I've worked on the design of houses and condos with home automation systems, and even when installed at the time of construction, it can still cost $100s per point, adding up to $10,000s for a large house with lots of cool stuff to control.
If you look at the ingredients in pet food, the first one is usually "meat byproducts" or something to that effect. Would the ingredients still be used if they weren't put into pet food?
I would say that knowing that what unseen button will be clicked by default when blindly hitting enter is more of a "secret handshake" . . . except that it's probably a tie.
It's just what you know and are used to.
Are you sure they were'nt measuring this temperature somewhere inside the server rack rather than the ambient temperature in the room? 45C is around 113F, which is hotter than most daytime highs in Phoenix, Arizona, and typical motors are only rated for ambient conditions of 104F, i.e. 40C (not sure about the little motors inside drives, etc.). See Skapare's post below about the failures he experienced.
You are deefinitely right about the UPS benefitting from cooler air, but I have been involved in several projects where A/C was not installed for the UPS rooms, just ventilation; and this in a Chicago climate where the summer temperature often exceeds 95F (35C). The systems ran fine, though we did let the owner know that they were shortening the life of the system.
As far as 22C or 23C goes, that is a cooler than typically req'd now; 75F to 78F (24C to 27C) is usually perfectly fine for UPS rooms or even server rooms.
It is the phone equipment and other odd pieces that commonly drive the temperatures down and humidities up. They often have specs requiring colder conditions and closer tolerances for humidity and temperature than the bog standard servers. Though I doubt that they really require such, I'm not going to argue with product data published by the manufacturer.
Depending on how large your system is, it's not only better to keep the batteries in a separate room, it's mandated by many codes.
The real question is whether the job ever really required a PhD in the first place.
That's a good point. I feel that masters and undergraduate degrees, especially, are often a job "requirement" only as a simple way to narrow down the number of applicants. PhDs may actually be a good indicator of qualifications for certain academic and research jobs.
Among well-known programmers and engineers without Phd's there is Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, and Will Wright.
Programming and engineering jobs don't have a PhD as a required qualification. It's doubtful that most of your well-known programmers and engineers would be the best choice for jobs that actually (reasonably) require a PhD.
. . . except that sometimes it would be better to insert comments directly into someone's message, than to paste a quote into my reply. Sometimes it would be better to edit someone's text directly, than to reply with my suggested amendments.
One correction: Ahmadinejad is not a theocratic dictator. In fact he's neither theocratic nor a dictator. He's a civil servant and a pandering politician with very little power. The real power lies with the revolutionary guard and the Supreme Leader. He's a theocratic dictator.
Man, are you off base.
Some of the greatest accomplishments of civilization came from the non-christian middle east, including the alphabet; the numbering system, including the concept of zero; algebra; astronomy.
Plus,where do you get the idea that there are 4 types of human out of 400 in the past? There's only one species of human now, there has only been at most 2 in the last 10's of thousands of years. And, biologically speaking, the human "races" are not really separate races, but, as you said, have only minor differences due to adapting to brief geographical separations.
I believe (and, believe me, IANAL, so I could be wrong) that the phrase "work around technical limitations" is meant to describe things like disabling activation, enabling services that are present but turned off in the cheaper versions, eliminating the time limit in a trial version, circumventing DRM, etc.
I never ran AutoCAD on Windows 2000, but it runs fine on XP. On 95 and 98 however, i did have problems running AutoCAD (R14) and Excel at the same time, especially when I had large files open. Basically, it would run OK, though slow, switching among the programs I had open. But after I closed AutoCAD, Excel would give me an error about trying to write to protected memory. Sometimes I could just restart Excel, but sometimes things would freeze and I'd have to reboot. I just got in the habit of rebooting for fear of losing work. Win9x had terrible memory management.
From what I've observed, the Israeli government is secular.
Israel was founded as a "Jewish state".
Israel's claim to the land of Israel comes from their holy religious texts.
Israel does not consider you to be a Jew, and will make it difficult for you to immigrate to the Jewish state of Israel, unless you're certified Jewish by an Orthodox rabbi.
Israel is a country where a reform rabbi can't perform a marriage recoginzed by the government, only an officially recognized Orthodox rabbi can. (special rules allow secular marriage for Muslims and Christians)
Some Jews, even some non-Israeli Orthodox Jews, have to convert to Orthodoxy in order to be Jewish enough for the Jewish state.
To me, it's not just the quality of the video, it's that I would rather read than watch. A video is more passive, harder to follow, harder to grasp and remember details (at least for hard concepts or complicated issues), and takes a lot longer than reading. Pictures or videos added to illustrate a point in the article is fine (like showing a side-by-side comparison of screens), but I don't want to watch a lecture, I want to be able to read the information, skim through it if I choose, and take my time where I need to.
YMMV
Hard to tell what that list means for the largest players in the software industry, since I can't find software in there anywhere.
Also, margins and profits are not the same thing. I believe what the poster meant was that the actual cost of producing the software (not including things like marketing and sales) is around 20% of the selling price. I don't know about most companies, but that is true for MS Windows and MS Office sales. MS's overall profits are much less than 80%, because they lose so much money on other things.
The article specifically states glacier flow, not glacier melt in Antarctica. Glacier flow only occurs when you have lots of extra ice pushing more ice down the slope.
The article is about measurements of glacial thinning which have been explained as due to increasing flow of the glaciers. I don't see how accumulations of ice pushing more ice down the slopes could cause the thinning. Faster flowing ice would have less time to thin from melting by sea water, and, contradictory to other observations, would imply more area of ice on the water. Also, the thinning was observed over land.
Even without extra ice accumulating, glaciers can speed up due to changes in friction between the ice and the ground, such as would be caused by the presence of meltwater. It can get warm enough, especially Greenland, for melting to occur, at least at low elevations in the summer or at the base of the glacier under the insulating layer of snow and ice. And to the extent warming sea temperatures breaks up the sea ice, there is less holding back the glaciers, so they can accelerate.
Since I make my living creating drawings and specifications for bidding, and since specifications are essentially numbered lists with many levels, I can assure you that MS Word is full of bugs and very frustrating to use when it comes to bullet points and numbered lists. In fact, MS Word is the worst word processor I have ever used to write specs, and I have used many versions of Word, Wordperfect, and Open Office on Windows and Linux. Hand numbering lists in Notepad is often much easier (though I don't recommend it in case there are any changes later).
TAB and Shift TAB often changes the formatting of the list seemingly randomly, such as losing or changing indents; weirdly, it even affects some previously typed lists but not others. (I've been runnning into this problem a lot this week)
That table of 8 list styles that comes up when you right-click lists (don't know if they fixed this in 2007, but it's been a problem for at least 10 years) obscures the fact that there can be 255 list styles in use at a time, and also avoids letting you know that copying and pasting can create a new list style that's exactly the same as the one you copied.
So it's easy to come to a point where the 8 displayed lists are all the same and you have to edit one to do what you want. It's also easy, especially since it's often convenient to use a previous document as a starting point, to end up when more than 255 styles - then you're fucked, unless you have a copy of Open Office around to try to -maybe- recover the document. (that's happened to me more than once, too)
Well, I could go on, but I'm wasting my lunch time, so I'll stop venting and ranting now.
No long term need to drill in expensive, hard to reach places. The US has plenty of matural gas and coal, which could replace much of the oil when costs rise enough to get people to do the engineering.
However, AT&T management had no interest in pushing those discoveries out in to the field.
More to the point, they had to be very careful about leveraging their monopoly illegally, so in many instances they had to avoid keeping things to themselves. Hence, the liberal licensing for Unix, which led to BSD, POSIX, and eventually Linux.
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I've worked on the design of houses and condos with home automation systems, and even when installed at the time of construction, it can still cost $100s per point, adding up to $10,000s for a large house with lots of cool stuff to control.
If you look at the ingredients in pet food, the first one is usually "meat byproducts" or something to that effect. Would the ingredients still be used if they weren't put into pet food?
Two words: Hot Dogs
I would say that knowing that what unseen button will be clicked by default when blindly hitting enter is more of a "secret handshake" . . . except that it's probably a tie.
It's just what you know and are used to.
Are you sure they were'nt measuring this temperature somewhere inside the server rack rather than the ambient temperature in the room? 45C is around 113F, which is hotter than most daytime highs in Phoenix, Arizona, and typical motors are only rated for ambient conditions of 104F, i.e. 40C (not sure about the little motors inside drives, etc.). See Skapare's post below about the failures he experienced.
You are deefinitely right about the UPS benefitting from cooler air, but I have been involved in several projects where A/C was not installed for the UPS rooms, just ventilation; and this in a Chicago climate where the summer temperature often exceeds 95F (35C). The systems ran fine, though we did let the owner know that they were shortening the life of the system.
As far as 22C or 23C goes, that is a cooler than typically req'd now; 75F to 78F (24C to 27C) is usually perfectly fine for UPS rooms or even server rooms.
It is the phone equipment and other odd pieces that commonly drive the temperatures down and humidities up. They often have specs requiring colder conditions and closer tolerances for humidity and temperature than the bog standard servers. Though I doubt that they really require such, I'm not going to argue with product data published by the manufacturer.
Depending on how large your system is, it's not only better to keep the batteries in a separate room, it's mandated by many codes.
The real question is whether the job ever really required a PhD in the first place.
That's a good point. I feel that masters and undergraduate degrees, especially, are often a job "requirement" only as a simple way to narrow down the number of applicants. PhDs may actually be a good indicator of qualifications for certain academic and research jobs.
Among well-known programmers and engineers without Phd's there is Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, and Will Wright.
Programming and engineering jobs don't have a PhD as a required qualification. It's doubtful that most of your well-known programmers and engineers would be the best choice for jobs that actually (reasonably) require a PhD.
Homeopathy is wrong for two reasons--one, it postulates that chemicals/herbs/medicines that cause a symptom will cure that symptom, . . .
Well, the same ethanol that caused my morning headache seems to have cured it.
. . . except that sometimes it would be better to insert comments directly into someone's message, than to paste a quote into my reply. Sometimes it would be better to edit someone's text directly, than to reply with my suggested amendments.
Can't you already do that with e-mail?
On a trading floor your best communications route is your hand signals.
Well, in the case of my wife's grandfather, he switched from hauling ice to hauling beer.
Construction is not "creating buildings". All of the "creation" is being done by the guy that wrote the original blueprints.
There, broke that for you.
One correction: Ahmadinejad is not a theocratic dictator. In fact he's neither theocratic nor a dictator. He's a civil servant and a pandering politician with very little power. The real power lies with the revolutionary guard and the Supreme Leader. He's a theocratic dictator.
Man, are you off base. ,where do you get the idea that there are 4 types of human out of 400 in the past? There's only one species of human now, there has only been at most 2 in the last 10's of thousands of years. And, biologically speaking, the human "races" are not really separate races, but, as you said, have only minor differences due to adapting to brief geographical separations.
Some of the greatest accomplishments of civilization came from the non-christian middle east, including the alphabet; the numbering system, including the concept of zero; algebra; astronomy.
Plus
I believe (and, believe me, IANAL, so I could be wrong) that the phrase "work around technical limitations" is meant to describe things like disabling activation, enabling services that are present but turned off in the cheaper versions, eliminating the time limit in a trial version, circumventing DRM, etc.
I never ran AutoCAD on Windows 2000, but it runs fine on XP. On 95 and 98 however, i did have problems running AutoCAD (R14) and Excel at the same time, especially when I had large files open. Basically, it would run OK, though slow, switching among the programs I had open. But after I closed AutoCAD, Excel would give me an error about trying to write to protected memory. Sometimes I could just restart Excel, but sometimes things would freeze and I'd have to reboot. I just got in the habit of rebooting for fear of losing work. Win9x had terrible memory management.
From what I've observed, the Israeli government is secular.
Israel was founded as a "Jewish state".
Israel's claim to the land of Israel comes from their holy religious texts.
Israel does not consider you to be a Jew, and will make it difficult for you to immigrate to the Jewish state of Israel, unless you're certified Jewish by an Orthodox rabbi.
Israel is a country where a reform rabbi can't perform a marriage recoginzed by the government, only an officially recognized Orthodox rabbi can. (special rules allow secular marriage for Muslims and Christians)
Some Jews, even some non-Israeli Orthodox Jews, have to convert to Orthodoxy in order to be Jewish enough for the Jewish state.
To me, it's not just the quality of the video, it's that I would rather read than watch. A video is more passive, harder to follow, harder to grasp and remember details (at least for hard concepts or complicated issues), and takes a lot longer than reading. Pictures or videos added to illustrate a point in the article is fine (like showing a side-by-side comparison of screens), but I don't want to watch a lecture, I want to be able to read the information, skim through it if I choose, and take my time where I need to.
YMMV
Hard to tell what that list means for the largest players in the software industry, since I can't find software in there anywhere.
Also, margins and profits are not the same thing. I believe what the poster meant was that the actual cost of producing the software (not including things like marketing and sales) is around 20% of the selling price. I don't know about most companies, but that is true for MS Windows and MS Office sales. MS's overall profits are much less than 80%, because they lose so much money on other things.
The article specifically states glacier flow, not glacier melt in Antarctica. Glacier flow only occurs when you have lots of extra ice pushing more ice down the slope.
The article is about measurements of glacial thinning which have been explained as due to increasing flow of the glaciers. I don't see how accumulations of ice pushing more ice down the slopes could cause the thinning. Faster flowing ice would have less time to thin from melting by sea water, and, contradictory to other observations, would imply more area of ice on the water. Also, the thinning was observed over land.
Even without extra ice accumulating, glaciers can speed up due to changes in friction between the ice and the ground, such as would be caused by the presence of meltwater. It can get warm enough, especially Greenland, for melting to occur, at least at low elevations in the summer or at the base of the glacier under the insulating layer of snow and ice. And to the extent warming sea temperatures breaks up the sea ice, there is less holding back the glaciers, so they can accelerate.
. . . maybe I'm cursed . . .
You're not.
Since I make my living creating drawings and specifications for bidding, and since specifications are essentially numbered lists with many levels, I can assure you that MS Word is full of bugs and very frustrating to use when it comes to bullet points and numbered lists. In fact, MS Word is the worst word processor I have ever used to write specs, and I have used many versions of Word, Wordperfect, and Open Office on Windows and Linux. Hand numbering lists in Notepad is often much easier (though I don't recommend it in case there are any changes later).
TAB and Shift TAB often changes the formatting of the list seemingly randomly, such as losing or changing indents; weirdly, it even affects some previously typed lists but not others. (I've been runnning into this problem a lot this week)
That table of 8 list styles that comes up when you right-click lists (don't know if they fixed this in 2007, but it's been a problem for at least 10 years) obscures the fact that there can be 255 list styles in use at a time, and also avoids letting you know that copying and pasting can create a new list style that's exactly the same as the one you copied.
So it's easy to come to a point where the 8 displayed lists are all the same and you have to edit one to do what you want. It's also easy, especially since it's often convenient to use a previous document as a starting point, to end up when more than 255 styles - then you're fucked, unless you have a copy of Open Office around to try to -maybe- recover the document. (that's happened to me more than once, too)
Well, I could go on, but I'm wasting my lunch time, so I'll stop venting and ranting now.
I'm still not entirely convinced by his arguments about how high a temp you need to burn cardboard. Seriously - 258C??
Might be a little high, but not much. After all, doesn't paper burn at 451F?
At one time scientific consensus was that washing your hands before operating was unnecessary . . .
To be fair, that consensus was held before science was applied to the proposition of washing your hands before surgery.
No long term need to drill in expensive, hard to reach places. The US has plenty of matural gas and coal, which could replace much of the oil when costs rise enough to get people to do the engineering.
However, AT&T management had no interest in pushing those discoveries out in to the field.
More to the point, they had to be very careful about leveraging their monopoly illegally, so in many instances they had to avoid keeping things to themselves. Hence, the liberal licensing for Unix, which led to BSD, POSIX, and eventually Linux.