We do have real data on that subject. Google did extensive recording of their hard drive failures a few years ago, and they go through piles and piles of HDs.
Verdict: No significant variation in failure rates between HD manufacturers.
Yes, The Core, but the absolute worst technology moment in that movie was the little cheese-head whistling into a CELL PHONE to get "free long distance for life".
It doesn't have to be enforced to be "valuable" to the government or media companies. All this means is that everybody, everywhere, even more so if this passes, is always committing a crime, and therefore the.gov and private business have the right to all your info and can smash down on any individual they please, even/especially for unrelated "crimes".
People would buy a cheap-ass "Internet" system though.
See, that's the problem. If it can't run decent-res, full-speed Flash and Java so that the casual games work just like their other machines, and can't run a full memory-hungry web browser so that all the modern JS-heavy dynamic sites interact well, it's not a usable "Internet" system. Plunking a 700MHz single-core ARM and 256MB of RAM into a $50 box isn't going to cut it for the general web-browsing consumer. Try it with a cutting-edge full-featured ARM SoC, and you'll start approaching $30-40 for just the chip (semi-educated guess based on older generations).
ARM-based CPUs owned the cell phone market long before Apple. Even back when Palm owned the PDA market, everything was shifting to ARM away from the mixed market that included MIPS and Super-H.
Now, while your claim that Apple's embrace of the "experience" instead of just raw features might have some merit in changing the consumer landscape, I don't think they had any affect on ARM's presence in that market. They already had it.
There's no mass market yet. Plug computers are around $100-150, with 256-512MB of RAM and are somewhat taking off. Some might also have video-out, most have USB where you can hang a hub, storage, & keyboard/mouse off it.
The thing is, even with a cheap core and an inexpensive power supply, you're still going to have to pay to include usable amounts of memory. I'd think $100 is a reasonable place for inexpensive compu-bricks with a good selection of ports, until there's a killer app that ramps up the volume and lowers the price.
It's interesting to see where the balance of the scale is. Is iTunes big enough that they can dictate terms to the labels, and that if the labels disagree they'd be hurt by non-inclusion into Apple's retail presence? Or is Apple hurt more by not having some of the labels available through their store?
Actually, there are 6 "fair circumvention" exceptions laid out in the DMCA:
1) Nonprofit library, archive and educational institution can break it for "try before buy" purposes.
2) Reverse engineering to achieve interoperability with other programs, but you still can't share your findings
3) Encryption research, "in order to identify flaws and vulnerabilities of encryption technologies", which seems to go against other portions of the DMCA
4) Protection of minors (this one's confusing, something to do with protecting the prevention of minors from accessing the internet)
5) Personal privacy, to break into something when you know it's spying on you (which is pretty much everything nowadays)
I'm not just talking about the duplicated trail (and of course that does go against the "optimize the minimum use of trail pheromones"). Plus, it seems to say that these examples were all formed in the same time frame.
But the problem is that the hub point is further out to the left, making it out-of-the-way and elongating the trails, defeating the purpose of the additional point in the first place.
The 2nd picture of trails in the article shows trail lengths which are longer than if each nest were directly connected, even if they did add another vertex to the middle.
I don't know if it's just distraction, or actual association with cold that counteracts the feeling of the heat damage. I know when I watched "The Day After Tomorrow", as stupid as the movie was, it authentically made me feel cold, and I bundled up in a thick sweater in the middle of summer. Of course, I'm a desert rat who craves the heat, but even then it was quite an excessive physical response.
I think memristors sound a lot more usable than this setup.
Given the other thoughts about heap fragmentation and such things, I don't know if it's reasonable to expect fine-grained "flush to NV and stop refreshing" application, but rather as a system-sleep sort of mechanism. Of course, if memory allocators and GCs are written in knowledge of keeping LRU data clumped together, it might be reasonable. The comments say flushing is done on a "line by line" basis, which I don't personally know how big or small that gets.
One wonders exactly how much juice it takes to flush to NV, vs the standard draw of the DRAM-style mode of operation.
In that case it's a damn shame that the seminal paper on Proton Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy was actually published in Chemical Physics Letters.
There's little demand for *entry level* engineering positions. Many places here in the US are dying for senior people. Problem is, there's few paths to get from basic to expert in high-tech. People in the low end can have their jobs outsourced, and potentially get easier positions that pay more and carry less demands. Plus, with the societal focus on popularity and fame, they're not seeing tech jobs as someplace where they can hit the spotlight, but undesirable as cogs in the machine.
Many of these factors work into draining the low end out of tech, meaning as time marches on there are fewer high-end experts in the field to keep entrepreneurship, strong technical leadership, and R&D alive in American companies. (and this probably spreads to more of the "West" than just the USA)
You always hear about all these aphrodisiac schemes coming out of SE Asia more than anywhere else in the world. Are there really so many more guys in need of some form of "assistance" there than elsewhere? Sure, we've got our Viagra nowadays, but it seems that at least from our western perspective, this sort of thing has been quite a focus over there for a very long time, grasping at all sorts of weird ingredients hoping for a cure.
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The box says "Do not insert into ear canal". Should everybody who uses one to remove earwax have legal action taken against them?
I didn't read the TFA, but they did use a TLA acronym, so you can GTFO out of here.
We do have real data on that subject. Google did extensive recording of their hard drive failures a few years ago, and they go through piles and piles of HDs.
Verdict: No significant variation in failure rates between HD manufacturers.
Yes, The Core, but the absolute worst technology moment in that movie was the little cheese-head whistling into a CELL PHONE to get "free long distance for life".
AARRGGHHGRAHRGHRGHAHGHR
It doesn't have to be enforced to be "valuable" to the government or media companies. All this means is that everybody, everywhere, even more so if this passes, is always committing a crime, and therefore the .gov and private business have the right to all your info and can smash down on any individual they please, even/especially for unrelated "crimes".
Take a look at the shot of the close up of the car side - look under the front wheel and it just looks .... artificial.
Unless there's some magic sauce that can be sprinkled on this
Sure. It's called radiosity.
without added a frame rate hit
...oh
RISC has become synonymous with load/store register processing, and CISC with read-modify-write capability.
People would buy a cheap-ass "Internet" system though.
See, that's the problem. If it can't run decent-res, full-speed Flash and Java so that the casual games work just like their other machines, and can't run a full memory-hungry web browser so that all the modern JS-heavy dynamic sites interact well, it's not a usable "Internet" system. Plunking a 700MHz single-core ARM and 256MB of RAM into a $50 box isn't going to cut it for the general web-browsing consumer. Try it with a cutting-edge full-featured ARM SoC, and you'll start approaching $30-40 for just the chip (semi-educated guess based on older generations).
We need to way instain Intel processors who consume more power!
ARM-based CPUs owned the cell phone market long before Apple. Even back when Palm owned the PDA market, everything was shifting to ARM away from the mixed market that included MIPS and Super-H.
Now, while your claim that Apple's embrace of the "experience" instead of just raw features might have some merit in changing the consumer landscape, I don't think they had any affect on ARM's presence in that market. They already had it.
There's no mass market yet. Plug computers are around $100-150, with 256-512MB of RAM and are somewhat taking off. Some might also have video-out, most have USB where you can hang a hub, storage, & keyboard/mouse off it.
The thing is, even with a cheap core and an inexpensive power supply, you're still going to have to pay to include usable amounts of memory. I'd think $100 is a reasonable place for inexpensive compu-bricks with a good selection of ports, until there's a killer app that ramps up the volume and lowers the price.
No, those were limited-content demos according to the parent's description.
It's interesting to see where the balance of the scale is. Is iTunes big enough that they can dictate terms to the labels, and that if the labels disagree they'd be hurt by non-inclusion into Apple's retail presence? Or is Apple hurt more by not having some of the labels available through their store?
Deliberately placing and choosing to leave something on someone else's property is abandoning it. (And is also, strictly speaking, littering.)
So you're saying they legally abandoned the GPS unit? The above sentence, and your description of what they did, are the same thing.
Yet somehow I don't think Insane Clown Posse will be able to figure this out.
(the preview functionality is so completely broken. There were no numbers on my 'li' tags when I previewed it)
Actually, there are 6 "fair circumvention" exceptions laid out in the DMCA:
I'm not just talking about the duplicated trail (and of course that does go against the "optimize the minimum use of trail pheromones"). Plus, it seems to say that these examples were all formed in the same time frame.
But the problem is that the hub point is further out to the left, making it out-of-the-way and elongating the trails, defeating the purpose of the additional point in the first place.
The 2nd picture of trails in the article shows trail lengths which are longer than if each nest were directly connected, even if they did add another vertex to the middle.
I don't know if it's just distraction, or actual association with cold that counteracts the feeling of the heat damage. I know when I watched "The Day After Tomorrow", as stupid as the movie was, it authentically made me feel cold, and I bundled up in a thick sweater in the middle of summer. Of course, I'm a desert rat who craves the heat, but even then it was quite an excessive physical response.
...but honestly I'm not going to pay over ~$30/month for internet access. That gets me around 3mbit down at the moment.
I have "access" to fast broadband, yet this study would say I do not.
I think memristors sound a lot more usable than this setup.
Given the other thoughts about heap fragmentation and such things, I don't know if it's reasonable to expect fine-grained "flush to NV and stop refreshing" application, but rather as a system-sleep sort of mechanism. Of course, if memory allocators and GCs are written in knowledge of keeping LRU data clumped together, it might be reasonable. The comments say flushing is done on a "line by line" basis, which I don't personally know how big or small that gets.
One wonders exactly how much juice it takes to flush to NV, vs the standard draw of the DRAM-style mode of operation.
In that case it's a damn shame that the seminal paper on Proton Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy was actually published in Chemical Physics Letters.
You just had to, didn't you?
There's little demand for *entry level* engineering positions. Many places here in the US are dying for senior people. Problem is, there's few paths to get from basic to expert in high-tech. People in the low end can have their jobs outsourced, and potentially get easier positions that pay more and carry less demands. Plus, with the societal focus on popularity and fame, they're not seeing tech jobs as someplace where they can hit the spotlight, but undesirable as cogs in the machine.
Many of these factors work into draining the low end out of tech, meaning as time marches on there are fewer high-end experts in the field to keep entrepreneurship, strong technical leadership, and R&D alive in American companies. (and this probably spreads to more of the "West" than just the USA)
You always hear about all these aphrodisiac schemes coming out of SE Asia more than anywhere else in the world. Are there really so many more guys in need of some form of "assistance" there than elsewhere? Sure, we've got our Viagra nowadays, but it seems that at least from our western perspective, this sort of thing has been quite a focus over there for a very long time, grasping at all sorts of weird ingredients hoping for a cure.