Help me out here. The Adapteva sales pitch is claiming you get faster time to market by not having to do any FPGA programming (ANSI-C and OpenCL for the multicore coprocessors). The Zynq processor seems to be just for the host OS, which they say can run Ubuntu out of the box and they provide open source development tools for everything else. No mention of Xilinx anywhere that I can see. Am I missing something?
...or maybe it is something else like social media. I've noticed recently that more of my friends post their opinions on new movies and when they pan something, their friends listen and don't bother going to see the film themselves. True, this happened before social media, but now I think these reviews by friends reach more people in a shorter period of time and are much more effective than a review by a paid movie critic.
You mean kind of like this case where a black woman, in the same state as Zimmerman, fires two warning shots in the air when an ex-husband she had a restraining order on because he had a history of violence, gets 20 years in prison and no one was hurt! And to add insult to injury the judge refused to let her use the Stand Your Ground law as her defense!
No indication if "bulk mail" is counted in that 160 billion pieces of mail or if is being recorded too. That's a whole lot of images of mail addressed to "Current Resident."
The music industry is a good example of that. With a single song you have a copyright for the owner of the musical score and a copyright for the owner of the lyrics (not necessarily the creators of the music and lyrics or the same owner for both). If anyone performs the song, you would need to pay a license fee to the owners for 75 years beyond the death of the author in some cases (often the owner had nothing to do with creating the music and none of the licensing fees go to the real artists or their families).
Next, you have a phonogram copyright on recordings of a performance (donated by a circle with a letter P inside it). This is the one that can go on forever. Record companies can release new copies of old music just before the old recording's copyright expires. The license fees to the owner of the song were already paid for the original performance, and since they are just re-releasing the same performance they don't have to pay another license fee. But they can claim a new extension to the phonogram copyright.
So, say you digitize a record whose copyright has expired and give it away for free on the internet. Record companies can muddy the waters enough to claim you just copied one of their re-releases instead of a public domain record. You are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
On the other hand, record collectors would say that without this behavior, old public domain recordings would be lost forever.
In the early 1980's the BBC made a drama called "Threads" which had occasional narration interrupting the story to explain the science behind the effects of nuclear war. Anyone who thinks nuclear war is winnable, or that we've never had enough nukes to destroy the world should watch it... the entire thing.
There are no lone-wolf heroes or other typical US movie industry bullcrap, just cold, stark, depressing realism. You can watch it for free on YouTube....
I just saw the Google van going down my private road this morning at least a half mile beyond a big sign that says PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESPASSING. This county allows for people to meet trespassers with deadly force. I hope that point that out to anyone using Trekker.
If you think I sound resentful, that is your own perception. I am stating the fact that there are numerous reasons for eye strain in work environments and this guy made no indication that he had positively identified the source of his eye strain to be his monitor. If you are trying to solve a problem, it makes sense to try to isolate the source of the problem.
I have also heard the same from manager types in private sector, non-military companies. They had told me in no uncertain terms that they equate ex-military with slackers that have an endless variety of ways of getting out of doing any meaningful work. They claimed this was based entirely on past experience of hiring ex-military.
In my own experience I can remember only three times were I worked with ex-military guys (probably only 3 because I've always worked in the private sector, except for one brief job with a military contractor). One guy was my manager, and he was an unnecessary-forms-and-reports generator machine. When I approached him with ideas for simplified reporting that killed fewer trees, his response was that he wanted tons of paperwork for two reasons, one was to make it look like a lot of work was getting done, the other was to obfuscate what was being done so in case something went wrong he could cover his ass.
The other two were tech level employees both of whom had endless stories about how guys in the military would get out of doing work. So maybe there is something to what those managers were saying.
(incidentally, all of the above (minus exotic materials) would be solved by using fuel cells in an EV car, if they can get them to not gunk up after a while and bring down the cost).
My impression of fuel cells is that they aren't very energy efficient when you take into consideration the energy required to make them and/or the electrolyte they use. They are just compact and light weight for special applications, such as near earth space craft. For example, the energy required to produce the hydrogen needed for a hydrogen fuel cell, usually by breaking bonds in H2O, is much greater than the energy you get out of the fuel cell in using that hydrogen. It's more efficient to just directly use the energy that would have gone in to producing the hydrogen. Fuel cells have been around since the early 1800's. If they were such a great primary energy source, wouldn't they be in use everywhere after 175 years?
...or maybe his problem with eye strain have something to do with staring, wide-eyed, at a single object, in a florescent light, dry, air-conditioned environment for 8 hours a day while on a steady diet of diuretics like sugary caffeinated substances.
I did not see anything in the summary to indicate that jones_supa had positively identified the LED backlight as the source of his problems to the exclusion of all else.
Hmmm, a friend of mine works as a programmer at a software company that makes facial recognition software. They recently did an experiment among the employees where people with beards shaved them off and those without beards grew one. The software failed to recognize them just after a change in facial hair.
Manual labor wouldn't have an effect on corn and squash. Both of those are mechanized crops. Illegals are used to pick labor intensive crops like berries.
Not in this case. This family farms on several separate fields that vary in size from 1 to 5 acres, which they lease from the landowners. They use machinery to plow, fertilize, and spray. But I've never seen them use machinery to harvest. Usually it's just a few laborers pulling up in a pickup truck with a bunch of cardboard boxes and going at it.
They never harvest one corn field near a public road. Instead, they let it dry out, and in Oct/Nov turn it into a corn maze that they charge admission to.
So unless it's subsides or a money laundering operation, I have no idea how they've stayed in business for so many generations.
Or in the case of one customer I maintain a server for, I thought I would never see them again after the project was completed, and Plesk was the only thing available at the hosting company they insisted on using.
So I configured Plesk so it could only be accessed through the server's private IP address, only opened http and ssh ports on the firewall. So now they can click on one icon to establish a ssh tunnel with https port forwarding to the server's private IP address, then click on a bookmark to open a browser that connects them to the Plesk control panel.
So I don't really care if there is a Plesk exploit, it's never available on a public connection.
Here is an interview with a formerly pro-GMO scientist talking about why he is against GMO now. He claims the entire GMO field is operating on a 70 year old hypothesis of genetics that has since been proven wrong; and that being wrong about it can have some serious consequences.
For the last 4 years I have lived right next to two crop fields that are worked, but not owned, by a local family that has been farming here for many generations. They have never rotated crops in the time I've been here. One field is always corn, and the other is always squash. Every year they plow in fertilizer, flood irrigate, and spray who-knows-what on everything. What's more, they rarely harvest any of it. At the end of harvest, they always tell us we are welcome to pick whatever we want. Did that once and never did it again; everything was completely flavorless. Then they plow it all under and do it again the next year!
I can think of only two possible reasons for this behavior. One is that they would lose subsidies and the land owner would lose tax discounts if they don't grow anything on the land. The other is the big increase in deportations since Obama got in office and tougher state level regulations have made getting farm labor to pick stuff more difficult.
With millions of pounds of food uneaten and wasted every day around the world, I don't think crop yield is a problem. Economics and logistics are the problems in getting food from the field to the people that need it, when they need it. The business model of companies like Monsanto, getting rid of small local farmers in favor of big industrial farms and prosecuting seed savers, makes those problems worse, not better.
The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides 26 degrees of motion, including independent movement of each finger, in a package that weighs about nine pounds and has the dexterity of a natural limb. In 2012, a patient at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center successfully demonstrated that the arm could be controlled by the user’s thoughts. Several patients, including a decorated Afghanistan war hero, are helping researchers further develop the prosthesis. In 2013, the MPL will continue to be tested and refined in a clinical trial at the California Institute of Technology.
These guys are a bit late to the party. The military is already providing thought controlled artificial limbs that are far more complex than a quad-copter.
After 10,000 years only 0.000167% of the bonds would still be intact. What are the odds of correctly piecing together what's left of that into a complete sequence, and then getting that all the way to a living clone? I'm betting the odds are pretty close to zero. Any takers?
So 10K years -- enough material and it should certainly be possible.
Not exactly. The article is about being able to retrieve any pieces of DNA, not fully intact DNA . To clone something, you will need it all, fully intact. After 521 years, half the bonds will be broken. By 10,000 years, only 0.000167% of the bonds would still be intact. So good luck trying to piece together fragments of DNA the right way into a complete sequence. Not to mention needing a host to bring it to term without it being rejected as an invading organism.
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Help me out here. The Adapteva sales pitch is claiming you get faster time to market by not having to do any FPGA programming (ANSI-C and OpenCL for the multicore coprocessors). The Zynq processor seems to be just for the host OS, which they say can run Ubuntu out of the box and they provide open source development tools for everything else. No mention of Xilinx anywhere that I can see. Am I missing something?
...or maybe it is something else like social media. I've noticed recently that more of my friends post their opinions on new movies and when they pan something, their friends listen and don't bother going to see the film themselves. True, this happened before social media, but now I think these reviews by friends reach more people in a shorter period of time and are much more effective than a review by a paid movie critic.
You mean kind of like this case where a black woman, in the same state as Zimmerman, fires two warning shots in the air when an ex-husband she had a restraining order on because he had a history of violence, gets 20 years in prison and no one was hurt! And to add insult to injury the judge refused to let her use the Stand Your Ground law as her defense!
No indication if "bulk mail" is counted in that 160 billion pieces of mail or if is being recorded too. That's a whole lot of images of mail addressed to "Current Resident."
The music industry is a good example of that. With a single song you have a copyright for the owner of the musical score and a copyright for the owner of the lyrics (not necessarily the creators of the music and lyrics or the same owner for both). If anyone performs the song, you would need to pay a license fee to the owners for 75 years beyond the death of the author in some cases (often the owner had nothing to do with creating the music and none of the licensing fees go to the real artists or their families).
Next, you have a phonogram copyright on recordings of a performance (donated by a circle with a letter P inside it). This is the one that can go on forever. Record companies can release new copies of old music just before the old recording's copyright expires. The license fees to the owner of the song were already paid for the original performance, and since they are just re-releasing the same performance they don't have to pay another license fee. But they can claim a new extension to the phonogram copyright.
So, say you digitize a record whose copyright has expired and give it away for free on the internet. Record companies can muddy the waters enough to claim you just copied one of their re-releases instead of a public domain record. You are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
On the other hand, record collectors would say that without this behavior, old public domain recordings would be lost forever.
In the early 1980's the BBC made a drama called "Threads" which had occasional narration interrupting the story to explain the science behind the effects of nuclear war. Anyone who thinks nuclear war is winnable, or that we've never had enough nukes to destroy the world should watch it... the entire thing.
There are no lone-wolf heroes or other typical US movie industry bullcrap, just cold, stark, depressing realism. You can watch it for free on YouTube....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg
Not to mention that when peak oil occurs everyone will have no choice but to start looking for other energy sources.
I just saw the Google van going down my private road this morning at least a half mile beyond a big sign that says PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESPASSING. This county allows for people to meet trespassers with deadly force. I hope that point that out to anyone using Trekker.
More "metadata" for the NSA to play with. Mix well with big data mining and they can pick people up and water board them for pre-crime!
If you think I sound resentful, that is your own perception. I am stating the fact that there are numerous reasons for eye strain in work environments and this guy made no indication that he had positively identified the source of his eye strain to be his monitor. If you are trying to solve a problem, it makes sense to try to isolate the source of the problem.
I have also heard the same from manager types in private sector, non-military companies. They had told me in no uncertain terms that they equate ex-military with slackers that have an endless variety of ways of getting out of doing any meaningful work. They claimed this was based entirely on past experience of hiring ex-military.
In my own experience I can remember only three times were I worked with ex-military guys (probably only 3 because I've always worked in the private sector, except for one brief job with a military contractor). One guy was my manager, and he was an unnecessary-forms-and-reports generator machine. When I approached him with ideas for simplified reporting that killed fewer trees, his response was that he wanted tons of paperwork for two reasons, one was to make it look like a lot of work was getting done, the other was to obfuscate what was being done so in case something went wrong he could cover his ass.
The other two were tech level employees both of whom had endless stories about how guys in the military would get out of doing work. So maybe there is something to what those managers were saying.
(incidentally, all of the above (minus exotic materials) would be solved by using fuel cells in an EV car, if they can get them to not gunk up after a while and bring down the cost).
My impression of fuel cells is that they aren't very energy efficient when you take into consideration the energy required to make them and/or the electrolyte they use. They are just compact and light weight for special applications, such as near earth space craft. For example, the energy required to produce the hydrogen needed for a hydrogen fuel cell, usually by breaking bonds in H2O, is much greater than the energy you get out of the fuel cell in using that hydrogen. It's more efficient to just directly use the energy that would have gone in to producing the hydrogen. Fuel cells have been around since the early 1800's. If they were such a great primary energy source, wouldn't they be in use everywhere after 175 years?
...or maybe his problem with eye strain have something to do with staring, wide-eyed, at a single object, in a florescent light, dry, air-conditioned environment for 8 hours a day while on a steady diet of diuretics like sugary caffeinated substances.
I did not see anything in the summary to indicate that jones_supa had positively identified the LED backlight as the source of his problems to the exclusion of all else.
Hmmm, a friend of mine works as a programmer at a software company that makes facial recognition software. They recently did an experiment among the employees where people with beards shaved them off and those without beards grew one. The software failed to recognize them just after a change in facial hair.
Manual labor wouldn't have an effect on corn and squash. Both of those are mechanized crops. Illegals are used to pick labor intensive crops like berries.
Not in this case. This family farms on several separate fields that vary in size from 1 to 5 acres, which they lease from the landowners. They use machinery to plow, fertilize, and spray. But I've never seen them use machinery to harvest. Usually it's just a few laborers pulling up in a pickup truck with a bunch of cardboard boxes and going at it.
They never harvest one corn field near a public road. Instead, they let it dry out, and in Oct/Nov turn it into a corn maze that they charge admission to.
So unless it's subsides or a money laundering operation, I have no idea how they've stayed in business for so many generations.
Or in the case of one customer I maintain a server for, I thought I would never see them again after the project was completed, and Plesk was the only thing available at the hosting company they insisted on using.
So I configured Plesk so it could only be accessed through the server's private IP address, only opened http and ssh ports on the firewall. So now they can click on one icon to establish a ssh tunnel with https port forwarding to the server's private IP address, then click on a bookmark to open a browser that connects them to the Plesk control panel.
So I don't really care if there is a Plesk exploit, it's never available on a public connection.
Here is an interview with a formerly pro-GMO scientist talking about why he is against GMO now. He claims the entire GMO field is operating on a 70 year old hypothesis of genetics that has since been proven wrong; and that being wrong about it can have some serious consequences.
For the last 4 years I have lived right next to two crop fields that are worked, but not owned, by a local family that has been farming here for many generations. They have never rotated crops in the time I've been here. One field is always corn, and the other is always squash. Every year they plow in fertilizer, flood irrigate, and spray who-knows-what on everything. What's more, they rarely harvest any of it. At the end of harvest, they always tell us we are welcome to pick whatever we want. Did that once and never did it again; everything was completely flavorless. Then they plow it all under and do it again the next year!
I can think of only two possible reasons for this behavior. One is that they would lose subsidies and the land owner would lose tax discounts if they don't grow anything on the land. The other is the big increase in deportations since Obama got in office and tougher state level regulations have made getting farm labor to pick stuff more difficult.
With millions of pounds of food uneaten and wasted every day around the world, I don't think crop yield is a problem. Economics and logistics are the problems in getting food from the field to the people that need it, when they need it. The business model of companies like Monsanto, getting rid of small local farmers in favor of big industrial farms and prosecuting seed savers, makes those problems worse, not better.
Not my words... copied from an article.
The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides 26 degrees of motion, including independent movement of each finger, in a package that weighs about nine pounds and has the dexterity of a natural limb. In 2012, a patient at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center successfully demonstrated that the arm could be controlled by the user’s thoughts. Several patients, including a decorated Afghanistan war hero, are helping researchers further develop the prosthesis. In 2013, the MPL will continue to be tested and refined in a clinical trial at the California Institute of Technology.
These guys are a bit late to the party. The military is already providing thought controlled artificial limbs that are far more complex than a quad-copter.
Corporate-speak bullshit keywords...
I could hardly get through the summary without puking.
Let's plug it into this and see what happens!
After 10,000 years only 0.000167% of the bonds would still be intact. What are the odds of correctly piecing together what's left of that into a complete sequence, and then getting that all the way to a living clone? I'm betting the odds are pretty close to zero. Any takers?
So 10K years -- enough material and it should certainly be possible.
Not exactly. The article is about being able to retrieve any pieces of DNA, not fully intact DNA . To clone something, you will need it all, fully intact. After 521 years, half the bonds will be broken. By 10,000 years, only 0.000167% of the bonds would still be intact. So good luck trying to piece together fragments of DNA the right way into a complete sequence. Not to mention needing a host to bring it to term without it being rejected as an invading organism.