The problem is that if you audit the wikipedia and Britannica, you'll find that Britannica doesn't actually offer anything in the way of increased accuracy, and it sacrifices greatly on both the number and depth of articles.
Wikipedia is a strange phenomenon. It ought to be a lot worse than it is.
Oh, and before the wikipedia, I used to laugh about all the sci fi shows where they accessed "the ancient database" or somesuch. Now, I think, it might be inevitable if storage becomes cheap enough.
Depending on what you need to replace, how large the file is, and how many files you need to change, dd might be your "editor" of choice. Although IANA('nix pro), so I'm not sure it's possible to get dd to just overwrite a few bytes in the middle of a file without setting up a loopback device.
Hmm..
A quick skim through the shred man page suggests it might be useful if the bits you want to overwrite are at the begining of the file...
It always bothered me that Perl's "in place" option actually is nothing of the sort.
32nm means that the same processor can take half the area on the die. You could use that to get more cores, or you could just use that to get more out of the wafer.
I think someone noted not too long ago that the price of silicon (in ICs) by area hasn't changed much over the years. But the price per element has sure gone down due to process reductions.
If you change nothing else, your 32 nm chip will consume less power and cost less than an otherwise nearly identical 45 nm chip.
Uh.. A lot of the code for the models are as open source as you'd care. Although not actually open source in the gpl or free software sense, you can often request the code from the institutions that are running it, and they might just send it to you at no charge as long as you agree to their terms.
Not that it'll do much good if you've haven't got an up-to-date cluster running, but you can still look over the code, at least. I'd say that if you're a grad student, you're almost certain to be able to get it.
Also, the models themselves are detailed in journal articles, which while not always freely available, are definitely available at your local university library in some form. Free to peruse, and you can probably get a card if you ask nicely.
You're missing the forest for the trees here. I ought to have said "energon cubes" for all it mattered.
The point was that sometimes people aren't immorally not-conserving-as-much-as-they-can because it's simply not possible to roll out all the changes instantly, and further, not all things that appear to be helpful actually are.
As for your last line, it might not take 40 energon cubes to save the first 10%. Or even the second. But there's a point at which it does indeed take that much or more to get another 10%.
Because, frankly, until you can heat your house entirely with the body heat of it's occupants, you can always make some improvement. And you can even keep conserving even more after that, but you have to start cutting diet and exercise, which gets more and more difficult to do, since you've got a bicycle-powered heat exchanger to bring in the fresh air to your super-insulated house.
Stop bitching about people and realize that people want to do the right thing environmentally, and even will pay more to do it. But they only have limited funds to do it with, and there is a lot of snake oil out there which they may or may not have the time to sort through.
AND there's two parts to the problem. There's also a lot of noise on the environmental issues that even need addressing. How would you feel if you bought a special new car that was supposed to cut CO2, and found out it didn't? How would you feel if you later found out that cutting CO2 did bupkis for the environment?
Fingerprints don't *uniquely* identify a person, though, since you can just take a laser printout of one and hold it over the sensor with your own finger.
They only uniquely identify you in the event that everyone is honest and no print-twins need access to the same system. You know what works just as well if everyone is honest? A sign that says, "Please only enter if authorized."
Yeah, but people will conserve as it becomes available and economic. Conservation just happens. It's difficult, and sometimes even counter-productive to try and force it.
For instance, suppose you burn 2 tons of coal each winter to run household machinery and heat. Suppose further that you can save 10% of that, and it will only cost you 40 tons of coal to manufacture and install the insulation that will accomplish it. Is it worth it?
What if coal production is already fully utilized and can only be increased by 20% to accommodate the upgraders, how long will it take for everyone to switch?
What if there are dozens of minor improvements like this?
If you do that, you can't switch it back and forth without changing a setting, and you're the only person that can use your mouse without having to think about it.
I'm a rightie, but I switch the mouse from right to left from time to time to keep my fingers flexible. Let me tell you, wireless mice and/or keyboards are great if you do this. Well worth the extra weight in the mouse.
Does "10 year platform" mean they think they can get away with not producing a better one in that time, or that they expect to support and produce games for it, even though the last four or five years will coexist with the next gen device?
IANAP either, but just because something is initially intuitive based on previous methods doesn't mean it's the best choice. It's probably a good choice, especially for a new technology.... Y'know, change the least amount possible at a time to get used to it.
But eventually, "The enemy's gate is down." You want to try and discover the best method for the medium that you're actually using. That can mean most efficient, or most flexible, or most understandable, or some combination thereof. But it probably isn't the paradigm you came in with.
That is not to say that everything that isn't the paradigm you came in with is superior to it. Only that there's a good chance that your "first guess" wasn't the best possible choice.
Incidentally, the objective measure of "best" is that it leaves the greatest amount of time and resources in the hands of the programmers and users at the end of the day. i.e. economic efficiency.
Well, that's what you get for living in a state that's poorly geographically differentiated. You should move to a squigglier state, like Florida, Hawaii, even Alaska.
I think part of Obama's stimulus bill should include a requirement for ALL phone lines to be upgraded to DSL
Yeah, 'cause if there's one way to get something done efficiently, it's to separate the guy that's paying for it from the guy he's buying it from by a third party with little accountability.
For commercial use, you really should be getting a site license. A ham license would be pretty useless to you for anything but basic chatting. (although a lot of truckers, I understand, have amateur licenses for the twofold reason of flexibility and the natural screening that the licensure provides.)
The only way to know if they were disease "free" is to mash them up and test them for diseases.
While it is unlikely someone would get malaria from the insects (unless he imported malaria infected mosquitoes...), There are plenty of harmful illnesses that are spread by mosquitoes on this continent. Among the more well known are West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Neither of which has a particularly good prognosis, even in comparison to Malaria.
Deliberately exposing people to that risk when they do not expect it is reckless and irresponsible. If anyone did get a mosquito borne illness, I would expect Mr. Gates to do prison time.
But your base station need not be in your house. Your base station could be network-based storage.
You wouldn't feel too bad about dropping your PC in the toilet if you could get another one at CVS for the price of a couple packs of razor blades.
Such a PC won't be a game station, or scientific number-cruncher, but it could satisfy a rather large niche that is only just now being developed.
Frankly, though, I'm surprised no one has taken a palm, given it a dock that hooks up directly to a large (B&W) LCD monitor and keyboard, as a typewriting and email device.
The benefit of UHF, though, is that you can get away with a smaller antenna. The way most stations are co-located now, you can get almost all of your programming with one directional antenna.
The shorter wavelengths of UHF means that you can get more gain or use a smaller antenna.
Whoever told you need a special shape like a bowtie was trying to sell you something. Those designs do work, but their improvement over a simple dipole, loop, or yagi are dubious. In fact, I've had great success with just a good set of rabbit ears (including subschannels, i've got about 3x the number of channels I had before, and the picture is perfect most of the time)
If you've already got an aerial, you ought to be fine. If you're trying to make due with an indoor antenna, I submit that this is probably overkill in most areas (don't bother with amplified unless you've got multiple tvs off the same feed) A VHF antenna with the same gain simply wouldn't fit indoors at all.
Also note that if you're having difficulty, you might be able to solve your problem without changing the antenna. For one thing, all tuners are not equal, though I've no idea how to pick one that is better. Something you can change though, is to make sure your antenna is properly grounded. The outer sheath on the coax, the one that's connected to the outer threads, should be connected to a proper earth ground. Copper plumbing works in a pinch, but you should really have a dedicated ground rod driven into the earth. You could probably use house ground (note: not neutral. You'll start a fire or something ) for this also.
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The problem is that if you audit the wikipedia and Britannica, you'll find that Britannica doesn't actually offer anything in the way of increased accuracy, and it sacrifices greatly on both the number and depth of articles.
Wikipedia is a strange phenomenon. It ought to be a lot worse than it is.
Oh, and before the wikipedia, I used to laugh about all the sci fi shows where they accessed "the ancient database" or somesuch. Now, I think, it might be inevitable if storage becomes cheap enough.
Depending on what you need to replace, how large the file is, and how many files you need to change, dd might be your "editor" of choice. Although IANA('nix pro), so I'm not sure it's possible to get dd to just overwrite a few bytes in the middle of a file without setting up a loopback device.
Hmm..
A quick skim through the shred man page suggests it might be useful if the bits you want to overwrite are at the begining of the file...
It always bothered me that Perl's "in place" option actually is nothing of the sort.
The problem with vim is that half the time you have to give it a quick bang before it'll do what you want.
32nm means that the same processor can take half the area on the die. You could use that to get more cores, or you could just use that to get more out of the wafer.
I think someone noted not too long ago that the price of silicon (in ICs) by area hasn't changed much over the years. But the price per element has sure gone down due to process reductions.
If you change nothing else, your 32 nm chip will consume less power and cost less than an otherwise nearly identical 45 nm chip.
Burn!
Uh.. A lot of the code for the models are as open source as you'd care. Although not actually open source in the gpl or free software sense, you can often request the code from the institutions that are running it, and they might just send it to you at no charge as long as you agree to their terms.
Not that it'll do much good if you've haven't got an up-to-date cluster running, but you can still look over the code, at least. I'd say that if you're a grad student, you're almost certain to be able to get it.
Also, the models themselves are detailed in journal articles, which while not always freely available, are definitely available at your local university library in some form. Free to peruse, and you can probably get a card if you ask nicely.
You can't upload books from project gutenberg to the kindle?
You're missing the forest for the trees here. I ought to have said "energon cubes" for all it mattered.
The point was that sometimes people aren't immorally not-conserving-as-much-as-they-can because it's simply not possible to roll out all the changes instantly, and further, not all things that appear to be helpful actually are.
As for your last line, it might not take 40 energon cubes to save the first 10%. Or even the second. But there's a point at which it does indeed take that much or more to get another 10%.
Because, frankly, until you can heat your house entirely with the body heat of it's occupants, you can always make some improvement. And you can even keep conserving even more after that, but you have to start cutting diet and exercise, which gets more and more difficult to do, since you've got a bicycle-powered heat exchanger to bring in the fresh air to your super-insulated house.
Stop bitching about people and realize that people want to do the right thing environmentally, and even will pay more to do it. But they only have limited funds to do it with, and there is a lot of snake oil out there which they may or may not have the time to sort through.
AND there's two parts to the problem. There's also a lot of noise on the environmental issues that even need addressing. How would you feel if you bought a special new car that was supposed to cut CO2, and found out it didn't? How would you feel if you later found out that cutting CO2 did bupkis for the environment?
Fingerprints don't *uniquely* identify a person, though, since you can just take a laser printout of one and hold it over the sensor with your own finger.
They only uniquely identify you in the event that everyone is honest and no print-twins need access to the same system. You know what works just as well if everyone is honest? A sign that says, "Please only enter if authorized."
Obviously, since the leading five digits are the same, and each day uses up roughly the trailing five. (86,400 is aaaaaaaalmost 100,000)
Yeah, but people will conserve as it becomes available and economic. Conservation just happens. It's difficult, and sometimes even counter-productive to try and force it.
For instance, suppose you burn 2 tons of coal each winter to run household machinery and heat. Suppose further that you can save 10% of that, and it will only cost you 40 tons of coal to manufacture and install the insulation that will accomplish it. Is it worth it?
What if coal production is already fully utilized and can only be increased by 20% to accommodate the upgraders, how long will it take for everyone to switch?
What if there are dozens of minor improvements like this?
You could just use
dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=x | base64
where x is an integer multiple of 3 (you can do non-multiples, but 24 bit chunks line up nicely with the uuencoder.)
Why use a whole python script, when you can use a short pipeline and coreutils?*
*now, I would like to know a quick way to use dice instead. Piping characters through a hash feels like cheating to me.
Fingerprint readers solve the "username" part of authentication. Not the "password" part.
If you do that, you can't switch it back and forth without changing a setting, and you're the only person that can use your mouse without having to think about it.
I'm a rightie, but I switch the mouse from right to left from time to time to keep my fingers flexible. Let me tell you, wireless mice and/or keyboards are great if you do this. Well worth the extra weight in the mouse.
Does "10 year platform" mean they think they can get away with not producing a better one in that time, or that they expect to support and produce games for it, even though the last four or five years will coexist with the next gen device?
IANAP either, but just because something is initially intuitive based on previous methods doesn't mean it's the best choice. It's probably a good choice, especially for a new technology.... Y'know, change the least amount possible at a time to get used to it.
But eventually, "The enemy's gate is down." You want to try and discover the best method for the medium that you're actually using. That can mean most efficient, or most flexible, or most understandable, or some combination thereof. But it probably isn't the paradigm you came in with.
That is not to say that everything that isn't the paradigm you came in with is superior to it. Only that there's a good chance that your "first guess" wasn't the best possible choice.
Incidentally, the objective measure of "best" is that it leaves the greatest amount of time and resources in the hands of the programmers and users at the end of the day. i.e. economic efficiency.
Well, that's what you get for living in a state that's poorly geographically differentiated. You should move to a squigglier state, like Florida, Hawaii, even Alaska.
Yeah, 'cause if there's one way to get something done efficiently, it's to separate the guy that's paying for it from the guy he's buying it from by a third party with little accountability.
For commercial use, you really should be getting a site license. A ham license would be pretty useless to you for anything but basic chatting. (although a lot of truckers, I understand, have amateur licenses for the twofold reason of flexibility and the natural screening that the licensure provides.)
The only way to know if they were disease "free" is to mash them up and test them for diseases.
While it is unlikely someone would get malaria from the insects (unless he imported malaria infected mosquitoes...), There are plenty of harmful illnesses that are spread by mosquitoes on this continent. Among the more well known are West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Neither of which has a particularly good prognosis, even in comparison to Malaria.
Deliberately exposing people to that risk when they do not expect it is reckless and irresponsible. If anyone did get a mosquito borne illness, I would expect Mr. Gates to do prison time.
But your base station need not be in your house. Your base station could be network-based storage.
You wouldn't feel too bad about dropping your PC in the toilet if you could get another one at CVS for the price of a couple packs of razor blades.
Such a PC won't be a game station, or scientific number-cruncher, but it could satisfy a rather large niche that is only just now being developed.
Frankly, though, I'm surprised no one has taken a palm, given it a dock that hooks up directly to a large (B&W) LCD monitor and keyboard, as a typewriting and email device.
Which is why every flight should have a complementary bowl of derringers at the gate.
The benefit of UHF, though, is that you can get away with a smaller antenna. The way most stations are co-located now, you can get almost all of your programming with one directional antenna.
The shorter wavelengths of UHF means that you can get more gain or use a smaller antenna.
Whoever told you need a special shape like a bowtie was trying to sell you something. Those designs do work, but their improvement over a simple dipole, loop, or yagi are dubious. In fact, I've had great success with just a good set of rabbit ears (including subschannels, i've got about 3x the number of channels I had before, and the picture is perfect most of the time)
If you've already got an aerial, you ought to be fine. If you're trying to make due with an indoor antenna, I submit that this is probably overkill in most areas (don't bother with amplified unless you've got multiple tvs off the same feed) A VHF antenna with the same gain simply wouldn't fit indoors at all.
Also note that if you're having difficulty, you might be able to solve your problem without changing the antenna. For one thing, all tuners are not equal, though I've no idea how to pick one that is better. Something you can change though, is to make sure your antenna is properly grounded. The outer sheath on the coax, the one that's connected to the outer threads, should be connected to a proper earth ground. Copper plumbing works in a pinch, but you should really have a dedicated ground rod driven into the earth. You could probably use house ground (note: not neutral. You'll start a fire or something ) for this also.
50kW * 18 cents per kWh ~ 80 thousand dollars per year.
Or.. the cost of ONE weather girl (when you factor in benefits).
That might be a lot in some markets, but it's really a pittance in most.