A lot of bit rot is actually caused by faulty RAM. When data is moved around, it has to go through RAM, and even smart filesystems like ZFS may not help you there. Servers usually have ECC memory for that reason and ZFS explicitly recommends it.
It's funny how often child porn is used as a justification for more spying. But when actually dealing with child porn goes against more spying, well, fuck children, literally.
They just caught up with Intel. In fact, Intel's top of the line still beats Ryzen by a small margin. Ryzen is much cheaper but it is just the sticker price, not a reflection of the actual cost per unit.
Qualcomm and other ARM vendors are not playing the same game. Unlike Intel, AMD and nVidia, they are focused on price rather than performance. AMD is snapping at Intel's feet now.
Brick and mortar video game shops will end up like movie rental shops. They will disappear if they still rely on video games sales as their main source of income. The video games industry is moving away from selling supports. In fact, most of the time, they are selling keys, the disc is just here so that you don't have to download the content, and that's only if there aren"t mandatory updates as big as the whole game. Publishers also do everything they can to limit the second-hand market since it doesn't make them any money. They can do it the "evil" way : making the game tied to a non-transferable online account, or the "good" way : offering massive discounts on older games, effectively undercutting the second-hand market. Often they do both.
Brick and mortar shops may survive by focusing on hardware, merchandise, and collector items. They may also attempt to build communities (organizing events, competitions, etc...). But software alone won't cut it.
It is supposed to get progressively harder to mine bitcoins, with the intention that the huge numbers of bitcoins that are sitting fallow will eventually appreciate in value, that it will still be worth mining them even as they get harder, etc.
There are two ways miners are rewarded : new bitcoins and transaction fees. In the end, when there will be almost no bitcoins left to create, transaction fees will become the main driver. Bitcoin doesn't rely on its value increasing.
What I think is that they devised an algorithm, probably based on neural networks, that is particularly good as estimating the perceived quality of the picture. This data is then used to adjust the level of compression of each part of the picture, so that the least important parts of the picture get compressed more aggressively to save bitrate for the more important parts. This is nothing new really, the idea of using AI techniques and perceived quality to help with compression is decades old. The interesting part here is that it is done on a commercial scale.
Because you have 1 out of 3 chance of getting it right by chance, which is more than good enough for spammers. Also it is not that hard to recognize an animal cry or everyday sounds automatically, and there is a limited number of options because you need to only make choices that are common knowledge.
There is less and less difference between a TV and a monitor nowadays. A modern TV can make a decent computer monitor and a computer/tablet/smartphone can be used the same way as a TV.
That people buy less screens with built-in tuners doesn't mean much.
My friends and I have been using AIM for about 20 years. I'm not adverse to trying out a new chat protocol, but why should we? What benefits do the new chats have that are worth convincing people to change to?
If some of your friends are not satisfied with AIM, for example because compatibility with their favorite client is broken, this is a good enough reason to change.
You won't do much damage by throwing lunar modules at the earth. If you are just flinging rocks, anything less than the Chelyabinsk meteor wouldn't be worth is, and that thing weights about 10000 tons. By comparison the LEM weights 2 tons dry and 15 tons total, with 8 tons fuel. Scale it up, to launch an equivalent of the Chelyabinsk meteor, you need about 80000 tons of stuff, 40000 of it being fuel. This is a bit of an expensive way to break a few windows.
Specially designed projectiles (rods from god) could be significantly more threatening but consider they have to be built on site from local resources for this to make sense, otherwise just to skip the moon part and throw it from earth to earth, following a suborbital trajectory. Again, a far-fetched scenario.
- Some people just have money and think it is worth it. - It won't be obsolete in 1 or 2 years. After that it won't be the best anymore but it will keep being a very good GPU for quite a few years after that. - People spend an awful lot of money for having fun. - GPUs are not only for games, and in some cases (esport, streaming,...) games can be serious business. This is an edge case but $700 GPUs are an edge case too.
Micro-USB and USB type C are designed so that all weak parts (springs...) are on the cable side and not on the socket side. Cables are weak so that sockets can be made stronger, the idea being that cables are easier to replace than sockets. This is part of what motivated the switch from mini to micro.
Another reason USB connectors are usually weaker than Apple connectors is simply because of cost. Apple only has $20 cables and $500+ devices, all made to high quality standards. And while some USB products are held to the same or higher standards as Apple products, there is also a lot of cheap low-quality stuff. Do you expect a $0.50 cable delivered to your door to be as well made as a $20 cable, regardless of the connector? Sure the margin on the $20 cable is ridiculous, but the manufacturer will at least spend the extra pennies to make sure that the cable performs as expected, just to protect their brand.
Experts are better predictors, that they appear bad is just a statistical effect. It is just that experts tend to be more consistent in their predictions because they know their stuff. OTOH amateurs are more likely to go wild, and make more exciting and varied predictions. It means that while experts are more likely to be right, the one with the right answer is more likely to be an amateur, and if it isn't, it may not be exciting enough to make it to the news. If you want an analogy, imagine a loaded dice, where number 3 is twice more likely to come up than the other numbers. Experts, knowing that the dice is loaded, will predict a 3, others will predict any number, with a preference toward exciting numbers like 1 or 6. Roll the dice, 2 out of 3 times, the experts are wrong and some amateurs will be right, even though experts picked the most likely choice. If we only talk about 1 and 6s, it will appear that the experts are always wrong while plenty of amateurs are right.
There is still the problem of speakers and microphones. These are actually the hardest parts to waterproof. You have to make a trade-off between water resistance, sound quality and efficiency. Currently, it is done with a water-repelling mesh, but while this technique is effective at letting sound go through, its effectiveness at keeping the water out is limited. There is a reason most phones are only rated for 30 minutes.
People don't want super-tight security. They don't want to enter passwords everytime they need to use their phone, especially not long/string passwords. They want to be able to recover their password in case they forget it. They want their apps to communicate : share a picture in one click, have their contact book shared between multiple services. Some want to be able to customize their device, add features, etc...
Securing a device while taking into account user needs for a general purpose computer (this is what smartphones are) is not easy at all.
The Vive is not "far superior". In fact most testers seem to prefer the Oculus headset. The Vive wins because of its room-scale tracking and better controllers. It means the ideal system would be a mix of the two. The point is that they should work together. The technological challenges of VR are too great to waste resources fighting each other. If they overdo it they may kill off VR for everyone.
In France, where SMS and MMS are usually free, SMS is the standard for phone-to-phone text communication. SMS is reliable and works on all phones. MMS despite being more technically advanced is rarely used except to send the occasional picture. It is less reliable, and not all phones support it well. If that RCS thing is just an evolution of MMS, it will most likely suffer the same fate. In countries where SMS/MMS is not free, will RCS be different? If it isn't, people will just keep using WhatsApp.
What you are saying is true for sapphire, not diamond. Synthetic diamond is usually yellowish because of nitrogen impurities. Better quality synthetic diamonds have fewer impurities but they are close in price to natural diamonds though the situation may change as the technology progresses. And synthetic diamonds are not differentiated because they are "too perfect" but because they have some types of impurities (ex : silicon) that do not appear in natural diamonds as well as characteristic growth patterns. One advantage of synthetic diamond is that impurities can be deliberately added in order to archive desirable characteristics. What I don't know is what is best for making metallic hydrogen : specially designed synthetics or carefully chosen naturals. It seems that both types can be used in diamond anvil cells.
I've read a story somewhere about the manager of an engineering department dealing with critical systems at NASA during the space race. He imposed 9 to 5 work days, as part of his plan to promote a healthy routine. He noticed that overwork leads to mistakes and that nullifies any productivity gain made during extra hours.
The Exynos 9 now provides a software defined detonator. The detonator pin included in the Exynos 8 SoC was a resounding success. However, it was only compatible with Note7 batteries. The new technology should be able to make any phone ready to explode with just a firmware flash. These new chips are expected to make a killing in the middle east.
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A lot of bit rot is actually caused by faulty RAM.
When data is moved around, it has to go through RAM, and even smart filesystems like ZFS may not help you there. Servers usually have ECC memory for that reason and ZFS explicitly recommends it.
It's funny how often child porn is used as a justification for more spying.
But when actually dealing with child porn goes against more spying, well, fuck children, literally.
They just caught up with Intel.
In fact, Intel's top of the line still beats Ryzen by a small margin. Ryzen is much cheaper but it is just the sticker price, not a reflection of the actual cost per unit.
Qualcomm and other ARM vendors are not playing the same game. Unlike Intel, AMD and nVidia, they are focused on price rather than performance.
AMD is snapping at Intel's feet now.
Brick and mortar video game shops will end up like movie rental shops. They will disappear if they still rely on video games sales as their main source of income.
The video games industry is moving away from selling supports. In fact, most of the time, they are selling keys, the disc is just here so that you don't have to download the content, and that's only if there aren"t mandatory updates as big as the whole game.
Publishers also do everything they can to limit the second-hand market since it doesn't make them any money. They can do it the "evil" way : making the game tied to a non-transferable online account, or the "good" way : offering massive discounts on older games, effectively undercutting the second-hand market. Often they do both.
Brick and mortar shops may survive by focusing on hardware, merchandise, and collector items. They may also attempt to build communities (organizing events, competitions, etc...). But software alone won't cut it.
It is supposed to get progressively harder to mine bitcoins, with the intention that the huge numbers of bitcoins that are sitting fallow will eventually appreciate in value, that it will still be worth mining them even as they get harder, etc.
There are two ways miners are rewarded : new bitcoins and transaction fees. In the end, when there will be almost no bitcoins left to create, transaction fees will become the main driver.
Bitcoin doesn't rely on its value increasing.
What I think is that they devised an algorithm, probably based on neural networks, that is particularly good as estimating the perceived quality of the picture.
This data is then used to adjust the level of compression of each part of the picture, so that the least important parts of the picture get compressed more aggressively to save bitrate for the more important parts.
This is nothing new really, the idea of using AI techniques and perceived quality to help with compression is decades old. The interesting part here is that it is done on a commercial scale.
Because you have 1 out of 3 chance of getting it right by chance, which is more than good enough for spammers.
Also it is not that hard to recognize an animal cry or everyday sounds automatically, and there is a limited number of options because you need to only make choices that are common knowledge.
I think that "find the bug" questions may be more relevant.
How does a programming interview discriminate against "people of color"?
Red-black trees I suppose.
It is always about whiteboards. Blackboards are never given a chance.
There is no way such an environment could help diversity.
There is less and less difference between a TV and a monitor nowadays.
A modern TV can make a decent computer monitor and a computer/tablet/smartphone can be used the same way as a TV.
That people buy less screens with built-in tuners doesn't mean much.
My friends and I have been using AIM for about 20 years. I'm not adverse to trying out a new chat protocol, but why should we? What benefits do the new chats have that are worth convincing people to change to?
If some of your friends are not satisfied with AIM, for example because compatibility with their favorite client is broken, this is a good enough reason to change.
You won't do much damage by throwing lunar modules at the earth.
If you are just flinging rocks, anything less than the Chelyabinsk meteor wouldn't be worth is, and that thing weights about 10000 tons. By comparison the LEM weights 2 tons dry and 15 tons total, with 8 tons fuel.
Scale it up, to launch an equivalent of the Chelyabinsk meteor, you need about 80000 tons of stuff, 40000 of it being fuel. This is a bit of an expensive way to break a few windows.
Specially designed projectiles (rods from god) could be significantly more threatening but consider they have to be built on site from local resources for this to make sense, otherwise just to skip the moon part and throw it from earth to earth, following a suborbital trajectory. Again, a far-fetched scenario.
- Some people just have money and think it is worth it. ...) games can be serious business. This is an edge case but $700 GPUs are an edge case too.
- It won't be obsolete in 1 or 2 years. After that it won't be the best anymore but it will keep being a very good GPU for quite a few years after that.
- People spend an awful lot of money for having fun.
- GPUs are not only for games, and in some cases (esport, streaming,
Micro-USB and USB type C are designed so that all weak parts (springs...) are on the cable side and not on the socket side.
Cables are weak so that sockets can be made stronger, the idea being that cables are easier to replace than sockets. This is part of what motivated the switch from mini to micro.
Another reason USB connectors are usually weaker than Apple connectors is simply because of cost. Apple only has $20 cables and $500+ devices, all made to high quality standards. And while some USB products are held to the same or higher standards as Apple products, there is also a lot of cheap low-quality stuff.
Do you expect a $0.50 cable delivered to your door to be as well made as a $20 cable, regardless of the connector? Sure the margin on the $20 cable is ridiculous, but the manufacturer will at least spend the extra pennies to make sure that the cable performs as expected, just to protect their brand.
Experts are better predictors, that they appear bad is just a statistical effect.
It is just that experts tend to be more consistent in their predictions because they know their stuff. OTOH amateurs are more likely to go wild, and make more exciting and varied predictions. It means that while experts are more likely to be right, the one with the right answer is more likely to be an amateur, and if it isn't, it may not be exciting enough to make it to the news.
If you want an analogy, imagine a loaded dice, where number 3 is twice more likely to come up than the other numbers. Experts, knowing that the dice is loaded, will predict a 3, others will predict any number, with a preference toward exciting numbers like 1 or 6. Roll the dice, 2 out of 3 times, the experts are wrong and some amateurs will be right, even though experts picked the most likely choice. If we only talk about 1 and 6s, it will appear that the experts are always wrong while plenty of amateurs are right.
There is still the problem of speakers and microphones.
These are actually the hardest parts to waterproof. You have to make a trade-off between water resistance, sound quality and efficiency. Currently, it is done with a water-repelling mesh, but while this technique is effective at letting sound go through, its effectiveness at keeping the water out is limited. There is a reason most phones are only rated for 30 minutes.
Due to its reputation, the first thing people will do do is throw it around and see if it breaks before the floor.
People don't want super-tight security.
They don't want to enter passwords everytime they need to use their phone, especially not long/string passwords.
They want to be able to recover their password in case they forget it.
They want their apps to communicate : share a picture in one click, have their contact book shared between multiple services.
Some want to be able to customize their device, add features, etc...
Securing a device while taking into account user needs for a general purpose computer (this is what smartphones are) is not easy at all.
The Vive is not "far superior". In fact most testers seem to prefer the Oculus headset. The Vive wins because of its room-scale tracking and better controllers. It means the ideal system would be a mix of the two.
The point is that they should work together. The technological challenges of VR are too great to waste resources fighting each other. If they overdo it they may kill off VR for everyone.
In France, where SMS and MMS are usually free, SMS is the standard for phone-to-phone text communication. SMS is reliable and works on all phones.
MMS despite being more technically advanced is rarely used except to send the occasional picture. It is less reliable, and not all phones support it well. If that RCS thing is just an evolution of MMS, it will most likely suffer the same fate.
In countries where SMS/MMS is not free, will RCS be different? If it isn't, people will just keep using WhatsApp.
What you are saying is true for sapphire, not diamond.
Synthetic diamond is usually yellowish because of nitrogen impurities. Better quality synthetic diamonds have fewer impurities but they are close in price to natural diamonds though the situation may change as the technology progresses.
And synthetic diamonds are not differentiated because they are "too perfect" but because they have some types of impurities (ex : silicon) that do not appear in natural diamonds as well as characteristic growth patterns.
One advantage of synthetic diamond is that impurities can be deliberately added in order to archive desirable characteristics. What I don't know is what is best for making metallic hydrogen : specially designed synthetics or carefully chosen naturals. It seems that both types can be used in diamond anvil cells.
I've read a story somewhere about the manager of an engineering department dealing with critical systems at NASA during the space race.
He imposed 9 to 5 work days, as part of his plan to promote a healthy routine. He noticed that overwork leads to mistakes and that nullifies any productivity gain made during extra hours.
The Exynos 9 now provides a software defined detonator.
The detonator pin included in the Exynos 8 SoC was a resounding success. However, it was only compatible with Note7 batteries. The new technology should be able to make any phone ready to explode with just a firmware flash.
These new chips are expected to make a killing in the middle east.