Comment Re:2 degrees compared to what? And over how long? (Score 1) 44
Yup. Apparently I are too much awesumz cereal that morning. My bad.
That means it’s becoming increasingly difficult for the world to meet its professed goal of limiting global warming to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.
For those who also didn't know, it's:
The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H). It allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status to another non-immigrant status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the US.
VMs are basically a step towards the cloud mentality. Once you're in that mentatlity, it suddenly becomes trivial to remove and add new nodes when one dies. Suddenly failure just isn't a big deal any more*.
*Assuming both scenarios have good fault tolerance where viable, eg bonded network interfaces, redundant power, RAID 5 etc
station wagon has low bandwidth, the tapes have to be written and read.
No. Bandwidth is how much you can send in one go (tapes/hdds in a car are extremely high). Latency is fairly much how long it takes you to do it. Throughput brings these together.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
