prostitution is done when someone has nothing else they can do. Sometimes that's true, certainly for many street-walkers. I think most escorts do it because it's an easy way to make a lot of money, though, not because there aren't other things they can do.
Actually, if they are smart, they'll do the opposite. This is a huge opportunity for the cable companies, who don't have a vested interest to hold the voip down.
My cable company is already selling VOIP of their own, and for only $10/month more are promoting QoS enhancements for other VOIP services. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they start messing with those who don't pay up.
Yeah SATA. We've had about 30% fail in the last 2 months, out of a couple of dozen, several outright DOA. Other people are reporting a lot of problems too.
No offence, but please try what you're suggesting before you put it out in public. These aren't serving static pages. A dual 2GHz Opteron can do about 2000 PHP pages per second, if they're dead simple. 300 would be on the high side of anything complicated and requiring database access. A 1.6GHz (what, Celeron?) could do about a fifth of that, on a lucky day.
128MB barely loads Apache and a PHP bytecode cache. I assume they're also running memcached on these servers, so the 4GB is not a waste.
They have 1 sysadmin. Does it make sense to hire more people to admin 5 or 6 times as many systems? Does it make sense to provision many more database servers to handle extra open connections? etc. Every extra server adds configuration and administration challenges.
Any colo provider I know charges megabucks for extra power. 6 times as many servers, even if they're lower powered, means at least 3 times the monthly power bill.
There are good reasons for seeking density. Dual processor 1U boxes are standard fare because they work on many levels.
From what I've seen on the net, computers which are specifically made to be servers are faster but much more expensive than general cpus. So basically, if they wished to save money, why not go with the cheaper, but slower, general purpose computers versus those made specifically to be a server? That would probably save them some money.
They're paying $2500 or so for dual-Opterons with 4GB of RAM. That's pretty much a sweet spot for servers and it's a very good price. Those are 1U servers; rack space and power consumption are important too, and servers built to be servers optimize for those.
Yeah you might be able to shave a few hundred off the price with a cheapo motherboard and a cheap 2U case, but you'd get noticeably worse performance and your space consumption would double. Server motherboards are more expensive for a few reasons; they have more interconnects, so they can drive I/O more efficiently and actually use the CPU's and memory they have. And they tend to be more reliable.
They aren't pissing away money on Sun or even HP or IBM servers, they appear to be using what are the server equivalent of whitebox systems. My company does the same thing (mostly Tyan server platforms), and it's a good middle ground.
The only problem with this perfect new world is that musicians no longer have the monetary incentive to keep working. No more schlepping from town to town doing small gigs in small rooms for small money. Back in the day, they did that to promote their recordings, but since the "revolution" what's the point - no one pays for music anymore.
Yeah, because we all know there was no music before copyright. And there certainly aren't musicians out there performing who don't make fortunes off CD sales.
Oh? Sir Science by all means show me the scientific proof that God does not exist
Huh? Since when can you prove a negative? Prove the Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist. Prove that UFO's don't exist. Prove that Tom Cruise's aliens don't exist.
"Why would someone intelligent believe in a universe that sprang into existense for no reason at all ?"
But that argument is obviously recursive. If the Universe requires God to create it, then who or what created God? Adding God doesn't answer anything.
This seems to be a standard example; over 6 months waiting for an operation to relieve a very painful, disabling condition (albeit not life threatening).
The prime minister even attends to a private clinic.
Of course he does. Politicians and senior bureaucrats routinely put themselves above the law. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. Etc.
At least X-Files alternated the never-to-be-solved conspiracy episodes with discrete shows where things happened and the problem got resolved (mostly by killing the ). I watched Lost first season but it was obviously not going anywhere, so I stopped.
Why is it scary to you that so many geeks might actually believe religion? An awful lot of brilliant math and science has been performed by people who firmly believed religion...does that terrify you, too?
I don't think we're scared so much as confused. Why would someone intelligent believe in an invisible and all-powerful being for whom no evidence exists, and whose existence is so incredibly unlikely? How could someone intelligent, who would would presumably be well-read and therefore be aware of the incredible range of (blatantly silly) things people have professed belief in throughout history, not simply place modern religion in the same category? How can intelligent people, who dismiss out of hand many other superstitions, believe in the most outlandish things? Is it really that hard to get past childhood indoctrination?
Religion is so clearly a means for uneducated people to explain the world around them, as well as a way of wishing the world was not as it is (ie. denying mortality), that it is very hard to see how someone smart could fall for it.
many people are regularly and habitually ignoring them.
People are ignoring them _because_ they're too low. Most people are pretty good at finding a reasonably safe speed to drive. If that speed is higher than the speed limit, they'll drive it anyway.
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Hubbert predicted that US oil production would peak in the 70's. He was right.
Based on his formulas, world peak oil production should occur during this decade.
prostitution is done when someone has nothing else they can do. Sometimes that's true, certainly for many street-walkers. I think most escorts do it because it's an easy way to make a lot of money, though, not because there aren't other things they can do.
No, they really do have to go at least double the distance to geosync to have a stable structure.
You would have to launch some appreciable percentage of the Earth's total mass to affect it's rotation in any way.
You could run Gentoo, and get to do both ...
I guess "library burned by FBI" doesn't sound as good as "cult wackos with guns burned by FBI". They've learned to be pickier.
Why? Are you in the Navy?
Actually, if they are smart, they'll do the opposite. This is a huge opportunity for the cable companies, who don't have a vested interest to hold the voip down.
My cable company is already selling VOIP of their own, and for only $10/month more are promoting QoS enhancements for other VOIP services. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they start messing with those who don't pay up.
Yeah SATA. We've had about 30% fail in the last 2 months, out of a couple of dozen, several outright DOA. Other people are reporting a lot of problems too.
3Ware SATA controllers handle drive re-ordering just fine. Even on degraded arrays.
... stay away from Seagate 7200.8 300GB drives.
On a related note
The ~2 billion people who may survive the end of oil will be doing the same thing people did before oil; shovelling horse manure.
No offence, but please try what you're suggesting before you put it out in public. These aren't serving static pages. A dual 2GHz Opteron can do about 2000 PHP pages per second, if they're dead simple. 300 would be on the high side of anything complicated and requiring database access. A 1.6GHz (what, Celeron?) could do about a fifth of that, on a lucky day.
128MB barely loads Apache and a PHP bytecode cache. I assume they're also running memcached on these servers, so the 4GB is not a waste.
They have 1 sysadmin. Does it make sense to hire more people to admin 5 or 6 times as many systems? Does it make sense to provision many more database servers to handle extra open connections? etc. Every extra server adds configuration and administration challenges.
Any colo provider I know charges megabucks for extra power. 6 times as many servers, even if they're lower powered, means at least 3 times the monthly power bill.
There are good reasons for seeking density. Dual processor 1U boxes are standard fare because they work on many levels.
From what I've seen on the net, computers which are specifically made to be servers are faster but much more expensive than general cpus. So basically, if they wished to save money, why not go with the cheaper, but slower, general purpose computers versus those made specifically to be a server? That would probably save them some money.
They're paying $2500 or so for dual-Opterons with 4GB of RAM. That's pretty much a sweet spot for servers and it's a very good price. Those are 1U servers; rack space and power consumption are important too, and servers built to be servers optimize for those.
Yeah you might be able to shave a few hundred off the price with a cheapo motherboard and a cheap 2U case, but you'd get noticeably worse performance and your space consumption would double. Server motherboards are more expensive for a few reasons; they have more interconnects, so they can drive I/O more efficiently and actually use the CPU's and memory they have. And they tend to be more reliable.
They aren't pissing away money on Sun or even HP or IBM servers, they appear to be using what are the server equivalent of whitebox systems. My company does the same thing (mostly Tyan server platforms), and it's a good middle ground.
The only problem with this perfect new world is that musicians no longer have the monetary incentive to keep working. No more schlepping from town to town doing small gigs in small rooms for small money. Back in the day, they did that to promote their recordings, but since the "revolution" what's the point - no one pays for music anymore.
Yeah, because we all know there was no music before copyright. And there certainly aren't musicians out there performing who don't make fortunes off CD sales.
Oh wait, yes there are.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Oh? Sir Science by all means show me the scientific proof that God does not exist
Huh? Since when can you prove a negative? Prove the Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist. Prove that UFO's don't exist. Prove that Tom Cruise's aliens don't exist.
"Why would someone intelligent believe in a universe that sprang into existense for no reason at all ?"
But that argument is obviously recursive. If the Universe requires God to create it, then who or what created God? Adding God doesn't answer anything.
Canadian wait times are not bad
w s2.asp
Define "not bad"?
"In Ontario in 2003-04, there were 10,757 total hip replacements done and the average waiting time, according to the health ministry, was 190 days." http://www.canorth.org/en/patientsupport/latestne
This seems to be a standard example; over 6 months waiting for an operation to relieve a very painful, disabling condition (albeit not life threatening).
The prime minister even attends to a private clinic.
Of course he does. Politicians and senior bureaucrats routinely put themselves above the law. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. Etc.
At least X-Files alternated the never-to-be-solved conspiracy episodes with discrete shows where things happened and the problem got resolved (mostly by killing the ). I watched Lost first season but it was obviously not going anywhere, so I stopped.
Do you think a photographer would choose "GIMP" over Photoshop or Aperture?
I think that by the time they've spent $800 on Photoshop and then taken the time to install it, they ought to know what it does.
Senders will retry, don't worry about it. Only spammers don't retry (darn).
I can't seem to get an example past the lameness filter, but 8.0.3 definitely doesn't have this problem.
Hey, I'm not even free to pay a doctor to take care of me when I'm sick. Canada is in no way a free country.
Why is it scary to you that so many geeks might actually believe religion? An awful lot of brilliant math and science has been performed by people who firmly believed religion...does that terrify you, too?
I don't think we're scared so much as confused. Why would someone intelligent believe in an invisible and all-powerful being for whom no evidence exists, and whose existence is so incredibly unlikely? How could someone intelligent, who would would presumably be well-read and therefore be aware of the incredible range of (blatantly silly) things people have professed belief in throughout history, not simply place modern religion in the same category? How can intelligent people, who dismiss out of hand many other superstitions, believe in the most outlandish things? Is it really that hard to get past childhood indoctrination?
Religion is so clearly a means for uneducated people to explain the world around them, as well as a way of wishing the world was not as it is (ie. denying mortality), that it is very hard to see how someone smart could fall for it.
That's what confuses us.
In which case it doesn't matter what they have on their whois, just use postmaster or abuse.
many people are regularly and habitually ignoring them.
People are ignoring them _because_ they're too low. Most people are pretty good at finding a reasonably safe speed to drive. If that speed is higher than the speed limit, they'll drive it anyway.