Well, that's just a book cypher, though, and is plausibly crackable (I'd maybe gzip it first and then work from that, but it's still not random); it's only a 1-time pad if your pad is *RANDOM*. And really, really random, not pseudo-random, or randomish.
The generators used on a ship are most efficient at about 80% of full power; if you run them at 20%, you waste a lot of fuel. So if you only need 20% most of the time, what you do is run the generators at 80%, 1/4 of the time (while charging batteries) and run off batteries the rest of the time.
Freedom of association and expression is a univeral human right, as well as an American value. You're so blinded by your need to scorn the latter that you can't even see the former.
No, no. You're assuming he actually means it. More likely is the possibility that when he says "I'm not a genius because there are 6.5 billion people with unique gifts" he knows it isn't true, but is a good way to keep the other 11-year-olds from kicking his smart ass.
Boeing built the B-17 on spec because they felt the Army Air Corps would need it, there wasn't a contract. Think something like that would happen today?
Actually, General Atomics built the Predator and Reaper UAVs the same way - in fact, the first models were sold to the CIA and the Air Force wasn't interested until after that... but perhaps that makes your point, rather than disproving it.:)
Exactly. In fact, if you're any damn good, just break into the HR system, insert yourself, and tell the front desk you forgot your badge when you show up for work the tomorrow morning.
How do you distribute the electricity from your biomass reactor or your solar field to the cars? See previous paragraph about power grid issues.
Um, at night?
But that's not the point; the problem is that shipping H2 around is a colossal PITA. It doesn't compress well, it leaks like crazy, and it's corrosive to many metals. Even if we had magical free hydrogen, the sensible thing would probably be to convert it to hydrocarbons; the loss from that will be less than from shipping the hydrogen around.
Sun is really in the software business already - that's where all their value-add is. Nobody would buy a sparc to run Linux (well, maybe the Niagaras for SSL webservers, but probably not even that). They were transitioning, maybe too slowly, to a Apple-style model where they sell hardware with nice but mostly industry-standard designs as a mechanism to licence their software.
And the benchmark numbers for Nehalem are crazy. The processor wars are all over but the screaming - the only folks left standing in two and a half years will be Intel and some ultra-low-power MIPS chips for portables and the cheapest of the cheap. (Expect some real excitement when the next generation consoles come out - I think IBM has to win those, again, to keep enough volume to keep Power alive).
It doesn't matter. You dump it to a new disk array every 5-8 years. (I have files in my homedir two decades old). And while enterprise tape might be cheaper than "enterprise" hard drives, is it cheaper than 2 damn cheap ones? 3?
You want a permanent archival format, maybe something you can easily ship, tapes or preferably stone tablets may be fine, but I think the VTL (Virtual tape library) is the winner for backup right now.
Sun doesn't have the volume to do chips anymore. HP and Apple gave up a few years ago, and frankly I'm not so sure about IBM and AMD. Have you actually looked at real benchmarks for the Intel 5500 series (or Power, or Sparc)?
The SMT Sun machines were actually halfway competitive with x86 on throughput/performance, but not better, and single-threaded performance sucks. The Ultrasparc-VI/VII had improved but still weren't really competitive unless you needed a $500k box that was twice as fast as a $50k top-of-the-line x86. Power6 was better, but still not really competitive.
And now Nehalem is out - Intel's first real bottom-up redesign since they realized AMD was kicking their butts because nobody wanted to move onto a new Itanium architecture (which, by the way, was slow) - and it's all over but the screaming. Once the 4-socket 32-core Intel x86 is shipping by Q1 next year I'm not sure anybody else can really hang in in the processor market.
Sun has some real innovation in software, though (Java, Dtrace, ZFS, some of their new storage stuff). It'll be a real loss if IBM kills that.
The Tesla press release refers to it as a "haptic" touchscreen; that would imply some kind of (vibration?) feedback that would make it easier to tell what was what on the screen.
I'm not so sure about that in practice, but it sounds like they are aware of the problem.
It's possible to be fair, but not to be unbiased; you have to have some kind of political viewpoint to decide what stories are even newsworthy.
I think our current media model is a post-WWII abberation, and we're headed back to an era of fragmented and obviously, blatently biased news sources. I'm leaning to the idea that is an improvement.
It's similar (at least, a lot more similar than any other Linux filesystem), but less mature.
In defense of the LK team on the whole ZFS issue, I understand that part of the reason they didn't pursue some ZFS-like features years ago was because of patents. Now that SUN has open-sourced (though not in a GPL-compatible way) ZFS and is defending that against Network Appliance in a lawsuit, the way looks a lot clearer for Btrfs and company to proceed.
Actually, on that thought, the IBM acquisition of SUN should get NetApp to drop that lawsuit. Going up against SUN in a MAD patent dispute is a bit risky, but (as SCO discovered) aggressive IP lawsuits against IBM come in right behind "land war in Asia".
I don't get this, though - or at least, I'd think those heuristics could be improved. If recent I/O usage is very light (typical desktop?), why not flush immediately? Delaying enables better throughput (via batching/reordering, I guess?), but if write rate is very low we don't care about throughput anyway, so there's no issue.
Yeah, that could be relevent, actually; if they wanted to kill the high-end Ultrasparcs (which seems likely?), a really good translator could let them make Solaris available on, say, a 32-socket Power6 p595.
IBM also recently bought Transitive, the leading CPU-soft-emulation company. They produce the Power emulator that Apple ships in every Intel Mac, and also have products to emulate Mainframe on x86 and Sparc on x86 or Power.
I had assumed they bought the company just to kill the Mainframe-on-x86 product, but this could actually provide a reasonable path forward; keep Solaris but migrate it to x86 or Power6.
They didn't give them the money, they loaned them the money at 5% interest, escalating to 9% after three years, with the government having priority over equity holders in the event of a default.
And, in fact, they haven't spent that money at all; that's what Congress was flaming about in the hearing the other day. (Alutthough buying distressed companies would fulfull the purpose, assuming the buyer were strong enough...)
But maybe you haven't been paying attention, or are you just not letting a few facts keep you from getting a good hate on?
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Well, that's just a book cypher, though, and is plausibly crackable (I'd maybe gzip it first and then work from that, but it's still not random); it's only a 1-time pad if your pad is *RANDOM*. And really, really random, not pseudo-random, or randomish.
Everybody knows this is just a cover for their work towards zerglings!
The generators used on a ship are most efficient at about 80% of full power; if you run them at 20%, you waste a lot of fuel. So if you only need 20% most of the time, what you do is run the generators at 80%, 1/4 of the time (while charging batteries) and run off batteries the rest of the time.
Freedom of association and expression is a univeral human right, as well as an American value. You're so blinded by your need to scorn the latter that you can't even see the former.
No, no. You're assuming he actually means it. More likely is the possibility that when he says "I'm not a genius because there are 6.5 billion people with unique gifts" he knows it isn't true, but is a good way to keep the other 11-year-olds from kicking his smart ass.
Boeing built the B-17 on spec because they felt the Army Air Corps would need it, there wasn't a contract. Think something like that would happen today?
Actually, General Atomics built the Predator and Reaper UAVs the same way - in fact, the first models were sold to the CIA and the Air Force wasn't interested until after that... but perhaps that makes your point, rather than disproving it. :)
Or hexagons? Come to think of it, although the keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard are square, adjacent rows are actually slightly offset.
>If you are asking, you don't qualify.
Exactly. In fact, if you're any damn good, just break into the HR system, insert yourself, and tell the front desk you forgot your badge when you show up for work the tomorrow morning.
This now concludes your interview.
Further, police have announced that Nokia phones other than the 1100s with prime serial numbers contain no red mercury.
How do you distribute the electricity from your biomass reactor or your solar field to the cars? See previous paragraph about power grid issues.
Um, at night?
But that's not the point; the problem is that shipping H2 around is a colossal PITA. It doesn't compress well, it leaks like crazy, and it's corrosive to many metals. Even if we had magical free hydrogen, the sensible thing would probably be to convert it to hydrocarbons; the loss from that will be less than from shipping the hydrogen around.
Don't be silly. Human sacrifice is only necessary if you're installing Debian.
Yes.
Sun is really in the software business already - that's where all their value-add is. Nobody would buy a sparc to run Linux (well, maybe the Niagaras for SSL webservers, but probably not even that). They were transitioning, maybe too slowly, to a Apple-style model where they sell hardware with nice but mostly industry-standard designs as a mechanism to licence their software.
And the benchmark numbers for Nehalem are crazy. The processor wars are all over but the screaming - the only folks left standing in two and a half years will be Intel and some ultra-low-power MIPS chips for portables and the cheapest of the cheap. (Expect some real excitement when the next generation consoles come out - I think IBM has to win those, again, to keep enough volume to keep Power alive).
It doesn't matter. You dump it to a new disk array every 5-8 years. (I have files in my homedir two decades old). And while enterprise tape might be cheaper than "enterprise" hard drives, is it cheaper than 2 damn cheap ones? 3?
You want a permanent archival format, maybe something you can easily ship, tapes or preferably stone tablets may be fine, but I think the VTL (Virtual tape library) is the winner for backup right now.
No. Sad, but no:
Sun doesn't have the volume to do chips anymore. HP and Apple gave up a few years ago, and frankly I'm not so sure about IBM and AMD. Have you actually looked at real benchmarks for the Intel 5500 series (or Power, or Sparc)?
The SMT Sun machines were actually halfway competitive with x86 on throughput/performance, but not better, and single-threaded performance sucks. The Ultrasparc-VI/VII had improved but still weren't really competitive unless you needed a $500k box that was twice as fast as a $50k top-of-the-line x86. Power6 was better, but still not really competitive.
And now Nehalem is out - Intel's first real bottom-up redesign since they realized AMD was kicking their butts because nobody wanted to move onto a new Itanium architecture (which, by the way, was slow) - and it's all over but the screaming. Once the 4-socket 32-core Intel x86 is shipping by Q1 next year I'm not sure anybody else can really hang in in the processor market.
Sun has some real innovation in software, though (Java, Dtrace, ZFS, some of their new storage stuff). It'll be a real loss if IBM kills that.
The Tesla press release refers to it as a "haptic" touchscreen; that would imply some kind of (vibration?) feedback that would make it easier to tell what was what on the screen.
I'm not so sure about that in practice, but it sounds like they are aware of the problem.
It's possible to be fair, but not to be unbiased; you have to have some kind of political viewpoint to decide what stories are even newsworthy.
I think our current media model is a post-WWII abberation, and we're headed back to an era of fragmented and obviously, blatently biased news sources. I'm leaning to the idea that is an improvement.
It's similar (at least, a lot more similar than any other Linux filesystem), but less mature.
In defense of the LK team on the whole ZFS issue, I understand that part of the reason they didn't pursue some ZFS-like features years ago was because of patents. Now that SUN has open-sourced (though not in a GPL-compatible way) ZFS and is defending that against Network Appliance in a lawsuit, the way looks a lot clearer for Btrfs and company to proceed.
Actually, on that thought, the IBM acquisition of SUN should get NetApp to drop that lawsuit. Going up against SUN in a MAD patent dispute is a bit risky, but (as SCO discovered) aggressive IP lawsuits against IBM come in right behind "land war in Asia".
Why not try "-o sync"?
Honestly, if it's a spare-part-server running on a typical home LAN, and is read-mostly, odds are reasonable you won't notice the difference.
If it is too slow, then you can always go back and screw around with this other nonsense.
I don't get this, though - or at least, I'd think those heuristics could be improved. If recent I/O usage is very light (typical desktop?), why not flush immediately? Delaying enables better throughput (via batching/reordering, I guess?), but if write rate is very low we don't care about throughput anyway, so there's no issue.
Yeah, that could be relevent, actually; if they wanted to kill the high-end Ultrasparcs (which seems likely?), a really good translator could let them make Solaris available on, say, a 32-socket Power6 p595.
Yes, but there are a lot of legacy Solaris apps that are complied for Sparc. You wouldn't think recompiling them would be a massive hardship, but...
IBM also recently bought Transitive, the leading CPU-soft-emulation company. They produce the Power emulator that Apple ships in every Intel Mac, and also have products to emulate Mainframe on x86 and Sparc on x86 or Power.
I had assumed they bought the company just to kill the Mainframe-on-x86 product, but this could actually provide a reasonable path forward; keep Solaris but migrate it to x86 or Power6.
Given the price of launching things to space, you could use scotch whiskey instead and it wouldn't affect the cost or feasibility of this plan.
They didn't give them the money, they loaned them the money at 5% interest, escalating to 9% after three years, with the government having priority over equity holders in the event of a default.
And, in fact, they haven't spent that money at all; that's what Congress was flaming about in the hearing the other day. (Alutthough buying distressed companies would fulfull the purpose, assuming the buyer were strong enough...)
But maybe you haven't been paying attention, or are you just not letting a few facts keep you from getting a good hate on?
$27/L is pretty expensive for a fuel with about the same energy content as gasoline.