It's probably an insurance pool. As others have said, try buying fire insurance while your house is burning.
Rackspace probably pays for filtering capabilities upstream with the insurance pool. If anything, the $3000 fee is probably subsidized by the $1500 payers. It sounds like a great deal (financially) to me for what ammounts to very expensive filtering in the wider pipes.
I could build a (very expensive) field generator with some funky shaped field with much of the flux passing through some point six feet away. Only problem is, you'd have to stand in that exact spot.
I agree that these products are BS and/or a waste of energy. If you just think about field lines, either they all pass through your phone or they don't. If they cover a wide area, clearly most of the possible flux is not hitting your phone. Fields 101.
I suppose you could install many field generators and have them test if there is a resistance associated with a receiver. But I don't see how you could do this and have high efficiency several feet off the ground. The geometry just doesn't work, IMO.
Performance per watt is the real key for most server applications. It becomes a question of how much crap can you fit in a room before you can no longer cool the room. So, to be fair, performance and power usage are equally weighted. It's also very hard to compare current ARM products with current Intel x86 products because of the differences in process. The Intel process advantage is huge regardless of whatever you do with the architecture.
Not to mention the additional work required to support multiple ARM CPUs on a motherboard
I also don't see why an ISA change would really require many changes in memory interconnects, etc.
I hope my house never gets bought for ten times what it is worth. That would be terrible.
I agree that it sucks if your tax rates go up, but they are only doing so because you are getting "free" money in the form of home equity. It's hard to count that as much of a wrong. Variable pricing is a requirement for capitalism. Development is an inevitable consequence of increasing population and improving farm yields.
You come across as feeling smug and superior to all those "yuppie idiots". Frankly, you can take all the pride you want in your fishing lures. But if I don't find it worthwhile to make them, you are just an ass if you look down on lures I might purchase. Mind your own. I make my own furniture, but you don't see me shitting all over my neighbor's composite board table when he hands me a beer.
Anyway, gentrification sucks for those pushed out by it, but I don't think there is much to be done without ending capitalism in the housing market.
Though, I guess Microsoft goes out of their way to burn bridges (*ahem* ribbons)... Doubtful they will ever implement a desktop mode?
And I find third-party modification of Windows a little scarier than adding a new window manager to an Xorg box.
Physical coupling between the steering wheel and the tires is still a big deal. Same with break petals and breaking mechanisms.
I know there is force feedback stuff, but none of it approaches that little bit of direct feedback you recieve when a front tire goes over a bump, etc.
Long live mechanical breaking/steering!
... the assumption that 3-year-olds are stupid. They aren't.
I'm glad someone brought this up. I was thinking the same thing.
Hell, you could teach spacially gifted three-year-olds higher dimensional geometry WAY easier than adult students, if you had an appropriate means of input/interaction planned.
Languages, interfaces, and any other type of "human I/O" are exactly what three-year-olds developing brains devour.
who doesnt want to put fingerprints all over my freaking monitor?
I was going to make a comment about smudges on your smart phone... But I guess it's a lot easier to wipe your phone on your pant leg. (Attempts to wipe monitor with shirt. Breaks shirt, office dress code.)
Anyone know if there is a good way to have relatively optimized reception over that whole spectrum without having to swap your antennas when changing frequencies?
We don't have much detail yet, but I think this is really going to be about Google "bundling" services. When I search for a local restaurant, a map and reviews pop up. When I type a ticker symbol, a stock quote appears. While I love these services, I see how they might be questionably anti-competative. See Microsoft and the trouble they got in over Internet Explorer, Media Player, etc. It seems it would be bad for consumers if they find Google guilty, but I'm not sure if the quality of the tool shields them from the claim that they coercing consumers into using their products.
I am inclined to agree that search results displaying their e-mail service, etc, are probably influenced by how much people discuss them.
I wonder, though, if this case might be about services embedded in the search? Unit conversions, translations, and stock quotes are all automatically displayed upon a search. While (IMO) finding this anti-competative would be bad for consumers, I understand that it might prevent users from trying competing products.
Python was my favorite language to learn. AFAIK the Python theme is not to be an 'easy' language to learn, but to minimize dev time. When you start thinking about how fast you just implemented something, it's worth it.
If you get bored with what I assume is a linear math centric course, you could always grab the pygame module and write a sweet game in less than 20 hours. If you are good with OOP and are familiar with reference based garbage collection, it's a breeze. Once you get comfortable with the base language, adding xml functionality, threading, networking, etc is really easy.
In-house CNC routing is pretty nice for board prototyping, and handy for making new solder masks, too. I strongly recommend CNC capabilities for any lab where: A) The cost is not an issue, and B) Board-level prototyping is going on. The cost shouldn't be an issue, considering how cheap CNC is these days compared to a good oscilloscope. And solder masking is sexy.:)
You'd probably want a 240C capable (high melting point ROHS) solder oven. Vapor rephase is sick, but expensive. IMO stay away from laser if you are doing BGA/CGA work.
A proliferation of currencies would likely destabilize valuation, since currencies would no longer only be based primarily on economic stability, but instead on (potentially irrational) preference. To be fair, both gold and the USD are already subject to this to some extent, since they are viewed as "safe havens".
It wouldn't surprise me if the gold-based currency won in such a competition, since its valuation is based on global factors, and therefore would be more stable. Just because it "wins" does not make it superior as a functional currency, though. Trying to apply Darwinian selection to everything under the sun appears to be a popular fallacy these days. Without worrying about whether selective pressures correlate with your long-term goals, I mean.:)
Talking about "letting the market decide" sounds even more dangerous to me, as it gives proponents a defense against any obvious flaw in resource based currencies (ie they will say that if it is bad, it won't get selected). The debate would never turn to the fact that selective pressures in this competition would in no way resemble the long-term desires for a currency. Then again, this is an issue with a lot of current issues (school vouchers, infrastructure privatization).
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It's probably an insurance pool. As others have said, try buying fire insurance while your house is burning.
Rackspace probably pays for filtering capabilities upstream with the insurance pool. If anything, the $3000 fee is probably subsidized by the $1500 payers. It sounds like a great deal (financially) to me for what ammounts to very expensive filtering in the wider pipes.
I could build a (very expensive) field generator with some funky shaped field with much of the flux passing through some point six feet away. Only problem is, you'd have to stand in that exact spot.
I agree that these products are BS and/or a waste of energy. If you just think about field lines, either they all pass through your phone or they don't. If they cover a wide area, clearly most of the possible flux is not hitting your phone. Fields 101.
I suppose you could install many field generators and have them test if there is a resistance associated with a receiver. But I don't see how you could do this and have high efficiency several feet off the ground. The geometry just doesn't work, IMO.
power usage is secondary to performance
Performance per watt is the real key for most server applications. It becomes a question of how much crap can you fit in a room before you can no longer cool the room. So, to be fair, performance and power usage are equally weighted. It's also very hard to compare current ARM products with current Intel x86 products because of the differences in process. The Intel process advantage is huge regardless of whatever you do with the architecture.
Not to mention the additional work required to support multiple ARM CPUs on a motherboard
I also don't see why an ISA change would really require many changes in memory interconnects, etc.
I hope my house never gets bought for ten times what it is worth. That would be terrible.
I agree that it sucks if your tax rates go up, but they are only doing so because you are getting "free" money in the form of home equity. It's hard to count that as much of a wrong. Variable pricing is a requirement for capitalism. Development is an inevitable consequence of increasing population and improving farm yields.
You come across as feeling smug and superior to all those "yuppie idiots". Frankly, you can take all the pride you want in your fishing lures. But if I don't find it worthwhile to make them, you are just an ass if you look down on lures I might purchase. Mind your own. I make my own furniture, but you don't see me shitting all over my neighbor's composite board table when he hands me a beer.
Anyway, gentrification sucks for those pushed out by it, but I don't think there is much to be done without ending capitalism in the housing market.
I don't know. SATA vs ATA seems analagous to SSD vs HDD to me...
(PS I don't know why you wrote sic after ATA, since ATA was its original name.)
There is little evidence that using Adderall, etc, actually improves academic performance. The few studies whcih have been done actually correlate worse academic performance with unprescribed stimulant use. Perhaps you could argue that it is the weaker students using them to begin with. PDF Warning (see page 8 for correlative overview): http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/outputds.php?pid=rutgers-lib:38417&mime=application/pdf&ds=PDF-1 There is a growing body of evidence that those who do benefit may actually be self-medicating undiagnosed attention defficit symptoms: http://jad.sagepub.com/content/15/4/263.short http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15433714.2010.525402
Though, I guess Microsoft goes out of their way to burn bridges (*ahem* ribbons)... Doubtful they will ever implement a desktop mode? And I find third-party modification of Windows a little scarier than adding a new window manager to an Xorg box.
Personally, I just installed gnome desktop. Unity seemed to love putting a giant bar in the middle of my two monitors, no matter what I did :)
Physical coupling between the steering wheel and the tires is still a big deal. Same with break petals and breaking mechanisms. I know there is force feedback stuff, but none of it approaches that little bit of direct feedback you recieve when a front tire goes over a bump, etc. Long live mechanical breaking/steering!
Off topic: Just curious why you go with KDE over Gnome? Is it the layout, aesthetics, or something else?
... the assumption that 3-year-olds are stupid. They aren't.
I'm glad someone brought this up. I was thinking the same thing. Hell, you could teach spacially gifted three-year-olds higher dimensional geometry WAY easier than adult students, if you had an appropriate means of input/interaction planned. Languages, interfaces, and any other type of "human I/O" are exactly what three-year-olds developing brains devour.
who doesnt want to put fingerprints all over my freaking monitor?
I was going to make a comment about smudges on your smart phone... But I guess it's a lot easier to wipe your phone on your pant leg.
(Attempts to wipe monitor with shirt. Breaks shirt, office dress code.)
Anyone know if there is a good way to have relatively optimized reception over that whole spectrum without having to swap your antennas when changing frequencies?
A general answer would be fractal antennas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna
Log Periodic antennas are a subset of fractal antennas.
Since they are fractal (ie scaleless), you can expand them to pretty much any wavelength range you need.
Trading your rip for quid pro quo access to other rips would be considered proffiting in most places.
Not that I agree with MPAA/RIAA methods for extracting "damages"...
Not to mention that I'm pretty sure I have a proof for the existance of watchmakers. So GP's logic is begging the question....
We don't have much detail yet, but I think this is really going to be about Google "bundling" services. When I search for a local restaurant, a map and reviews pop up. When I type a ticker symbol, a stock quote appears.
While I love these services, I see how they might be questionably anti-competative. See Microsoft and the trouble they got in over Internet Explorer, Media Player, etc.
It seems it would be bad for consumers if they find Google guilty, but I'm not sure if the quality of the tool shields them from the claim that they coercing consumers into using their products.
Wins the award for most meta implementation of a genetic heuristic.
woooaaah
Rewrite the compiler so that your binary is secretly an audio file with a message of your choosing.
Bonus points if your application can play itself.
All we have to do is wait until the meteor is radial to three miles off shore!
TSMC sued for unreasonable pricing.
I am inclined to agree that search results displaying their e-mail service, etc, are probably influenced by how much people discuss them.
I wonder, though, if this case might be about services embedded in the search? Unit conversions, translations, and stock quotes are all automatically displayed upon a search. While (IMO) finding this anti-competative would be bad for consumers, I understand that it might prevent users from trying competing products.
Python was my favorite language to learn. AFAIK the Python theme is not to be an 'easy' language to learn, but to minimize dev time. When you start thinking about how fast you just implemented something, it's worth it.
If you get bored with what I assume is a linear math centric course, you could always grab the pygame module and write a sweet game in less than 20 hours. If you are good with OOP and are familiar with reference based garbage collection, it's a breeze. Once you get comfortable with the base language, adding xml functionality, threading, networking, etc is really easy.
Eh, no one reads the TFA -- I come here for the comments :)
^this!
In-house CNC routing is pretty nice for board prototyping, and handy for making new solder masks, too. I strongly recommend CNC capabilities for any lab where: :)
A) The cost is not an issue, and
B) Board-level prototyping is going on.
The cost shouldn't be an issue, considering how cheap CNC is these days compared to a good oscilloscope. And solder masking is sexy.
You'd probably want a 240C capable (high melting point ROHS) solder oven. Vapor rephase is sick, but expensive. IMO stay away from laser if you are doing BGA/CGA work.
A proliferation of currencies would likely destabilize valuation, since currencies would no longer only be based primarily on economic stability, but instead on (potentially irrational) preference. To be fair, both gold and the USD are already subject to this to some extent, since they are viewed as "safe havens".
It wouldn't surprise me if the gold-based currency won in such a competition, since its valuation is based on global factors, and therefore would be more stable. Just because it "wins" does not make it superior as a functional currency, though. Trying to apply Darwinian selection to everything under the sun appears to be a popular fallacy these days. Without worrying about whether selective pressures correlate with your long-term goals, I mean. :)
Talking about "letting the market decide" sounds even more dangerous to me, as it gives proponents a defense against any obvious flaw in resource based currencies (ie they will say that if it is bad, it won't get selected). The debate would never turn to the fact that selective pressures in this competition would in no way resemble the long-term desires for a currency. Then again, this is an issue with a lot of current issues (school vouchers, infrastructure privatization).