Those "fast" processors from a decade ago were from the dead P4 branch of the x86 family tree created for the MHz wars. They achieved their high clock rates by doubling the length of the pipeline. This had the effect of reducing real instruction throughput compared to the traditional pipeline architecture which was kept alive in the Pentium M and subsequently morphed into the iCore lineup.
I don't know why they can't fix the lag on the submissions around here. It's been like that for 10+ years. I always copy the text before a preview or submit just in case/. forgets about me.
This is more a product of the payola system that ensures record companies control what we hear on the radio. The bland sameness of contemporary pop music is driven by their need to create stars that they can control and tailor to their market analysis. This is what happens when corporate decision making is driven by analytics. Creativity gets left out of the equation.
I'm always astonished by the complete absence of talented foreign artists on US radio because someone way up high decided not to allow them entry into our entertainment market. A good current example is the Kiwi Kimbra who backed up Gotye on the strangely successful song of his. You would think that would get her some commercial recognition considering how talented a singer she is (watch her live performances). She released an album and it is not to be heard in most corners of the US market other than a few TV commercials.
Sure it's hard to get noticed through traditional channels but there are plenty of MySpace (back when it was relevant) and YouTube artists who have developed a following that can drive concert ticket sales. Social media is also influencing the rise of artists to the general consciousness of the public. With a little initiative an artist or group can market themselves and develop a following that could develop into something more. Taylor Swift is a good example of how artists should approach a career in the industry. While she's easily dismissed as a typical pop sensation, take a good look at how she closely manages her own business and cuts out the record industry moochers in the process.
Back when radio stations had DJs that could control their playlist there was more variety to be had. That variety still exists in venues like college radio stations, NPR affiliates, and the few remaining independent commercial stations.
There has always been generic pap on mainstream radio. You don't hear the junk that came out in the 60's, 70's, and 80's on the "classic" stations nowadays so that biases the view that what we have today pales to what we had in the past. There's no reason to despair about the "death" of good music. It's there today. You just may have to look harder for it.
Considering most DSL providers in the US think that anything above 128K is "Broadband" we've already gotten there then. Got a load coil on your land line? Tough shit. We're giving you the broadband we promised.
Wind farms aren't generally placed in scenic locations. I find them tolerably pleasant in the daytime and the ones I've been close too make no appreciable sound above the background wind noise.
However, the sea of blinking red lights at night could be a viable complaint if you lived nearby. They are far more intrusive than a radio tower here and there.
For high end products like Titan, gold plating can still be as pervasive as in the good old days. The explanation in the article is vague. I wonder if this is really an issue exacerbated by the scourge of lead-free tin plating that is mandated nowadays rather than "too much" gold.
He's not a hero. He violated his contract with the US government. All claims to moral superiority on his part are void since he had no authorization to handle the materials in the first place and the indiscriminate nature of what he collected.
That being said I'd like to know who in the chain of command is going to be held responsible for the utter lack of operational security that made it possible for Manning to copy the files in the first place. Obviously nobody will because the higher ups are all going to have their asses covered by the Manning / Assange shitstorm that's been concocted to distract everyone.
Solar time was how all (non-arctic) cultures tracked time before railroads required standardization across long distances. The Japanese even had mechanical clocks with movable hour markers so they could adjust to the seasonal changes. That being said, you are right about the complications of doing this at high latitudes.
We don't have to attack their soldiers directly. We will just do the same thing we've been doing to win wars (strategically at least) for the last 20+ years: Take out their command and control, win air superiority, and attack supply lines. A million starving, undirected men aren't much use as soldiers. It won't be a walk in the park but would probably be easier than Iraq 2 due to the lack of the religious infighting. The most ardently brainwashed anti-capitalists will change their tune once they are facing imminent starvation.
The game changer that makes this possible is the detailed intelligence we have on their critical assets and the availability of precision strike weapons so we don't waste time carpet bombing forests. Nobody can match us at this game.
the radiation environment isn't really that terrible
Provided you are prepared to play dice with your mission longevity then sure, COTS is fine. Currently all successful COTS hardware in space has been incorporated into a system design tailored to handle the issues caused by operation in that environment. Efforts are made to detect latchup conditions and flipped bits that aren't done on ground hardware. An off the shelf smartphone has none of that implemented and will not work reliably.
It is common for the laptops used on the ISS (and formerly the shuttle) to lock up or have data corruption. They aren't used for mission and safety critical systems so such behavior is tolerable. That won't be the case on a satellite intended for more than a gee whiz tech demo.
Many satellites suspend operations when passing near the South Atlantic Anomaly because of the disruption is causes. That is with purpose built, space qualified hardware.
Unfortunately the heart disease to salt connection hasn't been thoroughly debunked or we wouldn't be awash in so many low sodium products in the supermarket and populist Dr. Oz types with the air of medical authority still telling you salt is bad. The problem is that there is an entire anti-salt food industry with a vested interested in ignoring the truth. There is no way to get the messaging out about the safety of salt intake when even the mainstream medical establishment refuses to correct its ways.
If Atkins hadn't killed himself with his high fat diet we might still be dealing with his bullshit today. Thankfully that is safely in the past.
It's a failure to recognize that the constitution should not be abused for the purpose of restricting individual freedom when it is only supposed to restrict government powers.
We did it once when the temperance movement had enough populist support to ban alcohol. Now we have conservative leaning people riled up by the fundies with the notion that gay marriage is going to precipitate the same sort of doom and gloom as mass drunkness.
Would you rather hear from Carmack who's been spinning his wheels on a hobby for 13 years with not much to show for his efforts. Musk on the other hand has single-handedly rocked the commercial space industry and proven that there is a better and cheaper way to get to space.
It is a holdover from the JANET naming system which was in reverse order from DNS and had a strict hierarchy of sub domains. email gateways between JANET and DNS-based internet would reverse the address components as necessary. The old naming hierarchy was maintained with the transition of the UK to DNS to maintain consistency through the transition.
With luck there will eventually be a push for a standardized tablet platform that is open enough to permit users to select their own OS. Most likely this will come from the second tier Chinese manufacturers who would benefit most from a common reference standard.
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Those "fast" processors from a decade ago were from the dead P4 branch of the x86 family tree created for the MHz wars. They achieved their high clock rates by doubling the length of the pipeline. This had the effect of reducing real instruction throughput compared to the traditional pipeline architecture which was kept alive in the Pentium M and subsequently morphed into the iCore lineup.
I don't know why they can't fix the lag on the submissions around here. It's been like that for 10+ years. I always copy the text before a preview or submit just in case /. forgets about me.
Party in the evidence room?
This is more a product of the payola system that ensures record companies control what we hear on the radio. The bland sameness of contemporary pop music is driven by their need to create stars that they can control and tailor to their market analysis. This is what happens when corporate decision making is driven by analytics. Creativity gets left out of the equation.
I'm always astonished by the complete absence of talented foreign artists on US radio because someone way up high decided not to allow them entry into our entertainment market. A good current example is the Kiwi Kimbra who backed up Gotye on the strangely successful song of his. You would think that would get her some commercial recognition considering how talented a singer she is (watch her live performances). She released an album and it is not to be heard in most corners of the US market other than a few TV commercials.
Sure it's hard to get noticed through traditional channels but there are plenty of MySpace (back when it was relevant) and YouTube artists who have developed a following that can drive concert ticket sales. Social media is also influencing the rise of artists to the general consciousness of the public. With a little initiative an artist or group can market themselves and develop a following that could develop into something more. Taylor Swift is a good example of how artists should approach a career in the industry. While she's easily dismissed as a typical pop sensation, take a good look at how she closely manages her own business and cuts out the record industry moochers in the process.
Back when radio stations had DJs that could control their playlist there was more variety to be had. That variety still exists in venues like college radio stations, NPR affiliates, and the few remaining independent commercial stations.
There has always been generic pap on mainstream radio. You don't hear the junk that came out in the 60's, 70's, and 80's on the "classic" stations nowadays so that biases the view that what we have today pales to what we had in the past. There's no reason to despair about the "death" of good music. It's there today. You just may have to look harder for it.
Considering most DSL providers in the US think that anything above 128K is "Broadband" we've already gotten there then. Got a load coil on your land line? Tough shit. We're giving you the broadband we promised.
You mean something like ST: Nemesis?
Wind farms aren't generally placed in scenic locations. I find them tolerably pleasant in the daytime and the ones I've been close too make no appreciable sound above the background wind noise.
However, the sea of blinking red lights at night could be a viable complaint if you lived nearby. They are far more intrusive than a radio tower here and there.
Considering that it's a command line tool with no system dependencies building your own binary from source isn't a significant burden.
For high end products like Titan, gold plating can still be as pervasive as in the good old days. The explanation in the article is vague. I wonder if this is really an issue exacerbated by the scourge of lead-free tin plating that is mandated nowadays rather than "too much" gold.
Considering that the majority of spoiler equipped cars are front wheel drive it's even more amusing.
That's not true. I've taken out a cashier's check far in excess of $10K without any issue.
He's not a hero. He violated his contract with the US government. All claims to moral superiority on his part are void since he had no authorization to handle the materials in the first place and the indiscriminate nature of what he collected.
That being said I'd like to know who in the chain of command is going to be held responsible for the utter lack of operational security that made it possible for Manning to copy the files in the first place. Obviously nobody will because the higher ups are all going to have their asses covered by the Manning / Assange shitstorm that's been concocted to distract everyone.
Apparently Terry Gilliam is a genius.
She'd probably make a bad ass rap video about it.
When will his 15 minutes run out?
Solar time was how all (non-arctic) cultures tracked time before railroads required standardization across long distances. The Japanese even had mechanical clocks with movable hour markers so they could adjust to the seasonal changes. That being said, you are right about the complications of doing this at high latitudes.
We don't have to attack their soldiers directly. We will just do the same thing we've been doing to win wars (strategically at least) for the last 20+ years: Take out their command and control, win air superiority, and attack supply lines. A million starving, undirected men aren't much use as soldiers. It won't be a walk in the park but would probably be easier than Iraq 2 due to the lack of the religious infighting. The most ardently brainwashed anti-capitalists will change their tune once they are facing imminent starvation.
The game changer that makes this possible is the detailed intelligence we have on their critical assets and the availability of precision strike weapons so we don't waste time carpet bombing forests. Nobody can match us at this game.
the radiation environment isn't really that terrible
Provided you are prepared to play dice with your mission longevity then sure, COTS is fine. Currently all successful COTS hardware in space has been incorporated into a system design tailored to handle the issues caused by operation in that environment. Efforts are made to detect latchup conditions and flipped bits that aren't done on ground hardware. An off the shelf smartphone has none of that implemented and will not work reliably.
It is common for the laptops used on the ISS (and formerly the shuttle) to lock up or have data corruption. They aren't used for mission and safety critical systems so such behavior is tolerable. That won't be the case on a satellite intended for more than a gee whiz tech demo.
Many satellites suspend operations when passing near the South Atlantic Anomaly because of the disruption is causes. That is with purpose built, space qualified hardware.
An endothermic cold pack applied to a partially melted bottle just before the checkpoint should take care of any insidious liquids.
Unfortunately the heart disease to salt connection hasn't been thoroughly debunked or we wouldn't be awash in so many low sodium products in the supermarket and populist Dr. Oz types with the air of medical authority still telling you salt is bad. The problem is that there is an entire anti-salt food industry with a vested interested in ignoring the truth. There is no way to get the messaging out about the safety of salt intake when even the mainstream medical establishment refuses to correct its ways.
If Atkins hadn't killed himself with his high fat diet we might still be dealing with his bullshit today. Thankfully that is safely in the past.
It's a failure to recognize that the constitution should not be abused for the purpose of restricting individual freedom when it is only supposed to restrict government powers.
We did it once when the temperance movement had enough populist support to ban alcohol. Now we have conservative leaning people riled up by the fundies with the notion that gay marriage is going to precipitate the same sort of doom and gloom as mass drunkness.
There are no special electronics. There are just duplicate, rotationally symmetric sets of pins on each side of the connector.
Would you rather hear from Carmack who's been spinning his wheels on a hobby for 13 years with not much to show for his efforts. Musk on the other hand has single-handedly rocked the commercial space industry and proven that there is a better and cheaper way to get to space.
It is a holdover from the JANET naming system which was in reverse order from DNS and had a strict hierarchy of sub domains. email gateways between JANET and DNS-based internet would reverse the address components as necessary. The old naming hierarchy was maintained with the transition of the UK to DNS to maintain consistency through the transition.
With luck there will eventually be a push for a standardized tablet platform that is open enough to permit users to select their own OS. Most likely this will come from the second tier Chinese manufacturers who would benefit most from a common reference standard.