IMO, computer aided visualization is over rated. Sure, it's good in a production environment but the mental effort of visualization is a tremendous aid to imagination. There's no way to computerize epiphany.
of wind power generation, in a negative way, FAR exceeds that of other technologies when viewed in terms of cost/benefit.
Wind farms extract energy from the wind and this causes two problems.
1)Where the wind 'river' is shallow as through a pass, moisture is not allowed to travel as far and rainfall decreases downwind from the 'plant'
2) Extraction of energy at ground level, even wiehre the wind 'river' is deep, chagnes the vertical mixing profile which has a strong effect on rainfall patterns downwind from the 'plant'.
These 'impacts' on rainfall suggest that wind power may not be so 'green'. Less rainfall will reduce the amount of water available for hydro-power.
IMO solid state solar conversion is the best approach. It's much more efficient than alcohol from grains when all costs are considered.
1)Property tax is generally based on number of square feet so municipalities have minimum square foot requirements in zoning.
2)Mortgage valuation is heavily weighted by the number of square feet. Cost per square foot goes down as total area goes up encouraging huge houses.
3)Zoning prohibits alternative materials. In Hawaii, where we now live most of the time, it's entirely practical to build a house using split, woven, bamboo walls in single wall construction over a timber (steel, wood, bamboo, or concrete) frame. It makes for very comfortable tropical housing, the walls are typically replaced avery 10 years or so. There is no need to paint. But, try getting a permit for something like this!
Also in the tropics, outbuildings for kitchen (much safer from a fire hazard POV) and WC/bath (keeps dampness from main house in tropical climate) are impossible to get through zoning.
4)Alternative construction is foreign to most architects and builders and ends up costing a LOT more. I've been researching a concrete house for some property I own on the East Coast. Finding someone affordable who is familiar with modern concrete construction (foam forms, polished aggregate flooring, embedded radiant heat, etc) is an exercise in futility. Few people do enough of this sort of work that you either pay for someone to learn or pay the premium of someone who's experience is in short supply.
5)Then there are the damn neighbors who don't want anything that doesn't look like the mail order Sears Roebuck craftsman style houses that are already in the neighborhood but for some stange reason have no problem adding square feet (2nd floor) to their houses as long as it has the right 'look'.
Damn keyboard is acting up. I touch type and contrary to tactile recognition, some characters are not being generated. It's this Fujitsu P2120. I love the form, but execution is lacking. Will be off for third trip to repair center since buying 18 months ago.
The key with buzz is that a little investigation will turn u someone you know or wsomeone who will talk toyou about the OS A that might bet the ticket. The BS is just background noise.
goes into hibernation when I tell it to shutdown and when I close the lid, it wakes up! If I hit the power button instead of 'shutdown' command, it still goes into hibernation instead of shutting down. Have to touch power button again and then hold it in during post to get the damn thing to shut down completely. I suspect it's the power control software. Planning to compile kernel without and see what it does.
accept biometric scan at work or to enter secure computing facilities?
To get at my servers after hours, it's a PIN and a palm scan. I'm happy everyone else entering the facility is required to do the same. It keeps my gear from disappearing.
What is so different about applying the same concept to sentitive government facilities?
This has been a topic in the trade magazines for months, along with the 'not googles model' problem of advertisers NOT paying commission on click through sales.
Yes, the business models are FSCK'd
Fee for click is impossible to track for uniqueness of origination. Commission on click through sales is viable only if the advertiser has some way to keep the seller honest WRT commissions. I don't see this happening anytime soon.
What's so sacred about 'one dot' names anyway? People seem to have no trouble remembering bama.edebris.com so why should I mess with trying to register and having to pay for thisbethebamayoubelookingfor.com?
Why of course it's the janitor! How the hell do you think he accrues the scratch for those Hummer payments?
I'm trying to imagine what can be stolen by carting off the laptop that can not be stolen by copying from the laptop to a smaller (than the laptop) storage device. In other words, it's not going to do a thing to prevent employee theft of data.
The best way to limit theft of the actual hardware is a firmware exec that 'phones home' with location from built in GPS or handshake with cellular phone system. The cell phone system registers phones that are turned on. This registration is returned to the cell phone company, regardless of the system the phone registers with. There is also a repetitive handshake. This system is already in use for tracking trucks and containers. It's cheap and easy to add to laptops as a prodction (model specific) option. There are enough bytes free in the handshake packets to encode GPS data for precise location without the need to initiate a call. I'm really surprised this hasn't found it's way into laptops yet. For additional data (keys, keystroke logging, etc), the phone could actually be subscribed with periodic calls to update data. It's a hell of a lot cheaper way to go because the hardare, infrastructure, and tracking system already exists.
I think this is a smart play on IBM's part. If you can't make the margins on a particular product line, and don't expect to in the future, it's smart to sell the line while it has value. PeeCee business is a small part of IBM these days. $2billion and IBM market cap is almost $160billion. That's less than 1.3% of the company value in PeeCees.
I wonder what the foreign exchange implications are. Chinese currancy is tied to $US. $US is weak. Will IBM take pay in $US or some or all in Chinese currency? What will happen when Chinese currency eventually floats? Lenova says Dell is a strong competitor. Will this keep the deal from happening? Is anyone else looking at IBM's PC biz? Might Dell make a stronger offer? Would SEC allow this? Would a bid from Dell push Lenova to bid more than IBM is asking? Or will the whole mess fizzle into a 'let's watch the global economy for a while' doldrum?
Without the actual report an knowledge of the models, the only thing I gather from the/. referenced and nature articles is that the 'urban heat island' correlates the same if it's windy or not windy. Other than that, what's new?
Thanks for comment.
USA assymetric speed poses a problem for TeeVee but it should be fine for radio. 128kbps on a 384kbps uplink plus the overhead would allow a 1:2 ratio. Even if the uploading nodes only made 1:1, it would take enough load off the server to lower the cost of 'broadcasting'.
SUccessful products are seldom built for 'the current environment'.
File sharing is great, but if this thing delivered material in order, it would be the killer application of the decade.
That TV2ME mentioned earlier on/. illustrates that some folks want to take their TV with them but the REAL KILLER is that anyone could broadcast anything with only a broadband connection and the carrying capacity would scale with interest in the broadcast material. ANYONE could operate an internet radio or teeVee station! Sure, it's not to the second live, but it's pretty damn near realtime.
If one program concludes at 5min past the hour and the other starts on the hour and you don't have a TIVO or VCR, well now you need one!
If you want to time shift, now you need TWO machines.
I bet the hardware vendors are secretly smiling because most consumers are too stupid to apply anything other than the brute force, buy more $hit solution.
IMO, more people are 'addicted' to TV than to cigarettes, crack, food, tentacle rape, and opossum fishing COMBINED!
Product cross comparison of specifications using iedntical test suite rather than manufacturers 'tuned' suites.
Real world test comparison. How well does the box do it's job when it's doing everything it will do in deployment at once.
Clear breakdown of cost so that all the 'gotchas' like proprietary cards or code that is not included, warranty, spare parts turnaround, ease of diagnosis, actual electric consumption, etc.
suggests that an economically significant portion of the population rationalizes their new computer purchases, in part, as a purchase of 'a new windows' as a way 'get rid of the bugs'.
Sure, they want the new hardware anyway, but the old computer would be just fine if it weren't so fscked up by nefarious code. The new windows, in the box, is a couple of hundred bux and the whole new PeeCee is less than $1000. Plus, the disk is getting full and those cost $ and when I add in the cost of someone installing all this stuff I,may as well buy a new 'clean' PeeCee!!!
Not just curbside PeeCees, but dinner party conversations with the Doctors and PhD festooned non-computer professionals, suggests that the rogue software is a market force overall, not just for maidservice software.
"How do you feel about this fallen?"
I think I've cracked some ribs.
"How did you cook your ribs?"
Look snuggle-brain, I'm in pain here, can you call the doctor?
"Yes, I'll call the doctor. Should I inform him we are dining on ribs?"
Dammit, call 911!
"That's rather far in advance to make a dinner date, do you think you'll live that long?"
is that no one really looked to see if the raction was reversible. Once they got their excess heat, they either concluded or made a cursory measurement to see if the heat energy went back into the reaction. This and the lack of any conclusive evidence of reaction products suggests the coon is not in the tree that the dog is barking under.
160gig maxtor have been as low as $30/each (closer to $37 incl tax) after rebate. For about $1500-$1600 total you can put 20 of them together in 3 sets of 5 plus 5 spares and have 1.9TB of RAID. Yes, it costs more for power. About the same as my 5 x 9gig 5.25" 70GB FDDI attached array run by a SPARC20 that cost almost $25k back in the day...
A couple of years ago I duplicated the system I sold for $500k that incorporated this array, a FDDI switch, and a half doz SGI Indigo 2's for less than $1000. Really underscores the adage that when it comes to computing, if you don't need it now, don't buy it now.
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IMO, computer aided visualization is over rated. Sure, it's good in a production environment but the mental effort of visualization is a tremendous aid to imagination. There's no way to computerize epiphany.
IMO they are very attractive and I'd be happy to live near one. Come to think of it, I do live about 45 miles from one.
of wind power generation, in a negative way, FAR exceeds that of other technologies when viewed in terms of cost/benefit.
Wind farms extract energy from the wind and this causes two problems.
1)Where the wind 'river' is shallow as through a pass, moisture is not allowed to travel as far and rainfall decreases downwind from the 'plant'
2) Extraction of energy at ground level, even wiehre the wind 'river' is deep, chagnes the vertical mixing profile which has a strong effect on rainfall patterns downwind from the 'plant'.
These 'impacts' on rainfall suggest that wind power may not be so 'green'. Less rainfall will reduce the amount of water available for hydro-power.
IMO solid state solar conversion is the best approach. It's much more efficient than alcohol from grains when all costs are considered.
encourage huge residential structures.
1)Property tax is generally based on number of square feet so municipalities have minimum square foot requirements in zoning.
2)Mortgage valuation is heavily weighted by the number of square feet. Cost per square foot goes down as total area goes up encouraging huge houses.
3)Zoning prohibits alternative materials. In Hawaii, where we now live most of the time, it's entirely practical to build a house using split, woven, bamboo walls in single wall construction over a timber (steel, wood, bamboo, or concrete) frame. It makes for very comfortable tropical housing, the walls are typically replaced avery 10 years or so. There is no need to paint. But, try getting a permit for something like this! Also in the tropics, outbuildings for kitchen (much safer from a fire hazard POV) and WC/bath (keeps dampness from main house in tropical climate) are impossible to get through zoning.
4)Alternative construction is foreign to most architects and builders and ends up costing a LOT more. I've been researching a concrete house for some property I own on the East Coast. Finding someone affordable who is familiar with modern concrete construction (foam forms, polished aggregate flooring, embedded radiant heat, etc) is an exercise in futility. Few people do enough of this sort of work that you either pay for someone to learn or pay the premium of someone who's experience is in short supply.
5)Then there are the damn neighbors who don't want anything that doesn't look like the mail order Sears Roebuck craftsman style houses that are already in the neighborhood but for some stange reason have no problem adding square feet (2nd floor) to their houses as long as it has the right 'look'.
When you can do your job from anywhere, so can someone else!
Pundits and futurists now saing, "DOH!"
I wonder how many companies are taking advantage of telecommuting tax credit on 'your' outsourced job!
Damn keyboard is acting up. I touch type and contrary to tactile recognition, some characters are not being generated. It's this Fujitsu P2120. I love the form, but execution is lacking. Will be off for third trip to repair center since buying 18 months ago.
The key with buzz is that a little investigation will turn u someone you know or wsomeone who will talk toyou about the OS A that might bet the ticket. The BS is just background noise.
Put a blanket over the case and a cheap thermostat n the fan!
goes into hibernation when I tell it to shutdown and when I close the lid, it wakes up! If I hit the power button instead of 'shutdown' command, it still goes into hibernation instead of shutting down. Have to touch power button again and then hold it in during post to get the damn thing to shut down completely. I suspect it's the power control software. Planning to compile kernel without and see what it does.
accept biometric scan at work or to enter secure computing facilities?
To get at my servers after hours, it's a PIN and a palm scan. I'm happy everyone else entering the facility is required to do the same. It keeps my gear from disappearing.
What is so different about applying the same concept to sentitive government facilities?
hosting ad links provided by Google"
DUMP your google stock NOW!!!
This has been a topic in the trade magazines for months, along with the 'not googles model' problem of advertisers NOT paying commission on click through sales.
Yes, the business models are FSCK'd
Fee for click is impossible to track for uniqueness of origination. Commission on click through sales is viable only if the advertiser has some way to keep the seller honest WRT commissions. I don't see this happening anytime soon.
Heirachy affords a lot of flexibility in naming.
What's so sacred about 'one dot' names anyway?
People seem to have no trouble remembering bama.edebris.com so why should I mess with trying to register and having to pay for thisbethebamayoubelookingfor.com?
Why of course it's the janitor! How the hell do you think he accrues the scratch for those Hummer payments?
I'm trying to imagine what can be stolen by carting off the laptop that can not be stolen by copying from the laptop to a smaller (than the laptop) storage device. In other words, it's not going to do a thing to prevent employee theft of data.
The best way to limit theft of the actual hardware is a firmware exec that 'phones home' with location from built in GPS or handshake with cellular phone system. The cell phone system registers phones that are turned on. This registration is returned to the cell phone company, regardless of the system the phone registers with. There is also a repetitive handshake. This system is already in use for tracking trucks and containers. It's cheap and easy to add to laptops as a prodction (model specific) option. There are enough bytes free in the handshake packets to encode GPS data for precise location without the need to initiate a call. I'm really surprised this hasn't found it's way into laptops yet. For additional data (keys, keystroke logging, etc), the phone could actually be subscribed with periodic calls to update data. It's a hell of a lot cheaper way to go because the hardare, infrastructure, and tracking system already exists.
exchange rate.
I think this is a smart play on IBM's part. If you can't make the margins on a particular product line, and don't expect to in the future, it's smart to sell the line while it has value. PeeCee business is a small part of IBM these days. $2billion and IBM market cap is almost $160billion. That's less than 1.3% of the company value in PeeCees.
Read some more from Yahoo finance..
I wonder what the foreign exchange implications are. Chinese currancy is tied to $US. $US is weak. Will IBM take pay in $US or some or all in Chinese currency? What will happen when Chinese currency eventually floats? Lenova says Dell is a strong competitor. Will this keep the deal from happening? Is anyone else looking at IBM's PC biz? Might Dell make a stronger offer? Would SEC allow this? Would a bid from Dell push Lenova to bid more than IBM is asking? Or will the whole mess fizzle into a 'let's watch the global economy for a while' doldrum?
It will be fun to watch.
Without the actual report an knowledge of the models, the only thing I gather from the /. referenced and nature articles is that the 'urban heat island' correlates the same if it's windy or not windy. Other than that, what's new?
Thanks for comment.
USA assymetric speed poses a problem for TeeVee but it should be fine for radio. 128kbps on a 384kbps uplink plus the overhead would allow a 1:2 ratio. Even if the uploading nodes only made 1:1, it would take enough load off the server to lower the cost of 'broadcasting'.
SUccessful products are seldom built for 'the current environment'.
File sharing is great, but if this thing delivered material in order, it would be the killer application of the decade.
/. illustrates that some folks want to take their TV with them but the REAL KILLER is that anyone could broadcast anything with only a broadband connection and the carrying capacity would scale with interest in the broadcast material. ANYONE could operate an internet radio or teeVee station! Sure, it's not to the second live, but it's pretty damn near realtime.
That TV2ME mentioned earlier on
If one program concludes at 5min past the hour and the other starts on the hour and you don't have a TIVO or VCR, well now you need one!
If you want to time shift, now you need TWO machines.
I bet the hardware vendors are secretly smiling because most consumers are too stupid to apply anything other than the brute force, buy more $hit solution.
IMO, more people are 'addicted' to TV than to cigarettes, crack, food, tentacle rape, and opossum fishing COMBINED!
are the manufacturers specifications.
Product cross comparison of specifications using iedntical test suite rather than manufacturers 'tuned' suites.
Real world test comparison. How well does the box do it's job when it's doing everything it will do in deployment at once.
Clear breakdown of cost so that all the 'gotchas' like proprietary cards or code that is not included, warranty, spare parts turnaround, ease of diagnosis, actual electric consumption, etc.
suggests that an economically significant portion of the population rationalizes their new computer purchases, in part, as a purchase of 'a new windows' as a way 'get rid of the bugs'.
,may as well buy a new 'clean' PeeCee!!!
Sure, they want the new hardware anyway, but the old computer would be just fine if it weren't so fscked up by nefarious code. The new windows, in the box, is a couple of hundred bux and the whole new PeeCee is less than $1000. Plus, the disk is getting full and those cost $ and when I add in the cost of someone installing all this stuff I
Not just curbside PeeCees, but dinner party conversations with the Doctors and PhD festooned non-computer professionals, suggests that the rogue software is a market force overall, not just for maidservice software.
"How do you feel about this fallen?"
I think I've cracked some ribs. "How did you cook your ribs?" Look snuggle-brain, I'm in pain here, can you call the doctor? "Yes, I'll call the doctor. Should I inform him we are dining on ribs?" Dammit, call 911! "That's rather far in advance to make a dinner date, do you think you'll live that long?"
is that no one really looked to see if the raction was reversible. Once they got their excess heat, they either concluded or made a cursory measurement to see if the heat energy went back into the reaction. This and the lack of any conclusive evidence of reaction products suggests the coon is not in the tree that the dog is barking under.
Here you go.
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0) Software http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.htm
1) Hardware HOWTO with example http://www.ram.org/computing/linux/dpt_raid.html
2) http://www.finnie.org/terabyte/
3) Plder http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/linux/ide-raid/ but useful info on controller companies.
160gig maxtor have been as low as $30/each (closer to $37 incl tax) after rebate. For about $1500-$1600 total you can put 20 of them together in 3 sets of 5 plus 5 spares and have 1.9TB of RAID. Yes, it costs more for power. About the same as my 5 x 9gig 5.25" 70GB FDDI attached array run by a SPARC20 that cost almost $25k back in the day...
A couple of years ago I duplicated the system I sold for $500k that incorporated this array, a FDDI switch, and a half doz SGI Indigo 2's for less than $1000. Really underscores the adage that when it comes to computing, if you don't need it now, don't buy it now.
My favorite, M&Ms plus Punja's ISO accredited Ceylon tea.
It's the BEST breakfast tea I've found in 30+ years of tea drinking.