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Comment Scientific and Standard SI Units (Score 2) 148

by joe_plastic (#59632870) Attached to: 98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Isn't the Average Anymore
Système international is built on seven base units: second, metre, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela. The system also specifies names for 22 derived units, such as celsius, henry lumen and watt, for other common physical quantities. Kelvin is a base unit, Celsius is a derived unit. Science is a process. You can use pounds, slugs, gallons, Fahrenheit are still be doing science.

Comment Re:gas gauge in us do not show the true size (Score 1) 88

by joe_plastic (#59420334) Attached to: US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills
the customer also does not want to see it drop below "F" so quickly after filling up as they don't feel like they see the satisfaction of a car that is sipping the gas.
I didn't know they did that will FULL. I thought my gauge was miscalibrated. I noticed that it stayed on FULL for a bit and then started dipping. I didn't know that effect was intentional, I thought it was broken.

Comment Re:Application design issue. (Score 1) 569

Not quite, the article states that they disabled swap (for some reason)

The reason for disabling swap is to induce memory pressure.

The goal is to make the OS handle low memory situations more gracefully. Ideally it would remain responsive, allowing the user to kill unneeded programs to free up memory. That improvement would also apply to scenarios where swap was enabled.
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Ross Perot, Founder and Former CEO of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems, Dies At 89 (cnbc.com) 149

Posted by BeauHD from the rest-in-peace dept.
Ross Perot, a self-made billionaire, independent presidential candidate, and philanthropist, has died at the age of 89 after a five-month battle with leukemia. Perot rose to fame after founding his first company, Electronic Data Systems, in 1962 with just $1,000 in savings. More than two decades later, he launched information technology services provider Perot Systems, which was acquired in 2009 by Dell for $3.9 billion. CNBC reports on his political accomplishments: As a disruptive third-party candidate for president, Perot ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility and protectionism. He won nearly 19% of the vote in the 1992 race -- by far the biggest slice of the electorate for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in the 1912 election. Perot stood out from the political crowd for his quirks as much as his business credentials and lack of experience in establishment politics. "I don't have any experience in running up a $4 trillion debt. I don't have any experience in gridlock government, where nobody takes responsibility for anything and everybody blames everybody else," he said in a 1992 presidential debate. The shifting of U.S. jobs to Mexico created a "giant sucking sound," he famously said during the campaign. Perot was also a bit of a pack rat, collecting everything from whimsical toys to priceless artifacts. Perot owned the only Magna Carta ever allowed to leave Great Britain, which he loaned to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and in 2007, sold it for $20 million.

Comment Re:We need Amdahl's law for climate change (Score 1) 250

by jdschulteis (#58830122) Attached to: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

Almost all of "other" is electricity production

Which can be easily met with a few dozen nuclear plants, but the greenies won't have any of that.

You're short by an order of magnitude. Annual world electricity production is over 25 TWh, around 65% of that is fossil-fueled. With large (let's say 5 GW) nuclear plants at 90% capacity factor, over 400 would be needed to replace all fossil fuel electricity production.

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