Because it's cumulative, it can be very worrying. Factor in that it's not just your own activities you have to worry about, but neighbours etc, and you can see the problem. I mean, all non-smokers know how fucking vile it is having to be near smokers, and how it affects breathing for many.
Seriously, look at those pics again... And compare the scale of the pictures themselves... Then you'll see that Sandy absolutely dwarfed Irene... Hint: In the Sandy pic, the scale is such that you see a sizeable portion of Florida.. The Irene pic, you have the Norfolk area as the southernmost part...
True, if you look at it in a very simplistic fashion, i.e wind speed only. However, if you look at it in terms of size, Sandy was a MONSTER, and it hit in conjunction with another weather system of hard weather.
The total energy potential of Sandy, due to sheer size, was greater than quite a few Cat 3's etc.
The case should never have been reopened after the first prosecutor closed it, so yes, Assange should be let go. At least Anna Ardin should be tried for perjury, Marianne Ny should be tried for gross misconduct. Ardin, Ny, BorgstrÃm and Wilen should all be tried for conspiracy.
As for your insinuations, when a former High Court justice(High court being the highest instance of regular court in Sweden) STRONGLY talks, non-anonymously, about the case being without merit, and it is a woman too, it cannot be waved away, no matter if someone tries to claim sexism or "attempting to escape justice". The fact that one of the accusers, the defense lawyer and the prosecutor that re-opened the case are all activists(not just members, but active in policy making etc) in the same political party should have been an immediate cause for investigation of judicial integrity. The fact that the lawyer and prosecutor are personal friends should have raised a formal inquiry too. The fact that both the lawyer and prosecutor have a history of judicial scandals should have triggered a formal inquiry.
As it is, so many of the principles of the Swedish Judicial system have been violated that its integrity can not be restored without a total restructuring.
To reiterate the first comment: The case should never have been re-opened, based on all the evidence that have come out.
Actually, in this case, it is justified to berate the women.
Anna Ardin made boasts about having sex with Julian on Twitter, tweets that were later deleted.
Sofia Wilen sent SMS's to a friend stating that she was half asleep when one sex act occured.
In statements to prosecutors, Anna Ardin gave in total 5 different versions of events. Sofia Wilen gave in total 3 different versions, one of them being that she was fully asleep, and was awakened by Assange having sex with her. The original prosecutor dropped the case, because she could establish no credibility to the claims made by the women. Then Marianne Ny, a well-known ultra-feminist manhater, who has a track record of not only prosecuting men just for being men, but also for destroying evidence that proves their innocence, and, when higher courts clear their names, she insists that they have not been cleared, in media campaigns.
The defense laywer for both women was a well-known politically motivated person with previous shady dealings with courts and prosecutors(Famous for the Quick case mishandling for example), namely Claes BorgstrÃm. He's also a close personal friend of Marianne Ny. Anna Ardin, BorgstrÃm and Marianne Ny are all activist members of the same politcal party, a party known for extra-legal maneuverings.
Here's the kicker: The last statement by both women, made when Marianne Ny had taken over, suddenly had the events match exactly.... From previously being totally incoherent and unsubstantiated due to evidence to the contrary, to coordinated and coherent, with important evidence to the contrary suddenly not taken into account.
One of the women, Sofia Wilen, refused to sign her statement in the end, and later on said she felt railroaded into making a particular statement.
A rather famous old guard swedish feminist, of the old and respectable "Equality means equal rights, but also equal responsibilities" philosophy, who also happens to be a journalist, has looked through the case, including all the testimonies, and she's highlighted a lot of inconsistencies. A former High Court judge, also a woman, classes it as a "case with questionable validity, driven by political demand".
Marianne Ny in march retreated from being the actual prosecutor in the case, but she will still be the leader of the group handling the case.
Most military pilots already have a fair amount of schooling in science and engineering, as part of becoming pilots.
Add to that the fact that military pilots, during their entire training, are taught to operate under heavy physical and mental stress, while following instructions from remote Controllers, and also to handle their plane according to check-lists and routines, as well as crisis management, and teamwork. Then there's also the routine psychological check-ups in many armed forces, which means you have fewer people with mental disorders that can disrupt team cohesion/efficiency(ADHD, Asperger etc etc). There's also the fact that the military people also are used to strict daily physical excercise.
On the other hand, many PHD's don't do much in the way of physical excercise at all, and for those who do, most only gym or similar light excercise a couple of times per week, they have no training in working under a combination of psychological AND physical pressure, no crisis management, little in the way of deep, life-dependant teamwork etc. Many have a deep-seated resentment against "jocks", mental disorders such as ADHD, Asperger etc are not exactly uncommon among PHD's etc, meaning the available candidate pool becomes very small.
There are exceptions of course.... But it's not weird that the military is a readily-available candidate pool.
The fact that Bennet relies on the Akamai report is proof that he's writing a propaganda piece with only a fleeting touch of reality. The reality is, Akamai's figures for the nordic countries are grossly misleading, since Akamai's infrastructure here is appallingly bad, while it's quite extensive in north america, which skews the numbers a lot in the favour of the USA.
Compared to LLNW and other competitors, Akamai is a brake for us over here, with LLNW for example allowing transfers in excess of 90Mbit/s, even during prime time, while Akamai hosts chokes at 25Mbit/s(if you're lucky....)
One thing that AMD has been doing quite well is total system power consumption. Intel typically beats AMD in actual CPU draw, but then loses its edge once you include the chipsets/etc.
That is not true any more, and hasn't been since Sandy Bridge was released. Since then, the total system power consumption figures has been in favour of Intel except in the extreme low-end, such as against AMD's E-350. However, if you intend to for example build a small server or something for your home, you're better off with a SB/IB low-power Pentium. Only somewhat higher total power draw, especially if you slap in a passively cooled GT220 or something, and much better CPU performance(MUUUUCH better, because the E-350 is a steaming pile of crap in that regard)
From what I hear from some friends, the UI is not just ugly, but very clumsy to work with as well. In addition, just as with so many other FOSS tools for more specialized domains, with so much focus on "flexibility and extensibility", it pretty much means you have to spend significant amounts of time just to get the stuff you need to do work, and many firms doing GIS can't afford to hire some full-time programmers either.
Hmmm, there's plenty of advertising for Dreamhack.
CS:GO is televised, as is Starcraft II. Pricesums etc come from sponsors. Players at the top level are salaried, either full-time or part-time, teams just below that level still receive sponsorship for travels etc.
Oh, you're in the US? Well, that scene is FUCKED, because people there feel that they shouldn't train before they have sponsorships. Add to that the fact that you have teams like Evil Geniuses, which is a pure entertainment company. They are always waiting for "someone big" to create a scene, instead of starting it up themselves. They are continually making up excuses about why there can't be LAN scenes around the US, neglecting the fact that California alone, which is somewhat smaller than Sweden, has more than 3 times the population, yet can't maintain a LAN scene because of that laziness.
The Euro model by itself was more accurate than the multi-model forecast run by NWS, which in turns was more accurate than raw GFS. IIRC, the Euro model predicted the Sandy landfall 320km off, while the NWS multi-model analysis was 1500km off, and raw GFS said it'd not hit land at all, going WAAAAY east.
The NWS multi-model forecast predicting landfall only came out a few days before it hit, while the euro model predicted it more than a week before. The US Navy multi-model forecast was also ahead of the NWS multi-model, resulting in all the big ships that could make it leaving port, and all ships that couldn't make it setup for storm anchor(as did the US Coast Guard with several ships)
It's not just once. Several hurricanes and other severe weather systems have been most accurately predicted by the European model. In fact, if you read some of the links in the article, you'll see references to that.
Portal 2 runs on an engine that's effectively 12 years old by now, with just some updates. It's far more CPU dependant than more modern engines for example.
Same thing with Left 4 Dead 2, the benchmark of which Valve rigged by using a 1½ year newer update for the Linux version than what's available for the Windows version, an update that actually shifts more stuff to the GPU for example.
They already have that. The game segregates everything into star systems and stations. That's easy to parallelize and under normal loads a server handles several star systems.
Every star system and the stations in them is limited to 1 thread, ergo load cannot be spread over multiple cores. The activities that run independently of star systems are things such as Market, Contracts, Chat etc. Also, it cannot be dynamically reallocated. Moving a system to a reinforced node can only be done during a restart, with the system being reinforced started on a separate node with beefier processor(And even then you can only use a single core....)
It's a huge change in the architecture. As I understand it from about a year ago, they cut out a lot of the player interactions in heavy battle conditions, introduced time dialation (which is a remarkable innovation, I might add), and pumped up the servers that are intended to handle battles.
But you still have a large number of interactions between players. If you hide some players from each other, then you can end up with situations like battlefield commanders unable to target critical ships because they can't see them (focus fire or everyone shooting the same target is a key tactic). Ships can have many drones apiece (5 for normal ships, 10-20 for "carriers" and "supercarriers"). And of course, someone will want to see the pretty explosions and pew pews.
That means your multiserver infrastructure will have considerably more interaction than the current Eve cluster experiences. And if you're going to bother with that, why not just have a really beefy server with multiple CPUs which has built-in the necessary communication network?
It's a major change, for sure, but it doesn't have to come at a great cost, since it'd also increase reliability and fault tolerance if done right. Time dilation is a band-aid, nothing more. There was actually a period around Dominion where TiDi didn't exist, but there were larger battles with less delays than now(Think BoB's MAX and MAX 2 campaigns).
As for the interactions, I'm well aware of how many there are, having played since 2004, and they haven't really reduced the combat interactions. What they do is that they reprioritize non-combat actions(swapping ships in station for example), and reduced strict sequential combat process.
As for multiserver, EVE already runs on a cluster. The change I'm proposing would enable a star system to use multiple cores if certain requirements are met, and low-priority systems migrated to other nodes without requiring a restart of nodes etc.
That would, however, require them to upgrade from Stackless Python to something that would actually make sense, as well as performing proper software and system engineering.
The point is to make a system that can be dynamically reconfigured for increased performance on the fly. Currently, nodes need to be put into reinforced mode manually, which requires a reinit, and thus is generally only done during downtime.
At great cost? Why would it have to be at great cost? It could even save them money in the long run. Also, if done Erlang-style, they'd also get better reliability/fault tolerance.
Instead, CCP are wasting a lot of CPU cycles, pissing about bragging about being "Agile", instead of doing proper software engineering.
No, it doesn't. EVE is hard-designed to be one thread per system. The other systems just get less hardware resources. If the node is put into reinforced(which is done manually by CCP admins), the other systems are "rebooted" on other nodes for the duration, which can cause people to lose connection.
"I find many of the computer scientists studying e.g. AI (my old field), often become frustrated by the real world's refusal to comply with their theory. They tend to be theory first, data second. That's the hallmark of bad science."
I have similar experiences, and a colleague ran into it during his studies a couple of years back. During an algorithms lecture, the professor wrote up an algorithm and explained it, and then finished that with "And this is the best algorithm you can find for this task", whereupon my colleague remarks that he knows of at least 3 architectures where it'll either be dog slow or not work at all, due to hardware not supporting some features the algorithm relied upon(lots of fdivs). He was called up to the professor for a talk about his "attitude problem regarding computer science"
They compared a version of the engine for Linux that had optimizations done that were not available for the Windows version they compared to(And still haven't been released)
Common practice for high-end/specialist freelancers here in northern europe at least.
I commonly work with one agent(who's also my lawyer), and sometimes with another agent, in a slightly different field. In fact, if you get a trustworthy agent, it's one of the best way to sort out the "grinders"(clients who try to pile on more and more work on a project), scammers and other undesirables.
In fact, those two agents and those of us who use their services have formed a guild of sorts, blacklisting bad clients, blacklisting devs who negatively impact the reputation of freelancers by being scammers or just failures, helping each other out in case of sickness, or just the need for a vacation, yet we still compete with each other in bids for projects etc, so yes, it requires blacklisting out the sociopaths that can't cooperate.
Might not work quite as well in the US though, US geeks seeming content with being exploited and seeing banding together in mutual defense as anathema......
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Because it's cumulative, it can be very worrying. Factor in that it's not just your own activities you have to worry about, but neighbours etc, and you can see the problem. I mean, all non-smokers know how fucking vile it is having to be near smokers, and how it affects breathing for many.
Seriously, look at those pics again... And compare the scale of the pictures themselves... Then you'll see that Sandy absolutely dwarfed Irene... Hint: In the Sandy pic, the scale is such that you see a sizeable portion of Florida.. The Irene pic, you have the Norfolk area as the southernmost part...
"Sandy was barely a Cat 1 when it hit us."
True, if you look at it in a very simplistic fashion, i.e wind speed only. However, if you look at it in terms of size, Sandy was a MONSTER, and it hit in conjunction with another weather system of hard weather.
The total energy potential of Sandy, due to sheer size, was greater than quite a few Cat 3's etc.
The case should never have been reopened after the first prosecutor closed it, so yes, Assange should be let go. At least Anna Ardin should be tried for perjury, Marianne Ny should be tried for gross misconduct. Ardin, Ny, BorgstrÃm and Wilen should all be tried for conspiracy.
As for your insinuations, when a former High Court justice(High court being the highest instance of regular court in Sweden) STRONGLY talks, non-anonymously, about the case being without merit, and it is a woman too, it cannot be waved away, no matter if someone tries to claim sexism or "attempting to escape justice". The fact that one of the accusers, the defense lawyer and the prosecutor that re-opened the case are all activists(not just members, but active in policy making etc) in the same political party should have been an immediate cause for investigation of judicial integrity. The fact that the lawyer and prosecutor are personal friends should have raised a formal inquiry too. The fact that both the lawyer and prosecutor have a history of judicial scandals should have triggered a formal inquiry.
As it is, so many of the principles of the Swedish Judicial system have been violated that its integrity can not be restored without a total restructuring.
To reiterate the first comment:
The case should never have been re-opened, based on all the evidence that have come out.
Actually, in this case, it is justified to berate the women.
Anna Ardin made boasts about having sex with Julian on Twitter, tweets that were later deleted.
Sofia Wilen sent SMS's to a friend stating that she was half asleep when one sex act occured.
In statements to prosecutors, Anna Ardin gave in total 5 different versions of events. Sofia Wilen gave in total 3 different versions, one of them being that she was fully asleep, and was awakened by Assange having sex with her. The original prosecutor dropped the case, because she could establish no credibility to the claims made by the women. Then Marianne Ny, a well-known ultra-feminist manhater, who has a track record of not only prosecuting men just for being men, but also for destroying evidence that proves their innocence, and, when higher courts clear their names, she insists that they have not been cleared, in media campaigns.
The defense laywer for both women was a well-known politically motivated person with previous shady dealings with courts and prosecutors(Famous for the Quick case mishandling for example), namely Claes BorgstrÃm. He's also a close personal friend of Marianne Ny. Anna Ardin, BorgstrÃm and Marianne Ny are all activist members of the same politcal party, a party known for extra-legal maneuverings.
Here's the kicker: The last statement by both women, made when Marianne Ny had taken over, suddenly had the events match exactly.... From previously being totally incoherent and unsubstantiated due to evidence to the contrary, to coordinated and coherent, with important evidence to the contrary suddenly not taken into account.
One of the women, Sofia Wilen, refused to sign her statement in the end, and later on said she felt railroaded into making a particular statement.
A rather famous old guard swedish feminist, of the old and respectable "Equality means equal rights, but also equal responsibilities" philosophy, who also happens to be a journalist, has looked through the case, including all the testimonies, and she's highlighted a lot of inconsistencies. A former High Court judge, also a woman, classes it as a "case with questionable validity, driven by political demand".
Marianne Ny in march retreated from being the actual prosecutor in the case, but she will still be the leader of the group handling the case.
Most military pilots already have a fair amount of schooling in science and engineering, as part of becoming pilots.
Add to that the fact that military pilots, during their entire training, are taught to operate under heavy physical and mental stress, while following instructions from remote Controllers, and also to handle their plane according to check-lists and routines, as well as crisis management, and teamwork. Then there's also the routine psychological check-ups in many armed forces, which means you have fewer people with mental disorders that can disrupt team cohesion/efficiency(ADHD, Asperger etc etc). There's also the fact that the military people also are used to strict daily physical excercise.
On the other hand, many PHD's don't do much in the way of physical excercise at all, and for those who do, most only gym or similar light excercise a couple of times per week, they have no training in working under a combination of psychological AND physical pressure, no crisis management, little in the way of deep, life-dependant teamwork etc. Many have a deep-seated resentment against "jocks", mental disorders such as ADHD, Asperger etc are not exactly uncommon among PHD's etc, meaning the available candidate pool becomes very small.
There are exceptions of course.... But it's not weird that the military is a readily-available candidate pool.
The fact that Bennet relies on the Akamai report is proof that he's writing a propaganda piece with only a fleeting touch of reality. The reality is, Akamai's figures for the nordic countries are grossly misleading, since Akamai's infrastructure here is appallingly bad, while it's quite extensive in north america, which skews the numbers a lot in the favour of the USA.
Compared to LLNW and other competitors, Akamai is a brake for us over here, with LLNW for example allowing transfers in excess of 90Mbit/s, even during prime time, while Akamai hosts chokes at 25Mbit/s(if you're lucky....)
One thing that AMD has been doing quite well is total system power consumption. Intel typically beats AMD in actual CPU draw, but then loses its edge once you include the chipsets/etc.
That is not true any more, and hasn't been since Sandy Bridge was released. Since then, the total system power consumption figures has been in favour of Intel except in the extreme low-end, such as against AMD's E-350. However, if you intend to for example build a small server or something for your home, you're better off with a SB/IB low-power Pentium. Only somewhat higher total power draw, especially if you slap in a passively cooled GT220 or something, and much better CPU performance(MUUUUCH better, because the E-350 is a steaming pile of crap in that regard)
GMT is a geographical division. So even if you're on DST, you're still in GMT, NOT GMT+1. The zones do not shift just because of DST.
Agile is to proper software engineering what Red Bull Flugtag is to proper aeronautic engineering....
From what I hear from some friends, the UI is not just ugly, but very clumsy to work with as well. In addition, just as with so many other FOSS tools for more specialized domains, with so much focus on "flexibility and extensibility", it pretty much means you have to spend significant amounts of time just to get the stuff you need to do work, and many firms doing GIS can't afford to hire some full-time programmers either.
Hmmm, there's plenty of advertising for Dreamhack.
CS:GO is televised, as is Starcraft II. Pricesums etc come from sponsors. Players at the top level are salaried, either full-time or part-time, teams just below that level still receive sponsorship for travels etc.
Oh, you're in the US? Well, that scene is FUCKED, because people there feel that they shouldn't train before they have sponsorships. Add to that the fact that you have teams like Evil Geniuses, which is a pure entertainment company. They are always waiting for "someone big" to create a scene, instead of starting it up themselves. They are continually making up excuses about why there can't be LAN scenes around the US, neglecting the fact that California alone, which is somewhat smaller than Sweden, has more than 3 times the population, yet can't maintain a LAN scene because of that laziness.
Improved warning time leads to better preparedness which leads to less costly aftermaths. Well, at least in sane societies
The Euro model by itself was more accurate than the multi-model forecast run by NWS, which in turns was more accurate than raw GFS. IIRC, the Euro model predicted the Sandy landfall 320km off, while the NWS multi-model analysis was 1500km off, and raw GFS said it'd not hit land at all, going WAAAAY east.
The NWS multi-model forecast predicting landfall only came out a few days before it hit, while the euro model predicted it more than a week before. The US Navy multi-model forecast was also ahead of the NWS multi-model, resulting in all the big ships that could make it leaving port, and all ships that couldn't make it setup for storm anchor(as did the US Coast Guard with several ships)
It's not just once. Several hurricanes and other severe weather systems have been most accurately predicted by the European model. In fact, if you read some of the links in the article, you'll see references to that.
Portal 2 runs on an engine that's effectively 12 years old by now, with just some updates. It's far more CPU dependant than more modern engines for example.
Same thing with Left 4 Dead 2, the benchmark of which Valve rigged by using a 1½ year newer update for the Linux version than what's available for the Windows version, an update that actually shifts more stuff to the GPU for example.
OK, so the SGI O2's UMA has now been reinvented for a new generation, just with more words tacked on....
They already have that. The game segregates everything into star systems and stations. That's easy to parallelize and under normal loads a server handles several star systems.
Every star system and the stations in them is limited to 1 thread, ergo load cannot be spread over multiple cores. The activities that run independently of star systems are things such as Market, Contracts, Chat etc. Also, it cannot be dynamically reallocated. Moving a system to a reinforced node can only be done during a restart, with the system being reinforced started on a separate node with beefier processor(And even then you can only use a single core....)
It's a huge change in the architecture. As I understand it from about a year ago, they cut out a lot of the player interactions in heavy battle conditions, introduced time dialation (which is a remarkable innovation, I might add), and pumped up the servers that are intended to handle battles. But you still have a large number of interactions between players. If you hide some players from each other, then you can end up with situations like battlefield commanders unable to target critical ships because they can't see them (focus fire or everyone shooting the same target is a key tactic). Ships can have many drones apiece (5 for normal ships, 10-20 for "carriers" and "supercarriers"). And of course, someone will want to see the pretty explosions and pew pews. That means your multiserver infrastructure will have considerably more interaction than the current Eve cluster experiences. And if you're going to bother with that, why not just have a really beefy server with multiple CPUs which has built-in the necessary communication network?
It's a major change, for sure, but it doesn't have to come at a great cost, since it'd also increase reliability and fault tolerance if done right. Time dilation is a band-aid, nothing more. There was actually a period around Dominion where TiDi didn't exist, but there were larger battles with less delays than now(Think BoB's MAX and MAX 2 campaigns).
As for the interactions, I'm well aware of how many there are, having played since 2004, and they haven't really reduced the combat interactions. What they do is that they reprioritize non-combat actions(swapping ships in station for example), and reduced strict sequential combat process.
As for multiserver, EVE already runs on a cluster. The change I'm proposing would enable a star system to use multiple cores if certain requirements are met, and low-priority systems migrated to other nodes without requiring a restart of nodes etc. That would, however, require them to upgrade from Stackless Python to something that would actually make sense, as well as performing proper software and system engineering.
The point is to make a system that can be dynamically reconfigured for increased performance on the fly. Currently, nodes need to be put into reinforced mode manually, which requires a reinit, and thus is generally only done during downtime.
At great cost? Why would it have to be at great cost? It could even save them money in the long run. Also, if done Erlang-style, they'd also get better reliability/fault tolerance.
Instead, CCP are wasting a lot of CPU cycles, pissing about bragging about being "Agile", instead of doing proper software engineering.
No, it doesn't. EVE is hard-designed to be one thread per system. The other systems just get less hardware resources. If the node is put into reinforced(which is done manually by CCP admins), the other systems are "rebooted" on other nodes for the duration, which can cause people to lose connection.
AMD is decent if you fit into some very specific memory access patterns... If you don't, they slow down to a crawl.
Nvidia with CUDA is far more versatile, and not to mention MUCH more solid drivers(and don't need X under Linux, unlike AMD....)
"I find many of the computer scientists studying e.g. AI (my old field), often become frustrated by the real world's refusal to comply with their theory. They tend to be theory first, data second. That's the hallmark of bad science."
I have similar experiences, and a colleague ran into it during his studies a couple of years back. During an algorithms lecture, the professor wrote up an algorithm and explained it, and then finished that with "And this is the best algorithm you can find for this task", whereupon my colleague remarks that he knows of at least 3 architectures where it'll either be dog slow or not work at all, due to hardware not supporting some features the algorithm relied upon(lots of fdivs). He was called up to the professor for a talk about his "attitude problem regarding computer science"
They compared a version of the engine for Linux that had optimizations done that were not available for the Windows version they compared to(And still haven't been released)
Ergo, it was a rigged comparison.
And that's supposed to be news?
Common practice for high-end/specialist freelancers here in northern europe at least.
I commonly work with one agent(who's also my lawyer), and sometimes with another agent, in a slightly different field. In fact, if you get a trustworthy agent, it's one of the best way to sort out the "grinders"(clients who try to pile on more and more work on a project), scammers and other undesirables.
In fact, those two agents and those of us who use their services have formed a guild of sorts, blacklisting bad clients, blacklisting devs who negatively impact the reputation of freelancers by being scammers or just failures, helping each other out in case of sickness, or just the need for a vacation, yet we still compete with each other in bids for projects etc, so yes, it requires blacklisting out the sociopaths that can't cooperate.
Might not work quite as well in the US though, US geeks seeming content with being exploited and seeing banding together in mutual defense as anathema......
You don't need to use the mobile chips for that, there are even Xeons with under 20W, and ECC+virtualization support..