Do you have a record of that? Do you have a detailed and exact transcript of who said what? Can you search it for keywords? Do you have an exact set of changes each participant proposed to the document we discussed? Can you get the final document will all discussed and accepted changes in 5-10 seconds? Can someone who was not at the meeting later on see what was discussed, who proposed what and why? Can you point it out on a map? Could you translate it to French, Japanese and Russian, in real time?
Google Wave can do all that. You phone conversation can not.
How about the robot that does automatic runtime translation of the document into a language you understand. They showed one person writing in English and have the bot translate the document (chat) to French in runtime for a peson who was not that fluent in English. And then it translated back, when the other person replied.
Once the basics are sorted out, I am sure it will be possible to devise a slow-release delivery system that would be like a mini implant releasing daily doses of the medication at the exact spot where it needs to be. And then you would go to the doctor once a year to refill and recharge the implant (via a needle) and check for any possible problems.
Did you factor in the time to make an order, fill the order form, meed the delivery guy, unpack the hard plastic shell of the factory made cable and to test it? You must always test the factory made cables as well.
All in all, it takes more time to *order* and unpack the cables than to make them. (Up to 10 cables for sure)
As far as I know, the electrical grid in most of EU have always been protected against that. When government companies manage the grid according to set technical standards, it mostly is better managed than private contractors, that build as little as possible and as cheap as possible.
And the most cost effective way of stimulating competition is to create it. Make a municipal Internet company that provides unlimited Internet with low speed for a low price at ANY point in the country and you will instantly see the corporation raise above that minimal level of service. OR die. Which would be a good thing.
Heavy users do not cost the companies more, if those companies actually know how to configure their packet priority queues. Most don't, however. That's their own fault.
The difference is that gas is real. Internet data can be created out of nothing in any quantity. What you are buying is a pipe. The problem is that ISP are allowed to advertise giving you a much bigger pipe than they can really afford giving you.
There needs to be a simple law that says that if all users would download at their advertised speed, then the ISP must be able to handle that.
Then we would see what *actual* speed you can count on.
There is no cost per GB. Never was and never will be. That is absurd. All sane ISPs in sane countries deal in guaranteed channels counted in Mbit/s. All the end user per-Gb charges are made up by the ISPs to rack up more money from unsuspecting Americans. Those charges are illegal in most civilized countries.
If I get 1 Mbit/sec I expect to be able to use that. Any time and all the time. If they have extra unused capacity, then I would be happy to get more. And I would be perfectly fine with getting a hard cap of 1Mbit/sec imposed on my connection during peak hours after I exceed 100 Gb per month.
Excessive use does not cost these companies anything - if they have proper priority queues in place then other customers will never be impacted.
South Korean ISPs can afford to have backbone pipes of dozens of 1 Gbit fiber optic lines. Time to grow up and upgrade you decades old infrastructure USA. If the companies cann't do that maybe it is time for socialism and have government do it. Best Internet in the world with lowest cost is municipal Internet.
There are interfaces to access that stuff in Linux, while in Windows you actually need to write your own custom software in assembly. That is the only difference.
Bullshit. http://digg.com/d1Alk7 claims that by gathering just 1% of wind energy from the jetstreams would be enough for the power consumption of the whole planet for a very long time.
Wind power is converted solar power. If we capture even a 0.01% of solar power coming down to the Earth, we would have enough for many generations.
Depends. Assume that all hell breaks loose and the beam suddenly points at the worst possible location, say a beach full of people. Say the worst case of timing happends and with all slowdowns and stuff, the power only gets cut after a full second.
How much power would actually be transmitted per square inch? I doubt that there will be enough power in the beam to even heat people up by a couple degrees over one second, let alone cause any serious problems.
Nope, electrical grid computers in exUSSR region do not even have the theoretical capacity to be connected to the public Internet. I am amazed there is an actual data linkage between the public Internet and the computers even remotely related to the power control functionality.
The best ways to have person improve are positive and negative stimulation. Working systems are the positive stimulation, fellow programmers commenting on the dumb points of the design is the negative one.
And you need both at all times, regardless what the politically correct view on education is floating currently.
On-disk state must always be consistent. That was the point of journalig, so that you do not have to do a fsck to get to a consistent state. You write to a journal, what you are planing to do, then you do it, then you activate it and mark done in the journal. At any point in time, if power is lost, the filesystem is in a consistant state - either the state before the operation or the state after the operation. You might get some half-written blocks, but that is perfectly fine, because they are not referenced in the directory structure until the final activation step is written to disk and those half-written bloxk are still considered empty by the filesystem.
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Do you have a record of that? Do you have a detailed and exact transcript of who said what? Can you search it for keywords? Do you have an exact set of changes each participant proposed to the document we discussed? Can you get the final document will all discussed and accepted changes in 5-10 seconds? Can someone who was not at the meeting later on see what was discussed, who proposed what and why? Can you point it out on a map? Could you translate it to French, Japanese and Russian, in real time?
Google Wave can do all that. You phone conversation can not.
How about the robot that does automatic runtime translation of the document into a language you understand. They showed one person writing in English and have the bot translate the document (chat) to French in runtime for a peson who was not that fluent in English. And then it translated back, when the other person replied.
Here is an example of a typical countryside UK footpath. I would defy one to navigate it on a tricycle: http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/footpathexample.html
or this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapmakermike/1029015477/
Once the basics are sorted out, I am sure it will be possible to devise a slow-release delivery system that would be like a mini implant releasing daily doses of the medication at the exact spot where it needs to be. And then you would go to the doctor once a year to refill and recharge the implant (via a needle) and check for any possible problems.
Did you factor in the time to make an order, fill the order form, meed the delivery guy, unpack the hard plastic shell of the factory made cable and to test it? You must always test the factory made cables as well.
All in all, it takes more time to *order* and unpack the cables than to make them. (Up to 10 cables for sure)
As far as I know, the electrical grid in most of EU have always been protected against that. When government companies manage the grid according to set technical standards, it mostly is better managed than private contractors, that build as little as possible and as cheap as possible.
And the most cost effective way of stimulating competition is to create it. Make a municipal Internet company that provides unlimited Internet with low speed for a low price at ANY point in the country and you will instantly see the corporation raise above that minimal level of service. OR die. Which would be a good thing.
Heavy users do not cost the companies more, if those companies actually know how to configure their packet priority queues. Most don't, however. That's their own fault.
in 3D 1080p interactive porn terms, 44G is not that much in a week.
The difference is that gas is real. Internet data can be created out of nothing in any quantity. What you are buying is a pipe. The problem is that ISP are allowed to advertise giving you a much bigger pipe than they can really afford giving you.
There needs to be a simple law that says that if all users would download at their advertised speed, then the ISP must be able to handle that.
Then we would see what *actual* speed you can count on.
There is no cost per GB. Never was and never will be. That is absurd. All sane ISPs in sane countries deal in guaranteed channels counted in Mbit/s. All the end user per-Gb charges are made up by the ISPs to rack up more money from unsuspecting Americans. Those charges are illegal in most civilized countries.
Ban overselling.
If I get 1 Mbit/sec I expect to be able to use that. Any time and all the time. If they have extra unused capacity, then I would be happy to get more. And I would be perfectly fine with getting a hard cap of 1Mbit/sec imposed on my connection during peak hours after I exceed 100 Gb per month.
Excessive use does not cost these companies anything - if they have proper priority queues in place then other customers will never be impacted.
South Korean ISPs can afford to have backbone pipes of dozens of 1 Gbit fiber optic lines. Time to grow up and upgrade you decades old infrastructure USA. If the companies cann't do that maybe it is time for socialism and have government do it. Best Internet in the world with lowest cost is municipal Internet.
Two other words: sue them.
There are interfaces to access that stuff in Linux, while in Windows you actually need to write your own custom software in assembly. That is the only difference.
Yep, all it said is that it is easer to program things in Linux.
Bullshit. http://digg.com/d1Alk7 claims that by gathering just 1% of wind energy from the jetstreams would be enough for the power consumption of the whole planet for a very long time.
Wind power is converted solar power. If we capture even a 0.01% of solar power coming down to the Earth, we would have enough for many generations.
Depends. Assume that all hell breaks loose and the beam suddenly points at the worst possible location, say a beach full of people. Say the worst case of timing happends and with all slowdowns and stuff, the power only gets cut after a full second.
How much power would actually be transmitted per square inch? I doubt that there will be enough power in the beam to even heat people up by a couple degrees over one second, let alone cause any serious problems.
Nope, electrical grid computers in exUSSR region do not even have the theoretical capacity to be connected to the public Internet. I am amazed there is an actual data linkage between the public Internet and the computers even remotely related to the power control functionality.
The difference is more like between:
Prepare the bread.
Put the sauce on the bread.
Put the cheese on the sauce on the bread.
Bake.
And:
define PizzaDoughFactory : AbstractDoughFactory{
sub PizzaDoughFactory( PizzaDoughFactory cls, Integer thickness ){
cls.AbstractDoughFactory( thickness )
}
sub Sauce ( PizzaDoughFactory cls, Topping top){
cls.toppings = org.coolpace.JavaSmart.List( -1 )
cls.toppings.appendToTop( top )
}
}
define PizzaCreator : AbstractApplication { // historically all toppings are called sauces as well
def main( Integer argc, String *argv ){
new pizza = PizzaFactory()
pizza.set_dough = PizzaDoughFactory()
sauce = SauceFactory()
cheese = CheeseFactory()
pizza.dough.Sauce( sauce )
pizza.dough.Sauce( cheese )
new ready_pizza = PizzaBakery( pizza )
}
}
ext4 by default had the equivalent of ext3 writeback mode on.
The best ways to have person improve are positive and negative stimulation. Working systems are the positive stimulation, fellow programmers commenting on the dumb points of the design is the negative one.
And you need both at all times, regardless what the politically correct view on education is floating currently.
On-disk state must always be consistent. That was the point of journalig, so that you do not have to do a fsck to get to a consistent state. You write to a journal, what you are planing to do, then you do it, then you activate it and mark done in the journal. At any point in time, if power is lost, the filesystem is in a consistant state - either the state before the operation or the state after the operation. You might get some half-written blocks, but that is perfectly fine, because they are not referenced in the directory structure until the final activation step is written to disk and those half-written bloxk are still considered empty by the filesystem.
Cats kinda hate em with passion.
FHS specifies to use /usr/local or /opt for that.