Yep! I got off the Metro at the Pentagon stop the other week and there was an official, WMATA-produced sign that said something like "Slugs -->", so the term is now in official use. It had been a few years since I'd been back in town.
PS - Took the Metro bus to work in Arlington for 2 years, talk about a great deal. Agency covered the tab.:)
Did some quick calculations, and running a box fan for 9 hours a night every single night would cost about $22/year to run. That's assuming it pull 60W and $0.11/kWh, which seems about right if it's not on "super-high-blow-you-across-the-room" setting.
Those fancy noisemakers suck, for me anyway. You don't get the "bass" component like you get from a fan, it's all high-frequency nastiness. Plus I like (a little) airflow.
# Programming team went to 2004 and 2005 world finals # American Society of Civil Engineers Steel Bridge Team went to the 2008 National Competition after placing second in the 2008 Great Lakes Regional Competition. # The Formula Hybrid Team, of the Society of Automotive Engineers and IEEE, placed 3rd overall in the 2008 International Formula Hybrid Competition held in Loudon, New Hampshire, and placed placed 6th in 2007.
Tell me at a single company that a fresh out of college $minority engineer is making less than a white male engineer. They're NOT! That is complete BS.
OK, what about 45 year old $minority engineers? Or (shock!) not engineers at all! Not a fields are technical with "hard" employee statistics for evaluations to be based on.
Mandatory community service? Great, let's send a bunch of unmotivated kids to do stupid work. Hell, that kind of shit would have been a nightmare for me at that age when I had massive social anxiety and was extremely uncomfortable in such situations.
Maybe it would have made you a more well-rounded person./shrug
A starfish has a top and bottom, but no left or right. For what it's worth, not even a five-armed starfish has exactly 5-fold symmetry. They are considered radially symmetric, but are thought to have evolved from bilaterally symmetric organisms and have some structures that show this.
Correct. Newborn starfish (maybe brittle stars as well?) have bilateral symmetry and only later turn into the radially symmetric creatures we know and love. So, chances are there is some advantage to the starfish shape, even over bilateral symmetry.
I think the overwhelming idea is that given the way our government runs *anything*, it's impossible to imagine how they would provide health care for all citizens in any efficient manor.
The size of the manor, as well as it's layout, will greatly determine the efficiency of any health care operations occurring within it. It might be hard to find one that fits 300,000,000 people though./snark
PS - The Federal gov did a pretty damn good job with the interstate highway system, for example. Seems to work well...
When others her age were getting a (worthless) high-school diploma, our eldest daughter was getting her first associates degree. She earned her second the next year, and will have a bachelors at the age of 20 -- a half-decade or more ahead of her peers.
Typical American educational experience: HS Diploma: 18 yrs old BA/BS: 22 years old
How does a bachelors at 20 put her 5 or more years ahead of her peers...unless her peers take like 7 years to get through college, in which case she needs some better peers.
Now I'm 24 and a senior systems administrator for a large dedicated server management company... thanks to our country's educational system? I think not.
I'll give you a call in 20 years. When you still have the same job and pay, and have been passed up by other employees with education, you'll see the error.
Wasn't it Goldwater that started the whole "hatemongering lying bastard" style of campaigning? I thought his campaign was practically defined by race-baiting, FUD, etc.
They should have done the right thing the first time, without getting yelled at. They got caught doing something stupid, and had to take their hand back out of the cookie jar. It would have been better if we didn't have to beat them into doing the right thing.
That being said, I do agree that datacenters' heat should be used to heat useful things (office bldgs, like you suggest).
Well, the goal should be to make the datacenter produce as little heat a possible because you want to do things in the most efficient way possible (although that excess heat should be used as you suggest). Sure, I could heat my house using tons of Xbox 360 power supplies in a pile with a furnace fan blowing across them, and if for some reason I had the need to run 100 Xboxes then yes, it becomes a 'benefit', but it is still really really inefficient.
Each piece of equipment should do what it does BEST all of the time. Centralized natural gas-powered heat is much more efficient, so heat with that. Use the inefficiently-produced heat where you can, but be aware that the total cost would be lower if those servers were cooler.
I got one of these in the mail the other day, and I live in IL! Not exactly a swing state...
But yeah, I took one look at the envelope/mailer and threw it in the garbage. Extremists come in every religion/color, and I'm far more frightened of Christian extremists than I am of Muslim extremists.
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Yep! I got off the Metro at the Pentagon stop the other week and there was an official, WMATA-produced sign that said something like "Slugs -->", so the term is now in official use. It had been a few years since I'd been back in town.
PS - Took the Metro bus to work in Arlington for 2 years, talk about a great deal. Agency covered the tab. :)
Did some quick calculations, and running a box fan for 9 hours a night every single night would cost about $22/year to run. That's assuming it pull 60W and $0.11/kWh, which seems about right if it's not on "super-high-blow-you-across-the-room" setting.
Those fancy noisemakers suck, for me anyway. You don't get the "bass" component like you get from a fan, it's all high-frequency nastiness. Plus I like (a little) airflow.
Box fan FTW!
And yes, it's still retarded. Best to pretend that never happened.
Ah yes, the Highlander method. Now also works with Star Wars!
I hate to tell you this, but IIT (as in Illinois Institute of Technology) is a very good engineering school. Belongs to the same Association of Independent Technological Universities, that MIT, Caltech, and Carnegie Mellon do.
# 70% men, 30% women
# 44% out-of-state (all 50 represented)
also
# Programming team went to 2004 and 2005 world finals
# American Society of Civil Engineers Steel Bridge Team went to the 2008 National Competition after placing second in the 2008 Great Lakes Regional Competition.
# The Formula Hybrid Team, of the Society of Automotive Engineers and IEEE, placed 3rd overall in the 2008 International Formula Hybrid Competition held in Loudon, New Hampshire, and placed placed 6th in 2007.
NOT the same as ITT, lol.
Forcing people to do labor with people you're literally afraid of isn't a traditional form of therapy.
Heh, sounds like school, grades 4 through 9. :)
Tell me at a single company that a fresh out of college $minority engineer is making less than a white male engineer. They're NOT! That is complete BS.
OK, what about 45 year old $minority engineers? Or (shock!) not engineers at all! Not a fields are technical with "hard" employee statistics for evaluations to be based on.
such amazingly neutral and unbiased sources! /sigh
Mandatory community service? Great, let's send a bunch of unmotivated kids to do stupid work. Hell, that kind of shit would have been a nightmare for me at that age when I had massive social anxiety and was extremely uncomfortable in such situations.
Maybe it would have made you a more well-rounded person. /shrug
I'm being dead serious: Can you show me some examples of macroscopic animals that aren't symmetric in some way? I'm curious, I've never heard of any.
A starfish has a top and bottom, but no left or right. For what it's worth, not even a five-armed starfish has exactly 5-fold symmetry. They are considered radially symmetric, but are thought to have evolved from bilaterally symmetric organisms and have some structures that show this.
Correct. Newborn starfish (maybe brittle stars as well?) have bilateral symmetry and only later turn into the radially symmetric creatures we know and love. So, chances are there is some advantage to the starfish shape, even over bilateral symmetry.
I think the overwhelming idea is that given the way our government runs *anything*, it's impossible to imagine how they would provide health care for all citizens in any efficient manor.
The size of the manor, as well as it's layout, will greatly determine the efficiency of any health care operations occurring within it. It might be hard to find one that fits 300,000,000 people though. /snark
PS - The Federal gov did a pretty damn good job with the interstate highway system, for example. Seems to work well...
50 years from now, when most major cities are being inundated by seal level rise...
I, for one, welcome our barking, ball-balancing overlords!
When others her age were getting a (worthless) high-school diploma, our eldest daughter was getting her first associates degree. She earned her second the next year, and will have a bachelors at the age of 20 -- a half-decade or more ahead of her peers.
Typical American educational experience:
HS Diploma: 18 yrs old
BA/BS: 22 years old
How does a bachelors at 20 put her 5 or more years ahead of her peers...unless her peers take like 7 years to get through college, in which case she needs some better peers.
Now I'm 24 and a senior systems administrator for a large dedicated server management company... thanks to our country's educational system? I think not.
I'll give you a call in 20 years. When you still have the same job and pay, and have been passed up by other employees with education, you'll see the error.
http://www.zoneminder.com/
'Nuff said
And yes, I'll be voting. You can count on mine being there to cancel out yours in particular.
Thank God you can only vote once...then again, since you're voting for "that" side, who knows how many votes you'll get, especially in OH/FL.
Just take I-55! /kidding
You would still lose the election.
but would he lose his erection?
Only if he's Asian and speaking English.
It's called supporting a healthy society instead of being a selfish asshole.
Try it sometime.
Wasn't it Goldwater that started the whole "hatemongering lying bastard" style of campaigning? I thought his campaign was practically defined by race-baiting, FUD, etc.
My 1984 Toyota Corolla had a carb! A lot newer than a 67 Chevy, and Japanese to boot. :)
They should have done the right thing the first time, without getting yelled at. They got caught doing something stupid, and had to take their hand back out of the cookie jar. It would have been better if we didn't have to beat them into doing the right thing.
That being said, I do agree that datacenters' heat should be used to heat useful things (office bldgs, like you suggest).
Well, the goal should be to make the datacenter produce as little heat a possible because you want to do things in the most efficient way possible (although that excess heat should be used as you suggest). Sure, I could heat my house using tons of Xbox 360 power supplies in a pile with a furnace fan blowing across them, and if for some reason I had the need to run 100 Xboxes then yes, it becomes a 'benefit', but it is still really really inefficient.
Each piece of equipment should do what it does BEST all of the time. Centralized natural gas-powered heat is much more efficient, so heat with that. Use the inefficiently-produced heat where you can, but be aware that the total cost would be lower if those servers were cooler.
I got one of these in the mail the other day, and I live in IL! Not exactly a swing state...
But yeah, I took one look at the envelope/mailer and threw it in the garbage. Extremists come in every religion/color, and I'm far more frightened of Christian extremists than I am of Muslim extremists.