Again, let's just look at the history. Computers are about 1000x faster than they were in 1980.
Math Fail. 30 years is 30*12=360 months. 360/13=about 27.7//a doubling of speed in 13 months. Not sure if this is accurate 2^27.7 = 218,037,342.4. That is way more than 1000 times
Example: A Cray X-MP (1982) had 400 MFLOPS
The Cray XT-5 (2009)has 1.759 PFLOPS
This is (1.759x10^15)/(400*10^6)=4,397,500 times as much. Not as much as predicted with x2 every 13 months, but you get the picture.
No: There is a lot to be learned from the internet, the problem is: There is more useful knowledge on the web than any man can memorise, and more is created faster than we can assimilate it. However, the useful knowledge is diminished by useless knowledge. By a factor 1 million or so.
Your knowledge of rabbit carnivorous creatures is lacking my friend. Although it looks cute the Rabbit of Caerbannog should not be trifled with! On a side note: is copy paste somehow destroyed on/.? I was trying to copy the name from Wikipedia but it will not paste.
The big bang is not determinable with sufficient precision so i'd advise against it. Science will determine it more exactly in time. If Oracle can't handle leap seconds, what about leap millenia?
The money could have been used for something useful in the mean time. Excessive backup capacity is expensive, even without maintenance cost. They could have invested the money into research, for example. The fibers that would have been laid a couple of years later would have been cheaper and better. The is also a more perceptive cost. I do not know if it's the case now, but executives tend to hold on building new capacity if there was even the perception of massive overcapacity in the past. This may cause the reverse effect: the plans for the lines will be made when the lines should have been in place already.
they never informed him in the first place that he was not supposed to discard it?
When would they have been able to tell him? I would suspect something was amiss when some feds would show up on my door informing me I should not discard the GPS tracker they just placed on my car, in the unlikely event I would discover it on accident... Quite the conundrum. Although I must say I am such a wuss I'd probably comply with them, except for the "do not contact a lawyer" part.
1. I do not consider dim turnons a problem. They give my eyes time to adjust.
2. I have never seen premature heat death, although that may just be my preference in fixtures (all bulbs are horizontal on the ceiling).
3. The x10 price is compensated by the lifetime (in my fixtures at least). The energy efficiency is just bonus.
4. Since we try to recycle about everything here (in the Netherlands) the recycle costs are not important. The truck already has to ride for the batteries and other chemicals. The transportation cost just moves from glass to chemicals
5. The edisons we use are also produced in China or India. Both lightsources are transported en masse by sea. The fuel cost per bulb is next to nothing. You also need less of them to have light for your entire life, so there aren't as many transported
1. Dim turnons are no problem in my view. I like it when a lamp starts dim. It gives my eyes time to adjust instead of blinding it directly when the lamp is turned on. Good nightvision can be a bliss, but this isn't always so.
2. I have never had problems with premature heat death of my lamps, although this may be caused by my preference in fixtures.
3. The high cost is already offset by the lifetime. The low energy savings are added as a bonus. They are cheaper (disclaimer: I buy them for less than EUR 5)
4. Since we try to recycle about everything around here (The Netherlands) the fuel cost of recycling is no problem. The lamps go in the same truck as the batteries. The fuel changes from glass recycle trucks to battery recycle trucks
5. The bulbs that are available here are also produced in China or India. Both lightsources are transported en masse by boat so the fuel cost per bulb is next to none.
In my beer fermentation chamber a lightbulb is perfect. Not to much capacity (so not much overshoot in the simple thermostat control). They just die so fast.
The problem is the knowledge, not the persistence of the cookie. Your grandfather thought he was doing something useful, but it messed everything up. The system did what it was supposed to do.
Cookies have limitations. Evercookie helps me overcome some of those limitations.
Please enlighten me: what limitations do cookies have that I do not want them to have (as customer) that are solved by evercookies?
If someone deletes a cookie it should be deleted. Evercookie is created to prevent the deletion of cookies. That is what I would call evil.
The limitations of cookies that are solved with evercookie are only a problem for people wanting to gather data against the wishes of the customer. Those are the people that I do not want to gather data.
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Again, let's just look at the history. Computers are about 1000x faster than they were in 1980.
Math Fail. //a doubling of speed in 13 months. Not sure if this is accurate
30 years is 30*12=360 months.
360/13=about 27.7
2^27.7 = 218,037,342.4.
That is way more than 1000 times
Example: A Cray X-MP (1982) had 400 MFLOPS
The Cray XT-5 (2009)has 1.759 PFLOPS
This is (1.759x10^15)/(400*10^6)=4,397,500 times as much. Not as much as predicted with x2 every 13 months, but you get the picture.
No: There is a lot to be learned from the internet, the problem is: There is more useful knowledge on the web than any man can memorise, and more is created faster than we can assimilate it. However, the useful knowledge is diminished by useless knowledge. By a factor 1 million or so.
Or another option:
Yes. They try to disable us. The insensitive clods!
Next step is to paint a real bazooka orange so the cops will think it's a lifesaving device!
it depends: if you bet on it to do so it won't. If you bet on it to miss it'll hit.
Carnivorous swamp beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists.
FTFY
Your knowledge of rabbit carnivorous creatures is lacking my friend. Although it looks cute the Rabbit of Caerbannog should not be trifled with! /.? I was trying to copy the name from Wikipedia but it will not paste.
On a side note: is copy paste somehow destroyed on
The big bang is not determinable with sufficient precision so i'd advise against it. Science will determine it more exactly in time. If Oracle can't handle leap seconds, what about leap millenia?
Usually I respond: "13 maart 1980". Just because English is a widely known language doesn't mean it's the only or, $Deity forbid, the best way.
The money could have been used for something useful in the mean time. Excessive backup capacity is expensive, even without maintenance cost. They could have invested the money into research, for example. The fibers that would have been laid a couple of years later would have been cheaper and better.
The is also a more perceptive cost. I do not know if it's the case now, but executives tend to hold on building new capacity if there was even the perception of massive overcapacity in the past. This may cause the reverse effect: the plans for the lines will be made when the lines should have been in place already.
They don't pay for it so they don't have a reason to lower the usage.
they never informed him in the first place that he was not supposed to discard it?
When would they have been able to tell him? I would suspect something was amiss when some feds would show up on my door informing me I should not discard the GPS tracker they just placed on my car, in the unlikely event I would discover it on accident...
Quite the conundrum.
Although I must say I am such a wuss I'd probably comply with them, except for the "do not contact a lawyer" part.
Hey, it's theirs. You're just returning it....
They should not have any problems. They even asked for the thing back.
No, they contain the dedicated chip and use the line noise of the DVI connection to calculate what the sound should have been...
In my beer fermentation chamber a lightbulb is perfect. Not to much capacity (so not much overshoot in the simple thermostat control). They just die so fast.
Okay, my wording was incorrect: I claim the right to know who's calling me. If someone wants to remain anonymous THEY SHOULD NOT CALL ME!
There should be a way to mod to +10000.
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i suppose you can browse without flash, javascript, cookies, AND images disabled. but that's not exactly a rockin' web experience
Lynx FTW!
The problem is the knowledge, not the persistence of the cookie. Your grandfather thought he was doing something useful, but it messed everything up. The system did what it was supposed to do.
Cookies have limitations. Evercookie helps me overcome some of those limitations.
Please enlighten me: what limitations do cookies have that I do not want them to have (as customer) that are solved by evercookies?
If someone deletes a cookie it should be deleted. Evercookie is created to prevent the deletion of cookies. That is what I would call evil.
The limitations of cookies that are solved with evercookie are only a problem for people wanting to gather data against the wishes of the customer. Those are the people that I do not want to gather data.
Completely ignoring the issue: I hate it that it's so easy to call anonymously. I have the right to know who's calling me.