And also the noise, imagine a rack of servers at full load, it will not generate that much heat, but it will sound like a jet engine.
I guess they wouldn't have the costs of a datacenter, but also wouldn't have the benefits, like fast network, someone nearby to solve any issues (imagine a server shutsdown in the middle of the night, on a weekend, and need a reset or to replace a part, will you dispatch a technician to the persons house immediately or wait until monday morning? what if they are not at home?), physical access control, no cat hair, etc.
Besides that, using resistive heating is terribly energy inefficient, a heat pump is much more economical.
Reading the summary I was thinking, would this be actually a good use for a blockchain?
You could have each voter with an ID to authorize its vote (PKI maybe), it would make relatively easy to find if some ID was used more than once and you could give the voter a paper with a sequence of characters that could be tested against the blockchain to see if it is valid.
For the ones worried about privacy with Plex, a good alternative is Emby, it has pretty much the same functionality (transcode on-the-fly, automatic cover search and info about the media, offline download, etc.), is open source, cross-platform, and doesn't collect information on your media.
The only thing you need to pay to use is the phone app, were you can only browser and cast to other devices (like chromecast) for free, to watch on the phone/tablet you need to buy (one license per user, not per device), other clients are free.
Google is making a stupid decision after another lately, and their decisions over messaging applications are a poster child of this, they had a really nice thing with gtalk, decided for whatever reason create another one, hangouts, and force everyone over to that instead of improving gtalk, people didn't like that, then they did it again, but this time they've already had lost a huge base, most people were either on facebook messenger, whatsapp (which is now also facebook), telegram or apple own messenger, and the best feature of Allo was AI, because you can't answer your own messages (????), so people just said fuck it, I'm not going to bother to change over to a application nobody uses and that the company that make it has ADHD and tomorrow will change over again.
The worst that can happen if some "bad guy" finds out someones netflix account is to make a mess on episodes that were seen/not seen.
If said someone reuses their password across sites, it can be real bad, but password formation rules are useless against that type of bad password management, you can have the strongest password ever create by man, if you use the same across all your accounts and one dumb webmaster decides to save password as plain text and get invaded, you are fucked the same way!
So children, use password managers, you can use the most simple of the passwords for your logins (albeit with a manager that would be dumb), as long as you use a different one for each.
I use tab groups (with a couple of houndred tabs opened) and I'm getting worried about version 56 (or 57, don't remember) getting close, when this extension will not work anymore.
Several people in this thread suggested bookmarks, including parent, the thing is it hasn't the same workflow, opening a new tab, moving, loading next time, closing, etc is more pratical, and in my mind easier to administer, than bookmarks, which I have a ton but pratically don't use.
I trully hope that the people at mozilla decides to bring back the tab group feature to firefox, even though most people didn't use (one reason is because almost no one new about it) it is VERY useful for power users.
His comment is tong in cheek, but one thing AIDS epidemic is "good" for, at least outside Africa, is to help keep in check other STDs. The AIDS scare helped a lot to make people use condoms and halted the spread of some common STDs that people took as not that bad (clamidia, herpes, etc.).
Not having this boogie man can actually make those other diseases spike.
You seem to be the same AC from my the thread above.
The point everyone is making is that the new technology has to be competitive somehow, either price, performance, capacity, something, but this one is pretty much pointless, it is more expensive, has greater performance but not really impactfull (my spreadsheet now opens in 0.003s with Xpoint instead of 0.005s with flash SSD, yey!?), for now capacity is very limited and endurance is a far cry from the promised during the first announcements, in the order of 30 fold less.
The strong criticism is about a pointless product sold as great with a technology that should be a big leap forward that is not that much better.
I do agree with this being the first iteration and about technology cycles, but intel hyped this almost as being the end of flash and RAM and it is far, far from that.
It seems to be a step up to flash, with it being bit accessible and not page (no need for trim and all that), but it is not at all what the marketing was trying to sell.
When intel announced 3DXpoint a couple of years ago they said it would be the best thing since sliced bread, cheap as flash, 1000x time more durable, 100x faster, 1000x lower latency. They also promised it in a form factor to replace RAM, kinda like HP "the machine" M-RAM.
But now we see it is not all that, latency is really good but the endurance is barely over flash, so bad that for enterprise product they had to actually use several times the apparent capacity, otherwise it would die really fast due to wear, and for the general consumer the only product they could come up with was an expensive hard drive accelerator, which sincerely, nobody in their right mind should buy, there are already hybrid HD out there with integrated flash that do the same and do not depend on the motherboard chipset/BIOS to operate, and if you are cheap enough to not by a small (and yet much bigger) SSD for your OS for almost the same price, you are not going to buy this.
Hope they some day can live up to the initial hype, but this is not looking to good.
no, for an individual consumer, the best strategy is to, whenever possible, ask for a discount at least equivalent to the fees charged by the card to pay in cash, this way you recoup all the fees and not only the peanuts the bank throws back at you.
For now atomic manipulation at large quantities is very far off (they only used 2 atoms in that experiment).
Our problem currently with storage is that we are kind of bound to 2D, only in the last couple of years we started actually build storage that has bits layered with 3D NAND, but the Z axis is still much, much smaller than the others.
In my opinion, the future of large storage should more a cube than an atom.
To me insurance companies should ALWAYS pay, especially to third party victims, the only time they should be covered is fraud, , such as deliberate accident, and even then injured bystanders should get compensation, for the rest, if the insurance company feels they shouldn't pay for some reason (in this case a software update not applied), they should go to court and let a judge decide.
Their jobs is to be a safety net for times we are not paying attention, neglect something or are incompentent/irresponsible, if the law lets insurance companies choose to pay only if there are absolutely no fault of the driver, they would only pay when the car was struk by a meteor or something.
Thank you, I was about to write pretty much exactly this.
It like the researchers are afraid of the hipsters, "look, we used highly advanced genetic engineering techniques to sequence the genes but we would try to modify/remove this genes, that we now know what they are exactly, using other advanced genetic engineering, we will however use a trial and error technique that will take a lot longer and may not do exactly what was intended (such as get seeds without saponins but with less yield) because we depend on random events to get it done."
Don't get me started on the gluten free and super food things, it actually makes me mad.
I've been listening to podcasts for over ten years now, these are my current ones:
In english:
- The sckeptics guide to the universe (seen a few time listed here, I think was the first one I subscribed to, going strong for over ten years with missing a single week due to one of the host dying, that's commitment!)
- In our time (from BBC radio 4, very deep subjects)
- Scientific American Podcast
- Skepticality (going just as long as SGU, but not as near as regular)
- StarTalk (Niel deGrasse Tyson radio show, very good, altough I HATE the ads with all of my being, don't know why)
- The Infinite Monkey Cage (Brian Cox and Robin Ince, funny as fuck! one of the best)
- The naked scientists
- Nerdist
- The RSA (some are boring, some are really awesome)
- Hello Internet (CGPGrey and Brady, two dudes talking, literally)
In portuguese:
- NerdCast (most famous in Brazil, one of the best I listen to, definitely the funniest)
- Xadrez Verbal (foreign politics but very lax, really good)
In Norwegian (I'm trying to learn the language):
- Nerdeprat
- Rad Crew: NEON
Slashdot Mirror
I guess they wouldn't have the costs of a datacenter, but also wouldn't have the benefits, like fast network, someone nearby to solve any issues (imagine a server shutsdown in the middle of the night, on a weekend, and need a reset or to replace a part, will you dispatch a technician to the persons house immediately or wait until monday morning? what if they are not at home?), physical access control, no cat hair, etc.
Besides that, using resistive heating is terribly energy inefficient, a heat pump is much more economical.
You could have each voter with an ID to authorize its vote (PKI maybe), it would make relatively easy to find if some ID was used more than once and you could give the voter a paper with a sequence of characters that could be tested against the blockchain to see if it is valid.
Could it work?
The only thing you need to pay to use is the phone app, were you can only browser and cast to other devices (like chromecast) for free, to watch on the phone/tablet you need to buy (one license per user, not per device), other clients are free.
Google is making a stupid decision after another lately, and their decisions over messaging applications are a poster child of this, they had a really nice thing with gtalk, decided for whatever reason create another one, hangouts, and force everyone over to that instead of improving gtalk, people didn't like that, then they did it again, but this time they've already had lost a huge base, most people were either on facebook messenger, whatsapp (which is now also facebook), telegram or apple own messenger, and the best feature of Allo was AI, because you can't answer your own messages (????), so people just said fuck it, I'm not going to bother to change over to a application nobody uses and that the company that make it has ADHD and tomorrow will change over again.
If said someone reuses their password across sites, it can be real bad, but password formation rules are useless against that type of bad password management, you can have the strongest password ever create by man, if you use the same across all your accounts and one dumb webmaster decides to save password as plain text and get invaded, you are fucked the same way!
So children, use password managers, you can use the most simple of the passwords for your logins (albeit with a manager that would be dumb), as long as you use a different one for each.
Several people in this thread suggested bookmarks, including parent, the thing is it hasn't the same workflow, opening a new tab, moving, loading next time, closing, etc is more pratical, and in my mind easier to administer, than bookmarks, which I have a ton but pratically don't use.
I trully hope that the people at mozilla decides to bring back the tab group feature to firefox, even though most people didn't use (one reason is because almost no one new about it) it is VERY useful for power users.
It is not like they are setting the bar that high...
People unfortunately like to show off.
I prefer my satellites wired and monster cable said that with theirs the audio and video from movies I watch are much warmer and crispier!
sorry, english is not first language and the autocorrect didn't caught it, but the cheek is not specified so, maybe it is still correct lol
Not having this boogie man can actually make those other diseases spike.
The point everyone is making is that the new technology has to be competitive somehow, either price, performance, capacity, something, but this one is pretty much pointless, it is more expensive, has greater performance but not really impactfull (my spreadsheet now opens in 0.003s with Xpoint instead of 0.005s with flash SSD, yey!?), for now capacity is very limited and endurance is a far cry from the promised during the first announcements, in the order of 30 fold less.
The strong criticism is about a pointless product sold as great with a technology that should be a big leap forward that is not that much better.
It seems to be a step up to flash, with it being bit accessible and not page (no need for trim and all that), but it is not at all what the marketing was trying to sell.
But now we see it is not all that, latency is really good but the endurance is barely over flash, so bad that for enterprise product they had to actually use several times the apparent capacity, otherwise it would die really fast due to wear, and for the general consumer the only product they could come up with was an expensive hard drive accelerator, which sincerely, nobody in their right mind should buy, there are already hybrid HD out there with integrated flash that do the same and do not depend on the motherboard chipset/BIOS to operate, and if you are cheap enough to not by a small (and yet much bigger) SSD for your OS for almost the same price, you are not going to buy this.
Hope they some day can live up to the initial hype, but this is not looking to good.
For post like this is that I still come to /.
Thanks!
no, for an individual consumer, the best strategy is to, whenever possible, ask for a discount at least equivalent to the fees charged by the card to pay in cash, this way you recoup all the fees and not only the peanuts the bank throws back at you.
Our problem currently with storage is that we are kind of bound to 2D, only in the last couple of years we started actually build storage that has bits layered with 3D NAND, but the Z axis is still much, much smaller than the others. In my opinion, the future of large storage should more a cube than an atom.
It's norway, they literally invented trolls!
You could always space him while the moon blocks the line of sight to earth and say he wanted to see the dark side of the moon.
Their jobs is to be a safety net for times we are not paying attention, neglect something or are incompentent/irresponsible, if the law lets insurance companies choose to pay only if there are absolutely no fault of the driver, they would only pay when the car was struk by a meteor or something.
They should jump directly to Hololens 3.11 - for workgroups!
It like the researchers are afraid of the hipsters, "look, we used highly advanced genetic engineering techniques to sequence the genes but we would try to modify/remove this genes, that we now know what they are exactly, using other advanced genetic engineering, we will however use a trial and error technique that will take a lot longer and may not do exactly what was intended (such as get seeds without saponins but with less yield) because we depend on random events to get it done."
Don't get me started on the gluten free and super food things, it actually makes me mad.
"We Finally Have a Computer..."
"...we may soon have a computer..."
We only have a oscilator for now
from the it-will-probably-take-a-decade-before-a-proper-computer department
FTFY
I've been listening to podcasts for over ten years now, these are my current ones:
In english:
- The sckeptics guide to the universe (seen a few time listed here, I think was the first one I subscribed to, going strong for over ten years with missing a single week due to one of the host dying, that's commitment!)
- In our time (from BBC radio 4, very deep subjects)
- Scientific American Podcast
- Skepticality (going just as long as SGU, but not as near as regular)
- StarTalk (Niel deGrasse Tyson radio show, very good, altough I HATE the ads with all of my being, don't know why)
- The Infinite Monkey Cage (Brian Cox and Robin Ince, funny as fuck! one of the best)
- The naked scientists
- Nerdist
- The RSA (some are boring, some are really awesome)
- Hello Internet (CGPGrey and Brady, two dudes talking, literally)
In portuguese:
- NerdCast (most famous in Brazil, one of the best I listen to, definitely the funniest)
- Xadrez Verbal (foreign politics but very lax, really good)
In Norwegian (I'm trying to learn the language):
- Nerdeprat
- Rad Crew: NEON
This summary is unreadable, it literally makes no sense.