My thinkpad W510 (last year's top-of-the-line model) still have it strangely enough. Not only does it waste precious precious port real estate, but I mistook it for an ethernet port multiple times.
That chart only covers the ice-core data, which doesn't include the past few hundred years. Google "CO2 ppmv" and "methane ppbv" and you'll see that the current levels are off the charts. I've even graphed it out for you here. Sorry about my shitty photoshop skills.
I don't buy this GPS spoofing theory because if they had spoofing technology they could've landed it in an airfield, thus avoiding the damage to the bottom side.
My bad. I must've confused FPGA with GPGPU. My apologies.
JPMorgan is indeed one of the first places to mass deploy clusters with FPGA co-processors. The technology isn't new per se, but they are still pioneers in terms of scale.
It's been envisioned, implemented, and commerialized a long time ago. You can buy a duel socket AMD board, and put in an AMD CPU in one socket and a FPGA co-processor in the other socket. That was 5 years ago.
Quite a few supercomputers on top500 have the above mentioned configuration. JPMorgan is very late to the party.
You're probably wondering why every desktop, laptop, and smartphone doesn't come with this wonderful technology already, and there are many many reasons for that:
- FPGA programming is difficult, and it's a much rarer talent than software programming
- The FPGA industry is currently a duopoly and combined that with the small market of FPGAs means that the price is too high for consumer electronics
- Specialized functionality can always be more cheaply implemented in ASICs (cryptographic co-processors, new instructions in CPUs, H264 decoding ASICs)
- The chicken and egg problem. Developers won't start hiring FPGA programmers en masse until there are enough machines out there with FPGA co-processors installed. And people won't start buying FPGA co-processors until their favorite program supported co-processor acceleration.
Wrong. The P-code is the encrypted GPS signal. P-code != military because:
1. Non-military government agencies can also use the P-code (NASA,CIA).
2. Some military assets do not use P-code (this drone).
When the vehicle arrives, the autonomous instruction may tell it to wait in the location for a predetermined amount of time, for example 5 minutes. The instruction may then direct the vehicle to drive to the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park and again wait for 5 minutes.
Finally we've found the answer to the all-important question: "How long does the first sentient AI wait before annihilating humanity?".
Well, getting people's personal data voluntarily (well, okay, via semi-blackmail) is one way to reduce the workload for your legal staff.
I just increased their workload by a dozen names:
Oliver Clothesoff
Al Coholic
Jacques Strap
Seymour Butz
Homer Sexual
Mike Rotch
Hugh Jass
Amanda Huggenkiss
Anita Bath
Ivana Tinkle
Maya Buttreek
Yuri Nater
It would take me less than an hour to write a.torrent file crawler and a modified bittorrent client that kept on connecting to different trackers and requesting different torrents. I'm sure there are hundreds of code gurus on/. that could do this trivial task in half the time.
Dear courts and judges:
Connecting to a tracker != copyright infringement
Requesting a block from a peer != copyright infringement (for all we know the ISP could've used DPI to drop that packet)
Applying for a search warrant, getting it signed by a judge, and then legally seizing the computer as evidence is the only way to prove that someone committed copyright infringement. Anything less is just hearsay.
Then there is the intense gravitational field of Jupiter, which will require a lot of fuel to get into Jovian and then Europan orbit. (It's equivalent to traveling amongst the inner planets!)
Can someone please explain why a strong gravitational field would require more fuel? Wouldn't a stronger pull require less fuel to get there since the Jovian gravity is pulling you there?
As to the EPA, what would you do about that? Go back to the 1960s when you couldn't drive past a Monsanto with the windows rolled down, and where rivers are so polluted they catch fire?
How about attaching tarriffs to products from countries without these regs?
Now, to you -- why do you share a distatse for unions? Are you an employer who exploits his workers or otherwise treats them bad? The only way you're going to get your shop unionized is to treat your workers like shit. As a former CEO of a (then) nonunion airline put it, "any company that gets a union deserves one."
Unions brought us weekends, vacations, safe working conditions, sick leave, fair pay... note that all these things are dying today, right along with the unions.
If you work for someone else and have a distaste for unions, you've been brainwashed. The only people with a rational distaste for unions is an employer who treats his workforce badly.
I worked in an unionized environment once and had to literally beg some co-workers to do their work so that I can finish mine. The most senior union members pretty much do nothing except collecting paychecks.
I realize it's not rational to generalize my personal experience towards unions in general but then again emotions aren't rational either.
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Since China is a democratic country
This earned a "(Score:5, Insightful)" on slashdot? Really? Wow.
You have to remember that most Chinese actually positively agree about limiting free speech.
Which is why they constantly speak of magical creatures like the River Crab, the Grass Mud Horse, and the Small Elegant Butterfly.
Just try yelling fire in a crowded theater.
I'm not aware of any US laws that prohibit the reporting of theater fires. Justice Holmes' actual words were "falsely shouting fire in a theater".
My thinkpad W510 (last year's top-of-the-line model) still have it strangely enough. Not only does it waste precious precious port real estate, but I mistook it for an ethernet port multiple times.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to. Which google product are you accusing?
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080423_methane.html
That chart only covers the ice-core data, which doesn't include the past few hundred years. Google "CO2 ppmv" and "methane ppbv" and you'll see that the current levels are off the charts. I've even graphed it out for you here. Sorry about my shitty photoshop skills.
with our current high period being an extended one
"Extended"? How about "off the charts"? The current ch4 concentration is 1745 ppbv, which is almost twice the peak on that chart.
and yes their are higher peeks
No, there hasn't been. This planet has not seen this much CO2 or methane in the past 400,000 years according to that graph.
why every desktop, laptop, and smartphone doesn't come with this wonderful technology already
I was talking about consumer products.
I don't buy this GPS spoofing theory because if they had spoofing technology they could've landed it in an airfield, thus avoiding the damage to the bottom side.
My bad. I must've confused FPGA with GPGPU. My apologies.
JPMorgan is indeed one of the first places to mass deploy clusters with FPGA co-processors. The technology isn't new per se, but they are still pioneers in terms of scale.
Remember: the big investment banks are dealing with numbers that cause spreadsheets to overflow.
Wow! They're using more than 65536 rows? Impressive!
It's been envisioned, implemented, and commerialized a long time ago. You can buy a duel socket AMD board, and put in an AMD CPU in one socket and a FPGA co-processor in the other socket. That was 5 years ago.
Quite a few supercomputers on top500 have the above mentioned configuration. JPMorgan is very late to the party.
You're probably wondering why every desktop, laptop, and smartphone doesn't come with this wonderful technology already, and there are many many reasons for that:
- FPGA programming is difficult, and it's a much rarer talent than software programming
- The FPGA industry is currently a duopoly and combined that with the small market of FPGAs means that the price is too high for consumer electronics
- Specialized functionality can always be more cheaply implemented in ASICs (cryptographic co-processors, new instructions in CPUs, H264 decoding ASICs)
- The chicken and egg problem. Developers won't start hiring FPGA programmers en masse until there are enough machines out there with FPGA co-processors installed. And people won't start buying FPGA co-processors until their favorite program supported co-processor acceleration.
GPU ALU have a limited set of operations. Their calculation probably uses operations outside of that set.
The Bad Astronomer writes
Bad is quite the understatement here, considering that this story is over 2000 years old.
The military GPS signals are encrypted
Wrong. The P-code is the encrypted GPS signal. P-code != military because:
1. Non-military government agencies can also use the P-code (NASA,CIA).
2. Some military assets do not use P-code (this drone).
When the vehicle arrives, the autonomous instruction may tell it to wait in the location for a predetermined amount of time, for example 5 minutes. The instruction may then direct the vehicle to drive to the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park and again wait for 5 minutes.
Finally we've found the answer to the all-important question: "How long does the first sentient AI wait before annihilating humanity?".
2. Surely there's some episode of Knight rider where Michael told KITT to wait until a predetermined time to take some action.
I'm pretty sure fiction doesn't count as prior art. Or did I just get wooshed?
All of the tea party protests were back in 2009 and 2010.
If only there was list of fatal shootings by the British police out there that could dispel your ignorance...
but offers no corresponding penalties for rightsholders who make too many false claims of ownership
That's just like our legal system then!
Well, getting people's personal data voluntarily (well, okay, via semi-blackmail) is one way to reduce the workload for your legal staff.
I just increased their workload by a dozen names:
Oliver Clothesoff
Al Coholic
Jacques Strap
Seymour Butz
Homer Sexual
Mike Rotch
Hugh Jass
Amanda Huggenkiss
Anita Bath
Ivana Tinkle
Maya Buttreek
Yuri Nater
It would take me less than an hour to write a .torrent file crawler and a modified bittorrent client that kept on connecting to different trackers and requesting different torrents. I'm sure there are hundreds of code gurus on /. that could do this trivial task in half the time.
Dear courts and judges:
Connecting to a tracker != copyright infringement
Requesting a block from a peer != copyright infringement (for all we know the ISP could've used DPI to drop that packet)
Applying for a search warrant, getting it signed by a judge, and then legally seizing the computer as evidence is the only way to prove that someone committed copyright infringement. Anything less is just hearsay.
Then there is the intense gravitational field of Jupiter, which will require a lot of fuel to get into Jovian and then Europan orbit. (It's equivalent to traveling amongst the inner planets!)
Can someone please explain why a strong gravitational field would require more fuel? Wouldn't a stronger pull require less fuel to get there since the Jovian gravity is pulling you there?
vocal fry
I came in expecting an article about the Fry's "shut up and take my money" meme. Boy was I disappointed.
Blue screen of literal death.
As to the EPA, what would you do about that? Go back to the 1960s when you couldn't drive past a Monsanto with the windows rolled down, and where rivers are so polluted they catch fire?
How about attaching tarriffs to products from countries without these regs?
My thoughts exactly.
Now, to you -- why do you share a distatse for unions? Are you an employer who exploits his workers or otherwise treats them bad? The only way you're going to get your shop unionized is to treat your workers like shit. As a former CEO of a (then) nonunion airline put it, "any company that gets a union deserves one."
Unions brought us weekends, vacations, safe working conditions, sick leave, fair pay... note that all these things are dying today, right along with the unions.
If you work for someone else and have a distaste for unions, you've been brainwashed. The only people with a rational distaste for unions is an employer who treats his workforce badly.
I worked in an unionized environment once and had to literally beg some co-workers to do their work so that I can finish mine. The most senior union members pretty much do nothing except collecting paychecks.
I realize it's not rational to generalize my personal experience towards unions in general but then again emotions aren't rational either.