Yeah I've known about the reservoir method for energy storage. I wonder how the land area use compares between the reservoir vs the flywheel idea for similar amounts of energy storage. With the flywheel I imagine you could have some chance of increasing the density - making bigger wheels or stacking them in a building - and that's not an obvious option with hydroelectric. Also, the reservoir requires having a good land configuration and the flywheel method is probably more flexible.
Now I've got myself imagining a building full of big flywheels, maybe 4 stories stall.... oh no, an earthquake, the flywheels are breaking loose... the town down the hill never knew what hit them.
Some people have to work harder at a CS degree than others. I would have been screwed if I had to hold down a job and luckily I got by with summer jobs. I had a class my junior year that was 20 hours/week in outside of class work. That was one CS class.
I ended up doing pretty well and had a good GPA and finished in 4 years. CS taught me how to think and that is the key. It's something I would look for if I was interviewing someone. Looking back now I wish I would have taken longer and done more side activities for experience, resume points, networking etc. I'm doing great now but I would have gotten there sooner had I taken that path. It was difficult to get the first job, especially due to conditions when I graduated, and of course without the dreaded "experience".
They won’t pay for training on Microsoft SQL Server or the new version of Exchange Server. “We expect employees to upgrade [those skills] on their own time,”
Ha, who is going to buy MS SQL Server or Exchange Server at home to play around with it? That is hilarious.
Yeah but comparing MHz doesn't really help between two different lines like that. It especially won't help once Bulldozer's different definition of core takes effect. You'll have two parallel integer units and a floating point unit in one Bulldozer module, but they're counting it as two cores (taking the higher number sounds better approach). The Intels are one integer and one floating point unit per core, and then you've got hyperthreading which adds a second thread per core to fill in the empty cycles but still only one can go through at a time. They are different approaches.
In short, things will have to be reduced to performance/dollar or performance/watt for comparing.
Like now. NRO is launching like crazy including the "world's biggest satellite" on Nov 22. Of course it's not bigger than ISS or shuttle but you know what they mean.
I don't want to buy any map packs. Buying a $60 game every year is more than enough for me. I hope they didn't shortchange the maps in the base version to save them for $$ map packs. World at War map packs came free with the patches. I may try it.
I saw a lot of people still playing World at War. Also a lot of new maps came in the (free) patches - up to 1.7. I didn't buy any map packs and didn't even know they existed. I think the WaW maps are fantastic personally.
It beats playing the same maps over and over on Modern Warfare 2 but that's what I play now mostly. There are plenty of people playing that. If it weren't for friends upgrading to the newer game each time I might not have gotten MW2. I haven't gone to Black Ops yet. I don't play all that much so I don't want to buy a $60 game every year, especially if it's not that much different.
Agree. My CS curriculum taught me how to think. We were also expected to learn the languages on our own time. It happens pretty quickly when you need to start coming up with machine problem solutions with the language and framework the assignment specifies.
So would the ISP get a kickback from the NAS makers since people have to buy them due to the ISP's change to get closer to what service they had previously? LOL. Home user already has a computer, network device, etc., why would they want to buy something else?
Seconded! I noticed the ads following me around too. I shop for stuff on newegg, amazon etc. Then I start seeing the same products popping up in all the ads everywhere else I go. Man that really works too because I look at them!
If you can't handle allocating and managing memory, you don't deserve the right to call yourself a programmer.
So PHP 'people' aren't programmers?
You seem to be exhibiting some snobbery, lol. I remember programming in my calculator way back when and I'd still consider that programming. It's a pretty broad term.
It seems like someone always starts these rumors about a buyout, and eventually they do the buyout. It definitely seems deliberate... starting the rumor mill gets the momentum going. See Anheuser Busch - InBev.
Doesn't Android run in a virtual machine since it's mostly Java?:) Ok yeah they make the virtual machine too. It is one of the "least clean by nature" engineering projects they have though, I'll grant you that.
Any delay to Intel brings AMD's release of their new Bulldozer architecture a little bit closer to Sandy Bridge. Things will be interesting for the CPU market in 2011 to say the least.
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Yeah I've known about the reservoir method for energy storage. I wonder how the land area use compares between the reservoir vs the flywheel idea for similar amounts of energy storage. With the flywheel I imagine you could have some chance of increasing the density - making bigger wheels or stacking them in a building - and that's not an obvious option with hydroelectric. Also, the reservoir requires having a good land configuration and the flywheel method is probably more flexible.
Now I've got myself imagining a building full of big flywheels, maybe 4 stories stall.... oh no, an earthquake, the flywheels are breaking loose... the town down the hill never knew what hit them.
Buy low (spin up the wheels), sell high (discharge the wheel energy)
Some people have to work harder at a CS degree than others. I would have been screwed if I had to hold down a job and luckily I got by with summer jobs. I had a class my junior year that was 20 hours/week in outside of class work. That was one CS class.
I ended up doing pretty well and had a good GPA and finished in 4 years. CS taught me how to think and that is the key. It's something I would look for if I was interviewing someone. Looking back now I wish I would have taken longer and done more side activities for experience, resume points, networking etc. I'm doing great now but I would have gotten there sooner had I taken that path. It was difficult to get the first job, especially due to conditions when I graduated, and of course without the dreaded "experience".
rhymes with telekinesis?
I agree as well.
Ha, who is going to buy MS SQL Server or Exchange Server at home to play around with it? That is hilarious.
Yeah but comparing MHz doesn't really help between two different lines like that. It especially won't help once Bulldozer's different definition of core takes effect. You'll have two parallel integer units and a floating point unit in one Bulldozer module, but they're counting it as two cores (taking the higher number sounds better approach). The Intels are one integer and one floating point unit per core, and then you've got hyperthreading which adds a second thread per core to fill in the empty cycles but still only one can go through at a time. They are different approaches.
In short, things will have to be reduced to performance/dollar or performance/watt for comparing.
Like now. NRO is launching like crazy including the "world's biggest satellite" on Nov 22. Of course it's not bigger than ISS or shuttle but you know what they mean.
I don't want to buy any map packs. Buying a $60 game every year is more than enough for me. I hope they didn't shortchange the maps in the base version to save them for $$ map packs. World at War map packs came free with the patches. I may try it.
I saw a lot of people still playing World at War. Also a lot of new maps came in the (free) patches - up to 1.7. I didn't buy any map packs and didn't even know they existed. I think the WaW maps are fantastic personally.
It beats playing the same maps over and over on Modern Warfare 2 but that's what I play now mostly. There are plenty of people playing that. If it weren't for friends upgrading to the newer game each time I might not have gotten MW2. I haven't gone to Black Ops yet. I don't play all that much so I don't want to buy a $60 game every year, especially if it's not that much different.
I have to agree. I thought the maps on World At War were by far the best, better than Modern Warfare 2 and 1. I haven't tried Black Ops.
Does your family know that you think their photos are worthless? :)
Wow, where did you get Perl 10?
Agree. My CS curriculum taught me how to think. We were also expected to learn the languages on our own time. It happens pretty quickly when you need to start coming up with machine problem solutions with the language and framework the assignment specifies.
So would the ISP get a kickback from the NAS makers since people have to buy them due to the ISP's change to get closer to what service they had previously? LOL. Home user already has a computer, network device, etc., why would they want to buy something else?
You've been reading too much Drudge Report it sounds like. Didn't everyone basically agree that the "report" about that was completely made up?
Going forward
That was the best part. Thank FSM I no longer hear this everyday in my current job.
I can scroll down past the inordinately large menu block to see the answers in firefox, but I don't think that works in IE.
Seconded! I noticed the ads following me around too. I shop for stuff on newegg, amazon etc. Then I start seeing the same products popping up in all the ads everywhere else I go. Man that really works too because I look at them!
If you can't handle allocating and managing memory, you don't deserve the right to call yourself a programmer.
So PHP 'people' aren't programmers?
You seem to be exhibiting some snobbery, lol. I remember programming in my calculator way back when and I'd still consider that programming. It's a pretty broad term.
Hopefully this will kill those multipage articles.
It seems like someone always starts these rumors about a buyout, and eventually they do the buyout. It definitely seems deliberate... starting the rumor mill gets the momentum going. See Anheuser Busch - InBev.
Have you seen the recent split with AMD and Global Foundries? That throws out your number 2 since AMD is getting away from production itself.
Doesn't Android run in a virtual machine since it's mostly Java? :) Ok yeah they make the virtual machine too. It is one of the "least clean by nature" engineering projects they have though, I'll grant you that.
Or Nvidia or Seagate :)
Any delay to Intel brings AMD's release of their new Bulldozer architecture a little bit closer to Sandy Bridge. Things will be interesting for the CPU market in 2011 to say the least.