He doesn't mean that there's a barrier to entering the search engine business. He means Google itself, having so much power, is a gate-keeper, deciding through their search results what sites deserve to be found quickly by average users and which sites do not.
Google does discriminate. It must. There's only a finite amount of screen space on a user's device or display so a decision must be made to prioritize certain sites over others.
The legal theory is the delegation of powers. Congress delegated the power to write legislation within a certain scope, breadth, and depth, to the executive branch of government, authorizing it to set up an agency to manage same.
The question, though, is does that delegation extend beyond the term of the current congress?
It seems it would be unconstitutional to legislate away the law making power of future congresses.
First, spending this borrowed money might employ a few people in town, but it also means less money is available to employ other people in the town (demand is reduced for some jobs while increased for others).
Second, the article shows that operating costs are over $11 million per year and that revenues aren't enough to cover those costs.
That puts revenues at nearly $170/month/subscriber and still money must be taken from the general fund to help pay for the system.
If this was a Libertarian Paradise, you probably would pay $500 dollars a month for landline service while someone in a densely populated urban area would pay $5 a month.
Why would that be so bad?
People that want rural living should pay for rural living and should not force urbanites to subsidize their quiet, peaceful life on the farm away from the noise of the city.
The US government has spent the past 50+ years using subsidies and regulations encourage people to get out of the cities.
What has it accomplished except to gut cities and spread asphalt everywhere?
But I'd take this in a heartbeat over an AMD counterpart. The maxwell chips are leagues ahead of anything AMD's got.
WIth one exception: the R9 280x when used for DP floating point compute.
For about $250 you can get an R9 280x that in one second will do one trillion double precision floating point operations. That's about 10x faster than the Maxwell cards.
With such a card AMD should have had the scientist/engineer space for GPGPU locked up by now.
Personally I love the GTX 750. It gives the biggest bang-for-the-buck and running at about 55 watts max or so it usually doesn't require a larger power supply. It can run completely off motherboard power going to a 16-lane 75 watt PCIe slot.
It's the perfect card for rescuing old systems from obsolescence, IMO.
The only trouble you might have is finding a single-slot-wide card if your system doesn't have room for a double slot card, though in my case I found a double-slot card that I could modify to fit in a single-slot of an old Core 2 Duo E8500 system.
And heat doesn't seem to be a problem at all, even with the mod I did. The low power of the card means less heat. Even if heat becomes a problem, the card is capable of slowly clocking itself down, though I've never seen that yet, even running Furmark.
In the UK, for example, for every one degree drop in temperature below 18C, deaths in the UK go up 1.5%. The risk of heart attack and stroke seem to increase with dropping temperatures.
The problem is that too many people think "science" is whatever a person credentialed by some authority professes.
That's wrong.
"Science" is more properly a way of thinking. A "scientist" should be anyone willing to put the evidence offered by reality above intuitions, guesses, dogma, culture, and any other authority while also being open-minded to all possible explanations consistent with reality. It's a skepticism, even skepticism of one's own theories -- "a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" as Feynman put it.
Sometimes even credentialed scientists forget that.
When the distant future is only next quarter, this kind of thing happens.
I don't think this is a business issue. This is really more about one especially self centered generation looking out for itself and controlling most of the funding mechanisms.
If it were a race or ethnicity or religion it would be an obvious example of favoritism.
But they're the baby boomers so they get a pass, mostly because the people in a position to call out such BS are themselves baby boomers.
That is a lie. Why would you pick classes that wouldn't transfer?
When I taught at Tri-County Tech, nearly all of my student's credits would transfer to real schools. Our classes were stupid easy and you got credit for some very hard college classes. It was a great scam for the students.
The real scam is that all this free and easy money doesn't go to education. It goes to educators -- educators all too willing to just take all that extra money to provide classes that are "stupid easy".
The students are just mules that move the money from tax payers to professional educators.
I think it's a little too early to completely rule out a connection.
The greatest variation in solar output over the course of a cycle is in the blue to ultraviolet part of the spectrum and that happens to correspond to frequencies of light that are the most penetrating to sea water.
It's possible then that the extra energy during previous vigorous sunspot cycles accumulates in the ocean over the course of many cycles and is slowly released later.
A weak cycle now might at the moment be partially masked by the release of decades of accumulated energy.
The spectrum is not that limited. I live in an apartment building and can see over 30 different wireless networks. I have absolutely no issues with my own wireless.
You can't compare the two situations.
What you're seeing are beacon frames. Even if 99% of them are trashed by noise, your wireless networking hardware will remember the 1% that get through and log the AP's information.
However, the inane aspect about it is that while Republicans blamed Obama for what happened in Benghazi, fact remains that their position on Libya/Qadaffi was no different from the Democrats.
Some think using force is the solution to every problem and some believe democracy is the solution to every problem.
The disaster of the Arab spring is what you get when you combine the two ideas.
And for anyone who doesn't remember, this was the film that Obama blamed the Benghazi attacks on. Despite later admitting that, no, oops, that wasn't what caused the attacks at all.
"Oops"?
The attack happened on Sept 11th just before the 2012 election.
You don't really think it was an accident that they blamed some film-maker and threw him in jail to deflect responsibility from themselves, do you?
It looks to me like these drives write a large amount of data as a spiral of multiple tracks so that the platter must rotate many times to complete the write.
That's fine for streaming data sequentially to the disk for long term storage.
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He doesn't mean that there's a barrier to entering the search engine business. He means Google itself, having so much power, is a gate-keeper, deciding through their search results what sites deserve to be found quickly by average users and which sites do not.
Google does discriminate. It must. There's only a finite amount of screen space on a user's device or display so a decision must be made to prioritize certain sites over others.
Some site even pay for that prioritization.
The question, though, is does that delegation extend beyond the term of the current congress?
It seems it would be unconstitutional to legislate away the law making power of future congresses.
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent
I think he means the credibility of scientists.
You're missing a few things:
First, spending this borrowed money might employ a few people in town, but it also means less money is available to employ other people in the town (demand is reduced for some jobs while increased for others).
Second, the article shows that operating costs are over $11 million per year and that revenues aren't enough to cover those costs.
That puts revenues at nearly $170/month/subscriber and still money must be taken from the general fund to help pay for the system.
The $28 million was the original estimate. The cost at the moment is about $38 million.
There are about 5,400 subscribers of the broadband service giving a debt of about $6,300 per subscriber.
Why would that be so bad?
People that want rural living should pay for rural living and should not force urbanites to subsidize their quiet, peaceful life on the farm away from the noise of the city.
The US government has spent the past 50+ years using subsidies and regulations encourage people to get out of the cities.
What has it accomplished except to gut cities and spread asphalt everywhere?
I have to agree, but it's too bad in some ways, IMO.
I used to get so much joy programming the metal or tinkering with the assembly that came out of the compiler.
Doing that is still possible, but it doesn't pay the bills.
The dream of abstraction is a bit of a nightmare for those that like to get into the guts of the machine.
GPU programming is another example, though Mantle allows the programmer to get a bit closer to the hardware.
Citation, please, because Akamai's State of the Internet mostly disagrees with you.
WIth one exception: the R9 280x when used for DP floating point compute.
For about $250 you can get an R9 280x that in one second will do one trillion double precision floating point operations. That's about 10x faster than the Maxwell cards.
With such a card AMD should have had the scientist/engineer space for GPGPU locked up by now.
But, you know, they're AMD, so...
Personally I love the GTX 750. It gives the biggest bang-for-the-buck and running at about 55 watts max or so it usually doesn't require a larger power supply. It can run completely off motherboard power going to a 16-lane 75 watt PCIe slot.
It's the perfect card for rescuing old systems from obsolescence, IMO.
The only trouble you might have is finding a single-slot-wide card if your system doesn't have room for a double slot card, though in my case I found a double-slot card that I could modify to fit in a single-slot of an old Core 2 Duo E8500 system.
And heat doesn't seem to be a problem at all, even with the mod I did. The low power of the card means less heat. Even if heat becomes a problem, the card is capable of slowly clocking itself down, though I've never seen that yet, even running Furmark.
Sub freezing temperatures aren't necessary.
In the UK, for example, for every one degree drop in temperature below 18C, deaths in the UK go up 1.5%. The risk of heart attack and stroke seem to increase with dropping temperatures.
And in the USA, the mortality rate is highest in January.
Vietnam shows a similar pattern.
The problem is that too many people think "science" is whatever a person credentialed by some authority professes.
That's wrong.
"Science" is more properly a way of thinking. A "scientist" should be anyone willing to put the evidence offered by reality above intuitions, guesses, dogma, culture, and any other authority while also being open-minded to all possible explanations consistent with reality. It's a skepticism, even skepticism of one's own theories -- "a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" as Feynman put it.
Sometimes even credentialed scientists forget that.
I don't think this is a business issue. This is really more about one especially self centered generation looking out for itself and controlling most of the funding mechanisms.
If it were a race or ethnicity or religion it would be an obvious example of favoritism.
But they're the baby boomers so they get a pass, mostly because the people in a position to call out such BS are themselves baby boomers.
To the average joe poker player, I'd say what's most important here is that the perfect solution is only for a two player game.
Things become much more complicated when players>2.
The real scam is that all this free and easy money doesn't go to education. It goes to educators -- educators all too willing to just take all that extra money to provide classes that are "stupid easy".
The students are just mules that move the money from tax payers to professional educators.
"Utterly failed"? Stop exaggerating.
The right answer (whatever it might be) begins by being honest.
I think it's a little too early to completely rule out a connection.
The greatest variation in solar output over the course of a cycle is in the blue to ultraviolet part of the spectrum and that happens to correspond to frequencies of light that are the most penetrating to sea water.
It's possible then that the extra energy during previous vigorous sunspot cycles accumulates in the ocean over the course of many cycles and is slowly released later.
A weak cycle now might at the moment be partially masked by the release of decades of accumulated energy.
You can't compare the two situations.
What you're seeing are beacon frames. Even if 99% of them are trashed by noise, your wireless networking hardware will remember the 1% that get through and log the AP's information.
"...he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed..."
Saddam Hussein was a Ba'athist revolutionary, which is to say he advocated a mixture of Arab Nationalism and socialism. National socialism IS Nazism.
Some think using force is the solution to every problem and some believe democracy is the solution to every problem.
The disaster of the Arab spring is what you get when you combine the two ideas.
While it's true that Sadam's military was full of essentially modern day Nazis, we weren't attacked by Nazis on 9/11. We went after the wrong bunch.
Saudi Arabia would have been a better target but the Bushes were too busy holding hands with the King.
"Oops"?
The attack happened on Sept 11th just before the 2012 election.
You don't really think it was an accident that they blamed some film-maker and threw him in jail to deflect responsibility from themselves, do you?
It looks to me like these drives write a large amount of data as a spiral of multiple tracks so that the platter must rotate many times to complete the write.
That's fine for streaming data sequentially to the disk for long term storage.
Random writes must be dog-slow, though.