I will have my consciousness implanted in a computer. As long as it happens to be the computer controlling a mech or at least some kind of mobile robot. And I certainly won't join any sort of collective consciousness. My consciousness comes with firewall software built in.
Absolute measurements like percentage of the total are not really the issue here. The issue is, how much of a margin do we have before we start changing things enough away from normal that it will begin to affect our productivity, lifestyle, and society in a negative way.
My point was that it's not really a *solution* to what the guy was asking for. It's not really organized if it's organized on only their site and if they ever crash or you're working offline, all you've got left is a big mess of image files scattered across a few HDs and DVDs.
The image files are important sure, but those are easy to back up and store like anything else, it's not the problem here. The problem is the organization, the tags, the settings, the galleries, those are important *too*, and there doesn't seem to be a great way to reliably keep track of those. Flickr is not a solution for that.
Maybe I'm a control freak, but I don't feel comfortable trusting someone else to a) store my photos, b) keep my photos secure, c) store a tag index for all of those photos. I don't even trust them to do it safely *right now*, much less to have done it and still be doing it 10 or 20 years down the road.
Oh get off it. First of all, oil companies are already quite secure in their profits. Oil's used for a hell of a lot more than just electricity. Everything plastic, for example.
Also, oil companies are some of the ones leading the alternative energy charge, believe it or not. Oil companies know even better than you do that their oil wells are not going to last forever, and they want to be ready when they do start drying up by already being leaders in the next power resource. They are generally not stupid nor abnormally immoral. They do want to make a buck, but they are good at thinking long-term.
(Note: I am talking about most large oil companies other than Exxon/Mobil. Those guys in particular seem a little on the retarded side.)
That doesn't seem like a great solution. It's possible I don't understand what you're suggesting, my experience with high end switches is limited, but from what I understand, if I've got Port A transferring to Port B at 100Mbps, and port C transferring to port D at 100Mbps, it would all have to go over the the same trunk (twice!) to be switched by the Linux box, no? Even if the trunk was gigabit and the ports only 100mbps, you can still only have at most 8 ports transferring before you've saturated your switch. If the ports are all gigabit, then you've just hamstrung yourself completely, no?
If you want to correct me, go ahead, I am a networking newbie, but that just doesn't seem efficient to me compared to actually running Linux at the switch's hardware level.
For the record, with a good controller (or software), a 4-drive RAID 1+0 is 4x read, 2x write, not simply 2x.
Half the data is written to each stripe simultaneously, for 2x write speed, and data can also be read back twice as fast for the same reason. However, when reading half of each of those stripes can be read back from either of the stripe's MIRRORS simultaneously, resulting in 2 (striping) x 2 (mirroring) = 4x read speed.
Do you have a good network topology? Because that's a lot more important than throwing more bandwidth at it.
Besides if you have a good network topology you should be able to upgrade only the core switches and possibly servers to 10Gig, alleviating your bottleneck without needing to upgrade everything.
Actually, the giant counterweight at the top of it would be actually beyond geosynchronous orbit, and the center of mass of the cable would be in geosynchronous orbit, but the cable itself would not be in any kind of orbit.
Saying the cable is in geosynchronous orbit is analogous to saying that the cables on a suspension bridge are "flying".
In an immediate sense I agree with you. But in the long run, it seems rather silly to hobble ourselves. The problem with energy usage, and even wastage, is not because we're using energy, but because of where that energy comes from (hydrocarbons).
If our energy came entirely from solar energy, we could use almost any amount of energy we wish (within reason) with negligible detrimental effects.
Steermouse seems to only be a 15 day trial. If that bothers you, you can get by with the free version of USB Overdrive indefinitely, although it is nagware (bothers you on startup as well as any time you visit its preferences panel)
Both allow you to configure the mouse speed and acceleration basically however you like it.
And I'm saying that it's irrelevant because with current technology ARM processors simply *cannot* clock that fast. And if they could, the same technology would allow Intel's Pentium class processors to be run at, say, 15GHz or something similarly enormous. Perhaps it has high operations per clock, but that stat doesn't operate in a vacuum. In no small part, that high operations per clock is the reason that it can't go 2GHz.
Er, did you ever chance upon the spell creation altar in the Wizard's University in Oblivion? You could quite easily create a spell that gave yourself all the buffs you wanted all at once. Or you could enchant them all upon rings or amulets, too.
MHz is not a measure of performance. Stop thinking of it as one.
First of all, ARM processors are supposed to run at low clockspeeds but with high performance per clock. That ensures their heat dissipation and power consumption remains low. Unless you really want your PDA to have multiple fans and a 10 minute battery life?
The reason new ARM processors with low clockspeeds are faster than old Pentiums with higher clockspeeds, is because ARM processors are able to take advantage of the latest technologies and components, the same technologies and components that the top-of-the-line Intel processors are using. They are also intentionally designed to operate with low clock speed. If ARM processors could be clocked up to multiple GHz (they can't) you would have something that's competitive with the best Core and Athlon processors, but not something that blows them out of the water.
Should proponents of alternative browsers pick one to rally behind? Yes. If so, should it be Firefox? It is.
The paradox of choice is irrelevant: - Anyone who has IE as a choice will not have access to IceWeasel. - For Linux users, the status quo is probably either Firefox or IceWeasel anyway, so it doesn't matter if they choose to stick with the status quo.
Try reading a newspaper in bight daylight vs. reading a TFT in bright daylight.
It has nothing to do with contrast, but it does depend strongly on the LCD in question. A non-backlit LCD is no problem at all to read in sunlight. Some well-designed LCDs are easy to make out as well. Nintendo's Gameboy Advance SP, for instance, is actually easier to read in sunlight than it is in a dim environment with the backlight on in my opinion. It depends a lot on the coating on the front of the screen, and the design of the backing (for the backlight).
Put simply, the problem with backlit screens is that they typically use a CCFL light on one edge of the screen, then an angled reflector behind the screen reflects the light to exit evenly across the screen. A screen that looks good in direct light, on the other hand, requires a flat reflector that reflects the light back out the same way it came in. These goals aren't entirely incompatible, they just require some extra engineering. There are many LCDs that look fine in sunlight, but they are a niche market because most people just don't care. Panasonic Toughbooks are designed to work well in sunlight for example.
Kid's hanging out of MySpace are just being kids, but middle aged adults are predetors and/or lying about their age? is that about right?
How do you explain the discrepancy between this data and the easily forged profile age? If myspace says they're mostly teens, and this survey with supposedly more accurate ages says that actually they're mostly 35, the only possible conclusion is that yes, the 35 year olds are lying about their age on their profiles to make themselves seem like teens.
Why would they do that?
Maybe....just maybe...the notion of networking with people across the internet is becoming a more mainstream idea.
Ok, so use something that isn't "Geocities For The 21st Century". Orkut's not perfect, but it's about a million times better than Myspace.
You can get them significantly cheaper and higher power than that, but that's within the ballpark, yeah. See Wholesale solar for some prices and brands. (I have never dealt with them, just found them through Google)
The relevant thing is, whether they own Mars or not: Am I still allowed to have a satellite in orbit of Mars when it passes through Chinese space?
If so, I can still spy on China from there. If not, you've just outlawed all space exploration because there's no way of making certain that NASA's newest research probe does not have spy cameras on it once it's on its way to Mars.
You can put any arbitrary limit on "height" you want, but that doesn't solve the problem. As this entire situation illustrates, people will setup their reconnaisance devices just above that threshold and watch you from there.
But then you have to cool them. Besides, current general purpose processors are better if you consider processing power versus heat, price, size, I/O bandwidth, or just about anything else for that matter.
Using Videocards as extra processors is neat if you already have one. If you don't already have one, it's not really intended to be an incentive to get one.
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I will have my consciousness implanted in a computer. As long as it happens to be the computer controlling a mech or at least some kind of mobile robot. And I certainly won't join any sort of collective consciousness. My consciousness comes with firewall software built in.
Cyborgs, yay! *stomp stomp stomp*
Absolute measurements like percentage of the total are not really the issue here. The issue is, how much of a margin do we have before we start changing things enough away from normal that it will begin to affect our productivity, lifestyle, and society in a negative way.
My point was that it's not really a *solution* to what the guy was asking for. It's not really organized if it's organized on only their site and if they ever crash or you're working offline, all you've got left is a big mess of image files scattered across a few HDs and DVDs.
The image files are important sure, but those are easy to back up and store like anything else, it's not the problem here. The problem is the organization, the tags, the settings, the galleries, those are important *too*, and there doesn't seem to be a great way to reliably keep track of those. Flickr is not a solution for that.
Maybe I'm a control freak, but I don't feel comfortable trusting someone else to a) store my photos, b) keep my photos secure, c) store a tag index for all of those photos. I don't even trust them to do it safely *right now*, much less to have done it and still be doing it 10 or 20 years down the road.
Oh get off it. First of all, oil companies are already quite secure in their profits. Oil's used for a hell of a lot more than just electricity. Everything plastic, for example.
Also, oil companies are some of the ones leading the alternative energy charge, believe it or not. Oil companies know even better than you do that their oil wells are not going to last forever, and they want to be ready when they do start drying up by already being leaders in the next power resource. They are generally not stupid nor abnormally immoral. They do want to make a buck, but they are good at thinking long-term.
(Note: I am talking about most large oil companies other than Exxon/Mobil. Those guys in particular seem a little on the retarded side.)
Sorry to say, but if you look closely, it's actually a pair of tan shorts.
That doesn't seem like a great solution. It's possible I don't understand what you're suggesting, my experience with high end switches is limited, but from what I understand, if I've got Port A transferring to Port B at 100Mbps, and port C transferring to port D at 100Mbps, it would all have to go over the the same trunk (twice!) to be switched by the Linux box, no? Even if the trunk was gigabit and the ports only 100mbps, you can still only have at most 8 ports transferring before you've saturated your switch. If the ports are all gigabit, then you've just hamstrung yourself completely, no?
If you want to correct me, go ahead, I am a networking newbie, but that just doesn't seem efficient to me compared to actually running Linux at the switch's hardware level.
For the record, with a good controller (or software), a 4-drive RAID 1+0 is 4x read, 2x write, not simply 2x.
Half the data is written to each stripe simultaneously, for 2x write speed, and data can also be read back twice as fast for the same reason. However, when reading half of each of those stripes can be read back from either of the stripe's MIRRORS simultaneously, resulting in 2 (striping) x 2 (mirroring) = 4x read speed.
Do you have a good network topology? Because that's a lot more important than throwing more bandwidth at it.
Besides if you have a good network topology you should be able to upgrade only the core switches and possibly servers to 10Gig, alleviating your bottleneck without needing to upgrade everything.
Actually, the giant counterweight at the top of it would be actually beyond geosynchronous orbit, and the center of mass of the cable would be in geosynchronous orbit, but the cable itself would not be in any kind of orbit.
Saying the cable is in geosynchronous orbit is analogous to saying that the cables on a suspension bridge are "flying".
You don't want an MS-sanctioned Linux.
You want Windows.
Asok? From "IndoSlave Corp"? Are you sure it's not some kind of Dilbert joke?
In an immediate sense I agree with you. But in the long run, it seems rather silly to hobble ourselves. The problem with energy usage, and even wastage, is not because we're using energy, but because of where that energy comes from (hydrocarbons).
If our energy came entirely from solar energy, we could use almost any amount of energy we wish (within reason) with negligible detrimental effects.
Steermouse seems to only be a 15 day trial. If that bothers you, you can get by with the free version of USB Overdrive indefinitely, although it is nagware (bothers you on startup as well as any time you visit its preferences panel)
Both allow you to configure the mouse speed and acceleration basically however you like it.
And I'm saying that it's irrelevant because with current technology ARM processors simply *cannot* clock that fast. And if they could, the same technology would allow Intel's Pentium class processors to be run at, say, 15GHz or something similarly enormous. Perhaps it has high operations per clock, but that stat doesn't operate in a vacuum. In no small part, that high operations per clock is the reason that it can't go 2GHz.
And for the record, ARM *is* an Intel processor.
Er, did you ever chance upon the spell creation altar in the Wizard's University in Oblivion? You could quite easily create a spell that gave yourself all the buffs you wanted all at once. Or you could enchant them all upon rings or amulets, too.
MHz is not a measure of performance. Stop thinking of it as one.
First of all, ARM processors are supposed to run at low clockspeeds but with high performance per clock. That ensures their heat dissipation and power consumption remains low. Unless you really want your PDA to have multiple fans and a 10 minute battery life?
The reason new ARM processors with low clockspeeds are faster than old Pentiums with higher clockspeeds, is because ARM processors are able to take advantage of the latest technologies and components, the same technologies and components that the top-of-the-line Intel processors are using. They are also intentionally designed to operate with low clock speed. If ARM processors could be clocked up to multiple GHz (they can't) you would have something that's competitive with the best Core and Athlon processors, but not something that blows them out of the water.
Should proponents of alternative browsers pick one to rally behind?
Yes.
If so, should it be Firefox?
It is.
The paradox of choice is irrelevant:
- Anyone who has IE as a choice will not have access to IceWeasel.
- For Linux users, the status quo is probably either Firefox or IceWeasel anyway, so it doesn't matter if they choose to stick with the status quo.
Try reading a newspaper in bight daylight vs. reading a TFT in bright daylight.
It has nothing to do with contrast, but it does depend strongly on the LCD in question. A non-backlit LCD is no problem at all to read in sunlight. Some well-designed LCDs are easy to make out as well. Nintendo's Gameboy Advance SP, for instance, is actually easier to read in sunlight than it is in a dim environment with the backlight on in my opinion. It depends a lot on the coating on the front of the screen, and the design of the backing (for the backlight).
Put simply, the problem with backlit screens is that they typically use a CCFL light on one edge of the screen, then an angled reflector behind the screen reflects the light to exit evenly across the screen. A screen that looks good in direct light, on the other hand, requires a flat reflector that reflects the light back out the same way it came in. These goals aren't entirely incompatible, they just require some extra engineering. There are many LCDs that look fine in sunlight, but they are a niche market because most people just don't care. Panasonic Toughbooks are designed to work well in sunlight for example.
Kid's hanging out of MySpace are just being kids, but middle aged adults are predetors and/or lying about their age? is that about right?
How do you explain the discrepancy between this data and the easily forged profile age? If myspace says they're mostly teens, and this survey with supposedly more accurate ages says that actually they're mostly 35, the only possible conclusion is that yes, the 35 year olds are lying about their age on their profiles to make themselves seem like teens.
Why would they do that?
Maybe....just maybe...the notion of networking with people across the internet is becoming a more mainstream idea.
Ok, so use something that isn't "Geocities For The 21st Century". Orkut's not perfect, but it's about a million times better than Myspace.
You can get them significantly cheaper and higher power than that, but that's within the ballpark, yeah. See Wholesale solar for some prices and brands. (I have never dealt with them, just found them through Google)
How can a laser follow a ballistic trajectory?
Fire it around a black hole.
Hey, you asked.
The relevant thing is, whether they own Mars or not: Am I still allowed to have a satellite in orbit of Mars when it passes through Chinese space?
If so, I can still spy on China from there.
If not, you've just outlawed all space exploration because there's no way of making certain that NASA's newest research probe does not have spy cameras on it once it's on its way to Mars.
You can put any arbitrary limit on "height" you want, but that doesn't solve the problem. As this entire situation illustrates, people will setup their reconnaisance devices just above that threshold and watch you from there.
But then you have to cool them. Besides, current general purpose processors are better if you consider processing power versus heat, price, size, I/O bandwidth, or just about anything else for that matter.
Using Videocards as extra processors is neat if you already have one. If you don't already have one, it's not really intended to be an incentive to get one.
TLD stands for "Top Level Domain", not "Three Letter Domain".