I was having dinner with an IT guy from Skywest Airlines the other night and he told me in the last big power outage in St. George, Utah where they're based (and I live) their battery backups ran out quickly and there was a hardware problem between their generators and their IT department.
The end result is that all of their servers and network equipment went out for hours, and they had to cancel a whole lot of flights costing the company well over $1,000,000.
You can buy a lot of crappy gas generators at the Lowes across the street for $1M. I think I would have sent two guys there and two guys to the gas station to keep the essentials online.
There is a lot to be said for redundancy. Redundancy is very important. You can't talk about redundancy enough. Seriously, it's better to be twice as redundant than only half as redundant. And three times as redundant is even better than twice!
1. "browsers" refers to software. Incorrect, as you pointed out.
2. "browsers" refers to the people using the software to browse. Valid, and accurate. Alexa isn't supported for most users (could be and sometimes are called "browsers") in the world.
Actually it makes perfect sense if that is when Alexa added support for Firefox, both of which are heavily used on Slashdot and Digg...
As for Digg taking over Slashdot... well, maybe there are less punks on Digg. That would make me switch. Other than the punk factor, it must just be viral marketing.
First, Shock and Awe didn't cause mass destruction? That's what the brochure advertised. Thus the name.
Second, in my opinion (which doesn't matter to you but does to me), DU is a WMD.
As for the babies, watch the movie. I don't care enough about convincing someone on slashdot to go in search of the sources when I was convinced by the movie. I have no need to search further. If you are interested, watch the movie then look into it yourself. If not, have a nice day.
Depleted != safe. Particularly when in.1 micron particles that are blowing around in a dry desert, and inhaled by everyone. "clothing is typically sufficient to protect an individual from beta rays", but that isn't going to help when many, many particles are inside you, trapped in your lungs.
No one should spend the money on a big monitor (or better yet in my opinion, multiple monitors) JUST for dragging and dropping files.
But there are multiple studies from independent groups saying you will get ~30% productivity gains by using multiple monitors.
In my experience, as a programmer and web designer, anyone doing this full time is nothing short of retarded if they don't use multiple monitors.
I hate taking my laptop somewhere else and working with just one, and can't wait to hook back up and work with two. I wish I were still on a desktop so I could work with three.
If you work on computers full time and only have one monitor for financial reasons, you're stepping over dollars to get to dimes. Period.
In Iraq ~everything~ is radioactive, and will be pretty much forever thanks to our depleted uranium weapons that are everywhere.
And our soldiers aren't even protected, because their gas masks (which they aren't wearing) only filter to 1 micron, and the DU particles go below.1 micron (nano-particles).
And the amount of babies born deformed in Iraq is off the charts. Now they don't ask "Is it a boy or a girl?" they ask "Is it normal?". We joke about "Ten fingers and ten toes", when they just want one complete head, and only one.
Thanks Bush v1 and Bush v2. See Beyond Treason for more details, or search on the net. The evidence is overwhelming and staggering.
Ironically, the only ones that have used WMD's in Iraq since the gulf war is the United States.
I use dual displays on my laptop, and it really helps to have 2 or more Windows Explorer instances open, so you can drag directly from one to the other.
Copy and pasting is used much more, and multiple screens definitely makes a huge difference, but dragging and dropping is at least valid. In reality, I cut and paste to move a file, not drag and drop. But this is on a Mac, mind you.
Part of the problem is that it ~was~ 30 months ago.
The burden of proof is on me to prove that I don't owe them the money.
I think it's bad mojo to charge me 2 and a half years later even if I ~did~ owe them the money then. But getting emailed a receipt 2 weeks ago is the first I've heard of it.
There is no way I can prove it, and I don't have the time to anyway.
The most I can or will spend on it is 5 minutes here or 5 minutes there tarnishing their name in cyberspace.
I had an account with hosting company ServerPronto.com, cancelled in early 2004.
Just a few weeks ago the fraudulent suckers billed another $70 onto my credit card! I haven't done business with them in over 30 months!
I told them it was fraudulent and that I'd fight it, and they replied "We have already notified our merchant bank of these issues" and that they would not refund the money.
Pre-emptive attack, nice.
So far they have my money and I only have the satisfaction of complaining on Slashdot...
I do not recommend their crappy service or practices to anyone.
I don't care about your opinion enough to take time out of my day to correct you, but it is the opinion of many very credible scientists that the best current growing areas in the United States will be among the hardest areas hit by a continued warming trend.
Can I say that it's fact? No. But it is the opinion of some very informed people, and definitely isn't FUD.
This, however, is most certainly FUD, and wishful thinking: Areas like Siberia and central Canada might warm up enough to be grainbelts.
The easter bunny might start bringing regular deliveries of crops, too. Who knows.
More CO2 means more drought, which means less crops. One of the greatest impacts we could see from global warming, aside from more severe weather, is a worldwide food shortage.
Add to that the fact the battery would be cheaper to manufacture, and not contain hazardous materials.
Current batteries are attrocious for the environment and efficiency. A battery takes approximately 2,000 times more energy to manufacture and charge than you get back out of them...
You'll know the energy density of ultracapacitors has ripened when there is a real market for AA, AAA, C, and D ultracapacitors that are drop-in replacements for normal batteries and offer the same duration.
The benefit of ultracapacitors is that you can recharge them VERY fast. For instance, charging several AAA batteries could take as little as a few seconds, and can be done 500,000+ times with no affect on the battery (no memory, no decrease in power, etc).
Personally I can't wait, but we aren't there yet. MIT is making good progress using carbon nano-tubes, however.
Actually, one of the problems with GM crops IS that they can't breed, and they are taking over the world at an alarming rate. Informed nations have banned GM crops because they push out the natural crop, both naturally and with help of farmers.
What we are creating is a mono-culture for crops, which will bring along with it all of the problems of a Microsoft mono-culture, only it's our tabletops instead of our desktops.
So what happens in a few years when 90% of the worlds food supply will be Monsanto GM crops and there is a problem in the supply chain or an unforseen mutation.
Ever hear of the potato blight? One occured in the 1940's in Ireland and killed well over a million people, with another 1.5 million permanantly leaving the country to avoid starvation. The Irish had only 4 varieties of potato, 3 were affected by blight. Peru (IIRC) on the other hand also had a potato blight that was much worse, affecting a dozen or so of it's 80 varieties, but they had no food shortage.
Probably one of the single worst things for the world would at large would be a food mono-culture, and it's happing right now, really fast, by design.
So the problems with GM crops, and the conspiracy behind them (a conspiracy by several of it's definitions), is political, technical, large scale, and emminent.
GM food is entirely evil, not for any of the qualities of the food, but for the legal and political sham taking place around them.
Enter Monsanto. They make GM canola, among other things, as well as having patented over 12,000 varieties of seed, most unmodified and taken directly from the goverments own seed stores.
A little bit of their GM seed blew off of trucks and onto the fields of a farmer in Canada. Monsanto found traces of GM plants on the farmers land (without his knowledge or permission, which in the U.S. we call trespassing), sued the farmer, and cost him his life savings, and he had to destroy all of his seed. He was a real farmer who rotated his fields with a variety of seeds to maintain the soil. He lost literally generations worth of seed, a devestating loss.
Much of the upper echelons of the U.S. government, particularly the FDA, are former executives of Monsanto or it's subsidiaries. The goal is nothing short of utter and total control of the worlds food supply.
Watch the documentary The Future of Food. It'll put a bad taste in your mouth.
Let me rephrase that, VIM doesn't cut it for me for what I do, at least when compared to Dreamweaver.
Could I do what I do in VIM? Certainly, but it is just a lot quicker and easier in Dreamweaver. Handcoding may produce slightly better code (personally I disagree, I see lots of stupid mistakes in the source of most handcoded stuff I see), but good enough pays the bills just fine.
Jeff Paul puts it this way: "Good enough is good enough."
While Dan Kennedy puts it this way: "It is better to be prolific than perfect."
I'm way to busy to hand code, so Dreamweaver is the logical choice.
I use VI all the time (daily), just not for layout and design.
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I was having dinner with an IT guy from Skywest Airlines the other night and he told me in the last big power outage in St. George, Utah where they're based (and I live) their battery backups ran out quickly and there was a hardware problem between their generators and their IT department.
The end result is that all of their servers and network equipment went out for hours, and they had to cancel a whole lot of flights costing the company well over $1,000,000.
You can buy a lot of crappy gas generators at the Lowes across the street for $1M. I think I would have sent two guys there and two guys to the gas station to keep the essentials online.
There is a lot to be said for redundancy. Redundancy is very important. You can't talk about redundancy enough. Seriously, it's better to be twice as redundant than only half as redundant. And three times as redundant is even better than twice!
Easy, just buy 400 5kw generators instead of 1 2000kw generator.
You may have to hire more people to start them, though. And change the oil.
I must admit I don't have an account at Digg and have never read through the comments. I read the headlines and go straight to the stories.
I have work to do, and 2 slashdot-like distractions would put me out of business!
Their statement can be taken two ways:
1. "browsers" refers to software. Incorrect, as you pointed out.
2. "browsers" refers to the people using the software to browse. Valid, and accurate. Alexa isn't supported for most users (could be and sometimes are called "browsers") in the world.
Actually it makes perfect sense if that is when Alexa added support for Firefox, both of which are heavily used on Slashdot and Digg...
As for Digg taking over Slashdot... well, maybe there are less punks on Digg. That would make me switch. Other than the punk factor, it must just be viral marketing.
First, Shock and Awe didn't cause mass destruction? That's what the brochure advertised. Thus the name.
Second, in my opinion (which doesn't matter to you but does to me), DU is a WMD.
As for the babies, watch the movie. I don't care enough about convincing someone on slashdot to go in search of the sources when I was convinced by the movie. I have no need to search further. If you are interested, watch the movie then look into it yourself. If not, have a nice day.
"Depleted Uranium is 40% less radioactive than natural uranium"....
.1 micron particles that are blowing around in a dry desert, and inhaled by everyone. "clothing is typically sufficient to protect an individual from beta rays", but that isn't going to help when many, many particles are inside you, trapped in your lungs.
Depleted != non-radioactive.
Depleted != safe. Particularly when in
No one should spend the money on a big monitor (or better yet in my opinion, multiple monitors) JUST for dragging and dropping files.
But there are multiple studies from independent groups saying you will get ~30% productivity gains by using multiple monitors.
In my experience, as a programmer and web designer, anyone doing this full time is nothing short of retarded if they don't use multiple monitors.
I hate taking my laptop somewhere else and working with just one, and can't wait to hook back up and work with two. I wish I were still on a desktop so I could work with three.
If you work on computers full time and only have one monitor for financial reasons, you're stepping over dollars to get to dimes. Period.
In Iraq ~everything~ is radioactive, and will be pretty much forever thanks to our depleted uranium weapons that are everywhere.
.1 micron (nano-particles).
And our soldiers aren't even protected, because their gas masks (which they aren't wearing) only filter to 1 micron, and the DU particles go below
And the amount of babies born deformed in Iraq is off the charts. Now they don't ask "Is it a boy or a girl?" they ask "Is it normal?". We joke about "Ten fingers and ten toes", when they just want one complete head, and only one.
Thanks Bush v1 and Bush v2. See Beyond Treason for more details, or search on the net. The evidence is overwhelming and staggering.
Ironically, the only ones that have used WMD's in Iraq since the gulf war is the United States.
I use dual displays on my laptop, and it really helps to have 2 or more Windows Explorer instances open, so you can drag directly from one to the other.
Copy and pasting is used much more, and multiple screens definitely makes a huge difference, but dragging and dropping is at least valid. In reality, I cut and paste to move a file, not drag and drop. But this is on a Mac, mind you.
Well, Americans do consume 25% of the worlds energy, while having only 5% of the population.
Both the buyer and the seller share equally in the burden of blame, in my mind.
But if Americans ever want to enjoy security again, we have to break our addiction to foreign oil. Which, unfortunately, won't be anytime soon.
Exactly, and how hard is it for them to provide that?
And once they do, which they will, then it IS my burden to prove otherwise, 30 months later.
Part of the problem is that it ~was~ 30 months ago.
The burden of proof is on me to prove that I don't owe them the money.
I think it's bad mojo to charge me 2 and a half years later even if I ~did~ owe them the money then. But getting emailed a receipt 2 weeks ago is the first I've heard of it.
There is no way I can prove it, and I don't have the time to anyway.
The most I can or will spend on it is 5 minutes here or 5 minutes there tarnishing their name in cyberspace.
My 5 minutes are up...
I had an account with hosting company ServerPronto.com, cancelled in early 2004.
Just a few weeks ago the fraudulent suckers billed another $70 onto my credit card! I haven't done business with them in over 30 months!
I told them it was fraudulent and that I'd fight it, and they replied "We have already notified our merchant bank of these issues" and that they would not refund the money.
Pre-emptive attack, nice.
So far they have my money and I only have the satisfaction of complaining on Slashdot...
I do not recommend their crappy service or practices to anyone.
I don't care about your opinion enough to take time out of my day to correct you, but it is the opinion of many very credible scientists that the best current growing areas in the United States will be among the hardest areas hit by a continued warming trend.
Can I say that it's fact? No. But it is the opinion of some very informed people, and definitely isn't FUD.
This, however, is most certainly FUD, and wishful thinking:
Areas like Siberia and central Canada might warm up enough to be grainbelts.
The easter bunny might start bringing regular deliveries of crops, too. Who knows.
Wrong!
More CO2 means more drought, which means less crops. One of the greatest impacts we could see from global warming, aside from more severe weather, is a worldwide food shortage.
Add to that the fact the battery would be cheaper to manufacture, and not contain hazardous materials.
Current batteries are attrocious for the environment and efficiency. A battery takes approximately 2,000 times more energy to manufacture and charge than you get back out of them...
0.05% efficiency isn't anything to brag about!
You'll know the energy density of ultracapacitors has ripened when there is a real market for AA, AAA, C, and D ultracapacitors that are drop-in replacements for normal batteries and offer the same duration.
The benefit of ultracapacitors is that you can recharge them VERY fast. For instance, charging several AAA batteries could take as little as a few seconds, and can be done 500,000+ times with no affect on the battery (no memory, no decrease in power, etc).
Personally I can't wait, but we aren't there yet. MIT is making good progress using carbon nano-tubes, however.
Actually, one of the problems with GM crops IS that they can't breed, and they are taking over the world at an alarming rate. Informed nations have banned GM crops because they push out the natural crop, both naturally and with help of farmers.
What we are creating is a mono-culture for crops, which will bring along with it all of the problems of a Microsoft mono-culture, only it's our tabletops instead of our desktops.
So what happens in a few years when 90% of the worlds food supply will be Monsanto GM crops and there is a problem in the supply chain or an unforseen mutation.
Ever hear of the potato blight? One occured in the 1940's in Ireland and killed well over a million people, with another 1.5 million permanantly leaving the country to avoid starvation. The Irish had only 4 varieties of potato, 3 were affected by blight. Peru (IIRC) on the other hand also had a potato blight that was much worse, affecting a dozen or so of it's 80 varieties, but they had no food shortage.
Probably one of the single worst things for the world would at large would be a food mono-culture, and it's happing right now, really fast, by design.
So the problems with GM crops, and the conspiracy behind them (a conspiracy by several of it's definitions), is political, technical, large scale, and emminent.
Your head must be a GM turnip it's buried so far in the sand.
Track down The Future of Food and you will be far better informed. Until then, there is nothing to discuss.
GM food is entirely evil, not for any of the qualities of the food, but for the legal and political sham taking place around them.
Enter Monsanto. They make GM canola, among other things, as well as having patented over 12,000 varieties of seed, most unmodified and taken directly from the goverments own seed stores.
A little bit of their GM seed blew off of trucks and onto the fields of a farmer in Canada. Monsanto found traces of GM plants on the farmers land (without his knowledge or permission, which in the U.S. we call trespassing), sued the farmer, and cost him his life savings, and he had to destroy all of his seed. He was a real farmer who rotated his fields with a variety of seeds to maintain the soil. He lost literally generations worth of seed, a devestating loss.
Much of the upper echelons of the U.S. government, particularly the FDA, are former executives of Monsanto or it's subsidiaries. The goal is nothing short of utter and total control of the worlds food supply.
Watch the documentary The Future of Food. It'll put a bad taste in your mouth.
Read the parent post I was replying to. I'm defending the original submission, they said earlier this year, and they were correct and accurate. :)
Technically 10 seconds ago is "earlier this year".
I need to put Ubuntu on my spare box and see if I can wrap my head around the GIMP. I've tried before, but probably haven't given it a fair chance...
Unless I use it almost exclusively for a few weeks, I can't honestly say that I've given it a shot.
Let me rephrase that, VIM doesn't cut it for me for what I do, at least when compared to Dreamweaver.
Could I do what I do in VIM? Certainly, but it is just a lot quicker and easier in Dreamweaver. Handcoding may produce slightly better code (personally I disagree, I see lots of stupid mistakes in the source of most handcoded stuff I see), but good enough pays the bills just fine.
Jeff Paul puts it this way: "Good enough is good enough."
While Dan Kennedy puts it this way: "It is better to be prolific than perfect."
I'm way to busy to hand code, so Dreamweaver is the logical choice.
I use VI all the time (daily), just not for layout and design.