According to this, a typical cortex a9 core draws about 250mW. As this has a very similar architecture (still ARMv7), it should be somewhere in similar regions, maybe more, as they boosted the frequency. So I guess a 16 core version will draw something like 4W+, maybe more. Non-the-less, this is still an incredibly good figure for a web server type processor, though a little heat sink might appear.
I'm only guessing here though, based on previous figures. There is no practical data so far on the exact figures.
Seriously, what every government is obliged to do is secure their own damn networks and protect the private data of citizens.
The rest of the Internet is none of their business (well, except jailing the SPAM-ers and black hat hackers). ISP's have to take care that things work out (data flows through the tubes), and everyone has to make sure to either not have sensitive data on their end or properly secure it.
You have a door with a lock on your house and you shut it closed when you leave. You don't expect some government force to babysit your entry. Why should they do with the "Internet" then?
If you are a young academic, who might spend six months preparing a great article on Thomas Aquinas, you're not going to publish in a place where anyone can come along and change this.
By my definition, if you are publishing articles in a non editable fashion, you have a blog (peer reviewed one in this case). The core definition of a wiki is that it is collaboratively editable.
In other words, this is the same thing academics did since forever. Not that it's bad, it just has nothing at all to do with a wiki. The article header is misleading.
Though Linux is not exactly visible on consumer PC's, it still runs on the majority of servers around the world.. targets you'd normally count as even more attractive as they are connected 24/7 and not even hidden behind NAT's, presenting a wide and valuable targeting space. Your argument is invalid, come up with something that is founded on some real data please.
Don't get me wrong, Google has a policy of open platform in terms of cooperating with other corps when it strengthens their position (like Flash for instance) and they won't mind C# if it gives them advantages.
Still, it's a risk, same like Java.
You know, if I'd be Google, I'd think about how to come up with something that mitigates this risk, and maybe brings some first mover advantage.
I've not been surprised if they'd come up with their own programming language, that'd just blow the other's away.
They don't seem to be against it, as they do develop new programming languages like the Go programming language.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Go. The coding style of the standard library is an ugly CamelCase style thing that just makes me want to run away. But it has some very interesting programming paradigms behind it. And Google is using it to some extent already. Maybe they have something even better that they don't tell the world about yet. I mean, that's a very central aspect of their daily bread, I can't imagine them not have thought about it for long and deep hours.
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Yup. Just to add some international touch to it: here in central Europe we have 240-250V outlets, which is radically different from the U.S., so putting amperage even with implied voltage is at least confusing and entirely unscientific and shows a lack of understanding about even the most basic principles of unit notations.
Plausible dependability in cryptography means that even if someone suspects there is hidden encrypted data in a data set, they can't prove it, even if they have full knowledge of the protocol.
What is presented here is automated steganography over image sites with many users (hiding the information). If the surveillance entity intercepts such messages and analyses them, they will know that *something* is there, though they won't be able to read it.
Anyway, what it boils down is, that you can't just say there is no message if someone confronts you, and this might very well lay the foundations for your gravestone in countries where the governing entities have a somewhat undemocratic method of dealing with things.
On the other hand, if they don't like you, and really suspect you are up to no good, they will probably shoot you anyway, evidence or not.
I totally agree, we are not even heading in the direction of artificial sentience. I did my share of reading about neural networks, genetic algorithms and what we commonly call AI and it has absolutely nothing to do with sentience. Most of it is just a non linear pattern matching and search for local and global optima, like looking up an object in a database based on a video feed or finding a better wiring for an IC with specified characteristics.
Maybe they mean self sustaining machines that were sent out to explore some place by aliens? I mean, that's a workable assumption. Sentient? These guys have no idea.
In other words, they are now let go with a "We don't need you [anymore]."
That's not how things work in Germany. There is an elaborate law framework that prevent that, so if the employer wants to get rid of you without reason, he'll have to wait at least 3 months. Otherwise he'll have to present a damn good reason to fire you (like severe work neglect, financial damage or some kind of criminal activity).
Obviously there are gray areas and some folks try things, but the legal support for the workforce (there is a special court for work related issues, and you don't have to ramp up huge court fees) is very strong here, so it's not that common. You have to pay for your lawyer though, but the fees are also regulated, so you don't have to come up with ridiculous fees.
Thinking that JavaFX takes the role of Flash is delusional. But for Adobe it might be a good financial interest to keep Flash floating for a while longer (not that there would be a big threat to it so far, but they are still careful).
Disclaimer 1: nothing against Adobe personally, I just hate Flash. I also see that Adobe is going in standards direction (somewhat) with CS5, so the issue is really only getting more time (and maybe a bit of DRM, some folks still don't got the memo that it's dead).
Disclaimer 2: I personally shun Flash and don't like either party.
The nouveau NVidia drivers are now way mature enough to deploy on a consumer OS. If you want it to move faster and become stable, contribute to the development at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/. The RT2700 drivers seem to be a Kernel issue. See http://kernel.org/ for information on how to contribute. Ubuntu usually ships with recent kernels.
I don't really know what your problem is, but Canonical is not your nanny. They are a distribution company. Their main focus is to merge Linux based software into a nice, somewhat polished consumer distribution, and I think they do very nice work with that. Especially considering that they only employ 350 people altogether.
Now if they get profitable some time in the next years (with their business/cloud support, music store and upcoming appstore), they can hire more employees, and focus on other things too. So if you don't feel like contributing with development time, you can also buy products in their stores and support them so they get more resources and do other stuff too.
Finally: stop bitching around without moving a finger / dollar. You won't change anything with that.
I use a password manager for password storage and generation. Stores them nicely with AES. New password for all important stuff. I also upload it to my online storage, as no-one can do anything with it without the master password (which is also long, and computer generated.. it's fascinating what you can remember when you enter it a bunch of times on a daily basis).
Now as for the time I'm on the way: well, I don't trust Joe random PC. I'd never unlock my password DB on a machine that's not at least reasonably under my control and/or very trustworthy (means I only use them at home and at work, both Linux machines). Otherwise I could as well don't bother in the first place.
Truth is, people don't want to concern with security. Then they get burned. Does not help. They get burned more. Maybe sometimes the education system catches up, a few generations from now. Until then, no cake for Fred Ignoramus.
So by looking on the keyboard instead of the screen I now somehow get a productivity increase? How? Isn't the hand in the way somehow? Also, how do I know what I did? Do I have to watch up and down all the time?
Also, I can think it's horribly painful after a while to watch 30 degrees down all the time on your neck.
I think this could be fun for a 5 year old though.
"Brian Wilcox, a JPL roboticist, spoke at a NASA workshop about the possibility of [..]. 'The node could be connected [..]...." (followed by some unrelated info).
How the fuck is this news, guys and girls? I could have a pony in a year. Nobody cares until I actually have one. Please post summaries of stuff that's happening, not what someone fantasies of.
This is not necessary. Linux distributions come with package managers and update systems that take care of upgrading everything on your system including your browser.
This kludge is only brought to the Windows version, because there is no coherent system to update third party software and the popups got old.
I can show you very ugly mainstream sites in the "Western" Internet too: AOL or MSN.
As for non advertisement sites, Japanese ones tend to have much less clutter. Ever read around the Japanese Wikipedia? A typical article looks like this, which is much less frills then the English counterpart (e.g. much less images, and that's pretty common for Japanese sites).
And if we were truly serious about the opposite extreme, we'd all be running Arm Cortex A9s - quad core 2 ghz chips that max out at... 1 watt total.
There is a lot of movement in the ARM market, so maybe we will do exactly that in a year from now. They aren't on the market yet. I'd love to have one of those for an aux computer, and only turn on my main machine when I need the horse power.
I think there's a market for a cheap Atom-based Linux box used for internet browsing, but the Athlon II X2 245 is literally at least four times faster at everything.
Indeed, it's around 4x faster at everything, including sucking up electric power and converting it to heat.
The atom has a TDP of 8-14 W while the Athlon II is between 25-65 W. If you let both machines run for two years, then the combined purchasing price + the running cost put the Athlon in a very unfavorable spot, especially if you don't need the processing power on a regular basis.
If you have a good reason to get a fast, power hungry CPU, then fine, but otherwise is would be a waste. Which is what I was wondering in the article about: what's the purpose of this kind of setup? Ignoring the running cost, noise output and some other factors. They seem to have been bored.
Linus is at the top now because he does a very good job and people trust him. The actual development is done by thousands of developers (around 3000 contributors / release currently), number increasing. It sales just fine.
The way he is accomplishing this, is by using a network of trust (he talk about it in his talk about git).
This is very scalable, as he is not actually checking out every peace of code, he just merges them.
What would happen if he would suddenly go crazy or hit by a bus? The answer is simple: one of the core maintainers, like for instance Andrew Morton would take over the position. General development would continue as it is now, as Linus talked often about how and why he runs things the way he does, and many people agree with him there.
The only thing I'd (STRONGLY!) suggest is some way to filter out all the libraries and stuff that only developers care about so that end users can avoid getting confused by 7,000 libraries that they wouldn't understand anyway. My thoughts are that packages need to describe themselves as two-stage categories: EG: Libraries, ProgrammingTools, Applications and divide each of these categories further, EG: Libraries/Graphics, Applications/Office, Applications/Games, etc. with a default of "Applications" showing.
Have you checked out a recent Ubuntu (>= 10.04)? That's pretty much what the new software center is doing (splitting for instance graphics->3D, etc., and putting libraries in a category called system, which inexperienced users avoid like it'd hurt). They are putting a lot of effort into it, and I guess this must be quite convenient for non-computer-versed folks.
I personally use the console tools, which are nice to have too.
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According to this, a typical cortex a9 core draws about 250mW. As this has a very similar architecture (still ARMv7), it should be somewhere in similar regions, maybe more, as they boosted the frequency. So I guess a 16 core version will draw something like 4W+, maybe more. Non-the-less, this is still an incredibly good figure for a web server type processor, though a little heat sink might appear.
I'm only guessing here though, based on previous figures. There is no practical data so far on the exact figures.
..crap.
Seriously, what every government is obliged to do is secure their own damn networks and protect the private data of citizens.
The rest of the Internet is none of their business (well, except jailing the SPAM-ers and black hat hackers). ISP's have to take care that things work out (data flows through the tubes), and everyone has to make sure to either not have sensitive data on their end or properly secure it.
You have a door with a lock on your house and you shut it closed when you leave. You don't expect some government force to babysit your entry. Why should they do with the "Internet" then?
By my definition, if you are publishing articles in a non editable fashion, you have a blog (peer reviewed one in this case). The core definition of a wiki is that it is collaboratively editable.
In other words, this is the same thing academics did since forever. Not that it's bad, it just has nothing at all to do with a wiki. The article header is misleading.
Well, Windows users usually don't directly play this game, but are used as playing figures.
Though Linux is not exactly visible on consumer PC's, it still runs on the majority of servers around the world.. targets you'd normally count as even more attractive as they are connected 24/7 and not even hidden behind NAT's, presenting a wide and valuable targeting space. Your argument is invalid, come up with something that is founded on some real data please.
Don't get me wrong, Google has a policy of open platform in terms of cooperating with other corps when it strengthens their position (like Flash for instance) and they won't mind C# if it gives them advantages.
Still, it's a risk, same like Java.
You know, if I'd be Google, I'd think about how to come up with something that mitigates this risk, and maybe brings some first mover advantage.
I've not been surprised if they'd come up with their own programming language, that'd just blow the other's away.
They don't seem to be against it, as they do develop new programming languages like the Go programming language.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Go. The coding style of the standard library is an ugly CamelCase style thing that just makes me want to run away. But it has some very interesting programming paradigms behind it. And Google is using it to some extent already. Maybe they have something even better that they don't tell the world about yet. I mean, that's a very central aspect of their daily bread, I can't imagine them not have thought about it for long and deep hours.
Yup. Just to add some international touch to it: here in central Europe we have 240-250V outlets, which is radically different from the U.S., so putting amperage even with implied voltage is at least confusing and entirely unscientific and shows a lack of understanding about even the most basic principles of unit notations.
Some cryptography 101:
Plausible dependability in cryptography means that even if someone suspects there is hidden encrypted data in a data set, they can't prove it, even if they have full knowledge of the protocol.
What is presented here is automated steganography over image sites with many users (hiding the information). If the surveillance entity intercepts such messages and analyses them, they will know that *something* is there, though they won't be able to read it.
Anyway, what it boils down is, that you can't just say there is no message if someone confronts you, and this might very well lay the foundations for your gravestone in countries where the governing entities have a somewhat undemocratic method of dealing with things.
On the other hand, if they don't like you, and really suspect you are up to no good, they will probably shoot you anyway, evidence or not.
The most important rule when you do stupid crap like this is: you shut up about it.
But I guess that what school is for: they are learning their lesson.. the hard way.
I totally agree, we are not even heading in the direction of artificial sentience. I did my share of reading about neural networks, genetic algorithms and what we commonly call AI and it has absolutely nothing to do with sentience. Most of it is just a non linear pattern matching and search for local and global optima, like looking up an object in a database based on a video feed or finding a better wiring for an IC with specified characteristics.
Maybe they mean self sustaining machines that were sent out to explore some place by aliens? I mean, that's a workable assumption. Sentient? These guys have no idea.
That's not how things work in Germany. There is an elaborate law framework that prevent that, so if the employer wants to get rid of you without reason, he'll have to wait at least 3 months. Otherwise he'll have to present a damn good reason to fire you (like severe work neglect, financial damage or some kind of criminal activity).
Obviously there are gray areas and some folks try things, but the legal support for the workforce (there is a special court for work related issues, and you don't have to ramp up huge court fees) is very strong here, so it's not that common. You have to pay for your lawyer though, but the fees are also regulated, so you don't have to come up with ridiculous fees.
How about money?
Thinking that JavaFX takes the role of Flash is delusional. But for Adobe it might be a good financial interest to keep Flash floating for a while longer (not that there would be a big threat to it so far, but they are still careful).
Disclaimer 1: nothing against Adobe personally, I just hate Flash. I also see that Adobe is going in standards direction (somewhat) with CS5, so the issue is really only getting more time (and maybe a bit of DRM, some folks still don't got the memo that it's dead).
Disclaimer 2: I personally shun Flash and don't like either party.
The nouveau NVidia drivers are now way mature enough to deploy on a consumer OS. If you want it to move faster and become stable, contribute to the development at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/. The RT2700 drivers seem to be a Kernel issue. See http://kernel.org/ for information on how to contribute. Ubuntu usually ships with recent kernels.
I don't really know what your problem is, but Canonical is not your nanny. They are a distribution company. Their main focus is to merge Linux based software into a nice, somewhat polished consumer distribution, and I think they do very nice work with that. Especially considering that they only employ 350 people altogether.
Now if they get profitable some time in the next years (with their business/cloud support, music store and upcoming appstore), they can hire more employees, and focus on other things too. So if you don't feel like contributing with development time, you can also buy products in their stores and support them so they get more resources and do other stuff too.
Finally: stop bitching around without moving a finger / dollar. You won't change anything with that.
I use a password manager for password storage and generation. Stores them nicely with AES. New password for all important stuff. I also upload it to my online storage, as no-one can do anything with it without the master password (which is also long, and computer generated.. it's fascinating what you can remember when you enter it a bunch of times on a daily basis).
Now as for the time I'm on the way: well, I don't trust Joe random PC. I'd never unlock my password DB on a machine that's not at least reasonably under my control and/or very trustworthy (means I only use them at home and at work, both Linux machines). Otherwise I could as well don't bother in the first place.
Truth is, people don't want to concern with security. Then they get burned. Does not help. They get burned more. Maybe sometimes the education system catches up, a few generations from now. Until then, no cake for Fred Ignoramus.
So by looking on the keyboard instead of the screen I now somehow get a productivity increase? How? Isn't the hand in the way somehow? Also, how do I know what I did? Do I have to watch up and down all the time?
Also, I can think it's horribly painful after a while to watch 30 degrees down all the time on your neck.
I think this could be fun for a 5 year old though.
The summary of the summary (emphasis mine):
"Brian Wilcox, a JPL roboticist, spoke at a NASA workshop about the possibility of [..]. 'The node could be connected [..]. ..." (followed by some unrelated info).
How the fuck is this news, guys and girls? I could have a pony in a year. Nobody cares until I actually have one. Please post summaries of stuff that's happening, not what someone fantasies of.
Now you can advertise this new functionality:
"Did you vacuum brake? Then install Flash on your iPhone: it will suck like nothing you have seen before!"
or
"Like all those little security holes that pop up on the iPhone lately? Then install Flash on it and you'll get an entire trench!"
This is not necessary. Linux distributions come with package managers and update systems that take care of upgrading everything on your system including your browser.
This kludge is only brought to the Windows version, because there is no coherent system to update third party software and the popups got old.
So what will happen, when the patch comes out that allows characters to engage in X-rated activity?
I can show you very ugly mainstream sites in the "Western" Internet too: AOL or MSN.
As for non advertisement sites, Japanese ones tend to have much less clutter. Ever read around the Japanese Wikipedia? A typical article looks like this, which is much less frills then the English counterpart (e.g. much less images, and that's pretty common for Japanese sites).
There is a lot of movement in the ARM market, so maybe we will do exactly that in a year from now. They aren't on the market yet. I'd love to have one of those for an aux computer, and only turn on my main machine when I need the horse power.
Indeed, it's around 4x faster at everything, including sucking up electric power and converting it to heat.
The atom has a TDP of 8-14 W while the Athlon II is between 25-65 W. If you let both machines run for two years, then the combined purchasing price + the running cost put the Athlon in a very unfavorable spot, especially if you don't need the processing power on a regular basis.
If you have a good reason to get a fast, power hungry CPU, then fine, but otherwise is would be a waste. Which is what I was wondering in the article about: what's the purpose of this kind of setup? Ignoring the running cost, noise output and some other factors. They seem to have been bored.
Linus is at the top now because he does a very good job and people trust him. The actual development is done by thousands of developers (around 3000 contributors / release currently), number increasing. It sales just fine.
The way he is accomplishing this, is by using a network of trust (he talk about it in his talk about git).
This is very scalable, as he is not actually checking out every peace of code, he just merges them.
What would happen if he would suddenly go crazy or hit by a bus? The answer is simple: one of the core maintainers, like for instance Andrew Morton would take over the position. General development would continue as it is now, as Linus talked often about how and why he runs things the way he does, and many people agree with him there.
Have you checked out a recent Ubuntu (>= 10.04)? That's pretty much what the new software center is doing (splitting for instance graphics->3D, etc., and putting libraries in a category called system, which inexperienced users avoid like it'd hurt). They are putting a lot of effort into it, and I guess this must be quite convenient for non-computer-versed folks.
I personally use the console tools, which are nice to have too.
Not just designs, full grown products are already here. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk