It is common for an it guy to get stuck waiting in the main loop when there is no new input. Beyond ones existing hobbies, i would recommend turning to your wife for recommendations. She is supposed to know you well. something like ssh wife "dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=1" >/dev/null should fill up your own entropy pool quite nicely and refresh your imagination.
Well, it might be time for you to invest in my subprime factories! On a larger scale, you can actually tolerate a steady stream of factories blowing up, as long as enough of them turn a constant rent... And the children there will work for a carrot a day!
My best guess: 1) this kind of sht is morally wrong 2) thus, working for this kind of sht is morally wrong 3) thus, anybody who works for this kind of sht is going to hell, for whatever your value of 'hell'. 4) you might say that 'i need the money from this gig', but 5) anybody who works for this kind of sht is feeding their kids but is at the same time fscking over the kids' future bigtime. Your kids will not forgive you for being the AC IRL.
From this, it should easily emerge that everybody should just stop working for this sht. No workers, no NSA. There needs to emerge a culture and a movement to encourage it. Shame the spineless coward who works for the Man! Shun him or tell him what he does is evil and his country hates him for it. Spread the word! You, everybody, personally, need to work to push this through. By this time and age it should be obvious that the Man is the real terrorist. Your democratic functions have long since ceased to return value, hoping for change in elections will not do. It will require significant effort from each and every american to repeal this next age of slavery.
This story talks about junk imports (implied sale to end-user), a topic I never heard before. IIRC the problem with the 3rd world and electronics is that they get sent a lot of junk as "humanitarian aid", since shipping is way cheaper than recycling and as a byproduct even creates good PR.
Also reminds me of an audit in a Brazilian? port that found multiple shipping containers full of medical waste from an unknown English hospital. The waste was just sent to be forgotten there as an alternative to costly hazardous waste recycling.
Agreed. Once the OP calculates the TCO of the system, it might turn out that the free stuff might not be worth it. First you should find someone who has done something similiar before. Then you can start from the actual bottlenecks and play out some alternative scenarios. What requirements do your calculations have? CPU vs I/O? The TDP of an e8000, 65W, is not bad - this puts your presumed rack short of the 2kW range. How much would that electricity cost for you in a year? If your calculations are I/O bound, you will have to spend on additional RAM and maybe SSDs, or the CPUs will be mostly occupied with wasting electricity/money. It might make sense to buy Atom boards instead. On the opposite end, it might make sense to buy some real cruncher CPUs or even GPUs. You also have to calculate the labor involved. Setting the system up is not too much, but maintaining it, supporting it? If your lab is 14 people, and we presume every one will ask for support once a week, you will have 3 people every day bugging you about the cluster. Add to this regular maintenance, replacing failed parts (desktop grade hardware will fail regularly under heavy load), keeping track of the general state of your software stack upstream... You might find that you will spend most of your time on the cluster and not on your job. Which means you need hire an extra pair of hands. It might be cheaper just to buy your slice of time on an actual (commodity) science cluster.
I'm no computer historian, but I cannot remember any company that has survived for long dealing intimately with Microsoft. Except IBM, and that was a really close shave.
A land grab is mostly necessary for the Chinese. It is protecting themselves economically - they need to feed their people. They currently have a severe lack of farmland, and buying from the world market is only going to cost more and more. Also it will be necessary for internal stability, their people's expectations for a living standard are rising, based on both growing wages and more information about the status quo outside of China.
China's most immediate goal is southern Siberia. China severely lacks farmable land, and the russians have a lot of it unused. Both are conducting military excercises in the area. Russia, though, knows that it can not stand against China by it's own, so is seeking admission into NATO; the USA knows that it does not want to help Russia and is thus seeking withdrawal from NATO. This is also a part of why USA is leaving the Atlantic and focusing on the Pacific now. For the Russians it would probably make most sense to go Alaska on Siberia, but their imperial pride might not be willing to do in under pressure.
China's second immediate goal is a possible attack from Japan, not that it would be much of a problem. Of course they would not attack Japan by themselves, nothing to gain there. But they are pawning Japan in another game. Remember when USA was giving crap to China because China "artificially" keeps its currency cheap? China was doing it by buying up massive amounts of USD, basic stuff. When the amount of crap they recieved became too high, they outsourced it to Japan. Started to buy up yen instead. The price of yen rising, Japan losing it's export power, all of their big companies going bust. Japan is doing it's best to cheapen the yen by buying up USD themselves, (following the Chinese masterplan) but they can not match the Chinese wallet. So the Japanese economy, already in a standstill for decades, is now on the brink of collapse. And they might be crazy enough to go kamikaze on the Great Wall of China.
But the dance around Taiwan? I do not think so. They are too small to pose any real threat, but they work wonders as an enemy to point at for rallying up masses. They also work wonders as a diplomatic taboo, a card that will move mountains if played well.
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It is common for an it guy to get stuck waiting in the main loop when there is no new input. Beyond ones existing hobbies, i would recommend turning to your wife for recommendations. She is supposed to know you well. /dev/null
something like
ssh wife "dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=1" >
should fill up your own entropy pool quite nicely and refresh your imagination.
Well, it might be time for you to invest in my subprime factories! On a larger scale, you can actually tolerate a steady stream of factories blowing up, as long as enough of them turn a constant rent... And the children there will work for a carrot a day!
My best guess:
1) this kind of sht is morally wrong
2) thus, working for this kind of sht is morally wrong
3) thus, anybody who works for this kind of sht is going to hell, for whatever your value of 'hell'.
4) you might say that 'i need the money from this gig', but
5) anybody who works for this kind of sht is feeding their kids but is at the same time fscking over the kids' future bigtime. Your kids will not forgive you for being the AC IRL.
From this, it should easily emerge that everybody should just stop working for this sht. No workers, no NSA. There needs to emerge a culture and a movement to encourage it. Shame the spineless coward who works for the Man! Shun him or tell him what he does is evil and his country hates him for it. Spread the word!
You, everybody, personally, need to work to push this through. By this time and age it should be obvious that the Man is the real terrorist. Your democratic functions have long since ceased to return value, hoping for change in elections will not do. It will require significant effort from each and every american to repeal this next age of slavery.
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While I generally agree with your post, I wonder is there any throat to grab for theCEO if windows fuxors something up?
baseball needs more cowbell
FTFY
This story talks about junk imports (implied sale to end-user), a topic I never heard before. IIRC the problem with the 3rd world and electronics is that they get sent a lot of junk as "humanitarian aid", since shipping is way cheaper than recycling and as a byproduct even creates good PR.
Also reminds me of an audit in a Brazilian? port that found multiple shipping containers full of medical waste from an unknown English hospital. The waste was just sent to be forgotten there as an alternative to costly hazardous waste recycling.
I wonder what would it mean to the data if you were to lossily compress that png...
It'd be bigger news if he quit for another company
For which company should Ballmer quit? The guy is utterly unemployable.
obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/686/
I wonder how these would do:
the postmodernism generator http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
the math paper generator http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/
Agreed. Once the OP calculates the TCO of the system, it might turn out that the free stuff might not be worth it. First you should find someone who has done something similiar before. Then you can start from the actual bottlenecks and play out some alternative scenarios.
What requirements do your calculations have? CPU vs I/O? The TDP of an e8000, 65W, is not bad - this puts your presumed rack short of the 2kW range. How much would that electricity cost for you in a year? If your calculations are I/O bound, you will have to spend on additional RAM and maybe SSDs, or the CPUs will be mostly occupied with wasting electricity/money. It might make sense to buy Atom boards instead. On the opposite end, it might make sense to buy some real cruncher CPUs or even GPUs.
You also have to calculate the labor involved. Setting the system up is not too much, but maintaining it, supporting it? If your lab is 14 people, and we presume every one will ask for support once a week, you will have 3 people every day bugging you about the cluster. Add to this regular maintenance, replacing failed parts (desktop grade hardware will fail regularly under heavy load), keeping track of the general state of your software stack upstream... You might find that you will spend most of your time on the cluster and not on your job. Which means you need hire an extra pair of hands. It might be cheaper just to buy your slice of time on an actual (commodity) science cluster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI
commenting to remove my accidental -1. mod parent underrated.
I'm no computer historian, but I cannot remember any company that has survived for long dealing intimately with Microsoft. Except IBM, and that was a really close shave.
Not sure if troll or not, but I'll just say that the world does not run on face-value thinking like that. We need to go deeper :H
A land grab is mostly necessary for the Chinese. It is protecting themselves economically - they need to feed their people. They currently have a severe lack of farmland, and buying from the world market is only going to cost more and more. Also it will be necessary for internal stability, their people's expectations for a living standard are rising, based on both growing wages and more information about the status quo outside of China.
Concerning Japan: what do you think this row in the autumn was about: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19632042 ? The actual islands? Lol.
China's most immediate goal is southern Siberia. China severely lacks farmable land, and the russians have a lot of it unused. Both are conducting military excercises in the area. Russia, though, knows that it can not stand against China by it's own, so is seeking admission into NATO; the USA knows that it does not want to help Russia and is thus seeking withdrawal from NATO. This is also a part of why USA is leaving the Atlantic and focusing on the Pacific now. For the Russians it would probably make most sense to go Alaska on Siberia, but their imperial pride might not be willing to do in under pressure.
China's second immediate goal is a possible attack from Japan, not that it would be much of a problem. Of course they would not attack Japan by themselves, nothing to gain there. But they are pawning Japan in another game. Remember when USA was giving crap to China because China "artificially" keeps its currency cheap? China was doing it by buying up massive amounts of USD, basic stuff. When the amount of crap they recieved became too high, they outsourced it to Japan. Started to buy up yen instead. The price of yen rising, Japan losing it's export power, all of their big companies going bust. Japan is doing it's best to cheapen the yen by buying up USD themselves, (following the Chinese masterplan) but they can not match the Chinese wallet. So the Japanese economy, already in a standstill for decades, is now on the brink of collapse. And they might be crazy enough to go kamikaze on the Great Wall of China.
But the dance around Taiwan? I do not think so. They are too small to pose any real threat, but they work wonders as an enemy to point at for rallying up masses. They also work wonders as a diplomatic taboo, a card that will move mountains if played well.
Did the engineer lose a game to his momma again? Suck it up, big boy!
This 'news' does not appear to be anything more than a simple application of Gödel's incompleteness theorems. What's the point, then?
thanks!
can you point to a tl;dr version of your post?
...how are they going to blame the driver for spontaneous acceleration now?
Google supposedly never had a vision. More at 11: https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Forgot the one very important thing. Golems represent not only the army, but also automated production, that is, a post-scarcity society.