Pure H2O has a very dull taste. You won't have much luck marketing it I don't think. Then again, you never know. Some of the mineral water you can buy tastes noticeably worse than distilled water.
I'm sure that London water is perfectly safe to drink. That doesn't mean I have to like the taste. And last time I visited the UK I spent the time near Birmingham. The water tasted noticeably of chlor. Perhaps the water in London is better.
Oh and bottled water is of very different quality and taste. Some is utter crap that wouldn't be allowed as tap water in Denmark.
I do understand that there are some things that the NEC computers are better at simulating and processing than a G5 cluster like the one at Virginia Tech, but for overall price/performance ratio these NEC computers cannot come close to matching Apple's G5 clusters.
If you only care about price/performance, then go with a non-clustered PC. Nothing will beat that. (Ok for certain codes the non-clustered G5 could possibly beat it, but that's basically a PC anyway.)
Err, of course this is the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It is quite easy to do the optimal thing in the non-iterated case: defect. You couldn't make a competition out of that.
Bags of several dozen cells (which is what the embryos we're talking about are) aren't life.
This is simply wrong. Noone sane argues against the fact that single-cell organisms are alive.
The question is whether they are human.
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Actually, MS does allow OEMs to sell computers without the MS tax. Those computers "just" have to have different hardware and different product numbers, so customers are not "confused", and they have to be delivered with some sort of OS (FreeDOS counts). However, this guarantees that there won't be many models available with Linux, since it is a pain for companies to have model lines with very few units sold. If the OS was an option like memory or hard drive size, OEM's could handle it much more easily. Alas, Microsoft does not allow that.
The difference is that Kerry can convince the world that the US acting in its own interest is really doing the world a lot of good. Bush could have had the European (at least) opinion behind him about the Iraq war if he had just gone about it differently.
Our racks are only 42U. Where are you getting yours?
You are right, IBM probably considered 42U racks (although 48U racks are available, as another poster mentioned). This means that the capacity is 67.2TB without RAID or with RAID-0. Now how many people dare make a RAID-0 of 224 disks?
The DS6000 supports up to to 67.2TB, but not in one enclosure. The DS6000 only fits 16 disks per enclosure, and with 400GB disks that is 6.4TB. 400GB disks seem to only be available as SATA and PATA, the largest SCSI disks I could find are 300GB. That means 4.8TB per enclosure. 16 DS6000's per 48U rack, that's 76.8TB. Remove every 8th disk for RAID-5, that's 67.2TB.
Vegetation doesn't sink CO2. It will go back into the atmosphere when the vegetation dies. Also, I frequently see the argument that the US produces so much stuff which is exported to the whole world, benefitting everyone but causing pollution in the US. Well, if the net exports are so huge, where does the trade deficit come from?
Modems and faxes only work if you use Alaw or ulaw encoding. Those require 64kbps of bandwidth (+ overhead). Most people use encodings like ILBC instead, because they use much less bandwidth.
Have you actually tried VoIP? Latency is a non-problem for me. The VoIP gateway is less than 25ms away, measured with ping. You can cross the Atlantic for less than 100ms.
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Assuming that "us" is the United States of America, who exactly do you think would go to war with you?
Pure water tastes bad.
Denmark only uses underground water for drinking. We do have at least one city.
Pure H2O has a very dull taste. You won't have much luck marketing it I don't think. Then again, you never know. Some of the mineral water you can buy tastes noticeably worse than distilled water.
Oh and bottled water is of very different quality and taste. Some is utter crap that wouldn't be allowed as tap water in Denmark.
That's what selective ack is for. It's pretty old hat at this point, everyone has it implemented.
If you only care about price/performance, then go with a non-clustered PC. Nothing will beat that. (Ok for certain codes the non-clustered G5 could possibly beat it, but that's basically a PC anyway.)
I believe you missed something. The book is about MySQL.
Whenever you kill one science fiction writer, three pop up to take his place.
In this case the sensor was designed to only install the WRONG way.
Err, of course this is the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It is quite easy to do the optimal thing in the non-iterated case: defect. You couldn't make a competition out of that.
I am merely stating that it is alive. Whether it is parasitic is another debate. Whether it is human is a third debate.
Perhaps the public would not consider an embryo of several dozen cells to be alive. Scientists, however, know better than that, and so do you.
What is your point? The fact that the life requires a specific environment to survive does imply that it is not alive.
It is wonderful luck that you are not one.
This is simply wrong. Noone sane argues against the fact that single-cell organisms are alive.
The question is whether they are human.
Actually, MS does allow OEMs to sell computers without the MS tax. Those computers "just" have to have different hardware and different product numbers, so customers are not "confused", and they have to be delivered with some sort of OS (FreeDOS counts). However, this guarantees that there won't be many models available with Linux, since it is a pain for companies to have model lines with very few units sold. If the OS was an option like memory or hard drive size, OEM's could handle it much more easily. Alas, Microsoft does not allow that.
The difference is that Kerry can convince the world that the US acting in its own interest is really doing the world a lot of good. Bush could have had the European (at least) opinion behind him about the Iraq war if he had just gone about it differently.
That makes sense. So basically, this story is a total non-story. An expensive enclosure full of expensive disks is hardly news.
You are right, IBM probably considered 42U racks (although 48U racks are available, as another poster mentioned). This means that the capacity is 67.2TB without RAID or with RAID-0. Now how many people dare make a RAID-0 of 224 disks?
The DS6000 supports up to to 67.2TB, but not in one enclosure. The DS6000 only fits 16 disks per enclosure, and with 400GB disks that is 6.4TB. 400GB disks seem to only be available as SATA and PATA, the largest SCSI disks I could find are 300GB. That means 4.8TB per enclosure. 16 DS6000's per 48U rack, that's 76.8TB. Remove every 8th disk for RAID-5, that's 67.2TB.
Vegetation doesn't sink CO2. It will go back into the atmosphere when the vegetation dies. Also, I frequently see the argument that the US produces so much stuff which is exported to the whole world, benefitting everyone but causing pollution in the US. Well, if the net exports are so huge, where does the trade deficit come from?
Hmm, 12000mW. So one guy on a bike can cover Canadas power needs. Perhaps you need to check your units.
Modems and faxes only work if you use Alaw or ulaw encoding. Those require 64kbps of bandwidth (+ overhead). Most people use encodings like ILBC instead, because they use much less bandwidth.
Have you actually tried VoIP? Latency is a non-problem for me. The VoIP gateway is less than 25ms away, measured with ping. You can cross the Atlantic for less than 100ms.