One reason for using boxes is that they are harder to steal by dropping them in a pocket. But ONE of those inner boxes would have sufficed without being complete overkill. Though common sense calls for a 9x12 envelope or mailer.
I formed my personal ethics and sense of morality through science fiction among other sources. Not sure where my sense of sarcasm comes from though. Maybe it's innate.
If the melting point of a liquid is 62 C, then it is solid anywhere below 62 C. Which could be called 'frozen'. And 50 C is hardly 'cold' by any stretch of the imagination. Unless you're from the planet Mercury.
NIC's go bad. Fact of life. Equipment fails. This particular piece of equipment failed in a dramatic fashion that caused errors resulting in a denial of service to other network devices. The fix is monitoring at the switch level for these types of failures and disabling the port before the errors can cause cascading failures.
Do you run a full function check on every piece of hardware on your computer every time you turn it on? Or do you run it til it breaks then fix it? Also, consider how hard it is to trace this type of error. It is a partial failure, intermittent, and the failure brings down other machines. Any one of the machines that go down could be the culprit.
Kudos to the troubleshooters who found this beast!
People make mistakes. Even _________ (insert linux vendor here) packagers. This patch should be remembered and trotted out every time a new sysadmin is taught how to do the job. Remember the DNS bind patch of '08? That's why you test before patching production servers.
Oh, and the 'I don't have enough money for a spare of every server' excuse won't play. That's one reason to buy consistent models. Your test equipment can serve as emergency replacements or vice versa. And if all else fails, testing on a virtualized system will help catch something this heinous. As would testing on a workstation class machine with a similar configuration.
The only reason a patch is deployed without testing is that the admin is either lazy or doesn't care.
Wow. You just invented a new type of fiction. Lets call it, umm, tech fiction, since technological advances cause the conflict.
You just described the whole genre of Science Fiction. People have been writing about the effects of technology on society and the ethical ramifications of technological advances since Mary Shelley wrote _Frankenstein_, if not before. The conflict between sociological pressure exerted by advancing technology and the whole development of new ethical and moral standards to match new technology are the conflicts that have always appealed to me in SF.
Does it support standby and/or hibernate mode? If so, then Windows 2000 or Windows XP will work nicely. Virtually 0 power consumption but will wake up in about a minute.
This article/discussion is not Open Office vs MS Office. It's about whether web based apps are ready for prime time. I know/. commenters are expected to go off the headline only, then spout their opinions without regard to validity, but come on. At least keep your fanboi comments related to discussions that pertain to Open Office. (BTW, I use it, I just don't think it's better than MS Office, only cheaper.) This isn't even open vs. closed discussioin. It's web 2.0 vs locally installed software. Webapps vs (PickOne: MS Office, WP Office, or OO)
Songwriters should receive royalties from the use of their songs. Recording artists should receive royalties from the use of their recordings.
Record companies should receive income when someone buys a record from them.
Problem is, the record companies give the artists such a small cut, which is reduced again by the agents and managers.
50 years is stupid. 95 is idiotic. 30 years would be enough for the recording artists who make a song famous to get a cut from a remake a generation later. I think maybe songwriter copyrights should be for life.
Copyright wasn't meant to allow artists to retire from a single success. It was meant for artists to turn their single success into a means of independent support while they work on the next one. 10 years would be sufficient for this.
Copyrights should not be transferrable. They should not be held by companies. Nor by heirs.
So, the purpose is to carry out the function without risking human lives, on the ground or in the air.
So the original statement is wrong too. It doesn't save lives so much as it allows recon, surveillance and targetting without risking lives.
Therefore, the Predator is a weapon system which provides, at a relatively low cost, "Armed reconnaissance, airborne surveillance and target acquisition" with great reduction in risk to friendly soldiers and intelligence assets.
Bottom line, the damn thing saves U.S. soldiers from bleeding. Sheesh.
You have a point. But I guess that I find bittorrent piracy less morally appealing than helping people who are oppressed or in danger if their identity/location is discovered. A point could be made that media piracy is civil disobedience; and I accept that the issues brought to light by the "RIAA/MPAA vs their customers" conflict would not be as public without that civil disobedience. I just think that TOR should be reserved for the low bandwidth purposes it was designed for, in order to protect the abused and oppressed as it was designed to do.
And mankind believed the world was flat for millenia... Please note that I do not point to one point of view here and say, "I think that is right." My argument is that this controversy crowds into the area that I think public schools should strongly avoid. The creation vs. evolution debate serves to validate or invalidate a core Christian belief, and as such, I believe discussion about it is a religious matter that should be handled at home or in church.
If you're talking Carnot cycle and efficiency and heat transfer, leave the physicists out of it. They'll end up out on a tangent trying to figure out theoretical possibilities. Carnot cycle and efficiency and heat transfer are all topics taught to mechanical engineering students.
In a nutshell, efficiency is the ratio of the work you can get out of it compared to the work required to make it go. So, simply measure output power and input power and find the efficiency.
That 37% max figure comes from thermodynamic limits and is based on steel engines. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine) This limit is due to the fact that to raise efficiency you need to increase the operating temperature, and for RICE's, the limit occurs when the engine basically melts.
Also, stop comparing diesels to ICE's. Different cycle, different efficiency. Highest I've heard of is 44%, but I would not be surprised if the big ones in ships approach 50%.
My point?
If you use solar or wind to generate hydrogen for fuel cells, does the efficiency really matter all that much? At the beginning it won't. Then later, as the technologies mature, efficiency improvements will determine which companies profit and which fail.
Combustion engines in general are limited on efficiency. Another poster noted that we've gotten them about as efficient as we're going to. Further developments along the current lines of research are probably past the point of diminishing returns.
If we insist on personal transportation, we need to concentrate on making hydrogen fuel cells work. Use them to create electricity to charge batteries. Use them to power ultra-efficient electric motors with regenerative braking. Practical fuel cells and batteries are the sticking points.
Creating hydrogen generation and distribution infrastructure could be tricky too. However, I keep seeing fuel points with big solar panels and a water supply. We'd need to capture and get rid of all the excess oxygen though.
The story that I heard (so long ago that I can not attribute it, but it may have been in an engineering class on Internal Combustion Engines) said that there were new carburetors invented in the 50s that would allow 50mpg then.
Of course, it's probably a matter of forcing drivers to not 'put their foot in it'. Implementing a limited flow carburetor that provides a good mixture of fuel would probably require designing a new engine from the block up. Designed with compression ratio, stroke, bore, valvetrain all designed to run on tons more air than fuel. Main problem is that this would require everyone to change their driving habits. Everyone would have to drive like supermilers.
proof-positive that the evil car marketeers can make us buy things we don't want or need;-}
I'm going to assume you were being sarcastic since the Edsel didn't sell enough to get off the ground. I know people like you. It is true, even paranoiacs have enemies. Usually the rest of us just get pissed off at the "They're out to get me" BS.
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One reason for using boxes is that they are harder to steal by dropping them in a pocket. But ONE of those inner boxes would have sufficed without being complete overkill. Though common sense calls for a 9x12 envelope or mailer.
I formed my personal ethics and sense of morality through science fiction among other sources. Not sure where my sense of sarcasm comes from though. Maybe it's innate.
Heat sinks are solid chunks of metal with fins.
If the melting point of a liquid is 62 C, then it is solid anywhere below 62 C. Which could be called 'frozen'. And 50 C is hardly 'cold' by any stretch of the imagination. Unless you're from the planet Mercury.
It's mostly futurama/simpsons jokes.
NIC's go bad. Fact of life. Equipment fails. This particular piece of equipment failed in a dramatic fashion that caused errors resulting in a denial of service to other network devices. The fix is monitoring at the switch level for these types of failures and disabling the port before the errors can cause cascading failures.
Do you run a full function check on every piece of hardware on your computer every time you turn it on? Or do you run it til it breaks then fix it? Also, consider how hard it is to trace this type of error. It is a partial failure, intermittent, and the failure brings down other machines. Any one of the machines that go down could be the culprit.
Kudos to the troubleshooters who found this beast!
Yes, the books are better, and the spice does confer prescience in a small number of instances.
People make mistakes. Even _________ (insert linux vendor here) packagers. This patch should be remembered and trotted out every time a new sysadmin is taught how to do the job. Remember the DNS bind patch of '08? That's why you test before patching production servers.
Oh, and the 'I don't have enough money for a spare of every server' excuse won't play. That's one reason to buy consistent models. Your test equipment can serve as emergency replacements or vice versa. And if all else fails, testing on a virtualized system will help catch something this heinous. As would testing on a workstation class machine with a similar configuration.
The only reason a patch is deployed without testing is that the admin is either lazy or doesn't care.
...the file was backed up and not deleted.
Wow. You just invented a new type of fiction. Lets call it, umm, tech fiction, since technological advances cause the conflict.
You just described the whole genre of Science Fiction. People have been writing about the effects of technology on society and the ethical ramifications of technological advances since Mary Shelley wrote _Frankenstein_, if not before. The conflict between sociological pressure exerted by advancing technology and the whole development of new ethical and moral standards to match new technology are the conflicts that have always appealed to me in SF.
Sorry, I missed the 'DOS is too old' part.
Guess I must be getting senile.
Does it support standby and/or hibernate mode? If so, then Windows 2000 or Windows XP will work nicely. Virtually 0 power consumption but will wake up in about a minute.
Why mod down DOS? It's a valid OS. Boots quicker than Windows or Linux.
This article/discussion is not Open Office vs MS Office. It's about whether web based apps are ready for prime time. I know /. commenters are expected to go off the headline only, then spout their opinions without regard to validity, but come on. At least keep your fanboi comments related to discussions that pertain to Open Office. (BTW, I use it, I just don't think it's better than MS Office, only cheaper.) This isn't even open vs. closed discussioin. It's web 2.0 vs locally installed software. Webapps vs (PickOne: MS Office, WP Office, or OO)
Songwriters should receive royalties from the use of their songs.
Recording artists should receive royalties from the use of their recordings.
Record companies should receive income when someone buys a record from them.
Problem is, the record companies give the artists such a small cut, which is reduced again by the agents and managers.
50 years is stupid. 95 is idiotic. 30 years would be enough for the recording artists who make a song famous to get a cut from a remake a generation later. I think maybe songwriter copyrights should be for life.
Copyright wasn't meant to allow artists to retire from a single success. It was meant for artists to turn their single success into a means of independent support while they work on the next one. 10 years would be sufficient for this.
Copyrights should not be transferrable. They should not be held by companies. Nor by heirs.
Purpose is a goal, aim, intention.
Function is hat something does or is used for.
So, the purpose is to carry out the function without risking human lives, on the ground or in the air.
So the original statement is wrong too. It doesn't save lives so much as it allows recon, surveillance and targetting without risking lives.
Therefore, the Predator is a weapon system which provides, at a relatively low cost, "Armed reconnaissance, airborne surveillance and target acquisition" with great reduction in risk to friendly soldiers and intelligence assets.
Bottom line, the damn thing saves U.S. soldiers from bleeding. Sheesh.
You have a point. But I guess that I find bittorrent piracy less morally appealing than helping people who are oppressed or in danger if their identity/location is discovered. A point could be made that media piracy is civil disobedience; and I accept that the issues brought to light by the "RIAA/MPAA vs their customers" conflict would not be as public without that civil disobedience. I just think that TOR should be reserved for the low bandwidth purposes it was designed for, in order to protect the abused and oppressed as it was designed to do.
And mankind believed the world was flat for millenia... Please note that I do not point to one point of view here and say, "I think that is right." My argument is that this controversy crowds into the area that I think public schools should strongly avoid. The creation vs. evolution debate serves to validate or invalidate a core Christian belief, and as such, I believe discussion about it is a religious matter that should be handled at home or in church.
NO fine was mentioned.
Almost 10k in reparations and 5k in fees. What about the almost 40k he made?
Fine should be at least 40k.
If you're talking Carnot cycle and efficiency and heat transfer, leave the physicists out of it. They'll end up out on a tangent trying to figure out theoretical possibilities. Carnot cycle and efficiency and heat transfer are all topics taught to mechanical engineering students.
In a nutshell, efficiency is the ratio of the work you can get out of it compared to the work required to make it go. So, simply measure output power and input power and find the efficiency.
That 37% max figure comes from thermodynamic limits and is based on steel engines. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine) This limit is due to the fact that to raise efficiency you need to increase the operating temperature, and for RICE's, the limit occurs when the engine basically melts.
Also, stop comparing diesels to ICE's. Different cycle, different efficiency. Highest I've heard of is 44%, but I would not be surprised if the big ones in ships approach 50%.
My point?
If you use solar or wind to generate hydrogen for fuel cells, does the efficiency really matter all that much? At the beginning it won't. Then later, as the technologies mature, efficiency improvements will determine which companies profit and which fail.
Combustion engines in general are limited on efficiency. Another poster noted that we've gotten them about as efficient as we're going to. Further developments along the current lines of research are probably past the point of diminishing returns.
If we insist on personal transportation, we need to concentrate on making hydrogen fuel cells work. Use them to create electricity to charge batteries. Use them to power ultra-efficient electric motors with regenerative braking. Practical fuel cells and batteries are the sticking points.
Creating hydrogen generation and distribution infrastructure could be tricky too. However, I keep seeing fuel points with big solar panels and a water supply. We'd need to capture and get rid of all the excess oxygen though.
The story that I heard (so long ago that I can not attribute it, but it may have been in an engineering class on Internal Combustion Engines) said that there were new carburetors invented in the 50s that would allow 50mpg then.
Of course, it's probably a matter of forcing drivers to not 'put their foot in it'. Implementing a limited flow carburetor that provides a good mixture of fuel would probably require designing a new engine from the block up. Designed with compression ratio, stroke, bore, valvetrain all designed to run on tons more air than fuel. Main problem is that this would require everyone to change their driving habits. Everyone would have to drive like supermilers.
You left out the CIA and the NSA. Many conspiracy theorists see one or both of these two as "Them".
Umm, most of those are tree-huggers, not greenies.
Those are AC motors.
Here's some info on DC motors. (Note the curves are theoretical, and simplified).
http://lancet.mit.edu/motors/motors3.html
Torque is max at 0 RPM.
proof-positive that the evil car marketeers can make us buy things we don't want or need;-}
I'm going to assume you were being sarcastic since the Edsel didn't sell enough to get off the ground. I know people like you. It is true, even paranoiacs have enemies. Usually the rest of us just get pissed off at the "They're out to get me" BS.