Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link! The horror! Now when I type 'chron', it invokes 'cron', and I dont get mad!
But it makes other nerds angry that I would do it! I feel so ashamed! It's in the user bin folder, instead of the user shared bin folder! How horrible! Nevermind that BOTH are in the fucking path statement, and it wouldnt matter which one I put it in.
I remember the association with chronos and time (eg, it is "chronometer" not "cronometer") and thus keep spelling it chron, which, IMO, is how it SHOULD be spelled.
But, because the author decided it needed to be spelled wrong, I do indeed get that error message, I get angry, I make a simple invocation redirect in/usr/bin, and I go on with my life.
I too can infer things about yourself, AC, such as-- you are an insufferable asshole that nobody likes, that likes to make inferences about people and threat them like facts. But that would be hypocritical of me.;P
I am neither Mr Hype, nor his secretary Ms Hyperbole, but I can answer your question Mr Coward.
First and foremost, the attack surface starts at your front door. Namely, your internet router.
Most consumer level devices of this nature have back doors baked into them. Just google it. It will astound you. Such back doors give would-be hackers access to the routing tables, and thus the isolation between your private and public network areas. That allows them to directly portscan you right from your own router, and to deliver payloads to your IoT devices using the same point of intrusion.
Why would they go after your IoT cameras, bathroom scales, refrigerators, smart thermostats, and other other bullshit smart devices? All those devices tend to have laughable security implementations, and any single one could be a route to automated re-pwning of your router should you decide to 1) reboot it, 2) replace it 3) attempt to secure it some other way. This is because they are already behind your firewall, and thus "trusted" in your private network.
Use a community managed repository for your packages. EG, stop being idiots that are addicted to cramfs monolithic images, and use a limited initrd based boot system with a writable JFFS flash root volume, and a real package manager. Point the package manager at community maintained repos. Insert a chron job to run the update cycle every week.
No new devs needed-- even fewer than when using cramfs based monolithic system image based updates, because now you dont have to bake and test images. You get all that security mindedness FOR FUCKING FREE from the community.
scenario 2) That is why Apt-get, Yum, and pals use digital signature checking with GPG and pals with strong crypto keys. It assures the packages being pulled are in fact being pulled from the package repo they believe they are being pulled from, and are in fact the legit packages they think they are getting, and not some man in the middle giving them hacked packages full of exploits. This problem has already been solved by the community. Which, again, THEY COULD GET FOR FREE BY JUST ADOPTING IT.
The hardware isn't the problem, the problem is the insistence on monolithic update packages, instead of implementing a writable flash filesystem and adding a package manager.
OpenWRT fixes that on supported routers. Gives you JFFS for nonvolatile storage, and opkg for package management. Includes chron. Automated self-updating from the repo is as easy as a chron job away.
The real problem is that the IoT makers want to sell throw-away devices, and people like you are willing to throw the devices away. Give them bigger flash modules, and a better boot loader, and the problem becomes MUCH more tractable for the exact same hardware otherwise.
But no, selling the devices for 0.50$ more so they can have a 16mb flash instead of an 8mb one (or smaller!), and thus be able to have such updates without abusing the fuck out of cramfs and being reliant on monolithic firmware update blobs is just out of the question. Instead, people should drop another 75$ every year for the new model!
Blaming ignorant users for not being technowizards? Yes, *WE* know how to update an embedded linux device, but your average person does not even know it runs embedded linux, let alone how to manage such a device manually.
WHAT THE FUCK. No-- just embed a reasonable package management suite into the firmware that does digitial signature checking, and a chron job to look for updates every week.
This whole problem is a non-problem when handled properly.
The real issue is that some corporate retard wanted to be a miser on the flash chips because he could get teensy weensie ones really cheap, and so essential functionality gets scrapped with a "blame the end user" scapegoat attached.
I wouldnt say it is complicated, only that it is the result of unpleasant truths.
There major form of psychoactives used in the US is that of anti-depressant medications, used for various kinds of depression and anxiety disorders.
Take that, along with some scary findings ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ) that the US's "PRODUCE MORE NOW! WITH LESS THAN YOU DID LAST QUARTER, OBEY OR BE FIRED! DO NOT DARE ASK FOR MORE THAN THE 1-WEEK OF VACATION ALLOTED TO YOU! CORPORATE HAS SPOKEN!" culture produces unbearable levels of stress, which increases risk for depression. ( http://www.mayoclinic.org/heal... )
The obvious low hanging fruit to investigate is workplace related stress causing anxiety disorders and other mental disorders, such as dementia. (https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=1744 )
But somehow, this is "Damn complicated", because damnit, without slavedriving people, how will americans be cost effective compared to foreign labor and developing economies!? How will C-level assfucks get to feel good about themselve without driving the company lexus or taking rides in the corporate jet!?
The problem is that the world values money and wealth more than health and happiness, just not in the way that the GGP suggested with the quip about balance reports-- but it was pretty close to the mark, even if he did not know it.
Yes, "damn complicated", because "Damnit, I want my gold-encrusted jet to rival Donald Trumps!" and not "complicated" because "There isnt a glaringly obvious common factor massively contributing to poor american mental health."
Indeed. I have a home brewed klipsch 5.1 setup using a cheap Sony head, and it works fine.
The main problem is that despite the head advertising 5.1 positional audio capability to connected HDMI devices, most only send a 2.1 stream. My computer makes full use of the setup, but it is game dependent when it comes to consoles. Some will output 5.1, others only 2.0.
I don't see how MS can get positional audio from a stereo only application, so this update seems "whut?" To me.
carbon rich amino acids, ammonia, water, methane, and a whole panoply of the building blocks of life all form abiotically in interstellar dust clouds, such as what this star will form from.
Because there is no fusion inside the star, there is not nearly as much energy to rip these complex molecules apart with, and instead they will form complex interplay and layering inside the star, moving around because of convection.
Autotrophs are able to absorb inert substances, and combine them with some form of radiant or abmient energy, and turn them into lower entropy food supplies that they use to power respiration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The brown dwarf does not really have fusion at its core, but it does have fission. (It is heavy, and absorbs heavy atoms from the nebular cloud it forms from, which settle to its core.) This heats the brown dwarf internally, causing convection.
This supplies energy, and a weather system that will move raw materials around inside the brown dwarf. Dead microbes will be subducted deeper into the brown dwarf, become denaturated from the heat, and become raw materials. Those will be pushed up by convection.
In addition to heat, brown dwarfs DO emit light from blackbody radiation, and being pretty damned hot down there (just not enough for fusion), that is quite a bit in the visible spectrum. That means photosynthetic life can persist in the temperate layers high up.
So, what do they eat?
1) chemicals replenished by denaturation deeper inside the star. 2) Light emitted from deeper inside the star. 3) each other.
NMS is more like a very interactive tech demo than a game.
even with the foundation update, there are many important things missing.
1) the asignments given by npcs are very limited, and revolve around "hey, get me this item/material", and no real "yeah, pirates are coming from this nearby system and shooting the shit out of our freighters, can you go blow them up please?"
2) big missing features: users cannot interract with each other, world deformation is not persistent, etc.
3)inventory management still tedious as hell fo no reason. the game supports near limitless item stacking, but does not implement for specific item types, like curiosities. (i KNOW the game suports it, because i can edit the memory table for said items and change the stack depth to a 4 byte integer value, save, and the change persists. i do this religiously for such items. i somehow doubt i will ever collect 4 billion of any item type, but it sure would be nice if Hello Games stopped fucking with me over curiosities and manufactured items, when the game clearly has no need for such fuckery.)
4) warp travel missing important features for navigation. such as "filter for previously visited planets", "restrict to current hyperdrive limits", "filter by star type", "filter by race control", etc. instead it is just jabbing in the dark, and selecting systems is a chore.
5) planet ecosystems very boring, single biome for whole damn planet, very little variety on a single world.
6) taken together, the game is about as interesting as grinding for gold on wow. less so, because zero player-player interaction.
Not understanding the beauty of this feature I see. Pure genius.
See, what do middle managers enjoy doing most when they aren't calling needless meetings all day?
That's right, it is making useless PowerPoint presentations that are devoid of actual intellectual content!
Now, what do you suppose happens when all the middle managers in a midsize company are able to make and redact edits to PowerPoint documents in real time?
Increased productivity!
Why?
Instead of calling endless bullshit meetings, the middle management team is bogged down in quorum on exactly what buzzwords to use, the cost benefit dynamics of using comic sans vs papyrus, or which set of bland clipart to use. In extended testing, the software team who created this breakthrough were able to keep mid management and even some clevel management contained for days at a time. Naturally, the managers felt the higher quality (ahem) if the presentation they made was responsible for the productivity increase, but the positive correlation between fewer meetings and more task time on productivity is very telling.
CVD is a low pressure ionized gas crystallization process. It produces gemstone class diamonds.
The researchers would likely benefit more from using the Russian hydraulic form compression method of producing said diamonds, because it is much cheaper. It does not produce single, large crystal diamonds without defects the way CVD does, but we aren't trying to make jewelry here. We are interested in trapping the emitted beta particles (high energy electrons emitted from the nucleus) in the lattice and using the high bandgap semi conductive properties of the diamond to transport those electrons as a reliable source of current.
Without exact figures for how many tons of irradiated graphite there is, how energy intense CVD us compared to compressive forming, and how efficient the two end products are, I cannot even begin to answer your question though.
Even if there is a big deficit, it might still be worthwhile, due to the immense savings on sequestration costs, and maintenance costs of these batteries.
It also means that we can now inexpensively stockpile stemcells without appreciable loss. Freezing is expensive, and it is costly in time and other resources to store and retrieve tissues that way.
Since this is a chemical doping technique, this would allow us to store regenerative stemcells much the way we store whole blood, or perhaps even longer, using simple refrigeration techniques.
This could have wide reaching implications in stemcell based regenerative medicine, since humans could inexpensively bank the cultures now.
The current test article appears to be the size of a 10 gallon bucket. With all associated hardware to drive the chamber, all hardware could fit neatly inside the volume of a 50 gal barrel.
Minus the power supply, this is able to supply the stated specific impulse of the article.
The mass of the test article and associated hardware is not given, and above estimations for volume come from photos of the test apparatus.
One proposed theory is that it works by exploiting unruh radiation. That explanation relies on the premise that inertia is quantum in nature, and so there can be anomalies between discrete quantum levels of inertial interactions.
We get that you want a comparable system to your macbook pro. We get that you don't want to pay 2000$+ for one. We get that you probably like macosx. We get that you probably want a bigger ssd, and other perks.
This is a site for nerds. It is expected that you will know certain things, like the existence of hackintoshes. These are PCs, with PC pricetags, that have damned near identical hardware to apple's offerings, as far as the OS and software is concerned, and which can be coaxed into running osx.
Since you should know that these exist, even if you do not want to run OSX, you can still see their known working hardware lists for very close analogs to macbooks, and make a good selection, without ever bothering to ask tediously redundant questions.
Example, here is a nice article breaking down last years best offerings.
So, since this info is readily available, you should already know about hackintoshes and their communities, why do you people keep asking Slashdot, instead of investing 10 seconds on google looking for a suitable hackintosh?
Slashdot Mirror
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/chron /usr/sbin/cron
Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link! The horror! Now when I type 'chron', it invokes 'cron', and I dont get mad!
But it makes other nerds angry that I would do it! I feel so ashamed! It's in the user bin folder, instead of the user shared bin folder! How horrible! Nevermind that BOTH are in the fucking path statement, and it wouldnt matter which one I put it in.
In other words, go fuck yourself idiot.
cron, malapropism of chronos, god of time.
I remember the association with chronos and time (eg, it is "chronometer" not "cronometer") and thus keep spelling it chron, which, IMO, is how it SHOULD be spelled.
But, because the author decided it needed to be spelled wrong, I do indeed get that error message, I get angry, I make a simple invocation redirect in /usr/bin, and I go on with my life.
Or, like most people, I set it and forget it.
I too can infer things about yourself, AC, such as-- you are an insufferable asshole that nobody likes, that likes to make inferences about people and threat them like facts. But that would be hypocritical of me. ;P
I am neither Mr Hype, nor his secretary Ms Hyperbole, but I can answer your question Mr Coward.
First and foremost, the attack surface starts at your front door. Namely, your internet router.
Most consumer level devices of this nature have back doors baked into them. Just google it. It will astound you. Such back doors give would-be hackers access to the routing tables, and thus the isolation between your private and public network areas. That allows them to directly portscan you right from your own router, and to deliver payloads to your IoT devices using the same point of intrusion.
Why would they go after your IoT cameras, bathroom scales, refrigerators, smart thermostats, and other other bullshit smart devices? All those devices tend to have laughable security implementations, and any single one could be a route to automated re-pwning of your router should you decide to 1) reboot it, 2) replace it 3) attempt to secure it some other way. This is because they are already behind your firewall, and thus "trusted" in your private network.
scenario 1)
Use a community managed repository for your packages. EG, stop being idiots that are addicted to cramfs monolithic images, and use a limited initrd based boot system with a writable JFFS flash root volume, and a real package manager. Point the package manager at community maintained repos. Insert a chron job to run the update cycle every week.
No new devs needed-- even fewer than when using cramfs based monolithic system image based updates, because now you dont have to bake and test images. You get all that security mindedness FOR FUCKING FREE from the community.
scenario 2)
That is why Apt-get, Yum, and pals use digital signature checking with GPG and pals with strong crypto keys. It assures the packages being pulled are in fact being pulled from the package repo they believe they are being pulled from, and are in fact the legit packages they think they are getting, and not some man in the middle giving them hacked packages full of exploits. This problem has already been solved by the community. Which, again, THEY COULD GET FOR FREE BY JUST ADOPTING IT.
The hardware isn't the problem, the problem is the insistence on monolithic update packages, instead of implementing a writable flash filesystem and adding a package manager.
OpenWRT fixes that on supported routers. Gives you JFFS for nonvolatile storage, and opkg for package management. Includes chron. Automated self-updating from the repo is as easy as a chron job away.
The real problem is that the IoT makers want to sell throw-away devices, and people like you are willing to throw the devices away. Give them bigger flash modules, and a better boot loader, and the problem becomes MUCH more tractable for the exact same hardware otherwise.
But no, selling the devices for 0.50$ more so they can have a 16mb flash instead of an 8mb one (or smaller!), and thus be able to have such updates without abusing the fuck out of cramfs and being reliant on monolithic firmware update blobs is just out of the question. Instead, people should drop another 75$ every year for the new model!
Seriously, what the fuck!?
Blaming ignorant users for not being technowizards? Yes, *WE* know how to update an embedded linux device, but your average person does not even know it runs embedded linux, let alone how to manage such a device manually.
WHAT THE FUCK. No-- just embed a reasonable package management suite into the firmware that does digitial signature checking, and a chron job to look for updates every week.
This whole problem is a non-problem when handled properly.
The real issue is that some corporate retard wanted to be a miser on the flash chips because he could get teensy weensie ones really cheap, and so essential functionality gets scrapped with a "blame the end user" scapegoat attached.
I wouldnt say it is complicated, only that it is the result of unpleasant truths.
There major form of psychoactives used in the US is that of anti-depressant medications, used for various kinds of depression and anxiety disorders.
Take that, along with some scary findings ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ) that the US's "PRODUCE MORE NOW! WITH LESS THAN YOU DID LAST QUARTER, OBEY OR BE FIRED! DO NOT DARE ASK FOR MORE THAN THE 1-WEEK OF VACATION ALLOTED TO YOU! CORPORATE HAS SPOKEN!" culture produces unbearable levels of stress, which increases risk for depression. ( http://www.mayoclinic.org/heal... )
The obvious low hanging fruit to investigate is workplace related stress causing anxiety disorders and other mental disorders, such as dementia. (https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=1744 )
But somehow, this is "Damn complicated", because damnit, without slavedriving people, how will americans be cost effective compared to foreign labor and developing economies!? How will C-level assfucks get to feel good about themselve without driving the company lexus or taking rides in the corporate jet!?
The problem is that the world values money and wealth more than health and happiness, just not in the way that the GGP suggested with the quip about balance reports-- but it was pretty close to the mark, even if he did not know it.
Yes, "damn complicated", because "Damnit, I want my gold-encrusted jet to rival Donald Trumps!" and not "complicated" because "There isnt a glaringly obvious common factor massively contributing to poor american mental health."
Indeed. I have a home brewed klipsch 5.1 setup using a cheap Sony head, and it works fine.
The main problem is that despite the head advertising 5.1 positional audio capability to connected HDMI devices, most only send a 2.1 stream. My computer makes full use of the setup, but it is game dependent when it comes to consoles. Some will output 5.1, others only 2.0.
I don't see how MS can get positional audio from a stereo only application, so this update seems "whut?" To me.
I love how a competing group (dedicated to sound, DTS), and a Dolby product spec (Digital theater sound, DTS) have the same acronym.
keep telling yourself that AC. maybe if you repeat it enough times it will come true! (No, really, it wont.)
carbon rich amino acids, ammonia, water, methane, and a whole panoply of the building blocks of life all form abiotically in interstellar dust clouds, such as what this star will form from.
Because there is no fusion inside the star, there is not nearly as much energy to rip these complex molecules apart with, and instead they will form complex interplay and layering inside the star, moving around because of convection.
Here genius, because you are clearly an idiot.
Chemotrophs get energy by ingesting electron donating chemical substances, which gives them the energy they need for respiration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Heterotrophs consume other organisms to gain their energy for respiration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Autotrophs are able to absorb inert substances, and combine them with some form of radiant or abmient energy, and turn them into lower entropy food supplies that they use to power respiration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, again-- the answers are:
1) chemicals
2) each other
3) light
I see that the ACs are idiots, as usual.
The brown dwarf does not really have fusion at its core, but it does have fission. (It is heavy, and absorbs heavy atoms from the nebular cloud it forms from, which settle to its core.) This heats the brown dwarf internally, causing convection.
This supplies energy, and a weather system that will move raw materials around inside the brown dwarf. Dead microbes will be subducted deeper into the brown dwarf, become denaturated from the heat, and become raw materials. Those will be pushed up by convection.
In addition to heat, brown dwarfs DO emit light from blackbody radiation, and being pretty damned hot down there (just not enough for fusion), that is quite a bit in the visible spectrum. That means photosynthetic life can persist in the temperate layers high up.
So, what do they eat?
1) chemicals replenished by denaturation deeper inside the star.
2) Light emitted from deeper inside the star.
3) each other.
never played spore, but have played NMS.
NMS is more like a very interactive tech demo than a game.
even with the foundation update, there are many important things missing.
1) the asignments given by npcs are very limited, and revolve around "hey, get me this item/material", and no real "yeah, pirates are coming from this nearby system and shooting the shit out of our freighters, can you go blow them up please?"
2) big missing features: users cannot interract with each other, world deformation is not persistent, etc.
3)inventory management still tedious as hell fo no reason. the game supports near limitless item stacking, but does not implement for specific item types, like curiosities. (i KNOW the game suports it, because i can edit the memory table for said items and change the stack depth to a 4 byte integer value, save, and the change persists. i do this religiously for such items. i somehow doubt i will ever collect 4 billion of any item type, but it sure would be nice if Hello Games stopped fucking with me over curiosities and manufactured items, when the game clearly has no need for such fuckery.)
4) warp travel missing important features for navigation. such as "filter for previously visited planets", "restrict to current hyperdrive limits", "filter by star type", "filter by race control", etc. instead it is just jabbing in the dark, and selecting systems is a chore.
5) planet ecosystems very boring, single biome for whole damn planet, very little variety on a single world.
6) taken together, the game is about as interesting as grinding for gold on wow. less so, because zero player-player interaction.
Not understanding the beauty of this feature I see. Pure genius.
See, what do middle managers enjoy doing most when they aren't calling needless meetings all day?
That's right, it is making useless PowerPoint presentations that are devoid of actual intellectual content!
Now, what do you suppose happens when all the middle managers in a midsize company are able to make and redact edits to PowerPoint documents in real time?
Increased productivity!
Why?
Instead of calling endless bullshit meetings, the middle management team is bogged down in quorum on exactly what buzzwords to use, the cost benefit dynamics of using comic sans vs papyrus, or which set of bland clipart to use. In extended testing, the software team who created this breakthrough were able to keep mid management and even some clevel management contained for days at a time. Naturally, the managers felt the higher quality (ahem) if the presentation they made was responsible for the productivity increase, but the positive correlation between fewer meetings and more task time on productivity is very telling.
CVD is a low pressure ionized gas crystallization process. It produces gemstone class diamonds.
The researchers would likely benefit more from using the Russian hydraulic form compression method of producing said diamonds, because it is much cheaper. It does not produce single, large crystal diamonds without defects the way CVD does, but we aren't trying to make jewelry here. We are interested in trapping the emitted beta particles (high energy electrons emitted from the nucleus) in the lattice and using the high bandgap semi conductive properties of the diamond to transport those electrons as a reliable source of current.
Without exact figures for how many tons of irradiated graphite there is, how energy intense CVD us compared to compressive forming, and how efficient the two end products are, I cannot even begin to answer your question though.
Even if there is a big deficit, it might still be worthwhile, due to the immense savings on sequestration costs, and maintenance costs of these batteries.
It also means that we can now inexpensively stockpile stemcells without appreciable loss. Freezing is expensive, and it is costly in time and other resources to store and retrieve tissues that way.
Since this is a chemical doping technique, this would allow us to store regenerative stemcells much the way we store whole blood, or perhaps even longer, using simple refrigeration techniques.
This could have wide reaching implications in stemcell based regenerative medicine, since humans could inexpensively bank the cultures now.
i seem to recall from researching nuclear batteries that semiconductor junctions degrade quickly when exposed to high energy ionizing radiation.
that means this site has to be very low on the contaminants, or the upkeep will be hell from the panels failing.
unless the chinese are also testing some new PV designed for use in strongly ionizing radiation, and want to collect energy at night too. :)
Shape of: aged fossil!
Form of: Lost liquidity!
Blunder Twin powers, dedicate!
The current test article appears to be the size of a 10 gallon bucket. With all associated hardware to drive the chamber, all hardware could fit neatly inside the volume of a 50 gal barrel.
Minus the power supply, this is able to supply the stated specific impulse of the article.
The mass of the test article and associated hardware is not given, and above estimations for volume come from photos of the test apparatus.
One proposed theory is that it works by exploiting unruh radiation. That explanation relies on the premise that inertia is quantum in nature, and so there can be anomalies between discrete quantum levels of inertial interactions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.034...
The author has proposed that this mechanism may also be responsible for some other observational anomalies.
http://phys.org/news/2011-07-g...
Quality means different things to different people, AC.
Also, what people are willing to pay has no real bearing as a measure of real value.
See for instance, caviar. It is horrid. Salty. Vile.
People pay a lot for it because it is hard to obtain, and its consumption is a symbol of conspicuous wealth.
Apple products are similar.
Chromebook pixel.
https://www.amazon.com/Super-G...
It can completely ditch chromeos, and run pure Linux.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...
http://marksolters.com/program...
Like other Chromebooks, battery life is obscenely long.
Seriously.
We get that you want a comparable system to your macbook pro. We get that you don't want to pay 2000$+ for one. We get that you probably like macosx. We get that you probably want a bigger ssd, and other perks.
This is a site for nerds. It is expected that you will know certain things, like the existence of hackintoshes. These are PCs, with PC pricetags, that have damned near identical hardware to apple's offerings, as far as the OS and software is concerned, and which can be coaxed into running osx.
Since you should know that these exist, even if you do not want to run OSX, you can still see their known working hardware lists for very close analogs to macbooks, and make a good selection, without ever bothering to ask tediously redundant questions.
Example, here is a nice article breaking down last years best offerings.
http://blazinglist.com/top-10-...
So, since this info is readily available, you should already know about hackintoshes and their communities, why do you people keep asking Slashdot, instead of investing 10 seconds on google looking for a suitable hackintosh?
Really people. This is not hard.