And remember I am saying all that, meanwhile I am all infuriated by the fact that incoherent and inconsistent units make it super hard to do the most simple things, like comparing the price per volume/weight of produces you buy at the local grocery store. One is labeled in oz, the other in pounds, the third one in fluid oz (brilliant, having too different things with the same name). Anyway, I am buying groceries, not participating in counting-bees contest, so computint divisions by 12 and multiplications 16^3 was not in my program for the day. This is were mandating consistent units for selling volumes of goods and comparable price/g or price/L would make sense. Conversion and comparison is simpler for consumer. Instead, the unit jungle makes price impossible to compare.
I was born and raised in metric land. I am now doing everything in "imperial" measurements, because using foreign units to do daily tasks is just about as productive as speaking cantonese to order food at your local burger drive-in. It doesn't work without excruciating efforts.
Go to a shop, buy food produces, everything is labeled in oz and other random nonsensical units. Still, converting everything doesn't make it easier. Cooking is their example, so lets try it! You'd thought that using your imported cookbook, you'd be able to cook all in metric. Not so quickly. First cookware are not in metric, but I also had imported metric measuring bowls, haha ! Then I discovered that the amount of fat in butter, milk, etc is not the same as in Europe (it is standardized, but standardized differently). So all recipe made with an european cookbook fail miserably, the cake falls, it looks dry, or wet, but never quite right. Good luck then finding a US cookbook using metric measurements. Then, what is the point exactly of using an imperial cookbook, convert all units to metric, use metric tool and result in failure because you made conversion errors ?
Nop, You are making a conversion error (it is expressed in g/L in most places, equivalent to 10BAC). Most of Europe is between 0.05 BAC and 0.03 BAC. Many countries are at statutory 0, not sure how that is enforced in practice (since natural BAC is often in the 0.01 range).
Well, actually, BAC is a statistically significant indicator for inability to perform driving tasks, as is illustrated by over representation of BAC>0.08 in death rate statistics.
There is significant literature from EU authorities (and each of the member states local DOT).
Bottom line is: * 0.08 is the last "safe" limit. Performance is already decreased, but It is approximately equivalent to driving with children in the backseat. Not the best, but acceptable risk. About twice as bad as 0.05. * However, above 0.08, performance decrease sternly and exponentially. At 0.1, chances of death or dismemberment become alarmingly hight. It is not obvious for a driver to make the distinction between 0.08 "happy" and 0.1 "drunk", since one may not feel impaired, but he is, really. * Anything over 0.12 is classical "drunk driving" as understood by common folks. Chances of accidents are extremely elevated. * 0.05 is the bottom of the exponential curve. There are still benefits from driving with a lower BAC, but the lions share of the exponential decrease is passed. The difference with 0.08 is significant (half less chances of accident, or more, more pronounced for young drivers). Below that, chances of accident continue to decrease, but not as quickly, so there is little benefits to be reaped going even lower.
Another interesting point is that effect of BAC on drivers is very age related. Being drunk at 0.1 when you are an experienced driver in your 30's puts you back at the same risk as when you were 16 and road racing everywhere and everyone (this is bad, indeed). However, a teen driver at 0.08 is already at extreme risk (as if he was an experienced driver at 1.4 or more from my memory), the statistics I read just showed this result, but didn't explained why. Could be that most 30+ have acquired some sort of higher alcohol resistance, or that it requires more focus from teen drivers, focus that cannot be achieved when intoxicated, even mildly. Anyway, teens that consume alcohol should never drive, even at legal concentrations.
The only difference is that before you replaced the main board for a smaller price than getting a new processor. But yes, maybe the fab process will improve reliability overall. Just asking questions.
Voltage regulators fail often. Wouldn't that decrease the operational life of the processor (I know, a concern only for people that keep operating old junk for a long time, the processor will be well past its prime when it would fail, but still a valid concern for long amortization systems).
Voice over phone line is in "clear", and ATT could listen to it. Yet it is still required to have warrant to bug the line. I fail to see what is different with my emails. They are traveling "the infrastructure" in clear, that doesn't mean they are intended to be read by every bystander. As a matter of fact, somebody got a very harsh sentence for intruding onto S. Palin's mailboxes and revealing the content of these emails, so it seems to be quite clear and settled that emails are not to be considered public by default.
Never thought that there is a reason for using a low power CPU. A 486 uses passive cooling, very little power, and doesn't have superscalar. Superscalar is super cool when performance is all what matters but if predictability is what you want, speculative execution and deep pipelines are certainly not on the feature list.
If I have no use for the extra computing capabilities, I certainly would choose a 486 on technical ground alone.
Actually the worst part of temperature extreme is condensation (and even worst, frost). For the rest, the electronic component do not really care about temperature, as long as no water gets onto them and temperature gradient are not too extreme.
You just don't know about it. I've been to many places that sell and thrive on expensive beers. Actually, in Seattle, this place shaped like a cathedral in Pitts, the Academie de la Biere in Paris, don't even speak about Belgium beers, they are expensive and widely available (not speaking of Kriek here, more delirium tremens, and other high gravity types).
There is a market, it is very alive. You just do not know about it.
Oh, and remember, subcontracting for state business is always a load of fun. You have to make a public call for work, have contractors bid, have your accountants respond to bids, and choose the lowest bidder (or risk having to justify your choice in court, personal liability for public funding abuse). Said otherwise, hiring subcontractors to rush a fix takes weeks, if not month of accounting procedures, or risk the accountants going to prison, and then you get the company that responded to the bid with the lowest price, usually somewhat ineffective.
And during all that time, no work can be done, and you pay all these workers seating in their chairs doing nothing while their work computer is being repaired. Who's wasting money now?
We do use quite a number of computers in our department, and reading that story I immediately thought amortization and depreciation cost. Our machines are budgeted for a fixed use term. Every 4 year, a machine is decommissioned and replaced by a new one (for a variety of reasons, ranging from bell curve reliability, obsolescence, end of maintenance contract, having to buy again all software that comes bundled with a new machine anyway, all reasons make it more cost effective to just replace the hardware rather that keep it until it breaks, which would cause disruption in work flow). When it is decommissioned, it ends up at the auction house, w/o a hard drive (they go to the crusher).
If we were to experience a massive, disruptive virus infection say 3 month before planned decommissioning, there would be no question that hiring more people to rush repair of current obsolete hardware makes no financial sense, whatsoever. Even if good practices for backup are in place, restoring all these machines in short order takes time and manpower. That means hiring on short order new people (or subcontracting, whatever, that's going to be expensive specialist hours), but more importantly, every hour where one of the 50 or more affected workers cannot use the computer is an hour where you pay people to do nothing, said otherwise, you have fixed cost and no work is done, yo are loosing money, and that may very well be accounted for in the 130k figure for the "repair" option.
Last time I looked, there was quota on production in Europe, because we overproduce massively. This GMO nonsense is pure Monsanto BS. There is no underproduction crisis in Europe, and never will be. Capacity is at 60-70% of peak possible production w/o GMO. Population growth in europe is low. This is utter nonsense.
That is about the most stupid thing I've read in some time. Fire the $3/h janitor, and make the $20/h manager carry around trash cans for 1/2 hours, and call -that- saving money???
Pretty stupid in reality. Having any publication in such a conference/journal is a disgrace in your resume, a stain that marks you with infamy or stupidity. Only Ph.D. studends get caught stupidly, but hopefully they look like fools only to their advisor for simply proposing this. All others are malignant, but I hope its not to boost their resumee, because its more a criterion to not interview somebody than anything else.
In the case at hand, the side of the law would not be clear. The infrastructure is classified. Wikimedia claims all information is publicly available, DCRI claims the contrary, not clear who would won the case, even if Wikimedia was the body being attacked.
In fact, the backlash of the population is the best protection of Wikimedia, rather than court.
I hesitated between moding you up and answering. What you say is somewhat true but wrong nonetheless.
It is true that Roadrunner is very difficult to use. The consequence is that it has been used to run the designed nuclear stockpile application, and that's it. Nothing else, so to speak. And even running that single application has proven difficult.
Now, the machine has been pioneering the accelerator field. It has been the testbed for all new generation computers that are coming now. In some sense, its failure has been enabling current and future success, so it has been far from useless, even if its production record is not excellent.
For the Titan issues, the machine is being remanufactured at no cost by the vendor, so it should be a short lived problem.
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And remember I am saying all that, meanwhile I am all infuriated by the fact that incoherent and inconsistent units make it super hard to do the most simple things, like comparing the price per volume/weight of produces you buy at the local grocery store. One is labeled in oz, the other in pounds, the third one in fluid oz (brilliant, having too different things with the same name). Anyway, I am buying groceries, not participating in counting-bees contest, so computint divisions by 12 and multiplications 16^3 was not in my program for the day. This is were mandating consistent units for selling volumes of goods and comparable price/g or price/L would make sense. Conversion and comparison is simpler for consumer. Instead, the unit jungle makes price impossible to compare.
I was born and raised in metric land. I am now doing everything in "imperial" measurements, because using foreign units to do daily tasks is just about as productive as speaking cantonese to order food at your local burger drive-in. It doesn't work without excruciating efforts.
Go to a shop, buy food produces, everything is labeled in oz and other random nonsensical units. Still, converting everything doesn't make it easier. Cooking is their example, so lets try it! You'd thought that using your imported cookbook, you'd be able to cook all in metric. Not so quickly. First cookware are not in metric, but I also had imported metric measuring bowls, haha ! Then I discovered that the amount of fat in butter, milk, etc is not the same as in Europe (it is standardized, but standardized differently). So all recipe made with an european cookbook fail miserably, the cake falls, it looks dry, or wet, but never quite right. Good luck then finding a US cookbook using metric measurements. Then, what is the point exactly of using an imperial cookbook, convert all units to metric, use metric tool and result in failure because you made conversion errors ?
Nop, You are making a conversion error (it is expressed in g/L in most places, equivalent to 10BAC). Most of Europe is between 0.05 BAC and 0.03 BAC. Many countries are at statutory 0, not sure how that is enforced in practice (since natural BAC is often in the 0.01 range).
Well, actually, BAC is a statistically significant indicator for inability to perform driving tasks, as is illustrated by over representation of BAC>0.08 in death rate statistics.
You could walk/bike or segway 1.6 miles in much less time that this. Not blaming you, just listing options you may not have thought about.
Its in DC that you find the best violinists in the subway (Joshua Bell in subway on youtube or so :) )
There is significant literature from EU authorities (and each of the member states local DOT).
Bottom line is:
* 0.08 is the last "safe" limit. Performance is already decreased, but It is approximately equivalent to driving with children in the backseat. Not the best, but acceptable risk. About twice as bad as 0.05.
* However, above 0.08, performance decrease sternly and exponentially. At 0.1, chances of death or dismemberment become alarmingly hight. It is not obvious for a driver to make the distinction between 0.08 "happy" and 0.1 "drunk", since one may not feel impaired, but he is, really.
* Anything over 0.12 is classical "drunk driving" as understood by common folks. Chances of accidents are extremely elevated.
* 0.05 is the bottom of the exponential curve. There are still benefits from driving with a lower BAC, but the lions share of the exponential decrease is passed. The difference with 0.08 is significant (half less chances of accident, or more, more pronounced for young drivers). Below that, chances of accident continue to decrease, but not as quickly, so there is little benefits to be reaped going even lower.
Another interesting point is that effect of BAC on drivers is very age related. Being drunk at 0.1 when you are an experienced driver in your 30's puts you back at the same risk as when you were 16 and road racing everywhere and everyone (this is bad, indeed). However, a teen driver at 0.08 is already at extreme risk (as if he was an experienced driver at 1.4 or more from my memory), the statistics I read just showed this result, but didn't explained why. Could be that most 30+ have acquired some sort of higher alcohol resistance, or that it requires more focus from teen drivers, focus that cannot be achieved when intoxicated, even mildly. Anyway, teens that consume alcohol should never drive, even at legal concentrations.
The only difference is that before you replaced the main board for a smaller price than getting a new processor. But yes, maybe the fab process will improve reliability overall. Just asking questions.
So, now, mathematics are patentable.
Voltage regulators fail often. Wouldn't that decrease the operational life of the processor (I know, a concern only for people that keep operating old junk for a long time, the processor will be well past its prime when it would fail, but still a valid concern for long amortization systems).
Voice over phone line is in "clear", and ATT could listen to it. Yet it is still required to have warrant to bug the line. I fail to see what is different with my emails. They are traveling "the infrastructure" in clear, that doesn't mean they are intended to be read by every bystander. As a matter of fact, somebody got a very harsh sentence for intruding onto S. Palin's mailboxes and revealing the content of these emails, so it seems to be quite clear and settled that emails are not to be considered public by default.
Never thought that there is a reason for using a low power CPU. A 486 uses passive cooling, very little power, and doesn't have superscalar. Superscalar is super cool when performance is all what matters but if predictability is what you want, speculative execution and deep pipelines are certainly not on the feature list.
If I have no use for the extra computing capabilities, I certainly would choose a 486 on technical ground alone.
Actually the worst part of temperature extreme is condensation (and even worst, frost). For the rest, the electronic component do not really care about temperature, as long as no water gets onto them and temperature gradient are not too extreme.
Go read statistics. Several europeans countries trump US for anti-depressant consumption per-capita.
Also, bonding between mother and newborn is, and should be, a lot more intense then for the father.
Why?
Simple question. I hope trying to answer it will make you realize the deep misogynistic undertone of that statement.
Beside, maybe it's your choice. Not mine.
You just don't know about it. I've been to many places that sell and thrive on expensive beers. Actually, in Seattle, this place shaped like a cathedral in Pitts, the Academie de la Biere in Paris, don't even speak about Belgium beers, they are expensive and widely available (not speaking of Kriek here, more delirium tremens, and other high gravity types).
There is a market, it is very alive. You just do not know about it.
Oh, and remember, subcontracting for state business is always a load of fun. You have to make a public call for work, have contractors bid, have your accountants respond to bids, and choose the lowest bidder (or risk having to justify your choice in court, personal liability for public funding abuse). Said otherwise, hiring subcontractors to rush a fix takes weeks, if not month of accounting procedures, or risk the accountants going to prison, and then you get the company that responded to the bid with the lowest price, usually somewhat ineffective.
And during all that time, no work can be done, and you pay all these workers seating in their chairs doing nothing while their work computer is being repaired. Who's wasting money now?
We do use quite a number of computers in our department, and reading that story I immediately thought amortization and depreciation cost. Our machines are budgeted for a fixed use term. Every 4 year, a machine is decommissioned and replaced by a new one (for a variety of reasons, ranging from bell curve reliability, obsolescence, end of maintenance contract, having to buy again all software that comes bundled with a new machine anyway, all reasons make it more cost effective to just replace the hardware rather that keep it until it breaks, which would cause disruption in work flow). When it is decommissioned, it ends up at the auction house, w/o a hard drive (they go to the crusher).
If we were to experience a massive, disruptive virus infection say 3 month before planned decommissioning, there would be no question that hiring more people to rush repair of current obsolete hardware makes no financial sense, whatsoever. Even if good practices for backup are in place, restoring all these machines in short order takes time and manpower. That means hiring on short order new people (or subcontracting, whatever, that's going to be expensive specialist hours), but more importantly, every hour where one of the 50 or more affected workers cannot use the computer is an hour where you pay people to do nothing, said otherwise, you have fixed cost and no work is done, yo are loosing money, and that may very well be accounted for in the 130k figure for the "repair" option.
Last time I looked, there was quota on production in Europe, because we overproduce massively. This GMO nonsense is pure Monsanto BS. There is no underproduction crisis in Europe, and never will be. Capacity is at 60-70% of peak possible production w/o GMO. Population growth in europe is low. This is utter nonsense.
That is about the most stupid thing I've read in some time. Fire the $3/h janitor, and make the $20/h manager carry around trash cans for 1/2 hours, and call -that- saving money???
Pretty stupid in reality. Having any publication in such a conference/journal is a disgrace in your resume, a stain that marks you with infamy or stupidity. Only Ph.D. studends get caught stupidly, but hopefully they look like fools only to their advisor for simply proposing this. All others are malignant, but I hope its not to boost their resumee, because its more a criterion to not interview somebody than anything else.
In the case at hand, the side of the law would not be clear. The infrastructure is classified. Wikimedia claims all information is publicly available, DCRI claims the contrary, not clear who would won the case, even if Wikimedia was the body being attacked.
In fact, the backlash of the population is the best protection of Wikimedia, rather than court.
I heard that death is also an effective treatment to ingrown toenails.
And we could call this taxes, and make education free for all who merits.
I hesitated between moding you up and answering. What you say is somewhat true but wrong nonetheless.
It is true that Roadrunner is very difficult to use. The consequence is that it has been used to run the designed nuclear stockpile application, and that's it. Nothing else, so to speak. And even running that single application has proven difficult.
Now, the machine has been pioneering the accelerator field. It has been the testbed for all new generation computers that are coming now. In some sense, its failure has been enabling current and future success, so it has been far from useless, even if its production record is not excellent.
For the Titan issues, the machine is being remanufactured at no cost by the vendor, so it should be a short lived problem.