I've been reading his book a little bit at a time, very interesting and informative. I don't really see how this is illegal unless you pull a DMCA on it since he is not defrauding anyone. The people he sells these to might be defrauding their ISP. Truth be told I'm more inclined to agree with the position that the real fraud here is the completely artificial pricing schemes and complete scam that is provisioning [not remotely based on the real (physical) limitations of the connection technology] enabled by regional monopolies and a virtual lack of competition in the ISP market.
So I work in the same building as this lab, use the same elevators, touch the same door handles etc. I'm not too worried, but plenty of people are and have been since they started working with your *more dangerous than ecoli* varieties. What really pissed me off is that if I had not heard about this from a PI down the hall yeasterday I would have found out about this through/. I can understand why the UoC doesnt send out alerts like this via email to everyone, but some people do need to know. The PI down the hall basically said "shit shit, god damn it, shit, the cdc will be here to deal with and who knows if we'll be allowed to stay," probably a slight over-reaction, but as my mother the md mph said "this is one of those NEVER things." Anyway, I was very sorry to hear about this, also as TFA says, we really dont know if this was a opportunistic infection that was able to get in because he was already sick or what.
If the point of RAID is access times then clearly RAM beats the hell out of all the competitors here. If what you needs is uptime then the system is always on, thus RAM. If you're worried about running out of space in your server rooms ram is alot smaller than HDDs. If you want redundency just set mirrored tmpfses. If you're worried about failure RAM failure rate is WAY lower than a HDD and has ECC built in, plus, hotplugging RAM is cake.
So, WHY, I ask, are we still using hard drives? What could possibly go wrong?
Personally I think that the most powerful UI ever concieved of is keyboard combined with a modal/modkey system that has command chaining. It is just plain faster than anything else for almost every simple computing task. Sure there are a few things where a mouse might give the user and edge, but that probably means that the keyboard commands were gimped. The one place where mice and touchscreens have an advantage is in apps where you need select something on a grid, eg crop a photo or select cells on a spreadsheet, and touch REALLY cant compete there because its percision sucks.
Kudos to the guys who invented the mouse, I suspect that as long as technological civilization exists it will use mice. Also keyboards, but that is sort of... obvious, unless we suddenly switch to mind controlling computers (which seems like a rather bad idea, and would fail for the paint/spreadsheetcells anyway since you can move your muscles faster than you can coherantly think what you want to select).
It hasnt happened because the smaller you make the pixels the worse your yield is. If you tried to make a 21" monitor with pixels the size of the ones on my n800 it wouldn't be profitable, you would have to junk too many because of bad/dead pixels. The quality control required for stuff like that this just doesn't make economic sense.
IF I wanted to listen to music on my phone, which I do not, because I'm not an antisocial fuckwit who wants to be deaf by the time he's 30 and run over by a truck while jogging, then I would put it on an sd card from my harddrive since I hate messing with crappy, small and slow UI on a phone.
Traffic shaping by ISPs? I dont think so. When you want your content you want it fast, and serious downloaders have know for years that after hours is when the bandwidth picks up.
Yes I read this and thought, hrm, sounds more like SMPT via Pigeon, which would be only a slight update of what they have been doing for... hundreds of years.
Personally, the only laptops I will buy for myself or a family member will be Thinkpads. No compromises. Technology is there to improve life and be as unobtrusive as possible. Something that works and that I dont have to think about or fight with continually is fine, but "good enough" doesnt cut it. It would fine if companies employed proper industrial design protocols when trying to get products out the door quickly, hell they can even do proper Q&A these days.
The one place where I think this may well be true is in the cargo crate servers that google and other big internet companies use, of course, its just the hardware that is good enough, the engineering of the whole systems is designed to make something highly robust out of good enough, but guess what, that still costs money, even if it is less money.
Good enough also varies by field, since there are institutions for whom 99.99% uptime is NOT "good enough."
For all products and all "good enough" products especially, the question will be whether the upfront cost/features are worth the cost of maintenance down the road (in time and money), and in my experience "good enough" products tend to fail this test. Most kids I know have had to replace their Dell laptops after about 3 years. My 7 year old Thinkpad T30 runs like a champ and is not going anywhere. (you get what you pay for etc.)
All I can say is that we're lucky the arrow of time only goes one way because the math says that no matter how much you smash the damned thing you can always put it back together. Thus it might be worth investing in a crab or two to eat a couple pieces of it (a cookie of you know the story).
So my country can torrent pics FROM THE MOON at 1.5MB/s and I'm still stuck at 150KB/s downloading pictures from 1 mile away in Chicago. US ISPs are full of shit.
There is a reason why good series end with their characters dead, its so that they end. Adams was no idiot he killed them for a very good reason and they do NOT need resurrecting.
Heh, I've seen this continually on 4chan for the last week, it didn't even register as offensive, just stupid and inaccurate (and also not as Obama but that may just be me).
You'd think RISC would be more attractive to someone wanting to write ASM... esp given that ARM+ASM would result in godly win of low power, high performance, high reliability. Surely there is a market for something like that....
I dont know everyone paints this as a political issue, the real problem is clearly the lawyers. I say we rename it the Burning Lawyer and have a yearly gathering to cull the herd, patent lawyers especially.
Laughter, art, pubic hair and kissing are the only things that stand out on the list as possibly unknown. Art is probably the most complex and "advanced" of all human behaviors so it will only have a highly complex answer. I have this feeling that laughter is not unique to humans and is probably based at some level on a physiological/neurological response to a number of mental states such as relief, happiness, perception of incongruity (irony), and a few others (for some people pain which is where we will probably have the best shot at figuring out that actual mechanisms...). At least in males and probably females this would probably be the product of the overlapping expression of two (maybe more) genes, one receptor that triggers localized hair growth when it receives a signal from another molecule (probably testosterone?), thus, when humans hit puberty and start developing secondary sexual features high concentrations of pubes form in the crotch because the signaling molecule is in such high abundance there (just a guess...). Kissing? Hell if I know, maybe a delaying tactic developed by females to see just how committed and patient a male was.
Nose picking? DUH??!!?? Ever seen a fly groom itself or a monkey in the mirror? The monkey always checks its teeth. No one likes boogers, they are irritating, thus, remove the irritant. Same as picking at scabs. Puberty? Tons of animals have it, its just another stage in development which just so happens to involve major rewiring of their neural circuitry and reformatting of their bodies. Not surprisingly, they tend to get a bit testy during this phase. Blushing? Vasodialation caused by a hormonal release triggered by embarrassment AKA a type of fear. Altruism? Pretty good explanations out there based on group selection theories and group size + competition. Supersition? Our brains continually look for causes by default and when they don't find an obvious one they will make the next best connection based on the associations available in the brain. Very hand if someone comes up with a single universal cause for everything (god anyone?). Dreams. Ok maybe not very well understood experimentally, but lots of animals dream. Neurons have to keep firing or they loose their connections, at some point during the evolutionary process a state developed for neural networks at rest were they started to replay their most recently experiences and integrate them in to the structure of the brain. Basically dreams are the time when the brain does upkeep and integrates its most recent experiences and solidifies the most memorable ones. Probably where we do most of our associational learning.
(Full disclosure: NON EXPERT, but this is/. so you know that already)
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I've been reading his book a little bit at a time, very interesting and informative. I don't really see how this is illegal unless you pull a DMCA on it since he is not defrauding anyone. The people he sells these to might be defrauding their ISP. Truth be told I'm more inclined to agree with the position that the real fraud here is the completely artificial pricing schemes and complete scam that is provisioning [not remotely based on the real (physical) limitations of the connection technology] enabled by regional monopolies and a virtual lack of competition in the ISP market.
As long as they are good....
Query: are rockets spaceships and if so are they female like normal ships? They've always seemed a bit to... phallic and gaseous to be female.
So I work in the same building as this lab, use the same elevators, touch the same door handles etc. I'm not too worried, but plenty of people are and have been since they started working with your *more dangerous than ecoli* varieties. What really pissed me off is that if I had not heard about this from a PI down the hall yeasterday I would have found out about this through /. I can understand why the UoC doesnt send out alerts like this via email to everyone, but some people do need to know. The PI down the hall basically said "shit shit, god damn it, shit, the cdc will be here to deal with and who knows if we'll be allowed to stay," probably a slight over-reaction, but as my mother the md mph said "this is one of those NEVER things." Anyway, I was very sorry to hear about this, also as TFA says, we really dont know if this was a opportunistic infection that was able to get in because he was already sick or what.
Come on guys, just store everything in RAM.
If the point of RAID is access times then clearly RAM beats the hell out of all the competitors here.
If what you needs is uptime then the system is always on, thus RAM.
If you're worried about running out of space in your server rooms ram is alot smaller than HDDs.
If you want redundency just set mirrored tmpfses.
If you're worried about failure RAM failure rate is WAY lower than a HDD and has ECC built in, plus, hotplugging RAM is cake.
So, WHY, I ask, are we still using hard drives? What could possibly go wrong?
RISC: fuck yeah! Time to invade the Western United States. ROLLIN
Personally I think that the most powerful UI ever concieved of is keyboard combined with a modal/modkey system that has command chaining. It is just plain faster than anything else for almost every simple computing task. Sure there are a few things where a mouse might give the user and edge, but that probably means that the keyboard commands were gimped. The one place where mice and touchscreens have an advantage is in apps where you need select something on a grid, eg crop a photo or select cells on a spreadsheet, and touch REALLY cant compete there because its percision sucks.
Kudos to the guys who invented the mouse, I suspect that as long as technological civilization exists it will use mice. Also keyboards, but that is sort of... obvious, unless we suddenly switch to mind controlling computers (which seems like a rather bad idea, and would fail for the paint/spreadsheetcells anyway since you can move your muscles faster than you can coherantly think what you want to select).
It hasnt happened because the smaller you make the pixels the worse your yield is. If you tried to make a 21" monitor with pixels the size of the ones on my n800 it wouldn't be profitable, you would have to junk too many because of bad/dead pixels. The quality control required for stuff like that this just doesn't make economic sense.
no, it is still under heavy development
Finally ALSA adds in kernel support for creative X-Fi after 4 years, fuck creative.
Um, is this 2007 because I'm pretty sure that I saw this at least two years ago....
IF I wanted to listen to music on my phone, which I do not, because I'm not an antisocial fuckwit who wants to be deaf by the time he's 30 and run over by a truck while jogging, then I would put it on an sd card from my harddrive since I hate messing with crappy, small and slow UI on a phone.
Traffic shaping by ISPs? I dont think so. When you want your content you want it fast, and serious downloaders have know for years that after hours is when the bandwidth picks up.
Yes I read this and thought, hrm, sounds more like SMPT via Pigeon, which would be only a slight update of what they have been doing for... hundreds of years.
Personally, the only laptops I will buy for myself or a family member will be Thinkpads. No compromises. Technology is there to improve life and be as unobtrusive as possible. Something that works and that I dont have to think about or fight with continually is fine, but "good enough" doesnt cut it. It would fine if companies employed proper industrial design protocols when trying to get products out the door quickly, hell they can even do proper Q&A these days.
The one place where I think this may well be true is in the cargo crate servers that google and other big internet companies use, of course, its just the hardware that is good enough, the engineering of the whole systems is designed to make something highly robust out of good enough, but guess what, that still costs money, even if it is less money.
Good enough also varies by field, since there are institutions for whom 99.99% uptime is NOT "good enough."
For all products and all "good enough" products especially, the question will be whether the upfront cost/features are worth the cost of maintenance down the road (in time and money), and in my experience "good enough" products tend to fail this test. Most kids I know have had to replace their Dell laptops after about 3 years. My 7 year old Thinkpad T30 runs like a champ and is not going anywhere. (you get what you pay for etc.)
... oh look, a butterfly!!!!!!
All I can say is that we're lucky the arrow of time only goes one way because the math says that no matter how much you smash the damned thing you can always put it back together. Thus it might be worth investing in a crab or two to eat a couple pieces of it (a cookie of you know the story).
So my country can torrent pics FROM THE MOON at 1.5MB/s and I'm still stuck at 150KB/s downloading pictures from 1 mile away in Chicago. US ISPs are full of shit.
There is a reason why good series end with their characters dead, its so that they end. Adams was no idiot he killed them for a very good reason and they do NOT need resurrecting.
Yep, the last three make that stupid 10 worst products of evolution thing look even more stupid (I hardly though it possible!).
Heh, I've seen this continually on 4chan for the last week, it didn't even register as offensive, just stupid and inaccurate (and also not as Obama but that may just be me).
You'd think RISC would be more attractive to someone wanting to write ASM... esp given that ARM+ASM would result in godly win of low power, high performance, high reliability. Surely there is a market for something like that....
This man is a nihilist. Burn him.
I dont know everyone paints this as a political issue, the real problem is clearly the lawyers. I say we rename it the Burning Lawyer and have a yearly gathering to cull the herd, patent lawyers especially.
This was posted 2 weeks ago, it was stupid then and is stupid now. Also, go back to digg with your lists kthxby.
Laughter, art, pubic hair and kissing are the only things that stand out on the list as possibly unknown. Art is probably the most complex and "advanced" of all human behaviors so it will only have a highly complex answer. I have this feeling that laughter is not unique to humans and is probably based at some level on a physiological/neurological response to a number of mental states such as relief, happiness, perception of incongruity (irony), and a few others (for some people pain which is where we will probably have the best shot at figuring out that actual mechanisms...). At least in males and probably females this would probably be the product of the overlapping expression of two (maybe more) genes, one receptor that triggers localized hair growth when it receives a signal from another molecule (probably testosterone?), thus, when humans hit puberty and start developing secondary sexual features high concentrations of pubes form in the crotch because the signaling molecule is in such high abundance there (just a guess...). Kissing? Hell if I know, maybe a delaying tactic developed by females to see just how committed and patient a male was.
Nose picking? DUH??!!?? Ever seen a fly groom itself or a monkey in the mirror? The monkey always checks its teeth. No one likes boogers, they are irritating, thus, remove the irritant. Same as picking at scabs.
Puberty? Tons of animals have it, its just another stage in development which just so happens to involve major rewiring of their neural circuitry and reformatting of their bodies. Not surprisingly, they tend to get a bit testy during this phase.
Blushing? Vasodialation caused by a hormonal release triggered by embarrassment AKA a type of fear.
Altruism? Pretty good explanations out there based on group selection theories and group size + competition.
Supersition? Our brains continually look for causes by default and when they don't find an obvious one they will make the next best connection based on the associations available in the brain. Very hand if someone comes up with a single universal cause for everything (god anyone?).
Dreams. Ok maybe not very well understood experimentally, but lots of animals dream. Neurons have to keep firing or they loose their connections, at some point during the evolutionary process a state developed for neural networks at rest were they started to replay their most recently experiences and integrate them in to the structure of the brain. Basically dreams are the time when the brain does upkeep and integrates its most recent experiences and solidifies the most memorable ones. Probably where we do most of our associational learning.
(Full disclosure: NON EXPERT, but this is /. so you know that already)