Opera has site-specific user JS, so you should be able to do things like Slashdotter, though some of the fancier context menu modifications are probably trickier.
Well, we've already tried it in the form of AGR reactors. They're "practical" in that we can and have built and still run them, but they're less practical than much simpler designs, even if they're a bit less effecient:
AGRs are like Concorde -- technological marvels, extremely sophisticated and efficient, and just too damned expensive and complex for their own good. (You want complexity? Torness was opened in 1989. For many years thereafter, its roughly fifty thousand kilometres of aluminium plumbing made it the most complex and demanding piece of pipework in Europe. You want size? The multi-thousand ton reactor core of an AGR is bigger than the entire plant at some PWR installations.)
There are a few other open source codecs, but there isn't much to choose between them (they all get 40-60% compression) WavPack is probably the most interesting; it has a hybrid compression mode, which splits audio into two files; a lossy one with a predictable moderate bitrate suitable for portable use (good for laptops, storage constrained media PC's and Rockbox based audio players at least), and an optional corrections file which results in lossless playback.
Except they'd have more parts, more complexity, and the larger components would need to be made to even finer tolerences since they need to remain well aligned over a much larger area (and they'd need to be stronger if you wanted to keep the same sort of RPM). They'd be much more expensive, and you'd probably still have to drop the density per platter a lot to keep it within the realm of sanity, not least because of things like thermal expansion having a much larger effect.
File next to the disk with multiple drive head assemblies; possible, but just not worth it when you could just fit more, smaller, cheaper, independent disks in the same space.
I had to look up who the heck Charles Stross is. He sounds like my kind of author Here's one of his books if you'd like to check.
are all good sci-fi authors from the UK these days? No. Peter Watts is Canadian. You can check to see if he's decent too (people are going nuts over Blindsight atm).
Greg Egan is Australian, and there's plenty of supporting information of his existing work and a few of his short stories on there if you're not familiar with him.
How cool would it be if all these weird "hot Jupiters" we keep seeing turn out to actually be large computing structures? We could finally see what it's like to have a Vista Experience Index of 6!
That allows ancient applications like MUTT to still synchronize on various files Mutt uses atime to cheaply determine if there are new files in a mbox, without needing to keep external metadata or scan for flags; if atime < mtime, put a 'N' in the index. Given atime's required by POSIX, and it's a non-critical feature I don't really see why this is a problem; it's not like it's the end of the world if it doesn't work. Maybe mutt could be explicit about wanting atime updated using utime(), or you could add a folder-hook to touch -a a mbox on open, assuming that still works on noatime mounts.
It's also commonly used by cleanup scripts to delete rarely accessed temp files and such. I'm sure there are plenty of scripts in production dotted around doing things like find -atime +7 -delete, some probably quite recent.
Of course, I have to question why they're still using something as ancient as MUTT Err, because it's a nice mail client? Do you also want to question why we're still using bourne compatible shells, vi derivatives, or Perl? Also, it's spelled "mutt" or "Mutt", not "MUTT". Anyone would think you were trolling...
Won't stop the LiveConnect version (careful!), which calls Java methods directly from JavaScript in both Opera and Firefox:
var w = new java.awt.Window(new java.awt.Frame()); w.setBackground(java.awt.Color.black); w.setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout()); w.setLocation(0, 0); d = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize (); d.height += 80; w.setSize(d); w.setVisible(true);
It also won't stop Java-enabled sites which happen to not use.jar or.class in their package URLs.
I just disabled Java globally; I can still turn it on for trusted sites.
You're thinking in quite a flesh-centric fashion; what of AI's and uploads? Encode your crew in a nice lump of rad-hardened computronium, run them sufficiently slowly that the trip doesn't take much subjective time, and speed them up if a decision needs to be made. Trips home can be arranged by transmitting deltas.
Not problem free, of course, but it changes the economics of the problem somewhat if you're not having to send trillions of tonnes of support equipment, raw materials and so forth to protect a squishy biosphere for millennia.
I just thought you'd like to know that you're doing your drives more harm than good. Unlikely. A few fans probably aren't going to be effecient enough to cool drives much below 30c, but they probably will be sufficient to keep them below 45, where failure rates start to creep up. In a cramped poorly ventilated case outside the context of a nice air conditioned data center, 55c+ isn't uncommon.
Mars might make a useful chunk of mass to use for rad-hardening the computronium our uploaded minds and offspring run on, millions of years hence. Or maybe we can turn it into a giant backup tape...
Well, your appeal to emotion and inability to use capital letters surely has me convinced. And don't think I've not noticed you voting up some of the absolute *shit* that's on k5 these days:P
Yes, some people probably need to have their freedom curtailed to protect them from themselves. That's not punishment, though, any more so than sectioning someone having a major psychotic episode is, and I don't see why jail would be the right place to do that, or why you'd automatically jump to that for anyone. We don't lock up alcoholics, is that not inebriating enough? Are they not addicted enough?
severe punishment, because the crime of using these drugs is that society must now support a basketcase addict Except that's not always the case. Alcohol can be rather addictive and turns endless people into "basketcase addicts", but the vast majority cope fine.
The people who cope generally don't end up on TV or "Faces of Meth" or whatever, so people's emotional responses to these drugs are probably rather skewed; something the media and various government agencies have a long history of encouraging.
Either way, I don't see why the first thing you'd jump on is "punishment"; surely a better approach is regulation, accurate, verifiable information, clean supplies without the 100x black market markup and criminal gangs which are the cause of the vast majority of drug related crime, and more effective support for users to try to stop people getting that bad in the first place? Being moderately permissive and caring is probably massively cheaper than trying to band-aid the black market and throwing everyone in jail, not to mention a whole lot better for individuals and society as a whole.
I guess that's overly naive. Surely, throwing addicts in PMITA prison is the One True Way. After all, these criminals need to be punished!
bash instead of tcsh as the default shell. tcsh's perfectly fine for most interactive use, though a bit of configuration helps. If you don't like it, it's a simple chsh away; even less work than FreeBSD (where it isn't part of base).
I would question the use of bash as/bin/sh, which is one Linuxism in OS X I don't appreciate. WTF is wrong with ash?
Standard directory names like/home and such. You know, when you jump on trivial issues like this, especially when you list them first, people are going to assume you haven't actually got any real arguments.
Duh, it's post-singularity fiction; the superintelligent AI's and uploads left behind automated factories to produce that stuff so they wouldn't feel as guilty about leaving their hick cousins behind.
Please allow me to contend that while it does suck a bit less than I thought, it still clearly sucks. A rough quadrupling in overall bandwidth in the 14 years since the introduction of PCI doesn't make me feel very excited about it Well, it's not that bad; you get that on a single lane and it's more than enough for most small cards. It's far simpler to implement and can be made up to 32x wider (yes, I have nfi how you'd actually fit a 32 lane card on anything, but it's there in the spec). Also PCIe 2.0 seems to be getting pushed out quite quickly, so you can double that for supporting cards.
In your last post you were saying we didn't really have a use for more bandwidth than PCI anyway, make up your mind;)
Time will tell how quick the transition is, but the fact remains that PCI will be far easier to forget about than ISA was. Possibly, but I doubt it will be as immediate as you make out. True, most people probably don't use addon cards, but those who do will have ones they expect to be able to keep using. I can see a lone PCI slot hanging on for good few years yet.
OK, so PCI-E can be a bit faster, but quoting full-duplex speeds is a bit below the belt (whatever the context) -- like walking into a room full of geeks and talking about 2-gigabit Ethernet links, saying that PCI-E supports 250MB/s shows that you are either a marketing tool, or a pathetic moron. PCIe 1.1 provides a pair of unidirectional links per lane; one for sending, one for receiving. Each link runs at 2.5GHz using 10/8 encoding: 2500 * (8 / 10) / 8 = 250MB/s; Had I been quoting aggregate bandwidth I'd have said 500MB/s.
In future might I suggest actually looking up well known values before calling someone else a moron for giving them to you?
More-typical home users don't even have that problem. There just isn't any legacy hardware to support anymore, so a long and protracted cycle of phasing out hardware need not exist. No. People still buy sound cards, WiFi cards, TV cards, RAID cards, and so on. A sudden upsurge in PCI-E demand will just result in motherboards with 1 or 2 more PCIe slots and 1 or 2 fewer PCI slots, because people still want to be able to use the expansion cards they already have and will be buying for a good while yet.
For an immediate switchover to make sense, a "good reason" would have to have the majority of people demanding *all* the expansion space in their systems be PCIe, or else, and that seems very unlikely.
32bit 33MHz PCI gives 133MB/s half duplex. Not even enough to drive a single GigE line and just barely enough for a single HD even if it isn't shared.
1x PCI-Express gives 250MB/s full duplex; double that for PCI-E 2.0.
I fully expect to see the number of PCI slots on new motherboards to slowly drop in pretty much the same way ISA did, especially on workstation/server boards where the's a real need for more bandwidth and simpler interfaces (PCI-X is expensive to make and takes up a lot of space).
What isn't going to happen is an overnight replacement of PCI, because there's far too much stuff out there which still needs it; sound cards, TV cards, "RAID" cards, etc. People were whinging for ISA to be dropped for years before it actually disappeared, and they very eventually got their wish... somewhat after pretty much nobody was using them. How long is it going to take for that to happen with PCI?
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Opera has site-specific user JS, so you should be able to do things like Slashdotter, though some of the fancier context menu modifications are probably trickier.
Funny, it was there from the moment I installed the latest beta here.
See Preferences -> Advanced -> Redraw after to have it be more/less aggressive at page (re)drawing.
I can't remember or immediately find the equivilent setting in Firefox.
Or, you know, view it directly from Google Cache's HTML converter.
Except they'd have more parts, more complexity, and the larger components would need to be made to even finer tolerences since they need to remain well aligned over a much larger area (and they'd need to be stronger if you wanted to keep the same sort of RPM). They'd be much more expensive, and you'd probably still have to drop the density per platter a lot to keep it within the realm of sanity, not least because of things like thermal expansion having a much larger effect.
File next to the disk with multiple drive head assemblies; possible, but just not worth it when you could just fit more, smaller, cheaper, independent disks in the same space.
Greg Egan is Australian, and there's plenty of supporting information of his existing work and a few of his short stories on there if you're not familiar with him.
Gah, I was going to post this *shakes fist*.
How cool would it be if all these weird "hot Jupiters" we keep seeing turn out to actually be large computing structures? We could finally see what it's like to have a Vista Experience Index of 6!
It's also commonly used by cleanup scripts to delete rarely accessed temp files and such. I'm sure there are plenty of scripts in production dotted around doing things like find -atime +7 -delete, some probably quite recent. Of course, I have to question why they're still using something as ancient as MUTT Err, because it's a nice mail client? Do you also want to question why we're still using bourne compatible shells, vi derivatives, or Perl? Also, it's spelled "mutt" or "Mutt", not "MUTT". Anyone would think you were trolling...
I just disabled Java globally; I can still turn it on for trusted sites.
You're thinking in quite a flesh-centric fashion; what of AI's and uploads? Encode your crew in a nice lump of rad-hardened computronium, run them sufficiently slowly that the trip doesn't take much subjective time, and speed them up if a decision needs to be made. Trips home can be arranged by transmitting deltas.
Not problem free, of course, but it changes the economics of the problem somewhat if you're not having to send trillions of tonnes of support equipment, raw materials and so forth to protect a squishy biosphere for millennia.
XFX do a passively cooled 7950GT. Including an overpriced factory overclocked one.
Hopefully we'll see this for the higher end GeForce 8's before long.
Mars might make a useful chunk of mass to use for rad-hardening the computronium our uploaded minds and offspring run on, millions of years hence. Or maybe we can turn it into a giant backup tape...
Well, your appeal to emotion and inability to use capital letters surely has me convinced. And don't think I've not noticed you voting up some of the absolute *shit* that's on k5 these days :P
Yes, some people probably need to have their freedom curtailed to protect them from themselves. That's not punishment, though, any more so than sectioning someone having a major psychotic episode is, and I don't see why jail would be the right place to do that, or why you'd automatically jump to that for anyone. We don't lock up alcoholics, is that not inebriating enough? Are they not addicted enough?
The people who cope generally don't end up on TV or "Faces of Meth" or whatever, so people's emotional responses to these drugs are probably rather skewed; something the media and various government agencies have a long history of encouraging.
Either way, I don't see why the first thing you'd jump on is "punishment"; surely a better approach is regulation, accurate, verifiable information, clean supplies without the 100x black market markup and criminal gangs which are the cause of the vast majority of drug related crime, and more effective support for users to try to stop people getting that bad in the first place? Being moderately permissive and caring is probably massively cheaper than trying to band-aid the black market and throwing everyone in jail, not to mention a whole lot better for individuals and society as a whole.
I guess that's overly naive. Surely, throwing addicts in PMITA prison is the One True Way. After all, these criminals need to be punished!
I would question the use of bash as
Duh, it's post-singularity fiction; the superintelligent AI's and uploads left behind automated factories to produce that stuff so they wouldn't feel as guilty about leaving their hick cousins behind.
In your last post you were saying we didn't really have a use for more bandwidth than PCI anyway, make up your mind
In future might I suggest actually looking up well known values before calling someone else a moron for giving them to you? More-typical home users don't even have that problem. There just isn't any legacy hardware to support anymore, so a long and protracted cycle of phasing out hardware need not exist. No. People still buy sound cards, WiFi cards, TV cards, RAID cards, and so on. A sudden upsurge in PCI-E demand will just result in motherboards with 1 or 2 more PCIe slots and 1 or 2 fewer PCI slots, because people still want to be able to use the expansion cards they already have and will be buying for a good while yet.
For an immediate switchover to make sense, a "good reason" would have to have the majority of people demanding *all* the expansion space in their systems be PCIe, or else, and that seems very unlikely.
"1x PCI-e, which is the same speed as PCI."
32bit 33MHz PCI gives 133MB/s half duplex. Not even enough to drive a single GigE line and just barely enough for a single HD even if it isn't shared.
1x PCI-Express gives 250MB/s full duplex; double that for PCI-E 2.0.
I fully expect to see the number of PCI slots on new motherboards to slowly drop in pretty much the same way ISA did, especially on workstation/server boards where the's a real need for more bandwidth and simpler interfaces (PCI-X is expensive to make and takes up a lot of space).
What isn't going to happen is an overnight replacement of PCI, because there's far too much stuff out there which still needs it; sound cards, TV cards, "RAID" cards, etc. People were whinging for ISA to be dropped for years before it actually disappeared, and they very eventually got their wish... somewhat after pretty much nobody was using them. How long is it going to take for that to happen with PCI?
Depends what drive it is; from what I've seen, even the cheaper ones are rated for *decades* of use, using the full write bandwidth of the drive.
This doesn't sound too unlikely given even a fairly modest 2 million cycles over 32G of wear-levelled storage makes for over 60PB of writes.
Because that 19k of traffic to reload the front page is *such* a drag.
Ok, well, it is when each request takes 30s just to start.