I'd call them 'space opera' - distinct from sci-fi in that the science and technology is present only to provide a setting for the story, with it's inner workings left deliberatly unexplored. Replace the lightsabers with magic wands and the droids with demons, and you could make the same story almost work in a fantasy setting.
And which is now being subject to criticism of the science too, as some microbiologists suspect it may be a false result steming from improperly cleaned samples. Still, it's not entirely unexpected: NASA's funding and continued existence depend upon the good will of Congress, and getting politicians to spend money requires NASA retain a high public profile. The moon landings are far behind them, and the average voter couldn't care less about analysing rocks on mars or the irregularity in the heliopause. What they want is excitement - spacemen and aliens! How can the reality of science compete with the fantasy of movies?
Also, there are no hot chicks in space. Seriously. Prolonged microgravity screws with the lymphatic system, causing a redistribution of water which results in the face swelling. Maybe if you could spin the ship.
It should have continued for another five minutes, to the point where his heart explodes from the stress of launch. Remember that, for all the way the movie attacks genetic discrimination, he was still barred from applying as an astronaut because he had a medical condition which would have a small but significent chance of proving fatal under extreme conditions like space-travel.
3001 wasn't that terrible. It had a few interesting points raised to consider:
- Would the future romanticise our time, just as we romanticised the middle ages into knights in shining armour?
- Will the abolition of personal privacy be the only way to ensure public safety in an era where anyone with a high-school education can construct city-destroying superweapons or viruses that could kill billions?
Interesting. You have discovered the inverse to the normal movie volcano rule, in which lava flows travel fast enough to keep up with a car. It appears that in movies, lava is super-fast and pyroclastic flows far slower than in reality, both so they can travel at exactly the right speed to keep up with the heroes. This rule also applies to avalanches, which travel at the exact speed of a downhill skier.
They don't need to throttle anything - that would be legally dubious. It's much safer for them to just do nothing, neglecting to upgrade the connection. They will still be providing a 'best effort' service, but just making sure that the best they can do isn't too good.
A CDN in the exchange, from a technological prespective, could be a very good idea. The question is over the long-term business implications. A CDN, after all, is worthless if the un-CDNed best-effort service is good enough. Running the CDN gives BT an incentive to delay upgrading, lest they reduce the demand for the higher tier.
It's just good business sense on any tiered business. Don't make the cheap product too good, otherwise you cut into demand for the expensive product.
It actually would be lower latency too. The speed of light in glass is higher than the speed of electrical signals in cat5. I don't know the cat5 speed from memory, but IIRC the speed in coax is around 2/3 C.
From what I've read in the networking magazine we get at work, the current debate in high-speed tradeing IT is 10-gig ethernet vs infiniband, with the latter offering lower latency in the end devices.
And before anyone mocks me for that absolutly terrible spelling error: I'm short on sleep, caffeine, and... I can't even be bothered to finish that sentence. Consider my excuse preemptively made.
Where would the profit be in buying a declining stock?
I oversimplified the example for clarity - in realise the algolrythms used are far more complex, and include some safeguards against this type of collective behavior, otherwise it would happen all the time. Still, the possibility is there. The 2010 Dow mini-crash was caused in large part by high-frequency tradeing which amplified a minor variation into a severe one - and came dangerously close to progressing into a full-blown crash. It was only a combination of a final emergency safeguard closing the market for fice seconds and a lot of blind luck that averted disaster. High-frequency tradeing, espicially of the extremes seen today, is just inviting another such incident - and with the frequency of tradeing constantly going up, next time there might be no stopping a crash until it's too late.
There is just one difference, though. The trading machines, regardless of their location, have the same length cable to the switch. Even if it means coiling some of it up. The latency demands are so strict, the customers even care about the cable length - and it's just easier to give all the customers the same length than to maintain tiered pricing on the racks.
It wouldn't even need deliberate manipulation. When there are thousands of programs all making the same decisions on the same input, even a natural fluctuation can trigger a disaster. A stock falls a bit, programs see it, and within milliseconds are selling - triggering a further fall, a feedback cycle of collapse.
BMI is used because it's convenient. There are better measures, but they need specialised equipment or extensive time-consuming measurements by someone with special training. All you need to determine BMI are scales and a stick with height markings.
We're at the point of non-survival already. Without modern technology, it would be impossible to produce enough food and many communities would be without enough water. If something happened tomorrow to wipe out just electricity and the mechanised engine, I imagine well over half the population of the world would be dead in five years. Humanity would survive, but the losses would be harsh, and numbers could never recover without the return of those technologies.
I don't see why an MRI machine processor can't be made fault-tolerant. If a GPU burns out, it could just be disabled and a fault warning indicated - and then the machine can carry on working, even if it does take significently longer to produce an image. Then you call tech support, they come around and pull the faulty part and slot in a new one. The only concern then is making sure parts are available in twenty years - and I imagine any machine that expensive has to come with a long-term support contract which will oblige the manufacturer to ensure a supply of compatible boards in years to come.
The typical home user rarely needs to do any really heavy number-crunching - the closest they get is physics in games. It has definate use in scientific computing and analytics, though - espicially as it allows the engineers to constantly improve the programs without needing to get new silicon manufacturered. It's a niche into which GPGPU has settled quite happily, though - and it does such a good job, only the most extremally demanding workloads may justify the expense of FPGAs and people with the skills to put them to use. Weather prediction comes to mind - something that doesn't just demand huge amounts of processing power, but has all calculations needed as soon as possible. It's not much use predicting tomorrow's weather if it takes a day to run.
The invasive ads get a substantially higher click-through rate. That's why so many advertisers use them. Plus you can present a lot more information in a flash rollout that covers have the screen than you can in a little ad-banner.
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I'd call them 'space opera' - distinct from sci-fi in that the science and technology is present only to provide a setting for the story, with it's inner workings left deliberatly unexplored. Replace the lightsabers with magic wands and the droids with demons, and you could make the same story almost work in a fantasy setting.
Read again. It did.
And which is now being subject to criticism of the science too, as some microbiologists suspect it may be a false result steming from improperly cleaned samples. Still, it's not entirely unexpected: NASA's funding and continued existence depend upon the good will of Congress, and getting politicians to spend money requires NASA retain a high public profile. The moon landings are far behind them, and the average voter couldn't care less about analysing rocks on mars or the irregularity in the heliopause. What they want is excitement - spacemen and aliens! How can the reality of science compete with the fantasy of movies?
Also, there are no hot chicks in space. Seriously. Prolonged microgravity screws with the lymphatic system, causing a redistribution of water which results in the face swelling. Maybe if you could spin the ship.
It should have continued for another five minutes, to the point where his heart explodes from the stress of launch. Remember that, for all the way the movie attacks genetic discrimination, he was still barred from applying as an astronaut because he had a medical condition which would have a small but significent chance of proving fatal under extreme conditions like space-travel.
3001 wasn't that terrible. It had a few interesting points raised to consider:
- Would the future romanticise our time, just as we romanticised the middle ages into knights in shining armour?
- Will the abolition of personal privacy be the only way to ensure public safety in an era where anyone with a high-school education can construct city-destroying superweapons or viruses that could kill billions?
Ok, that's about it.
Interesting. You have discovered the inverse to the normal movie volcano rule, in which lava flows travel fast enough to keep up with a car. It appears that in movies, lava is super-fast and pyroclastic flows far slower than in reality, both so they can travel at exactly the right speed to keep up with the heroes. This rule also applies to avalanches, which travel at the exact speed of a downhill skier.
They don't need to throttle anything - that would be legally dubious. It's much safer for them to just do nothing, neglecting to upgrade the connection. They will still be providing a 'best effort' service, but just making sure that the best they can do isn't too good.
A CDN in the exchange, from a technological prespective, could be a very good idea. The question is over the long-term business implications. A CDN, after all, is worthless if the un-CDNed best-effort service is good enough. Running the CDN gives BT an incentive to delay upgrading, lest they reduce the demand for the higher tier.
It's just good business sense on any tiered business. Don't make the cheap product too good, otherwise you cut into demand for the expensive product.
It actually would be lower latency too. The speed of light in glass is higher than the speed of electrical signals in cat5. I don't know the cat5 speed from memory, but IIRC the speed in coax is around 2/3 C.
From what I've read in the networking magazine we get at work, the current debate in high-speed tradeing IT is 10-gig ethernet vs infiniband, with the latter offering lower latency in the end devices.
And before anyone mocks me for that absolutly terrible spelling error: I'm short on sleep, caffeine, and... I can't even be bothered to finish that sentence. Consider my excuse preemptively made.
Where would the profit be in buying a declining stock?
I oversimplified the example for clarity - in realise the algolrythms used are far more complex, and include some safeguards against this type of collective behavior, otherwise it would happen all the time. Still, the possibility is there. The 2010 Dow mini-crash was caused in large part by high-frequency tradeing which amplified a minor variation into a severe one - and came dangerously close to progressing into a full-blown crash. It was only a combination of a final emergency safeguard closing the market for fice seconds and a lot of blind luck that averted disaster. High-frequency tradeing, espicially of the extremes seen today, is just inviting another such incident - and with the frequency of tradeing constantly going up, next time there might be no stopping a crash until it's too late.
There is just one difference, though. The trading machines, regardless of their location, have the same length cable to the switch. Even if it means coiling some of it up. The latency demands are so strict, the customers even care about the cable length - and it's just easier to give all the customers the same length than to maintain tiered pricing on the racks.
It wouldn't even need deliberate manipulation. When there are thousands of programs all making the same decisions on the same input, even a natural fluctuation can trigger a disaster. A stock falls a bit, programs see it, and within milliseconds are selling - triggering a further fall, a feedback cycle of collapse.
Risky. Some people could take such a request badly, even respond violently, and there is no way to know before asking.
BMI is used because it's convenient. There are better measures, but they need specialised equipment or extensive time-consuming measurements by someone with special training. All you need to determine BMI are scales and a stick with height markings.
We're at the point of non-survival already. Without modern technology, it would be impossible to produce enough food and many communities would be without enough water. If something happened tomorrow to wipe out just electricity and the mechanised engine, I imagine well over half the population of the world would be dead in five years. Humanity would survive, but the losses would be harsh, and numbers could never recover without the return of those technologies.
My alarm clock: /home/mainuser/kirbytheme.wav 2>/dev/null
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This is slashdot. Do you really think anyone here doesn't know what a holodeck is? Half the users have probably tried to design one.
I don't see why an MRI machine processor can't be made fault-tolerant. If a GPU burns out, it could just be disabled and a fault warning indicated - and then the machine can carry on working, even if it does take significently longer to produce an image. Then you call tech support, they come around and pull the faulty part and slot in a new one. The only concern then is making sure parts are available in twenty years - and I imagine any machine that expensive has to come with a long-term support contract which will oblige the manufacturer to ensure a supply of compatible boards in years to come.
The typical home user rarely needs to do any really heavy number-crunching - the closest they get is physics in games. It has definate use in scientific computing and analytics, though - espicially as it allows the engineers to constantly improve the programs without needing to get new silicon manufacturered. It's a niche into which GPGPU has settled quite happily, though - and it does such a good job, only the most extremally demanding workloads may justify the expense of FPGAs and people with the skills to put them to use. Weather prediction comes to mind - something that doesn't just demand huge amounts of processing power, but has all calculations needed as soon as possible. It's not much use predicting tomorrow's weather if it takes a day to run.
Reliable bandwidth on the scale Wikipedia must need is not.
The invasive ads get a substantially higher click-through rate. That's why so many advertisers use them. Plus you can present a lot more information in a flash rollout that covers have the screen than you can in a little ad-banner.
"if i starve myself for a week no fat loss only water weight loss"
Are you aware that you need to lug your lard-filled body off the couch and actually move around a bit in order to use up the fat??
Mechanical drives can sustain a read of between 50MB/s and 80MB/s, depending how much you want to spend.