Even if my girlfriend wanted to fuck me anywhere, any time, the quality of the experience would be enhanced by taking some time off and going to a nice, peaceful, private place where I can concentrate on her, exclusively.
You should have stuck with just the car analogy if you wanted/.ers to actually understand your metaphor.
Putting 8GB of flash cache in front of a 5400RPM hard drive is not going to give you the performance of a pure flash drive. I don't care how good your caching algorithm is or how many rigged benchmarks you win (comparing only on sequential read/write doesn't count!), you're not going to be as fast. Particularly since flash scales performance with size - a 64GB SSD will be faster than an 8GB SSD of the same type, ignoring any hard drives it may be a cache for.
Will it be "SSD-like performance"? Probably, yeah. If their caching algorithm isn't complete shit, it'll probably be somewhere in the upper half of the two orders of magnitude that separate flash and disc. But "within an order of magnitude of" and "equal" are not at all the same thing.
Nah, there's no reason to give them an entire continent, especially since there's a slim chance they could actually survive there. I'm thinking Ilha da Queimada Grande, colloquially known as "Snake Island".
Why is it called Snake Island? Well, there's a lot of snakes there. Just one species - the Golden Lancehead, which is extremely venomous. But legend holds that there are so many of them, they cover the island to a density of one snake per five square meters. Oh, and they can live in the trees. The island is so dangerous the Brazilian government (not particularly famous for caring about the safety of its people) has prohibited people from even visiting.
With all those snakes, I'm sure the politicians will fit right in.
According to Wikipedia, this is clocked only 100MHz lower (1.8GHz, not 1.9GHz as in the Shield). I strongly suspect thermal or TDP limits will throttle that if more than one core is used. For most things, I doubt it'll even kick in the "actual" cores, preferring to run on just the low-power 800MHz "companion core".
Many positions of the NRA are clearly those of gun manufacturers, not gun owners. For instance, they oppose manufacturer liability for injuries caused by defective firearms - cases of "my gun exploded because it wasn't made right", not "I shot myself like a dumbass so I'm going to sue Smith & Wesson because my lawyer thinks we can get a lot of money". Does that sound like a gun owners' organization?
The NRA may protect gun ownership, but only because manufacturers want to protect their customer base.
I can actually sort of understand this cutting off the accelerator - figure out what the maximum safe speed on any road is (and give maybe a 10mph buffer for evasive manuevers - I've nearly been in crashes that I only averted by speeding out of the way), and have the accelerator cut off at that point.
But apply the brakes? That give you sudden deceleration - exactly the kind of thing that would cause an accident. If you're having trouble envisioning this, imagine someone tailing you a bit too closely when the speed limit changes from 55 to 45 - instant recipe for being rear-ended. I would think the risk from people exceeding the speed limit simply by coasting downhill is far outweighed by the risk of perpetual pile-ups on any speed limit change.
That's the other thing - using cameras to spot speed limit signs seems absolutely retarded. Does Europe not have the "school zone - speed limit 25 from 8-9am and 3-4pm" signs we have? Those will trip up computers pretty handily. Or construction zones with temporary speed limits. Or hell, assholes painting a fake speed limit sign on their tailgate (I will admit to being an asshole who would probably do this). No, I think the way to do this is either a simple "there is no situation where you need to exceed this one speed on any public road" limit, or have radio transmitters along the roads broadcasting the speed limit in a format that computers can easily work with (and possibly more information - road name, coordinates, etc).
Phablet = Phone + Tablet. It's the term being used by marketers who realize that 5+ inch displays can't really be pure phones, but still want to sell them.
OK, I can see this becoming a filler article on some crappy "tech" website (coughcoughgizmodocough). But Slashdot? Seriously?
And it's not even written for our audience. I could see a "top ten keyboard shortcuts users don't know (but should)" or a "comparison of undo buttons between every program" (I can never remember the Emacs one... it's ctrl-x u, right?). But a "dude, check out this awesome keyboard shortcut I just found" for something I've been using at least daily for years?
Normally I don't say this, but maybe Slashdot really is starting to go downhill...
I use a 660M. It's basically a desktop 650 with a bit of an underclock. The 670MX is basically an underclocked 660, the 675MX is a 670MX with a wider memory bus, the 680M is basically an underclocked 670, and the 680MX is basically an underclocked 680. Now, these underclocks can be rather significant - 25% in some cases. But with the way clock speeds affect power consumptions, that means you're getting 75% the graphics power for 50% the electrical power. Sounds like a good thing, when it comes to laptops.
Hell, if you're willing to lug around a massive system and drop a few grand on it, you can get SLI laptops - dual 680MX. That's within spitting distance of a top-of-the-line 690. And that's not even getting into the 7xx series, because those are still coming out.
Those four items are obvious measures of audience interest in the movie based on what they are able to see. The number of people looking at its wiki page, the number and intensity of the editors, are all pretty directly proportional to either how many people are interested at all in the film, or how interested they are.
There are three things to note: 1) Artificially increasing any of these will not actually increase interest in the movie, except perhaps improving the quality of the page itself (essentially making it "advertising", although not as biased or controlled as normal advertising would be). I'm sure most of us grasp that, but I imagine plenty of Hollywood suits are preparing to hire teams of Wikipedia editors based on this flawed understanding of cause and effect.
2) The interest measured is pre-release. It is based on trailers, interviews, everything except the film itself. There are plenty of movies that may fail to garner initial interest, either due to shoddy marketing or even just misunderstanding who will be interested in your film, that later become successes on home release (or the modern-day equivalent, streaming and download services). So I worry this may cause movies to become even more focused on the initial theater profits, ignoring the longer profitability of the film.
3) By the time you have a Wikipedia page worth measuring, it's basically too late to change the film itself. All that you can really do is alter the marketing plan, unless you happen to have material to re-cut in response to pre-feedback. Now, they may notice what they expected to be a small film is getting a huge amount of early interest, and scale up their marketing to widen the audience. Or they may see that despite spending a fortune making it, nobody wants to see their next big-budget film, and decide to slash the marketing push (which can often be the largest part of the budget) to try to minimize losses.
It's not called impeachment when you're removing the entire ruling body. That's more of a revolution.
I'd wait until the military starts grumbling about it, or is deployed against us on our own soil (which will cause major strife within the lower ranks, at least). Right now, a revolution would be seen as undemocratic, too violent for what they've done. Which means they get to launch a military crackdown that the public will see as at least kind of justified.
Let's give the peaceful solutions some more time, or at least give the ruling body enough rope to hang themselves with. Because once the military is on our side, not theirs, the revolution won't be stopped by anything short of a nuclear attack of us, on ourselves. And I don't think they're willing to do that, because who wants to be emperor of the ash pile?
As a KSP player, I'm impressed that you manage to get all of your craft out of the atmosphere without destroying themselves. Hell, some of mine collapse on the launch pad.
Well, there's the simple fact that birth rates tend to decrease with increased living standards and population density. Most "developed" countries are now only gaining population through immigration - once the whole world is "developed", populations are actually expected to fall. A significant decrease in death rates will probably lead to a proportional decrease in birth rates.
Besides, we have time. I highly doubt we're going to go from a life expectancy of 70 years or so to 1000 in even several generations. More likely, we'll gain maybe a few more years with each successive generation, more than enough time for both society and science to keep up. But once we do hit a point where you can travel to another planet in your lifetime, I expect we'll start doing so in great number.
If people can live for a thousand years, interstellar travel becomes easier. You can set off for Gliese 667 (believed to have a habitable exoplanet) at 10% of lightspeed and be there in only a quarter of your lifespan.
And if we start expanding into space, resource contention ceases to be an issue, at least for a few million years.
Better idea: open up a 600 "Non-Technical Fault" range. You could even go into more detail: a 600 error could be a generic block, while a 620 might mean "Copyright Infringement", a 630 "Terrorism" or even a 666 "Satanism and/or Heavy Metal".
The asteroids being considered are roughly the size of the Chelyabinsk meteor. It's highly unlikely one would make it to the ground. You could still get a similar air-blast, but the odds are pretty good that it won't hit a populated area (remember, three-quarters of the Earth is water).
I've been reading through the improvements, and this actually seems like a big step forward for SDL. It's dropping antique crap like CD audio playing, moving towards a more modern GPU-focused system. They're not keeping old API bits around just for compatibility, but none of these changes seem like change-for-the-sake-of-change. I'm particularly interested in the OpenGL 3.0 stuff - getting a "modern" OpenGL context set up is a pain in twenty asses, and if they can simplify that, all the better.
I was forced to use it during school. I can't say much for the fragility or insecurity (I only had to run some rudimentary static websites on it to pass the class), but the administration was much easier for the learn-by-rote students (which my school seemed to love the most).
From the perspective of a guy who often doesn't even start X on his *nix boxes, it seemed a bit inflexible. But perhaps they have some weird.NET crap that works better for what they need.
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Even if my girlfriend wanted to fuck me anywhere, any time, the quality of the experience would be enhanced by taking some time off and going to a nice, peaceful, private place where I can concentrate on her, exclusively.
You should have stuck with just the car analogy if you wanted /.ers to actually understand your metaphor.
Putting 8GB of flash cache in front of a 5400RPM hard drive is not going to give you the performance of a pure flash drive. I don't care how good your caching algorithm is or how many rigged benchmarks you win (comparing only on sequential read/write doesn't count!), you're not going to be as fast. Particularly since flash scales performance with size - a 64GB SSD will be faster than an 8GB SSD of the same type, ignoring any hard drives it may be a cache for.
Will it be "SSD-like performance"? Probably, yeah. If their caching algorithm isn't complete shit, it'll probably be somewhere in the upper half of the two orders of magnitude that separate flash and disc. But "within an order of magnitude of" and "equal" are not at all the same thing.
Nah, there's no reason to give them an entire continent, especially since there's a slim chance they could actually survive there. I'm thinking Ilha da Queimada Grande, colloquially known as "Snake Island".
Why is it called Snake Island? Well, there's a lot of snakes there. Just one species - the Golden Lancehead, which is extremely venomous. But legend holds that there are so many of them, they cover the island to a density of one snake per five square meters. Oh, and they can live in the trees. The island is so dangerous the Brazilian government (not particularly famous for caring about the safety of its people) has prohibited people from even visiting.
With all those snakes, I'm sure the politicians will fit right in.
According to Wikipedia, this is clocked only 100MHz lower (1.8GHz, not 1.9GHz as in the Shield). I strongly suspect thermal or TDP limits will throttle that if more than one core is used. For most things, I doubt it'll even kick in the "actual" cores, preferring to run on just the low-power 800MHz "companion core".
Many positions of the NRA are clearly those of gun manufacturers, not gun owners. For instance, they oppose manufacturer liability for injuries caused by defective firearms - cases of "my gun exploded because it wasn't made right", not "I shot myself like a dumbass so I'm going to sue Smith & Wesson because my lawyer thinks we can get a lot of money". Does that sound like a gun owners' organization?
The NRA may protect gun ownership, but only because manufacturers want to protect their customer base.
The saddest thing about this is that I can actually envision it actually happening...
I see a sudden spike in sales of neodymium magnets, should your plan ever be implemented.
I can actually sort of understand this cutting off the accelerator - figure out what the maximum safe speed on any road is (and give maybe a 10mph buffer for evasive manuevers - I've nearly been in crashes that I only averted by speeding out of the way), and have the accelerator cut off at that point.
But apply the brakes? That give you sudden deceleration - exactly the kind of thing that would cause an accident. If you're having trouble envisioning this, imagine someone tailing you a bit too closely when the speed limit changes from 55 to 45 - instant recipe for being rear-ended. I would think the risk from people exceeding the speed limit simply by coasting downhill is far outweighed by the risk of perpetual pile-ups on any speed limit change.
That's the other thing - using cameras to spot speed limit signs seems absolutely retarded. Does Europe not have the "school zone - speed limit 25 from 8-9am and 3-4pm" signs we have? Those will trip up computers pretty handily. Or construction zones with temporary speed limits. Or hell, assholes painting a fake speed limit sign on their tailgate (I will admit to being an asshole who would probably do this). No, I think the way to do this is either a simple "there is no situation where you need to exceed this one speed on any public road" limit, or have radio transmitters along the roads broadcasting the speed limit in a format that computers can easily work with (and possibly more information - road name, coordinates, etc).
Mutually Assured Destruction worked... once. Working one time out of the only time it's been deliberately tried isn't exactly a proven track record.
NCC-1700, USS Constitution. First ship in the Constitution class, which included the NCC-1701 Enterprise.
Phablet = Phone + Tablet. It's the term being used by marketers who realize that 5+ inch displays can't really be pure phones, but still want to sell them.
Examples: Galaxy Note, Asus FonePad, etc.
OK, I can see this becoming a filler article on some crappy "tech" website (coughcoughgizmodocough). But Slashdot? Seriously?
And it's not even written for our audience. I could see a "top ten keyboard shortcuts users don't know (but should)" or a "comparison of undo buttons between every program" (I can never remember the Emacs one... it's ctrl-x u, right?). But a "dude, check out this awesome keyboard shortcut I just found" for something I've been using at least daily for years?
Normally I don't say this, but maybe Slashdot really is starting to go downhill...
Not really.
I use a 660M. It's basically a desktop 650 with a bit of an underclock. The 670MX is basically an underclocked 660, the 675MX is a 670MX with a wider memory bus, the 680M is basically an underclocked 670, and the 680MX is basically an underclocked 680. Now, these underclocks can be rather significant - 25% in some cases. But with the way clock speeds affect power consumptions, that means you're getting 75% the graphics power for 50% the electrical power. Sounds like a good thing, when it comes to laptops.
Hell, if you're willing to lug around a massive system and drop a few grand on it, you can get SLI laptops - dual 680MX. That's within spitting distance of a top-of-the-line 690. And that's not even getting into the 7xx series, because those are still coming out.
Eh, I was trying to figure out a SIGABRT joke, so I don't think you went too far.
Those four items are obvious measures of audience interest in the movie based on what they are able to see. The number of people looking at its wiki page, the number and intensity of the editors, are all pretty directly proportional to either how many people are interested at all in the film, or how interested they are.
There are three things to note:
1) Artificially increasing any of these will not actually increase interest in the movie, except perhaps improving the quality of the page itself (essentially making it "advertising", although not as biased or controlled as normal advertising would be). I'm sure most of us grasp that, but I imagine plenty of Hollywood suits are preparing to hire teams of Wikipedia editors based on this flawed understanding of cause and effect.
2) The interest measured is pre-release. It is based on trailers, interviews, everything except the film itself. There are plenty of movies that may fail to garner initial interest, either due to shoddy marketing or even just misunderstanding who will be interested in your film, that later become successes on home release (or the modern-day equivalent, streaming and download services). So I worry this may cause movies to become even more focused on the initial theater profits, ignoring the longer profitability of the film.
3) By the time you have a Wikipedia page worth measuring, it's basically too late to change the film itself. All that you can really do is alter the marketing plan, unless you happen to have material to re-cut in response to pre-feedback. Now, they may notice what they expected to be a small film is getting a huge amount of early interest, and scale up their marketing to widen the audience. Or they may see that despite spending a fortune making it, nobody wants to see their next big-budget film, and decide to slash the marketing push (which can often be the largest part of the budget) to try to minimize losses.
It's not called impeachment when you're removing the entire ruling body. That's more of a revolution.
I'd wait until the military starts grumbling about it, or is deployed against us on our own soil (which will cause major strife within the lower ranks, at least). Right now, a revolution would be seen as undemocratic, too violent for what they've done. Which means they get to launch a military crackdown that the public will see as at least kind of justified.
Let's give the peaceful solutions some more time, or at least give the ruling body enough rope to hang themselves with. Because once the military is on our side, not theirs, the revolution won't be stopped by anything short of a nuclear attack of us, on ourselves. And I don't think they're willing to do that, because who wants to be emperor of the ash pile?
As a KSP player, I'm impressed that you manage to get all of your craft out of the atmosphere without destroying themselves. Hell, some of mine collapse on the launch pad.
Hey! Those nanofluids clearly increase their cloud synergy via outside-the-box thinking!
Well, there's the simple fact that birth rates tend to decrease with increased living standards and population density. Most "developed" countries are now only gaining population through immigration - once the whole world is "developed", populations are actually expected to fall. A significant decrease in death rates will probably lead to a proportional decrease in birth rates.
Besides, we have time. I highly doubt we're going to go from a life expectancy of 70 years or so to 1000 in even several generations. More likely, we'll gain maybe a few more years with each successive generation, more than enough time for both society and science to keep up. But once we do hit a point where you can travel to another planet in your lifetime, I expect we'll start doing so in great number.
Better thought:
If people can live for a thousand years, interstellar travel becomes easier. You can set off for Gliese 667 (believed to have a habitable exoplanet) at 10% of lightspeed and be there in only a quarter of your lifespan.
And if we start expanding into space, resource contention ceases to be an issue, at least for a few million years.
Oh, they're still watching. They just (hopefully) can't decrypt it.
Better idea: open up a 600 "Non-Technical Fault" range. You could even go into more detail: a 600 error could be a generic block, while a 620 might mean "Copyright Infringement", a 630 "Terrorism" or even a 666 "Satanism and/or Heavy Metal".
The asteroids being considered are roughly the size of the Chelyabinsk meteor. It's highly unlikely one would make it to the ground. You could still get a similar air-blast, but the odds are pretty good that it won't hit a populated area (remember, three-quarters of the Earth is water).
I've been reading through the improvements, and this actually seems like a big step forward for SDL. It's dropping antique crap like CD audio playing, moving towards a more modern GPU-focused system. They're not keeping old API bits around just for compatibility, but none of these changes seem like change-for-the-sake-of-change. I'm particularly interested in the OpenGL 3.0 stuff - getting a "modern" OpenGL context set up is a pain in twenty asses, and if they can simplify that, all the better.
I was forced to use it during school. I can't say much for the fragility or insecurity (I only had to run some rudimentary static websites on it to pass the class), but the administration was much easier for the learn-by-rote students (which my school seemed to love the most).
From the perspective of a guy who often doesn't even start X on his *nix boxes, it seemed a bit inflexible. But perhaps they have some weird .NET crap that works better for what they need.