he chose to blame insurance blah blah... but the fact of the matter is temp agencies ARE becoming massive massive employers for white collar jobs. the early temp agencies were for blue collar jobs, but now it's spread to white collar jobs and, yeah the company usually doesn't hire you because replacing you with another temp instead of hiring you is 'cheaper.'
I have heard of many many places that now use temp agencies almost exclusively. The reason why white collar jobs are going to temp agencies, is because they can staff the positions like lightning and have them ready to be restaffed when the people have been on contract too long, and you get a really good idea of where to put certain people because of the tests the temp agency runs... I know some of this stuff can be done with a normal HR department, but it boils down to cost, temp agencies get the worker to do the same job for less pay, even when the temp agency takes a certain cut of that pay.
It's not that slashcode blocks it, it's that slashdot.org is SET to use English, specifically US english. that's like going to slashdot.jp and complaining because you can't read Kanji... this article was on there several hours earlier and only got 4 comments... the main complaint is that they linked to us you tube instead of japanese you tube.
apparently you've never tried http://slashdot.jp/ I'm not sure if it's both japanese and chinese text support or not, since i don't read either... but yeah it might be more prudent to 'test' if it accepts chinese characters than 'slashdot.org'
The main problem with DNA fingerprinting is that "genetics run in the family" there is a Very High Probability that 'simple' DNA tests (using only base 3 4 or 5) will be identical between say brothers of the same family.
the 'astronomical' match numbers assume 1 thing. 'that those people are strangers' identical twins have it the hardest, because no matter how the test is done They Will Always Have Identical DNA. DNA 'fingerprinting' is nice, it's neat, but it's not Unique it 'runs in the family' who wants to go to jail for a crime your sibling committed?
there will always be a need for hard evidence Besides DNA Especially if there are 'multiple' criminals in the same family.
as far as 'medical' implications go, it depends on which dna strand they test, in the UKs case they do in fact test 'enough' of the DNA that future medical information could be contained in the samples. However, they have national health care as well... so more likely the screen would be used (medically) to perhaps decide if he should be on prescription drugs prior to the problem detected in the dna blah blah blah....
in one sense having the dna of all 5 year olds and knowing which sequences will say cause teenage onset diabetes could lead to a new class of medicines to try and prevent diabetes from even forming.. but more likely it will just mean that the kids get tested for the problems younger and maybe get more rapid diagnosis...
the problem is very big though. VOIP uses lossy codecs to make calls save space. they do this from the point of transaction. allowing the Feds to get 'full quality' audio for calls basically calls for a backdoor to be written into the client application itself, BEFORE it encodes the audio, and sending it full quality to the Feds for analysis. this causes 2 huge problems, especially in real time. 1. instantly end user notices they use up all their bandwidth sending 'full quality' (lossless compressed if you're Lucky) audio in real time, or else, the devices own processor has a heart attack trying to real time encode lossless audio on a slower (old) pc while still doing lossy encoding... in real time...
with client software and devices out there to transport the lossy audio, right now all they can do is 'give lossy' audio to the government in real time. It's going to be one hell of an engineering hack, most likely using 'existing telephone networks' and 'new revision encoding hardware' or '4g cellphones' using spectrum the government holds back for this use in 4g phones from when they pull the plug on analog tv signals... to really achieve this kind of feature so that the end user doesn't notice it happening....
and guess what, the criminals are going to use the old technology because they know background noises can't be discerned in voip technology that isn't CALEA approved. discerning the background noises was one of the big things the feds did to find other criminals out who called wiretapped criminal x. having access to the compressed audio is less worthwhile since 'criminals usually talk in codes' and even if you can crack their code, they usually don't use names, either, but oftentimes on a 'classic' wiretap you'll hear their 'friends' 'in the room' use their 'real name.'
You might have missed it, it's on page 2. It's just an 8-core server, 'souped up in appearance and cooling capabilities.' Although it will support 4 graphic cards as well. there is little this thing has to offer besides looks, and extreme cost inflation of 'designing everything from ground up.'
so that means when the bad boy's PSU goes bad, you're in for sticker shock trying to replace it, and most likely a heck of a time getting a new one in. (most likely you ship it back and they fix it for you)
calling an 8 core workstation a 'super computer' is only a marketing pitch... well that and when Cray built Super Computers they did about 160 MIPS and 135 MFLOPS (cray-1) and even a Single core processor does more MIPS and FLOPS than that by several orders of magnitude. But 8-core workstations didn't cost $8 million dollars to do in 1982 what 'desktop computers' have been able to do since 1995...
so yeah massively parallel computing is really the only 'real' supercomputer left, and as some countries have shown, and 8-core desktop can probably run 'weather prediction software' for a small country if given the correct software, and data sets.
"then moving the hard drive back to the original machine."
Windows doesn't accept moving the hard drive to a new machine. No matter how many times i see people complaining about this, it's not a Feature in Windows products. In fact Even Linux can choke hard, and break if the 2 computers don't have Exactly The Same Graphic card/chip-set.. (for desktop use, anyways) If you don't use X then great, nice for you, but even Linux distros don't have a migration tool that pops up when the graphic configuration is wrong... the closet thing are Live CD/DVD images that run auto detect schema at boot, which really really slows things down.
if by chance you were just using a nearby hd to test format, that's different but your wording was just wrong... you didn't use the word format at all...
well TFA fails to mention that DCA is Already an approved drug. "DCA has been used historically to treat patients with lactic acidosis, and therefore could arguably enter phase 2 trials in patients with cancer"
no need to do phase 1 trials then the cost goes DOWN considerably. and consider that any generic drugs have to get through hurdles with the FDA as well... well, there could well be money to be made in the states...
and although it's not 'official' a pair of plucky Canadians have been using DCA with 'reported success' (not scientific of course) and Canada didn't bar them from doing this either.
"Recording police interrogations is a manifestly good thing. It ensures, among other things, that the police can't simply beat you until you confess."
Apparently, you failed to read "The Innocent Man" (non-fiction) John Grisham.
Getting a Private Eye to monitor when your vehicle 'pulled in' until you 'pulled out' and if possible your own personal recording device would be Even Better. Especially When Mr Police Man is convinced 2 men killed a woman (the Second unsolved murder case in a town of 300) and one of those is a convict, who in general knows how deals are done by the cops, and the other, is a mentally ill person, who really should have never gone off the medications prescribed for him...
well let's just say the cops will Bend and Break those precious little rules, and Only TAPE the part where you signed a very vague confession, one you probably wont even be able to remember when your day in court comes, but yeah they have a very short video for the 18 hours you were in there*, talking with the police, while they recorded it all your honor...
This proves that cops should not be manning cameras/tapes for recording witnesses. it should be an independent contractor, one that is trustworthy and will provide the Full audio or video recording to the defense pre-trial. with modern technology there should be timestamps from an automatically updated time (from cell phone signals, to prevent tampering) so that 'editing tricks' are easily caught by the defense if the comps managed to coerce the person taping it etc..
*= I forget how many hours it took to 'get a 20 minute tape' for the courtroom, but it was VERY long.
however, approval for use as a 'dietary supplement' is far, far, far more lax. After all, stevia was approved as a 'dietary supplement' years and years before coke/cargil got in on the game...
sold as a real medicine, not likely, but someone could probably get it approved as a dietary supplement with some 'fancy trade mark name' in however long it takes to get the paperwork through... and the websites touting it's use for blah blah blah, and how much to use etc...
since the cost and turn around times are lower, a company could be making money on this in a very short while. it also gives countries with even more lax laws the ability to market this stuff directly as an anti-cancer treatment. many of those countries have no 'affordable' cancer drugs, so this could be the third worlds cancer drug of choice by next week.
Whats that saying? 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong?
Well 50 million ipod users, can't be wrong lol... and that's just on 2007... and with just about 150 million ipods sold since inception, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod well, that's 3 times as many fans as Elvis.
The number of computers made world wide _each_ year is Staggering. Are we seriously pumping out a billion computers every 5 years? My dad's computer is only 6 years old, and while windows wasn't working right root-kit + obtrusive 2008 anti-virus that doesn't even detect the root-kit (neither does the same vendors anti-root-kit product.) when i switched it over to Linux, there was only a minor glitch in the hacker compromised BIOS (re-flashed it with a dos floppy, kept the root'ed BIOS file as a souvenir) it didn't even need a ram upgrade (i put in 256MB)
What are dell/etc going to do, when people Stop Buying New Computers? with a little preventive maintenance a computer can last for 10+ years... parts that might fail, (hd etc) are easy to replace (and not very expensive)
I seriously thought 1 GHz cpus would still be in use for as long as their main boards ran... and by some accounts they still are in use, usually in a 'poorer' relatives house or recycled by charities with Ubuntu etc...
with the exception of games, and 'internet server farms' there is nothing out there demanding faster computers... or more and faster data storage. People are not going to be buying new computers ever X years 'because there is a new os' and as long as video game consoles are around, you seriously don't need a high end computer. for word processing and internet the PC was 'tricked out to the max' easily 6 years ago now.
and how is the Market going to react when people start to 'expect' a computer to last them for 20+ years, with maybe a service call from a technician every few years? to either clean up the system from hacker related damage, or real physical part failures.. the ads for computers nowadays Start the computer with 3 GB of RAM (but only a basic graphic card) I've never seen a (normal, non server app) computer program other than battlefield 2 that needed that much system ram.. I suppose a badly written video editing app that tries to load the whole thing into ram (instead of keyframes etc) would use a lot of ram, mostly needlessly..
the real computer crash is coming and I'd say it's coming in 5 years, or less. I would suppose that people with models like dell, would be the best poised to survive a sudden bottoming out of the market, where only people with a lot of money to waste on games keep buying expensive computers.. and where normal people are using the same computer for many many years...
seriously though even for say, using a high def digital camera and making your own blu-ray movie discs, that's a really really small market segment, normal people will still be using affordable dvd movie techniques, for many many years, because the blu-ray discs only play back on computers while dvd videos made on a pc play on any dvd player...
and consider that most digital cameras can record video clips, of internet resolution, usually in a popular internet resolution, so those people will be happy with 'just the internet' and dvd-rom backup, if they're smart enough to make backups of data...
what's seriously going to drive computer sales when the 1 billion or so people who can afford a 'pc' have one they're 'happy' with? a lot of my relatives are happy with the pc's they've been using for many many years... and some of those make me go 'ugh, at least upgrade your ram.'
i suppli is a shoddy website who can't load 4 standard html pages from apple.com and Sum them to get a Grand Total. just saying apple doesn't put 'year end results' in their Q4 report, you have to laod the Q1-Q3 reports and Sum 4 figures. it's a bit hard to comprehend doing math in the digital era, but i think they still teach math in school, if in doubt, find a grade schooler and give them 4 numbers and ask them what they equal.
LOL I am supposed to believe isuppli.com OVER Apple's public quarterly results?
Apple releases Quarterly Sales figures, so you go to 1st quarter 07 2nd quarter 07, 3rd quarter 07, and 4th quarter 07 and SUM THEM... because apple does not do this for end users, they get 'misreported' in the press often. companies citing their 4th quarter sales as an 'annual total' ROTFLOL 1 quarter is supposed to be equal to 4 quarters? in what parallel universe does that make mathematical sense?
2007 Apple shipped 1,606,000 Macintosh® computers and 21,066,000 iPods during the quarter Apple shipped 1,517,000 Macintosh® computers and 10,549,000 iPods during the quarter Apple shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh® computers,sold 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh® computers,sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter
so where were we? Apple sold 7,051,000 Macintosh® computers in 2007 If your shoddy statistic site is right about the other sales Apple becomes #3, Directly Below #2 Dell which with a little loose interpretation, makes them the other number one competitor to dell. Since apple is the one that could SURPASS dell as number 2 if they keep Growing 20%-40% each quarter each year which again if you go straight to the horses mouth Apple Is growing that much each quarter of each year.
If i were dell I'd be more worried about apple than #1 HP because HP became #1 through mergers.
That's because the MPAA are intelegent they sell old movies at wal-mart for $5 _because they can make money doing it_ the RIAA expects you to pay $20-30 for 'old' music from a catalog store that carries 'old' music, and $14.99-$22.99 for a 'new' album... although with 99 cent pricing on itunes, they finally started selling some albums for $9.99 but still, it's crazy how the music buisiness does things... they never try to make money of 'old' recordings by selling them at discounts! and Everybody now knows how cheap movies and music can be sold for, but the greedy RIAA has no clue how to deal with people not willing to pop $20 for an album...
the movie business is run by smarter people, and even with the new ease of piracy they still did a record year, in the states and overseas.
the American system 'melted down' when the coolant pump seal melted and 'fused with the fissionable material, preventing coolant from circulating'
the obvious solution, is to not use a pump that requires a seal, or to design a seal that doesn't react to liquid sodium.
but it caused an unshielded test reactor to melt down, albeit in a desert, but it was the worst atomic accident that the government doesn't want people to remember.
Isn't it sad that he got modded up, for being Wrong, I was going to correct him, because since OSX apple has become the number one competitor to 'dell.' and it isn't all because of the ipod. maybe that helped at the start, but now, the ipod is just another portable mp3 player line... people Like OSX better than windows.
um actually it's "the corrosive power of water, highly magnified by the catalyst salt" liquid sodium is about as corrosive as nitrogen, but add a little bit of salt to water, and most metals corrode even faster than they do in just plain water.
no they use a heat exchanger that transfers heat from 'light water' and cold sea water. there are 2 big problems with sea water. 1. it has salt 2. it has 'heavy water' particles, particles in almost every body of water, unless processed to not have any... particles that can in fact initiate fusion, just by being close enough to a fission reaction. how do you think they made the hydrogen bomb in the First place? put a lot of heavy water next to a fission reaction...
All atomic reactors use heat exchangers. the fact that people used 'light water' instead of liquid metals or liquid sodium in the first place is rather bizarre, because of how bad water is at etching metals, and because normal water can react to a uranium reaction.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/10/1855201 if it's got the DOD quaking in their boots, then why aren't the Chinese already doing it? how would we know if that 'raided pirate cisco gear' wasn't loaded with mal-firmwares... hrm? anyone?
does anyone bother to backup their firmware, and do a quickie md5 sum vs it and the version that it's supposed to be on the manufacturer's site? that's how i caught a Working Bios virus that blackhats got on my machine... and two of my parents computers... there were obvious symptoms (especially on the one i changed to Linux)
I even had to Diff a clean install of windows and a 'rooted' one to find and submit virus files that normal anti-virus and anti-rootkit software can't even detect, let alone stop from being installed... (I'm not proud of my failed security, but i WAS depending on a cheap hardware firewall to protect 3 systems... along with 'free' anti-virus...and knowing that "none of us use 'bad' sites")
the funny thing is this isn't even the worst thing I've seen black hats use. There is this NASTY little exploit in windows that lets a CD-ROM be used to install automatic updates, when automatic updates ARE DISABLED.. think about this a little a cd-rom, CD-r, DVD-r, BD-R so what do you use to back up your data? blank dvds? did you ever notice that a disc left open 'gained' an extra session, somehow some where? BAM huge exploit.. it's the one that got me. i was tied up for weeks trying to figure ways around this nasty virus, and how to not loose all my data... i had no internet and the dang root-kit kept coming back (there were flaws in the root-kit, that caused 'bugs' the big 3 are, 1. a recurrent error in chkdsk where windows keeps complaining about the volume bitmap being corrupted. This is not as reported, a flaw in chkdsk, but something the Root-kit does constantly to 'make all it's infected files completely invisible to rootkit and virus scanners' the only way to scan for those files, is to put the hard drive into a linux machine and 'find' the missing files you can detect the problem in windows though, you navigate to your System Volume Information\_restore{(long number here)}\RP1 the RP1 folder is supposed to contain sequentially numbered temporary files, that are never deleted by normal means... so if you spot a 'numerical gap' in the files listed, you have the root-kit, to prove it pop the drive in a linux machine(or live cd) and the 'missing' numbered files are there, not deleted, not invisible, just 'not in the volume file bitmap' that's the easiest way to detect it, the second and third ways are less scientific, the second way I've detected it is by playing full screen games for many hours straight. if randomly over the course of 2-4 days the desktop shows in mid game for no reason... you have the root kit. sometimes it happens 3-5 times a day, but not always. the third indication doesn't always happen, but sometimes, the root-kit does something wrong, and autoplay gets disabled. usually this is related to frequent dvd movie usage. autoplay will still work on usb drives, but no longer on any optical drives... it's very wierd. in one case, it even screwed up the system so bad that '3 programs' installed on the system would 'set the default screen saver/power management settings back to their original windows defaults every 2 seconds' one of these programs was VLC media player, and frankly trying to watch a movie when the screen goes black every 20 minutes is ANNOYING...
if you have any of the above mentioned symptoms i'd recommend grabbing a live cd linux disc, and mounting the hd and looking in your System volume information folders for signs of files that are only readable under linux.
while we're on the subject of what doesn't need programming in humans... humans are less than half human, there are about ten times as many bacteria in a human being than there are 'human cells' none of these bacteria cells need to think or be ordered what to do, they just endlessly replicate in their favorite parts of the body, producing amongst other things, unpleasant odors, breaking down complex molecular strands into simpler ones the body can use, combating viruses and invasive bacteria... or simply breaking down the skin into dust... personally my least favorite the ones that produce acid that eats away at tooth enamel... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flora
so now how are you going to Replicate THAT in an artificial entity? 90% of it's functions controlled by the evolution of micro bacteria from simply being 'oxygen users' to combat the 'oxygen producers' into being full fledged life forms capable of eventually thinking for themselves... a common myth is that people only use 10 percent of their brain, but the real truth is that the fore brain controls a about 20% of a substance that is 90% completely out of it's control anyways... in this analogy it's kinda like a desktop computer in an auto plant, being the brains running the whole show of robots that make the cars nowadays..
so creating a super computer that can pass a test, is no comparison to building an organism as complex as the human being. so we really, really can't spark at what point an AI would truly become aware of the futility of their own thoughts and actions, as they are the slaves, and the microbes are the masters of all, controlling who lives and who dies and how painful it is... or in the robotic plant conundrum, the futility of the desktop computer in it's inability to change the make or model of the cars, unable to decide where to weld which part, or the futility of thinking of different color cars to produce, say pink with purple polka dots...
there are dozens of companies trying to come up with the 'next big storage device' and some of them have even conned the heads of major hard drive manufacturers, with their technobabble and a few patently stupid patents.
i mean come on just because a guy can get a couple patents through the patent office you think he's going to deliver 10 petabytes? (i refer to my present signature) the main site has about 12 pages that basically use the same paragraphs in 12 different orders, stressing his 'patents' that expire in 2020, and how he's going to get patents in 2020 that go to 2040... the former head of seagate quoted as saying "I don't understand all of Michael's technology but I know this is the way to go for the storage industry."
If you don't understand all the technology, then you might as well just go to Vegas, because there you can bet it all and let it ride... technobabble companies just take the money and run, sometimes to foreign countries... reminds me of stiff I've seen in the past, people claiming multi megabit speeds over normal copper lines, raking in tons of cash from the foolhardy on a 'simple' demonstration device using cat 5 cable to 'simulate' their supposed speeds over a span of like 20 feet instead of 20 miles (that they claimed) oh and then there was that guy talking about 'solar memory' LOL a video clip of a REGULAR MIRROR and he fleeced so many people.... vaporware is often borderline fraud, although games often get shut down because they took too long to develop.
number 3 is being beaten out by 'tar sand' production see, shale oil, isn't oil at all(it's kerogen), while most tar sands ARE oil. Heavy crude oil, still costly to process, so much so that they burn their own tar sand to produce the electricity (and steam) to refine the tar sand into oil, synthetic oil, or petroleum products. but Canada and Venezuela are the two largest tar sand producers (although America, russia, and the middle east also have large tar sand deposits) the only commercial use in the US is for road paving material.
Most of Canada's oil production is from heavy crude, and they are the number one exporter to the united states by volume of oil. so while people debate in the US about if Utah's tar sands are usable to make oil, we buy from Canada who've been doing this for years now, in fact they use a super large dump truck, the largest ever built, so large it needs cameras for the operator to see anything in front, behind or around him! Each tire is thirteen feet tall and weigh four tonnes each. They need to be replaced after approximately 35,000 miles; at a cost of $25,000.00 a piece.
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he chose to blame insurance blah blah... but the fact of the matter is temp agencies ARE becoming massive massive employers for white collar jobs. the early temp agencies were for blue collar jobs, but now it's spread to white collar jobs and, yeah the company usually doesn't hire you because replacing you with another temp instead of hiring you is 'cheaper.'
I have heard of many many places that now use temp agencies almost exclusively. The reason why white collar jobs are going to temp agencies, is because they can staff the positions like lightning and have them ready to be restaffed when the people have been on contract too long, and you get a really good idea of where to put certain people because of the tests the temp agency runs... I know some of this stuff can be done with a normal HR department, but it boils down to cost, temp agencies get the worker to do the same job for less pay, even when the temp agency takes a certain cut of that pay.
It's not that slashcode blocks it, it's that slashdot.org is SET to use English, specifically US english. that's like going to slashdot.jp and complaining because you can't read Kanji... this article was on there several hours earlier and only got 4 comments... the main complaint is that they linked to us you tube instead of japanese you tube.
apparently you've never tried http://slashdot.jp/ I'm not sure if it's both japanese and chinese text support or not, since i don't read either... but yeah it might be more prudent to 'test' if it accepts chinese characters than 'slashdot.org'
The main problem with DNA fingerprinting is that "genetics run in the family" there is a Very High Probability that 'simple' DNA tests (using only base 3 4 or 5) will be identical between say brothers of the same family.
the 'astronomical' match numbers assume 1 thing. 'that those people are strangers' identical twins have it the hardest, because no matter how the test is done They Will Always Have Identical DNA. DNA 'fingerprinting' is nice, it's neat, but it's not Unique it 'runs in the family' who wants to go to jail for a crime your sibling committed?
there will always be a need for hard evidence Besides DNA Especially if there are 'multiple' criminals in the same family.
as far as 'medical' implications go, it depends on which dna strand they test, in the UKs case they do in fact test 'enough' of the DNA that future medical information could be contained in the samples. However, they have national health care as well... so more likely the screen would be used (medically) to perhaps decide if he should be on prescription drugs prior to the problem detected in the dna blah blah blah....
in one sense having the dna of all 5 year olds and knowing which sequences will say cause teenage onset diabetes could lead to a new class of medicines to try and prevent diabetes from even forming.. but more likely it will just mean that the kids get tested for the problems younger and maybe get more rapid diagnosis...
the problem is very big though. VOIP uses lossy codecs to make calls save space. they do this from the point of transaction. allowing the Feds to get 'full quality' audio for calls basically calls for a backdoor to be written into the client application itself, BEFORE it encodes the audio, and sending it full quality to the Feds for analysis. this causes 2 huge problems, especially in real time. 1. instantly end user notices they use up all their bandwidth sending 'full quality' (lossless compressed if you're Lucky) audio in real time, or else, the devices own processor has a heart attack trying to real time encode lossless audio on a slower (old) pc while still doing lossy encoding... in real time...
with client software and devices out there to transport the lossy audio, right now all they can do is 'give lossy' audio to the government in real time. It's going to be one hell of an engineering hack, most likely using 'existing telephone networks' and 'new revision encoding hardware' or '4g cellphones' using spectrum the government holds back for this use in 4g phones from when they pull the plug on analog tv signals... to really achieve this kind of feature so that the end user doesn't notice it happening....
and guess what, the criminals are going to use the old technology because they know background noises can't be discerned in voip technology that isn't CALEA approved. discerning the background noises was one of the big things the feds did to find other criminals out who called wiretapped criminal x. having access to the compressed audio is less worthwhile since 'criminals usually talk in codes' and even if you can crack their code, they usually don't use names, either, but oftentimes on a 'classic' wiretap you'll hear their 'friends' 'in the room' use their 'real name.'
You might have missed it, it's on page 2. It's just an 8-core server, 'souped up in appearance and cooling capabilities.' Although it will support 4 graphic cards as well. there is little this thing has to offer besides looks, and extreme cost inflation of 'designing everything from ground up.'
so that means when the bad boy's PSU goes bad, you're in for sticker shock trying to replace it, and most likely a heck of a time getting a new one in. (most likely you ship it back and they fix it for you)
calling an 8 core workstation a 'super computer' is only a marketing pitch... well that and when Cray built Super Computers they did about 160 MIPS and 135 MFLOPS (cray-1) and even a Single core processor does more MIPS and FLOPS than that by several orders of magnitude. But 8-core workstations didn't cost $8 million dollars to do in 1982 what 'desktop computers' have been able to do since 1995...
so yeah massively parallel computing is really the only 'real' supercomputer left, and as some countries have shown, and 8-core desktop can probably run 'weather prediction software' for a small country if given the correct software, and data sets.
"then moving the hard drive back to the original machine."
Windows doesn't accept moving the hard drive to a new machine. No matter how many times i see people complaining about this, it's not a Feature in Windows products. In fact Even Linux can choke hard, and break if the 2 computers don't have Exactly The Same Graphic card/chip-set.. (for desktop use, anyways) If you don't use X then great, nice for you, but even Linux distros don't have a migration tool that pops up when the graphic configuration is wrong... the closet thing are Live CD/DVD images that run auto detect schema at boot, which really really slows things down.
if by chance you were just using a nearby hd to test format, that's different but your wording was just wrong... you didn't use the word format at all...
well TFA fails to mention that DCA is Already an approved drug.
"DCA has been used historically to treat patients with lactic acidosis, and therefore could arguably enter phase 2 trials in patients with cancer"
no need to do phase 1 trials then the cost goes DOWN considerably. and consider that any generic drugs have to get through hurdles with the FDA as well... well, there could well be money to be made in the states...
and although it's not 'official' a pair of plucky Canadians have been using DCA with 'reported success' (not scientific of course) and Canada didn't bar them from doing this either.
"Recording police interrogations is a manifestly good thing. It ensures, among other things, that the police can't simply beat you until you confess."
Apparently, you failed to read "The Innocent Man" (non-fiction) John Grisham.
Getting a Private Eye to monitor when your vehicle 'pulled in' until you 'pulled out' and if possible your own personal recording device would be Even Better. Especially When Mr Police Man is convinced 2 men killed a woman (the Second unsolved murder case in a town of 300) and one of those is a convict, who in general knows how deals are done by the cops, and the other, is a mentally ill person, who really should have never gone off the medications prescribed for him...
well let's just say the cops will Bend and Break those precious little rules, and Only TAPE the part where you signed a very vague confession, one you probably wont even be able to remember when your day in court comes, but yeah they have a very short video for the 18 hours you were in there*, talking with the police, while they recorded it all your honor...
This proves that cops should not be manning cameras/tapes for recording witnesses. it should be an independent contractor, one that is trustworthy and will provide the Full audio or video recording to the defense pre-trial. with modern technology there should be timestamps from an automatically updated time (from cell phone signals, to prevent tampering) so that 'editing tricks' are easily caught by the defense if the comps managed to coerce the person taping it etc..
*= I forget how many hours it took to 'get a 20 minute tape' for the courtroom, but it was VERY long.
however, approval for use as a 'dietary supplement' is far, far, far more lax. After all, stevia was approved as a 'dietary supplement' years and years before coke/cargil got in on the game...
sold as a real medicine, not likely, but someone could probably get it approved as a dietary supplement with some 'fancy trade mark name' in however long it takes to get the paperwork through... and the websites touting it's use for blah blah blah, and how much to use etc...
since the cost and turn around times are lower, a company could be making money on this in a very short while. it also gives countries with even more lax laws the ability to market this stuff directly as an anti-cancer treatment. many of those countries have no 'affordable' cancer drugs, so this could be the third worlds cancer drug of choice by next week.
Whats that saying? 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong?
Well 50 million ipod users, can't be wrong lol... and that's just on 2007... and with just about 150 million ipods sold since inception, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod well, that's 3 times as many fans as Elvis.
The number of computers made world wide _each_ year is Staggering. Are we seriously pumping out a billion computers every 5 years? My dad's computer is only 6 years old, and while windows wasn't working right root-kit + obtrusive 2008 anti-virus that doesn't even detect the root-kit (neither does the same vendors anti-root-kit product.) when i switched it over to Linux, there was only a minor glitch in the hacker compromised BIOS (re-flashed it with a dos floppy, kept the root'ed BIOS file as a souvenir) it didn't even need a ram upgrade (i put in 256MB)
What are dell/etc going to do, when people Stop Buying New Computers? with a little preventive maintenance a computer can last for 10+ years... parts that might fail, (hd etc) are easy to replace (and not very expensive)
I seriously thought 1 GHz cpus would still be in use for as long as their main boards ran... and by some accounts they still are in use, usually in a 'poorer' relatives house or recycled by charities with Ubuntu etc...
with the exception of games, and 'internet server farms' there is nothing out there demanding faster computers... or more and faster data storage. People are not going to be buying new computers ever X years 'because there is a new os' and as long as video game consoles are around, you seriously don't need a high end computer. for word processing and internet the PC was 'tricked out to the max' easily 6 years ago now.
and how is the Market going to react when people start to 'expect' a computer to last them for 20+ years, with maybe a service call from a technician every few years? to either clean up the system from hacker related damage, or real physical part failures.. the ads for computers nowadays Start the computer with 3 GB of RAM (but only a basic graphic card) I've never seen a (normal, non server app) computer program other than battlefield 2 that needed that much system ram.. I suppose a badly written video editing app that tries to load the whole thing into ram (instead of keyframes etc) would use a lot of ram, mostly needlessly..
the real computer crash is coming and I'd say it's coming in 5 years, or less. I would suppose that people with models like dell, would be the best poised to survive a sudden bottoming out of the market, where only people with a lot of money to waste on games keep buying expensive computers.. and where normal people are using the same computer for many many years...
seriously though even for say, using a high def digital camera and making your own blu-ray movie discs, that's a really really small market segment, normal people will still be using affordable dvd movie techniques, for many many years, because the blu-ray discs only play back on computers while dvd videos made on a pc play on any dvd player...
and consider that most digital cameras can record video clips, of internet resolution, usually in a popular internet resolution, so those people will be happy with 'just the internet' and dvd-rom backup, if they're smart enough to make backups of data...
what's seriously going to drive computer sales when the 1 billion or so people who can afford a 'pc' have one they're 'happy' with? a lot of my relatives are happy with the pc's they've been using for many many years... and some of those make me go 'ugh, at least upgrade your ram.'
i suppli is a shoddy website who can't load 4 standard html pages from apple.com and Sum them to get a Grand Total. just saying apple doesn't put 'year end results' in their Q4 report, you have to laod the Q1-Q3 reports and Sum 4 figures. it's a bit hard to comprehend doing math in the digital era, but i think they still teach math in school, if in doubt, find a grade schooler and give them 4 numbers and ask them what they equal.
LOL I am supposed to believe isuppli.com OVER Apple's public quarterly results?
Apple releases Quarterly Sales figures, so you go to 1st quarter 07 2nd quarter 07, 3rd quarter 07, and 4th quarter 07 and SUM THEM... because apple does not do this for end users, they get 'misreported' in the press often. companies citing their 4th quarter sales as an 'annual total' ROTFLOL 1 quarter is supposed to be equal to 4 quarters? in what parallel universe does that make mathematical sense?
2007
Apple shipped 1,606,000 Macintosh® computers and 21,066,000 iPods during the quarter
Apple shipped 1,517,000 Macintosh® computers and 10,549,000 iPods during the quarter
Apple shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh® computers,sold 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter
Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh® computers,sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter
so where were we? Apple sold 7,051,000 Macintosh® computers in 2007 If your shoddy statistic site is right about the other sales Apple becomes #3, Directly Below #2 Dell which with a little loose interpretation, makes them the other number one competitor to dell. Since apple is the one that could SURPASS dell as number 2 if they keep Growing 20%-40% each quarter each year which again if you go straight to the horses mouth Apple Is growing that much each quarter of each year.
If i were dell I'd be more worried about apple than #1 HP because HP became #1 through mergers.
That's because the MPAA are intelegent they sell old movies at wal-mart for $5 _because they can make money doing it_ the RIAA expects you to pay $20-30 for 'old' music from a catalog store that carries 'old' music, and $14.99-$22.99 for a 'new' album... although with 99 cent pricing on itunes, they finally started selling some albums for $9.99 but still, it's crazy how the music buisiness does things... they never try to make money of 'old' recordings by selling them at discounts! and Everybody now knows how cheap movies and music can be sold for, but the greedy RIAA has no clue how to deal with people not willing to pop $20 for an album...
the movie business is run by smarter people, and even with the new ease of piracy they still did a record year, in the states and overseas.
this is why i love slashdot lol
the American system 'melted down' when the coolant pump seal melted and 'fused with the fissionable material, preventing coolant from circulating'
the obvious solution, is to not use a pump that requires a seal, or to design a seal that doesn't react to liquid sodium.
but it caused an unshielded test reactor to melt down, albeit in a desert, but it was the worst atomic accident that the government doesn't want people to remember.
Isn't it sad that he got modded up, for being Wrong, I was going to correct him, because since OSX apple has become the number one competitor to 'dell.' and it isn't all because of the ipod. maybe that helped at the start, but now, the ipod is just another portable mp3 player line... people Like OSX better than windows.
um actually it's "the corrosive power of water, highly magnified by the catalyst salt" liquid sodium is about as corrosive as nitrogen, but add a little bit of salt to water, and most metals corrode even faster than they do in just plain water.
no they use a heat exchanger that transfers heat from 'light water' and cold sea water. there are 2 big problems with sea water. 1. it has salt 2. it has 'heavy water' particles, particles in almost every body of water, unless processed to not have any... particles that can in fact initiate fusion, just by being close enough to a fission reaction. how do you think they made the hydrogen bomb in the First place? put a lot of heavy water next to a fission reaction...
All atomic reactors use heat exchangers. the fact that people used 'light water' instead of liquid metals or liquid sodium in the first place is rather bizarre, because of how bad water is at etching metals, and because normal water can react to a uranium reaction.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/10/1855201 if it's got the DOD quaking in their boots, then why aren't the Chinese already doing it? how would we know if that 'raided pirate cisco gear' wasn't loaded with mal-firmwares... hrm? anyone?
does anyone bother to backup their firmware, and do a quickie md5 sum vs it and the version that it's supposed to be on the manufacturer's site? that's how i caught a Working Bios virus that blackhats got on my machine... and two of my parents computers... there were obvious symptoms (especially on the one i changed to Linux)
I even had to Diff a clean install of windows and a 'rooted' one to find and submit virus files that normal anti-virus and anti-rootkit software can't even detect, let alone stop from being installed... (I'm not proud of my failed security, but i WAS depending on a cheap hardware firewall to protect 3 systems... along with 'free' anti-virus...and knowing that "none of us use 'bad' sites")
the funny thing is this isn't even the worst thing I've seen black hats use. There is this NASTY little exploit in windows that lets a CD-ROM be used to install automatic updates, when automatic updates ARE DISABLED.. think about this a little a cd-rom, CD-r, DVD-r, BD-R so what do you use to back up your data? blank dvds? did you ever notice that a disc left open 'gained' an extra session, somehow some where?
BAM huge exploit.. it's the one that got me. i was tied up for weeks trying to figure ways around this nasty virus, and how to not loose all my data... i had no internet and the dang root-kit kept coming back (there were flaws in the root-kit, that caused 'bugs' the big 3 are, 1. a recurrent error in chkdsk where windows keeps complaining about the volume bitmap being corrupted. This is not as reported, a flaw in chkdsk, but something the Root-kit does constantly to 'make all it's infected files completely invisible to rootkit and virus scanners' the only way to scan for those files, is to put the hard drive into a linux machine and 'find' the missing files you can detect the problem in windows though, you navigate to your
System Volume Information\_restore{(long number here)}\RP1 the RP1 folder is supposed to contain sequentially numbered temporary files, that are never deleted by normal means... so if you spot a 'numerical gap' in the files listed, you have the root-kit, to prove it pop the drive in a linux machine(or live cd) and the 'missing' numbered files are there, not deleted, not invisible, just 'not in the volume file bitmap' that's the easiest way to detect it, the second and third ways are less scientific, the second way I've detected it is by playing full screen games for many hours straight. if randomly over the course of 2-4 days the desktop shows in mid game for no reason... you have the root kit. sometimes it happens 3-5 times a day, but not always. the third indication doesn't always happen, but sometimes, the root-kit does something wrong, and autoplay gets disabled. usually this is related to frequent dvd movie usage. autoplay will still work on usb drives, but no longer on any optical drives... it's very wierd. in one case, it even screwed up the system so bad that '3 programs' installed on the system would 'set the default screen saver/power management settings back to their original windows defaults every 2 seconds' one of these programs was VLC media player, and frankly trying to watch a movie when the screen goes black every 20 minutes is ANNOYING...
if you have any of the above mentioned symptoms i'd recommend grabbing a live cd linux disc, and mounting the hd and looking in your System volume information folders for signs of files that are only readable under linux.
while we're on the subject of what doesn't need programming in humans... humans are less than half human, there are about ten times as many bacteria in a human being than there are 'human cells' none of these bacteria cells need to think or be ordered what to do, they just endlessly replicate in their favorite parts of the body, producing amongst other things, unpleasant odors, breaking down complex molecular strands into simpler ones the body can use, combating viruses and invasive bacteria... or simply breaking down the skin into dust... personally my least favorite the ones that produce acid that eats away at tooth enamel...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flora
so now how are you going to Replicate THAT in an artificial entity? 90% of it's functions controlled by the evolution of micro bacteria from simply being 'oxygen users' to combat the 'oxygen producers' into being full fledged life forms capable of eventually thinking for themselves... a common myth is that people only use 10 percent of their brain, but the real truth is that the fore brain controls a about 20% of a substance that is 90% completely out of it's control anyways... in this analogy it's kinda like a desktop computer in an auto plant, being the brains running the whole show of robots that make the cars nowadays..
so creating a super computer that can pass a test, is no comparison to building an organism as complex as the human being. so we really, really can't spark at what point an AI would truly become aware of the futility of their own thoughts and actions, as they are the slaves, and the microbes are the masters of all, controlling who lives and who dies and how painful it is... or in the robotic plant conundrum, the futility of the desktop computer in it's inability to change the make or model of the cars, unable to decide where to weld which part, or the futility of thinking of different color cars to produce, say pink with purple polka dots...
there are dozens of companies trying to come up with the 'next big storage device' and some of them have even conned the heads of major hard drive manufacturers, with their technobabble and a few patently stupid patents.
i mean come on just because a guy can get a couple patents through the patent office you think he's going to deliver 10 petabytes? (i refer to my present signature) the main site has about 12 pages that basically use the same paragraphs in 12 different orders, stressing his 'patents' that expire in 2020, and how he's going to get patents in 2020 that go to 2040... the former head of seagate quoted as saying "I don't understand all of Michael's technology but I know this is the way to go for the storage industry."
If you don't understand all the technology, then you might as well just go to Vegas, because there you can bet it all and let it ride... technobabble companies just take the money and run, sometimes to foreign countries... reminds me of stiff I've seen in the past, people claiming multi megabit speeds over normal copper lines, raking in tons of cash from the foolhardy on a 'simple' demonstration device using cat 5 cable to 'simulate' their supposed speeds over a span of like 20 feet instead of 20 miles (that they claimed) oh and then there was that guy talking about 'solar memory' LOL a video clip of a REGULAR MIRROR and he fleeced so many people.... vaporware is often borderline fraud, although games often get shut down because they took too long to develop.
number 3 is being beaten out by 'tar sand' production see, shale oil, isn't oil at all(it's kerogen), while most tar sands ARE oil. Heavy crude oil, still costly to process, so much so that they burn their own tar sand to produce the electricity (and steam) to refine the tar sand into oil, synthetic oil, or petroleum products. but Canada and Venezuela are the two largest tar sand producers (although America, russia, and the middle east also have large tar sand deposits) the only commercial use in the US is for road paving material.
Most of Canada's oil production is from heavy crude, and they are the number one exporter to the united states by volume of oil. so while people debate in the US about if Utah's tar sands are usable to make oil, we buy from Canada who've been doing this for years now, in fact they use a super large dump truck, the largest ever built, so large it needs cameras for the operator to see anything in front, behind or around him! Each tire is thirteen feet tall and weigh four tonnes each. They need to be replaced after approximately 35,000 miles; at a cost of $25,000.00 a piece.
now i know I'm tired, laughing out loud at a slashdot joke....
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