It's a new usage due to ignorance of the traditional usage. When a new usage is due to true novelty, that's one thing. When it's due to ignorance, as in this case, it should simply be corrected.
Nice in theory, but just as much tilting at windmills as complaining about any other new definition. Words change meaning whenever enough people use them to indicate the new meaning. The relationship of the new meaning to the old doesn't matter, what matters is how widespread the usage is.
It does matter because it is a barrier to clear communication.
A 1U cubesat is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm. There are also 2U and 3U cubesats (two and three times that unit size). They have to be that small to fit in the launchers. Many of them are designed to unfold when they come out of the launchers, so they can be bigger once they're up there.
Really, I'm right there with you on this modern usage, I find it particularly irritating because it is not just a new usage it is basically the exact opposite of the historical meaning. But language changes no matter how much we might wish it to stay the same.
It's a new usage due to ignorance of the traditional usage. When a new usage is due to true novelty, that's one thing. When it's due to ignorance, as in this case, it should simply be corrected.
Regarding words and phrases used as the opposite of what they mean (due to ignorance) my personal pet peeves are "is comprised of" and (without irony) "could care less." People who say either of those deserve a whipping.
What are you, one of those evolutionists or something? Two C14 half lives (11400 years) is longer than the age of the Earth, and that coal has fossil plants in it which means it was created after the third day of Creation. Did Jesus die for nothing?
Oh well please, AC, enlighten us with how exactly you propose we generate and supply the 1.21 GW of power that each person will eventually need. Our society craves more power (of all kinds!) and capitalism flourishes when each participant is continuously consuming more and more. You will not get us, as a modern society with all of our toys, to take a step back in time and do without. It just won't happen. GP is correct, we have several technologies, such as pebble bed reactors, that are not the unsafe designs of the 50s and 60s. But when you try to tell someone that, all they can think of is Chernobyl and Fukushima. Both were outdated and should have been scrapped but due to irrational fear, were allowed to keep running past thier expiration date.
So how trivial will it be to slurp the OS out onto a AMD card enabled PC and have our own "HackStation4"?
Or... how would one modify FreeBSD to run PS4 software?
I'm sure there'll be encryption up the wazoo anyway... and potentially software could specifically check that the graphics chip is not some off-the-shelf AMD card......but it begs the question.
Interestingly, some of the most attractive areas for production are subtropical deserts bordered by the sea. Plenty of nearby (ocean) water, access to shipping, lots of sun year-round...
Places like Saudi Arabia, Northern Egypt and Libya, Southern Iraq, the western Sahara, Namibia, parts of South Africa and western Australia.
Millions of hectares? It would take over 100 million hectares (a million square km) to produce enough ethanol to replace US gasoline with corn-produced ethanol. Or to convert more than the entire farmable areas of the top corn-producing states (Iowa
Illinois,
Nebraska,
Minnesota, Indiana, South Dakota and Kansas) to making corn for ethanol. Kiss those corn-fed steaks and sugary sodas goodbye! We need your food for fuel.
Council Bluffs is next to the Missouri river. Can anybody say, "Giant Heat Sink?" Plus, you make a side business where anglers can get precooked catfish right out of the river.
Well, we know that Microsoft and Google have apparently been giving a feed of data to the NSA for quite some time, now.
They make two of the three dominant browsers.
The government, Microsoft and Google have all specifically denied that claim.
Anyway, the only thing you can do is utilize strong encryption. Nothing else matters, because everything you do goes through your ISP and can be (and probably is) picked up/tracked there. Unless you're encrypting, that's your weakest point.
Yes it is. They are the only ones in a position to implement an MIM attack against all your traffic. But the CAs are in a position to perform MIM attacks against many ISPs.
Well, I'm a manager at Oracle and if our customers insist on putting their business data in "the cloud" I'm not going to miss the opportunity to take their money. Don't worry. We'll wrap it in so many layers of hard-to-use and slow-to-access that it won't be worth anybody's time to crack our state-of-the-art encryption.
And in case our users lose access to their keys, don't worry. We'll have a key repository service. It will only cost $4595/user-year.
So we're supposed to put business data into US based clouds? Have you missed the news?? Never heard of PRISM?
If you're a US-based business, that would seem to be best. According to the press, they don't snoop as much on internal traffic as they do on international traffic. It also means only one government can interfere with what you're doing and you only deal with one set of laws and there are no import-export issues regarding information. You won't inadvertently transfer technology out of the country, thereby violating US export restrictions, for instance. And latencies can be better.
Regardless, the idea of putting business data on servers that don't belong to my company sounds like an idea whose time would never come if businesses were making decisions based on security rather than cost. And if you're big, cost probably isn't significantly less either.
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It's a new usage due to ignorance of the traditional usage. When a new usage is due to true novelty, that's one thing. When it's due to ignorance, as in this case, it should simply be corrected.
Nice in theory, but just as much tilting at windmills as complaining about any other new definition. Words change meaning whenever enough people use them to indicate the new meaning. The relationship of the new meaning to the old doesn't matter, what matters is how widespread the usage is.
It does matter because it is a barrier to clear communication.
A 1U cubesat is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm. There are also 2U and 3U cubesats (two and three times that unit size). They have to be that small to fit in the launchers. Many of them are designed to unfold when they come out of the launchers, so they can be bigger once they're up there.
Not really. These things are tiny and they burn up in reentry.
They're required to have a deorbiting plan.
Not So Fast.
Really, I'm right there with you on this modern usage, I find it particularly irritating because it is not just a new usage it is basically the exact opposite of the historical meaning. But language changes no matter how much we might wish it to stay the same.
It's a new usage due to ignorance of the traditional usage. When a new usage is due to true novelty, that's one thing. When it's due to ignorance, as in this case, it should simply be corrected.
Regarding words and phrases used as the opposite of what they mean (due to ignorance) my personal pet peeves are "is comprised of" and (without irony) "could care less." People who say either of those deserve a whipping.
There's no carbon-14 in coal.
What are you, one of those evolutionists or something? Two C14 half lives (11400 years) is longer than the age of the Earth, and that coal has fossil plants in it which means it was created after the third day of Creation. Did Jesus die for nothing?
Oh well please, AC, enlighten us with how exactly you propose we generate and supply the 1.21 GW of power that each person will eventually need. Our society craves more power (of all kinds!) and capitalism flourishes when each participant is continuously consuming more and more. You will not get us, as a modern society with all of our toys, to take a step back in time and do without. It just won't happen. GP is correct, we have several technologies, such as pebble bed reactors, that are not the unsafe designs of the 50s and 60s. But when you try to tell someone that, all they can think of is Chernobyl and Fukushima. Both were outdated and should have been scrapped but due to irrational fear, were allowed to keep running past thier expiration date.
Well played. Did you hear about this on Fox?
No, it would still be one of the cheapest sugars to produce. Although where I live, it's easier to raise beets for sugar.
It would be a shim between the FreeBSD you would run on the system and the already-existing Linux driver you want to use to control the card.
So how trivial will it be to slurp the OS out onto a AMD card enabled PC and have our own "HackStation4"? Or... how would one modify FreeBSD to run PS4 software?
I'm sure there'll be encryption up the wazoo anyway... and potentially software could specifically check that the graphics chip is not some off-the-shelf AMD card... ...but it begs the question.
I don't think you know what that phrase means. So here you go: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/begging-the-question
Interestingly, some of the most attractive areas for production are subtropical deserts bordered by the sea. Plenty of nearby (ocean) water, access to shipping, lots of sun year-round...
Places like Saudi Arabia, Northern Egypt and Libya, Southern Iraq, the western Sahara, Namibia, parts of South Africa and western Australia.
Millions of hectares? It would take over 100 million hectares (a million square km) to produce enough ethanol to replace US gasoline with corn-produced ethanol. Or to convert more than the entire farmable areas of the top corn-producing states (Iowa Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, South Dakota and Kansas) to making corn for ethanol. Kiss those corn-fed steaks and sugary sodas goodbye! We need your food for fuel.
The fact that he can keep a secret.
Stay tuned. I'm a master of the art.
I'm just saying that those in a position to know deny it and those who say there is a direct connection aren't involved.
The pig smell is not so bad if you're not immediately downwind of a pig farm (which most of Iowa is not) and sweaty, corn-fed women are underrated. (see pics): http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics32/640/WK/WKRHXIHUQVRQUHC.20120925204720.JPG http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8591bavyu1rawnv3o1_500.jpg
Council Bluffs is next to the Missouri river. Can anybody say, "Giant Heat Sink?" Plus, you make a side business where anglers can get precooked catfish right out of the river.
Well, we know that Microsoft and Google have apparently been giving a feed of data to the NSA for quite some time, now.
They make two of the three dominant browsers.
The government, Microsoft and Google have all specifically denied that claim.
Anyway, the only thing you can do is utilize strong encryption. Nothing else matters, because everything you do goes through your ISP and can be (and probably is) picked up/tracked there. Unless you're encrypting, that's your weakest point.
Yes it is. They are the only ones in a position to implement an MIM attack against all your traffic. But the CAs are in a position to perform MIM attacks against many ISPs.
He says, as if that were technically possible.
Well, I'm a manager at Oracle and if our customers insist on putting their business data in "the cloud" I'm not going to miss the opportunity to take their money. Don't worry. We'll wrap it in so many layers of hard-to-use and slow-to-access that it won't be worth anybody's time to crack our state-of-the-art encryption.
And in case our users lose access to their keys, don't worry. We'll have a key repository service. It will only cost $4595/user-year.
Hope this helps.
So we're supposed to put business data into US based clouds? Have you missed the news?? Never heard of PRISM?
If you're a US-based business, that would seem to be best. According to the press, they don't snoop as much on internal traffic as they do on international traffic. It also means only one government can interfere with what you're doing and you only deal with one set of laws and there are no import-export issues regarding information. You won't inadvertently transfer technology out of the country, thereby violating US export restrictions, for instance. And latencies can be better.
Regardless, the idea of putting business data on servers that don't belong to my company sounds like an idea whose time would never come if businesses were making decisions based on security rather than cost. And if you're big, cost probably isn't significantly less either.
The same principles apply no matter why you're on the run.
Fine, make up your own myths if you like.
Is it a problem now? Is it the kind of problem we didn't have in the past?
About 1500 square feet according to the article here: http://texaspetawatt.ph.utexas.edu/overview.php
There are much smaller and more efficient ways to generate X-rays. But GeV x-rays take some doing.