BMW makes cars, which are not "green" by any standard. You want green, invest in buses, trains, bikes, etc. Not more cars.
This is pretty clearly a greenwashing attempt by BMW.
Yes, and I am OK with that...you see they do not make trains, bikes, (or even buses?),...
When a coal company stops mountain-top removal, we acknowledge this and do not disapprove. You do not have to agree with their actions, but even a feeble attempt at smart fuel consumption should be welcomed.
I can see that we need more mass transit "smart solutions", but complaining about some speculation/proposal for improved traffic signals...well cheer up man!
Such a method sounds ripe for deployment on U.S.-style boulevards, where obsolete signals, each running on their own cycle, can bring light traffic to a congested snarl.
That is a true statement, my city fixed its lights, lowered my commute by five minutes+, green washing right into my pocket!
After reading the article, this idea of a "heat map" or frequency distribution mapping (of sorts) can (sort of) be summed in:
A particular advantage of heat-map visualization is the ability to see outliers.
I find this particularly interesting as this graphically now allows a way to "filter" the real outlier out from a sea of data. Also,
Instead of a random distribution, latency is grouped together at various levels that rise and fall over time, producing lines in a pattern that became known as the icy lake. This was unexpected, especially considering the simplicity of the workload.
And concluding the section on what they dub as the "icy lake"...
To summarize what we know about the icy lake: lines come from single disks, and disk pairs cause increasing and decreasing latency. The actual reason for the latency difference over time that seeds this pattern has not been pinpointed; what causes the rate of increase/decrease to change (change in slope seen in figure 5) is also unknown; and, the higher latency line seen in the single-disk pool (figure 4) is also not yet understood. Visualizing latency in this way clearly poses more questions than it provides answers.
Without actually seeing the data or knowing the specifics of latency, from a pure mathematical standpoint I wonder what would result if one treated the set of numbers (from each disk) as a random sequence, identifying outliers (as they did using this heat model)...then graphically mapping those using a "chaos game theory algorithm". By using a graph to statistically analyze/visualize the "outliers", perhaps more could be revealed on the "randomness" of how one disk or a pair of disks reacts relating to the whole system.
I do not claim to know much in this area at all and this is merely speculation on how the set of numbers "randomness" may be approached...
Correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe it was this poem:
--- Year of Meteors [1859-60] --- by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) --- Year of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia, (I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd, I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes, The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold, Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would welcome give, And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England! (Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles? There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;) Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay, Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long, Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing; Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven, Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads, (A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads, Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;) Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from them would gleam and patch these chants, Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good--year of forebodings! Year of comets and meteors transient and strange--lo! even here one equally transient and strange! As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant, What am I myself but one of your meteors?
This is a great tool to see the "best scenario", but a direct connection to a speakeasy server isn't everything. For instance an internet service provider could be...
Filtering your traffic deeming what it feels is "worthy of quality bandwidth
-and-
A network can be considered "good" getting to some main nodes and whatnot, but what really defines a good network is the reliability, latency, and speed to those "tricky" spots.
I am really just using analogies here, but speakeasy.net is a great tool to be used as a supplement imo to get an accurate picture of ISP's behavior...
I mean your right, was meant as a joke...being that someone dealing with "Network Performance" issues has probably been caught up that late on occasion.
If Grok figures out that those eggs are easy to find and good eating, it doesn't take 25 generations of evolution to breed "nest hunting" behavior into the village. It takes a few months locally, maybe a few years across the entire area.
Yes but it could take half the season on CBS's Survivor...
I never said that Apple did not have a high growth rate, they had a phenomenal growth rate in the past 10 years. But Microsoft has not really been reduced in size over the past 8 or so years. My point was Microsoft might be plateauing keeping their standard portion of the market, but what Apple has done that is brilliant is capture the market that Microsoft could not touch. This new market and a smaller portion of Microsoft's market results in the growth we do see in Apple today. Although I will still stand by on what I say that their profit margin may not last as they will not always be able to charge the high prices as they do now: in order to compete to gain computing in business, they need to make their computers competitively priced, create network software that can compete with Windows Server, and the ability to support custom hardware configurations when necessary.
To end this before this becomes a pointless flame war, I think Microsoft and Apple are both outstanding companies, but Microsoft and Apple each have their unique portions of the market-base in which the other company is mostly unsuccessful. (Like a Venn Diagram)
One of the major internet pipelines runs straight through Pakistan, what if they suicide bombed it?!?! Talk about a major internet leak...and to think this all can fixed by a little diplomacy!
If he'd have done his job we wouldn't have to suffer through this kind of crap.
+10 Cool-Points to you ClippyHater...
Personally I think: what took Google so long? If we can rid ourselves of more idiots this easily, id say lets start directing everyone across major highways! Decrease the surplus population, only the strong survive! (Kjella nails this home too...)
Apple makes more profit in a quarter than all those bubble-corps combined did in their lifetime (even if losses are ignored).
So you are saying that either Apple's stock is not over-valued or Microsoft's stock is not undervalued (or both)? Sure the dot-com analogy perhaps was not clear to my idea that Apple merely is over-valued: Apple's high profit margins we see today I believe will not be competitive into the future. Additionally, Apple has created itself a market and taken some of Microsoft's market. Hell if asked not knowing what the market thought and profits, I would have valued Oracle higher than Apple...
Market capitalization, I do not believe this is entirely accurate. Remember ~10 years ago, that dot-com bust? Investors call this a bubble. No I am not bashing Apple, they are a brilliant company and have some wonderful products, but last time I checked, my business runs off damn windows and if I am lucky some Linux. Point being I think some investors are overreacting.
However, I think we must look at this in a different light. You are making the assumption that the predecessor to Microsoft will follow in the same path of "market domination". Apple, as I see it, has grabbed a market niche if you would, but I know plenty of people who would still use a Windows operating system instead (yes they do exist...). The point is we may be instead ushering a new era of "competition", and frankly I welcome it. It may not be the ideal world in which I live, but two (or more) main players is ALWAYS better than one. Also, don't be so quick to discount Microsoft, they have assets they can work with, and those damn patents...
Hell I will take my hammer and throw it into the "screen" of all tyrants tyvm now until 2084.
Tsu Dho Nimh, your right! I was twitching as soon as I read that...give me a confidence interval instead, and maybe we will all sleep a little bit better at night!
Yes, for all the bad press NASA may have received in its past, there have been at least a few outstanding feats achieved by the program, the Hubble being one of these.
In 1990 the Hubble space telescope was launched and put successfully into orbit, and with a few extremely successful "service missions" has allowed us insight to the universe in many ways we might have not seen otherwise (at least for a while!): We have gained understanding how are universe is expanding and the rate at which it is expanding largely due to the contributions of the telescope, we have established the presence (observable!) of black holes, and much more!
To really answer your question however and reiterate the AC's comment on a mission's length, you just don't plan for those type of life-cycles - yes every hardware piece's MTBF may be long, but when averaged together, honestly a car analogy will do best: after 200,000 miles in the vehicle, it usually makes sense to just get a new car instead of deal with the innumerable repairs.
They are still shoving restrictive DRM at you, just not as restrictive as another company's DRM. That's like saying that the guy who broke both your legs was really nice because he didn't murder you. (Convert that to a car analogy if it makes you more comfortable)
Two words: Stockholm Syndrome
(I converted it to another analogy which made me comfortable: there are not that many alternatives on the market!)
Many of the computer models tracking the oil spill have resolutions of 500 meters to a kilometer, but the model being created on the Texas supercomputer can bring the detail down to a resolution of 50 to 40 meters, which is fine enough to show, for instance, simulations of currents moving up channels, said Dawson.
I need to work my reading comprehension skills haha (I'm up to a third grade level now!) Also...
The project is getting a "high priority," said another researcher, Clint Dawson, a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas. "What our model can do that a lot of the other models can't do is actually track the oil spill up into marshes and the wetlands because we have fine-scale resolution in those areas."
Tracking and predicting are two different sets of challenges in my opinion. I applaud the attempt to forecast and use models to hopefully mitigate damage, but I am still skeptical on how they will model the oil after it has already hit the marshes outside of tide patterns... I guess we will just have to wait and see:)
Someone mod this post up...those photos were amazing and really are worth viewing! I found the aerial pictures of the oil booms really interesting, thanks AC!
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BMW makes cars, which are not "green" by any standard. You want green, invest in buses, trains, bikes, etc. Not more cars.
This is pretty clearly a greenwashing attempt by BMW.
Yes, and I am OK with that...you see they do not make trains, bikes, (or even buses?),...
When a coal company stops mountain-top removal, we acknowledge this and do not disapprove. You do not have to agree with their actions, but even a feeble attempt at smart fuel consumption should be welcomed.
I can see that we need more mass transit "smart solutions", but complaining about some speculation/proposal for improved traffic signals...well cheer up man!
Such a method sounds ripe for deployment on U.S.-style boulevards, where obsolete signals, each running on their own cycle, can bring light traffic to a congested snarl.
That is a true statement, my city fixed its lights, lowered my commute by five minutes+, green washing right into my pocket!
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
--Barnhill, John Basil (1914)
Fixed that for ya.
Sources: near bottom of page & Better link, go to pg 34
But I'm not a complete asshole, just the movie was a reference to a good quote :)
It's not a bug.
It's a feature!
After reading the article, this idea of a "heat map" or frequency distribution mapping (of sorts) can (sort of) be summed in:
A particular advantage of heat-map visualization is the ability to see outliers.
I find this particularly interesting as this graphically now allows a way to "filter" the real outlier out from a sea of data. Also,
Instead of a random distribution, latency is grouped together at various levels that rise and fall over time, producing lines in a pattern that became known as the icy lake. This was unexpected, especially considering the simplicity of the workload.
And concluding the section on what they dub as the "icy lake"...
To summarize what we know about the icy lake: lines come from single disks, and disk pairs cause increasing and decreasing latency. The actual reason for the latency difference over time that seeds this pattern has not been pinpointed; what causes the rate of increase/decrease to change (change in slope seen in figure 5) is also unknown; and, the higher latency line seen in the single-disk pool (figure 4) is also not yet understood. Visualizing latency in this way clearly poses more questions than it provides answers.
Without actually seeing the data or knowing the specifics of latency, from a pure mathematical standpoint I wonder what would result if one treated the set of numbers (from each disk) as a random sequence, identifying outliers (as they did using this heat model)...then graphically mapping those using a "chaos game theory algorithm". By using a graph to statistically analyze/visualize the "outliers", perhaps more could be revealed on the "randomness" of how one disk or a pair of disks reacts relating to the whole system.
I do not claim to know much in this area at all and this is merely speculation on how the set of numbers "randomness" may be approached...
Correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe it was this poem:
---
Year of Meteors [1859-60]
---
by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
---
Year of meteors! brooding year!
I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the
scaffold in Virginia,
(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling
with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships
and their cargoes,
The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with
immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would welcome give,
And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young
prince of England!
(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your
cortege of nobles?
There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;)
Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was
600 feet long,
Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not
to sing;
Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven,
Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting
over our heads,
(A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over
our heads,
Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from them would
gleam and patch these chants,
Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good--year of forebodings!
Year of comets and meteors transient and strange--lo! even here one
equally transient and strange!
As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
What am I myself but one of your meteors?
"and rewards his loyalty with an exception?"
try{
while(patient){
profit += createAndSellApp();
if(profit>retirement) break;}}
catch(AppleAlternativePlanException aape){
throw new ChooseNewOverlordException();}
This is a great tool to see the "best scenario", but a direct connection to a speakeasy server isn't everything. For instance an internet service provider could be...
Filtering your traffic deeming what it feels is "worthy of quality bandwidth
-and-
A network can be considered "good" getting to some main nodes and whatnot, but what really defines a good network is the reliability, latency, and speed to those "tricky" spots.
I am really just using analogies here, but speakeasy.net is a great tool to be used as a supplement imo to get an accurate picture of ISP's behavior...
I mean your right, was meant as a joke...being that someone dealing with "Network Performance" issues has probably been caught up that late on occasion.
If Grok figures out that those eggs are easy to find and good eating, it doesn't take 25 generations of evolution to breed "nest hunting" behavior into the village. It takes a few months locally, maybe a few years across the entire area.
Yes but it could take half the season on CBS's Survivor...
Don't trust articles that have:
Created 2010-06-01 03:00AM
before the "well thought out" advice.
Quote from the article that should have been in bold at the top:
"Previous work in this area has indicated this [mobile phone use] is not a real factor," he said. "If new data comes along we will look at it."
He said: "At the moment we think is more likely to be a combination of factors including disease, pesticides and habitat loss."
On a more serious note, however,
It is time to bring back the guillotine.
perhaps the article's author Dean Nelson is a candidate?
I never said that Apple did not have a high growth rate, they had a phenomenal growth rate in the past 10 years. But Microsoft has not really been reduced in size over the past 8 or so years. My point was Microsoft might be plateauing keeping their standard portion of the market, but what Apple has done that is brilliant is capture the market that Microsoft could not touch. This new market and a smaller portion of Microsoft's market results in the growth we do see in Apple today. Although I will still stand by on what I say that their profit margin may not last as they will not always be able to charge the high prices as they do now: in order to compete to gain computing in business, they need to make their computers competitively priced, create network software that can compete with Windows Server, and the ability to support custom hardware configurations when necessary.
To end this before this becomes a pointless flame war, I think Microsoft and Apple are both outstanding companies, but Microsoft and Apple each have their unique portions of the market-base in which the other company is mostly unsuccessful. (Like a Venn Diagram)
Look, look, look, your missing the point!
One of the major internet pipelines runs straight through Pakistan, what if they suicide bombed it?!?! Talk about a major internet leak...and to think this all can fixed by a little diplomacy!
If he'd have done his job we wouldn't have to suffer through this kind of crap.
+10 Cool-Points to you ClippyHater...
Personally I think: what took Google so long? If we can rid ourselves of more idiots this easily, id say lets start directing everyone across major highways! Decrease the surplus population, only the strong survive! (Kjella nails this home too...)
Whats the conversion of a buttload in imperial?
Roughly two full Rugby fields per buttload.
Apple makes more profit in a quarter than all those bubble-corps combined did in their lifetime (even if losses are ignored).
So you are saying that either Apple's stock is not over-valued or Microsoft's stock is not undervalued (or both)? Sure the dot-com analogy perhaps was not clear to my idea that Apple merely is over-valued: Apple's high profit margins we see today I believe will not be competitive into the future. Additionally, Apple has created itself a market and taken some of Microsoft's market. Hell if asked not knowing what the market thought and profits, I would have valued Oracle higher than Apple...
Market capitalization, I do not believe this is entirely accurate. Remember ~10 years ago, that dot-com bust? Investors call this a bubble. No I am not bashing Apple, they are a brilliant company and have some wonderful products, but last time I checked, my business runs off damn windows and if I am lucky some Linux. Point being I think some investors are overreacting.
However, I think we must look at this in a different light. You are making the assumption that the predecessor to Microsoft will follow in the same path of "market domination". Apple, as I see it, has grabbed a market niche if you would, but I know plenty of people who would still use a Windows operating system instead (yes they do exist...). The point is we may be instead ushering a new era of "competition", and frankly I welcome it. It may not be the ideal world in which I live, but two (or more) main players is ALWAYS better than one. Also, don't be so quick to discount Microsoft, they have assets they can work with, and those damn patents...
Hell I will take my hammer and throw it into the "screen" of all tyrants tyvm now until 2084.
100 Percent Effective
Tsu Dho Nimh, your right! I was twitching as soon as I read that...give me a confidence interval instead, and maybe we will all sleep a little bit better at night!
Yes, for all the bad press NASA may have received in its past, there have been at least a few outstanding feats achieved by the program, the Hubble being one of these.
In 1990 the Hubble space telescope was launched and put successfully into orbit, and with a few extremely successful "service missions" has allowed us insight to the universe in many ways we might have not seen otherwise (at least for a while!): We have gained understanding how are universe is expanding and the rate at which it is expanding largely due to the contributions of the telescope, we have established the presence (observable!) of black holes, and much more!
To really answer your question however and reiterate the AC's comment on a mission's length, you just don't plan for those type of life-cycles - yes every hardware piece's MTBF may be long, but when averaged together, honestly a car analogy will do best: after 200,000 miles in the vehicle, it usually makes sense to just get a new car instead of deal with the innumerable repairs.
They are still shoving restrictive DRM at you, just not as restrictive as another company's DRM. That's like saying that the guy who broke both your legs was really nice because he didn't murder you. (Convert that to a car analogy if it makes you more comfortable)
Two words: Stockholm Syndrome
(I converted it to another analogy which made me comfortable: there are not that many alternatives on the market!)
Many of the computer models tracking the oil spill have resolutions of 500 meters to a kilometer, but the model being created on the Texas supercomputer can bring the detail down to a resolution of 50 to 40 meters, which is fine enough to show, for instance, simulations of currents moving up channels, said Dawson.
I need to work my reading comprehension skills haha (I'm up to a third grade level now!) Also...
The project is getting a "high priority," said another researcher, Clint Dawson, a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas. "What our model can do that a lot of the other models can't do is actually track the oil spill up into marshes and the wetlands because we have fine-scale resolution in those areas."
Tracking and predicting are two different sets of challenges in my opinion. I applaud the attempt to forecast and use models to hopefully mitigate damage, but I am still skeptical on how they will model the oil after it has already hit the marshes outside of tide patterns... I guess we will just have to wait and see :)
Also, javascript is not java; it really has nothing to do with java, except the ill-chosen name.
Valid point...I see where the 'Offtopic' tag came from now, thanks :)
I thought at first that themp3 standard was already "free":
Open standard. Developed by the Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG), Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information.
However, mp3 is not free...yet. Some of these patents are set to expire on their 20 year time frame in a couple of years it would seem.
Yes it would seem still no native mp3 support.
The real fundamental question is, however, do we really want to use java for audio?
Someone mod this post up...those photos were amazing and really are worth viewing! I found the aerial pictures of the oil booms really interesting, thanks AC!