I put a little thought into the airship idea, and even something like the Hindenburg, covered with solar panels, but the end result will just be that they cannot move fast enough to make air travel suitable to today's needs.
I was going to respond to the OP that it was a dumb-ass idea because of the ratio of the power consumed vs. power generated, but instead I thank you for looking up the information and having hard numbers at hand that cannot be refuted.
If only server-side CF licensing wasn't so expensive, it'd be more popular!
Although many people who use CF pay for licensing to Adobe, Open Blue Dragon is an open-source implementation of the Coldfusion language and has evolved very nicely in the past few years. At a major site I write CF for, they have 11 production servers running CF (4 Enterprise). Besides those they have about 10-12 servers running OpenBD (all Linux), some outside facing, and some of those have been running for a few years without any hickups. So, licensing, IMO, is a moot point.
There are also a couple of other open-source or free implementations of the language (Railo, Smith, etc), but I've been extremely happy with OpenBD, specially some of the additional functionality it has that Adobe's version doesn't have, such as the Render() function.
You could open a terminal in OS X and get at the BSD Unix shell. Oh, and the laptops use OS X, not iOS.
Got me there. I should've said OS X. And I know about the command prompt on OS X.
You should be scared. My friend's 2 year year old daughter can pick up an iPhone and get to the video and photos she likes to see. She learned this simply by watched her Dad use it. No one actively taught her to do this. I've seen this a dozen times by now.
I never said the I couldn't watch someone do something on a Mac and be able to learn it. Read below
You geeks are so disconnected from reality it's like you have dementia. The majority of people don't care about being computer savvy to the point of working the innards of Linux, and that's perfectly OK. There's a hundred professions out there you don't know shit about. Should your vet be giving you crap and insulting your intellect because you can't work the innards of a dog or cat? Should the local auto mechanics call you an idiot because you can't take apart and rebuild your car's engine? Should the local contractor shit on you for not being able to add your own addition to your house?
When did I give the Mac users shit about not knowing the innards of Linux? I didn't even say that the majority of people care about being computer savvy. In fact, I mentioned the opposite, that they "just want something that works all the time (which Apple products do) without much hastle."
Geeks need to the the godamned hell over themselves, and maybe people will stop hating their ugly guts.
What I believe is that Mac users (which apparently you are one) need to get over yourselves and hating everyone else's guts. Just read back everything you wrote. It's nothing but hate. You should try and relax a little!
The point I was trying to make was that the graphical interface on Macs is not that intuitive, as Apple users would have the rest of the world believe. There is still a learning curve, whether you're shown how to do something in OS X or whether you have to figure it out on your own. Put me in front of a graphical interface on the Mac and for me everything seems out of place and not intuitive, including how to control the look and feel of my experience and colored minimize/maximize buttons. Add to that the fact that I hate Apple as a company and thus I have no desire to purchase any of their products. That's all.
Yup. The magic keywords in your sentence were if Apple customers acted responsibly. I know many Apple users and the last thing they're worried about is acting responsibly in choosing the company they're going to trust their digital life to. They range from kids and teenagers to doctors and lawyers. They just want something that works all the time (which Apple products do) without much hastle.
What really scares me, though, is that you put me in front of an Apple laptop and I suddenly don't know WTF I'm doing, even though I can work the innards of Linux with little problem. I am pretty glad that I'm enough computer savvy to have the option of not using Windows or iOS.
Keyboard under the desk? Absolutely not, unless you're a midget! The proper way to sit is for lower arms parallel to the ground. Keyboards should always be on desk, and them you adjust your seat so that it allows you to keep your lower arm straight. A cushioned keyboard and rest is also a must.
I consulted at a large CA corportation and they specifically came to people's cube and observed them for 10-20 minutes, noting their wrongs. They ended up lowering many of the desks because the people who sat behind them were shorter than average. What it came down to is what I wrote in the above paragraph. I am 5' 10" and I would NEVER put my keyboard below the desk level. Your wrist should be completely level. Incidentally I am trained in playing piano and the rule is the same there. Adjust your seat so that your wrist angle is parallel to the ground. I have been in IT for almost 30 years and I have never had any problems with my wrists/body, even though I am sverely overweight.
The other thing I advocate is to absolutely get up and walk around to 2 minutes every 30-60 minutes. There are times when I didnt' want my concentration ruined and thus stayed in the seat for over 2 hours, but those times are far and in between. Usually I can afford to get up and walk around for 2 minutes, as in get ice for my drink.
Bring the keyboard up over the desk!
Errrrr, I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I have two daughters, now 18 and 17, and I always tried to sell them Star Trek. We started out with TNG, because that's what I had, then TOS, then DS9, then Voyager, and finally Enterprise. We've watched all episodes, and while at times they bitched, we watched them anyways. After all, my house was closer to a dictatorship than it was a democracy.
You know what actually got them thinking that "Hey, maybe the old man wasn't all that nuts."? It was when they met a few other people who thought it was SOOOOO cool that they had watched every episode of Star Trek. Then it was something to brag about. Then it was about pointing out the differences and the discrepancies between the new ST movie and the old series, or quoting lines from popular episodes. In addition, when I was watching episodes of DS9 and TNG in the background while I was cooking dinner, I always said "Everything I learned in life I learned from Star Trek.", because there is usually a lesson to be learned from every episode. Once they actually understood the episodes and their inner meanings, they appreciated them even more.
I'm a firm believer that our job as a parent is not to appease to our kids on a constant basis and that kids sometimes need to be told how to go about life, without letting them discover it on their own. After all, what's the point of passing on our experiences to our offsprings?
Don't get me wrong. I understand that kids' interests do not necessarily collide with their parents' interests, but no kid is going to grow up demented or an asshole because their parents made them sit and watch a TV show, or getting into a hobby that they may not seem interested in at first. There is, after all, many more elements to engaging them and socialization, not to mention that some of their time belongs to their parents while they're still living at home. The last thing you want to do is just let you kids go on their own and try to explore the world by themselves.
np.. then I want to see equal protections from employer encroachment on employees when they're outside the office.. these days, most contracts try to take ownership of your 'off duty' output. to me, that's no different than using company resources for personal use.
Yeah, but then it's your own fault for staying with a company that does so. I would never allow a company to own the work I do outside company hours. If your employment contract stipulates that your 'off duty' output belongs to them and you signed the contract, then don't be whining when they try to take ownership of your 'off duty' output.
The U.S.S.R used to be about 2.5 times the size of the U.S. and contained far more diverse groups, and I think they had nailed education right on the head.
Wow! You took the words right out of my mouth! This has happened to me so many times. You want to be nice, so you don't say this right to their face. Instead you come up with bogus excuses (after you pretend to sleep on it for a couple of days) on why you can't do it, and then wish them the best of luck. "Just like facebook, but with pictures of feet instead." CLASSIC!
You hit the nail right in the head. We just do not have enough information to conclude, to a good enough degree, that what the scientists say is going to happen. What it boils down to is that we think grandeur of ourselves, whereas our knowledge of the environment is miniscule. Just because our weathermen can predict to a certain degree the weather for the next week doesn't mean we're ready to decide what's going to happen to Earth in the next century. Trends in temperature rise have happened before, and even though some of it may be due to human activities in the past couple of centuries, we really do not have any idea how things will pan out in the future. Computer models are just that, "models". Would anybody bet their child's life on the current computer models? I know I would not.
- Let's say the brake pedal can't be pushed in all the way (floor mat or dropped water bottle or whatever is obstructing it; or it's broken somehow). If the override deactivates the throttle at, say, 20% brake depression, then the driver can slow and stop the car even if they somehow can't push the brake far enough to overwhelm the engine at full throttle.
Bzzzt. No! If you can push your break pedal all the way to the floor, something is wrong. You should not be able to push your break pedal more than 20-30% of its distance to the floor.
- Let's say the brake pads themselves (or some other part of the brake assembly) is worn-out/broken/whatever. Once again, full braking power might not be enough to counter-act engine power; by cutting engine power even partially-functional brakes will be able to slow the vehicle.
If you drive with bad brakes then you deserve what's coming to you. Break pads and rotors don't go caput overnight. They give plenty of warning (in the order of thousands of miles) that "I need to be changed/looked at".
My point is that adding an override increases the safety of the overall system, without impacting the ease or efficiency of normal operation. It does increase cost a bit (and adds some burden to the industry), so it's worth considering whether the safety improvements are really worth the effort. But it's at least not a uselessly safety feature.
How many years have cars been around? All these years we haven't needed a mechanism to counter runaway accelerators. Having moved to fly-by-wire accelerators hasn't neccessarily introduced these problems either. Accelerators have stuck for eons. We do not need another button on the dash for something like this, or even an automatic routine in the 'puter to handle this. Put the onus on the driver and realize that sometimes shit happens.
I'm not sure if the store owner is free to reject cash. On what basis? They better have a good reason, like I was disturbing the peace in the store. If store owners had the right to reject cash for their payments, then they could disallow all Japanese from buying things from their store, and I think they'd be in a pickle if they did something like that.
Shit man! You made me watch that whole fucking video hoping I was going to see Goatse at some point. Should've realized I would never see Goatse because of the URL.
Perhaps their low end line is bad *because* they bought Maxtor. Their enterprise line is still just fine, been cruising at ~1.5% AFR here for the last 5 years with ~90% Seagate disks.
1.5% AFR on enterprise drives? Is that averaged over the 5 year period? If not, that's very high. Even is it is, it's still high.
The funny thing is that Seagate AFR on their low-end SATA is lower than their Enterprise SATA (0.34 vs. 0.73, see here and here (ES) section 2.12. I understand that they assume that enterprise drives are used more than the desktop drives, but nowhere do they say so. In fact, they say the low-end SATA is perfect for desktop RAID.
I remember when Seagate used to be the king of the HD market with such super drives as the ST-225 and ST-4096. Nowadays I avoid Seagate like the plague. They've put Maxtor to shame.
Ain't that some sad shit? Back when I went to school we had 2 bus pick-ups in the morning and 3 drop-offs in the afternoon. Because of that I could participate in band and many many extracurricular activities.
Nowadays I pitty my daughters because our school district likes to spend a $mil on astroturf for the football field, but my kids (who live in a suburb without any side walks) only have one pick-up in the morning and one drop-off in the afternoon.
What is it with sports that is so much more important than the chess club or the speech team?
Lose a few bits? Are you being serious? Despite what you may believe, during the file copy which you walked away from, several hundred processes continue to run in the background and do what they're supposed to, doing things way more complex than your file copy. You think X stops doing what it's doing just so the file can be copied? Or the kernel drops everything it's doing except process the file copy? The very simple movement of a mouse fires hundreds of IRQs each second which are services by a service routine. Watching a YouTube video is no different.
Such drastic change! I have seen this happen on numerous systems and I just change the elevator to "deadline" and poof! The problem is gone. See this discussion for some details. The CFQ scheduler is great for a Linux server running a database, but it completely sucks for desktop or any server used to write large files to.
Hey, I'm all for grabbing a beer any time of the day, but surely you don't think watching a YouTube video, sending emails, playing chess, or shopping online on your machine as it is copying a file in the background will "bork" the copy. I would toss any O/S that would do such thing.
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I put a little thought into the airship idea, and even something like the Hindenburg, covered with solar panels, but the end result will just be that they cannot move fast enough to make air travel suitable to today's needs.
I was going to respond to the OP that it was a dumb-ass idea because of the ratio of the power consumed vs. power generated, but instead I thank you for looking up the information and having hard numbers at hand that cannot be refuted.
If only server-side CF licensing wasn't so expensive, it'd be more popular!
Although many people who use CF pay for licensing to Adobe, Open Blue Dragon is an open-source implementation of the Coldfusion language and has evolved very nicely in the past few years. At a major site I write CF for, they have 11 production servers running CF (4 Enterprise). Besides those they have about 10-12 servers running OpenBD (all Linux), some outside facing, and some of those have been running for a few years without any hickups. So, licensing, IMO, is a moot point.
There are also a couple of other open-source or free implementations of the language (Railo, Smith, etc), but I've been extremely happy with OpenBD, specially some of the additional functionality it has that Adobe's version doesn't have, such as the Render() function.
You could open a terminal in OS X and get at the BSD Unix shell. Oh, and the laptops use OS X, not iOS.
Got me there. I should've said OS X. And I know about the command prompt on OS X.
You should be scared. My friend's 2 year year old daughter can pick up an iPhone and get to the video and photos she likes to see. She learned this simply by watched her Dad use it. No one actively taught her to do this. I've seen this a dozen times by now.
I never said the I couldn't watch someone do something on a Mac and be able to learn it. Read below
You geeks are so disconnected from reality it's like you have dementia. The majority of people don't care about being computer savvy to the point of working the innards of Linux, and that's perfectly OK. There's a hundred professions out there you don't know shit about. Should your vet be giving you crap and insulting your intellect because you can't work the innards of a dog or cat? Should the local auto mechanics call you an idiot because you can't take apart and rebuild your car's engine? Should the local contractor shit on you for not being able to add your own addition to your house?
When did I give the Mac users shit about not knowing the innards of Linux? I didn't even say that the majority of people care about being computer savvy. In fact, I mentioned the opposite, that they "just want something that works all the time (which Apple products do) without much hastle."
Geeks need to the the godamned hell over themselves, and maybe people will stop hating their ugly guts.
What I believe is that Mac users (which apparently you are one) need to get over yourselves and hating everyone else's guts. Just read back everything you wrote. It's nothing but hate. You should try and relax a little!
The point I was trying to make was that the graphical interface on Macs is not that intuitive, as Apple users would have the rest of the world believe. There is still a learning curve, whether you're shown how to do something in OS X or whether you have to figure it out on your own. Put me in front of a graphical interface on the Mac and for me everything seems out of place and not intuitive, including how to control the look and feel of my experience and colored minimize/maximize buttons. Add to that the fact that I hate Apple as a company and thus I have no desire to purchase any of their products. That's all.
Yup. The magic keywords in your sentence were if Apple customers acted responsibly . I know many Apple users and the last thing they're worried about is acting responsibly in choosing the company they're going to trust their digital life to. They range from kids and teenagers to doctors and lawyers. They just want something that works all the time (which Apple products do) without much hastle.
What really scares me, though, is that you put me in front of an Apple laptop and I suddenly don't know WTF I'm doing, even though I can work the innards of Linux with little problem. I am pretty glad that I'm enough computer savvy to have the option of not using Windows or iOS.
Keyboard under the desk? Absolutely not, unless you're a midget! The proper way to sit is for lower arms parallel to the ground. Keyboards should always be on desk, and them you adjust your seat so that it allows you to keep your lower arm straight. A cushioned keyboard and rest is also a must. I consulted at a large CA corportation and they specifically came to people's cube and observed them for 10-20 minutes, noting their wrongs. They ended up lowering many of the desks because the people who sat behind them were shorter than average. What it came down to is what I wrote in the above paragraph. I am 5' 10" and I would NEVER put my keyboard below the desk level. Your wrist should be completely level. Incidentally I am trained in playing piano and the rule is the same there. Adjust your seat so that your wrist angle is parallel to the ground. I have been in IT for almost 30 years and I have never had any problems with my wrists/body, even though I am sverely overweight. The other thing I advocate is to absolutely get up and walk around to 2 minutes every 30-60 minutes. There are times when I didnt' want my concentration ruined and thus stayed in the seat for over 2 hours, but those times are far and in between. Usually I can afford to get up and walk around for 2 minutes, as in get ice for my drink. Bring the keyboard up over the desk!
Errrrr, I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I have two daughters, now 18 and 17, and I always tried to sell them Star Trek. We started out with TNG, because that's what I had, then TOS, then DS9, then Voyager, and finally Enterprise. We've watched all episodes, and while at times they bitched, we watched them anyways. After all, my house was closer to a dictatorship than it was a democracy.
You know what actually got them thinking that "Hey, maybe the old man wasn't all that nuts."? It was when they met a few other people who thought it was SOOOOO cool that they had watched every episode of Star Trek. Then it was something to brag about. Then it was about pointing out the differences and the discrepancies between the new ST movie and the old series, or quoting lines from popular episodes. In addition, when I was watching episodes of DS9 and TNG in the background while I was cooking dinner, I always said "Everything I learned in life I learned from Star Trek.", because there is usually a lesson to be learned from every episode. Once they actually understood the episodes and their inner meanings, they appreciated them even more.
I'm a firm believer that our job as a parent is not to appease to our kids on a constant basis and that kids sometimes need to be told how to go about life, without letting them discover it on their own. After all, what's the point of passing on our experiences to our offsprings?
Don't get me wrong. I understand that kids' interests do not necessarily collide with their parents' interests, but no kid is going to grow up demented or an asshole because their parents made them sit and watch a TV show, or getting into a hobby that they may not seem interested in at first. There is, after all, many more elements to engaging them and socialization, not to mention that some of their time belongs to their parents while they're still living at home. The last thing you want to do is just let you kids go on their own and try to explore the world by themselves.
np.. then I want to see equal protections from employer encroachment on employees when they're outside the office.. these days, most contracts try to take ownership of your 'off duty' output. to me, that's no different than using company resources for personal use.
Yeah, but then it's your own fault for staying with a company that does so. I would never allow a company to own the work I do outside company hours. If your employment contract stipulates that your 'off duty' output belongs to them and you signed the contract, then don't be whining when they try to take ownership of your 'off duty' output.
There is NO expectation of privacy on a public network.
There. Fixed that for you.
The U.S.S.R used to be about 2.5 times the size of the U.S. and contained far more diverse groups, and I think they had nailed education right on the head.
What's a percentage?
Oh wait, it's the other way around. Phew! I was scared there for a second. And, first post?
Coders are a dime a dozen. GOOD coders are rarer than hen's teeth.
Wow! You took the words right out of my mouth! This has happened to me so many times. You want to be nice, so you don't say this right to their face. Instead you come up with bogus excuses (after you pretend to sleep on it for a couple of days) on why you can't do it, and then wish them the best of luck. "Just like facebook, but with pictures of feet instead." CLASSIC!
Last time I tried to get my kids to eat grass and weeds they reported me to DCFS.
You hit the nail right in the head. We just do not have enough information to conclude, to a good enough degree, that what the scientists say is going to happen. What it boils down to is that we think grandeur of ourselves, whereas our knowledge of the environment is miniscule. Just because our weathermen can predict to a certain degree the weather for the next week doesn't mean we're ready to decide what's going to happen to Earth in the next century. Trends in temperature rise have happened before, and even though some of it may be due to human activities in the past couple of centuries, we really do not have any idea how things will pan out in the future. Computer models are just that, "models". Would anybody bet their child's life on the current computer models? I know I would not.
- Let's say the brake pedal can't be pushed in all the way (floor mat or dropped water bottle or whatever is obstructing it; or it's broken somehow). If the override deactivates the throttle at, say, 20% brake depression, then the driver can slow and stop the car even if they somehow can't push the brake far enough to overwhelm the engine at full throttle.
Bzzzt. No! If you can push your break pedal all the way to the floor, something is wrong. You should not be able to push your break pedal more than 20-30% of its distance to the floor.
- Let's say the brake pads themselves (or some other part of the brake assembly) is worn-out/broken/whatever. Once again, full braking power might not be enough to counter-act engine power; by cutting engine power even partially-functional brakes will be able to slow the vehicle.
If you drive with bad brakes then you deserve what's coming to you. Break pads and rotors don't go caput overnight. They give plenty of warning (in the order of thousands of miles) that "I need to be changed/looked at".
My point is that adding an override increases the safety of the overall system, without impacting the ease or efficiency of normal operation. It does increase cost a bit (and adds some burden to the industry), so it's worth considering whether the safety improvements are really worth the effort. But it's at least not a uselessly safety feature.
How many years have cars been around? All these years we haven't needed a mechanism to counter runaway accelerators. Having moved to fly-by-wire accelerators hasn't neccessarily introduced these problems either. Accelerators have stuck for eons. We do not need another button on the dash for something like this, or even an automatic routine in the 'puter to handle this. Put the onus on the driver and realize that sometimes shit happens.
I'm not sure if the store owner is free to reject cash. On what basis? They better have a good reason, like I was disturbing the peace in the store. If store owners had the right to reject cash for their payments, then they could disallow all Japanese from buying things from their store, and I think they'd be in a pickle if they did something like that.
Shit man! You made me watch that whole fucking video hoping I was going to see Goatse at some point. Should've realized I would never see Goatse because of the URL.
Perhaps their low end line is bad *because* they bought Maxtor. Their enterprise line is still just fine, been cruising at ~1.5% AFR here for the last 5 years with ~90% Seagate disks.
1.5% AFR on enterprise drives? Is that averaged over the 5 year period? If not, that's very high. Even is it is, it's still high.
The funny thing is that Seagate AFR on their low-end SATA is lower than their Enterprise SATA (0.34 vs. 0.73, see here and here (ES) section 2.12. I understand that they assume that enterprise drives are used more than the desktop drives, but nowhere do they say so. In fact, they say the low-end SATA is perfect for desktop RAID.
I remember when Seagate used to be the king of the HD market with such super drives as the ST-225 and ST-4096. Nowadays I avoid Seagate like the plague. They've put Maxtor to shame.
Ain't that some sad shit? Back when I went to school we had 2 bus pick-ups in the morning and 3 drop-offs in the afternoon. Because of that I could participate in band and many many extracurricular activities. Nowadays I pitty my daughters because our school district likes to spend a $mil on astroturf for the football field, but my kids (who live in a suburb without any side walks) only have one pick-up in the morning and one drop-off in the afternoon. What is it with sports that is so much more important than the chess club or the speech team?
Lose a few bits? Are you being serious? Despite what you may believe, during the file copy which you walked away from, several hundred processes continue to run in the background and do what they're supposed to, doing things way more complex than your file copy. You think X stops doing what it's doing just so the file can be copied? Or the kernel drops everything it's doing except process the file copy? The very simple movement of a mouse fires hundreds of IRQs each second which are services by a service routine. Watching a YouTube video is no different.
Such drastic change! I have seen this happen on numerous systems and I just change the elevator to "deadline" and poof! The problem is gone. See this discussion for some details. The CFQ scheduler is great for a Linux server running a database, but it completely sucks for desktop or any server used to write large files to.
Hey, I'm all for grabbing a beer any time of the day, but surely you don't think watching a YouTube video, sending emails, playing chess, or shopping online on your machine as it is copying a file in the background will "bork" the copy. I would toss any O/S that would do such thing.