It seems to work ok with kegs and propane tanks...
If nothing else, you'd have to keep it within the same company. Batteries are still universal, but you pay a deposit and can only do a 1-to-1 swap from the same battery company. So I pay a deposit to Chevron and as long as I keep swapping out Chevron batteries I can still ride off my original deposit.
As many libraries there are for the web, there are still ten times as many GUI toolkits for traditional GUI's. Oh, then operating systems, platforms, virtual machines, etc, etc. The whole blog is silly. As complicated as web programming has become, it's still many times simpler than trying to create a gui in almost any other language (without an IDE).
It's like a cable company changing the channel ads with their own. I doubt any channel would sit and bear it, especially since their customers (i.e. ad buyers) won't accept that. Which Comcast already does here in the US...
Check out wikipedia and the incredible things WMAP has done. We learned a HUGE amount about the universe with this satellite. We now know the average temperature of the universe (2.7K). We now know Omega. We now know whether the universe is curved or flat. We now know the dispersion of microwaves from the big bang. We now have a much better picture of the acceleration of the expanding universe. In essence, WMAP cleared up a HUGE number of questions from the 1980's and 1990's regarding the cosmos.
I for one am interested in gravity the most! How it can be trillions of times weaker than the other 3 forces raises some very interesting questions. I've seen some put forth the idea that perhaps gravity is so weak because it exists is higher dimensions as well. Or even the possibility that gravity can interact with parallel universes. We may not gain a whole lot as a society by understanding gravity, but I think the very fact it is so strange and we so little about it alone makes me so interested.
Don't forget standard setup/os. You can't exactly get 30 used computers with OS's ranging from OSX to Win 95 to Win XP and expect to use them all in a classroom. Instruction would be impossible.
What makes me so mad about things like this are, these parents seem to be concerned about their kids education when it's convenient. Our education system here is in shambles and this is what they bicker about? How about being concerned about failing schools THEN robble about silly shit. Hypocrites...
Say I'm a company that has 100 customers and each customer has a server onsite that runs our software. That's 100 servers that probably rarely exceed 5-10% usage. Those 100 customers could be consolidated to 5 large hosted servers that have a moderate predictable load. 5 servers don't require nearly the staff as 100. Sysadmins won't just go away, but the demand will be much less and it will be much more competitive.
My interpretation of the vague article was that they are attempting to host everything where once upon a time you could have a Sun server onsite. I think the writing is on the wall that system administrators are going to go the way of the tv repairman. It makes little sense in the modern world to have a server onsite spending most of its life idle. I know many a sysadmin are going to come running crying about how networks aren't reliable enough, data security, yadda yadda yadda, but you know what? I look at my organization now and two years ago, and about half of the software in use is hosted, while two years ago almost none was. Most of our partners and vendors are just converting their applications to websites. The users are happier in general. The uptimes are much greater. In the end it's cheaper for our organization. If I were a system administrator I'd start retraining because there is going to be a slow and steady reduction of demand. There will always be sysadmins, but with consolidation there will be much less demand. I know this will probably get modded troll, but I think many people need to face reality. The world changes. Attitudes change. It's better to face it head on and be prepared than deny it and be jobless with no skills.
Which is a shame because that means one less cable company in the US. They weren't actually half bad. The comcast decline was instant. Since I was switched over I've never been able to get good reception or internet access. In talking with others in my city, I'm not alone. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but here, comcast does a piss poor job compared to Adelphia. Which doesn't really make sense because they were probably using most of Adelphia's old equipment.
110 million seems like a huge exaggeration anyway. But the second they remove the button in the name of profits they'll lose just that many customers for being greedy. Restaurants pull this crap all the time. They'll have something I really like, deem it not profitable, I stop going. There's a local restaurant here called "Hurricane Wings". It used to be super badass with really good food. Then they went corporate. They raised prices, started charging per soda refill, starting charging for your first serving of ranch for the wings (that's right, the wings came out dry), starting charging for CELERY. I went once after that. The few bucks they might have made off me that one visit was no match for me refusing to ever go again. In fact a lot of people refused to go ever again. They reversed all those policies but their reputation was destroyed and never enjoyed again the sales they once had.
I think most people just want to be treated like people and not consumers. Google has done a good job of this so far and I don't see them trying to nickle and dime their profits any time soon.
Pain to convert doesn't even begin to describe it. AC can be both stepped up and stepped down with transformers. What are transformers? Basically coils of wire. You can step up and step down voltages HUGE amounts with basically more wire. Stepping up and stepping down DC are two different processes. Stepping down is really inefficient and stepping up requires caps (and caps don't really scale to voltages that high well). Also, it's waaay easier to turn AC into DC than the other way around. You can pretty easily turn AC into DC with a full wave rectifier. I can turn 120VAC at the wall to 12VDC for electronics with about 1 dollar in supplies. Try going the other way for that cheap.
Could it be that when smart management couples with some of the best engineers in the world you come up with a great idea? I really think Google has shown everything doesn't have to be closed and secret and can still make some really badass products along the way.
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It seems to work ok with kegs and propane tanks... If nothing else, you'd have to keep it within the same company. Batteries are still universal, but you pay a deposit and can only do a 1-to-1 swap from the same battery company. So I pay a deposit to Chevron and as long as I keep swapping out Chevron batteries I can still ride off my original deposit.
How can the plane fly if it can't flap it's wings?
As many libraries there are for the web, there are still ten times as many GUI toolkits for traditional GUI's. Oh, then operating systems, platforms, virtual machines, etc, etc. The whole blog is silly. As complicated as web programming has become, it's still many times simpler than trying to create a gui in almost any other language (without an IDE).
I'm finally going to get to see the final boss of the internet!
I heard the MS Albany branch is worse than Scranton!
Once a week I have to explain the speed of light barrier was not broken. Anyone remember this story?
Check out wikipedia and the incredible things WMAP has done. We learned a HUGE amount about the universe with this satellite. We now know the average temperature of the universe (2.7K). We now know Omega. We now know whether the universe is curved or flat. We now know the dispersion of microwaves from the big bang. We now have a much better picture of the acceleration of the expanding universe. In essence, WMAP cleared up a HUGE number of questions from the 1980's and 1990's regarding the cosmos.
I for one am interested in gravity the most! How it can be trillions of times weaker than the other 3 forces raises some very interesting questions. I've seen some put forth the idea that perhaps gravity is so weak because it exists is higher dimensions as well. Or even the possibility that gravity can interact with parallel universes. We may not gain a whole lot as a society by understanding gravity, but I think the very fact it is so strange and we so little about it alone makes me so interested.
The quantum nature of light is a bitch!
Joel is being awfully apologetic. I understand why they are bad formats, but it doesn't change the fact they are bad.
Seriously guys, seriously.
Don't forget standard setup/os. You can't exactly get 30 used computers with OS's ranging from OSX to Win 95 to Win XP and expect to use them all in a classroom. Instruction would be impossible.
What makes me so mad about things like this are, these parents seem to be concerned about their kids education when it's convenient. Our education system here is in shambles and this is what they bicker about? How about being concerned about failing schools THEN robble about silly shit. Hypocrites...
Say I'm a company that has 100 customers and each customer has a server onsite that runs our software. That's 100 servers that probably rarely exceed 5-10% usage. Those 100 customers could be consolidated to 5 large hosted servers that have a moderate predictable load. 5 servers don't require nearly the staff as 100. Sysadmins won't just go away, but the demand will be much less and it will be much more competitive.
My interpretation of the vague article was that they are attempting to host everything where once upon a time you could have a Sun server onsite. I think the writing is on the wall that system administrators are going to go the way of the tv repairman. It makes little sense in the modern world to have a server onsite spending most of its life idle. I know many a sysadmin are going to come running crying about how networks aren't reliable enough, data security, yadda yadda yadda, but you know what? I look at my organization now and two years ago, and about half of the software in use is hosted, while two years ago almost none was. Most of our partners and vendors are just converting their applications to websites. The users are happier in general. The uptimes are much greater. In the end it's cheaper for our organization. If I were a system administrator I'd start retraining because there is going to be a slow and steady reduction of demand. There will always be sysadmins, but with consolidation there will be much less demand. I know this will probably get modded troll, but I think many people need to face reality. The world changes. Attitudes change. It's better to face it head on and be prepared than deny it and be jobless with no skills.
He was trained from a little school known as Cornell, maybe you've heard of it?
FTW!!!!!
2girls1finger, tubgirl, goatse, leroy jenkins. There, you are set for the afternoon.
Which is a shame because that means one less cable company in the US. They weren't actually half bad. The comcast decline was instant. Since I was switched over I've never been able to get good reception or internet access. In talking with others in my city, I'm not alone. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but here, comcast does a piss poor job compared to Adelphia. Which doesn't really make sense because they were probably using most of Adelphia's old equipment.
110 million seems like a huge exaggeration anyway. But the second they remove the button in the name of profits they'll lose just that many customers for being greedy. Restaurants pull this crap all the time. They'll have something I really like, deem it not profitable, I stop going. There's a local restaurant here called "Hurricane Wings". It used to be super badass with really good food. Then they went corporate. They raised prices, started charging per soda refill, starting charging for your first serving of ranch for the wings (that's right, the wings came out dry), starting charging for CELERY. I went once after that. The few bucks they might have made off me that one visit was no match for me refusing to ever go again. In fact a lot of people refused to go ever again. They reversed all those policies but their reputation was destroyed and never enjoyed again the sales they once had.
I think most people just want to be treated like people and not consumers. Google has done a good job of this so far and I don't see them trying to nickle and dime their profits any time soon.
Pain to convert doesn't even begin to describe it. AC can be both stepped up and stepped down with transformers. What are transformers? Basically coils of wire. You can step up and step down voltages HUGE amounts with basically more wire. Stepping up and stepping down DC are two different processes. Stepping down is really inefficient and stepping up requires caps (and caps don't really scale to voltages that high well). Also, it's waaay easier to turn AC into DC than the other way around. You can pretty easily turn AC into DC with a full wave rectifier. I can turn 120VAC at the wall to 12VDC for electronics with about 1 dollar in supplies. Try going the other way for that cheap.
pfft, my pet nibbler's turd weigh as much as that.
3 hours right here. Maybe you just need to rub your hands in some comcast coax for extra speed (k thx lame comcast commercial ftw!)
Could it be that when smart management couples with some of the best engineers in the world you come up with a great idea? I really think Google has shown everything doesn't have to be closed and secret and can still make some really badass products along the way.