"3D glasses" are polarized sunglasses. Why do you think they are two separate things?
It's the orientation of the polarization that makes them different.
3D glasses have the polarization rotated 90 degrees between lenses.
Polarized sunglasses have the polarization oriented in the same direction.
You wouldn't want to wear 3D glasses while driving, because your vision would be different between your eyes - you'd see some reflected light with one eye and not the other.
And what do you think the technology behind 3D glasses is? Hint: polarization
Or red/blue color blocking, or LCD shutters. (which I guess technically rely on polarization, but that's not how they get the 3D effect - mechanical shutters would work just as well).
No. I just tried with a pair on my screen. On this Dell LCD is seems to increase the distance between the text and the glass(plastic)? So whatever polarized coating they use in manufacture, gives all of the head ache and none of the 3D effect.
HOWEVER! Just one lens is fine. So using two rights of lefts will be fine and is the best way to watch a 3D film.
Turn your screen 90 degrees and the polarized glasses should take care of 100% of the glare. On most LCD screens, it will make the image go completely black.
Which is always amusing when places use a monitor turned 90% as an information display - one bright sunny day we walked into a fast food restaurant and my wife asked me what I was going to order, while she pointed to the blank screens. I couldn't figure out how she was reading the menu until I remembered to take off my sunglasses.
What I don't know is whether monitor makers purposely chose a polarization direction that works well with glare reducing polarized sunglasses, or if it's just coincidence that the best polarization direction for a monitor also happens to be compatible with sunglasses.
You should have taken the calculation further. That works out to $180/year plus your $50 for the stick itself. I hate to burst Dell's bubble, but at $230 you can get a cheap desktop computer from any number of suppliers (think office machine with minimal 3D support) and own it. By the time you're into the second or third year, you've paid for a pretty nice machine compared to Ophelia.
I'm sure Dell's executives cream their pants when they think about raping the population for $15/month or more, but as Microsoft's earlier efforts with web-enabled software show, most customers aren't willing to sucker in for monthly fees unless they can write it off as a business expense.
You'll note that I quoted prices for an Amazon EC2 server running Win Server 2008 - who knows what Dell is going to charge for a home Win8 session?
But even at $15/month I think there's a market for this for home users that want a PC but don't want to maintain a PC (patch applications and OS, do backups (including offsite), etc).
I'm sure Dell's executives cream their pants when they think about raping the population for $15/month or more, but as Microsoft's earlier efforts with web-enabled software show, most customers aren't willing to sucker in for monthly fees unless they can write it off as a business expense.
If they are providing a service to users at a price they are willing to pay, why is it "raping the population"? Is a restaurant "raping" you when they charge you $30 for a steak that cost them $5? Are you being raped when you buy a $60 shirt that only has $2 of raw materials and cost $3 of offshore labor to make? You could cook your own steak or sew your own shirt at home for a fraction of what it costs in the store, but most people are willing to pay for the convenience of having someone else do that work.
And businesses don't want you stuffing their PC in your shirt pocket and taking it home with you for an untold number of legal, ethical, and control reasons.
That's funny, my employer issues everyone a laptop and encourages them to take the laptop home to do work - and they have a lot less control over what I do on my laptop than on what I do with a cloud based virtual PC.
Why would they be less likely to let me take a dumb terminal home that hosts no corporate data at all?
Pi $35 (http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=43W5302) Case $6.39 (http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=92T3300) Wifi $9.99 (go with yours, or newark has one for the same price) Bluetooth $5.56 (http://www.newark.com/dynamode/bt-usb-m2/adaptor-bluetooth-usb-class-1/dp/39T4089)
total: $56.94
So you came up with about the same price as me, for a device that's more comparable to Dell's device than a raw Pi with no case, and no wireless connectivity?
That gets you hardware that is presumably more powerful than what Dell is pushing (because it's not just a dumb terminal) and can be used to do other things than connect to Dell's cloud.
Why would you presume that a Pi is more powerful than the Dell when Dell hasn't released specs? Just because the Pi can be made to do anything you want doesn't mean that the majority of consumers want to have a device that they can load any software on -- many consumers want a device that they plug into their TV, and then 2 minutes later they enter their credit card number and suddenly they have MS Windows running on their TV. (the fact that it's "in the cloud" isn't relevant to many people. Oh, and Dell said that the device will have a local web browser and other apps, so you won't need to connect to the cloud for everything.
The $25 pi will bring that down to under $50.
But is the model A's 256M of RAM sufficient to run Wyse's thin client software? Oh, and don't forget to add in the cost of a USB hub since the Model A has only one USB port.
Integrating the wifi onto the board and dropping all the other ports the pi has would also reduce the price considerably. And there's no way Dell pays $6 for plastic boxes in volume.
If a bunch of amateurs and small volume companies can offer that price, with considerably more capability,
The Rasberry Pi was designed by a non-profit with mostly unpaid employees to be as affordable as possible - why do you think Dell's designers can come up with a new design more cheaply than a team of unpaid engineers?
$50 for Dell's loss leader hardware for their cloud service is a pretty crappy deal. They should be giving you the thing for free.
If they gave it out for free, then they be giving thousands of them to geeks that just want a free Android device.
And "Dell's software?" VNC clients are free. Sorry, I meant VNC clients that don't send your data through Dell's cloud for perusal.
VNC may be free, but it's not going to offer the same performance and features as Wyse's thin client software.
It's clear that you're not a candidate for their offering, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad product for their target market. Some people will welcome a tiny device they can plug into the back of their TV and act like a full-size desktop PC. One potential audience would be the business traveler that no longer needs to carry a laptop with him, he can just carry this device in his pocket and plug it into the hotel TV (where they also provide a bluetooth keyboard), the business center PC at the airport, and when he goes to the client to give a presentation, he can plug it into the MHL port on his client's projector. And since it's integrated with Wyse's Cloud Client Manager software, the employee's IT department can manage it remotely.
even better, when they screw up and delete something they did not mean to, and go looking for it later, they have someone to blame
Or they could just look in the "Trash" folder at their cloud provider. Google Drive retains "Trash" items indefinitely until you choose to empty the trash folder.
If I'm editing a document and accidentally screw it up, I can just revert to a previous version.
I use Google Docs almost exclusively for creating documents even though I have MS Office and Libre Office readily available, and I have a reasonable backup policy for my home computers, including offsite backups. I use Google Docs more because the docs are available anywhere.
Actually, $50 is kind of a ridiculously high price for this. A raspberry pi is $25 and can do more than act as a dumb terminal.
Dell isn't going to reinvent itself by convincing everyone to stop buying $300 laptops from them and start buying $50 USB sticks. They're going to have to charge a decent amount for service.
It's a lot less seamless over a celluar Mifi device, but still usable.
I don't see why this device wouldn't be usable.
I'm under the impression that the the cellular data bill (assuming the U.S. market, where Dell and Dice are headquartered) would make it cost prohibitive.
I have no idea how much my work pays for my Mifi, so I was commenting on the usability of RDP over cell, not the price, but I think few people will have an HD TV without also having a hardwired internet connection.
They expect me to do serious "desktop work" via portable high-latency device in the 'cloud' environment using Android?
Why do you care what operating system runs on the device? You're doing your work on the desktop running on the cloud, the Dell box is just the display for that remote cloud desktop. It coudl be Android, IOS, WebOS, or even a new DellOS and it shouldn't make any difference at all to the end user.
The two biggest roadblocks to Ophelia - besides most LCD's not supporting this type of USB connection - is licensing these multiple OS's on the cloud and the inherent latencies that are going to hound such a small CPU while it tries to handle graphics, WiFi & Bluetooth network stacks and the throughput of data. $50 is a wonderful price for the hardware. What will the services end of this product cost?
Amazon will rent you an entire virtual Win Server 2008 server for around 12 cents/hour - presumably desktop pricing would be lower, but if a typical home user uses their desktop for 4 hours/day, that's around $15/month at 12 cents/hour.
I can't be the only one who's creeped out about this. All my data in "the cloud"... I know, I know, it's been going on for years, but me, I like my data on my own machine away from anyone else. The is just more devolution of the power of the individual & transferring it to others, who may not necessarily have the individual's best interests in mind. Keep your little machine Dell.
You may not be the only one who's afraid of the cloud, but for most people, their data is safer in the "cloud" than it is at home on their old PC that has no backups. It could even be safer against hack attacks if the provider keeps applications patched so no one is still running a buggy unpatched MSIE 6 on WinXP.
PCs are cumbersome, heavy and slow. Ophelia provides a computer experience as typical and fast as any other computer -- again, everything depends on the Internet connection -- but at a fraction of the weight. PCs can’t fit in your pocket; Ophelia can. Heck, you could probably stick anywhere between two to five of those computers into a normal pants pocket.
1.) Talk about hyperbole, batman. 2.) I imagine the lag will be horrendous. 3.) Over wireless?
I regularly VPN over my home Wifi connection to work and run Windows remotely via rdp and it works quite well. Not quite as snappy as a long machine, but works well enough that I don't bother to bring my Windows laptop home to do work, I just remote into the terminal server at work.
It's a lot less seamless over a celluar Mifi device, but still usable.
Or in other words "You're giving us too much work. Here, we're making it so we only have to answer like... 3 things a year."
Y'know guys... if there's an overwhelming number of petitions to dramatically change things, maybe, just maybe, you should consider actually fixing shit that's constantly being petitioned about instead of saying "no, fuck you", and closing the petition.
There are 150M registered voters in the USA (out of around 200M eligible voters). Raising the petition limit to 0.067% of registered voters doesn't seem out of line and helps keep down the noise to allow more thorough answers to the petitions that do make the cut.
<quote>Maybe this would be useful in some HPC environments where applications can be written to maximize the use of CPU cache,,</quote>
Actually, it would be murder on HPC applications, which generally rely on quality inter-node communication to acheive high scale.
Not all HPC applications are the same and don't always require fast interconnects. Seti@home is one example (though maybe not a good example of an app that would run well on a computer with CPU's that rely on a "slow" interconnect to main memory).
Maybe this would be useful in some HPC environments where applications can be written to maximize the use of CPU cache, but the bandwidth of a PCI/8 or/16 slot is a fraction of what is available to a socketed CPU.
A core i7 has been clocked at 37GB/sec bandwidth, while PCIe/8 is good for 1.6GB/sec, and/16 is good for 3.2GB/sec
Is replacing the CPU socket with a PCIe card really worth giving up 90% of the memory bandwidth? I've never upgraded a CPU on a motherboard even when new generation CPU's are backwards compatible with the old motherboard since if I'm going to buy an expensive new CPU, I may as well spend the extra $75 and get a new motherboard to go along with it.
Likewise, by the time I'm ready to retire a 3 or 4 year old server in the datacenter, it's going to take more than a CPU upgrade to make it worth keeping.
Pretty sad that the focus of the article and medical attention seemed to be on using her genes for anti-ageing cosmetic treatments instead of curing her.
I think you're minimizing the research potential -- a way to slow or stop aging entirely, not just a mere cosmetic improvement.
The hard thing about developing a treatment for a disease that no one understands and only a single person has is that there's no real way to test the treatment except on the subject herself, and if you screw it up, that person suffers for no reason since the treatment isn't going to help the rest of the people with the disease. Is it worse to let her live out her life the way she was born than to try an experimental treatment that could kill her or at least alter her development in a way that makes her life worse?
I also found it at bit odd that she is shown in a pram (instead of say an adult wheelchair) and there is a baby cot in the background, these do not seem age appropriate, despite her lack of physical growth.
They said that she has the mental development of a toddler as well as the physical appearance, so why isn't it age appropriate to treat her as a toddler? If she had the mental development of an adult (or conversely if she had the body of an adult but mental development of a toddler), then it may not be appropriate to treat her as a child.
I just checked iTunes, The Avengers is mine to own for only $19.99! That's the reason I have spent exactly $0 on buying movies for the past several years.
I guess some people are ponying up $20 per movie, I'll never be one of them.
This is why I buy used DVD's, then rip them into DRM free digital copies that I can play at home, on my tablet, etc.
I'd probably do the same with CD's, since used CD's tend to cost a fraction of a digital download, but I haven't bought any music at all in years.
Is this going to be another "unlimited" service like Netflix that only has low-budget TV movies from 1982, or will this have a-la-carte options like Amazon with movies people might want to watch?
The movie industry will make sure that this service has a few choice movies that everyone wants to see and a lot of crap, but the "good" content won't overlap with Netflix's "good" content - they wouldn't want to get into a position where any content provider has enough market share to have leverage to negotiate good deals for content.
They'd rather have a fragmented market where no single player has much power.
For just under one penny, you can't even afford the bandwidth to distribute the content. That being said, yes I suspect that.99 cent downloads would stop piracy.
I think he was using Verizon Math and really meant $.99 or 99 cents.
Research at Farnborough in the 1990's indicated that if carbon fibre composite material is shattered in the absence of fire there will be little or no release of respirable fibres. If you burn carbon fibre composite material without subjecting it to high energy impact there will be little or no release of respirable fibres. However, if you subject carbon fibre composite material to high energy impact while simultaneously burning it with a high temperature flame - typically 1000C (typical aircraft crash conditions) significant quantities of respirable fibres may be released
Don't add them to Facebook, or put them in the appropriate group, with the appropriate privacy settings. Geez.
Or just treat Facebook "friends" as a collection of family and acquaintances and then treat your real friends as real friends. One doesn't *have* to use facebook to connect with friends.
There's no way I'd trust Facebook's evolving privacy settings to protect information that I share only with my real friends.
This is more likely their News Feed algorithm adjusting your stories to those it thinks "interest" you more. When I still had a Facebook account I was annoyed that my feed was only showing me stories from friends that I cared little or nothing about, yet showed nothing of the friend *I* felt I wanted to know about.
If you go directly to their Facebook page you'll probably see that they're still quite active on Facebook, but your feed is not showing it due to Facebook's algorithm selectively filtering their posts out of it.
Naa, I've checked their facebook pages, and aside from a few "Happy birthday grandma" type posts, most of their pages are empty.... I asked my nephew where he went since he used to post interesting sites of the day nearly every day - he said after his friends stopped using Facebook, he moved to Pineterest.
Young users are fickle and there's not much friction preventing them from moving around. Facebook wants to create that friction by providing an ecosystem so broad and useful that no one will want to leave, but few are wiling to invest that much effort into one platform - and even if someone wants to, they really need all of their friends to do so too to make it useful.
Rather than blowing it away outright (which some of the comments have done), let's think about it for a sec. There's some cool stuff going on here, and then a big question.
The cool stuff is the technology and innovation. Think about this for a sec - Facebook's engineers are essentially looking at a variety of signals to determine (a) intent and (b) likely outcome. The signals are getting increasingly complex - not simply keyword boolean queries any longer - and, to me, that's a fascinating growth and extension of technology. It's innovation.
It was innovation 10 years ago, now it's what everyone is doing -- Google doesn't do a simple SQL query in a big database to determine the results and ads you see for a query - they mine data from Gmail and their ad network and combine your personal preferences to determine relevance.
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The best way?
By that you mean just as dim and no 3D? That is a very odd definition of best.
Actually, that probably *is* the best way to watch most 3D films. Few 3D movies use 3D as more than a gimmick.
"3D glasses" are polarized sunglasses. Why do you think they are two separate things?
It's the orientation of the polarization that makes them different.
3D glasses have the polarization rotated 90 degrees between lenses.
Polarized sunglasses have the polarization oriented in the same direction.
You wouldn't want to wear 3D glasses while driving, because your vision would be different between your eyes - you'd see some reflected light with one eye and not the other.
And what do you think the technology behind 3D glasses is? Hint: polarization
Or red/blue color blocking, or LCD shutters. (which I guess technically rely on polarization, but that's not how they get the 3D effect - mechanical shutters would work just as well).
No. I just tried with a pair on my screen. On this Dell LCD is seems to increase the distance between the text and the glass(plastic)? So whatever polarized coating they use in manufacture, gives all of the head ache and none of the 3D effect.
HOWEVER! Just one lens is fine. So using two rights of lefts will be fine and is the best way to watch a 3D film.
Turn your screen 90 degrees and the polarized glasses should take care of 100% of the glare. On most LCD screens, it will make the image go completely black.
Which is always amusing when places use a monitor turned 90% as an information display - one bright sunny day we walked into a fast food restaurant and my wife asked me what I was going to order, while she pointed to the blank screens. I couldn't figure out how she was reading the menu until I remembered to take off my sunglasses.
What I don't know is whether monitor makers purposely chose a polarization direction that works well with glare reducing polarized sunglasses, or if it's just coincidence that the best polarization direction for a monitor also happens to be compatible with sunglasses.
You should have taken the calculation further. That works out to $180/year plus your $50 for the stick itself. I hate to burst Dell's bubble, but at $230 you can get a cheap desktop computer from any number of suppliers (think office machine with minimal 3D support) and own it. By the time you're into the second or third year, you've paid for a pretty nice machine compared to Ophelia.
I'm sure Dell's executives cream their pants when they think about raping the population for $15/month or more, but as Microsoft's earlier efforts with web-enabled software show, most customers aren't willing to sucker in for monthly fees unless they can write it off as a business expense.
You'll note that I quoted prices for an Amazon EC2 server running Win Server 2008 - who knows what Dell is going to charge for a home Win8 session?
But even at $15/month I think there's a market for this for home users that want a PC but don't want to maintain a PC (patch applications and OS, do backups (including offsite), etc).
I'm sure Dell's executives cream their pants when they think about raping the population for $15/month or more, but as Microsoft's earlier efforts with web-enabled software show, most customers aren't willing to sucker in for monthly fees unless they can write it off as a business expense.
If they are providing a service to users at a price they are willing to pay, why is it "raping the population"? Is a restaurant "raping" you when they charge you $30 for a steak that cost them $5? Are you being raped when you buy a $60 shirt that only has $2 of raw materials and cost $3 of offshore labor to make? You could cook your own steak or sew your own shirt at home for a fraction of what it costs in the store, but most people are willing to pay for the convenience of having someone else do that work.
And businesses don't want you stuffing their PC in your shirt pocket and taking it home with you for an untold number of legal, ethical, and control reasons.
That's funny, my employer issues everyone a laptop and encourages them to take the laptop home to do work - and they have a lot less control over what I do on my laptop than on what I do with a cloud based virtual PC.
Why would they be less likely to let me take a dumb terminal home that hosts no corporate data at all?
Oooh, this is a fun game.
Pi $35 (http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=43W5302)
Case $6.39 (http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=92T3300)
Wifi $9.99 (go with yours, or newark has one for the same price)
Bluetooth $5.56 (http://www.newark.com/dynamode/bt-usb-m2/adaptor-bluetooth-usb-class-1/dp/39T4089)
total: $56.94
So you came up with about the same price as me, for a device that's more comparable to Dell's device than a raw Pi with no case, and no wireless connectivity?
That gets you hardware that is presumably more powerful than what Dell is pushing (because it's not just a dumb terminal) and can be used to do other things than connect to Dell's cloud.
Why would you presume that a Pi is more powerful than the Dell when Dell hasn't released specs? Just because the Pi can be made to do anything you want doesn't mean that the majority of consumers want to have a device that they can load any software on -- many consumers want a device that they plug into their TV, and then 2 minutes later they enter their credit card number and suddenly they have MS Windows running on their TV. (the fact that it's "in the cloud" isn't relevant to many people. Oh, and Dell said that the device will have a local web browser and other apps, so you won't need to connect to the cloud for everything.
The $25 pi will bring that down to under $50.
But is the model A's 256M of RAM sufficient to run Wyse's thin client software? Oh, and don't forget to add in the cost of a USB hub since the Model A has only one USB port.
Integrating the wifi onto the board and dropping all the other ports the pi has would also reduce the price considerably. And there's no way Dell pays $6 for plastic boxes in volume.
If a bunch of amateurs and small volume companies can offer that price, with considerably more capability,
The Rasberry Pi was designed by a non-profit with mostly unpaid employees to be as affordable as possible - why do you think Dell's designers can come up with a new design more cheaply than a team of unpaid engineers?
$50 for Dell's loss leader hardware for their cloud service is a pretty crappy deal. They should be giving you the thing for free.
If they gave it out for free, then they be giving thousands of them to geeks that just want a free Android device.
And "Dell's software?" VNC clients are free. Sorry, I meant VNC clients that don't send your data through Dell's cloud for perusal.
VNC may be free, but it's not going to offer the same performance and features as Wyse's thin client software.
It's clear that you're not a candidate for their offering, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad product for their target market. Some people will welcome a tiny device they can plug into the back of their TV and act like a full-size desktop PC. One potential audience would be the business traveler that no longer needs to carry a laptop with him, he can just carry this device in his pocket and plug it into the hotel TV (where they also provide a bluetooth keyboard), the business center PC at the airport, and when he goes to the client to give a presentation, he can plug it into the MHL port on his client's projector. And since it's integrated with Wyse's Cloud Client Manager software, the employee's IT department can manage it remotely.
even better, when they screw up and delete something they did not mean to, and go looking for it later, they have someone to blame
Or they could just look in the "Trash" folder at their cloud provider. Google Drive retains "Trash" items indefinitely until you choose to empty the trash folder.
If I'm editing a document and accidentally screw it up, I can just revert to a previous version.
I use Google Docs almost exclusively for creating documents even though I have MS Office and Libre Office readily available, and I have a reasonable backup policy for my home computers, including offsite backups. I use Google Docs more because the docs are available anywhere.
Actually, $50 is kind of a ridiculously high price for this. A raspberry pi is $25 and can do more than act as a dumb terminal.
Dell isn't going to reinvent itself by convincing everyone to stop buying $300 laptops from them and start buying $50 USB sticks. They're going to have to charge a decent amount for service.
$41.99 - Rasberry Pi with enclosure
$9.99 - Rasberry Pi Wifi adapbter
$7.99 - Mini bluetooth adapter
Total: $59.97, not including Dell's software.
They're going to have to charge a decent amount for service
Well yeah, that's the point - to get out of selling low-margin laptops and get into a higher margin service business.
It's a lot less seamless over a celluar Mifi device, but still usable.
I don't see why this device wouldn't be usable.
I'm under the impression that the the cellular data bill (assuming the U.S. market, where Dell and Dice are headquartered) would make it cost prohibitive.
I have no idea how much my work pays for my Mifi, so I was commenting on the usability of RDP over cell, not the price, but I think few people will have an HD TV without also having a hardwired internet connection.
They expect me to do serious "desktop work" via portable high-latency device in the 'cloud' environment using Android?
Why do you care what operating system runs on the device? You're doing your work on the desktop running on the cloud, the Dell box is just the display for that remote cloud desktop. It coudl be Android, IOS, WebOS, or even a new DellOS and it shouldn't make any difference at all to the end user.
The two biggest roadblocks to Ophelia - besides most LCD's not supporting this type of USB connection - is licensing these multiple OS's on the cloud and the inherent latencies that are going to hound such a small CPU while it tries to handle graphics, WiFi & Bluetooth network stacks and the throughput of data. $50 is a wonderful price for the hardware. What will the services end of this product cost?
Amazon will rent you an entire virtual Win Server 2008 server for around 12 cents/hour - presumably desktop pricing would be lower, but if a typical home user uses their desktop for 4 hours/day, that's around $15/month at 12 cents/hour.
I can't be the only one who's creeped out about this. All my data in "the cloud"... I know, I know, it's been going on for years, but me, I like my data on my own machine away from anyone else. The is just more devolution of the power of the individual & transferring it to others, who may not necessarily have the individual's best interests in mind. Keep your little machine Dell.
You may not be the only one who's afraid of the cloud, but for most people, their data is safer in the "cloud" than it is at home on their old PC that has no backups. It could even be safer against hack attacks if the provider keeps applications patched so no one is still running a buggy unpatched MSIE 6 on WinXP.
PCs are cumbersome, heavy and slow. Ophelia provides a computer experience as typical and fast as any other computer -- again, everything depends on the Internet connection -- but at a fraction of the weight. PCs can’t fit in your pocket; Ophelia can. Heck, you could probably stick anywhere between two to five of those computers into a normal pants pocket.
1.) Talk about hyperbole, batman.
2.) I imagine the lag will be horrendous.
3.) Over wireless?
I regularly VPN over my home Wifi connection to work and run Windows remotely via rdp and it works quite well. Not quite as snappy as a long machine, but works well enough that I don't bother to bring my Windows laptop home to do work, I just remote into the terminal server at work.
It's a lot less seamless over a celluar Mifi device, but still usable.
I don't see why this device wouldn't be usable.
Or in other words "You're giving us too much work. Here, we're making it so we only have to answer like... 3 things a year."
Y'know guys... if there's an overwhelming number of petitions to dramatically change things, maybe, just maybe, you should consider actually fixing shit that's constantly being petitioned about instead of saying "no, fuck you", and closing the petition.
There are 150M registered voters in the USA (out of around 200M eligible voters). Raising the petition limit to 0.067% of registered voters doesn't seem out of line and helps keep down the noise to allow more thorough answers to the petitions that do make the cut.
<quote>Maybe this would be useful in some HPC environments where applications can be written to maximize the use of CPU cache,,</quote>
Actually, it would be murder on HPC applications, which generally rely on quality inter-node communication to acheive high scale.
Not all HPC applications are the same and don't always require fast interconnects. Seti@home is one example (though maybe not a good example of an app that would run well on a computer with CPU's that rely on a "slow" interconnect to main memory).
Maybe this would be useful in some HPC environments where applications can be written to maximize the use of CPU cache, but the bandwidth of a PCI /8 or /16 slot is a fraction of what is available to a socketed CPU.
A core i7 has been clocked at 37GB/sec bandwidth, while PCIe /8 is good for 1.6GB/sec, and /16 is good for 3.2GB/sec
Is replacing the CPU socket with a PCIe card really worth giving up 90% of the memory bandwidth? I've never upgraded a CPU on a motherboard even when new generation CPU's are backwards compatible with the old motherboard since if I'm going to buy an expensive new CPU, I may as well spend the extra $75 and get a new motherboard to go along with it.
Likewise, by the time I'm ready to retire a 3 or 4 year old server in the datacenter, it's going to take more than a CPU upgrade to make it worth keeping.
Pretty sad that the focus of the article and medical attention seemed to be on using her genes for anti-ageing cosmetic treatments instead of curing her.
I think you're minimizing the research potential -- a way to slow or stop aging entirely, not just a mere cosmetic improvement.
The hard thing about developing a treatment for a disease that no one understands and only a single person has is that there's no real way to test the treatment except on the subject herself, and if you screw it up, that person suffers for no reason since the treatment isn't going to help the rest of the people with the disease. Is it worse to let her live out her life the way she was born than to try an experimental treatment that could kill her or at least alter her development in a way that makes her life worse?
I also found it at bit odd that she is shown in a pram (instead of say an adult wheelchair) and there is a baby cot in the background, these do not seem age appropriate, despite her lack of physical growth.
They said that she has the mental development of a toddler as well as the physical appearance, so why isn't it age appropriate to treat her as a toddler? If she had the mental development of an adult (or conversely if she had the body of an adult but mental development of a toddler), then it may not be appropriate to treat her as a child.
Well maybe not 99c.
I just checked iTunes, The Avengers is mine to own for only $19.99! That's the reason I have spent exactly $0 on buying movies for the past several years.
I guess some people are ponying up $20 per movie, I'll never be one of them.
This is why I buy used DVD's, then rip them into DRM free digital copies that I can play at home, on my tablet, etc.
I'd probably do the same with CD's, since used CD's tend to cost a fraction of a digital download, but I haven't bought any music at all in years.
Is this going to be another "unlimited" service like Netflix that only has low-budget TV movies from 1982, or will this have a-la-carte options like Amazon with movies people might want to watch?
The movie industry will make sure that this service has a few choice movies that everyone wants to see and a lot of crap, but the "good" content won't overlap with Netflix's "good" content - they wouldn't want to get into a position where any content provider has enough market share to have leverage to negotiate good deals for content.
They'd rather have a fragmented market where no single player has much power.
Full 1080p (or 4320p-3D in the near future.) drm free videos for just 0.99c will stop 99.9% of piracy. Also Blockbuster just gone into administration in the UK
For just under one penny, you can't even afford the bandwidth to distribute the content. That being said, yes I suspect that .99 cent downloads would stop piracy.
I think he was using Verizon Math and really meant $.99 or 99 cents.
Will not a fire light it up like a briquette?
Yeah yeah, it's "compressed graphite", or whatever the euphemism is for the material.
It appears that the bigger danger in a crash (to both the rescue workers and any survivors) is inhaling carbon fibers:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news/dangers-of-carbon-fibre-debris-from-aircraft-crashes-exposed/3306
Research at Farnborough in the 1990's indicated that if carbon fibre composite material is shattered in the absence of fire there will be little or no release of respirable fibres. If you burn carbon fibre composite material without subjecting it to high energy impact there will be little or no release of respirable fibres. However, if you subject carbon fibre composite material to high energy impact while simultaneously burning it with a high temperature flame - typically 1000C (typical aircraft crash conditions) significant quantities of respirable fibres may be released
How can 10% of a server farm go to that? if(notallowed(X,Y)) { etc
How is that notallowed() function written?
boggles my mind. Maybe I am alone and the Ubercoders at FB really can spend 10% of quality CPU time satisfying that func().
H.
Facebook processes more than 500TB of data a day, and has over 100PB in its Hadoop cluster.
Maybe a simple notallowed() function doesn't scale linearly across many PB of data.
Don't add them to Facebook, or put them in the appropriate group, with the appropriate privacy settings. Geez.
Or just treat Facebook "friends" as a collection of family and acquaintances and then treat your real friends as real friends. One doesn't *have* to use facebook to connect with friends.
There's no way I'd trust Facebook's evolving privacy settings to protect information that I share only with my real friends.
This is more likely their News Feed algorithm adjusting your stories to those it thinks "interest" you more. When I still had a Facebook account I was annoyed that my feed was only showing me stories from friends that I cared little or nothing about, yet showed nothing of the friend *I* felt I wanted to know about.
If you go directly to their Facebook page you'll probably see that they're still quite active on Facebook, but your feed is not showing it due to Facebook's algorithm selectively filtering their posts out of it.
Naa, I've checked their facebook pages, and aside from a few "Happy birthday grandma" type posts, most of their pages are empty.... I asked my nephew where he went since he used to post interesting sites of the day nearly every day - he said after his friends stopped using Facebook, he moved to Pineterest.
Young users are fickle and there's not much friction preventing them from moving around. Facebook wants to create that friction by providing an ecosystem so broad and useful that no one will want to leave, but few are wiling to invest that much effort into one platform - and even if someone wants to, they really need all of their friends to do so too to make it useful.
Rather than blowing it away outright (which some of the comments have done), let's think about it for a sec. There's some cool stuff going on here, and then a big question.
The cool stuff is the technology and innovation. Think about this for a sec - Facebook's engineers are essentially looking at a variety of signals to determine (a) intent and (b) likely outcome. The signals are getting increasingly complex - not simply keyword boolean queries any longer - and, to me, that's a fascinating growth and extension of technology. It's innovation.
It was innovation 10 years ago, now it's what everyone is doing -- Google doesn't do a simple SQL query in a big database to determine the results and ads you see for a query - they mine data from Gmail and their ad network and combine your personal preferences to determine relevance.