This is the one thing that prevents me from using Chrome regularly, at least on my desktop machine (64-but Ubuntu 9.10). I haven't looked into the reasons why, but FF will display PDFs using the browser plugin provided by acroread, and Chrome just gives me a blank page.
That's cool. I basically use my real name online everywhere, and in any case it's trivial to find out my name, address and phone number from my domain name registrations.
I gave up on anonymity long ago. Not that there's anything wrong with it, I just don't bother.
Like I mentioned before, my country of birth has several political parties, but there are only two or three that are the most popular at one point.
No conozco las políticas de Chile, pero de lo que leo en Wikipedia, es un sistéma fuera de lo común.
I feel that way is much healthier than having two and only two. But eh, it's not like it's going to change anytime soon.
I'd really like to see us switch to approval voting. I think it more accurately represents the will of the electorate and would have the tendency to break up the current duopoly. I used to be Republican-ish, but have drifted more and more libertarian over the years, to the point where I really dislike both parties about equally and would love to see some new blood.
The reality is that in the current system, if you want to make some sort of change, the only way to do it is to pick one of the parties and work within it to hopefully alter their platform. It sucks.
BTW, how'd the henna work out on your hair?
:P
Sorry, I'm intrigued when I see people who appear to use their real name on-line (I use most of mine) and so I often google them to see if it's a pseudonym -- or at least if it's a consistently-used pseudonym -- and your questions about dying your hair with henna showed up on the first page.
Accuracy and entertainment just don't always go well together.
That may be true, but your post doesn't support the point.
What your post points out is that Hollywood is equally bad at portraying other specialties accurately. That's a separate question from whether or not an accurate portrayal can also be entertaining -- or if it might sometimes even be MORE entertaining.
If your CPU is running at 60%, you need more or faster memory, and faster main storage, not a faster CPU. The CPU is being starved for data. More parallel processing would mean that your CPU would be even more underutilized.
I suspect his 60% load is one core running flat out doing the build, and the other core consuming 20% of its capacity one some other stuff. If that's the case, then parallelizing the build into would easily max out his CPUs.
By definition. And since EMC is a storage company, they're almost certainly using the SI prefixes properly.
The author of the summary is, I think, confusing zettabytes and petabytes with the base-2 units, zebibytes and pebibytes. For all of the binary prefix haters, when you get up into these sizes the difference between base 2 and base 10 units is more than big enough to justify the effort to use the correct terms. The difference between one zebibyte and one zettabyte is over 180 exabytes.
NTP is accurate to within 10 milliseconds in any decent connection. Get a really good, stable, low latency connection and hook yourself up to a stratum 1 server and you can cut that number down tenfold...
Can anyone explain what kind of financial application would require bigger accuracy?
Where have all the nerds gone?
Why are we debating whether or not the people who think they need highly accurate time really need it? What's cool about this article is the nerdly reaching for every higher degrees of accuracy, of digging deeply into a seriously difficult technical challenge and achieving new levels. What's cool for those of us who don't work on super-accurate timescales is the opportunity to read about how those who do think about this stuff, to see what math they use and what the issues are.
I don't mind a little discussion of social implications of technology, but it'd be nice to see at least a little discussion of the technology itself.
Except printer drivers are PPD files, plain old text.
PPD files aren't drivers, they just describe the printer, including what filters to use, what options to set and where to send the output. The actual "driver" is the combination of the PPD and one or more filters, which are usually binary executables.
In any case, the specific printer drivers aren't in the kernel. All that's in the kernel is the drivers for passing data through USB ports, parallel ports, etc.
Loss-less would be ideal but would run even modern data cards down to nothing in meantime.
Lossless RAW is the only way anyone will shoot with such a camera and back, but it's not a problem. A 64 GB CF card would hold over a thousand images, and medium format is used for shooting landscapes, not action. The cameras are big, heavy, used on a tripod and taking photographs with one is normally a process of minutes to hours of setup followed by a handful of shots.
There are a few photographers that use medium format for portraits, but it's rare. And even then you're talking about dozens of shots, not thousands.
What were they going to do if it turned out to have a very dangerous effect on the plane anyway, bring the passengers back as zombies and comp them a free flight?
Don't be silly.
They would have asked the government to compensate them for having told them it was safe to continue flying.
So, the solution is to start changing size from the top down, keeping the $1 bill the same.
Makes sense, but it would end up being a little odd, because you'd have to change the size by making the larger-denomination bills smaller in physical size. As you point out, the size of the $1 bill should probably remain fixed, but the obvious (to me) approach of making the larger denominations larger in size would mean that the new bills wouldn't fit in our wallets. So, you'd have to make them smaller.
"Adjusting" the DPI makes no sense whatsoever. The DPI is what it is, it's a characteristic of the screen (well, by changing screen size you can change the DPI, but that's not what you mean).
What you want is to have fonts rendered at the proper size, so that letters in a 12-point font are 1/6th of an inch high regardless of what screen DPI is. If you have more pixels per inch, then the 1/6th inch-high letter will look smoother, if you have less it will have more jagged edges (though anti-aliasing can help, at the expense of edges that are blurry rather than jagged). Icon sizes should also be specified in physical distance units, and then scaled appropriately.
Microsoft has really confused this issue with their disconnected-from-objective-reality version of "DPI".
ISP's also always responded that I live too far away from the center, even while it really was only about 1-1.5km (but that would had got me "just" 50 Mbit/s anyway, now with this 100 Mbit/s)
I've always gotten the same runaround when trying to get DSL service.
The short answer is that "1-1.5km" (as the bird flies) is not at all representative of how far the copper is running above/under ground to reach your home.
If you ever lookup* the coverage map for DSL in your area you'll get an idea of how the cables run from the CLEC.
But even that map (if you can get it) won't tell you very much. The way they measure the distance is by firing a signal down it and somehow measuring the timing of reflections (hopefully someone will chime in with a more detailed and accurate explanation of the process). That measures true wire distance, including any extra twists and turns, and any coiled-up wire lying around.
A few years ago, my DSL service was terrible. I kept complaining until they finally sent someone out to look at it. Turns out, there was several hundred meters of cable on a spool in the CLEC, and my signal was going through all of it. The technician clipped out all the extra cable and my DSL service improved dramatically.
My very-much-non-smartphone uses a 3.7V lithium battery and runs "several days" between charges. Lets claim 4 days. So, 5 volts / 33 ohms = 150 ma times 5/3.7 (voltage upconverter) means 200 ma continuous draw from my 3.7V battery. 200 ma times 24 hours/day times 4 days, equals about 19 AMP-HOURS just to run the gas sensor. We'll add another amp-hour to run the phone itself, and round up to 20 AH.
I see two options. Either no one has realized that this thing will increase the power consumption of the phone by a factor of 20 OR the sensor they're talking about is more efficient (though perhaps more limited in other ways) than the one you're talking about.
Do you really think the first is more likely?
I mean, it could be that these folks are just complete dolts, but...
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This is the one thing that prevents me from using Chrome regularly, at least on my desktop machine (64-but Ubuntu 9.10). I haven't looked into the reasons why, but FF will display PDFs using the browser plugin provided by acroread, and Chrome just gives me a blank page.
Do you have Asperger's?
No. Do you have Alzheimer's?
I'm assuming that's how we play this game. I haven't seen it before, though, so I'm just guessing.
Most amusing to me is that 1,048,576 (if that's what he meant) is fewer characters than "roughly a million"
And 2^20 is even fewer!
That's cool. I basically use my real name online everywhere, and in any case it's trivial to find out my name, address and phone number from my domain name registrations.
I gave up on anonymity long ago. Not that there's anything wrong with it, I just don't bother.
Oh, you didn't mention how the henna turned out :)
Like I mentioned before, my country of birth has several political parties, but there are only two or three that are the most popular at one point.
No conozco las políticas de Chile, pero de lo que leo en Wikipedia, es un sistéma fuera de lo común.
I feel that way is much healthier than having two and only two. But eh, it's not like it's going to change anytime soon.
I'd really like to see us switch to approval voting. I think it more accurately represents the will of the electorate and would have the tendency to break up the current duopoly. I used to be Republican-ish, but have drifted more and more libertarian over the years, to the point where I really dislike both parties about equally and would love to see some new blood.
The reality is that in the current system, if you want to make some sort of change, the only way to do it is to pick one of the parties and work within it to hopefully alter their platform. It sucks.
BTW, how'd the henna work out on your hair?
:P
Sorry, I'm intrigued when I see people who appear to use their real name on-line (I use most of mine) and so I often google them to see if it's a pseudonym -- or at least if it's a consistently-used pseudonym -- and your questions about dying your hair with henna showed up on the first page.
My country of birth has several political parties and I still don't understand how a country as big as the US can only have two.
Duverger's Law.
And when you get to those kinds of numbers, they are the same order of magnitude so the difference is fairly irrelevant.
Order of magnitude, yes, but a power of 10 is a pretty wide range.
Put it this way: A zebibyte is almost 20% larger than a zettabyte. That's a pretty big difference.
Accuracy and entertainment just don't always go well together.
That may be true, but your post doesn't support the point.
What your post points out is that Hollywood is equally bad at portraying other specialties accurately. That's a separate question from whether or not an accurate portrayal can also be entertaining -- or if it might sometimes even be MORE entertaining.
If your CPU is running at 60%, you need more or faster memory, and faster main storage, not a faster CPU. The CPU is being starved for data. More parallel processing would mean that your CPU would be even more underutilized.
I suspect his 60% load is one core running flat out doing the build, and the other core consuming 20% of its capacity one some other stuff. If that's the case, then parallelizing the build into would easily max out his CPUs.
Use "make -j2", dude!
By definition. And since EMC is a storage company, they're almost certainly using the SI prefixes properly.
The author of the summary is, I think, confusing zettabytes and petabytes with the base-2 units, zebibytes and pebibytes. For all of the binary prefix haters, when you get up into these sizes the difference between base 2 and base 10 units is more than big enough to justify the effort to use the correct terms. The difference between one zebibyte and one zettabyte is over 180 exabytes.
Thinking just about the technical aspects isn't good enough anymore.
Clearly. Did you read the last sentence of my post?
My point is that there was no discussion of the technical aspects.
NTP is accurate to within 10 milliseconds in any decent connection. Get a really good, stable, low latency connection and hook yourself up to a stratum 1 server and you can cut that number down tenfold ...
Can anyone explain what kind of financial application would require bigger accuracy?
Where have all the nerds gone?
Why are we debating whether or not the people who think they need highly accurate time really need it? What's cool about this article is the nerdly reaching for every higher degrees of accuracy, of digging deeply into a seriously difficult technical challenge and achieving new levels. What's cool for those of us who don't work on super-accurate timescales is the opportunity to read about how those who do think about this stuff, to see what math they use and what the issues are.
I don't mind a little discussion of social implications of technology, but it'd be nice to see at least a little discussion of the technology itself.
Except printer drivers are PPD files, plain old text.
PPD files aren't drivers, they just describe the printer, including what filters to use, what options to set and where to send the output. The actual "driver" is the combination of the PPD and one or more filters, which are usually binary executables.
In any case, the specific printer drivers aren't in the kernel. All that's in the kernel is the drivers for passing data through USB ports, parallel ports, etc.
Loss-less would be ideal but would run even modern data cards down to nothing in meantime.
Lossless RAW is the only way anyone will shoot with such a camera and back, but it's not a problem. A 64 GB CF card would hold over a thousand images, and medium format is used for shooting landscapes, not action. The cameras are big, heavy, used on a tripod and taking photographs with one is normally a process of minutes to hours of setup followed by a handful of shots.
There are a few photographers that use medium format for portraits, but it's rare. And even then you're talking about dozens of shots, not thousands.
What were they going to do if it turned out to have a very dangerous effect on the plane anyway, bring the passengers back as zombies and comp them a free flight?
Don't be silly.
They would have asked the government to compensate them for having told them it was safe to continue flying.
Wow. It's really weird to see Spock in all those different outfits and scenarios.
What we have now is a 300dpi monitor and an OS that displays elements at 96DPI
More precisely, you have an OS that assumes the monitor is 96 DPI, regardless of what it actually is.
My OS actually gets this right, BTW, and has for several years.
So, the solution is to start changing size from the top down, keeping the $1 bill the same.
Makes sense, but it would end up being a little odd, because you'd have to change the size by making the larger-denomination bills smaller in physical size. As you point out, the size of the $1 bill should probably remain fixed, but the obvious (to me) approach of making the larger denominations larger in size would mean that the new bills wouldn't fit in our wallets. So, you'd have to make them smaller.
The problem is - when you can't adjust the DPI
"Adjusting" the DPI makes no sense whatsoever. The DPI is what it is, it's a characteristic of the screen (well, by changing screen size you can change the DPI, but that's not what you mean).
What you want is to have fonts rendered at the proper size, so that letters in a 12-point font are 1/6th of an inch high regardless of what screen DPI is. If you have more pixels per inch, then the 1/6th inch-high letter will look smoother, if you have less it will have more jagged edges (though anti-aliasing can help, at the expense of edges that are blurry rather than jagged). Icon sizes should also be specified in physical distance units, and then scaled appropriately.
Microsoft has really confused this issue with their disconnected-from-objective-reality version of "DPI".
ISP's also always responded that I live too far away from the center, even while it really was only about 1-1.5km (but that would had got me "just" 50 Mbit/s anyway, now with this 100 Mbit/s)
I've always gotten the same runaround when trying to get DSL service. The short answer is that "1-1.5km" (as the bird flies) is not at all representative of how far the copper is running above/under ground to reach your home.
If you ever lookup* the coverage map for DSL in your area you'll get an idea of how the cables run from the CLEC.
But even that map (if you can get it) won't tell you very much. The way they measure the distance is by firing a signal down it and somehow measuring the timing of reflections (hopefully someone will chime in with a more detailed and accurate explanation of the process). That measures true wire distance, including any extra twists and turns, and any coiled-up wire lying around.
A few years ago, my DSL service was terrible. I kept complaining until they finally sent someone out to look at it. Turns out, there was several hundred meters of cable on a spool in the CLEC, and my signal was going through all of it. The technician clipped out all the extra cable and my DSL service improved dramatically.
Not all of us are young with good eyes and good knees.
Once you start using your fingers, as you're supposed to, you'll see you can hold it much closer to you face, requiring reading glasses
Fixed that for you.
Those tactics wouldn't work if the other person had their own recorder. In fact, they'd backfire.
Time for Larry and Sergey to invite the Families to a sit-down at 37.423021,-122.083739?"
Seems like an awfully dangerous place to sit. I'd recommend moving that to 37.42194, -122.08412. Less traffic to dodge.
You open to telecommuters? I'm thinking about looking for a new job.
My very-much-non-smartphone uses a 3.7V lithium battery and runs "several days" between charges. Lets claim 4 days. So, 5 volts / 33 ohms = 150 ma times 5/3.7 (voltage upconverter) means 200 ma continuous draw from my 3.7V battery. 200 ma times 24 hours/day times 4 days, equals about 19 AMP-HOURS just to run the gas sensor. We'll add another amp-hour to run the phone itself, and round up to 20 AH.
I see two options. Either no one has realized that this thing will increase the power consumption of the phone by a factor of 20 OR the sensor they're talking about is more efficient (though perhaps more limited in other ways) than the one you're talking about.
Do you really think the first is more likely?
I mean, it could be that these folks are just complete dolts, but...