Nah. The parts of the coins that remain will just become more valuable. So even if the world is left with a few million wallets with less than a single usable BTC in each, it will be fine. Satoshi could have picked 21 million or 12 million or 1.2 million. It would still be the same.
I still remember the Slashdot party at 1998 or 1999 LinuxWorld or something in San Jose right after the Redhat IPO and right around the Andover thing. I still have the blue plastic cups!
Modern media must need to sensationalize everything. Just because something is on the Internet doesn't make it "virtual". Did I make a "virtual" purchase on Amazon? Or send a "virtual" message to my boss via email? I think they mean "currency like Bitcoin."
Intel's 14nm process is in most ways better than Samsung's 10nm (Qualcomm's fab for this chip). IMHO this isn't really going to be won on feature size of the process between the two.
The advantages Cavium and Qualcomm have are cheaper chips (also more integrated, SAS, PCI lanes) with higher core counts and more memory channels than Intel. In some applications the higher memory channels count and bandwith will be very valuable (HPC). Intel will be able to discount the heck out of their high core count Xeons to match on price and they can lower the clock to match on IPS for each core. They can't add a memory channel where it doesn't exist.
While I agree that the vertical integration of Intel's past may not be the best way for the future, they still have the best process engineers in the world. They still have the best process for the foreseeable future. They also have some of the best semiconductor engineers out there. So while there is a fight coming. Intel is hardly "fucked" or headed for decimation.
I did the same thing with a home alarm service company. I arranged for an install at the address of my local police department. They didn't call me back.
I do find it more convenient that mixing myself. I don't even like to grind coffee in the morning anymore. I'm also too lazy to prepare the machine the night before. Anyway, the cost is the same, and I only like to buy a pound at a time. So it works out well.
Around the holidays I do end up getting some pure decaf and some pure caf for guests and then I'm always mixing some coffees that I've been given as gifts... In fact, I've got a cup of personally mixed Christmas blend in my cup right now.
As for willpower, that doesn't seem to be an issue for me, but I guess it could help some people out if they needed that.
I was drinking a pot or more of coffee each morning with a couple of cokes and shots of espresso in the afternoon. I was getting light headed and would get tired randomly throughout the day. I decided it could be the caffeine so I tried to quit cold turkey and had similar problems quiting. The headaches were the worst part for me. My solution turned out to be a new blend of beans.
I'm a Peet's Sumatra fan so I went to my local Peet's and had them blend a 50/50 mix of decaf Sumatra with a regular Sumatra. This alone cut my consumption by half and I didn't even notice the missing caffeine.
I also dropped the espresso in the afternoon and I drink about half the coke that I used to.
I'm thinking about dropping to a 25% caffeine blend of Sumatra and brewing two pots a day. It still will be less caffeine than I used to drink and it gives me something to drink in the afternoon.
Good luck. Be happy you aren't trying to quit crack. My half crack plan doesn't work as well as this.
Over a typical 20-year life span of a solar cell, a single produced watt should cost as little as $0.20, compared with the current $4.
so perhaps the above statement is incorrect, not just confusing?
I, too, had a big problem with that statement when I first read it. After rereading it, I think the implication is that these cells degrade over time. Organic based products like OLED also have this problem so that MAY be what they are talking about here.
If the cells start out at 20% efficent and degrade to 0% efficent over 20 years that would make this statement correct. Either way, it is still confusing to the reader.
P-V should have 64bit extensions for both pointers and basic math.
64bit pointers and basic math on those pointers, are really what people desire so that more than 4GB can be trivially addressed in a single process's virtual memory space. Think about people who want to manipulate a video file that is larger than 4GB.
AltiVEC **128 bit** is just wide data manipulation and is of no use for those that require large memory footprints. It has the same 32 bit address lines and pointers at a 60MHz Pentium I.
That being said, P-V should also have more than the current 36 bit of physical address lines. I'm guessing they will have 40 usable bits or so of the address bus to physically address memory.
So if you want to put in more than 4GB of RAM you can. But if you don't, 64 bits will be useful to address more than 4GB of a video file sitting in virtual memory.
I don't find it interesting that a software upgrade fixes the problem.
Software upgrades are the cheapest fix for any system problem. This is why they are almost always required by devices. We (companies, not specifically Segway) can ship products early with solid hardware and must less solid software because the cost of fixing problems in software are so minimal.
This software fix probably just shuts down the scooter earlier before the battery runs all the way out. A few cars do the same with gas so that people are driving at 70mph don't loose power breaks and stearing when the engine starts studdering.
Hardware fixes can often cost more then direct replacement of the product. A simple printer circuit board rework could cost $50 each to just disassemble a product, cut a trace and reassemble it. That doesn't include the cost to ship the product back to the manufacture or to a rework house somewhere in the US.
Flash is cheap and almost all companies use it to fix sw problems in the field and work around hardware problems.
"3. The product (or information service) must live up to the manufacturer's and seller's claims."
When has any product ever "lived" up to the marketing claims? If I expected everything I bought to live up to their claims, I'd be dissapointed with every bar of soap, every beer, and every Big Mac.
Great, other's have matched our achievements from 1969. Good for them. Wasting money for a manned mission to mars doesn't give us the return on investments that we really should have with government spending. I'd put that money into venture funding for new technology so that we can create jobs that support themselves in internation industry.
20,000 government workers trying to get four Americans on Mars is just a waste.
Mayor Bloomberg was just on the radio and said that the Con Edison transformer on 14th Street in NYC is not on fire. It just release some black smoke when it shutdown due to the grid overload.
I have Tele-Aid in my G500, and it is crap. This is part of the MB Command 2.0 system that is shipping in 2002/2003 C and G class. The S class has a slightly different system.
The Info-Services part of teleaid is what most people think sounds cool.
Here is how it works so that you can judge for yourself.
1. You pay MBUSA $225 a year.
2. You login to your custom website and configure the info-services you would like. I have NHL scores, Bay Area weather, four stock quotes, and national news headlines. You get about five choices and then the website says that is all the data you can store. (I could get traffic for my commute, but I don't).
3. You press the "SVC" button on your "Command" unit (The radio head with 4.5" lcd screen).
4. You WAIT 1 or 2 minutes.
5. The unit eventually beeps, and you are then warned that reading info service underway is dangerious so you do a couple of knob turns and button presses and get to get to the data.
6. You now have about 1K of text to scroll through. Most national news stories are about 300 bytes long. Weather and Hockey are around 50 bytes each.
7. You have now learned nothing that isn't already on the radio.
The last part is the best part!!!
8. You are charged $0.40 cents a minute for the time it took for the Command system to call and get that 1K of data over a built-in cell phone and what must be a 300bps modem!!! Each call typically costs $0.80 and often calls fail without giving you any data, but they are $0.40 per minute so you get charged anyway.
It is just worthless and I won't pay for another year of it.
This guy better watch out, or just like the greatest tragedy of early 90's glam rock, his computer case is going to go up in smoke.
Now that I think about it. Maybe he should get a window case, some Great White action figures, and he can have himself a little recreation right there next to his Pentium.
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"Hell, move to canada, their paying upto 2500 a month for three kids, no job and no biological at home father."
Is that $2,500 a month in US currency, or Canada's crap paper? In USD, that's almost real money. Sign me up and I'll write GNU code while sucking the crack pipe.
The Mini-PCI card is based on a Broadcom 11g chipset. Broadcom already has Linux drivers for this chip, but they aren't open source. They are licensed to embedded designers for binary distribution and they aren't available to the general public. This is the same chipset that the Linksys WMP54g pci card uses.
Well put/dev/trash! Mike's coworkers at Intel now have their answer to the "material witness" claim.
They can sleep well tonight with the knowledge that he flew to China, joined up with five alleged terrorists and attempted to join Al Qaeda and the Telaban in their fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan.
I wish I had engineers with that level of dedication on my design team!
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Nah. The parts of the coins that remain will just become more valuable. So even if the world is left with a few million wallets with less than a single usable BTC in each, it will be fine. Satoshi could have picked 21 million or 12 million or 1.2 million. It would still be the same.
Oh, That means I've been hitting refresh on this site almost daily for 20 years.... oh gosh...
I still remember the Slashdot party at 1998 or 1999 LinuxWorld or something in San Jose right after the Redhat IPO and right around the Andover thing. I still have the blue plastic cups!
Modern media must need to sensationalize everything. Just because something is on the Internet doesn't make it "virtual". Did I make a "virtual" purchase on Amazon? Or send a "virtual" message to my boss via email? I think they mean "currency like Bitcoin."
Intel's 14nm process is in most ways better than Samsung's 10nm (Qualcomm's fab for this chip). IMHO this isn't really going to be won on feature size of the process between the two.
The advantages Cavium and Qualcomm have are cheaper chips (also more integrated, SAS, PCI lanes) with higher core counts and more memory channels than Intel. In some applications the higher memory channels count and bandwith will be very valuable (HPC). Intel will be able to discount the heck out of their high core count Xeons to match on price and they can lower the clock to match on IPS for each core. They can't add a memory channel where it doesn't exist.
While I agree that the vertical integration of Intel's past may not be the best way for the future, they still have the best process engineers in the world. They still have the best process for the foreseeable future. They also have some of the best semiconductor engineers out there. So while there is a fight coming. Intel is hardly "fucked" or headed for decimation.
I did the same thing with a home alarm service company. I arranged for an install at the address of my local police department. They didn't call me back.
I can't wait to try this out. If I could run Linux on this emulator it would give me a way to put Linux on my x86 box.. Oh wait... That's right...
I can't remember if this has already been on Slashdot, or if Slashdot is just this far behind all the other sites I read. Can anyone help?
I do find it more convenient that mixing myself. I don't even like to grind coffee in the morning anymore. I'm also too lazy to prepare the machine the night before. Anyway, the cost is the same, and I only like to buy a pound at a time. So it works out well.
Around the holidays I do end up getting some pure decaf and some pure caf for guests and then I'm always mixing some coffees that I've been given as gifts... In fact, I've got a cup of personally mixed Christmas blend in my cup right now.
As for willpower, that doesn't seem to be an issue for me, but I guess it could help some people out if they needed that.
I was drinking a pot or more of coffee each morning with a couple of cokes and shots of espresso in the afternoon. I was getting light headed and would get tired randomly throughout the day. I decided it could be the caffeine so I tried to quit cold turkey and had similar problems quiting. The headaches were the worst part for me. My solution turned out to be a new blend of beans.
I'm a Peet's Sumatra fan so I went to my local Peet's and had them blend a 50/50 mix of decaf Sumatra with a regular Sumatra. This alone cut my consumption by half and I didn't even notice the missing caffeine.
I also dropped the espresso in the afternoon and I drink about half the coke that I used to.
I'm thinking about dropping to a 25% caffeine blend of Sumatra and brewing two pots a day. It still will be less caffeine than I used to drink and it gives me something to drink in the afternoon.
Good luck. Be happy you aren't trying to quit crack. My half crack plan doesn't work as well as this.
so perhaps the above statement is incorrect, not just confusing?
I, too, had a big problem with that statement when I first read it. After rereading it, I think the implication is that these cells degrade over time. Organic based products like OLED also have this problem so that MAY be what they are talking about here.
If the cells start out at 20% efficent and degrade to 0% efficent over 20 years that would make this statement correct. Either way, it is still confusing to the reader.
P-V should have 64bit extensions for both pointers and basic math.
64bit pointers and basic math on those pointers, are really what people desire so that more than 4GB can be trivially addressed in a single process's virtual memory space. Think about people who want to manipulate a video file that is larger than 4GB.
AltiVEC **128 bit** is just wide data manipulation and is of no use for those that require large memory footprints. It has the same 32 bit address lines and pointers at a 60MHz Pentium I.
That being said, P-V should also have more than the current 36 bit of physical address lines. I'm guessing they will have 40 usable bits or so of the address bus to physically address memory.
So if you want to put in more than 4GB of RAM you can. But if you don't, 64 bits will be useful to address more than 4GB of a video file sitting in virtual memory.
I don't find it interesting that a software upgrade fixes the problem.
Software upgrades are the cheapest fix for any system problem. This is why they are almost always required by devices. We (companies, not specifically Segway) can ship products early with solid hardware and must less solid software because the cost of fixing problems in software are so minimal.
This software fix probably just shuts down the scooter earlier before the battery runs all the way out. A few cars do the same with gas so that people are driving at 70mph don't loose power breaks and stearing when the engine starts studdering.
Hardware fixes can often cost more then direct replacement of the product. A simple printer circuit board rework could cost $50 each to just disassemble a product, cut a trace and reassemble it. That doesn't include the cost to ship the product back to the manufacture or to a rework house somewhere in the US.
Flash is cheap and almost all companies use it to fix sw problems in the field and work around hardware problems.
Looks like that 1970's UNIX code really increases performance for SMP P-III's.
Now we can appriciate the forsite that our Unix fathers had when developing Xeon SMP code in the late 1970's.
When has any product ever "lived" up to the marketing claims? If I expected everything I bought to live up to their claims, I'd be dissapointed with every bar of soap, every beer, and every Big Mac.
Great News!!!
I will no longer need to use my microwave to cook my popcorn. I'll be able to just leave it near the window and POP POP POP away!!!
It wouldn't help people with embedded links to images at AOL, but at least it could get people to AOL without any additional clicking.
Great, other's have matched our achievements from 1969. Good for them. Wasting money for a manned mission to mars doesn't give us the return on investments that we really should have with government spending. I'd put that money into venture funding for new technology so that we can create jobs that support themselves in internation industry.
20,000 government workers trying to get four Americans on Mars is just a waste.
I guess this is better than spending all that energy working on better nukes.
Oh wait. Now they are building long range rocket technology... Crap maybe this isn't better than just working on nukes.
Mayor Bloomberg was just on the radio and said that the Con Edison transformer on 14th Street in NYC is not on fire. It just release some black smoke when it shutdown due to the grid overload.
I have Tele-Aid in my G500, and it is crap. This is part of the MB Command 2.0 system that is shipping in 2002/2003 C and G class. The S class has a slightly different system.
The Info-Services part of teleaid is what most people think sounds cool.
Here is how it works so that you can judge for yourself.
1. You pay MBUSA $225 a year.
2. You login to your custom website and configure the info-services you would like. I have NHL scores, Bay Area weather, four stock quotes, and national news headlines. You get about five choices and then the website says that is all the data you can store. (I could get traffic for my commute, but I don't).
3. You press the "SVC" button on your "Command" unit (The radio head with 4.5" lcd screen).
4. You WAIT 1 or 2 minutes.
5. The unit eventually beeps, and you are then warned that reading info service underway is dangerious so you do a couple of knob turns and button presses and get to get to the data.
6. You now have about 1K of text to scroll through. Most national news stories are about 300 bytes long. Weather and Hockey are around 50 bytes each.
7. You have now learned nothing that isn't already on the radio.
The last part is the best part!!!
8. You are charged $0.40 cents a minute for the time it took for the Command system to call and get that 1K of data over a built-in cell phone and what must be a 300bps modem!!! Each call typically costs $0.80 and often calls fail without giving you any data, but they are $0.40 per minute so you get charged anyway.
It is just worthless and I won't pay for another year of it.
This guy better watch out, or just like the greatest tragedy of early 90's glam rock, his computer case is going to go up in smoke.
Now that I think about it. Maybe he should get a window case, some Great White action figures, and he can have himself a little recreation right there next to his Pentium.
Is that $2,500 a month in US currency, or Canada's crap paper? In USD, that's almost real money. Sign me up and I'll write GNU code while sucking the crack pipe.
The Mini-PCI card is based on a Broadcom 11g chipset. Broadcom already has Linux drivers for this chip, but they aren't open source. They are licensed to embedded designers for binary distribution and they aren't available to the general public. This is the same chipset that the Linksys WMP54g pci card uses.
Well put /dev/trash! Mike's coworkers at Intel now have their answer to the "material witness" claim.
They can sleep well tonight with the knowledge that he flew to China, joined up with five alleged terrorists and attempted to join Al Qaeda and the Telaban in their fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan.
I wish I had engineers with that level of dedication on my design team!