I assumed keying was the right verb for using any kind of switch. For what it's worth, in my head I was thinking of the front panel toggles on a minicomputer.
Once we had magnetic drums and terminals with paper tape things got a lot easier. Not better, but easier. But it did mean we could raid the bit bucket for an unlimited supply of confetti.
I have no problem with Disney's most popular characters NOT going into public domain. Disney actively exploits its brand. Good for them.
You're thinking of trademark law. This has nothing to do with copyright. Disney would love it if we all get the two confused. Just because I can present or sell copies of Steamboat Willie without paying Disney doesn't mean I get to sell stuffed toys of Mickey mouse or use their trademark in other ways without permission.
How does the world benefit from Mickey Mouse going into public domain? In no way.
We can create new art based on old art. We can make inspiration like our own take on Steamboat Willie except perhaps swap all the genders of the characters and call it Steamboat Wilma. I'm not an artist and I'm sure a real artist can come up with a more creative examples of expression using the films assets.
Most of our narrative structures can be traced back to the Greeks and other ancient cultures. We stand on the shoulders of giants whenever we create new art. Copyright extensions are about denying that basic fact and are instead about assigning ownership of pieces of human culture to immortal corporations.
You don't need solar panels when you have subsidized oil, coal, and nuclear power. Tax the middle class to support a welfare state for industrialists and energy moguls.
Tumblr, Blogger, etc are not much different than GeoCities and MySpace back in the day. Being totally devoid of social networking makes these better than Facebook according to the criteria in the article, but most people aren't following the author's arbitrary criteria. Running your own website still has some technical hurdles for most people, but there are plenty of alternatives that get you nearly there or you pay for a full blown CMS. Larger organizations and clubs can run WordPress through a hosting company, and retain a lot a lot more control than Facebook grants.
There is also MeWe and a few others that are basically like Facebook but more group oriented like G+ was. It's still the social networking model that people seem to want.
in short, unrealistic expectations on how society will adapt to social networking. regression to early technology is very unlikely.
Everything is a wrapper for something else. A SATA harddrive is a wrapper for a bunch of motor controls and sensors. You can flip the magnets on a platter yourself if you want to.
All those SGI workstations must have been a figment of my imagination then?
Correct. You aren't going to see a favorable comparison between a late 1990's workstation and a 2018 desktop. A lot has changed in 20 years, not just in Si fabrication but in computer architecture as well.
My routers at work have a 64 bit MIPS with 16 cores doing 1.8GHz
I used to be a kernel developer for a Cavium-based product at Cisco. Cavium is a multicore MIPS architecture, early OCTEON chips had absolutely no cache protocol between cores, making it useless for assigning all cores to Linux. So no good SMP for that architecture. What you can do is run network processing on the additional cores, with one core acting as a management system (running Linux for example). You can do some really neat things if you have a core dedicated to handling each Ethernet port even lets you do some deep level packet inspection.
Special purpose hardware is faster (and often cheaper) than general purpose hardware when applied to that special purpose. For general purpose computing, you can crank a lot of FLOPS/$ with a PC. I don't think you'll like running your MIPS64 based router as a desktop, especially considering the lack of a good MTRR on pretty much all embedded MIPS, means you won't be able to set up the memory for good GPU performance.
MIPS isn't going to replace your x86 desktop. MIPS certainly has been scaled up to high end computing before, it's not really well suited to fast desktops running a small number of tightly coupled threads (very dependent on inter-processor cache performance)
If you think it is important to use an alternative, then take a look at getting a TALOS II. It's a POWER9 based workstation that is pricey but not totally bananas. You do give up about 5% of performance on POWER9 when you apply the Spectre and Meltdown patches, which is not ideal but may be acceptable.
RISC-V scales down much further than SPARC. I terms of target market, RISC-V has qualities of the more configurable embedded cores like ARC (weird that a Super Nintendo accelerator chip ended up in millions of SD memory cards) and Xtensa. RISC-V wasn't really meant to compete with SPARC, and it only somewhat overlaps MIPS for application processors. Room for custom extensions for RISC-V are provided by the spec, so we already have DSP and crypto instructions on some fives.
Maybe you could, if the plastics holding the filter are heat safe. I'm not sure it's worth while to try.
If you bake it in a hot oven and completely dry it, it will drive off volatile compounds the carbon has absorbed and extend its life further while at the same time making it sterile.
Chlorine is not very appealing, but I like the taste of cholera and legionnaires' disease less.
Fun fact, charcoal filters can harbor legionnaires' disease if left in warm conditions for long periods of time. You can change them more frequently than every year, or keep the filter in the fridge. (dying the filter between uses tends to ruin its effectiveness, so it's not a practical option)
if you've ever tried to bottle your own water you'll know that: 1. it doesn't keep fresh that long 2. TSA won't let you take filled bottles past the security checkpoint
Packing a bottle of water in a gym bag or sack lunch is about convenience. It has nothing to do with the perceived safety of tap water.
None of those words were mentioned in the article. We must sometimes operate on limited data.
I suspect there are a lot of outliers, probably some above what the article cites as average and probably many well below. Extra little bit of data is I know an engineering manager in silicon valley that makes a little over $90K. Makes me suspect that the range is very wide.
As do I. And I actually buy and sell properties using my friends as agents so I have a very clear picture of how this works.
Not everyone's situation is the same. But if you can keep stirring the pot and moving houses you can make significant money. If you work for a large real estate company and give most of you profits to a broker, then you're not going to make so much.
Do you think LEDs poison the brain in yet unknown ways and reflective displays don't?
Nothing too special about LED light. it's bright and of a narrow spectrum. CRT phosphor also had few emission lines. But I'm not at all suggesting there are optical effects here.
On the other hand. A strobing panel, no matter the light source, maybe that has a neurological implications. I'd look more at the duration of exposure and the frequency of the strobing than anything. Sadly if we discover there is some addictive properties to a light that flashes at a certain interval people will use that information to get more YouTube clicks.
Most likely it has nothing to do with the lighted panel, and we're just playing with kids dopamine response by exposing them to garbage stimulus like mobile apps and youtube. I remember television being a concerns for my generation, the problems were overblown. We didn't become mindless zombies. Maybe more prone to depression though.
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I assumed keying was the right verb for using any kind of switch. For what it's worth, in my head I was thinking of the front panel toggles on a minicomputer.
Once we had magnetic drums and terminals with paper tape things got a lot easier. Not better, but easier. But it did mean we could raid the bit bucket for an unlimited supply of confetti.
I have no problem with Disney's most popular characters NOT going into public domain. Disney actively exploits its brand. Good for them.
You're thinking of trademark law. This has nothing to do with copyright. Disney would love it if we all get the two confused. Just because I can present or sell copies of Steamboat Willie without paying Disney doesn't mean I get to sell stuffed toys of Mickey mouse or use their trademark in other ways without permission.
How does the world benefit from Mickey Mouse going into public domain? In no way.
We can create new art based on old art. We can make inspiration like our own take on Steamboat Willie except perhaps swap all the genders of the characters and call it Steamboat Wilma. I'm not an artist and I'm sure a real artist can come up with a more creative examples of expression using the films assets.
Most of our narrative structures can be traced back to the Greeks and other ancient cultures. We stand on the shoulders of giants whenever we create new art. Copyright extensions are about denying that basic fact and are instead about assigning ownership of pieces of human culture to immortal corporations.
Do you miss the good old days of keying in the bootstrap routine on start up?
You don't need solar panels when you have subsidized oil, coal, and nuclear power. Tax the middle class to support a welfare state for industrialists and energy moguls.
Tumblr, Blogger, etc are not much different than GeoCities and MySpace back in the day. Being totally devoid of social networking makes these better than Facebook according to the criteria in the article, but most people aren't following the author's arbitrary criteria. Running your own website still has some technical hurdles for most people, but there are plenty of alternatives that get you nearly there or you pay for a full blown CMS. Larger organizations and clubs can run WordPress through a hosting company, and retain a lot a lot more control than Facebook grants.
There is also MeWe and a few others that are basically like Facebook but more group oriented like G+ was. It's still the social networking model that people seem to want.
in short, unrealistic expectations on how society will adapt to social networking. regression to early technology is very unlikely.
Every goose I've met has a bad attitude. A brick to the head is what's good for the gander.
Add slashdot.org to your hosts file, and block 100% of slashdot spam.
For every french fry sold at McDonald's.
Everything is a wrapper for something else. A SATA harddrive is a wrapper for a bunch of motor controls and sensors. You can flip the magnets on a platter yourself if you want to.
Also doesn't Oracle control MySQL these days?
No true Scotsman would use AWS. If you uses AWS, then you are not a true Scotsman. Q.E.D.
All those SGI workstations must have been a figment of my imagination then?
Correct. You aren't going to see a favorable comparison between a late 1990's workstation and a 2018 desktop. A lot has changed in 20 years, not just in Si fabrication but in computer architecture as well.
My routers at work have a 64 bit MIPS with 16 cores doing 1.8GHz
I used to be a kernel developer for a Cavium-based product at Cisco. Cavium is a multicore MIPS architecture, early OCTEON chips had absolutely no cache protocol between cores, making it useless for assigning all cores to Linux. So no good SMP for that architecture. What you can do is run network processing on the additional cores, with one core acting as a management system (running Linux for example). You can do some really neat things if you have a core dedicated to handling each Ethernet port even lets you do some deep level packet inspection.
Special purpose hardware is faster (and often cheaper) than general purpose hardware when applied to that special purpose. For general purpose computing, you can crank a lot of FLOPS/$ with a PC. I don't think you'll like running your MIPS64 based router as a desktop, especially considering the lack of a good MTRR on pretty much all embedded MIPS, means you won't be able to set up the memory for good GPU performance.
Empty bottles, meaning you aren't filling them with tap water at home. original points stand.
ask google what happens when you use GPL code from oracle
Well said. Best to avoid dealing with Oracle. They ruin Java and MySQL for the community. R.I.P. SPARC
MIPS isn't going to replace your x86 desktop. MIPS certainly has been scaled up to high end computing before, it's not really well suited to fast desktops running a small number of tightly coupled threads (very dependent on inter-processor cache performance)
If you think it is important to use an alternative, then take a look at getting a TALOS II. It's a POWER9 based workstation that is pricey but not totally bananas. You do give up about 5% of performance on POWER9 when you apply the Spectre and Meltdown patches, which is not ideal but may be acceptable.
RISC-V scales down much further than SPARC. I terms of target market, RISC-V has qualities of the more configurable embedded cores like ARC (weird that a Super Nintendo accelerator chip ended up in millions of SD memory cards) and Xtensa. RISC-V wasn't really meant to compete with SPARC, and it only somewhat overlaps MIPS for application processors. Room for custom extensions for RISC-V are provided by the spec, so we already have DSP and crypto instructions on some fives.
Maybe you could, if the plastics holding the filter are heat safe. I'm not sure it's worth while to try.
If you bake it in a hot oven and completely dry it, it will drive off volatile compounds the carbon has absorbed and extend its life further while at the same time making it sterile.
Chlorine is not very appealing, but I like the taste of cholera and legionnaires' disease less.
Fun fact, charcoal filters can harbor legionnaires' disease if left in warm conditions for long periods of time. You can change them more frequently than every year, or keep the filter in the fridge. (dying the filter between uses tends to ruin its effectiveness, so it's not a practical option)
if you've ever tried to bottle your own water you'll know that:
1. it doesn't keep fresh that long
2. TSA won't let you take filled bottles past the security checkpoint
Packing a bottle of water in a gym bag or sack lunch is about convenience. It has nothing to do with the perceived safety of tap water.
None of those words were mentioned in the article. We must sometimes operate on limited data.
I suspect there are a lot of outliers, probably some above what the article cites as average and probably many well below. Extra little bit of data is I know an engineering manager in silicon valley that makes a little over $90K. Makes me suspect that the range is very wide.
As do I. And I actually buy and sell properties using my friends as agents so I have a very clear picture of how this works.
Not everyone's situation is the same. But if you can keep stirring the pot and moving houses you can make significant money. If you work for a large real estate company and give most of you profits to a broker, then you're not going to make so much.
The study just started, it's nowhere near complete. This is some early data to help promote the study.
My point exactly.
For religious reasons I insist source code contains a significant amount of blasphemy. Time to open a bug.
I didn't see anything in the study that lead to this conclusion. It's fine to discuss ideas, but it's not a closed case.
Do you think LEDs poison the brain in yet unknown ways and reflective displays don't?
Nothing too special about LED light. it's bright and of a narrow spectrum. CRT phosphor also had few emission lines. But I'm not at all suggesting there are optical effects here.
On the other hand. A strobing panel, no matter the light source, maybe that has a neurological implications. I'd look more at the duration of exposure and the frequency of the strobing than anything. Sadly if we discover there is some addictive properties to a light that flashes at a certain interval people will use that information to get more YouTube clicks.
Most likely it has nothing to do with the lighted panel, and we're just playing with kids dopamine response by exposing them to garbage stimulus like mobile apps and youtube. I remember television being a concerns for my generation, the problems were overblown. We didn't become mindless zombies. Maybe more prone to depression though.
At least porn companies primarily collect data on adults. Facebook and YouTube spend a great deal of time specifically targeting children.