Stability is the point here, achieved by distribution. The odds of it being both cloudy and calm across the entire country are decidedly low, so you'll always have power available somewhere. If you can shift power around the entire country, you'll have a pretty stable supply.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars wasted, a few thousand American soldiers killed, a few hundred thousand non-Americans killed, a region effectively destabilized, all over an event that killed barely 5000 people.
Frankly, if I was purchasing something that's of no benefit to me I'd hardly bother with quality, I'd just like to keep as much money in my hands as possible.
In this case, you get neither quality, nor money kept in your hands.
It isn't the "series of tubes" bit that most people are up about (I think it's a fairly decent metaphor given that it was made up on the fly.), it's the rest of the 10 and some minute speech that shows he has no bloody clue.
Have a listen to the entire thing here if you like and form your own opinion.
A Core 2 Duo @ 3ghz, 2Gigs of 1200 memory, new mobo, and an NVidia 8800GT. With tax and shipping it comes in right at $500
*sigh* I spent just shy of $2k on a machine with somewhat similar specs (core2 duo e6850, 2GB ram, 8800GTS, 500GB HD) last year, though it was a completely new machine (case, power supply, a UPS, though i kept most of my externals) to replace my ancient p4 rig from late 2001 (which went to my sister to replace her even older p3 rig (when then went to my aunt and is now running xubuntu quite happily.)). Next upgrade cycle will be towards upgrading externals, especially my old 17" CRT.
Last time I saw tests (2 years ago), RAID of any variety didn't make a difference in load times. The bottleneck was mostly the CPU and to a lesser degree, the amount/speed of RAM, as all the stuff needed to be decompressed, though this may have changed with newer dual/quad core CPUs and faster/more plentiful RAM, though I'm at work, so I can't look up stuff to check my info.
We have 1.5-10Mb dsl in every major city and 25Mb (in select areas) cable without that junk, and vdsl2 is being rolled out in the major cities, with the equipment being either underground or on public land.
Also, that "phone company throttling" nonsense isn't happening here. The phone lines are run by Sasktel, a provincial crown corporation, so if they started trying any of that, you would see it fixed quickly or politicians would lose jobs in the next election.
They are very safe if you stick with quality cells and make sure to monitor case temperature, discharge rate, discharge voltage, charge rate, charge voltage, and discharge levels very carefully (EG to better than 1%).
And how many of those considerations do you figure are observed with these devices?
That's why there are bigger power supplies. I can find 1200W ones without any trouble, or even a 2000W one at a major online store, though that one would be tricky to fit into most cases as it's double-high, not to mention the thing will run you $650.
1. Presuming that particular textbook is actually useful for the course the next year. I've seen a lot of profs that just practically use the thing as a book of questions.
2. Any particular reason why you feel it needs to be printed out rather than read on a laptop/pda/etc.?
No idea. All I really know is this was a massive change, likely on par with the first implementation of NT, and it has it's share of problems. AFAIK, Linux has never really had a flag day in this manner. Everything gets publicly implemented bit by bit and generally each bit gets the hell tested out of it (Linus' law in action). There's no big-massive-all-at-once-changes-everything event like there has been with vista, or if there has been, I wasn't here for it.
Not driver changes. They redid the entire rendering system from the old 2D (GDI) that has been in use and mostly unchanged since 95 and created something almost entirely new that leverages 3D (WGF), tossing the old 3D system (which was relatively unstable). This was a Major Change, and is likely the cause of 60% of vista problems, with likely another 30% being driver problems related to it (It's taken the driver devs awhile to get up to speed on the completely different way of doing things), and another 10% for other stuff.
I doubt it. SSDs are coming, but they're still too expensive and don't have the capacity. you can be ones between 2 and 16GB for somewhat cheap, but then look at what kind of capacity that will get you in a mechanical (Since this is a 2.5" drive, you'd be looking at about half the capacity of the current 3.5" velociraptor, so likely ~150GB, possibly more if they crank up the density.) and it's not really a competition outside of the seek times and shock resistance.
Cheapest 64GB SSD (an OCZ one) i could find goes for $285 : $4.45/GB Current 300GB velociraptor goes for $300 : $1/GB Projecting 150GB 20k drive going to $400 : $2.67/GB Projecting at $500 : $3.33/GB For sane reference, a normal 640GB 7200RPM drive goes for $100 : $0.16/GB
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irc - yes
ssh - yes
rdp - yes
gopher - doesn't seem to have this one, though some interested person could likely make an app to do so.
A prime+1 would be divisible by 2 and therefore not prime.
Stability is the point here, achieved by distribution. The odds of it being both cloudy and calm across the entire country are decidedly low, so you'll always have power available somewhere. If you can shift power around the entire country, you'll have a pretty stable supply.
What bank is this?
A prime example of poor risk assessment.
Hundreds of billions of dollars wasted, a few thousand American soldiers killed, a few hundred thousand non-Americans killed, a region effectively destabilized, all over an event that killed barely 5000 people.
Frankly, if I was purchasing something that's of no benefit to me I'd hardly bother with quality, I'd just like to keep as much money in my hands as possible.
In this case, you get neither quality, nor money kept in your hands.
Duct tape is made of cloth. It's vinyl coated to make it water resistant.
As for the "remove without damage" bit, that depends on the brand.
Though gorilla tape takes the fixes-practically-anything prize IMO. It's great for jury rig car repairs.
It isn't the "series of tubes" bit that most people are up about (I think it's a fairly decent metaphor given that it was made up on the fly.), it's the rest of the 10 and some minute speech that shows he has no bloody clue.
Have a listen to the entire thing here if you like and form your own opinion.
A Core 2 Duo @ 3ghz, 2Gigs of 1200 memory, new mobo, and an NVidia 8800GT. With tax and shipping it comes in right at $500
*sigh* I spent just shy of $2k on a machine with somewhat similar specs (core2 duo e6850, 2GB ram, 8800GTS, 500GB HD) last year, though it was a completely new machine (case, power supply, a UPS, though i kept most of my externals) to replace my ancient p4 rig from late 2001 (which went to my sister to replace her even older p3 rig (when then went to my aunt and is now running xubuntu quite happily.)). Next upgrade cycle will be towards upgrading externals, especially my old 17" CRT.
Last time I saw tests (2 years ago), RAID of any variety didn't make a difference in load times. The bottleneck was mostly the CPU and to a lesser degree, the amount/speed of RAM, as all the stuff needed to be decompressed, though this may have changed with newer dual/quad core CPUs and faster/more plentiful RAM, though I'm at work, so I can't look up stuff to check my info.
on the MIT public keyserver
sig 135EA668 Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance)
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x894A158D
The POTS copper is still in the ground. Why not repurpose it to provide backup power for the fibre equipment?
Since when did corporations become citizens?
We have 1.5-10Mb dsl in every major city and 25Mb (in select areas) cable without that junk, and vdsl2 is being rolled out in the major cities, with the equipment being either underground or on public land.
Also, that "phone company throttling" nonsense isn't happening here. The phone lines are run by Sasktel, a provincial crown corporation, so if they started trying any of that, you would see it fixed quickly or politicians would lose jobs in the next election.
If you have not found any, you are not looking in the right places.
Likely because telecommuting would require them to pay existing wages and would require the purchase of hardware/software to facilitate it.
They are very safe if you stick with quality cells and make sure to monitor case temperature, discharge rate, discharge voltage, charge rate, charge voltage, and discharge levels very carefully (EG to better than 1%).
And how many of those considerations do you figure are observed with these devices?
That's why there are bigger power supplies. I can find 1200W ones without any trouble, or even a 2000W one at a major online store, though that one would be tricky to fit into most cases as it's double-high, not to mention the thing will run you $650.
I greatly prefer reading off my laptop. Makes quickly referencing something much easier (can't grep dead trees).
Wireless doesn't work OTB. You need to fool around a bit with either madwifi or ndiswrapper.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes
Reportedly this should work OTB come version I later this year.
1. Presuming that particular textbook is actually useful for the course the next year. I've seen a lot of profs that just practically use the thing as a book of questions.
2. Any particular reason why you feel it needs to be printed out rather than read on a laptop/pda/etc.?
No idea. All I really know is this was a massive change, likely on par with the first implementation of NT, and it has it's share of problems. AFAIK, Linux has never really had a flag day in this manner. Everything gets publicly implemented bit by bit and generally each bit gets the hell tested out of it (Linus' law in action). There's no big-massive-all-at-once-changes-everything event like there has been with vista, or if there has been, I wasn't here for it.
Not driver changes. They redid the entire rendering system from the old 2D (GDI) that has been in use and mostly unchanged since 95 and created something almost entirely new that leverages 3D (WGF), tossing the old 3D system (which was relatively unstable). This was a Major Change, and is likely the cause of 60% of vista problems, with likely another 30% being driver problems related to it (It's taken the driver devs awhile to get up to speed on the completely different way of doing things), and another 10% for other stuff.
He didn't say they were operators. He said they were keywords.
I doubt it. SSDs are coming, but they're still too expensive and don't have the capacity. you can be ones between 2 and 16GB for somewhat cheap, but then look at what kind of capacity that will get you in a mechanical (Since this is a 2.5" drive, you'd be looking at about half the capacity of the current 3.5" velociraptor, so likely ~150GB, possibly more if they crank up the density.) and it's not really a competition outside of the seek times and shock resistance.
Cheapest 64GB SSD (an OCZ one) i could find goes for $285 : $4.45/GB
Current 300GB velociraptor goes for $300 : $1/GB
Projecting 150GB 20k drive going to $400 : $2.67/GB
Projecting at $500 : $3.33/GB
For sane reference, a normal 640GB 7200RPM drive goes for $100 : $0.16/GB