You do know, don't you, that in the long run a lot of services will probably go over to micropayments, right? Bandwidth costs _money_. Someone has to _pay_. If it's not consumers via advertising influence, it will just be someone else.
...as well as the URL to the electric shock collar my employer has installed as part of our new Quality Initiative
Your employer needs to think more about carrot and less about stick. I suspect that a remotely-triggered rotating bunghole stimulator would be more motivating.
which, admittedly, represents more of a psychological and personality problem than it does a problem in information technlogy. All the great file system ideas in the world won't work if people are fundamentally against the premise of more information sharing being a Good Thing.
In which case, we can begin with your information first: SSN, mother's maiden name, full name, date of birth, place of residence, and all of your credit card numbers. I thank you profusely in advance for your cooperation.
True, but you already have native 64 bit floating point numbers and 128 bit integers on P-4. Strange that SSE2 doesn't implement a 128 bit float, though (strange, I say, because the bits are their in the SSE2 registers).
The absolute amount of memory which can be addressed in 32 bits, sans tricks, is 4GB. That's combined memory and swap. Quite a few people care about that kind of thing, namely just about anyone who runs any decent sized server.
Further, consider the rate at which system memory has been increasing, and project it a few years. If it continues, and I realize that maybe it won't, there's a problem.
This is a perfectly fine point, but Apple's situation is different because they have a niche following of very, very loyal users. It's not like that in PC land, truly. Attempts to change the instructure architecture of the x86 legacy are an entirely different bag of beans that vast hordes of AOL users could care twidly about. "Going with the x86 legacy" has been the historical lynchpin of Intel's ongoing success. Itanium is a boondoggle. It will fail miserably.
I'm accepting resumes from potential job candidates. All applications must include resume, social security number, date of birth, and mother's maiden name.:)
Therefore, when they built the restaurants, they didn't bother putting locks on the doors.
While I can't be positive this statement is true, I seem to recall seeing it printed in local newspapers back when, so I think it is true. They way I heard it, it wasn't that they didn't bother, they made a specific deal of it, as a marketing trick. Think about it. You don't design locks in, you have to design them out. Doors without locks aren't the default, I'm sure you realize.
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I for one am getting tired of the "Surprise Ending" theme thats been going on since the sixth sense...
Sure. But then, I actually liked this particular rendition; what was clever about it was that I knew that this movie was about schizophrenia. I spend the beginning of the movie thinking to myself. "Gosh, this has gone on for a while, when does he become schizophrenic?" LOL. Got me.
Tidal is likewise an exception, and I'd be curious to know how much energy lunar-gravitic tidal forces impart to our atmosphere as well (although I am indeed willing to accept that most wind forces are based on solar-thermal energy).
With most 'criminal' actions, the belief is that you won't get caught.
An apt insight. If you were to take a look at the mind of a developing criminal, you will often find someone who, after one or two several nervous crimes, discovers that getting caught is actually indeed quite rare. After this discovery, they become increasingly brazen, disregarding basic precaution. This is how most criminals actually get caught.
This can lead to some pretty sticky legal issues, i.e., someone collecting $ for access to work posted for free.
I don't consider the issues "sticky," myself. Either the work is in the public domain, or it isn't. If it is, they can charge for access. If it isn't, they don't have legal authority to even distribute the article, so the question is academic.
I suspect that this service is charging for access to things that often aren't on the net at all: like complete research papers and so forth. As long as it's all on the up and up, I wouldn't mind that.
You mean we weren't supposed to all understand that you really meant "FUCK" when you said that? Try it. Repeat after me. FUCK. F-U-C-K. FUUUUUUCK! Feels good, doesn't? Wheh, now aren't you glad you've got that out of your system?
Okay. That's helpful information. I asked because I really didn't know. I presume that the 30% energy efficiency figure for plants excludes whatever energy plants are deriving from entropizing energy through basic chemistry here on planet, yes? Admittedly, I know zero about plant biochemistry.
Anyway, 3% efficiency leaves alot to improve upon, that's for sure. IIRC, someone recently posted a link to a solar-heated chimney wind-powered power plant that was rather cool. I wonder how energy efficient that is? There's more than one way to get solar-to-energy efficiency, and it doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be gotten with a device that does direct conversion. The chimney was a realy interesting idea.
Are you saying that solar cells are less than.1% efficient now? I don't think I get what you are saying. A few orders of magnitude in base 10 means x1000. Is solar power generation really that bad?
I'm stupid? Is methanol a "hydrocarbon"? Anyway, I keep turning back to the methanol fuel cell; it's very clean, the methanol can be stored in existing infrastructure, and such an economy would make a lot of farmers very, very happy.:)
You left out one alternative, which is geothermal plants in remote, volcanically-active locations. Also, there isn't only one kind of fuel cell. Methanol fuel cells are effective, efficient, and clean. I have seen evidence to show that it would be possible to produce enough methanol to fuel our economy. It requires a bit of additional investment in crops, but consider that we already have an overabundance and you begin to get the picture. If we really prefer hydrogen fuel cells, biomass generation, as you pointed out, is a possibility. Presumably, biomass generation of fuel would have to be at-or-near the efficiency of methanol production, otherwise methanol fuel cells would be a better alternative.
My fiancees friend's husband works at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. His area of interest is in family of oceanic extremophile microbes which produce hydrogen as a by-product. I thought that was very cool; obviously it goes without saying that they're looking at growing hydrogen in vats.
Yes, but that only applies to future distributions of the Red Hat code. They don't possess the authority to uniliterally retract the license from all current licensees, which includes the entire group of individuals who have copies of the software prior to the change in terms of licensing.
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*shrug*.
You do know, don't you, that in the long run a lot of services will probably go over to micropayments, right? Bandwidth costs _money_. Someone has to _pay_. If it's not consumers via advertising influence, it will just be someone else.
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...as well as the URL to the electric shock collar my employer has installed as part of our new Quality Initiative
Your employer needs to think more about carrot and less about stick. I suspect that a remotely-triggered rotating bunghole stimulator would be more motivating.
LOL.
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which, admittedly, represents more of a psychological and personality problem than it does a problem in information technlogy. All the great file system ideas in the world won't work if people are fundamentally against the premise of more information sharing being a Good Thing.
In which case, we can begin with your information first: SSN, mother's maiden name, full name, date of birth, place of residence, and all of your credit card numbers. I thank you profusely in advance for your cooperation.
LOL.
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...especially when some analyses take as much as 3 days of computation time...
:)
Oh. You work on small problems then, right?
:)
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True, but you already have native 64 bit floating point numbers and 128 bit integers on P-4. Strange that SSE2 doesn't implement a 128 bit float, though (strange, I say, because the bits are their in the SSE2 registers).
C//
What's the point of adding more bits?
The absolute amount of memory which can be addressed in 32 bits, sans tricks, is 4GB. That's combined memory and swap. Quite a few people care about that kind of thing, namely just about anyone who runs any decent sized server.
Further, consider the rate at which system memory has been increasing, and project it a few years. If it continues, and I realize that maybe it won't, there's a problem.
C//
This is a perfectly fine point, but Apple's situation is different because they have a niche following of very, very loyal users. It's not like that in PC land, truly. Attempts to change the instructure architecture of the x86 legacy are an entirely different bag of beans that vast hordes of AOL users could care twidly about. "Going with the x86 legacy" has been the historical lynchpin of Intel's ongoing success. Itanium is a boondoggle. It will fail miserably.
C//
Don't you think that discussions of explict versus implicit parallelism might be beyond the scope of a press release? Come on.
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If this isn't proof that all "big businesses" can be affected by smaller ones, and...
Do you honestly believe that Intel, if it were legal, wouldn't snap up AMD in an instant just to do away with the competition? Come now.
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Um?
Torment and Fallout, man.
I'm accepting resumes from potential job candidates. All applications must include resume, social security number, date of birth, and mother's maiden name. :)
C//
Therefore, when they built the restaurants, they didn't bother putting locks on the doors.
While I can't be positive this statement is true, I seem to recall seeing it printed in local newspapers back when, so I think it is true. They way I heard it, it wasn't that they didn't bother, they made a specific deal of it, as a marketing trick. Think about it. You don't design locks in, you have to design them out. Doors without locks aren't the default, I'm sure you realize.
C//
I for one am getting tired of the "Surprise Ending" theme thats been going on since the sixth sense...
Sure. But then, I actually liked this particular rendition; what was clever about it was that I knew that this movie was about schizophrenia. I spend the beginning of the movie thinking to myself. "Gosh, this has gone on for a while, when does he become schizophrenic?" LOL. Got me.
C//
I guess geothermal is an exception,...
Tidal is likewise an exception, and I'd be curious to know how much energy lunar-gravitic tidal forces impart to our atmosphere as well (although I am indeed willing to accept that most wind forces are based on solar-thermal energy).
C//
With most 'criminal' actions, the belief is that you won't get caught.
An apt insight. If you were to take a look at the mind of a developing criminal, you will often find someone who, after one or two several nervous crimes, discovers that getting caught is actually indeed quite rare. After this discovery, they become increasingly brazen, disregarding basic precaution. This is how most criminals actually get caught.
C//
This can lead to some pretty sticky legal issues, i.e., someone collecting $ for access to work posted for free.
I don't consider the issues "sticky," myself. Either the work is in the public domain, or it isn't. If it is, they can charge for access. If it isn't, they don't have legal authority to even distribute the article, so the question is academic.
I suspect that this service is charging for access to things that often aren't on the net at all: like complete research papers and so forth. As long as it's all on the up and up, I wouldn't mind that.
C//
frell? frelling???
You mean we weren't supposed to all understand that you really meant "FUCK" when you said that? Try it. Repeat after me. FUCK. F-U-C-K. FUUUUUUCK! Feels good, doesn't? Wheh, now aren't you glad you've got that out of your system?
I knew you would be.
>:-/
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Okay. That's helpful information. I asked because I really didn't know. I presume that the 30% energy efficiency figure for plants excludes whatever energy plants are deriving from entropizing energy through basic chemistry here on planet, yes? Admittedly, I know zero about plant biochemistry.
Anyway, 3% efficiency leaves alot to improve upon, that's for sure. IIRC, someone recently posted a link to a solar-heated chimney wind-powered power plant that was rather cool. I wonder how energy efficient that is? There's more than one way to get solar-to-energy efficiency, and it doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be gotten with a device that does direct conversion. The chimney was a realy interesting idea.
C//
Are you saying that solar cells are less than .1% efficient now? I don't think I get what you are saying. A few orders of magnitude in base 10 means x1000. Is solar power generation really that bad?
C//
last time i looked...
While I'm quite sure there are things you wouldn't like, you've never really actually looked, admit it.
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I'm stupid? Is methanol a "hydrocarbon"? Anyway, I keep turning back to the methanol fuel cell; it's very clean, the methanol can be stored in existing infrastructure, and such an economy would make a lot of farmers very, very happy. :)
C//
You left out one alternative, which is geothermal plants in remote, volcanically-active locations. Also, there isn't only one kind of fuel cell. Methanol fuel cells are effective, efficient, and clean. I have seen evidence to show that it would be possible to produce enough methanol to fuel our economy. It requires a bit of additional investment in crops, but consider that we already have an overabundance and you begin to get the picture. If we really prefer hydrogen fuel cells, biomass generation, as you pointed out, is a possibility. Presumably, biomass generation of fuel would have to be at-or-near the efficiency of methanol production, otherwise methanol fuel cells would be a better alternative.
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The oil economy does infinitely more harm than good...
Seems like completely uninformed bogosity to me.
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My fiancees friend's husband works at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. His area of interest is in family of oceanic extremophile microbes which produce hydrogen as a by-product. I thought that was very cool; obviously it goes without saying that they're looking at growing hydrogen in vats.
C//
Yes, but that only applies to future distributions of the Red Hat code. They don't possess the authority to uniliterally retract the license from all current licensees, which includes the entire group of individuals who have copies of the software prior to the change in terms of licensing.
C//