hot as rock and roll
marika
there is a part of my building that doesn't look functional but may be
It's like a concrete and metal something that almost looks like a gangway,
but I don't think it is actually something that anyone can walk on. The top
is like roof and the rest is sort of concrete, but it's probably called
rebar.
It cuts across the entire front of the building on my floor and sort of
joins all the balconies together.
I am grappling with trying to figure out the name for this thing, but I
can't come up with a name
do you know what it is called
http://www.truthout.org/100508A
you will enjoy this article. I am still voting for Kucinich as a write in
G
Jim Cramer the deranged financial advisor on Mad Money went on good morning
america back in September and told Ann Curry that he was advising every
American who has any stock that if he doesn't need it in the next 5 years to
take it out. Now.
I think he is insane but prior to the meltdown, I would watch him as a guest
here and there but not his show specifically. His show is too hard to
watch.
Some time before the meltdown, specifically in July, because I wanted to
tell af and tato, he said there would be a meltdown and that there would be
only five major banks left. He named them but I can't remember which ones
except for Bank of America. I remembered that one because my aunt has her
cash there so I stopped worrying.
tato tends to be noncrazy so i didn't worry about him.
in September Citi and Wells Fargo were fighting over wachovia
so how then if they were fighting can you call those mortgages worthless.
what kind of bailout is it that rescues banks that are failing that are
worth this much
they fought because and now it comes out 2 months later that they were
really looking for the write downs on their taxes
so now they are in pending litigation
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>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9112018
>> When the meteor and the 1PB database collide
>> Craters? No, ginormous amounts of celestial information in need of
>> storage
>> Eric Lai
>> August 8, 2008 (Computerworld) Our fascination with the prospect of
>> asteroids smashing into the Earth is as deep as the craters that can
>> result
>> from such cosmic fireballs. Think of all the movies Hollywood has made,
>> from
>> little-seen B flicks such as A Fire in the Sky to campy cult classics
>> such
>> as Night of the Comet to scientifically shaky blockbusters such as Meteor
>> and Armageddon.
>>
>> The 1990s was also awash with news of rocky passersby such as Comet
>> Hale-Bopp and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which unleashed fragments up to two
>> kilometers wide upon Jupiter in 1994.
>>
>> Once dismissed as the province of fringe cult groups, the fear of what
>> astronomers call "impact events" turns out, thanks to improved satellite
>> and
>> telescopic monitoring, to be not so irrational after all.
>>
>>
>> Pan-STARRS on patrol
>>
>> The latest and most ambitious to detect 'near-Earth objects' (NEO) is the
>> Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS.
>>
>> A joint venture of the University of Hawaii, a number of other schools
>> and
>> the U.S. Air Force, Pan-STARRS is today testing a telescope mounted with
>> the
>> finest digital camera in existence, which boasts a resolution of 1.4
>> billion
>> pixels.
>>
>> When Pan-STARRS is fully operational several years from now, it will have
>> four telescopes, each with a 1.4-gigapixel camera.
>>
>> That will give Pan-STARRS a wider, faster and more-powerful view into
>> space,
>> and will enable it to meet its mandate of tracking virtually all NEOs
>> larger
>> than 300 meters in diameter as well as many smaller NEOs.
>>
>> It will have plenty to see. About once a year, an asteroid of five to 10
>> meters in diameter explodes in the Earth's upper atmosphere, releasing as
>> much energy as the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima. And if one slips
>> through,
>> it can cause a lot of damage -- even if it's not a big one.
>>
>> The asteroid behind 1908's Tunguska Event was only about 50 meters in
>> diameter, but it created an explosion equivalent to 10 to 15 megatons of
>> TNT
>> (about 1,000 times the Hiroshima bomb), knocking over an estimated 80
>> million trees in Siberia and causing an earthquake that's estimated to
>> have
>> measured a 5.0 on the Richter scale (which had not yet been invented at
>> that
>> time). And we are due for another even like that within 200 years,
>> according
>> to the late astronomer Eugene Shoemaker.
>>
>> With just a single telescope, Pan-STARRS already generates 1.4 terabytes
>> of
>> raw image data nightly. Compressing, storing and crunching that data in
>> an
>> economical fashion turns out to be a feat of database engineering as
>> impressive as the collection process.
>>
>> Rather than turning to an expensive supercomputer equipped with hundreds
>> or
>> thousands of processors, Pan-STARRS will use a cluster of 50 PC servers
>> connected to 1.1 petabytes of disk storage via fast Infiniband networking
>> gear, according to Alex Szalay, a physics and astronomy professor at
>> Johns
>> Hopkins University and one of the architects of Pan-STARRS' database.
>>
>> And rather than using a database management program better-known for
>> ultralarge data warehouses, such as IBM's DB2, a TeraData system or
>> Oracle
>> Database, Pan-STARRS will use Microsoft Corp.'s just-released SQL Server
>> 2008.
>>
>>
>> Weighing the benefits
>>
>> Even Microsoft would probably admit that despite improved data
>> compression
>> and a resource governor to manage multiple workloads, SQL Server 2008 is
>> not
>> the most intuitive choice for this clustered, "scaled-out" schema.
>>
>> "SQL Server 2008 takes us to the next level, but that is within the
>> 'scale-up' model," said Ted Kummert, a vice president in Microsoft's data
>> and storage platform division, this week during a conference about the
>> launch of the upgraded database. Rather, Microsoft's recent acquisition
>> of
>> DATAllegro Inc., a start-up vendor focused on large data warehouses,
>> "will
>> take us to the greatest level of scale-out," he said.
>>
>> There are several reasons, though, why Pan-STARRS went with SQL Server
>> 2008.
>>
>> One is cost. Deploying Pan-STARRS will cost just $750,000, thanks to the
>> low
>> cost of the PC hardware and the heavy academic discounts offered by
>> Microsoft for SQL Server and Windows Server 2008.
>>
>> "People in academia are always operating on a shoestring budget, so we
>> wanted to be able to create something others could emulate," Szalay said.
>>
>> More important, however, is Microsoft's long involvement with the
>> astronomical community, especially via its technical ambassador, Jim
>> Gray.
>> The noted database researcher, who disappeared at sea in early 2007 and
>> is
>> now presumed dead, was instrumental in building earlier databases, such
>> as
>> TerraServer, a massive free Web archive of satellite pictures of the
>> Earth
>> stored in SQL Server, and the 40TB SkyServer, a similar repository of
>> astronomical images.
>>
>> Indeed, the distributed database platform that Pan-STARRS (and, it is
>> hoped,
>> other applications) will run on is called GrayWulf in Gray's honor.
>>
>> "Gray worked with us for more than a decade. All the credit should go to
>> him," Szalay said.
>>
>> "He changed astronomy as we know it," said Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, a
>> software engineer at Johns Hopkins and the technical lead of the
>> Pan-STARRS
>> project. "We still ask ourselves, 'How would Jim do this?'"
>>
>>
>> From magnifying glasses to megastorage
>>
>> Astronomers first began storing data digitally in the mid-1970s, shortly
>> after they began replacing conventional photographic plates with digital
>> camera technology.
>>
>> Efficiency-wise, digital cameras were still a vast improvement over those
>> photographic plates, which required astronomers to hunch over them with
>> magnifying glasses, counting galaxies and stars. But the digital image
>> resolution back then left something to be desired -- just 260,000 pixels.
>>
>> Data storage was also crude. Image data was and is still stored in a
>> low-level format based on 80 character-long punch cards. But the flat
>> files
>> used to store the data proved difficult to search and otherwise
>> manipulate.
>>
>> Gray guided the building of SkyServer, which holds 100 billion rows of
>> data
>> and 1 million distinct IP addresses, and serves 10,000 to 15,000
>> professional astronomers as well as countless schoolchildren who use
>> SkyServer to complete astronomy reports.
>>
>> Pan-STARRS, which Gray helped conceive, will be far larger, containing,
>> by
>> the end of 2010, 300TB of data, with some individual tables as large as
>> 20TB, Szalay said. The repository will include data on more than 140
>> billion
>> cosmic objects and 5.5 billion actively tracked ones.
>>
>> Though Pan-STARRS won't use up all 1PB of storage for many years, it will
>> still rank as one of the world's largest databases.
>>
>> Since Pan-STARRS is set up as a clustered system, the data will be
>> partitioned, with a separate names database serving as the index. Since
>> most
>> cosmic objects don't have names such as Earth or Alpha Centauri, most
>> searches will be done via a graphical interface that, according to
>> Szalay,
>> "looks and feels a lot like MapQuest or Google Maps."
>>
>> Besides being used to look up data on individual stars or galaxies,
>> Pan-STARRS will also be used to do some deep data mining -- astronomical
>> intelligence, if you will. For instance, Szalay hopes to import old
>> astronomical data from the pre-digital age and run the information
>> through
>> a
>> spatial cross-matching engine in order to create a master database that
>> links all past and present data about every single star or planet.
>>
>> Pan-STARRS will also serve as a cloud database for outside astronomers,
>> who
>> will be allowed to remotely run queries and store results within
>> Pan-STARRS.
>> An initial difficulty, Nieto-Santisteban acknowledged, is that most
>> astronomers are used to writing applications in C++, not SQL.
>>
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