Because one frame day with a pixel resolution of 31cm panchromatic imagery from the WorldView-3 satellite is as privacy invading as drone with a live full HD video feed just a few meters away.
Seems some people don't understand the what privacy actually means.
Unfortunately this reopening was botched with the 16 miles of double track being knocked back to 9 by the SNP. Also the track was laid in the middle of the formation, making re-instatement of double track difficult and disruptive. Also stupid penny pinching cost-cutting meant new bridges were built for single line with no future proofing for success.
In the UK the new budget Fire tablet has gone out of stock twice now since it's launch, and is currently out of stock till the 6th November, and has been for a bit. I think that fairly clearly answers the question of whether it is selling.
Here is the thing about the Fire tablet, at least based of my experience of the original Fire 7 HD tablet I have had for three years now.
First it still gets updates, mine updated fairly recently (last month I think). Not bad for a three year old tablet. Also the build quality seems pretty good on the older models at least, the three year old plain Kindle Fire model is still in constant daily use by my 8 year niece.
Second the combination of parental controls and Freetime for children is second to none, and is only getting better with the new models.
Thirdly applicable to the new models is they come with a microSD slot, which is super useful. It means that for not much extra you can get a 64GB card and stick a significant amount of movies/TV shows on the tablet. The idea that you would in 2015 have a in car DVD player is laughable. Handbrake the DVD and stick it on the tablet, which also works on air-planes, airports, and anywhere there is no internet.
Finally because they are so dam cheap a lot more people can afford to provide one to all their children. My brothers two girls are getting replacement ones for Christmas, £50 is great value for money and more importantly the microSD slot solves the capacity issue for video content.
The idea that LW clocks lose 1s for every 300km is a laughable. I have two in operation one MSF and the other DCF77, the difference in the distances from me is well over 300km, more like 1000km. I have a decade of data showing them to be milliseconds apart. Sure GPS is better, but multiple sources are better still, and a lw radiology is better than some random time-served on the Internet; again I have a decade of data to prove that.
The thing is that using diesel generators and storing diesel on sight is a dumb and stupid solution to the problem of backup power generation and shows a total lack of critical thinking by those designing data centres.
Here is the thing, mains gas supply is several orders of magnitude more reliable than electrical supply (at least here in the U.K.) this is down to two factors, firstly when things go wrong really bad things happen so the regulations governing it are much higher, and two the entire network is under ground.
So rather than storing and having to use it up, because you can't store diesel indefinitely you would be far better off using mains gas to supply some gas turbines for your backup electrical generation and not bothering to store anything on site, and also not having to worry about topping it up should you loose the grid electrical supply.
Now you might be saying what if I loose both mains gas and grid electrical supply at the same time? Well first off this is an incredibly rare event,and even having backup generators is not a 100% guarantee you won't go down in the first place.
More importantly if your usage is so critical that you cannot afford to go down due to loosing both grid electrical supply and mains gas supply at the same time then using a single data centre in a single geographic location is a none starter for you in the first place. You need a secondary site at the other side of the country.
In my view putting a diesel backup generator in a data centre anywhere in Europe is the sign of a clueless moron.
In the UK there is still a fairly large amount of 415VAC three phase above ground serving older properties. But in general most stuff has been below ground now for a long time in towns and cities.
The problem with this is two fold. First you must have a Powershell to being with, which means you have to launch from a Windows machine. On the other hand if I can get a Powershell on a remote machine with SSH I can use any client under the sun from a mobile phone to a workstation and everything in between.
The second issue is good luck with getting holes in the firewall so you can do a remote Powershell in the first place.
Hum, rather than dicking about with a software render get some GPU's onto your cluster. I find it hard to believe that HPC clusters exist in 2015 with zero GPU nodes, and if they do the solution is to add the GPU nodes.
Heck our next cluster (in planing stages) is going to have all the login nodes with GPU's (Dell Precision R7910, four GPU's per login node) rather than dedicated visualization login nodes, because life is too short. That is in addition to compute nodes being equipped with GPU's.
Even though I am not a lawyer I know that you are wrong, you can of course sign away your right to sue.
However you can only do this by signing a settlement agreement on what you might be about to sue over. Think about it for a moment, if you cannot sign away your right to sue then settlement agreements would be dead in the water, because you would sign the settlement agreement take any money and then immediately sue anyway.
Further (in the UK at least) before filing court documents you must (or at least failure to do so will prejudice your case) sent the defendant a letter before action giving them the opportunity to settle. So a settlement agreement can take place without even a case being registered at the court.
I guess logical thinking is not something to expect on slashdot.
The elderly, infirm and the very young have a tendency to die in heat waves. Heck you don't even need to be any of those either, just take the SAS training debarcle back in 2013.
And there was me thinking there was no such processor as "Acorn Archimedes", and the Apple processors being ARM derivatives anyway (aka the processor used in the Acorn Archimedes"
Surely that would require Trump to actually accept the donation? I am not American and think Trump is a bit of a clown really, but the one thing that he does seem to have going for him is that he can't be brought by donors.
Really given that HDCP is stuffed to high heaven and HDMI recorders are readily available I would strongly argue that DRM on video is as broken as any other DRM.
Put them on a very slow download rate, basically rate limit the ads so they take much longer to download than you would spend on the page.
To counter the malware aspect of ads, if you do nothing with the downloaded binary data then your chances of getting any sort of infection from it is effectively zero. It's opening them up and trying to parse the data that gets you into trouble.
If you think that RoCE is a viable alternative for Infiniband/MPI then you have been on the crack pipe again.
Sure you might be able to replace QDR Infiniband with RoCE, but the Infiniband world has moved on, and replacing EDR with RoCE is a sick joke. While your RoCE gets maybe 1.5us latency which is in the ball park of QDR at 1.2us, by EDR is doing 0.5us latency, and Infiniband is about latency as much as throughput. In addition EDR Infiniband is a lot cheaper than RoCE at 100Gbps.
For a lot of use cases of stand by generators the need for storage of natural gas is irrelevant. Here in the UK at least the gas supply is orders of magnitude more reliable than the electrical supply. If you have lost both electrical and gas supply at the same time there is probably some really bad shit going on anyway and it is probably game over at that site.
We are also in the realm where because your application is mission critical you can't afford the outage that if you wish to protect against loosing both electrical and gas supplies at the same time which is such an incredibly rare event anyway that you need to consider geographically separated multi-site options anyway.
So just ditch the diesel save a shed load of money and hassle on the storage and delivery options and just use the gas mains.
No you are dumping UPTO 40 times the amount of NOx into the air than the maximum from the test. The important bit is the UPTO, It could mean that if I floor the accelerator from a standing start for the first 0.5s it is wildly over the limit aka 40 times over, for the next 0.5s its is only a bit over say 4x and after a second it is back under the limit. The UPTO 40 times has not been qualified to my knowledge though is almost certainly only going to apply to transient conditions and anyway only applies to VW.
However you are also assuming that petroleum spirit engines don't produce any NOx which is incorrect and that NOx is the only variable in the mix of stuff coming out the exhaust that is worth considering as a pollutant.
In the last ten years I have gone from 512/128kbps to 40/20Mbps, and with the application of a bit more cash I could go to 80/20Mbps tomorrow (or more likely at the start of the next month billing cycle in about weeks time). However I don't really feel the need for the extra download speed at the moment.
According to my maths that is roughly an 80 times improvement in a decade. Wind the clock back another couple of years and I was on dial up at 56/33 kbps so another order of magnitude improvement.
In that time time span there was several increases in the upload speed. First to 2Mbps then 8Mbps, then a switch to ADSL2, before a switch to VDSL2.
If BT/Openreach are to believed in the next five to six years I will be able to get G.Fast for at least another order of magnitude improvement in speeds.
The problem with this is that fuel economy depends on the driver to a large part as well. So "More Power Jezzer" is always going to get lousy mileage compared to a more average driver. The problem then is that certain types of drivers are more likely to buy certain types of car. So the mileage figures produced by this method are going to be at least in part a reflection in part of the type of person who drives the car rather than what the car is capable of.
Seems to me that a $50k insurance bond is utterly inadequate. It is perfectly possible for an vehicle accident to cause substantially more than $50k worth of damage. For starters medical bills are likely to be more than that, and even here in the UK the NHS is supposed to recover the cost from the insurers. Even putting aside medical bills that can easily run to seven figures, plenty of cars cost more than $50k so you so something stupid cause a crash that results in someone else's $100k car being written off? How about you loose control leave the road and demolish part of a house causing $100k worth of repairs?
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And according to Wikipedia increasingly common in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anyway the Raspberry Pi, ARM and Element14 are all British companies so stop being so dam parochial.
Because one frame day with a pixel resolution of 31cm panchromatic imagery from the WorldView-3 satellite is as privacy invading as drone with a live full HD video feed just a few meters away.
Seems some people don't understand the what privacy actually means.
Here is two examples from Scotland, the first from seven years ago where in the first year usage was three times the predicated volume
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The second is the newly reopened Borders railway which while a bit early to be sure looks to be following a similar pattern
http://www.scotsman.com/news/t...
Unfortunately this reopening was botched with the 16 miles of double track being knocked back to 9 by the SNP. Also the track was laid in the middle of the formation, making re-instatement of double track difficult and disruptive. Also stupid penny pinching cost-cutting meant new bridges were built for single line with no future proofing for success.
In the UK the new budget Fire tablet has gone out of stock twice now since it's launch, and is currently out of stock till the 6th November, and has been for a bit. I think that fairly clearly answers the question of whether it is selling.
Here is the thing about the Fire tablet, at least based of my experience of the original Fire 7 HD tablet I have had for three years now.
First it still gets updates, mine updated fairly recently (last month I think). Not bad for a three year old tablet. Also the build quality seems pretty good on the older models at least, the three year old plain Kindle Fire model is still in constant daily use by my 8 year niece.
Second the combination of parental controls and Freetime for children is second to none, and is only getting better with the new models.
Thirdly applicable to the new models is they come with a microSD slot, which is super useful. It means that for not much extra you can get a 64GB card and stick a significant amount of movies/TV shows on the tablet. The idea that you would in 2015 have a in car DVD player is laughable. Handbrake the DVD and stick it on the tablet, which also works on air-planes, airports, and anywhere there is no internet.
Finally because they are so dam cheap a lot more people can afford to provide one to all their children. My brothers two girls are getting replacement ones for Christmas, £50 is great value for money and more importantly the microSD slot solves the capacity issue for video content.
The idea that LW clocks lose 1s for every 300km is a laughable. I have two in operation one MSF and the other DCF77, the difference in the distances from me is well over 300km, more like 1000km. I have a decade of data showing them to be milliseconds apart. Sure GPS is better, but multiple sources are better still, and a lw radiology is better than some random time-served on the Internet; again I have a decade of data to prove that.
An additional idea for a cheap personal stratum 1 device if you happen to live in the reception area of a suitable LW radioclock.
http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonat...
Had my own personal dual source (MSF/DF77) stratum 1 time server for over a decade now.
The thing is that using diesel generators and storing diesel on sight is a dumb and stupid solution to the problem of backup power generation and shows a total lack of critical thinking by those designing data centres.
Here is the thing, mains gas supply is several orders of magnitude more reliable than electrical supply (at least here in the U.K.) this is down to two factors, firstly when things go wrong really bad things happen so the regulations governing it are much higher, and two the entire network is under ground.
So rather than storing and having to use it up, because you can't store diesel indefinitely you would be far better off using mains gas to supply some gas turbines for your backup electrical generation and not bothering to store anything on site, and also not having to worry about topping it up should you loose the grid electrical supply.
Now you might be saying what if I loose both mains gas and grid electrical supply at the same time? Well first off this is an incredibly rare event,and even having backup generators is not a 100% guarantee you won't go down in the first place.
More importantly if your usage is so critical that you cannot afford to go down due to loosing both grid electrical supply and mains gas supply at the same time then using a single data centre in a single geographic location is a none starter for you in the first place. You need a secondary site at the other side of the country.
In my view putting a diesel backup generator in a data centre anywhere in Europe is the sign of a clueless moron.
In the UK there is still a fairly large amount of 415VAC three phase above ground serving older properties. But in general most stuff has been below ground now for a long time in towns and cities.
The problem with this is two fold. First you must have a Powershell to being with, which means you have to launch from a Windows machine. On the other hand if I can get a Powershell on a remote machine with SSH I can use any client under the sun from a mobile phone to a workstation and everything in between.
The second issue is good luck with getting holes in the firewall so you can do a remote Powershell in the first place.
Hum, rather than dicking about with a software render get some GPU's onto your cluster. I find it hard to believe that HPC clusters exist in 2015 with zero GPU nodes, and if they do the solution is to add the GPU nodes.
Heck our next cluster (in planing stages) is going to have all the login nodes with GPU's (Dell Precision R7910, four GPU's per login node) rather than dedicated visualization login nodes, because life is too short. That is in addition to compute nodes being equipped with GPU's.
Even though I am not a lawyer I know that you are wrong, you can of course sign away your right to sue.
However you can only do this by signing a settlement agreement on what you might be about to sue over. Think about it for a moment, if you cannot sign away your right to sue then settlement agreements would be dead in the water, because you would sign the settlement agreement take any money and then immediately sue anyway.
Further (in the UK at least) before filing court documents you must (or at least failure to do so will prejudice your case) sent the defendant a letter before action giving them the opportunity to settle. So a settlement agreement can take place without even a case being registered at the court.
I guess logical thinking is not something to expect on slashdot.
Isn't it fortunate that we have alarm clocks that wake you up by recreating a natural sunrise in your bedroom at the time of your choosing then.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sunrise+a...
The Portuguese had an empire that lasted longer than any other modern European colonial empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It would be trivially easy as a result to find "shit" Portugal has done.
The elderly, infirm and the very young have a tendency to die in heat waves. Heck you don't even need to be any of those either, just take the SAS training debarcle back in 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-w...
It's called heatstroke. I would also suggest that it is way easier to heat a cold building than cool a hot one.
And there was me thinking there was no such processor as "Acorn Archimedes", and the Apple processors being ARM derivatives anyway (aka the processor used in the Acorn Archimedes"
Surely that would require Trump to actually accept the donation? I am not American and think Trump is a bit of a clown really, but the one thing that he does seem to have going for him is that he can't be brought by donors.
Really given that HDCP is stuffed to high heaven and HDMI recorders are readily available I would strongly argue that DRM on video is as broken as any other DRM.
Put them on a very slow download rate, basically rate limit the ads so they take much longer to download than you would spend on the page.
To counter the malware aspect of ads, if you do nothing with the downloaded binary data then your chances of getting any sort of infection from it is effectively zero. It's opening them up and trying to parse the data that gets you into trouble.
I will politely refer you to the recent Hatton Gardens
If you think that RoCE is a viable alternative for Infiniband/MPI then you have been on the crack pipe again.
Sure you might be able to replace QDR Infiniband with RoCE, but the Infiniband world has moved on, and replacing EDR with RoCE is a sick joke. While your RoCE gets maybe 1.5us latency which is in the ball park of QDR at 1.2us, by EDR is doing 0.5us latency, and Infiniband is about latency as much as throughput. In addition EDR Infiniband is a lot cheaper than RoCE at 100Gbps.
For a lot of use cases of stand by generators the need for storage of natural gas is irrelevant. Here in the UK at least the gas supply is orders of magnitude more reliable than the electrical supply. If you have lost both electrical and gas supply at the same time there is probably some really bad shit going on anyway and it is probably game over at that site.
We are also in the realm where because your application is mission critical you can't afford the outage that if you wish to protect against loosing both electrical and gas supplies at the same time which is such an incredibly rare event anyway that you need to consider geographically separated multi-site options anyway.
So just ditch the diesel save a shed load of money and hassle on the storage and delivery options and just use the gas mains.
No you are dumping UPTO 40 times the amount of NOx into the air than the maximum from the test. The important bit is the UPTO, It could mean that if I floor the accelerator from a standing start for the first 0.5s it is wildly over the limit aka 40 times over, for the next 0.5s its is only a bit over say 4x and after a second it is back under the limit. The UPTO 40 times has not been qualified to my knowledge though is almost certainly only going to apply to transient conditions and anyway only applies to VW.
However you are also assuming that petroleum spirit engines don't produce any NOx which is incorrect and that NOx is the only variable in the mix of stuff coming out the exhaust that is worth considering as a pollutant.
In the last ten years I have gone from 512/128kbps to 40/20Mbps, and with the application of a bit more cash I could go to 80/20Mbps tomorrow (or more likely at the start of the next month billing cycle in about weeks time). However I don't really feel the need for the extra download speed at the moment.
According to my maths that is roughly an 80 times improvement in a decade. Wind the clock back another couple of years and I was on dial up at 56/33 kbps so another order of magnitude improvement.
In that time time span there was several increases in the upload speed. First to 2Mbps then 8Mbps, then a switch to ADSL2, before a switch to VDSL2.
If BT/Openreach are to believed in the next five to six years I will be able to get G.Fast for at least another order of magnitude improvement in speeds.
The problem with this is that fuel economy depends on the driver to a large part as well. So "More Power Jezzer" is always going to get lousy mileage compared to a more average driver. The problem then is that certain types of drivers are more likely to buy certain types of car. So the mileage figures produced by this method are going to be at least in part a reflection in part of the type of person who drives the car rather than what the car is capable of.
Seems to me that a $50k insurance bond is utterly inadequate. It is perfectly possible for an vehicle accident to cause substantially more than $50k worth of damage. For starters medical bills are likely to be more than that, and even here in the UK the NHS is supposed to recover the cost from the insurers. Even putting aside medical bills that can easily run to seven figures, plenty of cars cost more than $50k so you so something stupid cause a crash that results in someone else's $100k car being written off? How about you loose control leave the road and demolish part of a house causing $100k worth of repairs?