I don't know about them, but I'd be worried about the interest of the authorities if I was walking around wearing this. You might get mistaken for a terrorist or some such. Its definately a cool idea, but it would be even cooler if it could be done in an inconspicuous manner, though that might be tough with the antenna.
Another thing is that the location of some places changes at times too. Most of the time Moe's is downtown, or at least a decent distance from the Simpson house, while in another episode its just doen the block on the same street.
If you want libertarian support, don't lobby to get a law passed to legalize it, lobby to get the law making it illegal repealed.;) Subtle difference, but I'd rather the government not tell me what I can't do, than specify what I CAN do.
Not to mention ANYTHING involving 3D graphics, uses very large amounts of linear algebra. And as you get more involved, with physics, collision detection, etc, calculus and statistics can come into play heavily as well.
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In the Prius the gas motor provides power as you said, but in high toque situations it can augment the power of the electric motor with the gas motor as well. Often times this is during higher speed driving (passing on the highway), hence why the car gets such incredible city milage versus only getting outstanding highway milage.
THIS LINK provides a description of how the Prius' drivetrain uses the gas and electric motors in tandem.
Don't forget AIM and ICQ. With this deal MS would control all 3 client bases. The move to interoperability could be nice, but at the same time yahoo and whoever else are left out in the cold, and this provides a HUGE userbase for MS in the instant messageing arena.
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I thought one of the arguments for crashing the Gallileo probe into Jupiter, was that they didn't want to leave it in orbit and risk having it crash into Europa, where there may be life. Deciding to drill a probe into Europa would seem to be just as risky with regard to contamination.
Forget about radation for a minute, and just think about the microbes that may still be on the probe from earth? Any chance these to be introduced onto Europa? Perhaps if there wasn't life before, we would introduce it.
In either case I find it odd that previous missions would go to extreme measure to avoid contaminating Europa and this mission plans to flat out do it on purpose.
The specific issue isn't with the chip, though that will need some work to from what I hear. The big key is the OS, and surrounding hardware. All of the highend chips have been designed with scaling in mind, as well as their interface to the system as a whole. All of this could be taken into consideration with x86, but it will take time and market acceptence. Additionally on the high end you still see better numbers out of the pricier chips, if only 5%-10%, this is the kind of stuff high end customers will pay for.
My primary point was that Intel will be pushing Itanium for a good length of time still.
I forsee Intel continuing to tell its investors this for a good long while, as these x86-64 chips will NOT be making the push into enterprise "class" systems. Since the x86 architecture does not scale well beyond 4 processors or so, you will only really see these in entry level servers. The big systems, 16, 32, 64, 128 CPUs are what Itanium is meant for. Yes there is interest in selling Itanium on the low end, just as PA-RISC, POWER4, SPARC, are sold in 2 CPU and 4 CPU configurations, however the target behind the design is scaling, in order to have those large systems. At no point in the near future will x86-64 be even considered for that roll.
Trolling, but I'll bite. I'd be interested in seeing these industry benchmarks. Just yesterday I was looking for some Oracle info, and the very first thing on their front page is their release on how using Linux on Itanium they have set performance records. Additionally Itanium is leading in most or all spec benchmarks. The last generation Itanium processors had some serious speed issues, but I think perhaps you haven't kept up to date on the performance numbers. Otherwise I'd be interested in seeing links to some of the numbers you HAVE seen lately.
I think this is a problem of human evolution versus current technology. Currently a person can buy a coat to keep their core nice and toasty, but extremeties (hands, feet, ears) are much more sucessptible to the elements. In this case the device is pulling heat away from an area that is easily insulated, to heat an area that is difficult to insulate.
Additionally this could be very handy for jobs that require people to be outdoors, yet use their hands. In the recent cold spell here in New England, I felt terrible for the toll collectors, construction workers, and police who could bundle up, but still couldn't wear heavy heavy gloves since they needed to use their hands. This technology would allow for a very light weight set of gloves that would allow mobility of the hands, while insulating the rest of the body as mush as needed.
Well Linus could make sense in that context. As mentioned in the article, as the one overseeing much of the direction Linux takes, he is in a unique position to provide information with regard to IBM's Linux submissions. This could directly impact the lawsuit claiming IBM breached its contract. The rest though, seem like the result of an angry child flailing about for being put in its place.
Two points. 1) Gates is no longer the CEO of MS, thats Balmer these days. 2) Gates' salary is actually quite small, his massive fortune comes from his millions of shares of the company, which as CEO, he guided to be quite profitable.
This arguably is support to the massive stock incentives for CEOs these days, though somehow it seems not to work this way in most cases. There are several CEOs who are paid on this model, where they get a token salary of $1.00 and thousands of shares of stock per year. As a side note, Gates' shares come from the fact that he was an initial owner of the company, not from options granted after the fact.
I was curious as to whether my router was affected so I figured that the best approach was to contact their customer support. I've currently filed an issue regarding a known bug, that could make my router insecure and I want to know if I'm affected. I went on to say that if I was affected I expect immediate action or they can expect to never get my business again, and that I would never recommend their product. I stopped short of accussing them of outright fraud, though if they aren't at least forthcoming with information about whether I'm vulnerable, that is an option. If I hear back with a list of product numbers I will post it here.
Does anyone know the specific part numbers of the compromised routers? Is this a firmware issue, or a hardware issue? Basically how can I know if I'm affected, and should demand my money back.
Has anyone considered filing a consumer complaint against Belkin for selling known defective equipment. Assuming Belkin is located out of CA (don't know offhand), but someone should file and then anyone else with Belkin equipment can file as well, and reference the initial issue. The better business bureau or whoever takes care of these things could then investigate and potentially take legal action against Belkin for committing fraud to its customers. Long shot, but filing complaints can't hurt. I'm seriously considering it, as I now have no idea how much I can trust the router sitting in my apartment.
I think HP has a lead on you. At last check they had both the 15 (HP) and 16 (DEC) Class A's and a few class B's. So thats a whole lot of the total address space right there. Better start buying up old tech companies:) Among others that I can recall IBM, MIT, and Berkley also had class A's.
This point was somewhat unclear in the article. He mentions how assignment has moved away from the class licenses, but as far as I know, HP anyway, still maintains control over all of the 15 and 16 addresses. I believe something like 1/4 of the total address space was allocated to companies and organizations (DARPA, etc) initially. Though this may have changed in the last year or two, if so please feel free to correct me.
I don't think the intent is to be more cost effective that the giant plants. I think is meant to be cost effective purely for issolated communities, where there is an increase in cost per KW. The article mentions that the cost per W is higher than someplace like anchorage would have, but because of the cost of transporting 700,000 gallons of deisel fuel to isolated parts of Alaska for this village, the price was much cheaper with this reactor. In my opinion, anything that can be placed in a few dozen isolated villages and save millions of gallons of fuel, AND money, is a good thing. The only discrepancy seems to be that Toshiba said they can build an maintain one of these reactors for $20 Million, which may throw off some of your calculations.
Except that its in a hardened, sealed concrete enclosure, meaning there would be no way to access the material short of digging it up, and then using a jackhammer and doing some welding to get inside the facility. On top of this you'd have to shut the reactor down, so you'd have an entire village that knows something is up. Add to that that this is NON-WEAPONS grade Uranium, and there is much less motivation. If a bad guy wanted just plane radioactive material there are far far far easier ways to get a hold of it, than these reactors.
According to the periodic table that is linked in the summary, it seems as if 118 HAS been discovered (created?). Whether the sample lasted long enough to test any of the properties is another story. What I'd be interested to see, is whether there is any work on creating stable large elements. I'll admit my chemistry knowledge is probably 7 years our of date at best, but wasn't there talk at one time, of elements over 118 possibly being stable (last longer than a few microseconds)? I'd be interested to know what kind of analysis they are trying to do on these atoms once they create them.
Not just the EFF. According to this from CNN, the students advisor is Ed Felten. This could bring serious clout and backing from a number of organizations to his aid. It also lends a good deal of legitimacy in the public eye, with regard to his motives in conducting this research.
The funny thing I just noticed in reading the CNN article about this is that his advisor is Ed Felten;) To quote the article directly, "Halderman's graduate advisor at Princeton is Ed Felten, a computer science professor who once sued the Recording Industry Association of America in a challenge to the constitutionality of the DMCA." Looks like he could probably bring in Felten's clout as well in getting legal backing for his case.
Its not legislated, but this is supposed to be how it works anyway. Enforcment is voluntary in the end, but I know that ever major video game retailer that I've used in the last year or so (Metro Boston area) enforces the 17+ purchase age for M rated games. I have friends who've worked at some of these stores (Game Stop, EB mostly), and they explain a rather big corporate push toward this, to the extent that they will be fired rather quickly for not enforcing the purchase restrictions. I would imagine that Walmart, Best Buy and the likes, would also have such a policy. All that being said, the issue with legislation would be the fact that a government organization would need to issue the rating in that case instead of the industry, and then the process would be open to much more political pressure, which could sour the whole deal. If there was a way to legislate enforcement of the current ratings, but with the same industry organization doing the rating, I doubt that most ordinary/.ers would have too much of a problem with this. Similar to why I doubt many/.ers have a problem with an 18+ cigarette limit.
Someone queue the Barry White, its Baby Making time. Or for those less inclined, or lacking a significant other, I guess you could always cower in a corner with no/. and no quake, and no email:)
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I don't know about them, but I'd be worried about the interest of the authorities if I was walking around wearing this. You might get mistaken for a terrorist or some such. Its definately a cool idea, but it would be even cooler if it could be done in an inconspicuous manner, though that might be tough with the antenna.
Another thing is that the location of some places changes at times too. Most of the time Moe's is downtown, or at least a decent distance from the Simpson house, while in another episode its just doen the block on the same street.
If you want libertarian support, don't lobby to get a law passed to legalize it, lobby to get the law making it illegal repealed. ;) Subtle difference, but I'd rather the government not tell me what I can't do, than specify what I CAN do.
Not to mention ANYTHING involving 3D graphics, uses very large amounts of linear algebra. And as you get more involved, with physics, collision detection, etc, calculus and statistics can come into play heavily as well.
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THIS LINK provides a description of how the Prius' drivetrain uses the gas and electric motors in tandem.
So short it on its initial offer. If you're gonna read the IPO one way or the other, you can still try to win off of it.
Don't forget AIM and ICQ. With this deal MS would control all 3 client bases. The move to interoperability could be nice, but at the same time yahoo and whoever else are left out in the cold, and this provides a HUGE userbase for MS in the instant messageing arena.
I thought one of the arguments for crashing the Gallileo probe into Jupiter, was that they didn't want to leave it in orbit and risk having it crash into Europa, where there may be life. Deciding to drill a probe into Europa would seem to be just as risky with regard to contamination.
Forget about radation for a minute, and just think about the microbes that may still be on the probe from earth? Any chance these to be introduced onto Europa? Perhaps if there wasn't life before, we would introduce it.
In either case I find it odd that previous missions would go to extreme measure to avoid contaminating Europa and this mission plans to flat out do it on purpose.
The specific issue isn't with the chip, though that will need some work to from what I hear. The big key is the OS, and surrounding hardware. All of the highend chips have been designed with scaling in mind, as well as their interface to the system as a whole. All of this could be taken into consideration with x86, but it will take time and market acceptence. Additionally on the high end you still see better numbers out of the pricier chips, if only 5%-10%, this is the kind of stuff high end customers will pay for.
My primary point was that Intel will be pushing Itanium for a good length of time still.
I forsee Intel continuing to tell its investors this for a good long while, as these x86-64 chips will NOT be making the push into enterprise "class" systems. Since the x86 architecture does not scale well beyond 4 processors or so, you will only really see these in entry level servers. The big systems, 16, 32, 64, 128 CPUs are what Itanium is meant for. Yes there is interest in selling Itanium on the low end, just as PA-RISC, POWER4, SPARC, are sold in 2 CPU and 4 CPU configurations, however the target behind the design is scaling, in order to have those large systems. At no point in the near future will x86-64 be even considered for that roll.
Trolling, but I'll bite. I'd be interested in seeing these industry benchmarks. Just yesterday I was looking for some Oracle info, and the very first thing on their front page is their release on how using Linux on Itanium they have set performance records. Additionally Itanium is leading in most or all spec benchmarks. The last generation Itanium processors had some serious speed issues, but I think perhaps you haven't kept up to date on the performance numbers. Otherwise I'd be interested in seeing links to some of the numbers you HAVE seen lately.
I think this is a problem of human evolution versus current technology. Currently a person can buy a coat to keep their core nice and toasty, but extremeties (hands, feet, ears) are much more sucessptible to the elements. In this case the device is pulling heat away from an area that is easily insulated, to heat an area that is difficult to insulate.
Additionally this could be very handy for jobs that require people to be outdoors, yet use their hands. In the recent cold spell here in New England, I felt terrible for the toll collectors, construction workers, and police who could bundle up, but still couldn't wear heavy heavy gloves since they needed to use their hands. This technology would allow for a very light weight set of gloves that would allow mobility of the hands, while insulating the rest of the body as mush as needed.
Well Linus could make sense in that context. As mentioned in the article, as the one overseeing much of the direction Linux takes, he is in a unique position to provide information with regard to IBM's Linux submissions. This could directly impact the lawsuit claiming IBM breached its contract. The rest though, seem like the result of an angry child flailing about for being put in its place.
Two points. 1) Gates is no longer the CEO of MS, thats Balmer these days. 2) Gates' salary is actually quite small, his massive fortune comes from his millions of shares of the company, which as CEO, he guided to be quite profitable.
This arguably is support to the massive stock incentives for CEOs these days, though somehow it seems not to work this way in most cases. There are several CEOs who are paid on this model, where they get a token salary of $1.00 and thousands of shares of stock per year. As a side note, Gates' shares come from the fact that he was an initial owner of the company, not from options granted after the fact.
I was curious as to whether my router was affected so I figured that the best approach was to contact their customer support. I've currently filed an issue regarding a known bug, that could make my router insecure and I want to know if I'm affected. I went on to say that if I was affected I expect immediate action or they can expect to never get my business again, and that I would never recommend their product. I stopped short of accussing them of outright fraud, though if they aren't at least forthcoming with information about whether I'm vulnerable, that is an option. If I hear back with a list of product numbers I will post it here.
Does anyone know the specific part numbers of the compromised routers? Is this a firmware issue, or a hardware issue? Basically how can I know if I'm affected, and should demand my money back.
Has anyone considered filing a consumer complaint against Belkin for selling known defective equipment. Assuming Belkin is located out of CA (don't know offhand), but someone should file and then anyone else with Belkin equipment can file as well, and reference the initial issue. The better business bureau or whoever takes care of these things could then investigate and potentially take legal action against Belkin for committing fraud to its customers. Long shot, but filing complaints can't hurt. I'm seriously considering it, as I now have no idea how much I can trust the router sitting in my apartment.
I think HP has a lead on you. At last check they had both the 15 (HP) and 16 (DEC) Class A's and a few class B's. So thats a whole lot of the total address space right there. Better start buying up old tech companies :) Among others that I can recall IBM, MIT, and Berkley also had class A's.
This point was somewhat unclear in the article. He mentions how assignment has moved away from the class licenses, but as far as I know, HP anyway, still maintains control over all of the 15 and 16 addresses. I believe something like 1/4 of the total address space was allocated to companies and organizations (DARPA, etc) initially. Though this may have changed in the last year or two, if so please feel free to correct me.
I don't think the intent is to be more cost effective that the giant plants. I think is meant to be cost effective purely for issolated communities, where there is an increase in cost per KW. The article mentions that the cost per W is higher than someplace like anchorage would have, but because of the cost of transporting 700,000 gallons of deisel fuel to isolated parts of Alaska for this village, the price was much cheaper with this reactor. In my opinion, anything that can be placed in a few dozen isolated villages and save millions of gallons of fuel, AND money, is a good thing. The only discrepancy seems to be that Toshiba said they can build an maintain one of these reactors for $20 Million, which may throw off some of your calculations.
Except that its in a hardened, sealed concrete enclosure, meaning there would be no way to access the material short of digging it up, and then using a jackhammer and doing some welding to get inside the facility. On top of this you'd have to shut the reactor down, so you'd have an entire village that knows something is up. Add to that that this is NON-WEAPONS grade Uranium, and there is much less motivation. If a bad guy wanted just plane radioactive material there are far far far easier ways to get a hold of it, than these reactors.
According to the periodic table that is linked in the summary, it seems as if 118 HAS been discovered (created?). Whether the sample lasted long enough to test any of the properties is another story. What I'd be interested to see, is whether there is any work on creating stable large elements. I'll admit my chemistry knowledge is probably 7 years our of date at best, but wasn't there talk at one time, of elements over 118 possibly being stable (last longer than a few microseconds)? I'd be interested to know what kind of analysis they are trying to do on these atoms once they create them.
Not just the EFF. According to this from CNN, the students advisor is Ed Felten. This could bring serious clout and backing from a number of organizations to his aid. It also lends a good deal of legitimacy in the public eye, with regard to his motives in conducting this research.
The funny thing I just noticed in reading the CNN article about this is that his advisor is Ed Felten ;) To quote the article directly, "Halderman's graduate advisor at Princeton is Ed Felten, a computer science professor who once sued the Recording Industry Association of America in a challenge to the constitutionality of the DMCA." Looks like he could probably bring in Felten's clout as well in getting legal backing for his case.
Its not legislated, but this is supposed to be how it works anyway. Enforcment is voluntary in the end, but I know that ever major video game retailer that I've used in the last year or so (Metro Boston area) enforces the 17+ purchase age for M rated games. I have friends who've worked at some of these stores (Game Stop, EB mostly), and they explain a rather big corporate push toward this, to the extent that they will be fired rather quickly for not enforcing the purchase restrictions. I would imagine that Walmart, Best Buy and the likes, would also have such a policy. All that being said, the issue with legislation would be the fact that a government organization would need to issue the rating in that case instead of the industry, and then the process would be open to much more political pressure, which could sour the whole deal. If there was a way to legislate enforcement of the current ratings, but with the same industry organization doing the rating, I doubt that most ordinary /.ers would have too much of a problem with this. Similar to why I doubt many /.ers have a problem with an 18+ cigarette limit.
Someone queue the Barry White, its Baby Making time. Or for those less inclined, or lacking a significant other, I guess you could always cower in a corner with no /. and no quake, and no email :)