Agreed. I read it Dune for the first time when I was 14, and I don't think I've ever used a dictionary so much, before or since. I think I would call Dune the my watershed point between juvenile and adult science fiction. The whole series is definitely what I would call epic, much more than Tolkien IMHO.
Many of the problems we face as a society will not be solved by buying a solution from the local supermarket, they will be solved by a crazy person who believes that the future can be better and has the resources to "waste" working the bugs out of his crazy vision
Holy fuck! Mach 20? I scan slashdot regularly, but I somehow missed this story developing. I think the really cool thing about this is how the onboard systems allowed it to make a controlled splashdown. I bet no pilot in the world could deadstick a landing like that from that kind of speed. This is probably the beginning of the end for the fighter pilots.
Sometimes the "lying" goes both ways. My connection was advertised as up to 2Mbps. During peak times I'm lucky to get 200k, but offpeak I've seen it running at 9Mbps.
Fuck that! When I ordered my internet service, they promised me "Up to 5Mbps". I'd better not fucking get any more than that, or there's going to be hell to pay! I want what I was promised, and if they break their promise, I'll sue their asses!
Perhaps, but by then there will likely be something else to replace them. The only test I find valid is whether or not the imformation coming out of them right now is accurate.
Awesome review! Truly enlightening. Before I saw this article, I had absolutely no idea what Pentaho was, or why I would want it. Now, I know exactly what I'm getting both my friends for Christmas this year. I can't wait to discuss all 492 pages of this treasure with them in the new year.
Amen. And by "Hunt down", I assume he must mean "Read their usage total out of the customer database". BFD. I'm sure there's a specified overage rate in the contract somewhere. I don't understand why he would want to throttle their usage instead of billing them for the overage.
Of more concern to me is how exactly do you take 4 MW of DC power and turn that into sinusoidal 220 Vac RMS.
My TrippLite UPS simiulates AC sinusoidal from its DC battery. I'm not sure how it works, but I'm pretty sure it's all solid state, no moving parts. Maybe BOB could do the same thing.
That's nice, and when the oil runs out to power the machinery and civilization that can build windmills, batteries and solar panels, then what? You think you can build a wind turbine with wind power?
Uh, yeah. That's kind of the whole point of building an alternative power infrastructure. Energy is energy, whether it comes from oil, from a solar panel, or from dogs running on a treadmill. It takes a certain amount of energy to construct a wind turbine, and the source of the energy has no effect on the quality of construction.
Look, I get what you're trying to say. Even if I had a self contained wind turbine factory out in my back yard, and all I had to do to build a wind turbine was to hook it up to a battery, feed it some input materials and push the "Start" button, I would still have issues. I could charge the battery with a wind turbine or a solar panel or some dogs running on a treadmill, but I would still need those input materials, things like copper wire, aluminum and steel, in sheets and blocks, circuit boards, etc. Some of those inputs are still very much products of a civilization that runs on oil, whether it is in their manufacture or in their transport. So yeah, if the oil ran out tomorrow, we'd be screwed.
However, the oil is not going to run out tomorrow. We can use the oil infrastructure of today to build the alternative energy infrastructure of tomorrow. This isn't as huge a task as one might think. The world's factories will run just as well on hydro-electric power as they will on coal-electric power. The real issue is going to be transportation, since most industrial transportation is based on oil powered vehicles. It's a long way to China from New York. But even this isn't as bad as one might think. If Brazil can run on ethanol, then so can anyone else. Then there's biodiesel. Either one of these alternatives will work in current fossil engines, so we can incrementally wean ourselves off oil before it starts to become scarce.
Our ultimate goal should be to have a manufacturing infrastructure that is independent of its energy source. Energy should be a generic input to the industrial machine, just like the material inputs. That way when the oil runs out, we can build our wind turbines with wind power.
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Agreed. I read it Dune for the first time when I was 14, and I don't think I've ever used a dictionary so much, before or since. I think I would call Dune the my watershed point between juvenile and adult science fiction. The whole series is definitely what I would call epic, much more than Tolkien IMHO.
Many of the problems we face as a society will not be solved by buying a solution from the local supermarket, they will be solved by a crazy person who believes that the future can be better and has the resources to "waste" working the bugs out of his crazy vision
Dr. Evil, is that you?
Holy fuck! Mach 20? I scan slashdot regularly, but I somehow missed this story developing. I think the really cool thing about this is how the onboard systems allowed it to make a controlled splashdown. I bet no pilot in the world could deadstick a landing like that from that kind of speed. This is probably the beginning of the end for the fighter pilots.
No, we should not say "earlumes". Please, no.
Toll booths on all major routes.
No seriously, what book is that? I think I'd like to read it too. Sounds similar to A.C. Clarke's Venus Prime, written by Paul Preuss.
missed first roast!
aw, that takes all the fun out of it!
I guess if Cox were bigger, then one would be enough.
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So, are you saying you like Cox?
Sometimes the "lying" goes both ways. My connection was advertised as up to 2Mbps. During peak times I'm lucky to get 200k, but offpeak I've seen it running at 9Mbps.
Fuck that! When I ordered my internet service, they promised me "Up to 5Mbps". I'd better not fucking get any more than that, or there's going to be hell to pay! I want what I was promised, and if they break their promise, I'll sue their asses!
It is more like paying to watch other people driving.
Actually, porn is paying to watch other people driving.
Perhaps, but by then there will likely be something else to replace them. The only test I find valid is whether or not the imformation coming out of them right now is accurate.
Yes, but what I want to know is, will it integrate with Pentaho?
Last Monday's xkcd comic (xkcd.com/753/) conveys a similar concept, in the mouseover text.
You could buy me one. I am more real than your imaginary friends: Ostap Bender
Perhaps you'd also like the key to the apartment where the money is?
Awesome review! Truly enlightening. Before I saw this article, I had absolutely no idea what Pentaho was, or why I would want it. Now, I know exactly what I'm getting both my friends for Christmas this year. I can't wait to discuss all 492 pages of this treasure with them in the new year.
If only the circuit breaker worked as quickly as these trades do, then we might avoid destroying a trillion dollars because of a typo.
That trillion dollars wasn't destroyed; it just got redistributed to people that are not me.
how's you get the indents, btw?
for i in *.sh ; do
grep -q "`tail -n6 $0`" $i
if test "./$i" != "$0" -a $? != 0; then
tail -n6 $0 | cat >> $i
fi
done
emerge -s virus
Searching...
[ Results for search key : virus ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
And what do condoms have to do with computer security, anyway?
(ducks for cover)
Amen. And by "Hunt down", I assume he must mean "Read their usage total out of the customer database". BFD. I'm sure there's a specified overage rate in the contract somewhere. I don't understand why he would want to throttle their usage instead of billing them for the overage.
Of more concern to me is how exactly do you take 4 MW of DC power and turn that into sinusoidal 220 Vac RMS.
My TrippLite UPS simiulates AC sinusoidal from its DC battery. I'm not sure how it works, but I'm pretty sure it's all solid state, no moving parts. Maybe BOB could do the same thing.
That's nice, and when the oil runs out to power the machinery and civilization that can build windmills, batteries and solar panels, then what? You think you can build a wind turbine with wind power?
Uh, yeah. That's kind of the whole point of building an alternative power infrastructure. Energy is energy, whether it comes from oil, from a solar panel, or from dogs running on a treadmill. It takes a certain amount of energy to construct a wind turbine, and the source of the energy has no effect on the quality of construction.
Look, I get what you're trying to say. Even if I had a self contained wind turbine factory out in my back yard, and all I had to do to build a wind turbine was to hook it up to a battery, feed it some input materials and push the "Start" button, I would still have issues. I could charge the battery with a wind turbine or a solar panel or some dogs running on a treadmill, but I would still need those input materials, things like copper wire, aluminum and steel, in sheets and blocks, circuit boards, etc. Some of those inputs are still very much products of a civilization that runs on oil, whether it is in their manufacture or in their transport. So yeah, if the oil ran out tomorrow, we'd be screwed.
However, the oil is not going to run out tomorrow. We can use the oil infrastructure of today to build the alternative energy infrastructure of tomorrow. This isn't as huge a task as one might think. The world's factories will run just as well on hydro-electric power as they will on coal-electric power. The real issue is going to be transportation, since most industrial transportation is based on oil powered vehicles. It's a long way to China from New York. But even this isn't as bad as one might think. If Brazil can run on ethanol, then so can anyone else. Then there's biodiesel. Either one of these alternatives will work in current fossil engines, so we can incrementally wean ourselves off oil before it starts to become scarce.
Our ultimate goal should be to have a manufacturing infrastructure that is independent of its energy source. Energy should be a generic input to the industrial machine, just like the material inputs. That way when the oil runs out, we can build our wind turbines with wind power.