You're right, but in bike/person vs. car, the car wins according to physics. If you're on a bike or on foot and trust a driver any more than you have to, you're insane.
Bad drivers should still be held fully responsible, but an injury or death caused by a bad driver is a preventable incident.
If you mean that in defense of astronomy, you don't get my post. If you mean that because there aren't other problems that would use a computer like this, then I apologize for my ignorance. I know getting space on supercomputers is competitive and in high demand, and I know that one supercomputer is often used in parallel by a number of projects, but I don't know much else about supercomputing. I replied to my original post explaining more what I was getting at. If your comment has to do with my ignorance of supercomputers I don't think I would be the only one that could learn from a brief explanation of what makes it wrong to assume a computer used by astronomy could be used by other projects.
Maybe people don't get my post: I mean no harm to astronomy. I fully support scientific research and I realize its importance despite little immediate real-world benefit. My complaint is OTHER people aren't beating astronomy to the punch on pushing supercomputing and data storage. Space on supercomputers is in high demand and many of those projects deal with more immediate problems like crops and medicine- what I'm saying is I think the people supporting THOSE projects should be setting the records here. Astronomy doesn't get as much attention, so I'm assuming it doesn't get as much funding, which implies these other areas should have more money to spend on this.
Again, no complaints to the astronomers, they do brilliant work. I realize astronomers are the most realistic option for actually doing this kind of project- this is more of a "if only" than a real expectation.
He's just giving you a good comparison so you can picture an equivalent system using everyday objects. Kind of like how instead of just saying "Bob is tall", you should use strong imagery like "Bob is as tall as a 6-foot-4-inch tall tree"
I'm glad that astronomy is helping to push the limits on computing, but you would hope there are more pressing problems to use record-breaking computer systems for. If astronomers and their sponsors are willing to pick up the tab, I wish them well, but I feel a lot of people that could be the ones paying for this computer research have their priorities in the wrong order.
In that case we should try to make armor out of Jello. That way we trick them into trying to attack us with Jello instead of bullets. Not to mention the mass of new recruits we'll get when people hear they get paid to be in a giant Jello fight.
I appreciate the Rocky movies and all, but there's no way I would live on a whole planet dedicated to them. I'm fine here on Earth, thank you very much.
To be most objective they have to compare to the newest commercially available Windows version, so they just refer to what Vista has without implying whether it started in Vista or not. If anything, adding "Windows had this feature since XP" would sound more of a MS bias than "Vista has this feature".
We had these in junior high and high school. Anyone can tell you the last thing you see on "cardio day" is students actually working up a sweat. By putting a grade on getting your heart rate in the "zone" for 20 minutes (145-185 bpm I think), they can get students active on a more objective manner than the students only jogging when the teacher is looking. They had you delete the data when you finish so the next student couldn't use the pre-recorded 20-minute workout for credit. The only time my heart rate monitor data was uploaded to a computer was for cross country- never for gym class.
Relevant note: I went to school in Illinois, where gym class is required through high school, so policy and practice may vary from other states.
Electronics companies could make versions that have restricted usage requirements (like it won't function without phoning home within a week), and the original registered owner has the right to order the company to activate some sort of kill switch. It would have to be clearly advertised so people become aware the devices are not for resale, but this might solve the theft problem. There is little use in stealing a product that is designed to self-destruct*. As long as the effort required for a thief to get around the bricking mechanism or salvage parts is great enough, 99% of them will not gain from taking the item- assuming people buying stolen goods learn fast enough to not buy dead products.
The phone home function could also be enabled/disabled by the owner so it doesn't encumber normal use, but then the device might be easier to alter to defeat this, so it might have to be encumbered by this DRM-like effect as a trade off for added security. I don't like how this idea prevents resale, but the only other solution I can think of is to have the device associated with a primary account that has the power to disable and re-enable the device- it would be hard to both make sure buyers are aware of the account-change process and to make it easy to change the primary account upon sale without the buyer or seller being put at risk. It is easier to get across to people that there is no feature to resell the item than to explain the process how to properly change ownership.
*A credit card can buy things during the few hours it stays enabled- a Kindle or laptop or similar has to be sold to be worth money.
Green being a relative term, in this case relative to other data centers. Generally making a new building designed to house servers will be made to use passive cooling better and optimize the use of what active cooling they do use. The Redmond area is a very good climate for reducing energy usage- Boeing's factory in the area generally can leave their doors open year-round. I know a server room has different requirements from an assembly floor for jets, but you get the idea. The article mentions "The company expects that it will be able to cool its servers with outside air for 95 percent of the year", so that sounds like a good effort to me.
I know they're doing this to save money, but kudos for Microsoft for the initiative to reduce energy use. Each new building like this makes it easier to build more as it generates more data on the efficiency, the design becomes more tried-and-true and it provides an opportunity for further innovation in efficient building design.
I know some, if not all, Western European countries prohibit advertisement of prescription drugs. I would be curious if testing a group of Americans and a group of Europeans will give different strength placebo effects. I suppose other reasons for this are more likely than advertisement, but I would nevertheless like to see this be proved the reason (through an unbiased source of course).
The games are pirated (free) and often hated here due to the DRM (assumed patented), so I was making a joke along those lines. I guess a mod that didn't get it found it before mods that do saw it (maybe it's not a good enough joke to mod up though). On-topic it is a commentary on how the patents and (related) DRM burden the very programs they are attached to, by some views, as opposed to the patented software only hurting free and non-patented software. I'll hold off on ranting how "I don't get it" doesn't make a comment offtopic.
Spore, Crysis and Bioshock are all free, but got all kinds of bad press because some illegitimately-sold non-free copies included patented DRM software. If this DRM had nothing to do with these games I'd bet they would be a lot more popular.
Who wants to bet they'll get the system back to normal, stop there, and still advertise their network is "even better" as opposed to "merely adequate after mismanagement". Reliable service should be restored, but I won't expect improved service.
AT&T might just be trying to make people give up, or at worst follow the rules. It doesn't matter whether the contract is enforceable if few enough (no one?) test it.
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You're right, but in bike/person vs. car, the car wins according to physics. If you're on a bike or on foot and trust a driver any more than you have to, you're insane.
Bad drivers should still be held fully responsible, but an injury or death caused by a bad driver is a preventable incident.
If you mean that in defense of astronomy, you don't get my post. If you mean that because there aren't other problems that would use a computer like this, then I apologize for my ignorance. I know getting space on supercomputers is competitive and in high demand, and I know that one supercomputer is often used in parallel by a number of projects, but I don't know much else about supercomputing. I replied to my original post explaining more what I was getting at. If your comment has to do with my ignorance of supercomputers I don't think I would be the only one that could learn from a brief explanation of what makes it wrong to assume a computer used by astronomy could be used by other projects.
Maybe people don't get my post: I mean no harm to astronomy. I fully support scientific research and I realize its importance despite little immediate real-world benefit. My complaint is OTHER people aren't beating astronomy to the punch on pushing supercomputing and data storage. Space on supercomputers is in high demand and many of those projects deal with more immediate problems like crops and medicine- what I'm saying is I think the people supporting THOSE projects should be setting the records here. Astronomy doesn't get as much attention, so I'm assuming it doesn't get as much funding, which implies these other areas should have more money to spend on this.
Again, no complaints to the astronomers, they do brilliant work. I realize astronomers are the most realistic option for actually doing this kind of project- this is more of a "if only" than a real expectation.
He's just giving you a good comparison so you can picture an equivalent system using everyday objects. Kind of like how instead of just saying "Bob is tall", you should use strong imagery like "Bob is as tall as a 6-foot-4-inch tall tree"
I'm glad that astronomy is helping to push the limits on computing, but you would hope there are more pressing problems to use record-breaking computer systems for. If astronomers and their sponsors are willing to pick up the tab, I wish them well, but I feel a lot of people that could be the ones paying for this computer research have their priorities in the wrong order.
Well said.
In that case we should try to make armor out of Jello. That way we trick them into trying to attack us with Jello instead of bullets. Not to mention the mass of new recruits we'll get when people hear they get paid to be in a giant Jello fight.
It creates a niche market for bee gas masks. Brilliant business strategy, I say.
I appreciate the Rocky movies and all, but there's no way I would live on a whole planet dedicated to them. I'm fine here on Earth, thank you very much.
But I'm sure there's a Symantec product I can buy to protect myself from this "paranoia" and "FUD-spreading"?
To be most objective they have to compare to the newest commercially available Windows version, so they just refer to what Vista has without implying whether it started in Vista or not. If anything, adding "Windows had this feature since XP" would sound more of a MS bias than "Vista has this feature".
If you are using AC, you are wasting money at TWICE the rate.
Note to self: never post AC. Too expensive.
We had these in junior high and high school. Anyone can tell you the last thing you see on "cardio day" is students actually working up a sweat. By putting a grade on getting your heart rate in the "zone" for 20 minutes (145-185 bpm I think), they can get students active on a more objective manner than the students only jogging when the teacher is looking. They had you delete the data when you finish so the next student couldn't use the pre-recorded 20-minute workout for credit. The only time my heart rate monitor data was uploaded to a computer was for cross country- never for gym class.
Relevant note: I went to school in Illinois, where gym class is required through high school, so policy and practice may vary from other states.
How about just putting more news on those crap pages so they read better?
Electronics companies could make versions that have restricted usage requirements (like it won't function without phoning home within a week), and the original registered owner has the right to order the company to activate some sort of kill switch. It would have to be clearly advertised so people become aware the devices are not for resale, but this might solve the theft problem. There is little use in stealing a product that is designed to self-destruct*. As long as the effort required for a thief to get around the bricking mechanism or salvage parts is great enough, 99% of them will not gain from taking the item- assuming people buying stolen goods learn fast enough to not buy dead products.
The phone home function could also be enabled/disabled by the owner so it doesn't encumber normal use, but then the device might be easier to alter to defeat this, so it might have to be encumbered by this DRM-like effect as a trade off for added security. I don't like how this idea prevents resale, but the only other solution I can think of is to have the device associated with a primary account that has the power to disable and re-enable the device- it would be hard to both make sure buyers are aware of the account-change process and to make it easy to change the primary account upon sale without the buyer or seller being put at risk. It is easier to get across to people that there is no feature to resell the item than to explain the process how to properly change ownership.
*A credit card can buy things during the few hours it stays enabled- a Kindle or laptop or similar has to be sold to be worth money.
Green being a relative term, in this case relative to other data centers. Generally making a new building designed to house servers will be made to use passive cooling better and optimize the use of what active cooling they do use. The Redmond area is a very good climate for reducing energy usage- Boeing's factory in the area generally can leave their doors open year-round. I know a server room has different requirements from an assembly floor for jets, but you get the idea. The article mentions "The company expects that it will be able to cool its servers with outside air for 95 percent of the year", so that sounds like a good effort to me.
I know they're doing this to save money, but kudos for Microsoft for the initiative to reduce energy use. Each new building like this makes it easier to build more as it generates more data on the efficiency, the design becomes more tried-and-true and it provides an opportunity for further innovation in efficient building design.
I hear there are men in the middle east happy to take the nuclear waste off our hands. Problem solved.
I know some, if not all, Western European countries prohibit advertisement of prescription drugs. I would be curious if testing a group of Americans and a group of Europeans will give different strength placebo effects. I suppose other reasons for this are more likely than advertisement, but I would nevertheless like to see this be proved the reason (through an unbiased source of course).
I heard the prices were a steal!
The games are pirated (free) and often hated here due to the DRM (assumed patented), so I was making a joke along those lines. I guess a mod that didn't get it found it before mods that do saw it (maybe it's not a good enough joke to mod up though). On-topic it is a commentary on how the patents and (related) DRM burden the very programs they are attached to, by some views, as opposed to the patented software only hurting free and non-patented software. I'll hold off on ranting how "I don't get it" doesn't make a comment offtopic.
Spore, Crysis and Bioshock are all free, but got all kinds of bad press because some illegitimately-sold non-free copies included patented DRM software. If this DRM had nothing to do with these games I'd bet they would be a lot more popular.
Who wants to bet they'll get the system back to normal, stop there, and still advertise their network is "even better" as opposed to "merely adequate after mismanagement". Reliable service should be restored, but I won't expect improved service.
I can't wait for the day that headline becomes so commonplace I get bored of it.
If someone here has a few hundred million dollars you can get rich quick by starting up a cell phone company to fill this void of competition.
AT&T might just be trying to make people give up, or at worst follow the rules. It doesn't matter whether the contract is enforceable if few enough (no one?) test it.