1. The servers in question aren't Apple hardware (that isn't set out in the article) as an AC pointed out. Doing a bit of research, the servers in question are Teradata "Extreme Data Appliances".
2. When I was at Celestica, I was part of the team responsible for building Apple products - as a sub, you don't mess with the BoMs, much less the schematic/PCB layout without Apple review and approval without facing HUGE penalties (the least of which is losing the business). This is true for any Tier 1 vendor.
This is art that the artist, presumably, updated after being sold.
He's publicly updated it especially for the buyer. You don't know if it was specific to this buyer or if there were other options to the shredding depending on the mood of the artist.
While a very cool hack and worthy of banksy, I have to question as to whether or not Sotheby's was surprised.
For this to have worked, the frame must be quite heavy to allow the shredder mechanism to be hidden within a hollowed out area and not be noticed by being heavier at one end. Along with that, the canvas must have seemed to be mounted in an atypical fashion so that the feed and guides were invisible. Finally, I presume that the shredder was controlled by something like a cell phone - I presume there would be a big honking battery in there because I would have to think would be days/weeks between receiving the art, having it on display and then starting the auction.
As I said, very cool hack, but I can't believe that Sotheby's was surprised by it.
It will be funny when they start charging for Windows as a "service" for the privilege of testing it and ironing out the kinks at the customer's double expense.
Engineers are not intimately involved in the design, support and software maintenance of their products.
I've worked with Apple, Dell and HP server design teams in a past life and it would be highly unlikely that anything could be added to the products by board stuffers without being discovered.
Typically for most vendors, the first failed products go straight to development to understand what the problem is to see if there are any design issues. One of the first thing that is done in the process is a review (usually by a junior engineer/technician) to make sure there haven't been any unapproved part substitutions - anything added at this point would be found. It should also be pointed out that Apple products have WiFi/BT built in which means FCC testing and that requires Apple to verify that the product is identical to what will be going down the line - if the PCB gets changed to add a chip without Apple's prior approval and validation by repeating the FCC testing then, based on the contracts I've seen and been a part of, Apple would be demanding huge amounts of compensation as well as making the vendor pay to roll the field.
This doesn't mean that Apple hasn't added the chips for US/other governmental snooping just that it's highly unlikely that the manufacturing partners added something without Apple's approval.
By the pro-Microsoft trolls that lurk around here.
It's unfortunate that they don't recognize that Microsoft has the largest footprint in the OS world and that their screw ups have a disproportionate effect on the population at large and will generate more anecdotes/anger than something like OS/X or Ubuntu.
I suspect that many of the people who are pro-Microsoft actually work at Microsoft because when you are flamed, it tends to be by ACs.
So, for all you pro-Microsoft people/employees/trolls instead of attacking people for pointing out Microsoft's foibles/missteps/fuckups why don't you put the pressure on Mr. Nadella to get things right in the first place?
I'm guessing that this is in the WSJ as opposed to a place where professional coders hang out.
I've gotten these requests for years/decades and I've never treated them any differently than any other request for coding or any other large task; have your manager make it a request of my manager.
To be fair, I learned this the hard way in 1986 with a piece of assembly language code that started with the statement "I hear you know 8086 assembly code, could you take a look at..." and ended up owning the code with its support until 2009.
Regardless of how well put together the line up is, I refuse to surrender to Windows 10 - I don't like how Microsoft is moving everything to a monthly pay model and I'm very uncomfortable with them having access to my systems.
I would think that this coating would be useful in the developed world where a coating like this would reduce air conditioning requirements for homes and buildings.
The biggest issue would be that the buildings/cars would become a lot more whiter and I suspect more blinding in direct sunlight.
It's going to be withdrawing support of contributed code.
I'm sure that there are more than a few packages in the Linux base that would cause significant impacts to distributions if the contributors stopped supporting them. These packages would have to be picked up by new developers, learned and then carefully updated to ensure the changes don't affect other parts of the kernel or distribution.
When windmills were first brought to Ontario, there were a number of bird deaths but after a while these decreased to zero and now you'll see birds fly between the blades of windmills, playing with them. Deer that aren't around humans are easier targets for hunters. Shouldn't the same thing happen with hedgehogs and lawnmowers?
It's a form of (un)natural selection, the hedgehogs's environment has changed and the ones that are more cautious and wary of the lawnmowers will become the ones that survive and move forwards.
If you're looking for anti-competitive and customer intrusive behaviour, you don't need to look any further (and they've been convicted of it besides).
Reading in TFA how the spiders die after the "party" was finished made me think of the Futurama episode "Why must I be a crustacean in love?" in which Zoidberg loses his chance for mating.
Fry: So you have to choose between life without sex and a hideous, gruesome death? Dr. Zoidberg: Yes. Fry: Tough call.
I thought theorem checking was one of the applications that AI was being touted for. Just doing a quick check, there seems to be a large number of articles (like this one, which goes back a bit: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fu...) written about this very topic.
Rather that rely on a limited number of mathematicians, all of whom seem to know Professor Mochizuki, how about running his proof through these AI tools to see if they can validate the proof?
A TQFP chip usually has pins on 0.8mm centres or less (down to 0.4mm). In case you don't know what this means, this chip will have 32 to 64 pins per inch that need soldering.
In any case, you need to have a PCB of appropriate quality to solder it on and, if you aren't experienced in working with them, you'll fuck up a lot of PCBs and chips. These chips are meant to be soldered on an appropriately solder pasted PCB and then run through an oven. Single pins can be reworked with the tools noted above or with custom hot gas tools.
I'm sure shortly somebody with the appropriate knowledge, skills and resources will design a Single Board Computer (SBC) around this chip with an appropriate BIOS chip or tools to flash it. If they don't come up with the SBC, then there is a reason why they didn't (or stopped before offering a product) and you will avoid going down a rabbit hole.
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Two comments back.
1. The servers in question aren't Apple hardware (that isn't set out in the article) as an AC pointed out. Doing a bit of research, the servers in question are Teradata "Extreme Data Appliances".
2. When I was at Celestica, I was part of the team responsible for building Apple products - as a sub, you don't mess with the BoMs, much less the schematic/PCB layout without Apple review and approval without facing HUGE penalties (the least of which is losing the business). This is true for any Tier 1 vendor.
This is art that the artist, presumably, updated after being sold.
He's publicly updated it especially for the buyer. You don't know if it was specific to this buyer or if there were other options to the shredding depending on the mood of the artist.
I think it's fair to say it's now worth more.
While a very cool hack and worthy of banksy, I have to question as to whether or not Sotheby's was surprised.
For this to have worked, the frame must be quite heavy to allow the shredder mechanism to be hidden within a hollowed out area and not be noticed by being heavier at one end. Along with that, the canvas must have seemed to be mounted in an atypical fashion so that the feed and guides were invisible. Finally, I presume that the shredder was controlled by something like a cell phone - I presume there would be a big honking battery in there because I would have to think would be days/weeks between receiving the art, having it on display and then starting the auction.
As I said, very cool hack, but I can't believe that Sotheby's was surprised by it.
Thank you for the clarification.
It will be funny when they start charging for Windows as a "service" for the privilege of testing it and ironing out the kinks at the customer's double expense.
Well, it's started and I'm not laughing.
Engineers are not intimately involved in the design, support and software maintenance of their products.
I've worked with Apple, Dell and HP server design teams in a past life and it would be highly unlikely that anything could be added to the products by board stuffers without being discovered.
Typically for most vendors, the first failed products go straight to development to understand what the problem is to see if there are any design issues. One of the first thing that is done in the process is a review (usually by a junior engineer/technician) to make sure there haven't been any unapproved part substitutions - anything added at this point would be found. It should also be pointed out that Apple products have WiFi/BT built in which means FCC testing and that requires Apple to verify that the product is identical to what will be going down the line - if the PCB gets changed to add a chip without Apple's prior approval and validation by repeating the FCC testing then, based on the contracts I've seen and been a part of, Apple would be demanding huge amounts of compensation as well as making the vendor pay to roll the field.
This doesn't mean that Apple hasn't added the chips for US/other governmental snooping just that it's highly unlikely that the manufacturing partners added something without Apple's approval.
By the pro-Microsoft trolls that lurk around here.
It's unfortunate that they don't recognize that Microsoft has the largest footprint in the OS world and that their screw ups have a disproportionate effect on the population at large and will generate more anecdotes/anger than something like OS/X or Ubuntu.
I suspect that many of the people who are pro-Microsoft actually work at Microsoft because when you are flamed, it tends to be by ACs.
So, for all you pro-Microsoft people/employees/trolls instead of attacking people for pointing out Microsoft's foibles/missteps/fuckups why don't you put the pressure on Mr. Nadella to get things right in the first place?
I'm guessing that this is in the WSJ as opposed to a place where professional coders hang out.
I've gotten these requests for years/decades and I've never treated them any differently than any other request for coding or any other large task; have your manager make it a request of my manager.
To be fair, I learned this the hard way in 1986 with a piece of assembly language code that started with the statement "I hear you know 8086 assembly code, could you take a look at..." and ended up owning the code with its support until 2009.
Or at least get the MS fanbois off the site.
I'm not sure if you're serious as I would expect that files in the "Documents" folder to be system specific and should not be touched/torched.
It's turning into a real MS fanboi site.
Regardless of how well put together the line up is, I refuse to surrender to Windows 10 - I don't like how Microsoft is moving everything to a monthly pay model and I'm very uncomfortable with them having access to my systems.
Wow.
I'll still stick with Linux.
I won't consider them.
The is /. why would I RFTA?
On a more serious note, I misunderstood what was being presented - thank you for correcting me.
"significant women physicists" yielded: ... for 6.8 Million results
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://gizmodo.com/these-17-w...
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Prof Strumia should have been strummed out for not doing any basic research before stating his conclusion.
I would think that this coating would be useful in the developed world where a coating like this would reduce air conditioning requirements for homes and buildings.
The biggest issue would be that the buildings/cars would become a lot more whiter and I suspect more blinding in direct sunlight.
It's going to be withdrawing support of contributed code.
I'm sure that there are more than a few packages in the Linux base that would cause significant impacts to distributions if the contributors stopped supporting them. These packages would have to be picked up by new developers, learned and then carefully updated to ensure the changes don't affect other parts of the kernel or distribution.
Interesting, I didn't know that.
Thank you.
When windmills were first brought to Ontario, there were a number of bird deaths but after a while these decreased to zero and now you'll see birds fly between the blades of windmills, playing with them. Deer that aren't around humans are easier targets for hunters. Shouldn't the same thing happen with hedgehogs and lawnmowers?
It's a form of (un)natural selection, the hedgehogs's environment has changed and the ones that are more cautious and wary of the lawnmowers will become the ones that survive and move forwards.
If you're looking for anti-competitive and customer intrusive behaviour, you don't need to look any further (and they've been convicted of it besides).
Reading in TFA how the spiders die after the "party" was finished made me think of the Futurama episode "Why must I be a crustacean in love?" in which Zoidberg loses his chance for mating.
Fry: So you have to choose between life without sex and a hideous, gruesome death?
Dr. Zoidberg: Yes.
Fry: Tough call.
I thought theorem checking was one of the applications that AI was being touted for. Just doing a quick check, there seems to be a large number of articles (like this one, which goes back a bit: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fu...) written about this very topic.
Rather that rely on a limited number of mathematicians, all of whom seem to know Professor Mochizuki, how about running his proof through these AI tools to see if they can validate the proof?
It's a simple rule. Many people follow it and avoid being investigated by the DOJ.
Well, maybe it is if you have $2k+ in SMT soldering equipment like: https://www.weller-tools.com/p... and a reasonable quality microscope: https://www.microscope.com/oma...
A TQFP chip usually has pins on 0.8mm centres or less (down to 0.4mm). In case you don't know what this means, this chip will have 32 to 64 pins per inch that need soldering.
In any case, you need to have a PCB of appropriate quality to solder it on and, if you aren't experienced in working with them, you'll fuck up a lot of PCBs and chips. These chips are meant to be soldered on an appropriately solder pasted PCB and then run through an oven. Single pins can be reworked with the tools noted above or with custom hot gas tools.
I'm sure shortly somebody with the appropriate knowledge, skills and resources will design a Single Board Computer (SBC) around this chip with an appropriate BIOS chip or tools to flash it. If they don't come up with the SBC, then there is a reason why they didn't (or stopped before offering a product) and you will avoid going down a rabbit hole.
I have always found this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/make...
To be the best way to explain to managers/executives how to work with engineers.