I always considered that as buffer for when you loose one of the AC units. That way if it takes all day to get it fixed, your only up to 80F and still OK.
Or, have a redundant AC unit that only kicks in when temp > 75. That way, you're not paying to keep it at 60, and you're covered if you lose a unit.
"It's cheaper to just buy or build more traditional raised floor space and run good old fashioned 6, 4, or 2u servers than to cool a bunch of blade racks."
Unless you're in Manhattan. Or Boston. Or LA. Or Miami. Etc.
The scary part is that everyone tells me that the PS3 is harder to program for than the Xbox360, and the tools are nowhere near the quality of Microsoft's
I told Sony over and over again that they'd better include an IDE with their SDK... they really dropped the ball on this one.
FTA:"Historically, I haven't managed the electric bill. But now we're aware and interested in it," Doherty said. "If I told my boss that my staff wanted a 27% increase [in pay], I'd be downstairs on the carpet."
First, it's good that he's paying attention to the electric bill now. But he should have been paying attention to it in the past (last year saw a spike in prces, too). TCO and all that. Of course, electricity may be negligible compared to other costs, depending on their setup.
Second, it's highly unlikely that a 27% boost to electricity costs is anywhere near as much as a 27% boost in salaries. Furthermore, salaries are more controllable internally.
Good for him to point it out though.
Of interest, one of my company's vendors has been assessing us a fuel surcharge for a couple years now (though shipping & distribution is not a core function of theirs). They are now adding a "utilities" surcharge to their invoices... due to management relationships, we're stuck with this vendor, who has raised our effective rates 18% in the past two years. Anyone else have a similar experience?
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Wasn't me... so no panicking here:)
Thanks for clearing that up.
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Exigent circumstances. As has been pointed out to me, that covers the situation you describe.
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You forgot Avaya, the 00's trendy marketroid name.
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reasonable suspicion != probable cause.
Also, even if they did have probable cause, they still need to get a warrant to search his home -- that's the whole purpose of the warrant system, for judges to confirm that law enforcement does indeed have probable cause.
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"They're right--they do NOT need a warrant in such a case. What if, say, a wife called 911 after being beaten, locked her away, and the husband refused to allow a search when they got there? Warrants are only there to show that they have a "reasonable suspicion"--if they have it for some other reason, like the 911 call (or it being "in plain sight"--a category that is always problematic), they don't need a warrant. IANAL, but I did read up a bit on this at one time."
BS. Unless they are in hot pursuit, with a credible account and/or witnessing of a crime, they need to have a warrant. If they want to search his house on the premise that he may have killed his wife, they need to get a warrant. And warrants are not to show that they have "reasonable suspicion" -- in order to get a warrant, they need to demonstrate "probable cause," which has a higher burden. I think maybe the last time you read up on this was in high school civics class.
There are always (execpt in the case of massive immune system failure, and even possibly then) cytokines in the blood. But you're right, they aren't necessarily specific to the blood, which I didn't mean to imply.
I think the key observation here is not just that there are physiological explanations for this behavior, it's that they've isolated some of the compounds that are related to the behavior.
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"Warrants aren't required when there is reasonable cause."
Not so. Probable cause is what's required to get a warrant. See this link for more info on what specific situations void the need for a warrant: http://www.outlawslegal.com/refer/search.htm
The officer who claimed they didn't need a warrant was either grossly mistaken or lying through his teeth. Either one is indicative of the gradual failure of rights protection in the US.
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"Give them a plate of nachos (with lots of jalepenos) and watch that productivity go right back up. Capsaicin, one of the things that makes peppers hot, blocks the activation of certain cytokine-induced transcription factors (like NF-kB)"
Has the added affect of making them happy, since capsaicin triggers endorphin release through pain response.
Yes, but the point is also that the re-equibrilation occurs within a week or so; you've an increase in tropospheric H2O that reaches its peak very quickly. Whereas, for CO2, or CH4, you won't reach the peak for decades or even centuries, even assuming constant levels of production. Mediation of eleveated tropospheric CO2 and CH4 will also take decades or centuries.
Even if CO2 were to "trap" radiation at only 5% the efficiency of H2O, the extended duration of the CO2 being free in the troposphere would mean that each quanta of CO2 emitted would trap more radiation than each quanta of H2O.
My point, in essence, is that the higher-ups are responsible for the actions of their underlings. If they did not oversee the underlings properly, then they were negligent. If they approved the action, then they were complicit.
"Not that suprising at this point, it is a new system, it tries to create a new market and it does so in the enterprise space. Things don't suddenly catch on when it comes to enterprise data service, Sun has to offer the service to get the talk going and in another few years we will really know if it turns out good or not."
Exactly. It's not like within a company, the demand for ridiculous amounts of CPU cycles materializes overnight. Suddenly, Production Dept says to CIO, "Hey, we need to render two hours of animated video in three days two months from now! How do we do that?"
This'll become more popular when current render farms and computing clusters become obsolete, and not likely before then.
I'm sure there are governments that could make use of this service, and I'm also pretty sure that they would be able to get Sun to not publish their use of the grid.
FTA:
"To that end, and taking a tip from other online services like iTunes, American online retailers have begun taking preorders on pre-paid Xbox 360 Live Marketplace Points.
FTSummary: " Microsoft is offering up Xbox Live Marketplace points for presale, according to Edge Online."
A subtle distinction, perhaps, but MS is not retailing the points directly as of now.
The silliest part -- why would anyone prepay for these Points, it's not like inventory is limited by physical supply, right? Unless MS chooses to artificially induce delays in delivery, or can't handle the volume (which would really, really surprise me).
"Regardless of how he meant it, water does have a much stronger greenhouse effect than CO2."
In a lab, not in the troposphere. Net effect of H2O is very low. Read a little further down in the Wikipedia entry:
"Water vapor in the troposphere, unlike the better-known greenhouse gases such as CO2, is essentially passive in terms of climate: the residence time for water vapor in the atmosphere is short (about a week) so perturbations to water vapor rapidly re-equilibriate. In contrast, the lifetimes of CO2, methane, etc, are long (hundreds of years) and hence perturbations remain. Thus, in response to a temperature perturbation caused by enhanced CO2, water vapor would increase, resulting in a (limited) positive feedback and higher temperatures. In response to a perturbation from enhanced water vapor, the atmosphere would re-equilibriate due to clouds causing reflective cooling and water-removing rain."
Since state legislators have a harder time pressing the look-over-there-it's-a-terror-alert button, they have to resort to crap like this to save their flagging support.
FTA:"The bill would likely be a welcome change of tone in publicity for Diaz de la Portilla, who has spent much of the year embroiled in an ethics scandal over his failure to comply with campaign finance laws"
Given that the bill is nearly identical to the CA bill, doesn't this just seem like a publicity stunt for de la Portilla?
"I love how the moderators around here are on crack. +4 Interesting? Dihydrogen monoxide is WATER.
He has made a joke, not written an informative statement..."
Mods often assign +1 Interesting in place of +1 Funny, since Funny mods don't affect karma.
Also, if the mods thought it was an informative statement, they would have modded it +1 Informative, not +1 Interesting.
Nope. Serum cytokines means cytokines in the blood, that's all. So that statement can be interpreted as meaning that they observed elevated levels of cytokines that are normally found in the blood.
Five to ten years or more? That's incredibly optimistic to put it that way, even with the "and more". Plus, he's not saying anything about a cure, just about treatment. Does anyone foresee gene therapy in action within the next decade?
Instead, what we'll see is early detection of genetic disease, and from a pharmacologicoprofitability standpoint, plenty of maintenance drugs to help keep the genes from being fully expressed or to mitigate the symptoms.
/cynicism
OTOH, early detection of as-yet uncurable genetic disease has led to marvelous increases in quality of life for people who are diagnosed. Let the research continue!
An earlier post that mentions Usher Syndrome is a great example. It's amazing that a ten-second Google can show an example of genetic testing providing early diagnosis and better treatment: In April 2003, NIDCD researchers, along with their research collaborators from universities in New York, N.Y., and Tel Aviv, Israel, pinpointed a mutation, named R245X, of the PCDH15 gene that accounts for a large percentage of USH1 cases in today's Ashkenazi Jewish population. (The term Ashkenazi describes Jewish people who originate from eastern Europe.) Because of this finding, researchers conclude that Ashkenazi Jewish infants with bilateral, profound hearing loss who lack another known mutation that causes hearing loss should be screened for the R245X mutation. If a child's USH1 is discovered early on, before she loses the ability to see, then that child is more likely to benefit from the full spectrum of intervention strategies that are available to help her communicate and participate in life's activities.
I wish TFA was a little more specific on which kind of cytokines they found... I guess we'll have to wait for the human studies.
Really, though, this should be no surprise. It's been known for some time that stress to the body results in immunological cytokine release.
The symptoms (pre-RSS) that they mention, like depression, fatigue, etc, are eerily similar to Epstein-Barr... I wonder if the immne system is revved up by the repetitive motions (hence feeling sick), or inhibited, like the EBV toxin.
I've an acquaintance who is a field researcher (reporter?) for the BBC. I emailed him about this, he said their IT depts are great, he's rarely had problems anywhere in the world, and when he does, they get things straightened out right away.
"Mind you, my tinfoil hat is whispering in my ear that they were likely all PR stunts anyway!;-)"
That's not a tinfoil hat... that's just well-founded cynicism. And if you think your TFH is whispering in your ear, obviously it has holes in it and is letting the mind-control rays into your head.;)
FTA: "Microsoft abandoned the idea after a competitor protested."
How many questionable actions have slipped through because the competitors have been strong-armed (due to business relations with MS) or bought off?
This happens to be an area where MS has valid competition who have a large interest in making sure MS doesn't leverage their OS dominance... what happens in areas where the competition doesn't have the legal resources to monitor MS & to file complaints?
Not to bash MS, but really now... Gates & co are making a good case for the idea that they need to be monitored past 2007, and that perhaps the previous settlement wasn't enough.
The fact of the matter is that whether it was Gates or Ballmer or some new lackey, they were acting in official capacity as an employee of MS. It is the responsibility of those in charge to make sure no one in the organization could take illegal action. And should the court take action (which the judge said she won't), the execs at MS should be held liable by their shareholders.
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Looked into it, not cost-effective for my company. For bigger ops, definitely.
I always considered that as buffer for when you loose one of the AC units. That way if it takes all day to get it fixed, your only up to 80F and still OK.
Or, have a redundant AC unit that only kicks in when temp > 75. That way, you're not paying to keep it at 60, and you're covered if you lose a unit.
"It's cheaper to just buy or build more traditional raised floor space and run good old fashioned 6, 4, or 2u servers than to cool a bunch of blade racks."
Unless you're in Manhattan. Or Boston. Or LA. Or Miami. Etc.
The scary part is that everyone tells me that the PS3 is harder to program for than the Xbox360, and the tools are nowhere near the quality of Microsoft's
I told Sony over and over again that they'd better include an IDE with their SDK... they really dropped the ball on this one.
FTA:"Historically, I haven't managed the electric bill. But now we're aware and interested in it," Doherty said. "If I told my boss that my staff wanted a 27% increase [in pay], I'd be downstairs on the carpet."
First, it's good that he's paying attention to the electric bill now. But he should have been paying attention to it in the past (last year saw a spike in prces, too). TCO and all that. Of course, electricity may be negligible compared to other costs, depending on their setup.
Second, it's highly unlikely that a 27% boost to electricity costs is anywhere near as much as a 27% boost in salaries. Furthermore, salaries are more controllable internally.
Good for him to point it out though.
Of interest, one of my company's vendors has been assessing us a fuel surcharge for a couple years now (though shipping & distribution is not a core function of theirs). They are now adding a "utilities" surcharge to their invoices... due to management relationships, we're stuck with this vendor, who has raised our effective rates 18% in the past two years. Anyone else have a similar experience?
Wasn't me... so no panicking here :)
Thanks for clearing that up.
Exigent circumstances. As has been pointed out to me, that covers the situation you describe.
You forgot Avaya, the 00's trendy marketroid name.
reasonable suspicion != probable cause.
Also, even if they did have probable cause, they still need to get a warrant to search his home -- that's the whole purpose of the warrant system, for judges to confirm that law enforcement does indeed have probable cause.
"They're right--they do NOT need a warrant in such a case. What if, say, a wife called 911 after being beaten, locked her away, and the husband refused to allow a search when they got there? Warrants are only there to show that they have a "reasonable suspicion"--if they have it for some other reason, like the 911 call (or it being "in plain sight"--a category that is always problematic), they don't need a warrant. IANAL, but I did read up a bit on this at one time."
BS. Unless they are in hot pursuit, with a credible account and/or witnessing of a crime, they need to have a warrant. If they want to search his house on the premise that he may have killed his wife, they need to get a warrant. And warrants are not to show that they have "reasonable suspicion" -- in order to get a warrant, they need to demonstrate "probable cause," which has a higher burden. I think maybe the last time you read up on this was in high school civics class.
There are always (execpt in the case of massive immune system failure, and even possibly then) cytokines in the blood. But you're right, they aren't necessarily specific to the blood, which I didn't mean to imply.
I think the key observation here is not just that there are physiological explanations for this behavior, it's that they've isolated some of the compounds that are related to the behavior.
"Warrants aren't required when there is reasonable cause."
Not so. Probable cause is what's required to get a warrant. See this link for more info on what specific situations void the need for a warrant:
http://www.outlawslegal.com/refer/search.htm
The officer who claimed they didn't need a warrant was either grossly mistaken or lying through his teeth. Either one is indicative of the gradual failure of rights protection in the US.
"Give them a plate of nachos (with lots of jalepenos) and watch that productivity go right back up. Capsaicin, one of the things that makes peppers hot, blocks the activation of certain cytokine-induced transcription factors (like NF-kB)"
Has the added affect of making them happy, since capsaicin triggers endorphin release through pain response.
Yes, but the point is also that the re-equibrilation occurs within a week or so; you've an increase in tropospheric H2O that reaches its peak very quickly. Whereas, for CO2, or CH4, you won't reach the peak for decades or even centuries, even assuming constant levels of production. Mediation of eleveated tropospheric CO2 and CH4 will also take decades or centuries.
Even if CO2 were to "trap" radiation at only 5% the efficiency of H2O, the extended duration of the CO2 being free in the troposphere would mean that each quanta of CO2 emitted would trap more radiation than each quanta of H2O.
I agree.
My point, in essence, is that the higher-ups are responsible for the actions of their underlings. If they did not oversee the underlings properly, then they were negligent. If they approved the action, then they were complicit.
"Not that suprising at this point, it is a new system, it tries to create a new market and it does so in the enterprise space. Things don't suddenly catch on when it comes to enterprise data service, Sun has to offer the service to get the talk going and in another few years we will really know if it turns out good or not."
Exactly. It's not like within a company, the demand for ridiculous amounts of CPU cycles materializes overnight. Suddenly, Production Dept says to CIO, "Hey, we need to render two hours of animated video in three days two months from now! How do we do that?"
This'll become more popular when current render farms and computing clusters become obsolete, and not likely before then.
I'm sure there are governments that could make use of this service, and I'm also pretty sure that they would be able to get Sun to not publish their use of the grid.
FTA: "To that end, and taking a tip from other online services like iTunes, American online retailers have begun taking preorders on pre-paid Xbox 360 Live Marketplace Points.
FTSummary: " Microsoft is offering up Xbox Live Marketplace points for presale, according to Edge Online."
A subtle distinction, perhaps, but MS is not retailing the points directly as of now.
The silliest part -- why would anyone prepay for these Points, it's not like inventory is limited by physical supply, right? Unless MS chooses to artificially induce delays in delivery, or can't handle the volume (which would really, really surprise me).
"Regardless of how he meant it, water does have a much stronger greenhouse effect than CO2."
In a lab, not in the troposphere. Net effect of H2O is very low. Read a little further down in the Wikipedia entry: "Water vapor in the troposphere, unlike the better-known greenhouse gases such as CO2, is essentially passive in terms of climate: the residence time for water vapor in the atmosphere is short (about a week) so perturbations to water vapor rapidly re-equilibriate. In contrast, the lifetimes of CO2, methane, etc, are long (hundreds of years) and hence perturbations remain. Thus, in response to a temperature perturbation caused by enhanced CO2, water vapor would increase, resulting in a (limited) positive feedback and higher temperatures. In response to a perturbation from enhanced water vapor, the atmosphere would re-equilibriate due to clouds causing reflective cooling and water-removing rain."
Since state legislators have a harder time pressing the look-over-there-it's-a-terror-alert button, they have to resort to crap like this to save their flagging support.
FTA:"The bill would likely be a welcome change of tone in publicity for Diaz de la Portilla, who has spent much of the year embroiled in an ethics scandal over his failure to comply with campaign finance laws"
Given that the bill is nearly identical to the CA bill, doesn't this just seem like a publicity stunt for de la Portilla?
"I love how the moderators around here are on crack. +4 Interesting? Dihydrogen monoxide is WATER.
He has made a joke, not written an informative statement..."
Mods often assign +1 Interesting in place of +1 Funny, since Funny mods don't affect karma.
Also, if the mods thought it was an informative statement, they would have modded it +1 Informative, not +1 Interesting.
Nope. Serum cytokines means cytokines in the blood, that's all. So that statement can be interpreted as meaning that they observed elevated levels of cytokines that are normally found in the blood.
Five to ten years or more? That's incredibly optimistic to put it that way, even with the "and more". Plus, he's not saying anything about a cure, just about treatment. Does anyone foresee gene therapy in action within the next decade?
/cynicism
:http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/usher.asp #e
Instead, what we'll see is early detection of genetic disease, and from a pharmacologicoprofitability standpoint, plenty of maintenance drugs to help keep the genes from being fully expressed or to mitigate the symptoms.
OTOH, early detection of as-yet uncurable genetic disease has led to marvelous increases in quality of life for people who are diagnosed. Let the research continue!
An earlier post that mentions Usher Syndrome is a great example. It's amazing that a ten-second Google can show an example of genetic testing providing early diagnosis and better treatment:
In April 2003, NIDCD researchers, along with their research collaborators from universities in New York, N.Y., and Tel Aviv, Israel, pinpointed a mutation, named R245X, of the PCDH15 gene that accounts for a large percentage of USH1 cases in today's Ashkenazi Jewish population. (The term Ashkenazi describes Jewish people who originate from eastern Europe.) Because of this finding, researchers conclude that Ashkenazi Jewish infants with bilateral, profound hearing loss who lack another known mutation that causes hearing loss should be screened for the R245X mutation. If a child's USH1 is discovered early on, before she loses the ability to see, then that child is more likely to benefit from the full spectrum of intervention strategies that are available to help her communicate and participate in life's activities.
From
BTW, about 1% of Ashkenazi carry one copy of the R245X mutation... so about 1 in 400 Ashkenazi have Usher Syndrome by my calculation.
Here's some more info on Cytokines:
a ls/cytokines.html
http://microvet.arizona.edu/Courses/MIC419/Tutori
I wish TFA was a little more specific on which kind of cytokines they found... I guess we'll have to wait for the human studies.
Really, though, this should be no surprise. It's been known for some time that stress to the body results in immunological cytokine release.
The symptoms (pre-RSS) that they mention, like depression, fatigue, etc, are eerily similar to Epstein-Barr... I wonder if the immne system is revved up by the repetitive motions (hence feeling sick), or inhibited, like the EBV toxin.
I've an acquaintance who is a field researcher (reporter?) for the BBC. I emailed him about this, he said their IT depts are great, he's rarely had problems anywhere in the world, and when he does, they get things straightened out right away.
;-)"
;)
"Mind you, my tinfoil hat is whispering in my ear that they were likely all PR stunts anyway!
That's not a tinfoil hat... that's just well-founded cynicism. And if you think your TFH is whispering in your ear, obviously it has holes in it and is letting the mind-control rays into your head.
FTA: "Microsoft abandoned the idea after a competitor protested."
How many questionable actions have slipped through because the competitors have been strong-armed (due to business relations with MS) or bought off?
This happens to be an area where MS has valid competition who have a large interest in making sure MS doesn't leverage their OS dominance... what happens in areas where the competition doesn't have the legal resources to monitor MS & to file complaints?
Not to bash MS, but really now... Gates & co are making a good case for the idea that they need to be monitored past 2007, and that perhaps the previous settlement wasn't enough.
The fact of the matter is that whether it was Gates or Ballmer or some new lackey, they were acting in official capacity as an employee of MS. It is the responsibility of those in charge to make sure no one in the organization could take illegal action. And should the court take action (which the judge said she won't), the execs at MS should be held liable by their shareholders.