I've been looking at that as well. Depending on instance type, the 3-year contracts can be pretty cheap if paid upfront. I want a little web server for some toy pages (and I don't just want to put the pages somewhere - I want to play with different host stacks/frameworks). If I can fit in 1 GB that's about $150 for three years.
If you really want a server, scroll through all the reserved instance prices looking for what's deeply discounted. There are some good prices here and there IMO. Just remember the "cores" are low-clock Xeon cores for the most part (high core count Xeon chips all run pretty slow), if you're actually doing something CPU-bound. (For batch compute jobs, find a way to use Spot - man that's cheap if you can use it).
would be more than happy to use self-driving taxis in the city, and keep my car only for long-distance trips where train is not a good choice for some reason (remote village, castle, animal park, whatever in the countryside, etc.)
So, what you're saying is, you're not actually planning to stop owning a car?
I suspect you'll find that rural Europe isn't going to stop owning private vehicles any sooner than rural America.
hey are a TAXI service and need to be regulated as such.
No, they are a hired car service: the broader category that includes taxis, limo services, and so on. As long as you can't hail them from the street, they aren't taxis.
Did you actually watch the video? It was more along the lines of: if you haven't learned yet about pre-orders, you really haven't been paying attention. Fool me 100 times, shame on me.
I've watched too many NMS reviews to keep them all straight, but the hype was absurd on this one, as in death threats to Reddit posters who posted when the launch date slipped. People had gone over the top for NMS, and that deserves to be called out. If you're a rabid fanboy (at any time really, but before the game even launches?), you are part of the problem.
So all the outrage over "ethics in gaming journalism " [lolllz] doesn't apply here because it's not about a woman?
Actually, this is also about "ethics in gaming journalism": Jim Sterling has some. He's been sued, banned, and dis-invited by a variety of publishers because he actually gives bad reviews. He's willing to lose pre-release reviewer copies from a publisher if that's what it takes to call a shit game shit.
Jim Sterling and Total Biscuit are the only video game reviewers I trust these days - I assume everyone else self-censors bad review to keep a "good relationship" with publishers, as the preponderance of evidence is that they do. Jim Sterling likes to review bad games, and TB has moved to only giving air time to good games, so they're complementary.
That's a whole lot of words to sort-of say "FIPS 140.2 level 3". It's supposed to be tamper-proof, at least for physical attacks (really, only the key store is of concern). That's an avenue of attack that concerns some people. It's not particularly secure against other areas of attack, but that's (possibly) OK if it's clear what the point is.
I hate that (it's not just Macs) because everyone knows Ctrl-Y is re-do. Yank? Really? Oh, well, Stallman has a web browser now so he can get on with his yanking.
Some of us still call the operation of moving pages between disk and memory "swapping". You're usually swapping the contents of that page of physical memory between pages of virtual memory, after all.
Well, maybe I can buy their "99.9%" secure - it'll be safe from the neighbor's kid, I guess. Seems like they're trying to make something FIPS 140-2 level 3, but without certification it's just another homebrewed security device, and those have a very poor history of actual security.
Does Ubuntu still send your local searches back to the mothership? Do we know what other lines they've crossed? I only feel secure about the BSDs these days.
Anyway, we know there is NSA gear to deal with this: unless the keyboard is inside a Faraday cage, they can log your keystrokes. Unless the monitor is inside a Faraday cage, and you have no windows (or Windows) they can see your monitor. And Bluetooth? Forget about it.
If any TLA is actually worried about these, they'll be intercepted in shipment (or maybe their parts will be before assembly) for pre-installation of gadgets.
I applaud this effort, really, but it's just a start. Bruce Schneier has talked about this before: the only secure computer is a laptop you buy in person from a random store (and is of course fully encrypted), and that stays in a safe whenever it's not in line of sight. And even then - how good is that safe?
Humans are in the loop for a reason - to judge the value of the target vs the cost in civilian casualties. Given we want to minimize the latter, perhaps we don't want to activate SkyNet just yet.
Plus there are Many kinds of drones with very different capabilities, and we need to combine the information fro them to make the right call. Even with SkyNet - jam those comms and you can't do that.
Cruise missiles and ICBMs have their mission set before launch. The whole point of fighters (and drones) is that they don't - otherwise, just use a missile. Until SkyNet is ready, we'll be flying drones remotely, and that means jamming and EMP are issues.
Civilian deaths are acceptable as long as they aren't ours
This has been true for every war in history, but we've actually tried a little to minimize this recently. The fact that civilians still inevitably die in war isn't some great failing of the system - war just sucks. It's good to do what we can, but also to remember we've spend many years now fighting enemies for whom civilian casualties are the goal, so lets not compromise our effectiveness too much, as that means more total civilian casualties.
No, what a religion (including the community, not merely the scripture) is is a recipe for life. That's also what a culture is. Some are good, some are bad, but all are instruction sets. And any that survived for centuries are at least getting something right. People do do the same thing for centuries unless it works pretty well, (which for cultures includes the ability to resist invasion). Of course, you also get stuck in local maxima, and something different will then work better for centuries, and sometimes the recipe keeps evolving.
16:10 is the one true aspect ratio! To me, it's the ideal tradeoff for everything I want to use a monitor for. 4:3 is too narrow for IDEs, 16:9 not tall enough, both 4:3 and 16:9 videos (and games!) look fine on a 16:10 monitor. Can't be beat!
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I've been looking at that as well. Depending on instance type, the 3-year contracts can be pretty cheap if paid upfront. I want a little web server for some toy pages (and I don't just want to put the pages somewhere - I want to play with different host stacks/frameworks). If I can fit in 1 GB that's about $150 for three years.
If you really want a server, scroll through all the reserved instance prices looking for what's deeply discounted. There are some good prices here and there IMO. Just remember the "cores" are low-clock Xeon cores for the most part (high core count Xeon chips all run pretty slow), if you're actually doing something CPU-bound. (For batch compute jobs, find a way to use Spot - man that's cheap if you can use it).
would be more than happy to use self-driving taxis in the city, and keep my car only for long-distance trips where train is not a good choice for some reason (remote village, castle, animal park, whatever in the countryside, etc.)
So, what you're saying is, you're not actually planning to stop owning a car?
I suspect you'll find that rural Europe isn't going to stop owning private vehicles any sooner than rural America.
hey are a TAXI service and need to be regulated as such.
No, they are a hired car service: the broader category that includes taxis, limo services, and so on. As long as you can't hail them from the street, they aren't taxis.
People are buying less cars.
fewer cars
stop trying to compare anything to an automobile.
Wait, so you're demanding Slashdot without car metaphors? Get out! We don't serve your kind here.
Unlikely. In too many cities, almost all the roads are lined with parked cars.
Did you actually watch the video? It was more along the lines of: if you haven't learned yet about pre-orders, you really haven't been paying attention. Fool me 100 times, shame on me.
I've watched too many NMS reviews to keep them all straight, but the hype was absurd on this one, as in death threats to Reddit posters who posted when the launch date slipped. People had gone over the top for NMS, and that deserves to be called out. If you're a rabid fanboy (at any time really, but before the game even launches?), you are part of the problem.
So all the outrage over "ethics in gaming journalism " [lolllz] doesn't apply here because it's not about a woman?
Actually, this is also about "ethics in gaming journalism": Jim Sterling has some. He's been sued, banned, and dis-invited by a variety of publishers because he actually gives bad reviews. He's willing to lose pre-release reviewer copies from a publisher if that's what it takes to call a shit game shit.
Jim Sterling and Total Biscuit are the only video game reviewers I trust these days - I assume everyone else self-censors bad review to keep a "good relationship" with publishers, as the preponderance of evidence is that they do. Jim Sterling likes to review bad games, and TB has moved to only giving air time to good games, so they're complementary.
That's a whole lot of words to sort-of say "FIPS 140.2 level 3". It's supposed to be tamper-proof, at least for physical attacks (really, only the key store is of concern). That's an avenue of attack that concerns some people. It's not particularly secure against other areas of attack, but that's (possibly) OK if it's clear what the point is.
Emacs makes all computers slow! (Not just those running it.)
I hate that (it's not just Macs) because everyone knows Ctrl-Y is re-do. Yank? Really? Oh, well, Stallman has a web browser now so he can get on with his yanking.
Some of us still call the operation of moving pages between disk and memory "swapping". You're usually swapping the contents of that page of physical memory between pages of virtual memory, after all.
Eighty MB are continuously swapping!
It will do wonders for credibility, as well as making it clear to the knowledgeable what the point of the device is.
Well, maybe I can buy their "99.9%" secure - it'll be safe from the neighbor's kid, I guess. Seems like they're trying to make something FIPS 140-2 level 3, but without certification it's just another homebrewed security device, and those have a very poor history of actual security.
AH, so basically just like they handle the poor areas, then?
* are locked in a gun safe when not being used.
There's your flaw. They've already had keyloggers added. Did you really think your gun safe was tamper-evident against an advance persistent threat?
Does Ubuntu still send your local searches back to the mothership? Do we know what other lines they've crossed? I only feel secure about the BSDs these days.
Anyway, we know there is NSA gear to deal with this: unless the keyboard is inside a Faraday cage, they can log your keystrokes. Unless the monitor is inside a Faraday cage, and you have no windows (or Windows) they can see your monitor. And Bluetooth? Forget about it.
If any TLA is actually worried about these, they'll be intercepted in shipment (or maybe their parts will be before assembly) for pre-installation of gadgets.
I applaud this effort, really, but it's just a start. Bruce Schneier has talked about this before: the only secure computer is a laptop you buy in person from a random store (and is of course fully encrypted), and that stays in a safe whenever it's not in line of sight. And even then - how good is that safe?
Ever seen Eye in the Sky? It's worth a watch.
Humans are in the loop for a reason - to judge the value of the target vs the cost in civilian casualties. Given we want to minimize the latter, perhaps we don't want to activate SkyNet just yet.
Plus there are Many kinds of drones with very different capabilities, and we need to combine the information fro them to make the right call. Even with SkyNet - jam those comms and you can't do that.
Cruise missiles and ICBMs have their mission set before launch. The whole point of fighters (and drones) is that they don't - otherwise, just use a missile. Until SkyNet is ready, we'll be flying drones remotely, and that means jamming and EMP are issues.
Civilian deaths are acceptable as long as they aren't ours
This has been true for every war in history, but we've actually tried a little to minimize this recently. The fact that civilians still inevitably die in war isn't some great failing of the system - war just sucks. It's good to do what we can, but also to remember we've spend many years now fighting enemies for whom civilian casualties are the goal, so lets not compromise our effectiveness too much, as that means more total civilian casualties.
Most people get internet + Netflix + torrents (and already have Amazon Prime for the shipping). Just sayin'.
If we define a god as "a supernatural entity that people appeal to", then the Catholic Church is seriously polytheistic,
Many theologicians would agree completely - with Mary as the 4th major figure in the pantheon.
No, what a religion (including the community, not merely the scripture) is is a recipe for life. That's also what a culture is. Some are good, some are bad, but all are instruction sets. And any that survived for centuries are at least getting something right. People do do the same thing for centuries unless it works pretty well, (which for cultures includes the ability to resist invasion). Of course, you also get stuck in local maxima, and something different will then work better for centuries, and sometimes the recipe keeps evolving.
Because Steam and Runescape (people still play that?) failed to install on it? I have the same problem with VMware Workstation.
Ubuntu and RedHat are pretty much the main stream, which is a sad commentary of several sorts.
How do you feel about 16:10?
16:10 is the one true aspect ratio! To me, it's the ideal tradeoff for everything I want to use a monitor for. 4:3 is too narrow for IDEs, 16:9 not tall enough, both 4:3 and 16:9 videos (and games!) look fine on a 16:10 monitor. Can't be beat!