Seriously, I wouldn't consider it indestructible at least until you
can try to nail it to the wall WITH a hammer and nail - and it still works. Sounds like you need a Jesus Phone.
"Sorry, we know we sold you that 2003 Mustang, but now that we've discontinued the Mustang, you'll need to give us your keys and turn over the car."
No, its worst than that, its
"Sorry, you'll need to give us your keys. We'll leave the car in your front lawn where you can stare at it longingly and get more and more pissed at us."
If all goes well, its:
"stare at it longingly until some random Scandinavian comes out of his basement and sends around a code to get the thing running again"
You engineers have it all easy. You want bad text books, have a go look at fourth year pure mathematics.
Also, Linguistics is about as close to a science as you'll find in LA.
I only enrolled in one humanities course while at University - "History and Philosophy of Science". I lasted about 3 lectures before dumping it because it became very quickly apparent that the lecturer had no of the scientific method, mathematics or any physics more complicated than rolling balls down inclined planes.
My wife is now studying a masters level philosophy course in Ethics. A lot of the reasoning is very complex and the course difficulty level is definitely up there. But her current course notes and both textbooks are written by the lecturer, who is also the course coordinator, so there's not a lot of opportunity to gain more than than a single perspective.
On the other end of the scale, I'm knocking over an MBA... and not one from the top 7 business schools. I reckon I spend about 30 hours a semester reading the notes, and maybe another 20 writing the assignments. I'm currently on a Distinction average.
$20 off Steam - Price of a movie ticket to see Titanic in NY city, for more hours of entertainment with the ability to take bathroom breaks, and no Leonardo DiCaprio.
Possibly the best reason for "God mode".. you need it to survive the nerve gas filling the final chamber so you can actually hear all the hysterical babbling from GLaDOS. Never has having a backup erased been so funny....
I'm not a gamer - I bought exactly 2 games this year - Suduko for Blackberry and Portal for PC (off Steam). I've played through Portal God knows how many times, but it was easily the best value $20 of entertainment I've had in a long time.
Wishlist for 2008 - an extended mix of Portal, and Starcraft II.
Here's me thinking "gee, you must be so old if you've been playing guitar for 20 years", then I worked out that its been 21 years since I first picked up a guitar... so now I'm feeling old.
Difference between you and me is that my guitar playing is like my handwriting: I might have been doing it for a long time, but its still all scribbly and unreadable.:/
That's really really scary. Do the people peddling this stuff really believe it? I guess this is the same mob who destroy the Harry Potter books on the shelves of their local libraries.
You are spot on. You get nothing for nothing. That doesn't necessarily mean that the idea is without merit
The turbines will increase drag on the cars, which will increase the amount of fuel consumed, which will result in higher emissions from the vehicles in the area immediately local to the generators. Anybody who's ever felt the car speed up when a tail-gater leaves your slipstream to overtake is familiar with the effect.
The question is whether the additional pollution due to the turbines is more or less than the pollution that would be produced if the required power was produced at a centralized generator, considering any transmission losses
In the end, the efficiecies of each energy conversion as well as tranmission losses (as electricity over wire or as air vortices between the vehicles and the turbines) needs to be considered. My gut feeling is that using a fan to turn a turbine at the other end of the room is pretty inefficient form of energy transfer.
Many of the US shows last year (CSI and SVU spring to mind) had double episode end-of season finales. In the US, these were aired a week apart, so that the cliff-hanger was resolved in 7 days. Here in Australia, the local networks played half the finale around mid-November, then advertised that the second part would be shown in early February. This is an absolutely dispicable way to treat your loyal fans. So, yeah, I pulled down the second half via P2P. Stuff them.
And you know what? I discovered that could get an HD version with no commercials and with better sound. So, I kept doing it... just for one or two of my favourite shows. I can honestly say that if the local networks hadn't treated me (the viewer) with such contempt, I never would have bothered to look around the Net, never worked out which P2P client was the most efficient, and frankly would be watching them on local TV week to week.
Note that most of the current shows are aired only a few of months after the US. Heroes, NCIS, House and Grays Anatomy all fall into this catagory. We are about 3 or 4 episodes into the current season of each of these. I think in the US the episodes are up to the mid teens. The delay in airing doesn't bother me, but being forced to wait four months for the resolution of a double episode pushed me over the edge.
As somebody with a foot in both camps (I design RAS compliant solution architectures for business enablement - ie.. I'm a tech in a suit), "solution" is my current most hated word. It's a redundant tag added by people who think using more words makes them sound brighter. In a way, it does, because their audience is often just as fucked as they are.
If I design a storage or network infrastructure to address a number of issues subject to a number of constraints then, yes, technically its a solution to a problem. Its definitely not a Storage Network Infrastructure Solution. It may be a Solution to Business problems, but its not a Business Problem Solution.
Also, have you noticed how solutions are always complete? Who would advertise offering only a partial solution? Nobody. (That would be an Integrable component solution... or maybe a Complete point solution.)
This is not restricted to IT. Recently I've seen advertisements for "complete lawn solution", "complete pest solution" and "complete outfit solution". There is even a barber around the corner proclaiming to offer "complete hair solutions".
As long as I come out of my MBA with my grasp of the English language intact, I'm assured that I can make a positive contribution to the demanagerialization of verbal communication channel protocols".
No. Novelists are frustrated short story writers. Writers of short stories are frustrated poets.
Rowling puts together good, simple story arcs expressed in accessible language. She is not a brilliant writer.
Still, she's now at that point where she could put here name on a bound copy on selected comments from the samba source code and it would sell a billion copies. Alternatively, she could buy 1/3 of 1% of Microsoft.
Despite that, Harry Potter books make good airport novels. Most importantly, they've dragged kids away from the idiot box and got them reading and using their imaginations.
If you need a loan to buy a car, you suck at finance.
Or you work out that by borrowing money to pay for the car, you can claim a proprotion of the car running costs, depreciation and loan interests as a tax deduction, so that over a seven year period the opportunity cost of having the cash at hand less the reduced out of pocket costs for owning and running the vehicle mean that the car is actually free.
Which implies that the sucker who bought it for cash sucks at finance, in bold.
At 20GB this alone will limit pirates as having even 100 of these movies will take up about 2TB of space
Seagate has already announced 1TB SATA drives for mid-year release. 750GB drives are readily available. Most modern motherboards support between four and six SATA devices. Consumer demand for larger drives driven by the need to hold their pirate HD-DVDs will push up quantities, lower prices and drive consumer demand for larger drives etc etc etc.
2TB in a home PC is really not that far out there.
we're used to big name companies like Apple, Microsoft and so on getting their own way in disputes like this,... the natural assumption (by many even here) is that Apple gets iPhone.
From Yahoo Finance
CSCO - 19.38% profit on 174.17B market cap
AAPL - 10.38% profit on 85.35B market cap
Yeah, Apple may be a big nasty company, but Cisco is bigger and nastier.
Is windows easy enough for anyone to set up and administer, or does it take a windows expert to do these things properly?
The answer is yes.
Windows is easy enough for anybody to setup and administer, but it needs an expert to set it up and administer it WELL. Although I am no Microsoft fan boy, I have come across people who can build Windows Servers that run without hacks or reboots for years. The trick to doing this seems to be ignore a lot of what Microsoft regard as best practice, and remove a hell of a lot of stuff that's installed by default. ie: It is not a trivial exercise.
If it takes an expert to do it right, why does everyone seem to insist that it has to be done by Grandma when it comes to Linux?
With Linux, the parameters are compressesed: Its harder for somebody who knows nothing to install it and get it running, but the best practises are out there, well documented and known. Should granny run it on her PC? Of course not.... but she should consider running it on the Webserver in her DMZ.
Hmm.. just counted the edges on a d12. Maybe there are 30 after all.
Its definitely 30 vertices, as I just made a stellated dodecahedron out of bamboo BBQ skewers to put on top of our christmas tree. The shape took exactly 30 kebab sticks, and you can see the 12 pentagon faced solid in the middle of the Christmas Star.
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Seriously, I wouldn't consider it indestructible at least until you can try to nail it to the wall WITH a hammer and nail - and it still works.
Sounds like you need a Jesus Phone.
It has the same effect that "The Phantom Menance" had on my Childhood.
I'm sorry, you seem to be suggesting that being royally fucked in the ass is a bad thing.
No, its worst than that, its
"Sorry, you'll need to give us your keys. We'll leave the car in your front lawn where you can stare at it longingly and get more and more pissed at us."
If all goes well, its:
"stare at it longingly until some random Scandinavian comes out of his basement and sends around a code to get the thing running again"
> (a crore is 10 million).
"Not Crore! Crore!"
(Maybe that means nothing to anybody else....)
You engineers have it all easy. You want bad text books, have a go look at fourth year pure mathematics.
Also, Linguistics is about as close to a science as you'll find in LA.
I only enrolled in one humanities course while at University - "History and Philosophy of Science". I lasted about 3 lectures before dumping it because it became very quickly apparent that the lecturer had no of the scientific method, mathematics or any physics more complicated than rolling balls down inclined planes.
My wife is now studying a masters level philosophy course in Ethics. A lot of the reasoning is very complex and the course difficulty level is definitely up there. But her current course notes and both textbooks are written by the lecturer, who is also the course coordinator, so there's not a lot of opportunity to gain more than than a single perspective.
On the other end of the scale, I'm knocking over an MBA... and not one from the top 7 business schools. I reckon I spend about 30 hours a semester reading the notes, and maybe another 20 writing the assignments. I'm currently on a Distinction average.
> I don't agree that it would be worth $50 alone.
$20 off Steam - Price of a movie ticket to see Titanic in NY city, for more hours of entertainment with the ability to take bathroom breaks, and no Leonardo DiCaprio.
Possibly the best reason for "God mode".. you need it to survive the nerve gas filling the final chamber so you can actually hear all the hysterical babbling from GLaDOS. Never has having a backup erased been so funny....
I'm not a gamer - I bought exactly 2 games this year - Suduko for Blackberry and Portal for PC (off Steam). I've played through Portal God knows how many times, but it was easily the best value $20 of entertainment I've had in a long time.
Wishlist for 2008 - an extended mix of Portal, and Starcraft II.
Matt
> I've played guitar for 20 years
:/
Here's me thinking "gee, you must be so old if you've been playing guitar for 20 years", then I worked out that its been 21 years since I first picked up a guitar... so now I'm feeling old.
Difference between you and me is that my guitar playing is like my handwriting: I might have been doing it for a long time, but its still all scribbly and unreadable.
That's really really scary. Do the people peddling this stuff really believe it? I guess this is the same mob who destroy the Harry Potter books on the shelves of their local libraries.
You are spot on. You get nothing for nothing. That doesn't necessarily mean that the idea is without merit
The turbines will increase drag on the cars, which will increase the amount of fuel consumed, which will result in higher emissions from the vehicles in the area immediately local to the generators. Anybody who's ever felt the car speed up when a tail-gater leaves your slipstream to overtake is familiar with the effect.
The question is whether the additional pollution due to the turbines is more or less than the pollution that would be produced if the required power was produced at a centralized generator, considering any transmission losses
In the end, the efficiecies of each energy conversion as well as tranmission losses (as electricity over wire or as air vortices between the vehicles and the turbines) needs to be considered. My gut feeling is that using a fan to turn a turbine at the other end of the room is pretty inefficient form of energy transfer.
Matt
Probably, but the Sun E10k needs 6x 240v 28A power feeds, whereas the Dual intel box will run off a single pc powersupply, albiet a fat one.
I guess if you live in Alaska, you save money on your heating bill, but I think his TCO is going to be a LOT lower.
And you know what? I discovered that could get an HD version with no commercials and with better sound. So, I kept doing it... just for one or two of my favourite shows. I can honestly say that if the local networks hadn't treated me (the viewer) with such contempt, I never would have bothered to look around the Net, never worked out which P2P client was the most efficient, and frankly would be watching them on local TV week to week.
Note that most of the current shows are aired only a few of months after the US. Heroes, NCIS, House and Grays Anatomy all fall into this catagory. We are about 3 or 4 episodes into the current season of each of these. I think in the US the episodes are up to the mid teens. The delay in airing doesn't bother me, but being forced to wait four months for the resolution of a double episode pushed me over the edge.
I want that on a T-shirt!
As somebody with a foot in both camps (I design RAS compliant solution architectures for business enablement - ie.. I'm a tech in a suit), "solution" is my current most hated word. It's a redundant tag added by people who think using more words makes them sound brighter. In a way, it does, because their audience is often just as fucked as they are.
If I design a storage or network infrastructure to address a number of issues subject to a number of constraints then, yes, technically its a solution to a problem. Its definitely not a Storage Network Infrastructure Solution. It may be a Solution to Business problems, but its not a Business Problem Solution.
Also, have you noticed how solutions are always complete? Who would advertise offering only a partial solution? Nobody. (That would be an Integrable component solution... or maybe a Complete point solution.)
This is not restricted to IT. Recently I've seen advertisements for "complete lawn solution", "complete pest solution" and "complete outfit solution". There is even a barber around the corner proclaiming to offer "complete hair solutions".
As long as I come out of my MBA with my grasp of the English language intact, I'm assured that I can make a positive contribution to the demanagerialization of verbal communication channel protocols".
Rowling puts together good, simple story arcs expressed in accessible language. She is not a brilliant writer.
Still, she's now at that point where she could put here name on a bound copy on selected comments from the samba source code and it would sell a billion copies. Alternatively, she could buy 1/3 of 1% of Microsoft.
Despite that, Harry Potter books make good airport novels. Most importantly, they've dragged kids away from the idiot box and got them reading and using their imaginations.
No. Daniel Radcliffe with his shirt off is fantasy.
Or you work out that by borrowing money to pay for the car, you can claim a proprotion of the car running costs, depreciation and loan interests as a tax deduction, so that over a seven year period the opportunity cost of having the cash at hand less the reduced out of pocket costs for owning and running the vehicle mean that the car is actually free.
Which implies that the sucker who bought it for cash sucks at finance, in bold.
Seagate has already announced 1TB SATA drives for mid-year release. 750GB drives are readily available. Most modern motherboards support between four and six SATA devices. Consumer demand for larger drives driven by the need to hold their pirate HD-DVDs will push up quantities, lower prices and drive consumer demand for larger drives etc etc etc.
2TB in a home PC is really not that far out there.
Matt
That would be the Christmas Special.
Apple bundled an AOL CD?
From Yahoo Finance
Yeah, Apple may be a big nasty company, but Cisco is bigger and nastier.
My money is on Cisco.
The answer is yes.
Windows is easy enough for anybody to setup and administer, but it needs an expert to set it up and administer it WELL. Although I am no Microsoft fan boy, I have come across people who can build Windows Servers that run without hacks or reboots for years. The trick to doing this seems to be ignore a lot of what Microsoft regard as best practice, and remove a hell of a lot of stuff that's installed by default. ie: It is not a trivial exercise.
If it takes an expert to do it right, why does everyone seem to insist that it has to be done by Grandma when it comes to Linux?
With Linux, the parameters are compressesed: Its harder for somebody who knows nothing to install it and get it running, but the best practises are out there, well documented and known. Should granny run it on her PC? Of course not.... but she should consider running it on the Webserver in her DMZ.
Oi! I liked that movie.
Maybe you should try watching it on Acid.
Its definitely 30 vertices, as I just made a stellated dodecahedron out of bamboo BBQ skewers to put on top of our christmas tree. The shape took exactly 30 kebab sticks, and you can see the 12 pentagon faced solid in the middle of the Christmas Star.