First, eliminating power supplies at each server eliminates multiple point heat sources. One honking rectifier stack somewhere does the job. Cool that separately, and maybe even more efficient conversions, though the jury is still out on that for me. Honking-er bus bars will not be as efficient as AC distribution, but the losses will be tolerable. Remember the stack? Getting that cooled outside the server room is useful.
Using 48VDC makes a lot of sense just because there is a pile of telco equipment made to do that, and well understood. It will have to be regulated at the server level anyways, and the current goes down also.
But then again, it's not about being compatible, nor even evolutionary. This is a revolution, and if the old guard can't be enslaved, it must be killed off. So telco standards are out of the question. Besides, those extra 2 inches.
When they pull that, I have -1 reasons to go to B&N. And since they bought my data from Borders and spammed me immediately, I've been a little peeved at them. Now I can explain to the wife how buying books at Amazon isn't hurting the local seller. The local seller is well capable of hurting itself.
1. Does New Jersey, as a state, suffer from short man syndrome? Rhode Island doesn't, it just sends you to sleep with the fishes.
2. Broadband speed claims are a little like braggin' on your new spawts cah. Sure, it goes from 0-60 in less then 6 seconds. How's that working out for ya on the Garden State at 5:30. Headed South. The GSP is usually Slashdotted by then, save for holidays and wrecks.
3. And braggin' on your broadband speed is as relevant as braggin on the new BMW. Stuck in traffic. With a detour ahead through Paramus. In the dark.
Speed is nothing without control. Selective caps, overt blocking, treating streams as piracy no matter the source, content, or license, equating imagined piracy with distributing kiddie pr0n, all of these are the real threats to the Internet and its usefulness. Speed is down the list.
"Courtiol is not certain how strong natural selection is today, particularly in the developed world"
Well, I would guess it's just as strong. The criteria and effects may be hard to discern, unexpected, undesireable, or any combination of these and other conditions, but why would you think natural selection is anything but strong.
Now, if he meant to express ihis uncertainty as to how current natural selection is either improving the human race or not, and geographic distributions of these effects, well, that's the job of these researchers, should they choose to accept that assignment.
'not certain'. Sheesh, no wonder Science is held in such esteem. Is Courtiol on the verge of wondering if selection based on financial 'prowness', promiscuity, or profligate sperm donation, is 'natural', well, he's making some assumptions I won't. But clearly I am not a Scientist. I'm left with a moderate amount of rational thinking and occasional bursts of common sense. Logic is an exercise for me. Science is what I wish I could do more of.
1. Tell the misbehavers that they "can't do that", whatetver it is, and proceed to explain how beneficial it is to 'behave'.
2. Threaten to reprimand these misbehavers.
3. Lament your inability to actually change their behavior.
Seriously, if the EU thinks that less-than-tolerant nations need to be compelled to leave their Internet connections up so that the revolutionaries in and out of that nation can use it to overthrow these nations' incumbent powers, well, let me know how that works out for ya.
Now, if this sincere, decent, but naive person proposed that the EU start floating balloons on the borders of any nation that did cut off its Internet links, with a long-range WiFi-type Internet router on each, and parachute in little tiny baby adapters for laptops etc, and even a few microcell gizmos to let the smartphones keepp keeping on, well, they they will find out just how tolerant these oppressors are.
But let's not get bogged down in taking action. Much better to lament the sad state of freedom in this world.
Banning the exec from coming to the USA might also be a deterrent.
Rounding up all the current visa holder documents and giving them a good once-over would be fun too. But don't stop at Infosys.
Seriously, though, my bank rarely lets a withdrawal go by unnoticed, but our government can't keep track of work visas, much less tourists. Pathetic. No one in government or business as a dog in this fight - they all have reasons to avert their eyes from illegal immigration in all of its forms, work visas and H1whatevers included, and no less grievous than all the other forms.
Just because I have a Freecell game that permits undo, and I have yet to lose a game. Yes, cheating with undo. But I'm over 1,000 games and still no losses.
If I can get the deck for this Microsoft Freecell game, I'll get it into my flavor and go to work. The longest game I won took me well over 40 hours, but I got it.
Though, I admit, since there are a finite set of moves, it is *possible* that this is unsolvable. But I'll try. What the heck, all I lose is time spend watching Pawn Stars.
"Who do you think is funding the side that's supported by 90% of climate scientists worldwide?"
The side that seeks to exercise power over us.
And yes, the 'other' side does also. They just seem to have different intentions for that power.
Under Crony Capitalism, none of this matters. We hear the policy debates, and meanwhile everyone in power is busy getting rich and ingratiating themselves to their conspirators, who are sucking us dry.
"Climate change *could* be a serious thing but it gets washed up with politically driven junk from activists. They are doing more harm than good."
"Surely it is the skeptics that are doing the most harm."
Funny. the statement that activists are 'doing more harme than good' gets your response that no, no, it's the 'skeptics'.
Many of the activists in the global warming debate, especially those who start from an anti-induistrial/anti-capitalism/anti-rich/anti-population growth stance, glom onto global warming as evidence that their own warnings that our world is lurching to a fatal excess in all matters, and the solution is to abandon our current technology and revert back. How far back is a point of contention.
As in, any evidence of a problem that would require our fix is, in our opinion, evidence that we were right all along.
And the global warming crew is not the least worried about this. For obvious reasons.
In 87 or 88 I caught wind of a system I could accss through the University of Maine (I lived near Orono at the time).
It had email, chat rooms, discussion forums, multiplayer/MUD games, flight simulators, and I could write programs on it if I bothered to learn how.
It was called NovaNET.
And it's still around.
We used modems to connect, ran a terminal emulator, and I played a LOT of Avatar, running a Ninja up to about level 550 or so before I pissed off some sysadmins at UICU and had to give it up. I commented a lot in =events, and they didn't think much of my opinions.
I've had the cyber1 terminal running, playing Avatar on that, but they seem to have gone dead. Sad.
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Actually, 538, one of which doesn't get to do much unless ther'es a tie.
But I get your point. It's such a big problem that we can no nothing about it.
If only aerospace had more profit potential. Then the Government would be much more interested.
I'm not paying to go buy stuff. They are lost.
It's not about the resistive losses, mate.
First, eliminating power supplies at each server eliminates multiple point heat sources. One honking rectifier stack somewhere does the job. Cool that separately, and maybe even more efficient conversions, though the jury is still out on that for me. Honking-er bus bars will not be as efficient as AC distribution, but the losses will be tolerable. Remember the stack? Getting that cooled outside the server room is useful.
Using 48VDC makes a lot of sense just because there is a pile of telco equipment made to do that, and well understood. It will have to be regulated at the server level anyways, and the current goes down also.
But then again, it's not about being compatible, nor even evolutionary. This is a revolution, and if the old guard can't be enslaved, it must be killed off. So telco standards are out of the question. Besides, those extra 2 inches.
They missed 2600. The b&st@rds.
When they pull that, I have -1 reasons to go to B&N. And since they bought my data from Borders and spammed me immediately, I've been a little peeved at them. Now I can explain to the wife how buying books at Amazon isn't hurting the local seller. The local seller is well capable of hurting itself.
Two words: InfoWorld. If I wanted that, I would go there, not here.
Actually, I do. More to IW now, since /. is becoming a clone. Next thing you know /. will have columnists.
You can have that idea for free. No strings attached. And no visitors, perhaps, either.
1. Does New Jersey, as a state, suffer from short man syndrome? Rhode Island doesn't, it just sends you to sleep with the fishes.
2. Broadband speed claims are a little like braggin' on your new spawts cah. Sure, it goes from 0-60 in less then 6 seconds. How's that working out for ya on the Garden State at 5:30. Headed South. The GSP is usually Slashdotted by then, save for holidays and wrecks.
3. And braggin' on your broadband speed is as relevant as braggin on the new BMW. Stuck in traffic. With a detour ahead through Paramus. In the dark.
Speed is nothing without control. Selective caps, overt blocking, treating streams as piracy no matter the source, content, or license, equating imagined piracy with distributing kiddie pr0n, all of these are the real threats to the Internet and its usefulness. Speed is down the list.
"Courtiol is not certain how strong natural selection is today, particularly in the developed world"
Well, I would guess it's just as strong. The criteria and effects may be hard to discern, unexpected, undesireable, or any combination of these and other conditions, but why would you think natural selection is anything but strong.
Now, if he meant to express ihis uncertainty as to how current natural selection is either improving the human race or not, and geographic distributions of these effects, well, that's the job of these researchers, should they choose to accept that assignment.
'not certain'. Sheesh, no wonder Science is held in such esteem. Is Courtiol on the verge of wondering if selection based on financial 'prowness', promiscuity, or profligate sperm donation, is 'natural', well, he's making some assumptions I won't. But clearly I am not a Scientist. I'm left with a moderate amount of rational thinking and occasional bursts of common sense. Logic is an exercise for me. Science is what I wish I could do more of.
The bankers here did just fine. Sorry it didn't work out for them on your planet.
On my planet, those who achieve ascent to power in government, and seek to act on their empathy, bail out Wall Street to save the little people.
And yes, they are all deluded. Except for Wall Street. Mostly.
Suppose it would be considered private if I set it as such, paid attention, and set up my stuff that way?
Oh, and encrypted it reasonably well?
Encryption is the best 'marked private' method I can readily think of.
True, but in this case it wasn't a U.S. or Canadian official blathering on.
1. Tell the misbehavers that they "can't do that", whatetver it is, and proceed to explain how beneficial it is to 'behave'.
2. Threaten to reprimand these misbehavers.
3. Lament your inability to actually change their behavior.
Seriously, if the EU thinks that less-than-tolerant nations need to be compelled to leave their Internet connections up so that the revolutionaries in and out of that nation can use it to overthrow these nations' incumbent powers, well, let me know how that works out for ya.
Now, if this sincere, decent, but naive person proposed that the EU start floating balloons on the borders of any nation that did cut off its Internet links, with a long-range WiFi-type Internet router on each, and parachute in little tiny baby adapters for laptops etc, and even a few microcell gizmos to let the smartphones keepp keeping on, well, they they will find out just how tolerant these oppressors are.
But let's not get bogged down in taking action. Much better to lament the sad state of freedom in this world.
So I could have skipped shingles if I had been vaccinated? Darn.
No, wait, I contracted chicken pox in 1962. No vaccine for me.
ALL legislationis someone's morality. you just can't compel it. punish, yes. compel, no.
Banning the exec from coming to the USA might also be a deterrent.
Rounding up all the current visa holder documents and giving them a good once-over would be fun too. But don't stop at Infosys.
Seriously, though, my bank rarely lets a withdrawal go by unnoticed, but our government can't keep track of work visas, much less tourists. Pathetic. No one in government or business as a dog in this fight - they all have reasons to avert their eyes from illegal immigration in all of its forms, work visas and H1whatevers included, and no less grievous than all the other forms.
Just because I have a Freecell game that permits undo, and I have yet to lose a game. Yes, cheating with undo. But I'm over 1,000 games and still no losses.
If I can get the deck for this Microsoft Freecell game, I'll get it into my flavor and go to work. The longest game I won took me well over 40 hours, but I got it.
Though, I admit, since there are a finite set of moves, it is *possible* that this is unsolvable. But I'll try. What the heck, all I lose is time spend watching Pawn Stars.
You had best be using Tea. Best results that way.
"Who do you think is funding the side that's supported by 90% of climate scientists worldwide?"
The side that seeks to exercise power over us.
And yes, the 'other' side does also. They just seem to have different intentions for that power.
Under Crony Capitalism, none of this matters. We hear the policy debates, and meanwhile everyone in power is busy getting rich and ingratiating themselves to their conspirators, who are sucking us dry.
"Climate change *could* be a serious thing but it gets washed up with politically driven junk from activists. They are doing more harm than good."
"Surely it is the skeptics that are doing the most harm."
Funny. the statement that activists are 'doing more harme than good' gets your response that no, no, it's the 'skeptics'.
Many of the activists in the global warming debate, especially those who start from an anti-induistrial/anti-capitalism/anti-rich/anti-population growth stance, glom onto global warming as evidence that their own warnings that our world is lurching to a fatal excess in all matters, and the solution is to abandon our current technology and revert back. How far back is a point of contention.
As in, any evidence of a problem that would require our fix is, in our opinion, evidence that we were right all along.
And the global warming crew is not the least worried about this. For obvious reasons.
Technically, you are correct, sir. Freezing or starving to death would not be well described as a 'frenzy'.
They died having no idea why their crops failed, other than blaming God and the lessers.
"rational agents"
I think of them more as 'responsive agents'. Rationality for me has to be effective and correct.
And yes, I know, that is not the correct definition.
Wasn't it Load "$",8,1 ?
In 87 or 88 I caught wind of a system I could accss through the University of Maine (I lived near Orono at the time).
It had email, chat rooms, discussion forums, multiplayer/MUD games, flight simulators, and I could write programs on it if I bothered to learn how.
It was called NovaNET.
And it's still around.
We used modems to connect, ran a terminal emulator, and I played a LOT of Avatar, running a Ninja up to about level 550 or so before I pissed off some sysadmins at UICU and had to give it up. I commented a lot in =events, and they didn't think much of my opinions.
I've had the cyber1 terminal running, playing Avatar on that, but they seem to have gone dead. Sad.
AT&FC1D2K3...
You had to trim the buffers for the UART in Windows to avoid some of that. Trumpet Winsock over a SLIP connection would drive you crazy.
Care to offer an example of an excusable instance ?