Seems to me this supposed supercomputer is just a cluster of quad processor motherboards with coprocessors.
And why isn't it liquid cooled in refined mineral oil on cabinets on their back? It cuts the power requirements for cooling and makes the boards as a whole more reliable. Don't have to worry about cooling fans going down and you can have redundant heat exchanging pumps.
Good god, can you imagine all the comedians that are going to end up in jail?
Scary. Even if he is a online sociopath I have a hard time separating his actions from what anyone should be able to do. He judged someone and used his freedom of speech to deride them. He doesn't pity or respect people that commit suicide so he makes fun of them. You can argue that if more people did this suicide might actually decline.
But a true troll isn't saying anything to make a point and doesn't necessarily believe what he is saying, he simply wants to get a rise out of people and get attention. Can we actually judge intent and thereby censor people?
Or might I bring up that his actions/speech is more akin to a flasher looking to shock people. Would this not actually be mental illness and thereby the law could curtail his freedom stemming from that?
Why haven't we learned our lessons yet? Processors are bottlenecked by memory speed. We were only able to get processors to go faster in the past by large memory caches and superscaller design. It's a dead end.
We need new memory technologies. We need new memory and memory buses that are able to run faster than processors. Preferably an optical technology not subject to radio and inductive interference. Solve this and systems will seem like 10 thz superscaller designs.
Then we need to reverse past trends and scale down superscaller technology and divert the transistors to more cores and power efficiency. It's like there is no innovation going on anymore, no design; it's all brute force through shrinking transistors.
I would say articles are submitted on main line tracts of every topic every week. Just to get it published means it's worth paying attention to. On the other hand it also means you'll see another revolutionary evolution/refinement every couple years. As far as the subject matter I think it's very apropos.
P.S. And yes I transposed a word in my previous post.
Finally that tablet computers are gaining momentum things have a chance to change. The problem is we need cheap tablets, in the range of $200. Then we need to retrofit desks with vertical tablet holders to hold them upright or at a sloped angle depending on the use. Then young people can carry Bluetooth keyboards and mice but don't necessarily need to pull them out all the time. When each child has two tablets it becomes a game changer for education. One tablet functions to present material and the other to do work on although they are interchangeable. We just need the software to do the work on.
Teachers and schools then need to change how they teach. In also changes how they speed money. Text books need to be free. How many doctoral and masters candidates are getting government grants to support their education? Unless your quite wealthy it takes ten plus years to pay off a doctoral education. I think we could create new grants for these students in exchange for them writing books and software for schools; talk about cheap. Just design the grant to increase funding depending on how many schools use the material or on the specific needs of minority education such as accessibility for the physically disabled.
Lectures should be prerecorded videos. Each teacher on the subject in the school should be required to record their own lecture. Everyone is different and everyone approaches and teaches different subjects differently. If a student has difficulty understanding one teacher he should be able to turn to a lecture with a different teacher on the same subject. All the students that year are effectively in the same class. They take the same tests; dynamically created. All the teachers are then available for one on one time with all the students. It also means the teachers don't have to be the same quality or know each subject as proficiently; sometimes a TA is all you need, someone to help walk you though the problem and or identify what you need to work on more or have a better teacher help you with.
The above is where tech will change the game.
We then need to address motivation. We need to put the responsibility of learning on the student themselves instead of thinking a teacher is going to magically pour the subject into their head. Everyone is going to have different motivation. Everyone will not perform the same. We need to figure out what motivates each student. Specifically we need to reward students that learn the material faster. We need to enable students to produce and perform and enable their own discipline. Get done with the subject and either progress to more advanced topics more quickly or get rewarding activities. Perhaps becoming a TA and interacting socially. Perhaps having more time for sports and competitive social activities. Perhaps learning elective subjects. Or perhaps going home early, or maybe setting your own hours and not getting up so early in the morning. The list can go on and on. I bet if you addressed motivation and learning like this students high school and below would learn their mandated subjects that are now taught over 9 months within two months.
They made secure efforts in transmitting the data. It was the Guardian that betrayed the trust of Wikileaks and all those identities that were suppose to be withheld. The Guardian kept the data file and let it leak and then published the password... In effect the Guardian published everything in the clear. They are the ones to be held responsible.
All one needs is a panel to deflect objects downward and a robot that can get around it's orbit to get the job done. Put multiple drones up in multiple orbits. And yes I understand about the big difference in speed of objects but the solution is to angle the panel to deflect less, maybe enough for the next bumper drone to deflect it again. All we need to do is make the junk deorbit sooner and it will burn up. Plus the bumper drone actually gets a nudge up and a nudge faster with each collision. So in the least if the craft is rugged and light enough it could get at least get some energy to put it in position for it's next collision.
For some rare objects (such as complete satellites) a different system of using a net would probably be needed.
I think this is a given since the alternative is more or less similar such that each satellite has a protection shield satellites in front of it and behind it. That would obviously be much more expensive.
They are sending up our astronauts. We are paying them enough money. Surely if they land in Florida we can ship their landing vehicle back to them. We are not talking regular landings, we are talking about an emergency during harsh weather conditions.
A license printed in the book that allows if your the owner to have a copy printed. If most magazines did this it would be wonderful. A cottage industry would then appear for local printers for print copies. More expensive for those that want all printed copies but I think great in the long run for those that want to archive. Print and keep around six months of copies and recycle after that. Have another copy printed if you really want/need a printed copy later. Also have your copies made in the best quality your willing to pay for.
The slick thing for a cell company to do would be to merge with an internet broadband company. Each cable modem or optical terminal could then become a mini cell transceiver on the carriers allotted frequencies. Maybe require external antennas. The customers also then pay the power bill. Great for congested cities, apartment, and office buildings. A semi mesh network controlled and configured by the phone company.
So $100 for everything. And most likely the person with the cell phone is only going to connect wirelessly to an extended range WiFi type device.
Sure it's universally accepted on all phones but so is email now. Seriously who really needs to text when they have email? How many people out there have phones without a data plan that need to text?
The whole point of a modern OS is to virtualize the hardware so that each software application can play nice with each other.
The hypervizor is the new ring 0. And it's going to evolve into a microkernel and user mode drivers. It's the new operating system and that what he should be working on if he likes hardware bits. The "Operating Systems" of old are evolving into plug in Operating Environments. It's the future, the revolution, get over it.
It would be trivial to filter internet connections to and from Microsoft. Just cache everything that existed before. Use a virtual machine to mirror your machine but doesn't save to the boot up hard disk. Just check the virtual boot up for success and cache the results for the next real boot up. To everyone it would look similar to the safe mode mechanism and could function automatically.
But to me that's too much work. Windows is dead. I can run old applications in virtual machines easily enough. Where are the applications that require windows 7? Maybe a few animation suites. For the everyday man it's only needed for games. I am a PC gamer but the days of PC gaming are numbered. At HD resolutions from consoles and sound coming through your home stereo it's to the point where the PC version is practically irrelevant. At this point in the game If apple wanted they could branch out to the generic PC platform with OSX or maybe OS-11 or OS-YZ. They could easily snatch up what remains of the desktop app market if not bring it back alive.
NVidia and ATI are the companies that are keeping Windows alive at this point and I can easily see them and the game industry roll their own DRM Gaming Linux that boots alongside whatever OS you normally use. Microsoft will continue to develop DirectX since it's used on the XBox. DirectX helps give those companies feedback on how to improve their hardware.
What they do is logical in the same way. A person can mentally walk the steps to evaluate signals going into and out of digital and analog circuits. Does this mean we actually need to apply copyright law to circuits as I suspect? What about the past 100 years of electronics cases using patent law, I doubt the courts would be so willing to go so far even if it is the logical conclusion.
An circuit is something physical but what it does is a mental process although it does it very fast. But if tangibility is the definition of what can be patented I have to wonder if a specific book title would not also qualify as a patentable object.
This will make them directly liable. I still understand they will keep it as a subsidiary to limit their liability but still.. they can lose 12.5 billion.
Another point is that now Google is a competitor against other handset makers. Shouldn't they be worried about using Android or Motorola getting unfair advantage? Also the carriers will be on them again about locking down Android although they are in a stronger position in not being a new hardware company. And the U.S. government will have greater leverage against them due to government contracts on phones and phone service.
I am wondering why they wouldn't just reassign the patents to themselves and sell off the company. They could license the patents back to Motorola without charge or maybe exchange for new patents or cross licensing with the ability to initiate lawsuits.
What I can easily see is Google spending a few billion dollars litigating over twenty years, suing everyone until the first few agree to cross licensing then proceeding with the rest, tying up the US court system with a handful of patents at a time against different companies, refusing to settle. Bogging down all patent cases in federal court to the point that the patent system becomes a hundred times the joke it already is. Force congress to enact reasonable new IP laws and have the companies they sue support them. Bury everyone with paperwork. They will probably invest in paper recycling and print shops near the law offices of everyone they sue just to show how green they are.
I don't know about everyone else but the inflation of the major version number is making me less confident in Firefox. It appears to me they are confusing the use of version and subversion number and sub sub version numbers. What happened to the old days when they increased the major version number no sooner than a couple years? Maybe it's time to get away from version numbers and use release dates instead.
Why are hardware companies keeping their hardware API's still secret? There is such an investment in silicon these days that any hardware engineer and hence any company their work for to reverse engineer the API of competing hardware in less than two months. But does knowing the API really amount to much? The big companies are desoldering board components and reverse engineering firmware. The only people hurt by keeping hardware API's a secret is the people implementing open source drivers free for that companies product. And that is only useful if they are trying to obsolete their products every few years and or control how it's used.
They recorded either all raw radio wave data or minimally converted everything to digital according to the WiFi protocols. So if someone accessing their bank at the the time Google drove by then Google captured their bank data. If someone used weak pass phrases for their WiFi then the stored data is easily decoded.
I am very libertarian. It doesn't matter if a law says I can't listen into a radio wave, the truth is I can and so can anyone else. It's my fault for not encrypting my data securely. It's my responsibility to know that encryption has it's best practices and to use them as well as to be informed that I am taking a calculated risk in transmitting data wirelessly since nothing is guaranteed.
Radio signals are public.The trick is decoding them. Decoding them should not be illegal since bad guys don't obey the law. To me it's like arresting people for eves dropping at the next table when people can clearly hear them at the other end of the room. If you want privacy, go somewhere private and secure.
Just as a murderer would fake an alibi and frame another person. And you don't frame a complete idiot. If the person gets convicted and you have a conscience you simply vindicate them and they get a nice check from the government for being innocent and after the publicity of a hundred such cases the US government will stop embarrassing themselves publicly.
It's hard to explain to paperwork administrators the differences between correlation and causation and how hard it is to ID a person online or that you can actually frame a person. They are just looking for their witch to burn and refuse to listen. Unless you have video of a person typing what is appearing on their screen you simply can't be sure.
The biggest consumer is farms. The immediate solution for the next hundred years is hydroponics with which you can cut water consumption by two thirds. Hydroponics is also easier to farm and produces more in a smaller area. Simply construct large scale sealed transparent tents; i.e. large scale green houses. Smaller versions of the old idea of the bubble cities. A closed environment can be constructed to be very green and you are only out the initial cost of the system. You can also put them in both hotter and cooler environments so you wind up with more useable land. You also don't need to be as worried about pests as you normally would and wouldn't need to use pesticides.
Bathrooms need to use less water. We also need to adapt to urinals and bidets for both sexes in bathrooms at home and promote lather and rinse instead of a continuous shower.
Another issue is we need an aqueduct system in the United States to move excess water from east to west.
For power we need a redundant superconductor network to make the location of power production irrelevant. It will just take the same kind of effort to build as it took to build the railroads and the highway system.
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Seems to me this supposed supercomputer is just a cluster of quad processor motherboards with coprocessors.
And why isn't it liquid cooled in refined mineral oil on cabinets on their back? It cuts the power requirements for cooling and makes the boards as a whole more reliable. Don't have to worry about cooling fans going down and you can have redundant heat exchanging pumps.
Everyone wants to get the most for their money be it in good times or bad.
Good god, can you imagine all the comedians that are going to end up in jail?
Scary. Even if he is a online sociopath I have a hard time separating his actions from what anyone should be able to do. He judged someone and used his freedom of speech to deride them. He doesn't pity or respect people that commit suicide so he makes fun of them. You can argue that if more people did this suicide might actually decline.
But a true troll isn't saying anything to make a point and doesn't necessarily believe what he is saying, he simply wants to get a rise out of people and get attention. Can we actually judge intent and thereby censor people?
Or might I bring up that his actions/speech is more akin to a flasher looking to shock people. Would this not actually be mental illness and thereby the law could curtail his freedom stemming from that?
Why haven't we learned our lessons yet? Processors are bottlenecked by memory speed. We were only able to get processors to go faster in the past by large memory caches and superscaller design. It's a dead end.
We need new memory technologies. We need new memory and memory buses that are able to run faster than processors. Preferably an optical technology not subject to radio and inductive interference. Solve this and systems will seem like 10 thz superscaller designs.
Then we need to reverse past trends and scale down superscaller technology and divert the transistors to more cores and power efficiency. It's like there is no innovation going on anymore, no design; it's all brute force through shrinking transistors.
Even if you are an AC I'm still commenting.
I would say articles are submitted on main line tracts of every topic every week. Just to get it published means it's worth paying attention to. On the other hand it also means you'll see another revolutionary evolution/refinement every couple years. As far as the subject matter I think it's very apropos.
P.S. And yes I transposed a word in my previous post.
Evolution of full of evolutionary useful adaptations reinventing themselves. Doesn't mean it's direct ancestry.
It has happened before and it will happen again.
Finally that tablet computers are gaining momentum things have a chance to change. The problem is we need cheap tablets, in the range of $200. Then we need to retrofit desks with vertical tablet holders to hold them upright or at a sloped angle depending on the use. Then young people can carry Bluetooth keyboards and mice but don't necessarily need to pull them out all the time. When each child has two tablets it becomes a game changer for education. One tablet functions to present material and the other to do work on although they are interchangeable. We just need the software to do the work on.
Teachers and schools then need to change how they teach. In also changes how they speed money. Text books need to be free. How many doctoral and masters candidates are getting government grants to support their education? Unless your quite wealthy it takes ten plus years to pay off a doctoral education. I think we could create new grants for these students in exchange for them writing books and software for schools; talk about cheap. Just design the grant to increase funding depending on how many schools use the material or on the specific needs of minority education such as accessibility for the physically disabled.
Lectures should be prerecorded videos. Each teacher on the subject in the school should be required to record their own lecture. Everyone is different and everyone approaches and teaches different subjects differently. If a student has difficulty understanding one teacher he should be able to turn to a lecture with a different teacher on the same subject. All the students that year are effectively in the same class. They take the same tests; dynamically created. All the teachers are then available for one on one time with all the students. It also means the teachers don't have to be the same quality or know each subject as proficiently; sometimes a TA is all you need, someone to help walk you though the problem and or identify what you need to work on more or have a better teacher help you with.
The above is where tech will change the game.
We then need to address motivation. We need to put the responsibility of learning on the student themselves instead of thinking a teacher is going to magically pour the subject into their head. Everyone is going to have different motivation. Everyone will not perform the same. We need to figure out what motivates each student. Specifically we need to reward students that learn the material faster. We need to enable students to produce and perform and enable their own discipline. Get done with the subject and either progress to more advanced topics more quickly or get rewarding activities. Perhaps becoming a TA and interacting socially. Perhaps having more time for sports and competitive social activities. Perhaps learning elective subjects. Or perhaps going home early, or maybe setting your own hours and not getting up so early in the morning. The list can go on and on. I bet if you addressed motivation and learning like this students high school and below would learn their mandated subjects that are now taught over 9 months within two months.
They made secure efforts in transmitting the data. It was the Guardian that betrayed the trust of Wikileaks and all those identities that were suppose to be withheld. The Guardian kept the data file and let it leak and then published the password... In effect the Guardian published everything in the clear. They are the ones to be held responsible.
All one needs is a panel to deflect objects downward and a robot that can get around it's orbit to get the job done. Put multiple drones up in multiple orbits. And yes I understand about the big difference in speed of objects but the solution is to angle the panel to deflect less, maybe enough for the next bumper drone to deflect it again. All we need to do is make the junk deorbit sooner and it will burn up. Plus the bumper drone actually gets a nudge up and a nudge faster with each collision. So in the least if the craft is rugged and light enough it could get at least get some energy to put it in position for it's next collision.
For some rare objects (such as complete satellites) a different system of using a net would probably be needed.
I think this is a given since the alternative is more or less similar such that each satellite has a protection shield satellites in front of it and behind it. That would obviously be much more expensive.
They are sending up our astronauts. We are paying them enough money. Surely if they land in Florida we can ship their landing vehicle back to them. We are not talking regular landings, we are talking about an emergency during harsh weather conditions.
Seriously. Anyone have statistics on the number of hard drives produced over the years?
A license printed in the book that allows if your the owner to have a copy printed. If most magazines did this it would be wonderful. A cottage industry would then appear for local printers for print copies. More expensive for those that want all printed copies but I think great in the long run for those that want to archive. Print and keep around six months of copies and recycle after that. Have another copy printed if you really want/need a printed copy later. Also have your copies made in the best quality your willing to pay for.
It doesn't matter. Ubisoft can stop support for the game or go bankrupt and people that purchased the game will be SOL.
The slick thing for a cell company to do would be to merge with an internet broadband company. Each cable modem or optical terminal could then become a mini cell transceiver on the carriers allotted frequencies. Maybe require external antennas. The customers also then pay the power bill. Great for congested cities, apartment, and office buildings. A semi mesh network controlled and configured by the phone company.
So $100 for everything. And most likely the person with the cell phone is only going to connect wirelessly to an extended range WiFi type device.
Sure it's universally accepted on all phones but so is email now. Seriously who really needs to text when they have email? How many people out there have phones without a data plan that need to text?
The whole point of a modern OS is to virtualize the hardware so that each software application can play nice with each other.
The hypervizor is the new ring 0. And it's going to evolve into a microkernel and user mode drivers. It's the new operating system and that what he should be working on if he likes hardware bits. The "Operating Systems" of old are evolving into plug in Operating Environments. It's the future, the revolution, get over it.
It would be trivial to filter internet connections to and from Microsoft. Just cache everything that existed before. Use a virtual machine to mirror your machine but doesn't save to the boot up hard disk. Just check the virtual boot up for success and cache the results for the next real boot up. To everyone it would look similar to the safe mode mechanism and could function automatically.
But to me that's too much work. Windows is dead. I can run old applications in virtual machines easily enough. Where are the applications that require windows 7? Maybe a few animation suites. For the everyday man it's only needed for games. I am a PC gamer but the days of PC gaming are numbered. At HD resolutions from consoles and sound coming through your home stereo it's to the point where the PC version is practically irrelevant. At this point in the game If apple wanted they could branch out to the generic PC platform with OSX or maybe OS-11 or OS-YZ. They could easily snatch up what remains of the desktop app market if not bring it back alive.
NVidia and ATI are the companies that are keeping Windows alive at this point and I can easily see them and the game industry roll their own DRM Gaming Linux that boots alongside whatever OS you normally use. Microsoft will continue to develop DirectX since it's used on the XBox. DirectX helps give those companies feedback on how to improve their hardware.
What they do is logical in the same way. A person can mentally walk the steps to evaluate signals going into and out of digital and analog circuits. Does this mean we actually need to apply copyright law to circuits as I suspect? What about the past 100 years of electronics cases using patent law, I doubt the courts would be so willing to go so far even if it is the logical conclusion.
An circuit is something physical but what it does is a mental process although it does it very fast. But if tangibility is the definition of what can be patented I have to wonder if a specific book title would not also qualify as a patentable object.
This will make them directly liable. I still understand they will keep it as a subsidiary to limit their liability but still.. they can lose 12.5 billion.
Another point is that now Google is a competitor against other handset makers. Shouldn't they be worried about using Android or Motorola getting unfair advantage? Also the carriers will be on them again about locking down Android although they are in a stronger position in not being a new hardware company. And the U.S. government will have greater leverage against them due to government contracts on phones and phone service.
I am wondering why they wouldn't just reassign the patents to themselves and sell off the company. They could license the patents back to Motorola without charge or maybe exchange for new patents or cross licensing with the ability to initiate lawsuits.
What I can easily see is Google spending a few billion dollars litigating over twenty years, suing everyone until the first few agree to cross licensing then proceeding with the rest, tying up the US court system with a handful of patents at a time against different companies, refusing to settle. Bogging down all patent cases in federal court to the point that the patent system becomes a hundred times the joke it already is. Force congress to enact reasonable new IP laws and have the companies they sue support them. Bury everyone with paperwork. They will probably invest in paper recycling and print shops near the law offices of everyone they sue just to show how green they are.
I don't know about everyone else but the inflation of the major version number is making me less confident in Firefox. It appears to me they are confusing the use of version and subversion number and sub sub version numbers. What happened to the old days when they increased the major version number no sooner than a couple years? Maybe it's time to get away from version numbers and use release dates instead.
I am a BSD person myself. But we all run the same software more than less. Our apps run on windows.
The beauty of the situation is true for Unix from the start. It's software and we have choices. It's all about mixing it up.
Why are hardware companies keeping their hardware API's still secret? There is such an investment in silicon these days that any hardware engineer and hence any company their work for to reverse engineer the API of competing hardware in less than two months. But does knowing the API really amount to much? The big companies are desoldering board components and reverse engineering firmware. The only people hurt by keeping hardware API's a secret is the people implementing open source drivers free for that companies product. And that is only useful if they are trying to obsolete their products every few years and or control how it's used.
They recorded either all raw radio wave data or minimally converted everything to digital according to the WiFi protocols. So if someone accessing their bank at the the time Google drove by then Google captured their bank data. If someone used weak pass phrases for their WiFi then the stored data is easily decoded.
I am very libertarian. It doesn't matter if a law says I can't listen into a radio wave, the truth is I can and so can anyone else. It's my fault for not encrypting my data securely. It's my responsibility to know that encryption has it's best practices and to use them as well as to be informed that I am taking a calculated risk in transmitting data wirelessly since nothing is guaranteed.
Radio signals are public.The trick is decoding them. Decoding them should not be illegal since bad guys don't obey the law. To me it's like arresting people for eves dropping at the next table when people can clearly hear them at the other end of the room. If you want privacy, go somewhere private and secure.
Just as a murderer would fake an alibi and frame another person. And you don't frame a complete idiot. If the person gets convicted and you have a conscience you simply vindicate them and they get a nice check from the government for being innocent and after the publicity of a hundred such cases the US government will stop embarrassing themselves publicly.
It's hard to explain to paperwork administrators the differences between correlation and causation and how hard it is to ID a person online or that you can actually frame a person. They are just looking for their witch to burn and refuse to listen. Unless you have video of a person typing what is appearing on their screen you simply can't be sure.
The biggest consumer is farms. The immediate solution for the next hundred years is hydroponics with which you can cut water consumption by two thirds. Hydroponics is also easier to farm and produces more in a smaller area. Simply construct large scale sealed transparent tents; i.e. large scale green houses. Smaller versions of the old idea of the bubble cities. A closed environment can be constructed to be very green and you are only out the initial cost of the system. You can also put them in both hotter and cooler environments so you wind up with more useable land. You also don't need to be as worried about pests as you normally would and wouldn't need to use pesticides.
Bathrooms need to use less water. We also need to adapt to urinals and bidets for both sexes in bathrooms at home and promote lather and rinse instead of a continuous shower.
Another issue is we need an aqueduct system in the United States to move excess water from east to west.
For power we need a redundant superconductor network to make the location of power production irrelevant. It will just take the same kind of effort to build as it took to build the railroads and the highway system.