but you replied to a comment that was saying it's an issue of load and supply management (which for hydro requires reservoirs) and your response/answer was to use hydro that didn't use reservoirs (aka a solution that doesn't fit the problem)
now for baseline replace/supplement/provide when available like solar and wind sure - but that wasn't the problem you where responding too.
Hydro plants that don't use reservoirs can't/shouldn't be used to fill in gaps.. they can't "stock pile" the water to use later they either use it as it passes or not at all.
you need a damn and reservoir to use as a gap filler
i can only assume your "don't seem as fail safe" comment is aimed at Japan..
now stop and think about what happened to cause that.. an extreme, by all means natural disaster - mixed with an older design flaw and greed.
if people where in it to actually help society and actually try and produce clean reliable energy for the world rather than out to make every damn cent they can and out to try to please everyone's fear mongering this problem could have been over long ago.
no we can't prevent earthquakes or their results.. but i bet you based on what has happened in Japan that the next reactor built will have it's design modified to handle at least that situation.
if we try to move forward sure there might be accidents - but we will be moving forward.. if people stopped using cars because you might die in an accident think about where we would be - now look at where we are.. modern cars are extremely safe compared to what we started with (and still kill more people each year)
exactly.. most people think of Atomic or bio weapons when they make the "uninvent" comment - but the truth is that the further understanding that came from them goes far beyond the horrors..
now i'm not a fan of the end justifies the means - if there was a way to learn about the atom and other things without the horrors that happened i can't help but wish we had gone that route - but that would require a change in a fundamental way we as humans think, and i don't see that happening any time soon (research for the sake of research & knowledge - not for other motives aka war/money).
i honestly can't think of anything that i wish we could "uninvent"
I would much rather invent and learn the hard way and progress forward than to bury my head in the sand and ignore the possibilities and not further the understanding of the world.
but they are using them for e-mail and contact management and calendaring and tasks - all the things that windows PDA's did.
if i remember right - MS the patents on almost all of the Office/Work/Organizer on Mobile device with sync.
It doesn't mater what OS or what language you write that in/on if you are copying someones ideas you are copying them and if they have a patent for it then you are supposed to licence it.
They could be collecting thousands of pounds of explosives every day and we would never know about it. There could have been 20 major airline bomb incidents this year that were stopped and we would never know.
and using that argument there could have been 20 bombings that happened and they gagged the media and everyone involved..
think about it - in your normal day there are only 1-200 people you see - normally less than 20 you converse with - the rest is media/net.. prove the statement wrong?
after reading that - take your frame of mind and read your statement..
Even if they where using fiber - i would rather them do it this way with the fiber transceiver in the cable than to have the lasers and receivers built into the controller in the laptop - SFP's go bad this is why they are easy to replace in enterprise environments..
It's a safe assumption that Thunderbolt will make it into everything Apple sells within the next month or so... MacBook Air...
I doubt you will see it int he MacBook Air -- they didn't even bothered for an RJ45 jack.. also i think the TB connector profile is tall er than the Air's base frame is.
i look at the cable and the connectors and i just have this feeling of SFPs/Mini-GBIC but for PCIe instead of FC/Ethernet
and with that in mind 50$ is cheap for a full cable - and potential is great if vendors start to embrace it.
i know alot of people point at Firewire.. personally my problem with it was it's daisy chain - it wanted to be simplified scsi but for the price you could just use scsi.
*bad form to reply.. but just thought about it and if you assigned a counter to a global block you could use it to know when it is no longer used (blah the obvious).. so yea what would be the problem with just encrypting the block chain with a user key?.
what if you where to use user key's to encrypt the block chain info? you could keep the blocks unencrypted (or all using a different but single key) but without the users key you would be able to assemble the file for that user.
The only downside i see is global block/orphan cleanup.. with the chains encrypted they wouldn't be able tell who would still be using a block and like wise when no one is using the block..
I used to host game servers for clans - back for CS and the likes.. i never did mind it really - always got enough donations to cover hardware and colo costs.. but then i pawned off the in game management off on someone else.. i never had to field/deal with the actual end users.. just got to play with people i knew and let them deal with the other players..
and if there was a game worth doing it - AND i had the TIME to PLAY i'd do it again.. but getting older and having a kid.. time for games just disappears.. that is for video games.. board games though.. they are fun.
Hosting game servers really isn't that bad - its managing the community in the game that is what makes people want to rip their hair out.
Right by Oracle is a blood money machine.. Google is a threat to them - if they have a chance at burning them i really down Larry is going to pass it down..
Also for how fast this happened after they bought Sun i wouldn't be surprised if this was planned long before they approached Sun with a buyout.
saddly i bought something at best buy recently.. i needed some linksys E1000's Newegg has them for 50$+ Tiger/Comp had them for 80$ and oddly bestbuy had them for 45$..
i still feel bad buying something there after the last time was there.
Your right about the OP - and i agree with you on that..
I feel the problem is in peoples lack of taking the time to understand the basics of the tools they are using and are relying on.. it doesn't take a CS degree to understand the basics.
but they shouldn't trust it fully.. no one should.. unless they understand it.
Honestly a lot of people are surprised that locksmiths can make them a new key by just having the VIN of the car..
If you understand it then you can trust it as much as you are willing based on that understanding.. sadly there is this blip on the curve when it comes to "security" where most people who know nothing about a method will trust it because they don't understand it and don't want to bother to.
Slashdot Mirror
but you replied to a comment that was saying it's an issue of load and supply management (which for hydro requires reservoirs) and your response/answer was to use hydro that didn't use reservoirs (aka a solution that doesn't fit the problem)
now for baseline replace/supplement/provide when available like solar and wind sure - but that wasn't the problem you where responding too.
Hydro plants that don't use reservoirs can't/shouldn't be used to fill in gaps.. they can't "stock pile" the water to use later they either use it as it passes or not at all.
you need a damn and reservoir to use as a gap filler
i can only assume your "don't seem as fail safe" comment is aimed at Japan..
now stop and think about what happened to cause that.. an extreme, by all means natural disaster - mixed with an older design flaw and greed.
if people where in it to actually help society and actually try and produce clean reliable energy for the world rather than out to make every damn cent they can and out to try to please everyone's fear mongering this problem could have been over long ago.
no we can't prevent earthquakes or their results .. but i bet you based on what has happened in Japan that the next reactor built will have it's design modified to handle at least that situation.
if we try to move forward sure there might be accidents - but we will be moving forward.. if people stopped using cars because you might die in an accident think about where we would be - now look at where we are.. modern cars are extremely safe compared to what we started with (and still kill more people each year)
exactly.. most people think of Atomic or bio weapons when they make the "uninvent" comment - but the truth is that the further understanding that came from them goes far beyond the horrors..
now i'm not a fan of the end justifies the means - if there was a way to learn about the atom and other things without the horrors that happened i can't help but wish we had gone that route - but that would require a change in a fundamental way we as humans think, and i don't see that happening any time soon (research for the sake of research & knowledge - not for other motives aka war/money).
i honestly can't think of anything that i wish we could "uninvent"
I would much rather invent and learn the hard way and progress forward than to bury my head in the sand and ignore the possibilities and not further the understanding of the world.
but they are using them for e-mail and contact management and calendaring and tasks - all the things that windows PDA's did.
if i remember right - MS the patents on almost all of the Office/Work/Organizer on Mobile device with sync.
It doesn't mater what OS or what language you write that in/on if you are copying someones ideas you are copying them and if they have a patent for it then you are supposed to licence it.
not always true - i've tried to get a refund for a bad app once.. basically got an all sales final stone wall.
and how does this change the current model>> ?
They could be collecting thousands of pounds of explosives every day and we would never know about it. There could have been 20 major airline bomb incidents this year that were stopped and we would never know.
and using that argument there could have been 20 bombings that happened and they gagged the media and everyone involved..
think about it - in your normal day there are only 1-200 people you see - normally less than 20 you converse with - the rest is media/net.. prove the statement wrong?
after reading that - take your frame of mind and read your statement..
i didn't realize that the connector was that small
Even if they where using fiber - i would rather them do it this way with the fiber transceiver in the cable than to have the lasers and receivers built into the controller in the laptop - SFP's go bad this is why they are easy to replace in enterprise environments..
It's a safe assumption that Thunderbolt will make it into everything Apple sells within the next month or so ... MacBook Air ...
I doubt you will see it int he MacBook Air -- they didn't even bothered for an RJ45 jack.. also i think the TB connector profile is tall er than the Air's base frame is.
i look at the cable and the connectors and i just have this feeling of SFPs/Mini-GBIC but for PCIe instead of FC/Ethernet
and with that in mind 50$ is cheap for a full cable - and potential is great if vendors start to embrace it.
i know alot of people point at Firewire.. personally my problem with it was it's daisy chain - it wanted to be simplified scsi but for the price you could just use scsi.
server size sure.. client side... yea.......
i have had zero problem with it coming back with chrome or opera
turn off google instant and that goes away too..
*bad form to reply.. but just thought about it and if you assigned a counter to a global block you could use it to know when it is no longer used (blah the obvious).. so yea what would be the problem with just encrypting the block chain with a user key?.
what if you where to use user key's to encrypt the block chain info? you could keep the blocks unencrypted (or all using a different but single key) but without the users key you would be able to assemble the file for that user.
The only downside i see is global block/orphan cleanup.. with the chains encrypted they wouldn't be able tell who would still be using a block and like wise when no one is using the block..
I used to host game servers for clans - back for CS and the likes .. i never did mind it really - always got enough donations to cover hardware and colo costs.. but then i pawned off the in game management off on someone else.. i never had to field/deal with the actual end users.. just got to play with people i knew and let them deal with the other players..
and if there was a game worth doing it - AND i had the TIME to PLAY i'd do it again.. but getting older and having a kid.. time for games just disappears.. that is for video games.. board games though.. they are fun.
Hosting game servers really isn't that bad - its managing the community in the game that is what makes people want to rip their hair out.
Right by Oracle is a blood money machine.. Google is a threat to them - if they have a chance at burning them i really down Larry is going to pass it down..
Also for how fast this happened after they bought Sun i wouldn't be surprised if this was planned long before they approached Sun with a buyout.
they only need to own 51%
Oracle's Market Cap = 161.13B
Price to control = 80.565B
Google's Cash on Hand = 36.67B
so yea they are short a bit..
saddly i bought something at best buy recently.. i needed some linksys E1000's Newegg has them for 50$+ Tiger/Comp had them for 80$ and oddly bestbuy had them for 45$..
i still feel bad buying something there after the last time was there.
agreed - people who do not understand things should not be in charge of them..
Your right about the OP - and i agree with you on that..
I feel the problem is in peoples lack of taking the time to understand the basics of the tools they are using and are relying on.. it doesn't take a CS degree to understand the basics.
but they shouldn't trust it fully.. no one should.. unless they understand it.
Honestly a lot of people are surprised that locksmiths can make them a new key by just having the VIN of the car..
If you understand it then you can trust it as much as you are willing based on that understanding.. sadly there is this blip on the curve when it comes to "security" where most people who know nothing about a method will trust it because they don't understand it and don't want to bother to.