We recently switched to OEL from RedHat, purely for the cost savings. Oracle even provides an 'up2date' package that switches a current RHEL box to OEL, and will give a discount based on current RHEL support licenses.
Considering that I've been at my current company for over 2 1/2 years, and haven't called Redhat or Oracle for Linux support, I'm not too worried about the quality of support.
In fact, like a lot of people, the only real reason we even pay for support is so that management feels good.
OK, that is the dumbest article I've read in a while. Among other things, it claims that the void created by ejaculation is filled by air, and this air somehow travels to the brain, causing thermal shock!
Well, duh. The point is that the overweight people will eat a bunch of junk, and therefore pay a lot of taxes. If you don't eat the junk, you don't pay the tax. I though that was pretty obvious.
It took me a minute to figure out what was wrong with this exchange. Tackling someone is assault--but threatening bodily harm unless someone complies (assuming you're not a cop doing his lawful duty, which Loomis Boy obviously wasn't) is coercion, which is just as illegal as assault.
In either case, Loomis Boy had a gun. In most states, the possession of a gun during a violent crime (like coercion) is a felony.
So a trained Loomis guard (had to have some training, or he wouldn't be licensed to carry) commited a felony in front of a room full of people.
I'm actually having a bit of trouble believing this, especially since our victim, according to his own blog, never once asked anyone (Loomis, REI, or actual police) if they thought he had committed a crime. Would have been the first thing out of my mouth.
But, if it did happen that way, my guess is that the guard, at some level, knew that he f***ed up, and needed to stay on the offensive to keep from getting called for it.
Not to mention that you have no assurances that the mics that *are* supposed to be there as part of the system aren't being used to surreptitiously monitor and record your conversation.
I find my laptop helpful to have around, so I named it after Micheal Dorn's immortal line in "Dinosaurs": "...with the help of my lovely assistant, Ramona!"
So, this flashlight's power source has around 62% (pessimistically) or 82% (optimistically) of the energy of an 18650, but is several times the size.
I think I'll pass on this one.
Sure, it only has (according to your numbers) at most 82% of the charge capacity as an 18650 Li-Ion battery--but it can recharge in 90 seconds, and do that up to 50,000 times. That's something no battery can do. Plus, they shouldn't self-discharge (as that's typically an issue with batteries, not capacitors).
Is this news because most people haven't heard of it, or because NASA is still doing it?
They have been at this for at least 20 years, as I looked into it while in college in Houston. At the time (and I'm sure now) they had studies that lasted anywhere from a weekend to a full year. 30, 60, or 90 day studies were not uncommon.
Just FYI, Dream Haven Books (http://www.dreamhavenbooks.com/) in Minneapolis collaborates with Neil Gaiman, and he occasionally autographs his stuff for the store. I once picked up an autographed first edition hardback of "Good Omens" there. Now if I can just get PTerry to sign it, too...
Actually, we put his genome on a portable 2.5" hard drive. As others have mentioned, there's a lot of annotation as part of his genome. I'm not sure why the DVD reference. I think it got into the press release, and everyone's going off that.
I was in a seminar a couple of days ago with a data center ops manager from HP. He stated that in a 20,000 sf data center, every degree they lower the temperature of the A/C costs them $200/hr!
Another interesting tidbit for comparison: a typical high-density rack puts out something in the neighborhood of 15KW of heat. An average home electric oven puts out about 7-8KW of heat. So each high-density rack is like having two ovens going full blast, 24x7.
I wrote a Perl script a while back to manipulate IPTC keywords: http://mirror.hyperian.net/CPAN/authors/id/P/PA/PA RCHER/ It uses the Image::IPTCInfo module to do the dirty work (http://search.cpan.org/~jcarter/Image-IPTCInfo-1. 94/IPTCInfo.pm)
I think a simpler (and more effective) thing to do would be to print strings of numbers(/letters?) and tape them to the back of your car. Maybe make bumper stickers. They don't have to look enough like license plates to fool an average human (like a cop!), just enough to fool the cameras. The system is going to get confused and not know which number is the right one for the car, and which ones are extra--so it'll either throw them all out, or record them all. Either one is a win.
Mamalian genomes are all about 3.7 billion base pairs. Each base is one of C, A, G, or T, so each pair can be expressed as 2 bits. That's about 7.4 billion bits, or a little less than 1 billion bytes.
Wow! What news! IBM has a laptop with a titanium top. That's going to put Panasonic to shame, especially since they've only had laptops with titanium tops (and bottoms and sides in some cases) for umpteen years.
The point I was trying to make is that people equate Federal law with "more serious" exclusively. Federal law has very limited jurisdiction, and that is the important thing to get. It is very likely that the jurisdictional limits of this law are going to be ignored, resulting in unconstitutional enforcement.
Kindly observe that this is *federal* legislation (and that are some states have enacted laws). That means that what's prosecuted under this is most likely going to be the 'theatre employee runs a showing off-hours explicitly to do a video rip' instances. *Hence* the stiffer penalties.
What does the fact that this is federal legislation have to do with anything?
Federal legislation just means it is in a different jurisdiction, not that it is necessarily stronger (or smarter!).
Hmm...I'm sitting in a theater in a particular state (say, oh, Texas), and I'm not crossing state lines, or doing anything involving interstate traffic--but I am recording the movie I'm watching with a camcorder. So, how would this federal law affect me?
Here's the deal: technically, this is a federal law that should not affect anyone not on federal territory. (In other words, this should only be enforceable on military bases, in Washington D.C., etc). *But* we all know that's not going to happen. I very much hope that someone challenges this on grounds of jurisdiction.
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Considering that I've been at my current company for over 2 1/2 years, and haven't called Redhat or Oracle for Linux support, I'm not too worried about the quality of support.
In fact, like a lot of people, the only real reason we even pay for support is so that management feels good.
OK, that is the dumbest article I've read in a while. Among other things, it claims that the void created by ejaculation is filled by air, and this air somehow travels to the brain, causing thermal shock!
Well, duh. The point is that the overweight people will eat a bunch of junk, and therefore pay a lot of taxes. If you don't eat the junk, you don't pay the tax. I though that was pretty obvious.
What, where, when, who, and, for the love of , why?
In either case, Loomis Boy had a gun. In most states, the possession of a gun during a violent crime (like coercion) is a felony.
So a trained Loomis guard (had to have some training, or he wouldn't be licensed to carry) commited a felony in front of a room full of people. I'm actually having a bit of trouble believing this, especially since our victim, according to his own blog, never once asked anyone (Loomis, REI, or actual police) if they thought he had committed a crime. Would have been the first thing out of my mouth.
But, if it did happen that way, my guess is that the guard, at some level, knew that he f***ed up, and needed to stay on the offensive to keep from getting called for it.
Not to mention that you have no assurances that the mics that *are* supposed to be there as part of the system aren't being used to surreptitiously monitor and record your conversation.
I find my laptop helpful to have around, so I named it after Micheal Dorn's immortal line in "Dinosaurs": "...with the help of my lovely assistant, Ramona!"
So, this flashlight's power source has around 62% (pessimistically) or 82% (optimistically) of the energy of an 18650, but is several times the size.
I think I'll pass on this one.
Sure, it only has (according to your numbers) at most 82% of the charge capacity as an 18650 Li-Ion battery--but it can recharge in 90 seconds, and do that up to 50,000 times. That's something no battery can do. Plus, they shouldn't self-discharge (as that's typically an issue with batteries, not capacitors).
Is this news because most people haven't heard of it, or because NASA is still doing it? They have been at this for at least 20 years, as I looked into it while in college in Houston. At the time (and I'm sure now) they had studies that lasted anywhere from a weekend to a full year. 30, 60, or 90 day studies were not uncommon.
Just FYI, Dream Haven Books (http://www.dreamhavenbooks.com/) in Minneapolis collaborates with Neil Gaiman, and he occasionally autographs his stuff for the store. I once picked up an autographed first edition hardback of "Good Omens" there. Now if I can just get PTerry to sign it, too...
Actually, we put his genome on a portable 2.5" hard drive. As others have mentioned, there's a lot of annotation as part of his genome.
I'm not sure why the DVD reference. I think it got into the press release, and everyone's going off that.
Another interesting tidbit for comparison: a typical high-density rack puts out something in the neighborhood of 15KW of heat. An average home electric oven puts out about 7-8KW of heat. So each high-density rack is like having two ovens going full blast, 24x7.
I wrote a Perl script a while back to manipulate IPTC keywords: http://mirror.hyperian.net/CPAN/authors/id/P/PA/PA RCHER/. 94/IPTCInfo.pm)
It uses the Image::IPTCInfo module to do the dirty work (http://search.cpan.org/~jcarter/Image-IPTCInfo-1
Paul
I think a simpler (and more effective) thing to do would be to print strings of numbers(/letters?) and tape them to the back of your car. Maybe make bumper stickers. They don't have to look enough like license plates to fool an average human (like a cop!), just enough to fool the cameras. The system is going to get confused and not know which number is the right one for the car, and which ones are extra--so it'll either throw them all out, or record them all. Either one is a win.
Mamalian genomes are all about 3.7 billion base pairs. Each base is one of C, A, G, or T, so each pair can be expressed as 2 bits. That's about 7.4 billion bits, or a little less than 1 billion bytes.
Wow! What news! IBM has a laptop with a titanium top. That's going to put Panasonic to shame, especially since they've only had laptops with titanium tops (and bottoms and sides in some cases) for umpteen years.
The point I was trying to make is that people equate Federal law with "more serious" exclusively.
Federal law has very limited jurisdiction, and that is the important thing to get. It is very likely that the jurisdictional limits of this law are going to be ignored, resulting in unconstitutional enforcement.
Hmm...I'm sitting in a theater in a particular state (say, oh, Texas), and I'm not crossing state lines, or doing anything involving interstate traffic--but I am recording the movie I'm watching with a camcorder.
So, how would this federal law affect me?
Here's the deal: technically, this is a federal law that should not affect anyone not on federal territory. (In other words, this should only be enforceable on military bases, in Washington D.C., etc). *But* we all know that's not going to happen. I very much hope that someone challenges this on grounds of jurisdiction.