OpenSolaris was the playground for new features that would, hopefully, be folded into Solaris when they matured. If Oracle doesn't care about OpenSolaris then they probably don't care about Solaris either. This is sad but not really surprising. Solaris hasn't had a major release in five years. Even the patches don't seem to be coming out at a plausible rate.
I don't know how Cleavland does it, here in the SF Bay Area, recycling rules vary from town to town and what is accepted is often very unclear. If they are going to fine people for not recycling, they are going to make the determination very simple and keep their customers informed.
Actually, 3D has picked up quite a bit in the last few years. However, the primary interest is connect different chips together in the same package with short, fast, interconnect. It's a lot better than conventional System In Package and much much better than circuit board connections. Unfortunately, the connections are a bit too coarse to spread a single design like an Intel processor across the layers.
For that you need more sophisticated methods like growing a new wafer on top of one that has already been built up. These methods are not yet ready for production.
It is close and this region is sometimes referred to as "soft" X-rays but there is nothing incorrect about the "UV" moniker. It also helps to distinguish EUV from actual X-ray lithography, a largely abandoned approach which used wave lengths on the order of 1nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_lithography
Sure, the beam needs improbable energy but is the intensity limit actually a problem? Assuming you have the energy, wouldn't a wider beam (within the intensity limit) work as well?
There is no such thing as ECC RAM. The ECC (usually hamming) is performed by the memory controller. You can't just buy a stick of 72 pin DIMM and use that in any old PC. You have to have a memory controller that supports ECC. It should also be noted that this kills performance by increasing latency (decode and encode the ecc bits) and may also require read-modify-writes.
Quite true and a bit of a lost opportunity. Internal to the DRAM, an entire row is accessible at one time. More bits would allow more efficient error correction methods. ECC computation would only need to be done when a row is opened or closed. The whole thing could be done transparently aside from somewhat longer delays to open and close rows. It would be useful, however, to have a method of informing the host controller if there were uncorrectable errors.
I doubt this will happen any time soon. The prevailing design philosophy has been to keep complexity out of the DRAM parts in order to control cost. Adding high speed logic for ECC would be a significant departure.
Easily, sure. Quickly? I think not. In a time when businesses operate quarter to quarter, it takes decades to grow a tree and a century or more for the most valuable hardwoods. Old growth trees are still being cut. Why do you think this is?
The other high frequency shops are adding value to the markets in the same way a market maker used to. They serve a function of keeping the market liquid. This means that a buyer can always guarantee to buy a stock or a seller can always guarantee to sell a stock because the market maker keeps some inventory to bridge any transitory lull when there are more buyers than sellers (or vice-versa) and yet the price is deemed to be correct. They are the brokers who reduce fluctuations in the market and offer a valuable service, even to a joe who wants to sell his 50 shares in IBM.
I don't think Joe cares that his trade took five minutes instead of 0.5 seconds. Your "Good" HF traders are providing a service that nobody needs or asked for.
In most areas, we have multiple CDMA and GSM carriers, each with their own towers and spectrum. Even though roaming is often possible, the fees are usually prohibitive if the capability isn't blocked outright. Universal GSM would just mean more options technically available but not actually used.
When you can get cell service (i.e., not in a wilderness area), you often can not get data. When you can get data, it won't be affordable. If you haven't converted to local plan (sim locked phone?), you may as well just leave your phone turned off because international roaming fees will eat you alive.
It's not at all surprising. People react to pollution that they can see, smell, and touch. In less populated areas where smog just blows away, few are going to care what their emissions are doing. California has wonders like the LA basin. Smog stays trapped near the source. When people have to breath the smog they produce, they tend to care a little more.
My otherwise stellar ISP has a "shoot first, ask no questions security policy"
It is frustrating to lose access to my home server while at work and not be able to do any troubleshooting because I need physical access to the machine.
It is quite maddening to finally get home, verify that there is nothing wrong on my end, call up support and (eventually) find out that I've been deliberately disconnected because of a security problem that doesn't exist.
No. Two protons. Atomic hydrogen is pretty much never seen in nature. It's always bonded as H2. I think that's actually a slightly bigger molecule than mono-atomic He.
Reminds me of a fight I had with Minolta about my "water damaged" camera. They insisted that my camera had water damage and that was no covered. I told them truthfully that my camera had not been rained on or immersed. They pointed to a corroded screw. I pointed to three months of 100% humidity that is standard for SE Asia in the rainy season. (Where the factory is located). They eventually relented but when the camera failed a second time, shortly after my trip ended, they insisted they insisted that I buy a new camera from them at some useless discount. I just gave up on the company at that point and refused to buy Minolta ever again.
Bottom line: They used inappropriate materials and blamed inevitable failures on customer "abuse". I have little doubt that, if immersion sensors had been available, they would have been tuned to report abuse in this case.
This system generates a massive amount of liquidity, meaning that if you need to quickly buy/sell a stock there's almost always a buyer/seller. That's "something from nothing".
Unless you are another speculator trying to cover a bad bet, "quickly" is measured in days. We don't need HF traders for that level of liquidity.
Verified personally how? You have inside information?
Oh yeah. I have "insider" information by virtue of being a member of these sites and, as such, I have the ability to search for women and men and *shock* compare the results!
This is far above the ability of normal males who can only guess and complain.
I have no idea what happens with aggressively expensive "matchmaker" services because I don't use them.
Uh, you must be thinking of the 80's and 90's or something because nowadays most dating sites already have way more women than men. For example, men get a substantial discount on eHarmony and such.
Not generally, they don't. Maybe in parts of New England, where single women outnumber single men by a significant margin. Everywhere else, dating sites are male dominate with male/female ratios ranging from 1.2:1 to 7:1
Sites I have verified personally include:
Match
Yahoo Personals
PlentyOfFish
OKCupid
I am no longer on Yahoo (2 years) or Match (1 year) but the POF and OKCupid data is current.
The long term trend is toward more women, but it hasn't even reached parity yet, much less swung toward toward more women than men.
I live in Edmonton Alberta, Canada where 8 months of winter is fairly common. Here our old incandescent bulbs have 100% efficiency because the heat generated does not go to waste:-)
No, but the heat generated at the power plant that didn't make it into electricity sure did go to waste. That's the trouble with electrical energy. Even at 100% efficiency, there is still waste. And that's why you probably don't heat your house with electricity. It's a lot cheaper to burn fossil fuels directly to create heat than it is to:
Burn fossil fuel to create
Convert heat to mechanical energy
Convert mechanical energy to electrical energy
Transmit electrical energy long distances through lossy power lines.
Convert electrical energy to heat
Even if the last step is 100% efficient, you still lose.
Anything with high fructose corn syrup in it (most anything you'd get at 7-11 or the like) is tough for your body to digest.
That's ridiculous. HFCS is trivial for your body to digest, just like any other sugar. HFCS is simply free glucose and fructose is a roughly 50-50 ratio. It scarcely gets any easier than this, aside from specialized sport foods (which you absolutely should not be eating you are in the middle of a hard, long duration workout)
Between the Old Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty, Egypt was conquered by
The Sea People The Nubians (Kush) The Assyrians The Persians Alexander
The Ptolemaic era was the last time a culture with any kind of connection to the Old Kingdom ruled Egypt but it makes no sense to talk about the time from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemys as the duration of the "Egyptian Empire"
Actually, the only time when Egypt really had an empire (a small one) was the New Kingdom. That period was 1550-1070BC and considerably shorter than the duration of the East Roman Empire. Even concatenating the Old and New Kingdoms and ignoring the intervening conquests and chaos, you only get 1580 years, which is similar to the East Roman Empire.
Can someone explain to me why 99% of e-commerce sites are unable to handle spaces in credit card numbers? It's is a pain in the ass to enter and visually verify a 16 digit number when spaces (which are printed on the card!) are not allowed.
If the company defunct, he may be able to buy the assets for pittance.
The same thing happened to my last employer. After efforts to find a buyer failed, the founder made a personal bid for the assets. The offer was accepted and he is now free to try again.
Now the founder of my old company is reasonably well off, but he's not rich. He still needs to find an investor to get going again, which may a while in this economy. But at least he has the option, and he can exercise that one soon. I need a job.:-)
I generally agree with you and I support nuclear power. However, I have to point out that cheap, aneutronic fusion just isn't going to happen. He3 + He3 does not produce neutrons but the inevitable side reactions do.
Slashdot Mirror
OpenSolaris was the playground for new features that would, hopefully, be folded into Solaris when they matured. If Oracle doesn't care about OpenSolaris then they probably don't care about Solaris either. This is sad but not really surprising. Solaris hasn't had a major release in five years. Even the patches don't seem to be coming out at a plausible rate.
I don't know how Cleavland does it, here in the SF Bay Area, recycling rules vary from town to town and what is accepted is often very unclear. If they are going to fine people for not recycling, they are going to make the determination very simple and keep their customers informed.
Actually, 3D has picked up quite a bit in the last few years. However, the primary interest is connect different chips together in the same package with short, fast, interconnect. It's a lot better than conventional System In Package and much much better than circuit board connections. Unfortunately, the connections are a bit too coarse to spread a single design like an Intel processor across the layers.
For that you need more sophisticated methods like growing a new wafer on top of one that has already been built up. These methods are not yet ready for production.
EUV is 13.5nm, X-rays are generally thought of 10nm and smaller. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ems3.html
It is close and this region is sometimes referred to as "soft" X-rays but there is nothing incorrect about the "UV" moniker. It also helps to distinguish EUV from actual X-ray lithography, a largely abandoned approach which used wave lengths on the order of 1nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_lithography
Sure, the beam needs improbable energy but is the intensity limit actually a problem? Assuming you have the energy, wouldn't a wider beam (within the intensity limit) work as well?
There is no such thing as ECC RAM. The ECC (usually hamming) is performed by the memory controller. You can't just buy a stick of 72 pin DIMM and use that in any old PC. You have to have a memory controller that supports ECC. It should also be noted that this kills performance by increasing latency (decode and encode the ecc bits) and may also require read-modify-writes.
Quite true and a bit of a lost opportunity. Internal to the DRAM, an entire row is accessible at one time. More bits would allow more efficient error correction methods. ECC computation would only need to be done when a row is opened or closed. The whole thing could be done transparently aside from somewhat longer delays to open and close rows. It would be useful, however, to have a method of informing the host controller if there were uncorrectable errors.
I doubt this will happen any time soon. The prevailing design philosophy has been to keep complexity out of the DRAM parts in order to control cost. Adding high speed logic for ECC would be a significant departure.
Easily, sure. Quickly? I think not. In a time when businesses operate quarter to quarter, it takes decades to grow a tree and a century or more for the most valuable hardwoods. Old growth trees are still being cut. Why do you think this is?
The other high frequency shops are adding value to the markets in the same way a market maker used to. They serve a function of keeping the market liquid. This means that a buyer can always guarantee to buy a stock or a seller can always guarantee to sell a stock because the market maker keeps some inventory to bridge any transitory lull when there are more buyers than sellers (or vice-versa) and yet the price is deemed to be correct. They are the brokers who reduce fluctuations in the market and offer a valuable service, even to a joe who wants to sell his 50 shares in IBM.
I don't think Joe cares that his trade took five minutes instead of 0.5 seconds. Your "Good" HF traders are providing a service that nobody needs or asked for.
In most areas, we have multiple CDMA and GSM carriers, each with their own towers and spectrum. Even though roaming is often possible, the fees are usually prohibitive if the capability isn't blocked outright. Universal GSM would just mean more options technically available but not actually used.
Well, China is manufacturing most of the electronics used in the West nowadays, is it not?
Not exactly, no. Advanced chips and PCB's are mostly made in Taiwan. China does make a great deal of electronics but it is older, simpler tech.
Don't travel international much, do you?
When you can get cell service (i.e., not in a wilderness area), you often can not get data.
When you can get data, it won't be affordable.
If you haven't converted to local plan (sim locked phone?), you may as well just leave your phone turned off because international roaming fees will eat you alive.
It's not at all surprising. People react to pollution that they can see, smell, and touch. In less populated areas where smog just blows away, few are going to care what their emissions are doing. California has wonders like the LA basin. Smog stays trapped near the source. When people have to breath the smog they produce, they tend to care a little more.
My otherwise stellar ISP has a "shoot first, ask no questions security policy"
It is frustrating to lose access to my home server while at work and not be able to do any troubleshooting because I need physical access to the machine.
It is quite maddening to finally get home, verify that there is nothing wrong on my end, call up support and (eventually) find out that I've been deliberately disconnected because of a security problem that doesn't exist.
No. Two protons. Atomic hydrogen is pretty much never seen in nature. It's always bonded as H2. I think that's actually a slightly bigger molecule than mono-atomic He.
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUKKLR48361520090807
Reminds me of a fight I had with Minolta about my "water damaged" camera. They insisted that my camera had water damage and that was no covered. I told them truthfully that my camera had not been rained on or immersed. They pointed to a corroded screw. I pointed to three months of 100% humidity that is standard for SE Asia in the rainy season. (Where the factory is located). They eventually relented but when the camera failed a second time, shortly after my trip ended, they insisted they insisted that I buy a new camera from them at some useless discount. I just gave up on the company at that point and refused to buy Minolta ever again.
Bottom line: They used inappropriate materials and blamed inevitable failures on customer "abuse". I have little doubt that, if immersion sensors had been available, they would have been tuned to report abuse in this case.
This system generates a massive amount of liquidity, meaning that if you need to quickly buy/sell a stock there's almost always a buyer/seller. That's "something from nothing".
Unless you are another speculator trying to cover a bad bet, "quickly" is measured in days. We don't need HF traders for that level of liquidity.
Verified personally how? You have inside information?
Oh yeah. I have "insider" information by virtue of being a member of these sites and, as such, I have the ability to search for women and men and *shock* compare the results!
This is far above the ability of normal males who can only guess and complain.
I have no idea what happens with aggressively expensive "matchmaker" services because I don't use them.
Uh, you must be thinking of the 80's and 90's or something because nowadays most dating sites already have way more women than men. For example, men get a substantial discount on eHarmony and such.
Not generally, they don't. Maybe in parts of New England, where single women outnumber single men by a significant margin. Everywhere else, dating sites are male dominate with male/female ratios ranging from 1.2:1 to 7:1 Sites I have verified personally include: Match Yahoo Personals PlentyOfFish OKCupid I am no longer on Yahoo (2 years) or Match (1 year) but the POF and OKCupid data is current. The long term trend is toward more women, but it hasn't even reached parity yet, much less swung toward toward more women than men.
I live in Edmonton Alberta, Canada where 8 months of winter is fairly common. Here our old incandescent bulbs have 100% efficiency because the heat generated does not go to waste :-)
No, but the heat generated at the power plant that didn't make it into electricity sure did go to waste. That's the trouble with electrical energy. Even at 100% efficiency, there is still waste. And that's why you probably don't heat your house with electricity. It's a lot cheaper to burn fossil fuels directly to create heat than it is to:
Even if the last step is 100% efficient, you still lose.
Anything with high fructose corn syrup in it (most anything you'd get at 7-11 or the like) is tough for your body to digest.
That's ridiculous. HFCS is trivial for your body to digest, just like any other sugar. HFCS is simply free glucose and fructose is a roughly 50-50 ratio. It scarcely gets any easier than this, aside from specialized sport foods (which you absolutely should not be eating you are in the middle of a hard, long duration workout)
Between the Old Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty, Egypt was conquered by
The Sea People
The Nubians (Kush)
The Assyrians
The Persians
Alexander
The Ptolemaic era was the last time a culture with any kind of connection to the Old Kingdom ruled Egypt but it makes no sense to talk about the time from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemys as the duration of the "Egyptian Empire"
Actually, the only time when Egypt really had an empire (a small one) was the New Kingdom. That period was 1550-1070BC and considerably shorter than the duration of the East Roman Empire. Even concatenating the Old and New Kingdoms and ignoring the intervening conquests and chaos, you only get 1580 years, which is similar to the East Roman Empire.
Can someone explain to me why 99% of e-commerce sites are unable to handle spaces in credit card numbers? It's is a pain in the ass to enter and visually verify a 16 digit number when spaces (which are printed on the card!) are not allowed.
How much money can your friend cough up?
If the company defunct, he may be able to buy the assets for pittance.
The same thing happened to my last employer. After efforts to find a buyer failed, the founder made a personal bid for the assets. The offer was accepted and he is now free to try again.
Now the founder of my old company is reasonably well off, but he's not rich. He still needs to find an investor to get going again, which may a while in this economy. But at least he has the option, and he can exercise that one soon. I need a job. :-)
I generally agree with you and I support nuclear power. However, I have to point out that cheap, aneutronic fusion just isn't going to happen. He3 + He3 does not produce neutrons but the inevitable side reactions do.