But GNU is not "everything else" - there are vast numbers of projects that make up a common Linux distribution.
Also, if you saw the GNU project prior to Linux, really only the development stack (GCC, binutils, flex/bison) were very usable. The GNU libc was in need of a lot of work to get usable, and that work happened because of Linux's need of a good C library. The various GNU projects have benefited significantly from the Linux communities, since Linux is the main OS that uses them as the primary tools (as opposed to secondary use on other Unix systems like Solaris). Shall we also start calling it Linux/GNU libc, Linux/GNU compiler collection, etc.?
The CubeSats are not in Martian orbit - they didn't have engines to slow down or a heat shield to bleed off energy (only small attitude thrusters). They just flew by Mars, and will be in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
This is a business office, not a data center, so "internet hubs" is not particularly important. Also, "all the internet hubs" being in Virginia is at least 10-15 years out of date - there are large carrier hotels all over the US. "Age of Ultron" notwithstanding, all the Internet traffic doesn't go through any one place.
According to the government's inflation calculator, $100 in January 2010 has the same buying power as $116.50 now - the amount I'm paying for cable has only increased a little more than that percentage (closer to 20%) in the same time. However, I get more channels, more in HD (and better quality HD), and have added premium channels to my subscription since that 2010 cost, so adjusting for inflation and service delivered, my cost has gone down.
Of course, I have two cable companies available (I've switched since 2010), plus AT&T and Google Fiber's video services, so maybe there's something to this competition thing...
Try being on the other side of the wall from the soda and junk food machines that regularly jam up, infuriating cow-orkers to slam them around like toys. Noise-cancelling headphones work much better than a couple of thin layers of drywall.
The best commentary track ever is by "The King" on Bubba Ho-Tep. It is an entire track of Bruce Campbell in character as Elvis, not having the first clue what he's watching. "Commentary! The Musical" on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is pretty good too.
I guess the thing I enjoy about both of those is that they aren't actually commentary tracks, they're additional productions along side the original video.
I'm typing on my Google Fiber in Huntsville, Alabama. Rather than let Google Fiber be just another company digging up people's yards and running another privately-owned infrastructure, the local city-owned utility company is building out the fiber plant to the curb (useful to them to allow smart metering and such). Google Fiber then just runs from the curb to the house. The infrastructure is open access; any company that wants to build into the fiber huts is able (and there are other companies getting into the game).
This is the perfect model IMHO; I don't really want my government running the Internet access, but I also don't want 27 different companies digging up my yard to run their fiber/wire down the street. The city-owned utility will deliver fiber past every address in town, so Google Fiber will be available to everyone, not just pockets here and there. And if they don't succeed/stick around, the hardest part of building a competitor (the last mile) will be done, so others can come in and compete with much lower start-up costs.
Really? A Ford killed somebody today, by itself? I doubt that; that results in investigations and recalls.
If Tesla requires the person behind the wheel (not the "driver", since they're relying on the car to do that) to accept a message that says the so-called Autopilot software is only designed for certain situations, why is the software driving in other situations? My car has lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control, but when I go outside their design ranges, they beep at me and disable.
You mean a subscription where you start out with a bunch of widely-sourced news, but over time, the subscription site drops more and more sources and replaces them with their own "exciting new" content?
The memcached traffic amplification factor is around 15000x, so to get 1.3Tbps of attack traffic requires fewer than 90 hosts with gigabit Internet access.
My guess would be Slashdot uses memcached (like many websites), and they didn't have it properly locked down (like many websites). For the last few days, open memcached instances have become the amplification tool of choice for DDoS attacks, so some websites and hosting farms have been having trouble as they try to lock down their memcached instances.
I don't know if the AGC was tested that way or not (or if so, if the simulation ran on digital or analog computers). I'm not sure; it might have been simpler to simulate the inputs and outputs for the AGC than the LVDC. I think the AGC itself was a less powerful computer than the LVDC.
My father's been working for NASA since 1962 - I think his job then was on analog computers. His group did the flight certification of the Saturn V LVDC, and digital computers of the day couldn't keep up with hardware-in-the-loop simulation. They also simulated TLI after they reached orbit to make sure they would go to the Moon.
He's still there, working on the SLS guidance simulation these days.
Because it isn't actually what most people would consider an autopilot and doesn't handle all situations. The truck was stopped and the car was driving at highway speed, and Tesla is probably not handling coming up on a fully stopped vehicle at that speed.
This is why Intel is talking about dropping legacy BIOS support and going with pure UEFI firmware. BIOS requires starting in 16-bit real mode, but UEFI can start in native protected mode.
It isn't a general 32-bit vs. 64-bit comparison, it is specifically that the x86_64 ISA is better than the i386 ISA in a major way, due to a larger register set. i386 has very few registers compared to other major architectures, which means higher memory access rates. Even with on-die caches, RAM access is slower than the CPU, so the more often code has to hit RAM, the slower it goes. x86_64 added more registers, so can do more with fewer RAM accesses, so it can do the same job faster.
Any clueful Internet provider would know not to have Cogent as a single (or even one of two) upstream, and how to route around them when they get in their pissing matches. Cogent will beat anybody's price on bandwidth, because what they lose on each contract, they'll make up in quantity!
Unfortunately, many of the people of the fine state of Alabama (of which I am a life-long resident, being more embarrassed every day by the Alabamification of US politics) are blithering idiots and would eat up a conservative talk-radio host announcing the WaPo was soliciting uninvestigated comments for cash as just more proof that the whole thing was fake news.
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I Remember IANA
Explains the dupes - injection attacks!
But GNU is not "everything else" - there are vast numbers of projects that make up a common Linux distribution.
Also, if you saw the GNU project prior to Linux, really only the development stack (GCC, binutils, flex/bison) were very usable. The GNU libc was in need of a lot of work to get usable, and that work happened because of Linux's need of a good C library. The various GNU projects have benefited significantly from the Linux communities, since Linux is the main OS that uses them as the primary tools (as opposed to secondary use on other Unix systems like Solaris). Shall we also start calling it Linux/GNU libc, Linux/GNU compiler collection, etc.?
The CubeSats are not in Martian orbit - they didn't have engines to slow down or a heat shield to bleed off energy (only small attitude thrusters). They just flew by Mars, and will be in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
A lot of office chairs are crap, especially after a few years. I switched to a Tempur-pedic office chair and it is much better.
This is a business office, not a data center, so "internet hubs" is not particularly important. Also, "all the internet hubs" being in Virginia is at least 10-15 years out of date - there are large carrier hotels all over the US. "Age of Ultron" notwithstanding, all the Internet traffic doesn't go through any one place.
According to the government's inflation calculator, $100 in January 2010 has the same buying power as $116.50 now - the amount I'm paying for cable has only increased a little more than that percentage (closer to 20%) in the same time. However, I get more channels, more in HD (and better quality HD), and have added premium channels to my subscription since that 2010 cost, so adjusting for inflation and service delivered, my cost has gone down.
Of course, I have two cable companies available (I've switched since 2010), plus AT&T and Google Fiber's video services, so maybe there's something to this competition thing...
Try being on the other side of the wall from the soda and junk food machines that regularly jam up, infuriating cow-orkers to slam them around like toys. Noise-cancelling headphones work much better than a couple of thin layers of drywall.
The best commentary track ever is by "The King" on Bubba Ho-Tep. It is an entire track of Bruce Campbell in character as Elvis, not having the first clue what he's watching. "Commentary! The Musical" on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is pretty good too.
I guess the thing I enjoy about both of those is that they aren't actually commentary tracks, they're additional productions along side the original video.
I'm typing on my Google Fiber in Huntsville, Alabama. Rather than let Google Fiber be just another company digging up people's yards and running another privately-owned infrastructure, the local city-owned utility company is building out the fiber plant to the curb (useful to them to allow smart metering and such). Google Fiber then just runs from the curb to the house. The infrastructure is open access; any company that wants to build into the fiber huts is able (and there are other companies getting into the game).
This is the perfect model IMHO; I don't really want my government running the Internet access, but I also don't want 27 different companies digging up my yard to run their fiber/wire down the street. The city-owned utility will deliver fiber past every address in town, so Google Fiber will be available to everyone, not just pockets here and there. And if they don't succeed/stick around, the hardest part of building a competitor (the last mile) will be done, so others can come in and compete with much lower start-up costs.
Really? A Ford killed somebody today, by itself? I doubt that; that results in investigations and recalls.
If Tesla requires the person behind the wheel (not the "driver", since they're relying on the car to do that) to accept a message that says the so-called Autopilot software is only designed for certain situations, why is the software driving in other situations? My car has lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control, but when I go outside their design ranges, they beep at me and disable.
That would defeat the purpose, since engines are started while planes are still sitting at the gate.
I thought the Sun was a mass of incandescent gas (or maybe a miasma of incandescent plasma).
I want a netflix type subscription
You mean a subscription where you start out with a bunch of widely-sourced news, but over time, the subscription site drops more and more sources and replaces them with their own "exciting new" content?
The memcached traffic amplification factor is around 15000x, so to get 1.3Tbps of attack traffic requires fewer than 90 hosts with gigabit Internet access.
My guess would be Slashdot uses memcached (like many websites), and they didn't have it properly locked down (like many websites). For the last few days, open memcached instances have become the amplification tool of choice for DDoS attacks, so some websites and hosting farms have been having trouble as they try to lock down their memcached instances.
I don't know if the AGC was tested that way or not (or if so, if the simulation ran on digital or analog computers). I'm not sure; it might have been simpler to simulate the inputs and outputs for the AGC than the LVDC. I think the AGC itself was a less powerful computer than the LVDC.
My father's been working for NASA since 1962 - I think his job then was on analog computers. His group did the flight certification of the Saturn V LVDC, and digital computers of the day couldn't keep up with hardware-in-the-loop simulation. They also simulated TLI after they reached orbit to make sure they would go to the Moon.
He's still there, working on the SLS guidance simulation these days.
Because it isn't actually what most people would consider an autopilot and doesn't handle all situations. The truck was stopped and the car was driving at highway speed, and Tesla is probably not handling coming up on a fully stopped vehicle at that speed.
And they're doing everything in their power (and beyond) to stamp out such competition.
This is why Intel is talking about dropping legacy BIOS support and going with pure UEFI firmware. BIOS requires starting in 16-bit real mode, but UEFI can start in native protected mode.
It isn't a general 32-bit vs. 64-bit comparison, it is specifically that the x86_64 ISA is better than the i386 ISA in a major way, due to a larger register set. i386 has very few registers compared to other major architectures, which means higher memory access rates. Even with on-die caches, RAM access is slower than the CPU, so the more often code has to hit RAM, the slower it goes. x86_64 added more registers, so can do more with fewer RAM accesses, so it can do the same job faster.
I'm sure that after requiring full access to all your phone's sensors, the app would never share that data with Russian hackers.
Any clueful Internet provider would know not to have Cogent as a single (or even one of two) upstream, and how to route around them when they get in their pissing matches. Cogent will beat anybody's price on bandwidth, because what they lose on each contract, they'll make up in quantity!
Unfortunately, many of the people of the fine state of Alabama (of which I am a life-long resident, being more embarrassed every day by the Alabamification of US politics) are blithering idiots and would eat up a conservative talk-radio host announcing the WaPo was soliciting uninvestigated comments for cash as just more proof that the whole thing was fake news.