on some list. And if he had been killed by some vigilante? All the more so.
But your code, of course, draws gasps of admiration and awe from all who look upon it.
Come on. When was the last time you had anything good to say about anybody else's code? Ever? All programmers say all other programmers are incompetent. And typically, management believes us.
Last time I had something good to say about someone else's code was... probably Friday. If not that, then Thursday. It was a dynamically-programmed delegation snippet that conditionally sent about a dozen methods somewhere else in about 5 lines. Scary-awesome.
I work with some very skilled people, and because we do the whole 'extreme programming' pair-programming deal, I get to see some pretty decent stuff in there every single day. And I know I'm about ten times better of a coder because of it...
Spell it with me people: S-O-L-A-R
It comes down to this:
- a roof has a large surface area
- sun ain't going to burn out any time soon Sun won't, but I tell you what, come back in 30 years that solar panel ain't doin' all that well and it's an expensive dead weight of high-tech e-waste ready to leach who-knows-what into landfills, and you need to go smelting another one with all that Industry behind it that you never think about because you never see, and...
I'm not saying solar is nothing, I'm just saying it's not all it's cracked up to be by people saying things like you're saying.
Besides, forget solar, the biggest easiest target for most people is still spelled I-N-S-U-L-A-T-I-O-N....
Ah, yes, I saw a video about this at my IBM internship back about two years ago. It was all internal/NDAed then. They showed the trails of people walking into and out of buildings, and cars zooming around parking lots, and neat things like that, even with lighting changes / moving trees blowing in the wind / other environmental visual noise. My internship project's team lead wanted us to try and exploit this for our project but it, ah, wasn't going to happen, and we did much less interesting things instead.
From what I understand, though, there's a nontrivial amount of hardware involved to process the video, and though that may be less of an issue these days with better computers, I'm wondering just how many CPUs they will be throwing at how many different video cameras for this.
And I'm sure it's imperfect and prone to false alarms and such, but that's why you put human beings behind it instead of machine guns, no?
My point is proven yet again, that the vast majority of humanity lacks the simple survival skills that would make us worthy of propagating and passing on our genes... Chatbots aside, looking for sex with females, however cheap and easy, seems like it has historically been an effective way of propagating and passing on genes.
Oh, sorry, "worthiness" of reproduction is perhaps a separate matter from effectiveness - that's a matter of eugenics, really. Perhaps you would be happier if these chatbot-seeking individuals were to worshipfully obey some authority that tells them they are unfit to reproduce?
Isn't that a good thing in some ways? I mean, if someone comes up with $GOODTHING isn't it good if more people can do it? And isn't that the ultimate goal of patents - to reward people coming up with good stuff, so that people can have more interesting useful ideas to copy later?
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You probably could replace a decent little data center with a single server. It wouldn't be a tiny one, though. You ever seen those massive IBM mainframes? I mean the big ones. Yeah.
Sure, you may laugh now and recommend a controller-based architecture with different instance IDs for each bulb, BUT SOMEDAY IT SHALL BE SO!!!!!!!11
Why? After all nothing was taken... It shouldn't be illegal, either. Maybe not, but I should certainly get to be upset about it.
Just sayin'. :)
That, and the lamp I've been using most instead is this halogen type thing I got from Ikea. It has a much nicer color temperature.
p.s. we need better CFL recycling programs or there's gonna be a huge mercury-in-our-landfills problem before too long.
Somebody mod this guy +5 *groan*.
New York also used to have a crazy pneumatic tube system that took mail from one part of the island to another. They shut it down after the invention of the Automobile. I suspect the advent of that, along with refinements in sorting, let them deliver more mail with fewer mailmen (with the side effect of it being less often). Considering that Labor these days is a lot more expensive than it used to be, that has to be a huge cost savings overall. That's probably better for most people's mail usage than five-times-a-day service.
An astrological timescale?
At some level, the high is the addiction; triggering the reward center of the brain, releasing dopamine. The mechanism of is simple enough: it feels good, so you want to do it (more and more). You can't really have a 'pleasure' drug that doesn't activate this. The best you can hope for is to somehow neutralize the way the brain acclimatizes itself to expect a new level of pleasure which can only be provided with drugs (with which Real Life (tm) cannot really compete) to minimize the crippling trauma of withdrawal.
To their credit, I'm fairly sure they actually bought the rights off the original author legitimately, and did not steal DOS.
Yes, since (as we all know) genetics, not upbringing or education, is the number one, undisputed, primary factor in determining intelligence (and income, and value to society!)
Just sayin'.
Aptera does look fun. And their venture-capital firm is the same as my current employer's, so it's also fun to cheer them on. (However, it's also the same firm originally behind New.net, so, umm.) Production in late 2008? We'll see!
Take, for example, the recent $2.5 Billion Intel plant in China. Yeah, but the Intel plant is designed to create thousands, millions, of low-power / high-performance devices. A hobbyist might be content with just a few.
I mean, why do people go on roller coasters? Not because it's impossible, that's for sure...
I had a friend (have a friend) who was trying, training, to become an elementary school teacher. He had some clashes with The Administration he was dealing with (and, quite frankly, I think they were probably right about a lot of it; the guy is a nut) and eventually, one of the teachers there initiated some trumped-up, ridiculous (really- deserving of ridicule and lots of it- vampires were involved) sexual harassment charge against him on behalf of one of the girls. It was ultimately dropped after not-too-long, but he sure wasn't going to be a teacher anymore - and if it had gone further, it would have been a terrible injustice (though a likely one) for him to end up on some list. And if he had been killed by some vigilante? All the more so.
But your code, of course, draws gasps of admiration and awe from all who look upon it.
Come on. When was the last time you had anything good to say about anybody else's code? Ever? All programmers say all other programmers are incompetent. And typically, management believes us.
Last time I had something good to say about someone else's code was... probably Friday. If not that, then Thursday. It was a dynamically-programmed delegation snippet that conditionally sent about a dozen methods somewhere else in about 5 lines. Scary-awesome.I work with some very skilled people, and because we do the whole 'extreme programming' pair-programming deal, I get to see some pretty decent stuff in there every single day. And I know I'm about ten times better of a coder because of it...
I'm not saying solar is nothing, I'm just saying it's not all it's cracked up to be by people saying things like you're saying.
Besides, forget solar, the biggest easiest target for most people is still spelled I-N-S-U-L-A-T-I-O-N ....
From what I understand, though, there's a nontrivial amount of hardware involved to process the video, and though that may be less of an issue these days with better computers, I'm wondering just how many CPUs they will be throwing at how many different video cameras for this.
And I'm sure it's imperfect and prone to false alarms and such, but that's why you put human beings behind it instead of machine guns, no?
Oh, sorry, "worthiness" of reproduction is perhaps a separate matter from effectiveness - that's a matter of eugenics, really. Perhaps you would be happier if these chatbot-seeking individuals were to worshipfully obey some authority that tells them they are unfit to reproduce?
Isn't that a good thing in some ways? I mean, if someone comes up with $GOODTHING isn't it good if more people can do it? And isn't that the ultimate goal of patents - to reward people coming up with good stuff, so that people can have more interesting useful ideas to copy later?