It's about the poop, mostly. Beijing's streets are filthy enough as it is without giant dog turds by the millions, any poop-removal ordinances notwithstanding.
Liquid nitrogen is the cooling answer, for sure. Then you're not dependent upon power of any kind at all.
But you are dependent on a near-constant convoy of liquid nitrogen trucks. Some quick math (lots of rounding and approximations here):
One gram of nitrogen can remove about 400 Joules of energy, going from about 77k (LN temp) to 297k (room temp). That includes boiling.
a 5kw rack produces 5000 Joules of energy per second.
so you need 12 grams of LN per second to keep it cool. That's assuming 100% efficient heat transfer.
LN has a density of 0.8 g/cc, so you that's 15ccs per second.
so you need a liter of LN every 66 seconds.
That's One Gallon every four minutes, or 360 gallons per day, per rack. Fifteen racks is 5400 gallons, more than one tank truck per day.
That's a lot of LN. It's great for things that don't produce heat, like tissues or organs, or okay for emergency or burst cooling, but not so great for absorbing steady-state heat production.
And we have some short yellows, that are difficult to stop for in good conditions. If it was raining, you could easily end up fishtailing into an intersection trying to stop for the silly things.
If you are driving too fast to comply with traffic regulations such as stopping for a light, then regardless of condition, regardless of posted speed limits, you are speeding.
I would have my virtual avatar use its virtual gPhone to call the pretty girl's virtual avatar's virtual gPhone. Then my virtual avatar would virtually chat up her virtual avatar, and both our avatars would virtually go out to play "virtual virtual ski-ball" (it's just like virtual ski-ball!)
All of those fall under the umbrella of collecting, indexing, and analyzing information generated by and about humans (horoscopes really fall under news feeds, though they're not news). This is what Google is about. They have their fingers into most areas of text information generation (the guy mentions it specifically) and are working on distilling information from sound and video.
Google has got the relationships between data pretty much down. Next they will tackle relationships between people. Look for them to buy a big social networking site in the near future, once one gets big enough - and it might not be an English-speaking one.
First, this George Dolbier says that MMOs and massively distributed financial systems share the same problems, and that the financial systems have gone a long way to address them. He says MMOs should adopt solutions applied to the finance sector.
The second thing to note is that he talks about predicting and reallocating server computing resources. He's from IBM, who hawks services and products in this very area.
The problem with replacing it yourself is that you get to see the insides of your iPod - and realize that it's just like every other consumer electronic device.
I had to avert my eyes, then click the heels of my Nike plus shoes together while chanting "There's no product like iPod" in front of my poster of Steve Jobs to maintain the illusion.
No matter what kind of soap you use, it is not useful unless you give it time to work. Most people wash their hands for 3-4 seconds. This is nowhere near long enough to kill or remove bacteria. You need to wash your hands for a good solid minute.
We taught our kids to sing the Alphabet song while washing. When they were done they could rinse
Good. Now that this distracting war is over, we can get back to the really important wars: vi versus emacs; LISP versus, well, anything else; and where to put those little curly brackets.
Though you may have learned that the plural of 'octopus' is 'octopi' and the plural of 'cactus' is 'cacti', the plural of 'virus' is viruses, not 'virii'. In fact, the -i pluralization is optional; the -es pluralization is standard.
Unless Slashot is adopting the Dvorak page-hit-generation-model by posting intentionally inflammatory references to intentionally inflammatory articles.
...they were still measuring things in "War and Peace"'s a few years ago!
I still do, no kidding. I use a copy of War and Peace I got off of Project Gutenberg to use as a largish text file for performance testing. It runs just over 3MB.
Interestingly enough Les Miserables comes in at 50k larger.
Since when is XML "code"? Writing an XSL/T to apply to an XML file may be code-like, but in general XML should be a data format that you pass around between applications, not something you "code" yourself.
Code hidden as XML is everywhere. Ever since someone promoted the fallacy that XML is not code, applications everywhere have spawned little crappy domain-specific languages whose syntax is XML.
Here's a quick test: do you check the XML document in to your version control or configuration management system? Then it's code.
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When they discover that the dust and ash is sitting on a layer of shopping malls, then we'll know for sure.
It's about the poop, mostly. Beijing's streets are filthy enough as it is without giant dog turds by the millions, any poop-removal ordinances notwithstanding.
The crusty stuff is often the feces of ear mites - you can get medicine to fix that and the scratching (also due to ear mites)
Cats are really tough, though. My grampa used to comment how hard it was to beat them to death with a bat.
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I'm not sure whether I should be afraid of your mind or the site...
But you are dependent on a near-constant convoy of liquid nitrogen trucks. Some quick math (lots of rounding and approximations here):
That's One Gallon every four minutes, or 360 gallons per day, per rack. Fifteen racks is 5400 gallons, more than one tank truck per day.
That's a lot of LN. It's great for things that don't produce heat, like tissues or organs, or okay for emergency or burst cooling, but not so great for absorbing steady-state heat production.
... will replace the old-fashioned "Access Standby", which has already replaced this appallingly stone-aged "Off".
If you are driving too fast to comply with traffic regulations such as stopping for a light, then regardless of condition, regardless of posted speed limits, you are speeding.
You still deserve a ticket.
I would have my virtual avatar use its virtual gPhone to call the pretty girl's virtual avatar's virtual gPhone. Then my virtual avatar would virtually chat up her virtual avatar, and both our avatars would virtually go out to play "virtual virtual ski-ball" (it's just like virtual ski-ball!)
Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell.
All of those fall under the umbrella of collecting, indexing, and analyzing information generated by and about humans (horoscopes really fall under news feeds, though they're not news). This is what Google is about. They have their fingers into most areas of text information generation (the guy mentions it specifically) and are working on distilling information from sound and video.
Google has got the relationships between data pretty much down. Next they will tackle relationships between people. Look for them to buy a big social networking site in the near future, once one gets big enough - and it might not be an English-speaking one.
There are a few items of note:
First, this George Dolbier says that MMOs and massively distributed financial systems share the same problems, and that the financial systems have gone a long way to address them. He says MMOs should adopt solutions applied to the finance sector.
The second thing to note is that he talks about predicting and reallocating server computing resources. He's from IBM, who hawks services and products in this very area.
Sure! Ground cover, tree cover, house cover, car cover, fence cover, road cover, crop cover, ... The possibilities are endless!
That's because the dinosaurs drove on the right, too. Everyone predisposed to driving on the right died in head-on collisions with the dinosaurs.
It also explains why the dinosaurs died out and why the Brits are so wacky!
The problem with replacing it yourself is that you get to see the insides of your iPod - and realize that it's just like every other consumer electronic device.
I had to avert my eyes, then click the heels of my Nike plus shoes together while chanting "There's no product like iPod" in front of my poster of Steve Jobs to maintain the illusion.
Yes, but it's been conclusively determined that you can't get any useful work out of a "Teenager" no matter how much sugar you feet it.
Now if you could harness the power that comes from the laser-like glare of contempt they constantly produce, you could probably power a small town...
No matter what kind of soap you use, it is not useful unless you give it time to work. Most people wash their hands for 3-4 seconds. This is nowhere near long enough to kill or remove bacteria. You need to wash your hands for a good solid minute.
We taught our kids to sing the Alphabet song while washing. When they were done they could rinse
How to find the meeting room:
>you are in a twisty maze of cubicles, all alikeHow to navigate the HR benefits phone tree:
>you are in a twisty maze of indecipherable options, all alikeHow to navigate the office supply procurement web site:
>you are in a twisty maze of unusable web pages, all alikeIsn't that a Mac?
Flame On!
Maybe it's a good sign that parents are worrying about relative trivia. Back in the day I used to worry about Nuclear Annihilation.
Then again, maybe it's just blindness or apathy to things they REALLY should be worried about.
Good. Now that this distracting war is over, we can get back to the really important wars: vi versus emacs; LISP versus, well, anything else; and where to put those little curly brackets.
Though you may have learned that the plural of 'octopus' is 'octopi' and the plural of 'cactus' is 'cacti', the plural of 'virus' is viruses, not 'virii'. In fact, the -i pluralization is optional; the -es pluralization is standard.
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Unless Slashot is adopting the Dvorak page-hit-generation-model by posting intentionally inflammatory references to intentionally inflammatory articles.
...they were still measuring things in "War and Peace"'s a few years ago!I still do, no kidding. I use a copy of War and Peace I got off of Project Gutenberg to use as a largish text file for performance testing. It runs just over 3MB.
Interestingly enough Les Miserables comes in at 50k larger.
Code hidden as XML is everywhere. Ever since someone promoted the fallacy that XML is not code, applications everywhere have spawned little crappy domain-specific languages whose syntax is XML.
Here's a quick test: do you check the XML document in to your version control or configuration management system? Then it's code.