Pumping it into the ground 1500 feet down into the earth's crust in the middle of a tectonic plate and far below any water tables is perfectly safe. Leaving it above ground waiting for some weird freak accident to allow contaminates to somehow get into the water table is a tiny bit less so.
It should be noted though that the casks they use at US nuclear power plants to store spent rods are really really freakin' tough. So it's really more just a problem of the stuff taking up space and not having a permanent home. That, and uneducated hippies hearing "nuclear" or "radioactive" and going off their rockers.
Yes we have common ancestry, as do all living things. But the common ancestor between humans and crustaceans is nowhere as close as between, say, humans an lizards.
Convergent evolution? You're just throwing out terms without knowing their meanings now aren't you? Convergent evolution means similar environmental factors tend to push the evolution of dissimilar species into similar directions. An example of this would be dolphins and sharks. They share a lot of common features, but their history could not be more different. Dolphins' ancestors are land mammals. Sharks have always been fish. But because they both live in water, they've both evolved similar structures (fins) for their environment.
I think it's pretty silly to categorically state "compared to america". Perhaps your undergrad college sucked, but in my experience it really depends on a) the institution and b) the individual professor.
I'm currently a student at a major research university (Wisconsin-Madison), at which some profs are excellent teachers while some are.. well, consumed by their research. I've also attended a small teaching university (Wisconsin-La Crosse) where the professors were hired largely for their teaching abilities. Most of the courses I took there were excellent.
If you're at a university that has an engineering college, there are very likely already exchange programs set up for students in technical majors. I would check that out. Otherwise, nearly every university/college has some sort of international study office. You could ask them for help/advice as well.
Also, perhaps look through this list http://www.aacu.org/resources/globallearning/studyabroad.cfm
IIE is specifically geared toward technical students. Take a look at them: http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=StudyAbroad
Encryption isn't so important unless you're worried about someone coming in and physically stealing your hardware, but it will complicate setup a bit and will slow down IO a bit (depending on CPU speed).
Webmin is great for this type of thing.
Your network connection is the limiting factor here. On large sequential reads, modern SATA drives with a mobo's onboard controller can easily maintain the 100MB/s or so it takes to max out your gigE connection.
Spend your money on some decent networking kit that can actually get you close a full 1 Gb/s. If you're only getting 6 MB/s with your current 100Mb/s hardware that tells me you've got some crappy hardware and/or bad wiring. Work on that.
Indeed. I didn't believe how big a difference snow tires make until my parents gave me their old car that had a set of them. They're definitely worth it!
And if you get a new set of wheels with them, they're nearly trivial to change out.
If you can't come up with at least 5 things to do with it on your own, you have no business controlling such an expensive and valuable resource.
How about asking other research groups within your University or affiliated departments at other Universities if they need some CPU time? I'm certain there are people who would love to use it.
Also, as far as anyone has ever told me and I've ever seen, grad school for engineering and ESPECIALLY for CS is completely worthless for getting a job, and is done almost only by those who wish to go into academia.
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to do something cool like (for example) processor architecture, you certainly need a master's degree. Of course if you want to be a code monkey, then a bachelor's is all you need. However, if you want to do anything moderately advanced (read: interesting) then don't discount the value of a M.S.
Once you consider that setting up a new line costs on the order of several million dollars, you'll see why it's unlikely they'd do that. The volume of pirated chips the rogue fab would have to sell to recover their costs would probably get them caught.
No - banks loan each other money to make up for short-term cash balance deficits.
Incidentally, when the Fed announces it's changing interest rates, they're changing the rate they charge banks for these types of loans. The Fed then buys or sells treasury bills to make sure all the other interest rates follow the change.
Huh? 16 bit apps went out of style with the introduction of the 386. Any respectible compiler since has generated 32 bit binaries unless told otherwise.
64-bit Operating Systems do not support 16-bit anything
Vista doesn't run 16 bit applications natively, but they can be run through emulators like DOSBox. So if you abosolutely must run DOS tetris, you still can.
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hey cts, are you ever going to finish that film?
It will fsck you up. Unless you're running linux - then it's just really annoying.
Pumping it into the ground 1500 feet down into the earth's crust in the middle of a tectonic plate and far below any water tables is perfectly safe. Leaving it above ground waiting for some weird freak accident to allow contaminates to somehow get into the water table is a tiny bit less so.
It should be noted though that the casks they use at US nuclear power plants to store spent rods are really really freakin' tough. So it's really more just a problem of the stuff taking up space and not having a permanent home. That, and uneducated hippies hearing "nuclear" or "radioactive" and going off their rockers.
Have you?
http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/polyworld.html
Yes we have common ancestry, as do all living things. But the common ancestor between humans and crustaceans is nowhere as close as between, say, humans an lizards.
Convergent evolution? You're just throwing out terms without knowing their meanings now aren't you? Convergent evolution means similar environmental factors tend to push the evolution of dissimilar species into similar directions. An example of this would be dolphins and sharks. They share a lot of common features, but their history could not be more different. Dolphins' ancestors are land mammals. Sharks have always been fish. But because they both live in water, they've both evolved similar structures (fins) for their environment.
I think it's pretty silly to categorically state "compared to america". Perhaps your undergrad college sucked, but in my experience it really depends on a) the institution and b) the individual professor.
I'm currently a student at a major research university (Wisconsin-Madison), at which some profs are excellent teachers while some are.. well, consumed by their research. I've also attended a small teaching university (Wisconsin-La Crosse) where the professors were hired largely for their teaching abilities. Most of the courses I took there were excellent.
If you're at a university that has an engineering college, there are very likely already exchange programs set up for students in technical majors. I would check that out. Otherwise, nearly every university/college has some sort of international study office. You could ask them for help/advice as well.
Also, perhaps look through this list
http://www.aacu.org/resources/globallearning/studyabroad.cfm
IIE is specifically geared toward technical students. Take a look at them:
http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=StudyAbroad
I'll second this with a couple notes:
Encryption isn't so important unless you're worried about someone coming in and physically stealing your hardware, but it will complicate setup a bit and will slow down IO a bit (depending on CPU speed).
Webmin is great for this type of thing.
Your network connection is the limiting factor here. On large sequential reads, modern SATA drives with a mobo's onboard controller can easily maintain the 100MB/s or so it takes to max out your gigE connection.
Spend your money on some decent networking kit that can actually get you close a full 1 Gb/s. If you're only getting 6 MB/s with your current 100Mb/s hardware that tells me you've got some crappy hardware and/or bad wiring. Work on that.
A very long time.
Hitler is evil. Microsoft is evil. Microsoft uses software licenses. That makes software licenses tools of evil.
Therefore software licenses are tools of Hitler and must be destroyed!
There.. can we be done with this now?
And not led by UD. Wisconsin gets credit for this one: http://icecube.wisc.edu/
Indeed. I didn't believe how big a difference snow tires make until my parents gave me their old car that had a set of them. They're definitely worth it!
And if you get a new set of wheels with them, they're nearly trivial to change out.
True money does not disappear, but value does.
Webster seems to think that 'average' is synonymous with 'mean'.
Well since he's the one doing the research, he shouldn't have to ask US for advice about what might be cool.
If you can't come up with at least 5 things to do with it on your own, you have no business controlling such an expensive and valuable resource.
How about asking other research groups within your University or affiliated departments at other Universities if they need some CPU time? I'm certain there are people who would love to use it.
Just my $0.02
In a data mining context, an algorithm extracts, modifies or creates data from an existing data set.
Think of it this way.. algorithm is to verb as data is to noun.
Also, as far as anyone has ever told me and I've ever seen, grad school for engineering and ESPECIALLY for CS is completely worthless for getting a job, and is done almost only by those who wish to go into academia.
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to do something cool like (for example) processor architecture, you certainly need a master's degree. Of course if you want to be a code monkey, then a bachelor's is all you need. However, if you want to do anything moderately advanced (read: interesting) then don't discount the value of a M.S.
Um, wow. So that must be why CPU's still cost tens of thousands of dollars?
Once you consider that setting up a new line costs on the order of several million dollars, you'll see why it's unlikely they'd do that. The volume of pirated chips the rogue fab would have to sell to recover their costs would probably get them caught.
Move to Wisconsin and then say that. Having the sun come up at 4am in the summer would suck.
No - banks loan each other money to make up for short-term cash balance deficits.
Incidentally, when the Fed announces it's changing interest rates, they're changing the rate they charge banks for these types of loans. The Fed then buys or sells treasury bills to make sure all the other interest rates follow the change.
Well, it is popular mechanics... not exactly a bastion of accurate scientific reporting.
Rehab in Wisconsin? Blasphemy! We don't rehab, we just pass out before starting again the next day...
Hello from just down the street! Except google maps is off by about 50 feet or so. I'm in the KHK house on the other side of the street.
they only have 16-bit installers
Huh? 16 bit apps went out of style with the introduction of the 386. Any respectible compiler since has generated 32 bit binaries unless told otherwise.
64-bit Operating Systems do not support 16-bit anything
Vista doesn't run 16 bit applications natively, but they can be run through emulators like DOSBox. So if you abosolutely must run DOS tetris, you still can.