Why are you assuming they keep the data on only one node? With non-redundant powersupplies and the fact that these units are a fraction of the cost of other solutions, you should assume that they make up for the lack of power redundancy with redundant nodes.
In the last 3 months, they spent $3.35 billion on marketing(which doesn't include things like writing fake articles for medical journals and letting people know about off-label uses, but I'll let that slide if you'll give me "administration expenses"), and spent $1.695 billion on R&D.
That's about 1.97 times the $$ on convincing people to buy their drugs than they do finding new drugs.
I've worked on job-shop scheduling and the lazy way is to start with a simple fit, do something like simulated annealing until it gets close enough, then give up and add some overtime.
Still, they should be able to get a solution using publicly available heuristics for similar problems and brute-force to get an N percent solution in for any fixed time. Especially if done from the teachers perspective, they presumably having fewer degrees of freedom than the students.
That'd require an additional item that is useless except for its cash value. Cell minutes have use by themselves. In countries where only a few people in an area have cells, this allows them to offer communications services and act as ATMs.
They sell use of the cell for cash, but you can also buy them minutes to send to another "cell operator", who will then pay out in another village from their stash from selling use of their cell. Tadah, low-resource wire transfer.
Put all those books online, just like Google, and I'm sure somebody's lawyer will appear shortly. Then point at their previous settlement and say "I'll take the same terms, thanks".
In some countries, law firms are allowed to sue on the behalf of copyright owners on their own initiative, much like how you can be brought up on assault charges by the state in some countries even if the person you hit wanted you to do so.
You only have the obligation to share source if you distribute, and then only to those you distribute to directly. End-users aren't covered.
I'm suprised more companies don't just put the required notice in some really awkward part of the device. If they put it beneath the heatsink or inside the power supply, only the dissassemblers would even see it and they're likely to hack the device anyway, other customers wouldn't even notice.
Actually, browsers are about dead last in defining the pace.
Scripting or plugins probably define it, by highlighting areas where the browser is failing to deliver desired functionality, so third party code is used to make up for it.
Remove the shell of your laptop and coat it in truck bed liner. Then add some nonconductive foam inserts at strategic points inside(don't block airflow!).
If you are feeling adventurous, replace the hinges with stronger material or use the shell/case as a template to make a new one.
Cost anywhere from $10 to $1000(if you CNC a case out of a solid block:)
Not that Charlie Strauss is much better. His fiction, especially Accelerando, reads like he just made a list of all the memes he could come across on teh intarwebs, and crafts a loosely structured story around it
He flat out admits that in the recording("short attention span" and "read the internet too much")
It isn't intended for consumption. It's just that if some muscle grafts fail QC for internal use, you might as well fry it up. Plus, PETA has a reward out for "vat grown meat", but they didn't specify the species.
Human flesh that hasn't been abused for 30 years is probabally quite tasty. Or at least it smells pretty good when cooked by accident, so it might taste good when cooked on purpose.
Especially if there isn't any same-species viral concerns.
Pills to crank your metabolism to 8000 Calories/day, boobjobs in a pill, Alzhemier's mental floss, hell, just convincing the bacteria in your mouth to produce alcohol instead of etching away your teeth would be awesome, if hard on the morning commute:)
To say nothing of building little chemical factories that sift gold, uranium, tantalum, etc. out of the ocean.
When I got my wisdom teeth out, I was given an analgesic instead of anesthesia. I knew it hurt like a bitch, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever, since it didn't bother me in the least.
My dentist said he kind of regretted giving me the choice, because the assistant had to keep me from poking at the sockets and getting in the way.
Man, was I wishing for some more analgesic when I only had painkillers the next day. I'd rather be in pain and not give a shit then have the choice between kinda hurts vs loopy.
Inflation, either actual or in comparison to other papers. I don't know what they benchmark by, a cup of starbucks perhaps, but they have to appear "worth something to subscribers" so that they'll be worth something to their real customers, the advertisers.
For most regional and major newspapers, subscriptions barely pay for the ink and cellulose, let alone the equipment and human costs. Ads & classified are the real money. With ebay/craiglist eating away at the classifieds, advertisements are what is left. If they can raise prices faster than they lose subscribers, they make more money in higher ad fees than they lose in subscriptions.
On the other hand, most newspapers will discount at the drop of a hat. My dad canceled the regional paper because he was tired of cleaning off the pile of unread papers out front.
Customer service wouldn't let him cancel, kept giving him another month free whenever he complained. I ended up asking somebody I knew at the paper to put a "Do not disturb" notice in the DB because it was policy not to let anyone unsubscribe for 3 months.
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See, your problem is that you run drives on the 12v rail. They run theirs on 5v. Common mistake, could happen to anybody.
And they do have pod level redundancy, they mention it at the end of the article.
Why are you assuming they keep the data on only one node? With non-redundant powersupplies and the fact that these units are a fraction of the cost of other solutions, you should assume that they make up for the lack of power redundancy with redundant nodes.
Or you could've read the article, but this is /.
Actually, no, this stuff is also shear-thickening. It is just plasticised so it doesn't run.
Something that softens on impact would be something like ketchup.
3x does seem a bit high.
Since I just cleaned out about 300 viagra spams, let's look at Pfizer's most recent 10-Q?
In the last 3 months, they spent $3.35 billion on marketing(which doesn't include things like writing fake articles for medical journals and letting people know about off-label uses, but I'll let that slide if you'll give me "administration expenses"), and spent $1.695 billion on R&D.
That's about 1.97 times the $$ on convincing people to buy their drugs than they do finding new drugs.
To do it efficiently? It is at least NP-hard.
I've worked on job-shop scheduling and the lazy way is to start with a simple fit, do something like simulated annealing until it gets close enough, then give up and add some overtime.
Still, they should be able to get a solution using publicly available heuristics for similar problems and brute-force to get an N percent solution in for any fixed time. Especially if done from the teachers perspective, they presumably having fewer degrees of freedom than the students.
That'd require an additional item that is useless except for its cash value. Cell minutes have use by themselves. In countries where only a few people in an area have cells, this allows them to offer communications services and act as ATMs.
They sell use of the cell for cash, but you can also buy them minutes to send to another "cell operator", who will then pay out in another village from their stash from selling use of their cell. Tadah, low-resource wire transfer.
One Time Pads are infeasible? Or just not encryption?
Google in no way prevents anyone else from doing this, Copyright and authors/publishers prevent anyone else from doing this.
This is providing more access than before, not less.
I see a cheap component for a wearable computer.
Hell, it'd be cheaper to go on a month long cruise. Although, I hear they have the internet now...
It's real easy.
Put all those books online, just like Google, and I'm sure somebody's lawyer will appear shortly. Then point at their previous settlement and say "I'll take the same terms, thanks".
Their email client mangled the url and they don't know how to play "turn this character soup back into a valid url".
In some countries, law firms are allowed to sue on the behalf of copyright owners on their own initiative, much like how you can be brought up on assault charges by the state in some countries even if the person you hit wanted you to do so.
You only have the obligation to share source if you distribute, and then only to those you distribute to directly. End-users aren't covered.
I'm suprised more companies don't just put the required notice in some really awkward part of the device. If they put it beneath the heatsink or inside the power supply, only the dissassemblers would even see it and they're likely to hack the device anyway, other customers wouldn't even notice.
Actually, browsers are about dead last in defining the pace.
Scripting or plugins probably define it, by highlighting areas where the browser is failing to deliver desired functionality, so third party code is used to make up for it.
Why didn't you just go to chapter 4 and scroll up a few pages?
Remove the shell of your laptop and coat it in truck bed liner. Then add some nonconductive foam inserts at strategic points inside(don't block airflow!).
If you are feeling adventurous, replace the hinges with stronger material or use the shell/case as a template to make a new one.
Cost anywhere from $10 to $1000(if you CNC a case out of a solid block:)
VirtualBox/vmware + Seamless mode + Revert State on Exit. Take a snapshot just after opening a browser, treat it like the browser alone.
Every time you close/restart your "browser", you get the ultimate reset button.
He flat out admits that in the recording("short attention span" and "read the internet too much")
It isn't intended for consumption. It's just that if some muscle grafts fail QC for internal use, you might as well fry it up. Plus, PETA has a reward out for "vat grown meat", but they didn't specify the species.
Human flesh that hasn't been abused for 30 years is probabally quite tasty. Or at least it smells pretty good when cooked by accident, so it might taste good when cooked on purpose.
Especially if there isn't any same-species viral concerns.
Settlers of Catan. Yes, by shoving half a dozen sheep into a ship, you can generate wood.
Or make cities out of them, for that matter.
The entire medical industry doesn't pop to mind?
Pills to crank your metabolism to 8000 Calories/day, boobjobs in a pill, Alzhemier's mental floss, hell, just convincing the bacteria in your mouth to produce alcohol instead of etching away your teeth would be awesome, if hard on the morning commute:)
To say nothing of building little chemical factories that sift gold, uranium, tantalum, etc. out of the ocean.
No, the correct answer is. for once, "XKCD is not always right".
Do not have sex when it makes the hook-up graph well-connected or greatly increases the breadth of the network and do not be the Paul Erds of sex.
Or if you are, make sure it is a directed graph and all arrows point away:)
When I got my wisdom teeth out, I was given an analgesic instead of anesthesia. I knew it hurt like a bitch, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever, since it didn't bother me in the least.
My dentist said he kind of regretted giving me the choice, because the assistant had to keep me from poking at the sockets and getting in the way.
Man, was I wishing for some more analgesic when I only had painkillers the next day. I'd rather be in pain and not give a shit then have the choice between kinda hurts vs loopy.
Inflation, either actual or in comparison to other papers. I don't know what they benchmark by, a cup of starbucks perhaps, but they have to appear "worth something to subscribers" so that they'll be worth something to their real customers, the advertisers.
For most regional and major newspapers, subscriptions barely pay for the ink and cellulose, let alone the equipment and human costs. Ads & classified are the real money. With ebay/craiglist eating away at the classifieds, advertisements are what is left. If they can raise prices faster than they lose subscribers, they make more money in higher ad fees than they lose in subscriptions.
On the other hand, most newspapers will discount at the drop of a hat. My dad canceled the regional paper because he was tired of cleaning off the pile of unread papers out front.
Customer service wouldn't let him cancel, kept giving him another month free whenever he complained. I ended up asking somebody I knew at the paper to put a "Do not disturb" notice in the DB because it was policy not to let anyone unsubscribe for 3 months.