No, nor does it count the new engine my old Chevy van needed after 110K miles:-) Nor does it count the ridiculously overpriced headlights for my Chrysler that it needed because the lenses aren't separately replaceable, nor the paint job it's going to need because the shiny black paint isn't very sturdy and wears off. Nor whatever surprises Kia has in mind for me. Obviously repairs and quality issues are going to affect lots of things.
California's gas prices are always a bit higher because we have about 50 cents more tax per gallon than most states - but it mostly goes to road maintenance, and otherwise it would just be built into the income tax or sales tax (which are also very high, but that's a separate problem.)
The other issue is that California requires somewhat special mixes of gasoline to reduce pollution, and that means there's less flexible supply chasing our demand, so we're likely to have higher prices and higher variability than states that let you burn anything. It's arguable how much of that is necessary - we could probably have more flexible definitions of low-pollution gas that would still keep our air clean, especially since car engines are more efficient and cleaner today than 10 or 20 years ago. (With my old telecommuter-friendly car, I also noticed that I consistently got about 10% worse mileage with winter gas than summer gas, though I'm not sure if my current car is as sensitive.)
By the way, if you're buying a new car, expect to spend about $1M / YourMPG on gas over the lifetime of the car. It'll last about 200K-250K miles, and gas will cost $4-5 much of that time, so you'll end up spending $20K if you buy a 50mpg Prius, or $50K if you buy a 20mpg car. (Your miles per year don't affect the total, just the variance - you can burn up your car in 5 years or keep it around for 20, you're still buying the same amount of gas before it dies. If you sell the car while it's still working, obviously the gas cost gets pro-rated.) I figure my current 30-33mpg car will cost me about $30-33K in gas, so $10-13K more than a Prius (which would have cost about $8K more to buy.)
Probably was NPR, but it might have been traffic radio\\\ CBS. Of course, it might have been motivated by the NYT story, or it might be an effect of Cook taking over the business from Steve.
It would make more sense for ISPs to be providing NTP service, since the shortest routes have to go through their peering points or other gateways anyway. Has the NTP Pool been trying to bring them in?
And she's saying that in the UK - surely she's not expecting the Occupiers to drink traditional English coffee, is she? Starbucks may not be as politically or culinarily correct as Local Hipster Organic Coffee Roasterz(tm), but it's probably succeeding in the UK for the same reason it succeeded in the US Midwest and Southeast, which is that it's radically improving the quality of the coffee, as well as providing wifi and a social environment. (Besides, apparently the real story was that the Occupiers were mostly in line to use the bathrooms, and nobody minds exploiting big corporations' bathrooms.)
Christine "Not a Witch" O'Donnell is a US politician who's female, relatively young, and relatively attractive. And while she's not likely to be releasing any new web apps, because she's crazy and an idiot, chances are that Mensch didn't write her own either.
But if you're puzzled that a young woman would be releasing web apps, or that a young woman would be a politician, there's a reason you're still single and living in your parents' basement. (If you're puzzled that somebody who's bright enough to release web apps is also a politician, I won't harass you for saying that.)
As far as women being politicians goes, when I was helping my mother work on political campaigns back in the early 70s, she did complain that the way the political system was set up, women did most of the work organizing and running campaigns, while the men got to be the candidates. The world has changed somewhat since then, and US politics isn't quite as sexist as it used to be, but it hasn't reached equality or common sense yet.
This is supposed to be a Twitter competitor, not a Facebook competitor.
However, in both cases, what makes the dominant service interesting is the user base. Unless Menshn convinces people that it's an interesting place to hang around, nobody's going to hang around there, and therefore it won't be interesting.
And saying it's a "rival" suggests that not only does Menshn think that it's competing with Twitter, but also that Twitter thinks that Menshn is competing with it, which is a bit, ummm, premature.
Maybe they did (in Soviet Russia, phone wiretapper calls you!), but my friend was actually working there, and said it happened to him, and he wasn't telling it like a joke. And as far as third-world telecom attitudes toward competition go, I'm in the business, I've dealt with some of those places before the liberalization of the late 90s, and there are lots of other places in ex-colonial Africa that haven't gotten better either.
Hadn't even thought of moving racks - here in California, they're usually bolted to the floor and often also braced at the top, for earthquake reasons, as well as for "not falling over when you slide servers in and out" reasons. Forgot that not everybody does that (and also, only most of the equipment in my lab racks is actually screwed into the rack - some things are on shelves and will slide around, especially smaller-than-1U devices, power bricks, etc.
But no, moving whole racks is likely to be a really bad idea.
If you've got labeling stuff around, use it (not fancy label makers, just the basic "Hello My Name Is" and a Sharpie.)
Grab the servers, grab the workstation bodies, grab the phones and anything else that's easily portable, and any backup media you've got. Unfortunately, rack-mounted equipment is usually harder to grab, but that's probably your most expensive and critical stuff. And it'll be your critical path, so start unbolting it first. All of that will fit, put it in first, braced as well as you can.
Monitors and keyboards are nice, but they're just money, not data. Grab a few of them, but leave the rest for last. If you have packing material left, great, but if not you'll just have some breakage. If you've got any CRTs, leave them, they're heavy.
The reason for hybrid drives is that operating systems didn't know how to take advantage of flash memory as an intermediate speed stable storage, compared to low-speed disks or fast volatile RAM. But they're starting to know how to do that, using techniques such as Windows ReadyBoost, or using the flash for paging, or putting commonly used files on the flash, or whatever. So there's a market window we're getting toward the end of.
Laptops don't always have room for a second disk-shaped drive, but that doesn't mean they don't have room for a flash memory device. Many laptops have slots for flash memory cards (typically SD or compact flash), and these days you can get USB memory sticks that aren't significantly bigger than the USB plug itself, so you can leave them in full-time. They're also starting to make PCI Express format flash drives.
I'm using 32-bit Win7, not 64-bit. (Ask my work IT department why; it's not my choice.) I've got 4GB of RAM. It won't let me set more than 4GB of swap space, even if I use multiple partitions. It's really annoying.
And as far as the person who asked about Firefox memory goes, I've usually got 50-100 tabs open, with usually about 1GB of Firefox and 1/4-1/3 as much plugin-container, which works just fine 90% of the time, though it occasionally wants to spin disks for a while, or crash.
The big benefit from this isn't so much the extra speed when everything's working, it's getting a geographical diversity path across the harbor that's a lot shorter than whatever backup path they're using today. Also, the benefit isn't so much to trading speed (because Australia's too small a market and too far away from civilization (:-) for microsecond differences in trading speed to matter), but to what kind of technology you can use over the cables. The extra half-millisecond might make a lot of difference to a Storage Area Network or give them more ability to distribute computers around the harbor, and it might also make a difference that the backup path is a lot shorter.
I think if you want to run a TLD, the public should be allowed to know who you are. And since it costs $180K to apply, you're probably a corporation, so the public should be allowed to know who you are. And if you're a rich individual trying to buy a TLD, you're probably using your office address, not your home anyway.
In my reasonably well-off suburban school in Delaware in the 60s/70s, our dessert was also usually Jello, or sometimes Jello pudding. Rarely canned fruit. (Too wet for deserts, though.)
The papers reported that in response to her blogging, the schools started allowing the kids to have as much salad and vegetables as they wanted (like kids are really into overcooked vegetables), so the food was improving a bit. But they really really didn't like to do that.
A friend of mine was doing development work in Ethiopia and Somaliland back in the 90s. He's Dutch, and his wife's Somali, and he often worked from Addis Ababa, the capital. At one point he was having a phone call, and the phone operator came on and told him to stop speaking Dutch - speak English, Italian, Arabic, Amharic, or one of the other local languages the police could understand. We talked about whether he should use PGP, but he decided it would just give the police more of an excuse to "confiscate" his PCs, which they'd been wanting to steal anyway.
Gak, ignore half of that, I was low on caffeine, of course it was Levi who was Jacob's son (and there are some genetic studies there), the Kohans are descended from Aaron, mostly, who was of course several generations later.
Yup. A friend of mine started an "International Zionist Conspiracy" with a friend back when he was in high school, just so that when people blamed the "International Zionist Conspiracy" for things, he could say "No, that wasn't us, sorry."
Huh? Of course they do. If you went back in time and shot one of my great**50th grandfathers, I wouldn't be here. (Somebody else might or might not, but her or she wouldn't be me.) And I'm descended from one of the people in Northern Europe who got the lactose-digesting mutation about 5000 years ago, so I can drink milk as an adult, which is kind of nice, and some ape who decided to try walking in the grass instead of swinging in the trees (which is of somewhat debatable usefulness), and that mitochondrion who hitchhiked on a eukaryote a billion or so years ago, making it easier for both of them to use oxygen.l
Depending on whose calculations you like, Jacob's birthdate was probably about 1650 BCE, and there are number of Y-chromosomal genetic studies of descendents of his son Cohen (Most of whom have names that are variant spellings, like Cohan, Kohan, Garfinkel, etc.) There's a good Wikipedia article on Jewish genetics.
But no, genetic mixing isn't that as thorough and widespread as you'd think. People tend to marry people from the same culture, who speak the same languages, non-nomadic people tend to marry within their own village, nomadic people within their own tribe. Very few non-Jewish non-Arabs have Jacob as an ancestor (or at least have Rachel or Leah as ancestors - polygamy stuck around for another 1500-2000 years in that area.)
Some connections are easier to trace (paternal lines through Y-chromosome, maternal through mitochondria), though of course you don't get any information from your father's mother's mitochondria or your mother's father's Y-chromosome, so you're mostly limited to statistical analysis from other traits unless there are distinct mutations available to work with.
It does look like we're all descendants of "Mitochondrial Eve" about 200,000 years ago, and "Y-Chromosomal Adam" about 140,000 years ago, though of course there were lots of other humanish men and women around back then - they're just the ones whose easily traceable genes stuck around
If you're lumping black Africans all into one cluster, you've missed both Hatta's point and the point of that Wordpress article. Those "two principal components" aren't some fundamentally significant choice of axes, they're components that let you get a visually distinct separation between groups that you've already clustered. So that picture was useful in showing differences between Africans, Europeans, Asians, Australians, and Native Americans. But if you were to split the Africans into 10 or 20 clusters, you'd see a lot more variation between those clusters than between the Europeans and the nearest African groups. For instance, compare the Kalahari Bushmen with the Eastern and Western Pygmy groups in the Congo, the Zulus, the Mau-Mau and other Kenyans, the Bantu groups, the Berbers in Morocco, the Tuareg, etc.
Or for more precision, look at the Wikipedia pages for the L0 mitochondria haplogroup vs. L1, L3, L6, etc. and this picture. Non-African humans are all part of subgroups L3M and L3N, people who left Africa for Arabia a while back. (L3N is mostly in Europe, L3M mostly in Asia.) The Y-chromosome data isn't as well-sampled, but Wikipedia's Y-Chromosomal Adam page also suggests that most of the diversity's in Africa.
And yes, there's also evidence of Neandertal in European genetics and Denisovans in Melanesia, though not in the Y chromosomes or mitochondria, and some other hominids in Sub-Saharan African genetics as well.
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No, nor does it count the new engine my old Chevy van needed after 110K miles :-) Nor does it count the ridiculously overpriced headlights for my Chrysler that it needed because the lenses aren't separately replaceable, nor the paint job it's going to need because the shiny black paint isn't very sturdy and wears off. Nor whatever surprises Kia has in mind for me. Obviously repairs and quality issues are going to affect lots of things.
California's gas prices are always a bit higher because we have about 50 cents more tax per gallon than most states - but it mostly goes to road maintenance, and otherwise it would just be built into the income tax or sales tax (which are also very high, but that's a separate problem.)
The other issue is that California requires somewhat special mixes of gasoline to reduce pollution, and that means there's less flexible supply chasing our demand, so we're likely to have higher prices and higher variability than states that let you burn anything. It's arguable how much of that is necessary - we could probably have more flexible definitions of low-pollution gas that would still keep our air clean, especially since car engines are more efficient and cleaner today than 10 or 20 years ago. (With my old telecommuter-friendly car, I also noticed that I consistently got about 10% worse mileage with winter gas than summer gas, though I'm not sure if my current car is as sensitive.)
By the way, if you're buying a new car, expect to spend about $1M / YourMPG on gas over the lifetime of the car. It'll last about 200K-250K miles, and gas will cost $4-5 much of that time, so you'll end up spending $20K if you buy a 50mpg Prius, or $50K if you buy a 20mpg car. (Your miles per year don't affect the total, just the variance - you can burn up your car in 5 years or keep it around for 20, you're still buying the same amount of gas before it dies. If you sell the car while it's still working, obviously the gas cost gets pro-rated.) I figure my current 30-33mpg car will cost me about $30-33K in gas, so $10-13K more than a Prius (which would have cost about $8K more to buy.)
Probably was NPR, but it might have been traffic radio\\\ CBS. Of course, it might have been motivated by the NYT story, or it might be an effect of Cook taking over the business from Steve.
Of course, gasoline prices weren't at all affected by the US starting wars in oil-producing countries...
It would make more sense for ISPs to be providing NTP service, since the shortest routes have to go through their peering points or other gateways anyway. Has the NTP Pool been trying to bring them in?
And she's saying that in the UK - surely she's not expecting the Occupiers to drink traditional English coffee, is she? Starbucks may not be as politically or culinarily correct as Local Hipster Organic Coffee Roasterz(tm), but it's probably succeeding in the UK for the same reason it succeeded in the US Midwest and Southeast, which is that it's radically improving the quality of the coffee, as well as providing wifi and a social environment. (Besides, apparently the real story was that the Occupiers were mostly in line to use the bathrooms, and nobody minds exploiting big corporations' bathrooms.)
Christine "Not a Witch" O'Donnell is a US politician who's female, relatively young, and relatively attractive. And while she's not likely to be releasing any new web apps, because she's crazy and an idiot, chances are that Mensch didn't write her own either.
But if you're puzzled that a young woman would be releasing web apps, or that a young woman would be a politician, there's a reason you're still single and living in your parents' basement. (If you're puzzled that somebody who's bright enough to release web apps is also a politician, I won't harass you for saying that.)
As far as women being politicians goes, when I was helping my mother work on political campaigns back in the early 70s, she did complain that the way the political system was set up, women did most of the work organizing and running campaigns, while the men got to be the candidates. The world has changed somewhat since then, and US politics isn't quite as sexist as it used to be, but it hasn't reached equality or common sense yet.
This is supposed to be a Twitter competitor, not a Facebook competitor.
However, in both cases, what makes the dominant service interesting is the user base. Unless Menshn convinces people that it's an interesting place to hang around, nobody's going to hang around there, and therefore it won't be interesting.
And saying it's a "rival" suggests that not only does Menshn think that it's competing with Twitter, but also that Twitter thinks that Menshn is competing with it, which is a bit, ummm, premature.
Maybe they did (in Soviet Russia, phone wiretapper calls you!), but my friend was actually working there, and said it happened to him, and he wasn't telling it like a joke. And as far as third-world telecom attitudes toward competition go, I'm in the business, I've dealt with some of those places before the liberalization of the late 90s, and there are lots of other places in ex-colonial Africa that haven't gotten better either.
Hadn't even thought of moving racks - here in California, they're usually bolted to the floor and often also braced at the top, for earthquake reasons, as well as for "not falling over when you slide servers in and out" reasons. Forgot that not everybody does that (and also, only most of the equipment in my lab racks is actually screwed into the rack - some things are on shelves and will slide around, especially smaller-than-1U devices, power bricks, etc.
But no, moving whole racks is likely to be a really bad idea.
Log off Slashdot before reading this :-)
If you've got labeling stuff around, use it (not fancy label makers, just the basic "Hello My Name Is" and a Sharpie.)
Grab the servers, grab the workstation bodies, grab the phones and anything else that's easily portable, and any backup media you've got. Unfortunately, rack-mounted equipment is usually harder to grab, but that's probably your most expensive and critical stuff. And it'll be your critical path, so start unbolting it first. All of that will fit, put it in first, braced as well as you can.
Monitors and keyboards are nice, but they're just money, not data. Grab a few of them, but leave the rest for last. If you have packing material left, great, but if not you'll just have some breakage. If you've got any CRTs, leave them, they're heavy.
You're free to build an Arduino-powered laser weapon if you'd like, but you'll have a tough time damaging targets larger than mosquitoes :-)
The reason for hybrid drives is that operating systems didn't know how to take advantage of flash memory as an intermediate speed stable storage, compared to low-speed disks or fast volatile RAM. But they're starting to know how to do that, using techniques such as Windows ReadyBoost, or using the flash for paging, or putting commonly used files on the flash, or whatever. So there's a market window we're getting toward the end of.
Laptops don't always have room for a second disk-shaped drive, but that doesn't mean they don't have room for a flash memory device. Many laptops have slots for flash memory cards (typically SD or compact flash), and these days you can get USB memory sticks that aren't significantly bigger than the USB plug itself, so you can leave them in full-time. They're also starting to make PCI Express format flash drives.
I'm using 32-bit Win7, not 64-bit. (Ask my work IT department why; it's not my choice.) I've got 4GB of RAM. It won't let me set more than 4GB of swap space, even if I use multiple partitions. It's really annoying.
And as far as the person who asked about Firefox memory goes, I've usually got 50-100 tabs open, with usually about 1GB of Firefox and 1/4-1/3 as much plugin-container, which works just fine 90% of the time, though it occasionally wants to spin disks for a while, or crash.
The big benefit from this isn't so much the extra speed when everything's working, it's getting a geographical diversity path across the harbor that's a lot shorter than whatever backup path they're using today. Also, the benefit isn't so much to trading speed (because Australia's too small a market and too far away from civilization (:-) for microsecond differences in trading speed to matter), but to what kind of technology you can use over the cables. The extra half-millisecond might make a lot of difference to a Storage Area Network or give them more ability to distribute computers around the harbor, and it might also make a difference that the backup path is a lot shorter.
With the new TLD system, you'll be able to get bureaucracy.icannhazcheeseburger, or at least icannhazcheezeburger.lol.
I think if you want to run a TLD, the public should be allowed to know who you are. And since it costs $180K to apply, you're probably a corporation, so the public should be allowed to know who you are. And if you're a rich individual trying to buy a TLD, you're probably using your office address, not your home anyway.
In my reasonably well-off suburban school in Delaware in the 60s/70s, our dessert was also usually Jello, or sometimes Jello pudding. Rarely canned fruit. (Too wet for deserts, though.)
The papers reported that in response to her blogging, the schools started allowing the kids to have as much salad and vegetables as they wanted (like kids are really into overcooked vegetables), so the food was improving a bit. But they really really didn't like to do that.
A friend of mine was doing development work in Ethiopia and Somaliland back in the 90s. He's Dutch, and his wife's Somali, and he often worked from Addis Ababa, the capital. At one point he was having a phone call, and the phone operator came on and told him to stop speaking Dutch - speak English, Italian, Arabic, Amharic, or one of the other local languages the police could understand. We talked about whether he should use PGP, but he decided it would just give the police more of an excuse to "confiscate" his PCs, which they'd been wanting to steal anyway.
Gak, ignore half of that, I was low on caffeine, of course it was Levi who was Jacob's son (and there are some genetic studies there), the Kohans are descended from Aaron, mostly, who was of course several generations later.
Yup. A friend of mine started an "International Zionist Conspiracy" with a friend back when he was in high school, just so that when people blamed the "International Zionist Conspiracy" for things, he could say "No, that wasn't us, sorry."
Huh? Of course they do. If you went back in time and shot one of my great**50th grandfathers, I wouldn't be here. (Somebody else might or might not, but her or she wouldn't be me.) And I'm descended from one of the people in Northern Europe who got the lactose-digesting mutation about 5000 years ago, so I can drink milk as an adult, which is kind of nice, and some ape who decided to try walking in the grass instead of swinging in the trees (which is of somewhat debatable usefulness), and that mitochondrion who hitchhiked on a eukaryote a billion or so years ago, making it easier for both of them to use oxygen.l
Depending on whose calculations you like, Jacob's birthdate was probably about 1650 BCE, and there are number of Y-chromosomal genetic studies of descendents of his son Cohen (Most of whom have names that are variant spellings, like Cohan, Kohan, Garfinkel, etc.) There's a good Wikipedia article on Jewish genetics.
But no, genetic mixing isn't that as thorough and widespread as you'd think. People tend to marry people from the same culture, who speak the same languages, non-nomadic people tend to marry within their own village, nomadic people within their own tribe. Very few non-Jewish non-Arabs have Jacob as an ancestor (or at least have Rachel or Leah as ancestors - polygamy stuck around for another 1500-2000 years in that area.)
Some connections are easier to trace (paternal lines through Y-chromosome, maternal through mitochondria), though of course you don't get any information from your father's mother's mitochondria or your mother's father's Y-chromosome, so you're mostly limited to statistical analysis from other traits unless there are distinct mutations available to work with.
It does look like we're all descendants of "Mitochondrial Eve" about 200,000 years ago, and "Y-Chromosomal Adam" about 140,000 years ago, though of course there were lots of other humanish men and women around back then - they're just the ones whose easily traceable genes stuck around
If you're lumping black Africans all into one cluster, you've missed both Hatta's point and the point of that Wordpress article. Those "two principal components" aren't some fundamentally significant choice of axes, they're components that let you get a visually distinct separation between groups that you've already clustered. So that picture was useful in showing differences between Africans, Europeans, Asians, Australians, and Native Americans. But if you were to split the Africans into 10 or 20 clusters, you'd see a lot more variation between those clusters than between the Europeans and the nearest African groups. For instance, compare the Kalahari Bushmen with the Eastern and Western Pygmy groups in the Congo, the Zulus, the Mau-Mau and other Kenyans, the Bantu groups, the Berbers in Morocco, the Tuareg, etc.
Or for more precision, look at the Wikipedia pages for the L0 mitochondria haplogroup vs. L1, L3, L6, etc. and this picture. Non-African humans are all part of subgroups L3M and L3N, people who left Africa for Arabia a while back. (L3N is mostly in Europe, L3M mostly in Asia.) The Y-chromosome data isn't as well-sampled, but Wikipedia's Y-Chromosomal Adam page also suggests that most of the diversity's in Africa.
And yes, there's also evidence of Neandertal in European genetics and Denisovans in Melanesia, though not in the Y chromosomes or mitochondria, and some other hominids in Sub-Saharan African genetics as well.