A similar comment was made when British newspapers started publishing minor news items telegraphed from far away places in the 19th century. There's a classic quote on this which I can't find at the moment. Must be a slow day at the meme factory.
I really doubt Disney bought LucasFilm for 4G$ only to let it die and not produce anything. Sorry for you
Disney has a whole division, DisneyToons, for producing crap sequels. Mulan II, Cinderella II, Jungle Book II, Pocahontas II, 101 Dalmations II, The Lion King 1 1/2, Bambi II... Looks like they're extending that to live action.
I don't get the "at the mercy of" thing. You aren't at the mercy of musicians. They are at your mercy. They make music and hope someone is willing it listen and, ideally, pay for it.
Right. There are several million bands on Myspace. A few of which don't suck. "I'm in a band" means less than it used to.
Provide a mechanism for keeping a record, in a form approved by the chairman, anytime
a control program component is added, removed, or altered on any alterable media. The record
must contain a minimum of the last 10 modifications to the media and each record must contain
the date and time of the action, identification of the component affected, the reason for the
modification and any pertinent authentication information.
Provide, as a minimum, a two-stage mechanism for verifying all program components on
demand via a communication port and protocol approved by the chairman. The mechanism must
employ a hashing algorithm which produces a messages digest output of a least 128 bits and
must be designed to accept a user selected authentication key or seed to be used as part of the
mechanism (i.e. HMAC SHA-1). The first stage of this mechanism must allow for verification of
all control components. The second stage must allow for the verification of all program
components, including graphics and data components in a maximum of 20 minutes. The
mechanism for extracting the verification information must be stored on a Conventional ROM
Device. [Effective 11/1/2012] All gaming devices must also provide the same two-stage
mechanism for verifying all program components on demand via a gaming device user interface
where the results are displayed on the gaming device.
That's just one item. There are lots of other logging and audit trail requirements. The Nevada Gaming Commission checks these regularly.
Bear in mind that China is building lots of new apartment buildings. This says "wire them with optical fiber, not CAT-5". The cost isn't that different. It's probably cheaper to have a big pipe to a building rather than multiconductor phone cables.
This franchise needs to die. It's been 35 years now. Enough already.
There's plenty of modern hard SF out there that could be made into movies. Most of David Weber or John Ringo's works would translate well into action movies or TV. A Snow Crash movie or series would work. ("Dark Angel" came close, but they lost the plot in Season 2.)
Trend: At Barnes and Noble, there are now fewer bookcases of "Teen Paranormal Romance", and more of "Teen Survival". Most of the latter consists of Hunger Games clones. Vampires and werewolves seem to be on the way out.
If you like bad franchises that just won't stop, Police Academy 8 is currently in development.
This isn't an isolated installation. There's a small city nearby. There's an airport, and just northwest of the airport, a big area surrounded by a neat oval of roads with trees and road dividers, like an unfinished mall or industrial park. Only a few buildings have been built inside the oval, and there's still farming in much of it. East of the city there are streets laid out, but no buildings. The area has the look of a big failed real estate project. Compare areas west of Las Vegas, or California City.
Wide availability of weapons capable of killing large numbers of people means regular massacres by suicidal nuts.
We must learn to accept this. A memorial to victims of the right to keep and bear arms would be appropriate. One like the Vietnam memorial, with stone slabs carved with names. Plenty of room should be provided for future expansion. The names of the shooters should not be displayed.
The right to keep and bear arms is now a fundamental part of American society, and that right has a price. The dead kids did their patriotic duty to die for the right to keep and bear arms. We must mourn them as heroes, bury them, and go on. The shooters, who rarely survive these incidents, we need not mourn.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. " - Jefferson
300TB is about right. Twitter says they have 400 million tweets per day. Figure about 500 bytes per message with text, and metadata (source, destination, timestamp, flags). 400,000,000 msgs/day * 365*4 days * 500 bytes = 292,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Twitter offers a feed of 1 in 10,000 public tweets, so you can see how banal it is. I had a program monitoring that for a while, extracting links and evaluating them for spam. It's about as bad as you'd expect.
Why can't the language resemble more readable (English, or native language) rather than obfuscated math.
Because page after page of MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR STOP RUN really sucked.
put background field "name" of card n of background "data" after card field "list" wasn't much better.
The problem with Javascript is not that you can't write good Javascript programs. Javascript has an adequate feature set, the syntax is no worse than C, and reasonably fast implementations are available.
It's that the language encourages the writing of bad code, which then has to be debugged by others. Object-oriented programming was retrofitted into Javascript, and it shows. Typical bad Javascript has global variables that should be local, shared data that should be in closures, no proper objects, and no comments.
Basically they want somebody like Space X to move in to the facilities.
It's too big. Space-X doesn't need a facility that big. Unless you intend to launch something the size of the Shuttle or the Saturn-V, nobody does. Space-X's first Falcon Heavy will be launched from Vandenberg this year, so they don't need huge new facilities.
With that background, get into the math-heavy end of computing. Get into machine learning, robotics, or quantitative finance. Apply to the big guys: Google, Microsoft, maybe Oracle. They're not afraid of PhDs.
If you want to stay in networking, consider going to Cisco or Blue Coat Systems and working on network traffic management. They need more theory. Cable TV systems for traffic management are a collection of tuning knobs in search of a coherent policy.
The LHC beam tunnel is just barely big enough for the beam line and magnets. The layout is as tight as a submarine. Getting magnets in and out is a huge pain. The original intent was that it wasn't going to be necessary to do that very often. It didn't work out that way.
But after the last failure, they discovered that the electrical connections between the sections weren't as solid as they needed to be. The trouble four years ago happened because a weld wasn't good enough. A connection went non-superconducting and became resistive, and all the energy stored in the associated superconducting magnets was converted to heat. The area of the joint exploded and most of the liquid helium in the system converted to gas, blowing out a lot of cryogenic plumbing.
Because of the tight spaces, tasks which ought to be done in parallel have to be done sequentially. That increases downtime.
The unfinished US Superconducting Supercollider had tunnels big enough for railroad trains. (It was in Texas and a pork program; what would you expect?) CERN built cheaper, but they pay for it in downtime.
Watching Al Jazeera as TV is somewhat wasteful of time, but it's worth reading their site. Today's important item: trouble is brewing in the Balkans again.
Other viewpoints to watch:
Russia Today. It's the official line, but it's worth seeing what that line is. (Russia Today, which is more of a tabloid, is less biased than Pravda.) Important item from Pravda: Russia is building a new generation of bigger ICBMs, in case the US builds missile defenses.
Xinhua the semi-official paper of the China. Important item today: "Yuan to strengthen mildly in 2013: analysts". The US has been lobbying for a weaker yuan. Not going to happen.
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's top newspaper. If something important appears in People's Daily, they'll have some good commentary on it. Important item today: multiple stories on trying to figure out what Xi Jinping is going to do now that he's taken over.
It's hard to find any coverage of those subjects in US dailies.
Take an article from Al Jazeera that potentially makes the U.S. or a Muslim country look bad. Go to the Arabic version of Al Jazeera and translate the same article to English. You will then have two dissimilar articles from two not-so-compatible viewpoints.
The English and Arabic branches of Al Jazeera have different staffs. Which is somewhat strange.
The system has to be able to handle delivery of more useful items than misplaced iPhones. Like groceries.
A standard tote container (22"L (550mm) x 15"W (390mm) x 10"H (250mm)) is probably the minimum useful load size. There really isn't much demand for moving envelope-sized objects around any more. This is the same reason that pneumatic tube systems remain a niche product.
This probably cuts the ISP's network traffic in half.
There will be screams from advertisers. Tough. Nobody is forcing you to run a web site supported by third-party ads. This doesn't affect web sites that sell their own products, from Amazon on down. It doesn't affect search much, although it may impact Google's AdSense business. Bing; not so much. Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, etc. don't run third party ads on their own sites. Facebook runs their own ads on their own site.
It might impact low-rent sites like Slashdot, bloggers who want to get paid for their blithering, and other minor annoyances. But the web can run just fine without third-party ads.
Even advertisers may benefit. About 80% of third-party ad clicks come from a small number of users, under 20%, who will click on anything and buy almost nothing. Many SEO experts advise their Google advertisers to opt out of the "Google content network" and just run ads that appear with search results. Search ads appear when someone is looking for the item of interest and likely to buy. AdSense ads are just noise.
After more than half a century of big rockets, they still crash far too often. About 5%-10% of satellite launches still fail. Chemically powered rockets have to be weight-reduced to the point that they're inherently unreliable.
Boeing doesn't have legislation protecting them if one of their airliners crashes onto somebody's house. They carry private insurance for that. If affordable insurance isn't available from the private sector, the technology isn't safe enough for use by private parties.
The previous administration in New Mexico was involved in some major boondoggles. There's this spaceport, which is way overbuilt. There's the reposessed supercomputer. More recently, there was that bogus empty test city in the desert project. New Mexico keeps trying to monetize all that desert, but it's not working.
Slashdot Mirror
One mistake that makes you uncool, and it's downhill from there.
A similar comment was made when British newspapers started publishing minor news items telegraphed from far away places in the 19th century. There's a classic quote on this which I can't find at the moment. Must be a slow day at the meme factory.
So there's one house that has a hacker space. Big deal.
Besides, for anything real you use servers in a data center. Nobody runs production servers out of their house.
I really doubt Disney bought LucasFilm for 4G$ only to let it die and not produce anything. Sorry for you
Disney has a whole division, DisneyToons, for producing crap sequels. Mulan II, Cinderella II, Jungle Book II, Pocahontas II, 101 Dalmations II, The Lion King 1 1/2, Bambi II... Looks like they're extending that to live action.
I don't get the "at the mercy of" thing. You aren't at the mercy of musicians. They are at your mercy. They make music and hope someone is willing it listen and, ideally, pay for it.
Right. There are several million bands on Myspace. A few of which don't suck. "I'm in a band" means less than it used to.
Nevada has rules like that for slot machines. Only tougher. Stuff like:
Provide a mechanism for keeping a record, in a form approved by the chairman, anytime a control program component is added, removed, or altered on any alterable media. The record must contain a minimum of the last 10 modifications to the media and each record must contain the date and time of the action, identification of the component affected, the reason for the modification and any pertinent authentication information.
Provide, as a minimum, a two-stage mechanism for verifying all program components on demand via a communication port and protocol approved by the chairman. The mechanism must employ a hashing algorithm which produces a messages digest output of a least 128 bits and must be designed to accept a user selected authentication key or seed to be used as part of the mechanism (i.e. HMAC SHA-1). The first stage of this mechanism must allow for verification of all control components. The second stage must allow for the verification of all program components, including graphics and data components in a maximum of 20 minutes. The mechanism for extracting the verification information must be stored on a Conventional ROM Device. [Effective 11/1/2012] All gaming devices must also provide the same two-stage mechanism for verifying all program components on demand via a gaming device user interface where the results are displayed on the gaming device.
That's just one item. There are lots of other logging and audit trail requirements. The Nevada Gaming Commission checks these regularly.
Does most of YouTube qualify?
"Still, Hisense products are tough to find in the U.S. outside of Walmart, Amazon.com and Costco.com."
Other than Target, that's everybody that matters in electronics and appliances.
Bear in mind that China is building lots of new apartment buildings. This says "wire them with optical fiber, not CAT-5". The cost isn't that different. It's probably cheaper to have a big pipe to a building rather than multiconductor phone cables.
This franchise needs to die. It's been 35 years now. Enough already.
There's plenty of modern hard SF out there that could be made into movies. Most of David Weber or John Ringo's works would translate well into action movies or TV. A Snow Crash movie or series would work. ("Dark Angel" came close, but they lost the plot in Season 2.)
Trend: At Barnes and Noble, there are now fewer bookcases of "Teen Paranormal Romance", and more of "Teen Survival". Most of the latter consists of Hunger Games clones. Vampires and werewolves seem to be on the way out.
If you like bad franchises that just won't stop, Police Academy 8 is currently in development.
This isn't an isolated installation. There's a small city nearby. There's an airport, and just northwest of the airport, a big area surrounded by a neat oval of roads with trees and road dividers, like an unfinished mall or industrial park. Only a few buildings have been built inside the oval, and there's still farming in much of it. East of the city there are streets laid out, but no buildings. The area has the look of a big failed real estate project. Compare areas west of Las Vegas, or California City.
Wide availability of weapons capable of killing large numbers of people means regular massacres by suicidal nuts. We must learn to accept this. A memorial to victims of the right to keep and bear arms would be appropriate. One like the Vietnam memorial, with stone slabs carved with names. Plenty of room should be provided for future expansion. The names of the shooters should not be displayed.
The right to keep and bear arms is now a fundamental part of American society, and that right has a price. The dead kids did their patriotic duty to die for the right to keep and bear arms. We must mourn them as heroes, bury them, and go on. The shooters, who rarely survive these incidents, we need not mourn.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. " - Jefferson
300TB is about right. Twitter says they have 400 million tweets per day. Figure about 500 bytes per message with text, and metadata (source, destination, timestamp, flags). 400,000,000 msgs/day * 365*4 days * 500 bytes = 292,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Twitter offers a feed of 1 in 10,000 public tweets, so you can see how banal it is. I had a program monitoring that for a while, extracting links and evaluating them for spam. It's about as bad as you'd expect.
Why can't the language resemble more readable (English, or native language) rather than obfuscated math.
Because page after page of MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR STOP RUN really sucked. put background field "name" of card n of background "data" after card field "list" wasn't much better.
The problem with Javascript is not that you can't write good Javascript programs. Javascript has an adequate feature set, the syntax is no worse than C, and reasonably fast implementations are available. It's that the language encourages the writing of bad code, which then has to be debugged by others. Object-oriented programming was retrofitted into Javascript, and it shows. Typical bad Javascript has global variables that should be local, shared data that should be in closures, no proper objects, and no comments.
It's 2013, and someone is discovering Javascript?
Basically they want somebody like Space X to move in to the facilities.
It's too big. Space-X doesn't need a facility that big. Unless you intend to launch something the size of the Shuttle or the Saturn-V, nobody does. Space-X's first Falcon Heavy will be launched from Vandenberg this year, so they don't need huge new facilities.
With that background, get into the math-heavy end of computing. Get into machine learning, robotics, or quantitative finance. Apply to the big guys: Google, Microsoft, maybe Oracle. They're not afraid of PhDs.
If you want to stay in networking, consider going to Cisco or Blue Coat Systems and working on network traffic management. They need more theory. Cable TV systems for traffic management are a collection of tuning knobs in search of a coherent policy.
The LHC beam tunnel is just barely big enough for the beam line and magnets. The layout is as tight as a submarine. Getting magnets in and out is a huge pain. The original intent was that it wasn't going to be necessary to do that very often. It didn't work out that way.
But after the last failure, they discovered that the electrical connections between the sections weren't as solid as they needed to be. The trouble four years ago happened because a weld wasn't good enough. A connection went non-superconducting and became resistive, and all the energy stored in the associated superconducting magnets was converted to heat. The area of the joint exploded and most of the liquid helium in the system converted to gas, blowing out a lot of cryogenic plumbing.
Because of the tight spaces, tasks which ought to be done in parallel have to be done sequentially. That increases downtime.
The unfinished US Superconducting Supercollider had tunnels big enough for railroad trains. (It was in Texas and a pork program; what would you expect?) CERN built cheaper, but they pay for it in downtime.
Watching Al Jazeera as TV is somewhat wasteful of time, but it's worth reading their site. Today's important item: trouble is brewing in the Balkans again.
Other viewpoints to watch:
It's hard to find any coverage of those subjects in US dailies.
Take an article from Al Jazeera that potentially makes the U.S. or a Muslim country look bad. Go to the Arabic version of Al Jazeera and translate the same article to English. You will then have two dissimilar articles from two not-so-compatible viewpoints.
The English and Arabic branches of Al Jazeera have different staffs. Which is somewhat strange.
Check out this ball drone from Japan. This can be operated safely in tight spaces.
The system has to be able to handle delivery of more useful items than misplaced iPhones. Like groceries. A standard tote container (22"L (550mm) x 15"W (390mm) x 10"H (250mm)) is probably the minimum useful load size. There really isn't much demand for moving envelope-sized objects around any more. This is the same reason that pneumatic tube systems remain a niche product.
It's possible to scale up battery powered quadrotors to that size. But they get a bit large for urban operation.
This probably cuts the ISP's network traffic in half.
There will be screams from advertisers. Tough. Nobody is forcing you to run a web site supported by third-party ads. This doesn't affect web sites that sell their own products, from Amazon on down. It doesn't affect search much, although it may impact Google's AdSense business. Bing; not so much. Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, etc. don't run third party ads on their own sites. Facebook runs their own ads on their own site.
It might impact low-rent sites like Slashdot, bloggers who want to get paid for their blithering, and other minor annoyances. But the web can run just fine without third-party ads.
Even advertisers may benefit. About 80% of third-party ad clicks come from a small number of users, under 20%, who will click on anything and buy almost nothing. Many SEO experts advise their Google advertisers to opt out of the "Google content network" and just run ads that appear with search results. Search ads appear when someone is looking for the item of interest and likely to buy. AdSense ads are just noise.
After more than half a century of big rockets, they still crash far too often. About 5%-10% of satellite launches still fail. Chemically powered rockets have to be weight-reduced to the point that they're inherently unreliable.
Boeing doesn't have legislation protecting them if one of their airliners crashes onto somebody's house. They carry private insurance for that. If affordable insurance isn't available from the private sector, the technology isn't safe enough for use by private parties.
The previous administration in New Mexico was involved in some major boondoggles. There's this spaceport, which is way overbuilt. There's the reposessed supercomputer. More recently, there was that bogus empty test city in the desert project. New Mexico keeps trying to monetize all that desert, but it's not working.
The US has pennies only because of lobbying from the zinc industry. The U.S. Mint pays $0.011 for a penny blank.