Of course data centers have _a_ future, but probably if an IT tech of today saw a data center of 50 years from now, they wouldn't recognise it as such.
I think a single human brain, connected properly and whatnot, could be used as a server farm. There's multi-threading support aplenty, lots and lots of storage and once you take away the sub-processses like emotion and such, there's even an abundance of computing power. Therefore, the future of data centers is in jars of glass filled with nutritional liquid.
Could LHC cause the earth to implode? Perhaps with the same likelihood that all the subatomic particles in your body will suddenly decide to move together through the wall behind you into the ladies room on the other side and you end up convicted of a sexual crime, even though you are innocent.
Yeah, I once accidentally targeted myself instead of a lady's clothing with my improbability device and now I'm a registered sex offender...
No no, not hte bumper being higher - the overall bumper's height being greater ie. bigger impact surface area == less pressure == less injury. And of course the whole not being flung up into the air and onto the car is a rather nice side-effect too.
To my knowledge the discovery was made by accident because fewer people died being hit by SUV's than larger cars, which seemed odd because SUV's are heavier and thus more energy is transfered.
And research in early 2000's has discovered that low bumpers increase injury when hitting a pedestrian because they fling whatever you hit into the air, it then lands on your bonnet (falling from the sky) then bounces off into the pavement. That's three impacts.
With a high front-end the pedestrian is hit and the load is evenly distributed across their whole body, then flung against the pavement. One less impact AND one of the impacts is much less severe.
This does not work if the driver isn't braking and runs over you, but then you're out of luck anyway since the impact itself is deadly in any case.
There's a lot of crash testing out there that trinkles down to the consumer because vehicle safety, in Europe at least, is a huge huge selling point.
Also back in primary school I used to make crash test cars out of Lego, crashed them into walls, inspected the damage, tweaked and so on. After ten generations of the car they became so safe the "driver" didn't leave his seat even without a seatbelt, while the car desintegrated into tiny bits around him. Fun times.
Most cars on the road today are not compliant to the new standards beacause they were changed last year and are only enforced on NEW vehicles. However, I don't believe even all new vehicles have to comply this year already but have a few year's time to adapt.
The most notable change you can see is that all new European cars (model year 2009) have an extremely high front bumper and are incredibly round on that end making them look somewhat chubby. Most of them are also made so the bonnet can collapse under a pedestrian's weight while also making sure they don't hit the engine or something on it.
Another very noticable change is that the edge between bonnet and wind screen is no longer a sharp metalic edge on most cars, but has a smooth transition made of plastic.
I am saying this as an armchair crash test fanatic, not an expert in the field so I might be marginally incorrect on some points.
You fail to understand that most people don't really see a difference between a "computer appliance" and a "kitchen appliance". They just want it to do what they bought it to do.
However, on most phones, mp3 players and other gadget crap you can at least update the firmware if nothing else. Hell, I'm fairly confident last weekend my BlackBerry automatically updated itself for some reason since certain things started looking differently. I know for certain I wen through a lot of trouble to udpate the firmware when I bought it...
Some modern washing machines make it a selling point that they're running "advanced software to make laundry better" or whatnot. Well, what if they release a new version? Am I just gonna buy a new washing machine, maybe I'd rather upgrade the software with the new better whatever.
Similar for, say, a stove. There is SOMETHING running on that thing that controls the timer and all the snazzy functions nobody ever uses. If nothing else, I'd like soemthing that makes better use of the buttons so I actually know how to use it...
In most cases a "Huh" can be resolved with the question "What computer do you have?" and they will answer either Mac or Windows, but most probably Windows. Remember, people are buying COMPUTER most of them don't understand that there's an OS running on it, it's just a computer, much like a radio.
Do YOU know what OS/firmware your television/radio/refridgerator/telephone/dishwasher/washingMachine/etc are running? I didn't think so.
Actually it doesn't really matter whether the backups exist or not, someone WILL pay large amounts of money for all that personal information. Whom, I don't know, but there's bound to be someone out there.
Hell, it could just be bought by someone to cause a political scandal over "data loss", then create a large "data protection for governments" corporation and use this incident to gain clients.
For the safety of your users, I do hope the sanitization happens on the server-side otherwise... yikes. Then again, some clients simply don't pay enough for sanitization and I just dump anything someonen posts right back to the page. Easier spending an hour every two months deleting "spam" than spending time making sure everything gets properly sanitized.
Yes I'm a lazy coder I know, but fuck it, you get what you pay for.
It's not, but curriculum can be quite happily pluralised just like any other noun as per the dictionary - both forms are accepted:
curâ...ricâ...uâ...lum [kuh-rik-yuh-luhm] Show IPA
â"noun, plural -la [-luh] Show IPA , -lums. 1. the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
2. the regular or a particular course of study in a school, college, etc.
curricula (wow, incorrect spelling and incorrect use of the plural, is that because all those mean liberals didn't teach you correctly?)
And that my friend is a sign of hypercorrection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection) because in English plurals are formed with the suffix s, es after an s, and not the way it's done in latin. So plural of curriculum is in fact curriculums.
In the future when grammar nazi-ing, please do it properly. Thanks.
SCENARIO #1: Take one teacher. Put her in a classroom of Japanese-American kids or Hungarian-American kids. They will do well because they are committed to learning.
SCENARIO #2: Put that same teacher in a classroom of African-American kids from Oakland, California. The kids will do poorly because African-American culture rejects learning -- and rejects Western culture in general.
In scenario #2, the teacher would be fired as a "bad" teacher. In scenario #1, the same teacher would get a bonus for producing such accomplished students.
Is there any reasonable and objective way to determine a teacher's performance that is independent of the students in her classroom?
It's a shame you will be modded troll for this due to perceived racism against african-americans, despite raising a very valuable point. Guess that's why you went AC, I don't blame ya.
Unlike the average slashdotter I'm exposed to breasts at least every day and to be quite honest, they never stop being the single best toy in the world. Breasts are fun. End of story.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a marvelous example of just how wrong you are. Both the book and the movie are exactly the same and yet it's impossible to decide which is better or more original. It's quite a unique situation I believe.
Watching the movie feels exactly like reading the book, except better because you can see the crazy visuals, and reading the book is exactly like reading the movie script, except better because you get to imagine the crazy visuals and make them crazier.
Oh and btw to you snobby college students that think you're artists because you just bought a Mac.
I bought a Mac because at the time it was the most powerful machine packed into the thinnest and lightest package (so it fits in my backpack nicely) with the longest batter span.
That was two years ago. Nowadays I'd buy a Mac because having dropped it a lot I've come to appreciate the aluminium case and I do believe it's still the best battery life for a laptop with a graphics card that has its own memory... plus the touchpads are just bloody awesome.
Art has nothing to do with it, it's just a better (portable) computer
If we could just somehow get most everyone in the world addicted to frequently publishing short bursts of information on a public channel, more specifically answers to the "What are you up to?" question...
Twitter is the NSA's answer to wiretapping allegations. That's why it's able to grow so quickly without a business model.
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Of course data centers have _a_ future, but probably if an IT tech of today saw a data center of 50 years from now, they wouldn't recognise it as such.
I think a single human brain, connected properly and whatnot, could be used as a server farm. There's multi-threading support aplenty, lots and lots of storage and once you take away the sub-processses like emotion and such, there's even an abundance of computing power. Therefore, the future of data centers is in jars of glass filled with nutritional liquid.
Could LHC cause the earth to implode? Perhaps with the same likelihood that all the subatomic particles in your body will suddenly decide to move together through the wall behind you into the ladies room on the other side and you end up convicted of a sexual crime, even though you are innocent.
Yeah, I once accidentally targeted myself instead of a lady's clothing with my improbability device and now I'm a registered sex offender ...
No no, not hte bumper being higher - the overall bumper's height being greater ie. bigger impact surface area == less pressure == less injury. And of course the whole not being flung up into the air and onto the car is a rather nice side-effect too.
To my knowledge the discovery was made by accident because fewer people died being hit by SUV's than larger cars, which seemed odd because SUV's are heavier and thus more energy is transfered.
And research in early 2000's has discovered that low bumpers increase injury when hitting a pedestrian because they fling whatever you hit into the air, it then lands on your bonnet (falling from the sky) then bounces off into the pavement. That's three impacts.
With a high front-end the pedestrian is hit and the load is evenly distributed across their whole body, then flung against the pavement. One less impact AND one of the impacts is much less severe.
This does not work if the driver isn't braking and runs over you, but then you're out of luck anyway since the impact itself is deadly in any case.
Youtube+Fifth Gear+Top Gear+all car magazines
There's a lot of crash testing out there that trinkles down to the consumer because vehicle safety, in Europe at least, is a huge huge selling point.
Also back in primary school I used to make crash test cars out of Lego, crashed them into walls, inspected the damage, tweaked and so on. After ten generations of the car they became so safe the "driver" didn't leave his seat even without a seatbelt, while the car desintegrated into tiny bits around him. Fun times.
Most cars on the road today are not compliant to the new standards beacause they were changed last year and are only enforced on NEW vehicles. However, I don't believe even all new vehicles have to comply this year already but have a few year's time to adapt.
The most notable change you can see is that all new European cars (model year 2009) have an extremely high front bumper and are incredibly round on that end making them look somewhat chubby. Most of them are also made so the bonnet can collapse under a pedestrian's weight while also making sure they don't hit the engine or something on it.
Another very noticable change is that the edge between bonnet and wind screen is no longer a sharp metalic edge on most cars, but has a smooth transition made of plastic.
I am saying this as an armchair crash test fanatic, not an expert in the field so I might be marginally incorrect on some points.
Very lazy when you're using rich WYSIWYG editors and want html to be parsed.
You fail to understand that most people don't really see a difference between a "computer appliance" and a "kitchen appliance". They just want it to do what they bought it to do.
However, on most phones, mp3 players and other gadget crap you can at least update the firmware if nothing else. Hell, I'm fairly confident last weekend my BlackBerry automatically updated itself for some reason since certain things started looking differently. I know for certain I wen through a lot of trouble to udpate the firmware when I bought it ...
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Some modern washing machines make it a selling point that they're running "advanced software to make laundry better" or whatnot. Well, what if they release a new version? Am I just gonna buy a new washing machine, maybe I'd rather upgrade the software with the new better whatever.
Similar for, say, a stove. There is SOMETHING running on that thing that controls the timer and all the snazzy functions nobody ever uses. If nothing else, I'd like soemthing that makes better use of the buttons so I actually know how to use it
In most cases a "Huh" can be resolved with the question "What computer do you have?" and they will answer either Mac or Windows, but most probably Windows. Remember, people are buying COMPUTER most of them don't understand that there's an OS running on it, it's just a computer, much like a radio.
Do YOU know what OS/firmware your television/radio/refridgerator/telephone/dishwasher/washingMachine/etc are running? I didn't think so.
Actually it doesn't really matter whether the backups exist or not, someone WILL pay large amounts of money for all that personal information. Whom, I don't know, but there's bound to be someone out there.
Hell, it could just be bought by someone to cause a political scandal over "data loss", then create a large "data protection for governments" corporation and use this incident to gain clients.
For the safety of your users, I do hope the sanitization happens on the server-side otherwise ... yikes. Then again, some clients simply don't pay enough for sanitization and I just dump anything someonen posts right back to the page. Easier spending an hour every two months deleting "spam" than spending time making sure everything gets properly sanitized.
Yes I'm a lazy coder I know, but fuck it, you get what you pay for.
curâ...ricâ...uâ...lum [kuh-rik-yuh-luhm] Show IPA â"noun, plural -la [-luh] Show IPA , -lums.
1. the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
2. the regular or a particular course of study in a school, college, etc.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=curriculum&x=0&y=0
curricula (wow, incorrect spelling and incorrect use of the plural, is that because all those mean liberals didn't teach you correctly?)
And that my friend is a sign of hypercorrection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection) because in English plurals are formed with the suffix s, es after an s, and not the way it's done in latin. So plural of curriculum is in fact curriculums.
In the future when grammar nazi-ing, please do it properly. Thanks.
SCENARIO #1: Take one teacher. Put her in a classroom of Japanese-American kids or Hungarian-American kids. They will do well because they are committed to learning.
SCENARIO #2: Put that same teacher in a classroom of African-American kids from Oakland, California. The kids will do poorly because African-American culture rejects learning -- and rejects Western culture in general.
In scenario #2, the teacher would be fired as a "bad" teacher. In scenario #1, the same teacher would get a bonus for producing such accomplished students.
Is there any reasonable and objective way to determine a teacher's performance that is independent of the students in her classroom?
It's a shame you will be modded troll for this due to perceived racism against african-americans, despite raising a very valuable point. Guess that's why you went AC, I don't blame ya.
Unlike the average slashdotter I'm exposed to breasts at least every day and to be quite honest, they never stop being the single best toy in the world. Breasts are fun. End of story.
There are protests where large gatherings of women walk/sit around topless? Can I go ... err ... help?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a marvelous example of just how wrong you are. Both the book and the movie are exactly the same and yet it's impossible to decide which is better or more original. It's quite a unique situation I believe.
Watching the movie feels exactly like reading the book, except better because you can see the crazy visuals, and reading the book is exactly like reading the movie script, except better because you get to imagine the crazy visuals and make them crazier.
Oh well, guess they were using the Cattell one then. Didn't really expect to get in anyway, was just curious :P
Oh and btw to you snobby college students that think you're artists because you just bought a Mac.
I bought a Mac because at the time it was the most powerful machine packed into the thinnest and lightest package (so it fits in my backpack nicely) with the longest batter span.
That was two years ago. Nowadays I'd buy a Mac because having dropped it a lot I've come to appreciate the aluminium case and I do believe it's still the best battery life for a laptop with a graphics card that has its own memory ... plus the touchpads are just bloody awesome.
Art has nothing to do with it, it's just a better (portable) computer
How did it? Seems to be working wonders for the MAFIAA, they're making more money than ever.
That's odd, I got a 136 on their test and that was only in the 94 percentile, thus no mensa membership. Maybe data differs for us Europeans ...
1) plug it into a television
2) add IR
3) add connection to file server with videos 4) ???
5) entertainment
Both Italy and Sweden are part of the EU, so maybe there's a way because of that?
If we could just somehow get most everyone in the world addicted to frequently publishing short bursts of information on a public channel, more specifically answers to the "What are you up to?" question ...
Twitter is the NSA's answer to wiretapping allegations. That's why it's able to grow so quickly without a business model.