"one exaflop" means 10^18 floating point operations, with no time basis. "1000 petaflops" means 10^18 floating point operations _per second_.
The 's' is not a pluralizing suffix, it's part of the FLOPS acronym. In this usage, it should be "one exaflops", or "one exaFLOPS" to capitalize properly.
There's a huge difference between industrial high-volume equipment and something that's suitable for residential use or assistance (though this is nowhere near practical for that yet). This isn't reinventing the mass-production wheel.
Yes, it's the same problem as the film industry: Increased budgets means more money is at risk, meaning you're only allowed to play it safe.
When you're playing with your own money, you can do whatever you want, either in independent films or independent games, and only need to sell to customers, who desire innovation and fun. If you need to finance your project externally, you need to sell your not-yet-started project to your prospective backers, who desire monetary returns with reduced risks.
To some degree, that will happen as things get worse.
As people get poorer and less capable of being self-sufficient, they tend to have MORE children, which actually does increase their chances of survival when things go sour.
My take on things is not that congress simply has the power to grant copyrights, but that congress has the power to grant copyrights "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". As in, if copyrights are granted for any other reason (e.g. to appease lobbyists or make any entity more money), it is an unconstitutional act.
Because many people do not have a pleasure of learning?
You do know that the types of people who read Slashdot are generally those who want to stay informed about certain areas, and are not representative of society at large. You cannot expect everybody to take the same pleasure in learning as you do. Why should people who do not have learning as a significant driver in their life be expected to trudge through academia just to get an average career going?
At-home charging doesn't help when you're driving a distance larger than a single fill-up range. Nor does any charging scheme where the wait time is significant.
There is a legitimate market for fuel substitutes that are easily flowed in & out of a vehicle.
And I in turn wonder if I should be mad at the editors for letting a garbage story like this through, or agree with them that a person like this needs to be publicly thrown to the wolves.
There's nothing that should be specific to police officers. Any public servant is accountable to the public for their actions, and has no claim of privacy from the public eye. This needs to be cast in stone, no matter which role the servant is in.
So yes, Skype is trying to preserve its revenue stream, which is secured only by secrecy of the protocols used by the proprietary Skype software.
Not at all. Afaik, their revenue stream comes from upsell services tied to POTS interfacing and voicemail. Just because you know the client protocol does not mean you can access those services for free; they're tied to account balances that Skype maintains outside of the client connectivity.
Not to mention that saying "Keep mum about things that are fairly easy for the common man to discover, lest it falls in the hands of the enemy", by definition means it's fairly easy for the enemy's common man to discover.
$50k of _value_ has disappeared, but not $50k of money. If you bought the house outright, the seller still would have $100k in his pocket, and you have a deed to a house in yours.
Basically, a stock or a deed is inventory, not money.
Not to mention that the last link in TFS effectively calls for a CLI based browser, which would suck for handheld devices or people who aren't seasoned keyboard jockeys.
1080 pixels wide is pitifully narrow for many UIs. One dimension of these short-screen monitors is too small. It doesn't matter which edge that dimension is rotated to.
An important facet of this not to be overlooked is that equity is generally given BEFORE profits are made. You don't get to waltz in after the risk has been weathered and expect the same sort of value accumulation.
From someone who was present at a meeting discussing this:
"This decision, apparently still potential, is a permanent statement of the University about the future of Computer Science. The impression conveyed in the meeting with the Provost and Dean was that we had reached the End of History. Now that everyone has a computer and a spreadsheet and a wordprocessor, the contribution of computing to the life of the mind has been exhausted. I do not write this sarcastically. This was the sense of the meeting."
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"one exaflop" means 10^18 floating point operations, with no time basis.
"1000 petaflops" means 10^18 floating point operations _per second_.
The 's' is not a pluralizing suffix, it's part of the FLOPS acronym. In this usage, it should be "one exaflops", or "one exaFLOPS" to capitalize properly.
Using engine power to pin the craft to the ground has very limited utility.
Pinning it to the side of a cliff or structure does sound very interesting for solving tough accessibility issues. But yeah, still a limited niche.
I vote for a flying chair icon.
There's a huge difference between industrial high-volume equipment and something that's suitable for residential use or assistance (though this is nowhere near practical for that yet). This isn't reinventing the mass-production wheel.
Yes, it's the same problem as the film industry: Increased budgets means more money is at risk, meaning you're only allowed to play it safe.
When you're playing with your own money, you can do whatever you want, either in independent films or independent games, and only need to sell to customers, who desire innovation and fun. If you need to finance your project externally, you need to sell your not-yet-started project to your prospective backers, who desire monetary returns with reduced risks.
To some degree, that will happen as things get worse.
As people get poorer and less capable of being self-sufficient, they tend to have MORE children, which actually does increase their chances of survival when things go sour.
My take on things is not that congress simply has the power to grant copyrights, but that congress has the power to grant copyrights "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". As in, if copyrights are granted for any other reason (e.g. to appease lobbyists or make any entity more money), it is an unconstitutional act.
Because many people do not have a pleasure of learning?
You do know that the types of people who read Slashdot are generally those who want to stay informed about certain areas, and are not representative of society at large. You cannot expect everybody to take the same pleasure in learning as you do. Why should people who do not have learning as a significant driver in their life be expected to trudge through academia just to get an average career going?
It takes BNC inputs, which is common for security cameras and takes analog SD video.
I couldn't, because there's a one bit cent tariff for all transactions.
Who receives that tariff?
No, it IS called elerium. ;-)
At-home charging doesn't help when you're driving a distance larger than a single fill-up range. Nor does any charging scheme where the wait time is significant.
There is a legitimate market for fuel substitutes that are easily flowed in & out of a vehicle.
And I in turn wonder if I should be mad at the editors for letting a garbage story like this through, or agree with them that a person like this needs to be publicly thrown to the wolves.
There's nothing that should be specific to police officers. Any public servant is accountable to the public for their actions, and has no claim of privacy from the public eye. This needs to be cast in stone, no matter which role the servant is in.
So yes, Skype is trying to preserve its revenue stream, which is secured only by secrecy of the protocols used by the proprietary Skype software.
Not at all. Afaik, their revenue stream comes from upsell services tied to POTS interfacing and voicemail. Just because you know the client protocol does not mean you can access those services for free; they're tied to account balances that Skype maintains outside of the client connectivity.
Not to mention that saying "Keep mum about things that are fairly easy for the common man to discover, lest it falls in the hands of the enemy", by definition means it's fairly easy for the enemy's common man to discover.
meat is not murder. meat is TASTY
Or my take on it: "Vegetables are murder"
I don't really care much about animal treatment, but that sounds more cruel than just killing it.
(Not to mention inefficient.)
$50k of _value_ has disappeared, but not $50k of money. If you bought the house outright, the seller still would have $100k in his pocket, and you have a deed to a house in yours.
Basically, a stock or a deed is inventory, not money.
What are you talking about
Not to mention that the last link in TFS effectively calls for a CLI based browser, which would suck for handheld devices or people who aren't seasoned keyboard jockeys.
But you see, this particular story has more texture and presence to it. But you can only tell if you read it through the right equipment.
1080 pixels wide is pitifully narrow for many UIs. One dimension of these short-screen monitors is too small. It doesn't matter which edge that dimension is rotated to.
An important facet of this not to be overlooked is that equity is generally given BEFORE profits are made. You don't get to waltz in after the risk has been weathered and expect the same sort of value accumulation.
[From TFA comments]
From someone who was present at a meeting discussing this:
"This decision, apparently still potential, is a permanent statement of the University about the future of Computer Science. The impression conveyed in the meeting with the Provost and Dean was that we had reached the End of History. Now that everyone has a computer and a spreadsheet and a wordprocessor, the contribution of computing to the life of the mind has been exhausted. I do not write this sarcastically. This was the sense of the meeting."