I questioned why don't they upgrade the file server and they said it was full. I found out later all the servers on site were 5 year old HP machines.
How many years later? They might have been new at the time. Anyway, five years isn't really old. Most places purchase a few extra machines for spares and run stuff until several years past warranty. Server hardware lasts a lot longer than workstation stuff usually.
But there were scores of college students getting email accounts that weren't AOL, and (since I worked for an ISP at the time, I know) there were scores of non-AOL home users who just wanted email to leave messages for their kids (because their kids always had their modem using the dorm phone line). It exploded from college use, just like Facebook did. Maybe if college groups like frat houses sought this open source social network as a "better way to 'control exposure'" then it would eventually bleed Facebook dry like Facebook did to MySpace.
And every time it gets hot there's a press release saying "GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL, DOOM IS IMMINENT, HOTTEST YEAR EVAH!"
Yeah. Global temp might be up a half a degree, but local temps have stabilized the last decade. Ten-twenty years ago, we used to get summer fluctuations for highs between 75-105F, now we're getting steady 80-97F highs with not a 100 in sight. If this is global warming, good on ya.
I love how everybody thinks they're a climate scientist now,
Yeah, I love how scientists in other fields are always telling FOO scientists that their FOO studies weren't done following standard scientific procedure with proper controls and data collection. What do BAR scientists know about FOO science? It's completely different! ~
no mention of why this is a good idea and what in particular it does for solar power.
My guess is that they have a system to use a bunch of micro solar cells, and are using the fly-eye shaped nickel reflectors to focus light on the cells. That way, they can spend less on the cell-material, and just use a (hopefully cheap) nickel-mini-mirror array to collect most of the light. Like so:
/ <-- | [Cell] \ <--
Lameness filter for "Junk Characters" in <ecode> tags gets on my nerves. code should be exempt.
...How many of these drivers were traveling at a safe posted speed limit and caught a yellow on a rainy day and had no choice but to either enter a skidding sliding stop or get a ticket. and now due to their unfortunate luck have the added benefit of fighting this in court...
In inclement weather, or other situations in which the speed limit is too high to drive safely, then it's the drivers responsibility to low down to safe speeds. If the driver couldn't react (for whatever reason) and stop for a red light, then they were going too fast under the circumstances. The Green->Yellow->Red timings are not arbitrary, and are based on good weather conditions and acceptable reaction time expectations.
The point of a lot of these camera articles is that the timings are not (as you said) arbitrary, and are instead purposefully shortened to create revenue. Decades of driving experience have taught people that 20mph in a 30mph zone while it's raining is okay, but a shortened amber time is like having a pedestrian jump out in front of you from the side of the road, not safely using the crosswalk. The only way to protect against that is to drive 5mph everywhere at all times.
At that point he was screwed. If he said "nothing", he could reasonably expect to get nothing. His only option was to say "all" if he wanted to get a chance at something.
If my son (nobly or stubbornly) said "nothing", I'd offer him half or nothing. Parents are allowed to alter the deals. Pray that they alter them further.
I like having different colored cables all in the same switch/patch panel. Makes rats nests easier to deal with. Pink, purple, chartruse, aqua, brown, tan, yellow, red, blue, black, gray, green. I got lotsa colors.
the "kink" that supports superconductivity does not look like an actual kink.....I dont know how they decided to fit their data but dartboard springs to mind
Just because you're open minded doesn't mean it's not kinky.
Whoever banked on silver will care a great deal. Bauxite is too common for aluminum prices to rise a lot, but another industrial use for silver makes it jump a few. Did any of these researchers invest in metals recently?
Talk about serendipity. I was on my way into work not an hour after posting and was behind a lady at the stoplight. She was gesturing to her child in the back seat, and I realized her motions were ASL. "Wow! I was just posting about this on/.", thought I. The light turned green, and she sped up to 45mph on the 50mph speed limit road, and I watched in horror as she continued to look at her child in the mirror and sign With Both Hands for at least five or six more seconds (long enough that I passed her because she was slow and dangerous). She's a baaad example, and she shouldn't be on the road, but I felt the need to post to partially vindicate the GP post.
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From seven years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_panorama
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~jzheng/RP/index.html
I questioned why don't they upgrade the file server and they said it was full. I found out later all the servers on site were 5 year old HP machines.
How many years later? They might have been new at the time. Anyway, five years isn't really old. Most places purchase a few extra machines for spares and run stuff until several years past warranty. Server hardware lasts a lot longer than workstation stuff usually.
But there were scores of college students getting email accounts that weren't AOL, and (since I worked for an ISP at the time, I know) there were scores of non-AOL home users who just wanted email to leave messages for their kids (because their kids always had their modem using the dorm phone line). It exploded from college use, just like Facebook did. Maybe if college groups like frat houses sought this open source social network as a "better way to 'control exposure'" then it would eventually bleed Facebook dry like Facebook did to MySpace.
Well clearly you didn't teach him to cock his head at the right angle.
That's not a right angle. It's clearly obtuse.
And every time it gets hot there's a press release saying "GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL, DOOM IS IMMINENT, HOTTEST YEAR EVAH!"
Yeah. Global temp might be up a half a degree, but local temps have stabilized the last decade. Ten-twenty years ago, we used to get summer fluctuations for highs between 75-105F, now we're getting steady 80-97F highs with not a 100 in sight. If this is global warming, good on ya.
There isn't an intelligent person the planet who denies that global warming is real.
And there isn't an intelligent person on the planet who can't see the Emperor's new clothes. Please don't appeal to vanity as a method of argument.
I love how everybody thinks they're a climate scientist now,
Yeah, I love how scientists in other fields are always telling FOO scientists that their FOO studies weren't done following standard scientific procedure with proper controls and data collection. What do BAR scientists know about FOO science? It's completely different! ~
Seriously how hard was it to hook up the $2 three color coded RCA jacks?
My dog never got it quite right.
Number One, Make it so.
Riker had to be the worst first officer in Star Fleet; Picard had to keep telling him when to go pee.
The BP spill should remind everyone of what happens when regulation fails.
Somehow I doubt nuclear or solar will be forced by regulation to mine in deep water instead of land or shallows.
nuclear would only cost 16 cents per kwh if the plant was awfully mismanaged with terrible performance.
If the Simpsons has taught me anything, it's that this is the norm.
no mention of why this is a good idea and what in particular it does for solar power.
My guess is that they have a system to use a bunch of micro solar cells, and are using the fly-eye shaped nickel reflectors to focus light on the cells. That way, they can spend less on the cell-material, and just use a (hopefully cheap) nickel-mini-mirror array to collect most of the light. Like so:
Lameness filter for "Junk Characters" in <ecode> tags gets on my nerves. code should be exempt.
However, if the rubber band is spinning really fast, aren't the centrifugal forces pushing the band outward, compensating the squashing?
You also didn't read your physics book. There is no such thing as centrifugal force (outward from center).
How hard is it to remove a fly's cornea, and can the process be automated from a cloud of flies?
How can you have a knife without a point? A Xena Chachram?
...How many of these drivers were traveling at a safe posted speed limit and caught a yellow on a rainy day and had no choice but to either enter a skidding sliding stop or get a ticket. and now due to their unfortunate luck have the added benefit of fighting this in court...
In inclement weather, or other situations in which the speed limit is too high to drive safely, then it's the drivers responsibility to low down to safe speeds. If the driver couldn't react (for whatever reason) and stop for a red light, then they were going too fast under the circumstances. The Green->Yellow->Red timings are not arbitrary, and are based on good weather conditions and acceptable reaction time expectations.
The point of a lot of these camera articles is that the timings are not (as you said) arbitrary, and are instead purposefully shortened to create revenue. Decades of driving experience have taught people that 20mph in a 30mph zone while it's raining is okay, but a shortened amber time is like having a pedestrian jump out in front of you from the side of the road, not safely using the crosswalk. The only way to protect against that is to drive 5mph everywhere at all times.
Photo three shows the drivers face through the front windshield.
Not where I'm from. They don't care about the driver. They care about the person the license plate is registered to. That's who gets the ticket.
At that point he was screwed. If he said "nothing", he could reasonably expect to get nothing. His only option was to say "all" if he wanted to get a chance at something.
If my son (nobly or stubbornly) said "nothing", I'd offer him half or nothing. Parents are allowed to alter the deals. Pray that they alter them further.
I like having different colored cables all in the same switch/patch panel. Makes rats nests easier to deal with. Pink, purple, chartruse, aqua, brown, tan, yellow, red, blue, black, gray, green. I got lotsa colors.
the "kink" that supports superconductivity does not look like an actual kink.....I dont know how they decided to fit their data but dartboard springs to mind
Just because you're open minded doesn't mean it's not kinky.
Whoever banked on silver will care a great deal. Bauxite is too common for aluminum prices to rise a lot, but another industrial use for silver makes it jump a few. Did any of these researchers invest in metals recently?
Then you don't quite understand our system of government. The Republican congress had to ram the balanced budget down his throat.
Then you don't quite understand our system of government. The people had to ram the balanced budget down their congresscritters throats.
Everything would fork. Whoopdie freakin do.
Talk about serendipity. I was on my way into work not an hour after posting and was behind a lady at the stoplight. She was gesturing to her child in the back seat, and I realized her motions were ASL. "Wow! I was just posting about this on /.", thought I. The light turned green, and she sped up to 45mph on the 50mph speed limit road, and I watched in horror as she continued to look at her child in the mirror and sign With Both Hands for at least five or six more seconds (long enough that I passed her because she was slow and dangerous). She's a baaad example, and she shouldn't be on the road, but I felt the need to post to partially vindicate the GP post.