Something isn't useful unless it's patented or copyrighted, so Open Source must be a front to a large drug-smuggling weapons-importing terrorist cell. Just in case.../sarc
Patents also need to apply only to processes, like as written in law, not to end results like they're being granted. And they need to stay out of software.
Creating "back ups" of your copyrighted data is legal, but copying the data is not legal, which creates a chicken and egg issue. But if the copy was created where it was legal, the copy itself is fine for personal use.
Information wants to be free. You may as well discuss how you plan on irradiating software piracy. If you don't like society, then leave. This is how people are, they share info, along with all of nature.
I would like to know also. A quick google of some large ISP's ToS.
Comcast: No Servers
COX: No Servers
AT&T: No Servers
Sonic.Net: No Servers
TWC: No Servers
Frontier: No Servers
Charter Comm: No Servers
Verizon: No Servers
Google Fiber: Non commercial Servers
SpeakEasy: Can run servers from residential lines
Google Fiber FAQ: Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However, use of applications such as multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, home security and others which may include server capabilities but are being used for legal and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged.
Our laws put the child's need far above the parents
If that was the case, then the law would not have allowed them to have children in the first place. A divorced couple is very bad for a child, but a fighting couple is even worse. It's the lesser of two evils, but neither should happen in a perfect world. Since this world isn't perfect, the next best thing is to have a social system that highly discourage unstable people from having children together.
She gets to do her life long dream, at his expense. It's just another way to show how selfish she is, but society just goes "awww, she had a baby".
Just trying to remain objective.
But really, it's very important to child development to have attention from the parents, so it should be encouraged to have at least one parent spend a large portion of their time with the child while the other makes the money.
GPU cores are broken into groups. Each group must be doing the exact same instruction at the exact same time. Branches are horrible for performance as it will force some cores to stop computing all together while waiting for the branch to finish.
There are many concurrent algorithms that don't like to keep the execution path in perfect sync. This is where a many-core CPU will take out a GPU in performance. GPUs also have horrible random access and very small caches. Actually, the per core cache of GPUs has been going down over the years for both nVidia and AMD.
GPUs are excellent for what they're good at, and horrible for everything else. If I could remember the link, there was a 100GFlop Intel CPU kicking the crap out of a 2Tflop nVidia GPU on transcoding, even though both code-paths were highly optimized for each architecture. It just so happened that the algorithm used did not play well with GPUs.
Rural and urban depend on each other: Without rural America, urban America doesn't eat or drive or turn the lights on and becomes an impoverished wasteland.
The brain telling the liver and kidneys to stop wasting energy. I person would be so much smarter if they were only made of brain tissue.. then they'd die.
What about farmers? Recent research showed getting Farmers fast reliable Internet increased their productivity enough to offset its cost. The farmer didn't directly see a lot of benefit, but the area as a whole did. The value added the local area by the Fiber Internet to the farm, exceeded the cost and increased income to the farmer.
Society is complex and value cannot be easily measured just by looking at increased income. "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
The world doesn't OWE you anything. About all minimum wage should allow is for you - only you - to have a place to sleep and enough food to stay alive. If you want to support anyone else (spouse, children, etc) and provide a quality of life above eating, sleeping, and going to work, then get a better job.
The whole point of society is what's good for the goose is good for the gander. The irony is that higher paying jobs are typically easier, in the sense that one should be doing what they're good at and getting paid a premium for those services. To tell someone to get a "better job" is like telling someone "you should stop being sick".
Why do you think we have all of these social programs like public education, infrastructure, welfare, firemen, police, judges, military? Because they benefit us all.
Implementation details of social programs make a huge difference on their usefulness.
There was a massive miss-reporting on that info from all sites. It turns out the "2Gb/s" Internet offering from Sony was just GPON, which has a 2.5Gb/s shared TDM with your neighbors. Nothing special.
My ISP is going the Google Fiber route and doing dedicated fiber to each house with 1Gb infrastructure. They just aren't offering Gb speeds yet.
One way to tell the difference between Active Ethernet and GPON is that I get a 0.2ms ping to my ISP, not my node, not my router, but my ISP, and 0 jitter. GPON will typically have around 4-10ms latency and will jitter around that range.
I was paying $150/m from Charter, talked to a manager to get my price reduced, they refused. I dropped their service, they sent me to collections without telling me how much I owed, and now they just sent me a personal mail asking me to come back to them for the no-contract price of $30/m for the same service I was paying $150 and they refused to lower.
I get 960Mb one direction and 1.6Gb bi-directional with my consumer-grade network at home. I also get 110MB/s+ over SMB with sub 1% cpu usage. 1Gb is not hard.
My 7 year old 640GB 7200rpm drive can sustain saturating my 1Gb interface with over 110MB/s over SMB, assuming you're only transfering one file, it is large enough to ramp up speed, and it is defragged and near the beginning of the drive.
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BSD license means people don't contribute.
Something isn't useful unless it's patented or copyrighted, so Open Source must be a front to a large drug-smuggling weapons-importing terrorist cell. Just in case... /sarc
Patents also need to apply only to processes, like as written in law, not to end results like they're being granted. And they need to stay out of software.
In fact, the law specifically states you are allowed one (1) copy for backup purposes
According to any good admin, it's not backed-up until you have 3 copies, with at least one copy on a different media than the other 2.
Creating "back ups" of your copyrighted data is legal, but copying the data is not legal, which creates a chicken and egg issue. But if the copy was created where it was legal, the copy itself is fine for personal use.
Information wants to be free. You may as well discuss how you plan on irradiating software piracy. If you don't like society, then leave. This is how people are, they share info, along with all of nature.
MY Voodoo2 ran really nice on my 440BX with a P3-700@933
Except Wayland is being developed by 15 year X devs that understand windowing systems, and engineers. Mir is being developed by developers.
what was that saying about developers and engineers. Windows was written by developers, Unix was designed by engineers?
I would like to know also. A quick google of some large ISP's ToS.
Comcast: No Servers
COX: No Servers
AT&T: No Servers
Sonic.Net: No Servers
TWC: No Servers
Frontier: No Servers
Charter Comm: No Servers
Verizon: No Servers
Google Fiber: Non commercial Servers
SpeakEasy: Can run servers from residential lines
Google Fiber FAQ: Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However, use of applications such as multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, home security and others which may include server capabilities but are being used for legal and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged.
Just make sure your servers are non-commercial.
Japan and South Korea, who boast gigabit broadband, have 10 and 16 times our density
Actually, the density of their cities are not 10x-16x of ours, but their cities are 10x-16x the densities of our farmlands.
Our laws put the child's need far above the parents
If that was the case, then the law would not have allowed them to have children in the first place. A divorced couple is very bad for a child, but a fighting couple is even worse. It's the lesser of two evils, but neither should happen in a perfect world. Since this world isn't perfect, the next best thing is to have a social system that highly discourage unstable people from having children together.
I have no idea how one does that.
She gets to do her life long dream, at his expense. It's just another way to show how selfish she is, but society just goes "awww, she had a baby".
Just trying to remain objective.
But really, it's very important to child development to have attention from the parents, so it should be encouraged to have at least one parent spend a large portion of their time with the child while the other makes the money.
GPU cores are broken into groups. Each group must be doing the exact same instruction at the exact same time. Branches are horrible for performance as it will force some cores to stop computing all together while waiting for the branch to finish.
There are many concurrent algorithms that don't like to keep the execution path in perfect sync. This is where a many-core CPU will take out a GPU in performance. GPUs also have horrible random access and very small caches. Actually, the per core cache of GPUs has been going down over the years for both nVidia and AMD.
GPUs are excellent for what they're good at, and horrible for everything else. If I could remember the link, there was a 100GFlop Intel CPU kicking the crap out of a 2Tflop nVidia GPU on transcoding, even though both code-paths were highly optimized for each architecture. It just so happened that the algorithm used did not play well with GPUs.
Rural and urban depend on each other: Without rural America, urban America doesn't eat or drive or turn the lights on and becomes an impoverished wasteland.
The brain telling the liver and kidneys to stop wasting energy. I person would be so much smarter if they were only made of brain tissue.. then they'd die.
What about farmers? Recent research showed getting Farmers fast reliable Internet increased their productivity enough to offset its cost. The farmer didn't directly see a lot of benefit, but the area as a whole did. The value added the local area by the Fiber Internet to the farm, exceeded the cost and increased income to the farmer.
Society is complex and value cannot be easily measured just by looking at increased income. "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
The world doesn't OWE you anything. About all minimum wage should allow is for you - only you - to have a place to sleep and enough food to stay alive. If you want to support anyone else (spouse, children, etc) and provide a quality of life above eating, sleeping, and going to work, then get a better job.
The whole point of society is what's good for the goose is good for the gander. The irony is that higher paying jobs are typically easier, in the sense that one should be doing what they're good at and getting paid a premium for those services. To tell someone to get a "better job" is like telling someone "you should stop being sick".
Why do you think we have all of these social programs like public education, infrastructure, welfare, firemen, police, judges, military? Because they benefit us all.
Implementation details of social programs make a huge difference on their usefulness.
There was a massive miss-reporting on that info from all sites. It turns out the "2Gb/s" Internet offering from Sony was just GPON, which has a 2.5Gb/s shared TDM with your neighbors. Nothing special.
My ISP is going the Google Fiber route and doing dedicated fiber to each house with 1Gb infrastructure. They just aren't offering Gb speeds yet.
One way to tell the difference between Active Ethernet and GPON is that I get a 0.2ms ping to my ISP, not my node, not my router, but my ISP, and 0 jitter. GPON will typically have around 4-10ms latency and will jitter around that range.
But the people deploying the fiber are the small ISPs that the incumbents are fairly effectively blocking via legislation.
Incumbents that own 80% of the USA's broadband: We have no reason to go to fiber.
Some guy: USA is doing fine because we have great fiber rollouts.
Something seem wrong here?
I was paying $150/m from Charter, talked to a manager to get my price reduced, they refused. I dropped their service, they sent me to collections without telling me how much I owed, and now they just sent me a personal mail asking me to come back to them for the no-contract price of $30/m for the same service I was paying $150 and they refused to lower.
@#$% them. I'm sticking with my 50/50 fiber.
I hope this isn't a dupe. /. has been mad at me. AC uses beam-forming, making it at least somewhat directional.
It uses beam forming and should help a bit with noise.
I get 960Mb one direction and 1.6Gb bi-directional with my consumer-grade network at home. I also get 110MB/s+ over SMB with sub 1% cpu usage. 1Gb is not hard.
AC uses beam-forming, so it should help that the wifi is directional.
My 7 year old 640GB 7200rpm drive can sustain saturating my 1Gb interface with over 110MB/s over SMB, assuming you're only transfering one file, it is large enough to ramp up speed, and it is defragged and near the beginning of the drive.
But it can be done