I ride year round in Chicago, and it's not all that bad. You need to spend about $50 on gear to keep you warm to -10F, but you'd need that anyways unless you've got a car with remote start.
Most people I've met who build their own PCs don't really know what they're doing. They lack the testing tools they need to diagnose intermittent failures when they occur, which is a problem because you can't just ship the whole thing back for one that works.
When your custom built system locks up once or twice a day, do you have the tools to figure out if it's a bad DIMM, a failing power supply, a loose power connection due to a cheap Y molex connector, a hardware conflict between your chipset and video card which haven't been extensively tested together, hot spots on your motherboard due to inconsistent air circulation, failing counterfeit formula capacitors, a buggy bios, or maybe it's just a buggy ATI driver.
You may or may not be an exception, but most builders lack a PSU tester, a dimm tester, a good multi-meter and only follow extensively tested hardware configurations. Or maybe you're rich enough to have multiple systems where you
can play the hardware swap game for days on end in order to diagnose an intermittent failure.
I'm sure you've never had any problems. Yet.
The spirit of the GPL is meant to discourage closed source anything. Businesses SHOULD stay away from it unless they have a plan for profiting off of their own open source code.
If you distribute your code, you're not even allowed to link to GPL libraries without your code falling under the GPL.
There is plenty of great BSD/LGPL/MIT/etc licensed code out there which is much less of a legal nightmare.
A database needs to be more stable than any old software. Thankfully, there are other free databases which have stable versions that don't lose your data to table corruption every now and then.
Yup...You replace all your AC->DC power supplies with DC->DC power supplies in the servers. It seems like the real benefit of the setup you linked to is the fact that it operates at 380v to the servers, which most likely allows for more efficient power supplies. You would probably see a lot of these benefits by switching to a higher voltage of AC, but you wouldn't want to run 5vdc and 12vdc through the whole data center, not without running copper wires the size of small tree trunks.
Would you want to drive on a bridge on a regular basis built by a company who was awarded the project exclusively on the basis of their campaign contributions?
The cruise companies that refuse to go around the bridge if it were built more cheaply? The construction companies building the bridge? If he is truly just representing the people that put him into office, wouldn't he rather save them some tax dollars by requesting funds to have it built in a cheaper way?
On STS-37, the palm restraint in one of the astronaut's gloves
came loose and migrated until it punched a hole in the pressure
bladder between his thumb and forefinger. The astronaut bled out
into space, but the skin of the astronaut's hand partially
sealed the opening. His coagulating blood sealed the opening
enough that the bar was retained inside the hole.
While this isn't the best scenario, it's not as scary as you would think.
Further, the market is so efficient that there are alternatives which don't require you to do business with these people if you feel you're getting ripped off. Capitalism is working well in this case.
Using a Killawatt, I was able to measure usage of some tasks with the CPU forced to 350MHz in comparison with allowing it to manage its own power. While it was by no means a well designed experiment, it seemed fairly obvious that the system always used less power when allowed to manage its own power usage.
You tend to get a lot of aliasing at higher audible frequencies and at 22kHz all you can record is a square wave since you've only got two samples per cycle. A 20kHz sine wave recorded with a 44kHz sample rate is going to lose a lot of data. Whether or not humans can hear a difference is another argument, but a 22kHz sample is definitely not perfect at the upper end.
By Ford! How will companies ever make a profit off of bicycles? They tend to last at least 30 years with minimal amounts of replacement parts. You're not going to find a way to get someone to spend $8,000 a year on chain lube and cycling shorts. A reduction in consumption must be discouraged at all costs, capitalism is at stake!
What are you talking about? They provide you with their own special version of c++. You can even debug your apps in their simulated phone, assuming it supports the features you're debugging and you've got two serial ports and a serial loopback cable. Sometimes, your code even works similarly on their simulator as it does on an actual phone!
Why is it that both the Department of Justice and FBI seem to be violating so many laws these days? Shouldn't our law enforcement agencies be setting good examples for the citizens? These agencies should be held more accountable than your average citizen, because its their job to know the difference between legal and illegal. Placing your government agencies above the laws they create and enforce is very dangerous and tends to lead to the creation of a police state.
A government without limits is far scarier than any terrorists could ever be.
I've only used it once, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to unfreeze panes in their Excel clone. It doesn't seem to be in any of the menues. In addition, the word "freeze" does not even appear in their documentation. I was able to do this very routine task in OpenOffice (via x11) without much trouble.
Russian launches are cheaper, more reliable, and safer than NASA's. Would your relatives prefer to see astronauts die because they refuse to use superior technology for the sole purpose of nationalist pride?
It makes it hard to do date/time math involving anything more than subtraction in the database (especially involving time zones), makes the data human unreadable, storing dates in the past is a bitch (they might be 0, which is also the failure code for some epoch functions), some systems don't support negative values, and error handling is even more painful.
As long as your database deals with dates and times in a sane manner, there are absolutely no benefits to storing as an integer.
Perhaps you should take your method of water collection to remote areas of the desert in a poor nation and save some lives. I don't think the manufacturers of desalination technology could possibly have paid informants watching out for someone in every remote village, so you probably won't get killed by an elite squad of assassins too quickly.
You have the power to purchase or grow your own food with reduced amounts of chemicals and fertilizers by buying organic or growing some of your own food (hopefully taking advantage of rainwater collection so you're not wasting resources with city water or potentially poisoning yourself with well water).
Also, I would hope that someone as concerned as you would take some steps to minimize their contribution to pollution and oil wars by using a vehicle with minimal oil usage, such as a bicycle.
Solving the world's problems starts with each of us.
It takes more energy to cool a room down to a temperature then it does to maintain that temperature with modern air conditioners. Adding 100 ninety eight degree heat sources(bodies) to the room would only make it worse. Do you have a source for this? It seems to violate some basic theories of the carnot cycle/heat transfer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_conduction).
If I want to keep a room at 68 degrees for today and some day 100 years for now, but I don't care about anything in between, your statement suggests that it's cheaper to leave the air conditioner thermostat set at 68 degrees for every day for 100 years than it is to run it for 2 days (today and the day 100 years from now). Presumably there would have to be some cutoff.
Why would Chevron do that? They know that oil won't last forever, it makes sense to have something to transition to when the profit margins on oil start to drop. This is why both Shell and BP are manufacturing solar panels.
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How many times has your local water plant been destroyed by non-citizens?
This sounds very similar to a utility called tcpkill: http://www.groar.org/trad/dsniff/dsniff-2.4/englis h-txt/tcpkill.8.txt
I ride year round in Chicago, and it's not all that bad. You need to spend about $50 on gear to keep you warm to -10F, but you'd need that anyways unless you've got a car with remote start.
Most people I've met who build their own PCs don't really know what they're doing. They lack the testing tools they need to diagnose intermittent failures when they occur, which is a problem because you can't just ship the whole thing back for one that works. When your custom built system locks up once or twice a day, do you have the tools to figure out if it's a bad DIMM, a failing power supply, a loose power connection due to a cheap Y molex connector, a hardware conflict between your chipset and video card which haven't been extensively tested together, hot spots on your motherboard due to inconsistent air circulation, failing counterfeit formula capacitors, a buggy bios, or maybe it's just a buggy ATI driver. You may or may not be an exception, but most builders lack a PSU tester, a dimm tester, a good multi-meter and only follow extensively tested hardware configurations. Or maybe you're rich enough to have multiple systems where you can play the hardware swap game for days on end in order to diagnose an intermittent failure. I'm sure you've never had any problems. Yet.
The spirit of the GPL is meant to discourage closed source anything. Businesses SHOULD stay away from it unless they have a plan for profiting off of their own open source code.
If you distribute your code, you're not even allowed to link to GPL libraries without your code falling under the GPL.
There is plenty of great BSD/LGPL/MIT/etc licensed code out there which is much less of a legal nightmare.
A database needs to be more stable than any old software. Thankfully, there are other free databases which have stable versions that don't lose your data to table corruption every now and then.
Yup...You replace all your AC->DC power supplies with DC->DC power supplies in the servers. It seems like the real benefit of the setup you linked to is the fact that it operates at 380v to the servers, which most likely allows for more efficient power supplies. You would probably see a lot of these benefits by switching to a higher voltage of AC, but you wouldn't want to run 5vdc and 12vdc through the whole data center, not without running copper wires the size of small tree trunks.
Would you want to drive on a bridge on a regular basis built by a company who was awarded the project exclusively on the basis of their campaign contributions?
The cruise companies that refuse to go around the bridge if it were built more cheaply? The construction companies building the bridge? If he is truly just representing the people that put him into office, wouldn't he rather save them some tax dollars by requesting funds to have it built in a cheaper way?
While this isn't the best scenario, it's not as scary as you would think.
If the government has not done any illegal spying on US citizens, why must the records remain sealed?
Further, the market is so efficient that there are alternatives which don't require you to do business with these people if you feel you're getting ripped off. Capitalism is working well in this case.
Using a Killawatt, I was able to measure usage of some tasks with the CPU forced to 350MHz in comparison with allowing it to manage its own power. While it was by no means a well designed experiment, it seemed fairly obvious that the system always used less power when allowed to manage its own power usage.
You tend to get a lot of aliasing at higher audible frequencies and at 22kHz all you can record is a square wave since you've only got two samples per cycle. A 20kHz sine wave recorded with a 44kHz sample rate is going to lose a lot of data. Whether or not humans can hear a difference is another argument, but a 22kHz sample is definitely not perfect at the upper end.
By Ford! How will companies ever make a profit off of bicycles? They tend to last at least 30 years with minimal amounts of replacement parts. You're not going to find a way to get someone to spend $8,000 a year on chain lube and cycling shorts. A reduction in consumption must be discouraged at all costs, capitalism is at stake!
What are you talking about? They provide you with their own special version of c++. You can even debug your apps in their simulated phone, assuming it supports the features you're debugging and you've got two serial ports and a serial loopback cable. Sometimes, your code even works similarly on their simulator as it does on an actual phone!
Why is it that both the Department of Justice and FBI seem to be violating so many laws these days? Shouldn't our law enforcement agencies be setting good examples for the citizens? These agencies should be held more accountable than your average citizen, because its their job to know the difference between legal and illegal. Placing your government agencies above the laws they create and enforce is very dangerous and tends to lead to the creation of a police state.
A government without limits is far scarier than any terrorists could ever be.
I've only used it once, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to unfreeze panes in their Excel clone. It doesn't seem to be in any of the menues. In addition, the word "freeze" does not even appear in their documentation. I was able to do this very routine task in OpenOffice (via x11) without much trouble.
Russian launches are cheaper, more reliable, and safer than NASA's. Would your relatives prefer to see astronauts die because they refuse to use superior technology for the sole purpose of nationalist pride?
It makes it hard to do date/time math involving anything more than subtraction in the database (especially involving time zones), makes the data human unreadable, storing dates in the past is a bitch (they might be 0, which is also the failure code for some epoch functions), some systems don't support negative values, and error handling is even more painful.
As long as your database deals with dates and times in a sane manner, there are absolutely no benefits to storing as an integer.
Cost of providing a service has absolutely nothing to do with the price charged for it.
Perhaps you should take your method of water collection to remote areas of the desert in a poor nation and save some lives. I don't think the manufacturers of desalination technology could possibly have paid informants watching out for someone in every remote village, so you probably won't get killed by an elite squad of assassins too quickly.
You have the power to purchase or grow your own food with reduced amounts of chemicals and fertilizers by buying organic or growing some of your own food (hopefully taking advantage of rainwater collection so you're not wasting resources with city water or potentially poisoning yourself with well water).
Also, I would hope that someone as concerned as you would take some steps to minimize their contribution to pollution and oil wars by using a vehicle with minimal oil usage, such as a bicycle.
Solving the world's problems starts with each of us.
If I want to keep a room at 68 degrees for today and some day 100 years for now, but I don't care about anything in between, your statement suggests that it's cheaper to leave the air conditioner thermostat set at 68 degrees for every day for 100 years than it is to run it for 2 days (today and the day 100 years from now). Presumably there would have to be some cutoff.
On soviet slashdot, overlords make joke about you!
Why would Chevron do that? They know that oil won't last forever, it makes sense to have something to transition to when the profit margins on oil start to drop. This is why both Shell and BP are manufacturing solar panels.