The main FedEx hub in Memphis has enough generator capacity that when there's a blackout, they can feed some power back to the grid for some essential stuff. Don't know if their HQ or data center has the same, but it wouldn't suprise me, given how IT-centric the operation is.
Actually, we got hit by a freak storm a couple of years ago that knocked out power for almost a week in some places, a bit less in others. I saw some businesses had power, but for the most part, everything was shut down. Most businesses probobly ran on a skeleton crew. I remember seeing one medical billing company with a dozen or so portable generators in their parking lot, maybe enough to keep the computers running.
I found out most gas stations don't have generators, and ironically cannot power themselves with their own gas if the grid goes down. I saw car lines resembling those of the 70's oil crash around the few stations operating on the first day or two.
Moral: Most companies still should have generators.
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You're KDEing, right?
This new 'light-tube' technology will put all the Window Makers out of business, and soon they'll be living on the streets of Metacity in a Blackbox! They'll be forced to eat scraps of Sawfish and Ratpoison!
Sure, maybe light tubes are the NextStep of progress, but that doesn't mean we should throw away our Windows. Some of them have beautiful Motifs, and you can't even OpenLook light tubes, for Khrist's sake!
- Tom the Windows Manager
Post Script: iHave heard in a that Quartz windows are the future, anyways.
Interesting info on the suicide bombers, but I recall seeing a BBC special on Palestinian suicide bombers where they interviewed captured would-be suicide bombers in prison. They were mostly young men with no real future, who were not fanatics but felt that their life had no meaning or purpose. Their psychology seemed more similar to the Columbine shooters than streotypical religious fanatics.
You're right that life in prison wouldn't be a deterrent to them, but neither would the death penalty - they are suicide bombers, after all.
As for prisons not being good at deterring crime - I'm sorry, but what you're saying about using the death penalty for a deterrent sounds like saying "we should kill people because we can't run our prisons properly".
Hmm... I mostly agree with you, but I wanted to correct some stuff. I recalled that I had to choose between buying Duke3D and Quake, so they must have more or less been out about the same time.
So Quake came out 5 months after Duke, but it's not really accurate to say "ID had done Quake AND quake 2 by the time 3D realms was ready for its next attempt", since Quake had been well in development when Duke came out.
And the Build engine Duke 3D was based on could do floors on top of floors, although some trickery was required. I remember being blown away by things like a submarine and some other things that required 3D that couldn't be done in Doom or its clones. There'a a walkway above part of the level at the end of the first level, for example.
I'll tell you this much too; I haven't been raised to worry about what might be going on, what might be being said about me. I was lucky enough to have the ideal instilled in me that merit would carry the day. So that's what I focus on (rather than focusing on excuses). Thus far I have not been disappointed in this regard.
I do have a problem as well with grown women complaining about mass media culture. Get over it, already
Isn't this basically what the problem is - that it's not being done now? Girls are being brought up to worry about what others think of them more than what's important to them.
Why should grown women not complain about the media? If you want more girls to be like yourself, you're going to have to change the media.
Why does your profession have to seem cool to other people?
Well, one might ask the same of men - guys tend to have even more insecurities about going into traditionally feminine professions such as nursing or secretarial work. Hell, even though secretaries used to be a male profession long ago (thus the 'Secretary of State', etc.), once it became a woman's job, no guy would even go near it unless it was called 'executive assistant' or something.
This insecurity is not as noticable becuase for the most part, women's work is usually not very good or well-paid. It's easier if you think of men's avoidance of feminine persuits, like knitting, quilting, or cheerleading. There even seems to be a bias against doing sports that are percieved as "girl's sports" (soccer and volleyball in the U.S., maybe lacrosse elsewhere).
The Big Dig is notorious for its cost overruns, and most of it seems to stem from being in the middle of a major city, with existing roads, bad terrain, and notoriously pork-barreling politicians. I doubt this project will suffer from anywhere near that level of overruns. To give a comparison, they bought all the land for $1 million - a comparable amount of land in downtown Boston would be on the order of billions.
Maybe you're too used to woking on office or residential buildings. This tower is pretty basic - it doesn't have floors, stairs, HVAC, plumbing, telco, windows, etc., things that make an office tower expensive. It's more akin to the CN tower, or even grain elevators and lighthouses in construction, and they don't cost anywhere near as much per height as comparably tall office buildings. It's basically a hollow tube with turbines.
The greenhouse area probobly isn't going to be as expensive as comparable amounts of housing or office space. It'll be more like warehouse or greenhouse space, and those are relatively cheap per square foot or acre. You make it sound as if they're going to build 25,000 acres of houses.
But at least our new Homeland Security chief, Mr. Bin Laden, seems to know a lot about terrorism. He and the new Central Intelligence Agency director, Jenna Bush, might really win the War on Terror! White House Press Secretary Michael Moore said so, it must be true!
I only hope that our new Drug Czar and DEA director, Mr. Cheech and Mr. Chong, will be as successful in their fight against those scummy potheads.
Well, for one thing, you don't have to pay taxes to use it...
The definition of 'free' is debatable, though. The library provides lots of free books, but they're paid for by the taxpayer. In common usage, something is 'free' if there is no per-use charge for it.
That's because land-line telcos tends towards monopoly no matter where they are, because of the high costs of entry into the market. In America, AT&T was a non-state monopoly for a long time, and service sucked before the U.S. DOJ broke them up.
I remember a American comedian from the '70s (Richard Pryor?) saying something like "If you want to know what communism is like, imagine a world run by the phone company" or something like that:P
I doubt community wireless would have the same problems, because it won't be the only entry in the market and there's minimal costs to start and operate.
I love the first line in the article, which ends, "is constructed of such totally off-the-shelf parts as IBM BladeCenter JS20 servers, 64-bit 970FX PowerPC processors, TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers, and Linux 2.6. This is its story."
Right, like I regularly go to Fry's to stock up on some DS4100s and Bladecenters. I'd love to be the geek for whom that stuff is "off-the-shelf". Can you even buy bare PPC CPUs and mobos?
Don't forget our "Drug Czar", which conujres images of the Romanovs snorting coke, or "Secretary of Homeland Security", which sounds like a slender blonde chick in a sexy fascist uniform defending the fatherland wth a Luger.
Heck, both of those would be an imprrovement over the current incarnations...
Except Microsoft has far more money than Sega. Sony won't be able to bury them with "Emotion Engine 65 bazillion polygon" bullshit marketing they way they did with Sega.
Well, a geek can dream, can't he? Maybe if we pray *really* hard...
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The main FedEx hub in Memphis has enough generator capacity that when there's a blackout, they can feed some power back to the grid for some essential stuff. Don't know if their HQ or data center has the same, but it wouldn't suprise me, given how IT-centric the operation is.
Actually, we got hit by a freak storm a couple of years ago that knocked out power for almost a week in some places, a bit less in others. I saw some businesses had power, but for the most part, everything was shut down. Most businesses probobly ran on a skeleton crew. I remember seeing one medical billing company with a dozen or so portable generators in their parking lot, maybe enough to keep the computers running.
I found out most gas stations don't have generators, and ironically cannot power themselves with their own gas if the grid goes down. I saw car lines resembling those of the 70's oil crash around the few stations operating on the first day or two.
Moral: Most companies still should have generators.
You're KDEing, right?
This new 'light-tube' technology will put all the Window Makers out of business, and soon they'll be living on the streets of Metacity in a Blackbox! They'll be forced to eat scraps of Sawfish and Ratpoison!
Sure, maybe light tubes are the NextStep of progress, but that doesn't mean we should throw away our Windows. Some of them have beautiful Motifs, and you can't even OpenLook light tubes, for Khrist's sake!
- Tom the Windows Manager
Post Script: iHave heard in a that Quartz windows are the future, anyways.
Interesting info on the suicide bombers, but I recall seeing a BBC special on Palestinian suicide bombers where they interviewed captured would-be suicide bombers in prison. They were mostly young men with no real future, who were not fanatics but felt that their life had no meaning or purpose. Their psychology seemed more similar to the Columbine shooters than streotypical religious fanatics.
You're right that life in prison wouldn't be a deterrent to them, but neither would the death penalty - they are suicide bombers, after all.
As for prisons not being good at deterring crime - I'm sorry, but what you're saying about using the death penalty for a deterrent sounds like saying "we should kill people because we can't run our prisons properly".
But this is perfect if you're a wimpy geek with a image problem. Now, no one will question your sexuality at all. No sir. Not a bit.
The only question is, do you want a lily or a pansy in your flower vase?
No, the new terms are:
"Remember, it's not rape if you click 'yes'".
: )
Oh my gawd... Gary Kasparov's advice helped you get laid?!
To you, sir, I present the Nerdiest Nerd on Slashdot award. We who are still celibate salute you!
Hmm... I mostly agree with you, but I wanted to correct some stuff. I recalled that I had to choose between buying Duke3D and Quake, so they must have more or less been out about the same time.
Aha, here:
Duke 3D: Jan 29, 1996
Quake: June 22, 1996
So Quake came out 5 months after Duke, but it's not really accurate to say "ID had done Quake AND quake 2 by the time 3D realms was ready for its next attempt", since Quake had been well in development when Duke came out.
And the Build engine Duke 3D was based on could do floors on top of floors, although some trickery was required. I remember being blown away by things like a submarine and some other things that required 3D that couldn't be done in Doom or its clones. There'a a walkway above part of the level at the end of the first level, for example.
I think you have them confused with this group...
Hah! In honor of this occasion, I shall make a rap song, to the tune of mc chris's "Fette's Vette":
"Runtime exception, In windows explorer
Hit ctrl-alt-del to restart your session
Problem has stumped nerdy computer geeks,
even if they thought they was leet!
Reformat!
C: fried!
Hackers gettin past your firewall, no sweat!
They gotta have your boxxor to roxxor with botnets
My Name is The Gates;
My bank account got yo checks;
I monopolize for Melinda Gates, to pay off Viagra debts."
Okay, I gotta go get lunch. Someone else finish this : )
I hope you don't get marked insightful for not reading your own link and being able to think by yourself.
But it would be hypocracy if he was modded down for that : )
I'll tell you this much too; I haven't been raised to worry about what might be going on, what might be being said about me. I was lucky enough to have the ideal instilled in me that merit would carry the day. So that's what I focus on (rather than focusing on excuses). Thus far I have not been disappointed in this regard.
I do have a problem as well with grown women complaining about mass media culture. Get over it, already
Isn't this basically what the problem is - that it's not being done now? Girls are being brought up to worry about what others think of them more than what's important to them.
Why should grown women not complain about the media? If you want more girls to be like yourself, you're going to have to change the media.
Why does your profession have to seem cool to other people?
Well, one might ask the same of men - guys tend to have even more insecurities about going into traditionally feminine professions such as nursing or secretarial work. Hell, even though secretaries used to be a male profession long ago (thus the 'Secretary of State', etc.), once it became a woman's job, no guy would even go near it unless it was called 'executive assistant' or something.
This insecurity is not as noticable becuase for the most part, women's work is usually not very good or well-paid. It's easier if you think of men's avoidance of feminine persuits, like knitting, quilting, or cheerleading. There even seems to be a bias against doing sports that are percieved as "girl's sports" (soccer and volleyball in the U.S., maybe lacrosse elsewhere).
If you listen to your iPod Shuffle backwards, you hear a voice saying 'Apple's dead' and 'Developers developers developers' over and over... spooky.
The Big Dig is notorious for its cost overruns, and most of it seems to stem from being in the middle of a major city, with existing roads, bad terrain, and notoriously pork-barreling politicians. I doubt this project will suffer from anywhere near that level of overruns. To give a comparison, they bought all the land for $1 million - a comparable amount of land in downtown Boston would be on the order of billions.
Maybe you're too used to woking on office or residential buildings. This tower is pretty basic - it doesn't have floors, stairs, HVAC, plumbing, telco, windows, etc., things that make an office tower expensive. It's more akin to the CN tower, or even grain elevators and lighthouses in construction, and they don't cost anywhere near as much per height as comparably tall office buildings. It's basically a hollow tube with turbines.
The greenhouse area probobly isn't going to be as expensive as comparable amounts of housing or office space. It'll be more like warehouse or greenhouse space, and those are relatively cheap per square foot or acre. You make it sound as if they're going to build 25,000 acres of houses.
Speak for yourself, I'm still building the giant orbital magnefying glass to take out those puny hu-man ants.
The new generation of hoaxes that label real events as hoaxes and hoaxes as real. Perhaps the above post is a hoax too?
LIES! It's on the internet, it must be true!
It made it past Slashdot's meticulous editorial fact-checking, even! But wait, if the lie about a lie is a lie, does that mean the lie is true?
Ohhhhh, my head hurts...
But at least our new Homeland Security chief, Mr. Bin Laden, seems to know a lot about terrorism. He and the new Central Intelligence Agency director, Jenna Bush, might really win the War on Terror! White House Press Secretary Michael Moore said so, it must be true!
I only hope that our new Drug Czar and DEA director, Mr. Cheech and Mr. Chong, will be as successful in their fight against those scummy potheads.
apparently the slashdot mods though it worthy of a green light, so plllbbttt I bet they'll think it worthy of a green light tommorow, too :)
Well, for one thing, you don't have to pay taxes to use it...
The definition of 'free' is debatable, though. The library provides lots of free books, but they're paid for by the taxpayer. In common usage, something is 'free' if there is no per-use charge for it.
That's because land-line telcos tends towards monopoly no matter where they are, because of the high costs of entry into the market. In America, AT&T was a non-state monopoly for a long time, and service sucked before the U.S. DOJ broke them up.
:P
I remember a American comedian from the '70s (Richard Pryor?) saying something like "If you want to know what communism is like, imagine a world run by the phone company" or something like that
I doubt community wireless would have the same problems, because it won't be the only entry in the market and there's minimal costs to start and operate.
It's expensive and everybody I know has a filter on their kitchen faucets or under their sinks.
Dude... maybe that's 'cause you live in New Jersey?
I love the first line in the article, which ends, "is constructed of such totally off-the-shelf parts as IBM BladeCenter JS20 servers, 64-bit 970FX PowerPC processors, TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers, and Linux 2.6. This is its story."
Right, like I regularly go to Fry's to stock up on some DS4100s and Bladecenters. I'd love to be the geek for whom that stuff is "off-the-shelf". Can you even buy bare PPC CPUs and mobos?
Don't forget our "Drug Czar", which conujres images of the Romanovs snorting coke, or "Secretary of Homeland Security", which sounds like a slender blonde chick in a sexy fascist uniform defending the fatherland wth a Luger.
Heck, both of those would be an imprrovement over the current incarnations...
Except Microsoft has far more money than Sega. Sony won't be able to bury them with "Emotion Engine 65 bazillion polygon" bullshit marketing they way they did with Sega.
Well, a geek can dream, can't he? Maybe if we pray *really* hard...
No, in the really long term I'll be listening to CPL'ed OGG-Vorbis files on my open-source hardware GnuPod running Hurd, so it won't matter.
Then again, your situation might happen first.