Well, it remains to be seen if the US government could do it or not, and that day may be coming. But so far even significantly more totalitarian regimes have all failed.
In the US its illegal to escape (jailbreak) from your walled gardens. So as soon as the big 3 platforms convince the big 3 hardware manufacturers to stop offering open hardware, we are screwed.
It's an interesting theory, but how will you know what you don't know? That is, it might be hard to identify, today, what might turn out to be an absolutely vital compound 40 years down the road. Or even one year down the road. And we have to weigh that potential discovery against the potential progress man might make by wiping out some species. Maybe Giraffe tongues cure Ekeeber's syndrome, which turns out to be what tends to kill old people when you take cancer out of the mix. I don't think that should hold us back from wiping out the Giraffes, because, frankly, Giraffes are creepy, and we're better off without them.
Well, there was at least one answer in there. Some of the organisms are arriving and evolving. There's specific mention of an interesting yeast which arrived in the bowels of some geese that had the misfortune to try to rest there while migrating.
I would assume that most of the novel organisms are evolving there. Some of those organisms have probably had a million generations by now.
Yes, your math is about right, though you actually came out a bit low, presumably because you rounded the 2m. And if you look at the video, it's clearly closer in shape to a cubic pool a half-kilometer on a side.
As much as I detest facebook, it is in no way a pyramid scheme. Its growth does not depend on stacking layers of contributors. In fact, their payment model is almost perfectly flat (all the advertisers pay basically the same rates to get access to your data).
CPU can be less than $50 if he really doesn't need the cpu to do much of anything. So far I'm at $668. Probably have to buy a box to put it in for $50. So now i'm at $718. What shall I buy with my $82?
I definitely agree, there are companies out there that get it right. Unfortunately, they're just a bit uncommon. The company I'm working for now does a pretty good job of it. We have group lead, team lead, director, vp up the management side, and senior, architect, badass up the technical side. But even so, we mostly focus on making sure that the good people are paid fairly, enough that they won't get recruited away, even if a slot isn't open above them for a title promotion.
big FP bandwidth on a tesla doesn't do much for you if you only need integer execution. Maybe you'd be better off with a 4-cpu xeon box, or a bulldozer, or a 64-core arm. Really, you want to find a way to benchmark your particular software on a variety of potential cpu targets, and then do a price comparison.
I've seen it first-hand, interviewing for Google. Their interview process just isn't capable of evaluating someone with 10+ years of experience. All of their questions are targeted at kids straight out of school. When they have to evaluate someone with 10 years of experience who will want twice the salary of someone straight out of school, they literally have no way to understand why the experienced person might be the better choice.
There's also definitely a lot of layoffs targeted at aging workers. Lots of firing going on in the 35-39 age block where they don't have to worry about lawsuits. If you've been lucky enough never to be hit by such bad management, congrats.
Slashdot Mirror
Anti-trust applies to monopolies. It would be challenging to claim anyone has a monopoly in such a competitive market.
1st amendment applies to the government. Private entities can legally censor speech all they want.
There aren't really any anti-censorship laws (beyond the 1st amendment, which again applies only to the government).
Well, it remains to be seen if the US government could do it or not, and that day may be coming. But so far even significantly more totalitarian regimes have all failed.
What law?
In the US its illegal to escape (jailbreak) from your walled gardens. So as soon as the big 3 platforms convince the big 3 hardware manufacturers to stop offering open hardware, we are screwed.
And what will you run that software on when no one is selling unlocked hardware anymore?
Also, all restaurants will be Taco Bell.
Well that already happened. Except it's 'Yum', and they kept a variety of brands. But the food all comes from the same big factory now.
The downside is that the primary medium by which people communicate will soon be easily censor-able by both government and private entities.
It's an interesting theory, but how will you know what you don't know? That is, it might be hard to identify, today, what might turn out to be an absolutely vital compound 40 years down the road. Or even one year down the road. And we have to weigh that potential discovery against the potential progress man might make by wiping out some species. Maybe Giraffe tongues cure Ekeeber's syndrome, which turns out to be what tends to kill old people when you take cancer out of the mix. I don't think that should hold us back from wiping out the Giraffes, because, frankly, Giraffes are creepy, and we're better off without them.
Well, there was at least one answer in there. Some of the organisms are arriving and evolving. There's specific mention of an interesting yeast which arrived in the bowels of some geese that had the misfortune to try to rest there while migrating.
I would assume that most of the novel organisms are evolving there. Some of those organisms have probably had a million generations by now.
Yes, your math is about right, though you actually came out a bit low, presumably because you rounded the 2m.
And if you look at the video, it's clearly closer in shape to a cubic pool a half-kilometer on a side.
At 0:54 in the video you briefly catch a glimpse of a 3-eyed fish jumping out of the lake ... eerily reminiscent of the Simpsons.
You're describing pump-and-dump, not pyramid. Different schemes.
As much as I detest facebook, it is in no way a pyramid scheme. Its growth does not depend on stacking layers of contributors. In fact, their payment model is almost perfectly flat (all the advertisers pay basically the same rates to get access to your data).
Perfect, right on budget!
But actual performance is apparently drastically lower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_hardware
PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves a maximum of 230.4 GFLOPS in single precision floating point operations and 100 GFLOPS double precision.
Cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162058&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-Galaxy-_-14162058
x3 = $360.
Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128495
$114
Power supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152044
$144
CPU can be less than $50 if he really doesn't need the cpu to do much of anything.
So far I'm at $668. Probably have to buy a box to put it in for $50.
So now i'm at $718. What shall I buy with my $82?
I'd prefer a reliable dictionary over wikipedia, like any one of:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misogyny
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/misogyny
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/misogyny
Or if we must, the first line of wikipedia: /msdni/) is the hatred or dislike of women or girls.
Misogyny (play
And not some random person's interpretation that happened to be picked by some wikipedia editor.
Yes: Options/Exclusions/Politics.
I definitely agree, there are companies out there that get it right. Unfortunately, they're just a bit uncommon. The company I'm working for now does a pretty good job of it. We have group lead, team lead, director, vp up the management side, and senior, architect, badass up the technical side. But even so, we mostly focus on making sure that the good people are paid fairly, enough that they won't get recruited away, even if a slot isn't open above them for a title promotion.
Sorry, I just read the 'bufferbloat' article, which seemed to be all about the transit, and not the endpoints.
big FP bandwidth on a tesla doesn't do much for you if you only need integer execution. Maybe you'd be better off with a 4-cpu xeon box, or a bulldozer, or a 64-core arm. Really, you want to find a way to benchmark your particular software on a variety of potential cpu targets, and then do a price comparison.
I thought that was the premise, not the argument.
I've seen it first-hand, interviewing for Google. Their interview process just isn't capable of evaluating someone with 10+ years of experience. All of their questions are targeted at kids straight out of school. When they have to evaluate someone with 10 years of experience who will want twice the salary of someone straight out of school, they literally have no way to understand why the experienced person might be the better choice.
There's also definitely a lot of layoffs targeted at aging workers. Lots of firing going on in the 35-39 age block where they don't have to worry about lawsuits. If you've been lucky enough never to be hit by such bad management, congrats.
We're talking about 40+Gbit/sec internet backbones in this article, not end user connections.
Misogyny isn't the same thing as gender bias. And I see nothing in this to suggest this is anything other than gender bias.