how much will it cost to service hubble? will it be cheaper to just create an equivalent telescope and launch it? or create a better scope and launch it?
just realized the practicality of keeping something so old might leave us out of something new.
though i don't live in the us or even an american, my take is they just let the us take control. after all, they invented the internet. for those people who are discontented, just create your own dns entries, ip address allocations, as allocations to be separate from control of the us.
though the actions of the us through icann may be questionable at times, i don't seem to find any difference if let say the un will be managing it. it will not stop china from censoring content. as far as resources (ip and as) are concerned, the us started with the wasteful class based allocation that improved to cidr. requesting blocks from registries such as apnic are not much of a problem (you just have to justify it.)
a lot of tech companies now are buying others. i guess the main goal here is to eliminate competition rather than create new sources of income.
let's take google and youtube for example. if google didn't buy youtube, some other company will have the access to the users. it's a loss for google. by gobbling them up, they reduce the chance other companies from competing with them.
well look at amd and ati. for me financially, i don't see the advantage to amd. but it shakes the arena.
i came from hong kong one time and when i went back home there was a sticker in my bag. they didn't use the long white label with barcode strips. when i removed the sticker, there was a chip attached to it. i was surprised they used rfid already. but i guess their system there is much efficient and prevents lost baggages (from my impression but don't have the numbers to actually verify.)
datacenter should at least provide: precision cooling redundant power backup power (ups and generators) security connectivity access structural protection fire protection
in disasters, all the stuff out there go out while computers in the datacenters keep on running
just recently, a storm struck the capital city (Manila, Philippines) and knocked power and communications in most areas for days (loss of mobile phone, difficult communications, no internet in residential areas, no cable tv, no technology.) that place that i worked for had everything running inside the datacenter at least (though internet connectivity was intermittent.) our datacenter kept running as it was designed to do.
well i guess that the ceo just looks at computational requirements that can be divided in smaller chunks (ala seti@home and other similar projects.) but what about those applications that cannot be done like big databases and simulations. i guess the computing part is easy. the question can we connect everything more efficient? how can we move data across all the island of computing devices?
as i sidenote, sun has built their business in servers hosted in datacenters. i guess they should stop selling them and focus instead in embedded computing and other non-datacenter related items. they could also focus on communications for those embedded devices.
though i am not discounting it, how about the north koreans were just waiting for an earthquake to happen and just coincide that to say they have tested a nuclear bomb. i just would like to know if there are other ways of verifying such test aside from earthquake data.
also got the emulator for nes, supernes and have been playing the legacy games.
the window games that i like:
1. freecell/minesweeper/solitaire/hearts (for those times when you need a quickie!) 2. diablo 3. red alert
i wouldn't want to burn money in changing hardware every 3 months just to play the top of the line games (sometimes just put it in for graphics but the user experience fails!)
since they are fictional, i don't expect them to be accurate.
i believe the audience will be very bored watching movies if everything were to be done as is. there's no thrill and excitement.
when i do watch movies and i see it to be wrong, i just ignore it so i can still have fun watching it. otherwise, if i go complaining all the inaccuracies, then bah!
i will bow to the people who done that. it's so neat it makes me cry. they have a bunch of extremely oc people doing it.
anyway, me and my friend have been trying to find a way of neatly doing wiring jobs (inside a datacenter.) however, the problem that we have is that our patching moves from time to time as well as new additions happening. the neat pictures have everything terminated which we don't have that luxury. it's really difficult to make it totally neat.
i live in the philippines and banks here require registration of accounts before you are allowed to move funds to transfer to them. registration will have to go to the bank branch and do it one time.
by doing this you won't be worried that all of a sudden, your account will be drained. if ever someone will be able to access your account, they will just be able to view the account information instead. at least damage is minimized.
is there a cheap network enabled (snmp) meter? maybe that can help us by allowing us to pool the power consumption with historical charts so we can track our usage. being able to check on the watts usaged at any given moment is good and by turning on/off devices, we can measure its actual consumption (especially the standby and typical ones.)
based on the text being ad support, it will be very unwise for business to use it even if it is free.
assuming they put up the increased functionality of a word processor and spreadsheet (even presentation,) then they will practically be able to read the documents of everyone. it's like giving your ideas, corporate secrets, intentions, plans, etc to google for them to see. even if they are for "ad purposes", it is still scary. basically, they already know me inside out from the searches i make (even though i disable cookies by default, my isp gives me an almost static ip add.)
no thanks. i'll keep private data with me. i've got open office just in case the free argument goes into place. i'm beginning to appreciate microsoft now as google is able to collect much more information from me than them.
add $40 more so we can get a super duper resolution of 1680x1050 and cd-writer
after a few months...
add $40 more so we can upgrade to dvd writer functionality, a built in cf/sd/mmc/etc slot, and some speed bump in the processor
after a few months...
add $40 more so we can upgrade to blu-ray/hd-dvd drives, add wimax card builtin
after a few months...
add $40 more so we can upgrade to 802.11n, and speed up the processor
after a few months...
add $40 more for a directx10 video card with 256mb ram and hdmi video output with increase in resolution of monitor
after a few months...
add $40 to increase memory and storage capacity
well i am not against the concept. it is a good objective. but i would rather see it get lower. i'd rather have the headline, "peoples' laptop now $40 cheaper!" or "new features added for free." i wouldn't want it to keep on increasing to a point it is the same as with any manufactured laptop out there. the price has increased by 40%. it's either the government/organizations subsidizing will get less laptop and less beneficiaries or they will increase the budget (which is highly unlikely.)
changing the type may confuse the people and may not do as desired. i mean we humans attach terms to objects out of usage even though it is not it.
like cracking and hacking. it seems the mixup between the two led to the definition of hacking to be as cracking. this might fragment the people's belief of planets.
anyway, they specifically narrowed the planet definition to the solar system as defined by the sun. instead of trying to find a word for it, why not tell specifically that a planet can either be mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, neptune, and uranius instead. why all the vague definition since it does not apply to objects found outside of the solar system. i don't see finding a new object as big as earth between uranius and mercury.
i just find it weird that it is limited to the solar system. they want to create other definition or words such as planetoids for planets not found in the solar system?
i've been using office 2007 beta 2 for quite some time now. their new ui is actually better and more user friendly than the old one. it is easier to do the functions you need in one click (mostly.) however, i just would want that old menus still be there because there are times when i am at a loss to a previous function in the menu and i can't seem to find it through the ribbons. other improvements (great productivity boost) that i liked is the 'preview' mechanism that displays changes to the text by just pointing to the selection. ex. the text adjust its size and font as you browse through the selection.
i install it in my laptop and when other people see it, they find it cool that they would also like to get a copy of it. but alas, microsoft started charging for the download of the software. i was lucky to have it before (the product key is not transferrable to other computers by the way.)
isn't the sun what we call specifically to the star at the center of the solar system which is where earth belongs? shouldn't it be star instead? would this definition just limit to eight planets in the universe (it would seem very unlikely that they will find more planets in the solar system with the new definition.)
anyway, i was hoping that they decided to give just one exemption to pluto to be part of the planet and all others will no longer be planets. at least everybody will be ok with it. i mean normal people would find it confusing.
from the springboard research website, the actual tally is:
Country Per Capital Public Sector IT Spending
New Zealand $198.78
Australia $193.82
Singapore $152.89
Hong Kong $67.22
Korea $52.96
Taiwan $45.22
Malaysia $21.92
Thailand $7.41
China $3.67
Philippines $2.94
India $1.29
Indonesia $1.10
china spends $3.67 and not $1. there is a big difference given their huge population.
all in all
Country Total Spending China 4,794,171,690.04 Australia 3,893,928,499.34 Korea 2,515,600,000.00 India 1,413,004,073.55 Taiwan 1,035,284,044.48 New Zealand 802,168,937.58 Singapore 676,648,330.80 Malaysia 534,538,007.36 Thailand 478,920,118.95 Hong Kong 463,729,672.92 Indonesia 269,998,012.90 Philippines 258,300,970.62
* population figures from google and cia.
from springboard research: "A key focus of this report was to dive deeper into the Public Sector in each country to measure the Sub-Vertical Industries within the Public Sector such as Defence, Healthcare, Social Services, Taxation/Finance, etc... and to provide granular data on each of these Sub-Verticals." i don't think that you should spend a lot for it in those areas as the money will be better used for doctors, nurses, medical equipment, medicine, equipment and other stuff.
this does not include private it spending that may also complement some items as what the public sector is spending.
* sorry, i don't know much of html and don't want to spend time learning how to format the tables properly as i redid this comment and calculations for a couple of times.
i work for a school. we filter pages due to the traffic strain in bandwidth and not through censhorship. our philosophy is use but don't abuse. internet is not free and we pay money for it. we can charge everybody (tuition) extremely high rates to be able to run probably 10ge of internet access to our site to satisfy everyone's download and streaming requirements. but of course, who would pay such an expensive fee for internet only.
lately, the speed has been slowing down to a point that it is like viewing sites in a dial-up internet access (typical downloads only clock at 5kbytes/s). well guess who is at the 2nd to the top (the top being almost always windowsupdate?) youtube. the others are usually from yahoo but we have akamai colocated servers so much of it is cached (for yahoo and windowsupdate.) we filtered youtube and the speed improved tremendously to around 40kbytes/s downloads.
well my point is, assuming filtering is not because of security measures, i will really recommend that employees be charged with use of resource intensive sites that are not work related. companies will deduct the internet usage charges from their salary (of course prices will be higher than regular broadband since the bandwidth is "guaranteed".) let see if they would use it that much.
i would want to add 2nd and 3rd.
second, some filtering can be done because of legal issues. in the news that i've seen lately, violation of laws penalizes the company more and may not affect the employee. so if someone were to sue company x, then its expenses will come from the company. if only it was legal, companies will put the burden on the people who violated it and all money involved. so the person will probably have sold his soul and work every day of his life paying for the violations he made (and will probably not pay everything till death.) i believe, everybody will be extremely careful and probably do self filtering. this is probably much cheaper and effective i believe. they may even ask the company to filter traffic for them.
(please correct this argument if it is flawed and i ended it in ?) third, some filtering can be countered as against free speech. i am not sure but isn't the right of having a home, food to eat, clean water all part of basic rights as with free speech? given the scenario of internet usage in the company, is it ok to say that giving them uncensored internet access because they have the right to free speed would tantamount to the company having to give them free food, free housing, and other basic necessities? the counter argument also goes that if you are not required to give free food, free housing, etc, then giving free internet access due to free speech reasons is not necessary?
from the article, young people will not want to work for those. they probably should start their own company instead of working for one so they can set the rules (like allowing for porn downloads during work and downloading all the malware and viruses to the employees' heart content.) they will probably do some filtering after. anyway, most company these days will probably have some filtering done due to the first and more on the second.
amd has been able to add new fabs (contracted) to their product line. i believe the latest was from chartered that just shipped this july.
given this, i believe that dell has just been waiting for amd to be able to supply them with the chips they need. amd of course will not stop shipping to other vendors just to supply dell.
this is just timing on the products. i believe the product line for dell will increase as amd will be able to ramp up production through its own and 3rd party foundries.
intel uses 300mm wafer manufacturing with small die size. the area in each core can fit more per wafer than amd can giving intel a price advantage even with all the cache.
intel released the new chips much earlier than planned due to their yields. intel got lucky in being able to ramp up yields in their 65nm manufacturing compared to 90nm.
the same sony batteries are used by hp and apple too. so do we expect recalls from hp and apple or is it a different issue where the batteries explode on dell laptops only?
yes, i agree with that. sorry for the statement. but following rounding off rules, the last digit should be 7 (as we humans would have done it.) but my question now comes back to the example given in the article that when 0.37 is stored then retrieved, the calculator returns the same value. it doesn't give me 0.370000004 or any other value than 0.37. is there something wrong with my understanding of the problem?
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how much will it cost to service hubble? will it be cheaper to just create an equivalent telescope and launch it? or create a better scope and launch it?
just realized the practicality of keeping something so old might leave us out of something new.
though i don't live in the us or even an american, my take is they just let the us take control. after all, they invented the internet. for those people who are discontented, just create your own dns entries, ip address allocations, as allocations to be separate from control of the us.
though the actions of the us through icann may be questionable at times, i don't seem to find any difference if let say the un will be managing it. it will not stop china from censoring content. as far as resources (ip and as) are concerned, the us started with the wasteful class based allocation that improved to cidr. requesting blocks from registries such as apnic are not much of a problem (you just have to justify it.)
their corporate sp3 version will be released this year under the name vista and next year to the consumers.
it is one year ahead of schedule.
it did not crash. i'm using ie7. mwahahahaha...
a lot of tech companies now are buying others. i guess the main goal here is to eliminate competition rather than create new sources of income.
let's take google and youtube for example. if google didn't buy youtube, some other company will have the access to the users. it's a loss for google. by gobbling them up, they reduce the chance other companies from competing with them.
well look at amd and ati. for me financially, i don't see the advantage to amd. but it shakes the arena.
i came from hong kong one time and when i went back home there was a sticker in my bag. they didn't use the long white label with barcode strips. when i removed the sticker, there was a chip attached to it. i was surprised they used rfid already. but i guess their system there is much efficient and prevents lost baggages (from my impression but don't have the numbers to actually verify.)
datacenter should at least provide:
precision cooling
redundant power
backup power (ups and generators)
security
connectivity
access
structural protection
fire protection
in disasters, all the stuff out there go out while computers in the datacenters keep on running
just recently, a storm struck the capital city (Manila, Philippines) and knocked power and communications in most areas for days (loss of mobile phone, difficult communications, no internet in residential areas, no cable tv, no technology.) that place that i worked for had everything running inside the datacenter at least (though internet connectivity was intermittent.) our datacenter kept running as it was designed to do.
well i guess that the ceo just looks at computational requirements that can be divided in smaller chunks (ala seti@home and other similar projects.) but what about those applications that cannot be done like big databases and simulations. i guess the computing part is easy. the question can we connect everything more efficient? how can we move data across all the island of computing devices?
as i sidenote, sun has built their business in servers hosted in datacenters. i guess they should stop selling them and focus instead in embedded computing and other non-datacenter related items. they could also focus on communications for those embedded devices.
though i am not discounting it, how about the north koreans were just waiting for an earthquake to happen and just coincide that to say they have tested a nuclear bomb. i just would like to know if there are other ways of verifying such test aside from earthquake data.
i've been playing the classic games lately. got dosbox and been playing:
1. pinball (dreams, fantasy, illusions)
2. descent
3. doom1/2
also got the emulator for nes, supernes and have been playing the legacy games.
the window games that i like:
1. freecell/minesweeper/solitaire/hearts (for those times when you need a quickie!)
2. diablo
3. red alert
i wouldn't want to burn money in changing hardware every 3 months just to play the top of the line games (sometimes just put it in for graphics but the user experience fails!)
since they are fictional, i don't expect them to be accurate.
i believe the audience will be very bored watching movies if everything were to be done as is. there's no thrill and excitement.
when i do watch movies and i see it to be wrong, i just ignore it so i can still have fun watching it. otherwise, if i go complaining all the inaccuracies, then bah!
i will bow to the people who done that. it's so neat it makes me cry. they have a bunch of extremely oc people doing it.
anyway, me and my friend have been trying to find a way of neatly doing wiring jobs (inside a datacenter.) however, the problem that we have is that our patching moves from time to time as well as new additions happening. the neat pictures have everything terminated which we don't have that luxury. it's really difficult to make it totally neat.
i live in the philippines and banks here require registration of accounts before you are allowed to move funds to transfer to them. registration will have to go to the bank branch and do it one time.
by doing this you won't be worried that all of a sudden, your account will be drained. if ever someone will be able to access your account, they will just be able to view the account information instead. at least damage is minimized.
is there a cheap network enabled (snmp) meter? maybe that can help us by allowing us to pool the power consumption with historical charts so we can track our usage. being able to check on the watts usaged at any given moment is good and by turning on/off devices, we can measure its actual consumption (especially the standby and typical ones.)
it is not surprising - emerging nations have people without mobile phones
developing nations are saturated with some having more than 100% penetration
after everybody has mobile phones, let see where they will see growth. probably aliens?
based on the text being ad support, it will be very unwise for business to use it even if it is free.
assuming they put up the increased functionality of a word processor and spreadsheet (even presentation,) then they will practically be able to read the documents of everyone. it's like giving your ideas, corporate secrets, intentions, plans, etc to google for them to see. even if they are for "ad purposes", it is still scary. basically, they already know me inside out from the searches i make (even though i disable cookies by default, my isp gives me an almost static ip add.)
no thanks. i'll keep private data with me. i've got open office just in case the free argument goes into place. i'm beginning to appreciate microsoft now as google is able to collect much more information from me than them.
add $40 more so we can get a super duper resolution of 1680x1050 and cd-writer
after a few months...
add $40 more so we can upgrade to dvd writer functionality, a built in cf/sd/mmc/etc slot, and some speed bump in the processor
after a few months...
add $40 more so we can upgrade to blu-ray/hd-dvd drives, add wimax card builtin
after a few months...
add $40 more so we can upgrade to 802.11n, and speed up the processor
after a few months...
add $40 more for a directx10 video card with 256mb ram and hdmi video output with increase in resolution of monitor
after a few months...
add $40 to increase memory and storage capacity
well i am not against the concept. it is a good objective. but i would rather see it get lower. i'd rather have the headline, "peoples' laptop now $40 cheaper!" or "new features added for free." i wouldn't want it to keep on increasing to a point it is the same as with any manufactured laptop out there. the price has increased by 40%. it's either the government/organizations subsidizing will get less laptop and less beneficiaries or they will increase the budget (which is highly unlikely.)
changing the type may confuse the people and may not do as desired. i mean we humans attach terms to objects out of usage even though it is not it.
like cracking and hacking. it seems the mixup between the two led to the definition of hacking to be as cracking. this might fragment the people's belief of planets.
anyway, they specifically narrowed the planet definition to the solar system as defined by the sun. instead of trying to find a word for it, why not tell specifically that a planet can either be mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, neptune, and uranius instead. why all the vague definition since it does not apply to objects found outside of the solar system. i don't see finding a new object as big as earth between uranius and mercury.
i just find it weird that it is limited to the solar system. they want to create other definition or words such as planetoids for planets not found in the solar system?
i've been using office 2007 beta 2 for quite some time now. their new ui is actually better and more user friendly than the old one. it is easier to do the functions you need in one click (mostly.) however, i just would want that old menus still be there because there are times when i am at a loss to a previous function in the menu and i can't seem to find it through the ribbons. other improvements (great productivity boost) that i liked is the 'preview' mechanism that displays changes to the text by just pointing to the selection. ex. the text adjust its size and font as you browse through the selection.
i install it in my laptop and when other people see it, they find it cool that they would also like to get a copy of it. but alas, microsoft started charging for the download of the software. i was lucky to have it before (the product key is not transferrable to other computers by the way.)
why is the definition orbiting around a sun?
isn't the sun what we call specifically to the star at the center of the solar system which is where earth belongs? shouldn't it be star instead? would this definition just limit to eight planets in the universe (it would seem very unlikely that they will find more planets in the solar system with the new definition.)
anyway, i was hoping that they decided to give just one exemption to pluto to be part of the planet and all others will no longer be planets. at least everybody will be ok with it. i mean normal people would find it confusing.
from the springboard research website, the actual tally is:
Country Per Capital Public Sector IT Spending
New Zealand $198.78
Australia $193.82
Singapore $152.89
Hong Kong $67.22
Korea $52.96
Taiwan $45.22
Malaysia $21.92
Thailand $7.41
China $3.67
Philippines $2.94
India $1.29
Indonesia $1.10
china spends $3.67 and not $1. there is a big difference given their huge population.
all in all
Country Total Spending
China 4,794,171,690.04
Australia 3,893,928,499.34
Korea 2,515,600,000.00
India 1,413,004,073.55
Taiwan 1,035,284,044.48
New Zealand 802,168,937.58
Singapore 676,648,330.80
Malaysia 534,538,007.36
Thailand 478,920,118.95
Hong Kong 463,729,672.92
Indonesia 269,998,012.90
Philippines 258,300,970.62
* population figures from google and cia.
from springboard research: "A key focus of this report was to dive deeper into the Public Sector in each country to measure the Sub-Vertical Industries within the Public Sector such as Defence, Healthcare, Social Services, Taxation/Finance, etc... and to provide granular data on each of these Sub-Verticals." i don't think that you should spend a lot for it in those areas as the money will be better used for doctors, nurses, medical equipment, medicine, equipment and other stuff.
this does not include private it spending that may also complement some items as what the public sector is spending.
* sorry, i don't know much of html and don't want to spend time learning how to format the tables properly as i redid this comment and calculations for a couple of times.
i work for a school. we filter pages due to the traffic strain in bandwidth and not through censhorship. our philosophy is use but don't abuse. internet is not free and we pay money for it. we can charge everybody (tuition) extremely high rates to be able to run probably 10ge of internet access to our site to satisfy everyone's download and streaming requirements. but of course, who would pay such an expensive fee for internet only.
lately, the speed has been slowing down to a point that it is like viewing sites in a dial-up internet access (typical downloads only clock at 5kbytes/s). well guess who is at the 2nd to the top (the top being almost always windowsupdate?) youtube. the others are usually from yahoo but we have akamai colocated servers so much of it is cached (for yahoo and windowsupdate.) we filtered youtube and the speed improved tremendously to around 40kbytes/s downloads.
well my point is, assuming filtering is not because of security measures, i will really recommend that employees be charged with use of resource intensive sites that are not work related. companies will deduct the internet usage charges from their salary (of course prices will be higher than regular broadband since the bandwidth is "guaranteed".) let see if they would use it that much.
i would want to add 2nd and 3rd.
second, some filtering can be done because of legal issues. in the news that i've seen lately, violation of laws penalizes the company more and may not affect the employee. so if someone were to sue company x, then its expenses will come from the company. if only it was legal, companies will put the burden on the people who violated it and all money involved. so the person will probably have sold his soul and work every day of his life paying for the violations he made (and will probably not pay everything till death.) i believe, everybody will be extremely careful and probably do self filtering. this is probably much cheaper and effective i believe. they may even ask the company to filter traffic for them.
(please correct this argument if it is flawed and i ended it in ?) third, some filtering can be countered as against free speech. i am not sure but isn't the right of having a home, food to eat, clean water all part of basic rights as with free speech? given the scenario of internet usage in the company, is it ok to say that giving them uncensored internet access because they have the right to free speed would tantamount to the company having to give them free food, free housing, and other basic necessities? the counter argument also goes that if you are not required to give free food, free housing, etc, then giving free internet access due to free speech reasons is not necessary?
from the article, young people will not want to work for those. they probably should start their own company instead of working for one so they can set the rules (like allowing for porn downloads during work and downloading all the malware and viruses to the employees' heart content.) they will probably do some filtering after. anyway, most company these days will probably have some filtering done due to the first and more on the second.
amd has been able to add new fabs (contracted) to their product line. i believe the latest was from chartered that just shipped this july.
given this, i believe that dell has just been waiting for amd to be able to supply them with the chips they need. amd of course will not stop shipping to other vendors just to supply dell.
this is just timing on the products. i believe the product line for dell will increase as amd will be able to ramp up production through its own and 3rd party foundries.
intel uses 300mm wafer manufacturing with small die size. the area in each core can fit more per wafer than amd can giving intel a price advantage even with all the cache.
intel released the new chips much earlier than planned due to their yields. intel got lucky in being able to ramp up yields in their 65nm manufacturing compared to 90nm.
the same sony batteries are used by hp and apple too. so do we expect recalls from hp and apple or is it a different issue where the batteries explode on dell laptops only?
yes, i agree with that. sorry for the statement. but following rounding off rules, the last digit should be 7 (as we humans would have done it.) but my question now comes back to the example given in the article that when 0.37 is stored then retrieved, the calculator returns the same value. it doesn't give me 0.370000004 or any other value than 0.37. is there something wrong with my understanding of the problem?