Imagine having a successful career, probably enough options to do whatever he wants, and having to sit through endless board meetings about who's suing who this week after having tried to retire.
but pretty much all the non SATA/SAS drives (that you'd see in a server, things like this eMMC chip not so much) are just PCIe cards
Right, and if you look at a 1U machine they have one or two of them on a riser card, if any. The same machine might have 8 2.5" bays in the front of it.
the notion of using miniPCIe SSDs; that would be brutally expensive; but those things are only about the size of a DIMM, so even a 1U could accommodate pretty alarming capacity without using a proprietary form factor or socket...)
That's at least a good start! Other than mass-market effects, is there any reason for a MiniPCIe part to be more expensive than an SSD-form factor part?
since there is no way NAND flash can such up data at PCIe rates
That's the right metric - I was under the impression that some of the fancier NAND arrays (FusionIO and the like) were already limited by PCIe performance and could use faster access to the bridge for DMA purposes.
It could be that I heard that story about PCIe2.0 though.
Let's assume a remotely-exploitable backdoor. How are the Chinese getting these packets into or out of secure networks? Is there somehow an undiscovered RF part with a high-gain antenna? Because if there is, I'd like to hook my Lenovo's Centrino WiFi up to it.
This will eventually bleed over into PCIe solutions, but its hard to imagine extensive assembly lines for the purpose.
Do we have server boards with flash slots alongside the RAM slots yet? That has to be coming - I keep hanging SSD's, which are mostly packaging, off of SATA cables for caching purposes and it seems silly.
I don't mean to take away form the robotics work or the research, but the headline appears to be jumping the gun. Most of the sample paintings look like GIMP filters or that machine at Chuck-E-Cheese that draws the kids' pictures while they wait.
I was expecting a flexible arm mimicking Monet's technique or something. At this point I'd be much happier with an elephant painting on my wall - it's more "human" than the robot's.
There's still some cryptography news, but so much of it lately is the very best insight and analysis on the intersection of technology, privacy, security, government, and society that is available.
I would rather see them pay the billions they owe Washington state end the US government...NGOs are horrifically inefficient.
Second only to governments.
See Haiti as an example
Exactly.
Imagine if they threw a billion dollars in matching funds to Kiva - it would have a revolutionary impact by leveraging millions of volunteer decision makers, and they'd probably get it all back.
Once it surpassed the author's death, the farce could no longer be denied. Fortunately for Congress, they're held to the Constitution in less than 1% of cases.
It's funny how some people still pretend it's the controlling law.
Coincidentally, I went to a presentation a couple weeks ago that largely focused on HPC CFD work. The presenter's company doesn't use GPU's because things like memory bandwidth are more important, but that aside, the thing that surprised me the most was that the simulations are not independently clocked (self-clocking) - they use the hardware clock, so things like latency and state are extremely important. Self-clocking would be too expensive with current hardware. Depending on the HPC cluster setup (and even things like BIOS versions matching on different nodes) the simulation clocks can drift and ruin the simulation. It's very exacting work in the current state of the art, and very easy to get wrong.
Of course, now the weatherman can blame the sysadmin...
Far better to have a map that fits the purpose. If you want to navigate at the surface level, buy a proper map.
Fortunately one can buy a nicely made flat map that has both the geography and clear subway navigation on it. I got my last one, for Boston, at a bookstore a few years ago (remember those?) I think it was about $7, thinly laminated, and folded cleverly upon itself, for pocket storage.
You won't find it for free from the bureaucrats who only care about their fiefdom, but there was a need so it was filled. That was a few years ago - those cartographers might even have a smartphone app by now.
I was surprised to find the map this article is about to be easier to model than the one they print in the stations in NYC but it's still not useful for me to find my way around, just to find my way around the subway system. Last time I was in the city I used Google Maps and it worked perfectly for both - I didn't even look at the subway system's map.
It sure is a good thing that England controls the entire Internet
Not just the Internet - this action is curious because of jurisdiction. USENIX is in Washington, DC in a few weeks. Volkswagen is German. One of the authors is in the UK, but the other two are in the Netherlands.
So, the action must be specifically targeting this one author. Weird - it's an accepted paper and the other two authors were obviously planning to present. I guess they won't be going through Heathrow.
At that point, though, you are probably talking a production process more difficult, possibly even more expensive, than the one used to produce normal metal barrels.
One could imagine a polymer mixture that would contain chemicals that would cross-link randomly (or even preferentially), and at certain ratios form long chains, which would act as reinforcing fibers.
The orientation would be random unless possibly cured in a magnetic field with the right chemical components, but even randomly oriented reinforcement might be useful in many situations (we do it with concrete all the time).
since the people of the district voted for a bond measure the funds are already paid for by the people who live in the district so you statement makes no sense.
This assumes that the bonds will be repaid and the issuers won't default on them and ask for a bailout from more frugal taxpayers.
I'm not in a position to judge which way this particular bond will go, but that situation is happening in other jurisdictions.
I was a Netflix subscriber when they switched over to the current, thin mailers. The story at the time was that the new mailers could be handled by the automated sorting machines at the USPS facilities and that the difference in cost between postage and breakage was strongly on the side of postage - Netflix was willing to absorb the additional breakage, which they expected but at a low level, based on statistical sampling and tests they'd conducted.
One discontinuity is that, I think, the game discs are several multiples more expensive than the DVD's, so GameFly can't absorb as much breakage. That's probably why they've still got the thick mailers and why their subscription prices are 50% higher than Netflix.
It sounds to me like they have a more expensive business model and are asking the USPS to subsidize it.
It has to be managed by a outside entity, and the employer is never allowed to touch the money once it goes in.
I'm confused - how does that help me make promises to an employee that I never intend to keep, while relying on taxpayers to cover my compensation costs?
You can also 3D print metal, it's a slightly different process, but nevertheless, there are metal 3D printers out there.
And if you look at the pains that the gun foundries go through to get _exactly_ the right metal properties for their gun barrels, you'd be leery of ever firing a 3D-printed gun (in 2013).
But, as I understand it, nobody actually wants a 3D printed gun - they're just trying to bait the gun-grabbers into attempting to restrain free trade and stifle free speech for their agenda, to make the gun-grabbers look even worse.
Slashdot Mirror
By the end of 2015 USB sticks will probably be twice that capacity and 4 times faster without needing a special drive to write/read them.
And if those USB sticks are $140 while the optical discs are $10, then there will be a market for the optical discs. Not all use cases are the same.
Past time to put this cartel parasites to the flames, treat them the same as the mafia.
Perhaps Pandora has a RICO complaint ready...
Imagine having a successful career, probably enough options to do whatever he wants, and having to sit through endless board meetings about who's suing who this week after having tried to retire.
Congrats seem in order.
but pretty much all the non SATA/SAS drives (that you'd see in a server, things like this eMMC chip not so much) are just PCIe cards
Right, and if you look at a 1U machine they have one or two of them on a riser card, if any. The same machine might have 8 2.5" bays in the front of it.
the notion of using miniPCIe SSDs; that would be brutally expensive; but those things are only about the size of a DIMM, so even a 1U could accommodate pretty alarming capacity without using a proprietary form factor or socket...)
That's at least a good start! Other than mass-market effects, is there any reason for a MiniPCIe part to be more expensive than an SSD-form factor part?
since there is no way NAND flash can such up data at PCIe rates
That's the right metric - I was under the impression that some of the fancier NAND arrays (FusionIO and the like) were already limited by PCIe performance and could use faster access to the bridge for DMA purposes.
It could be that I heard that story about PCIe2.0 though.
Let's assume a remotely-exploitable backdoor. How are the Chinese getting these packets into or out of secure networks? Is there somehow an undiscovered RF part with a high-gain antenna? Because if there is, I'd like to hook my Lenovo's Centrino WiFi up to it.
This will eventually bleed over into PCIe solutions, but its hard to imagine extensive assembly lines for the purpose.
Do we have server boards with flash slots alongside the RAM slots yet? That has to be coming - I keep hanging SSD's, which are mostly packaging, off of SATA cables for caching purposes and it seems silly.
I don't mean to take away form the robotics work or the research, but the headline appears to be jumping the gun. Most of the sample paintings look like GIMP filters or that machine at Chuck-E-Cheese that draws the kids' pictures while they wait.
I was expecting a flexible arm mimicking Monet's technique or something. At this point I'd be much happier with an elephant painting on my wall - it's more "human" than the robot's.
There's still some cryptography news, but so much of it lately is the very best insight and analysis on the intersection of technology, privacy, security, government, and society that is available.
I would rather see them pay the billions they owe Washington state end the US government ...NGOs are horrifically inefficient.
Second only to governments.
See Haiti as an example
Exactly.
Imagine if they threw a billion dollars in matching funds to Kiva - it would have a revolutionary impact by leveraging millions of volunteer decision makers, and they'd probably get it all back.
Bakelite and other thermosetting phenolic resins called from the 1920s and before called and would like their prior art back.
Doesn't Bakelite specifically use wood flour as the structural component because its chains are only a handful of monomers long?
by securing for limited Times to Authors
Once it surpassed the author's death, the farce could no longer be denied. Fortunately for Congress, they're held to the Constitution in less than 1% of cases.
It's funny how some people still pretend it's the controlling law.
Coincidentally, I went to a presentation a couple weeks ago that largely focused on HPC CFD work. The presenter's company doesn't use GPU's because things like memory bandwidth are more important, but that aside, the thing that surprised me the most was that the simulations are not independently clocked (self-clocking) - they use the hardware clock, so things like latency and state are extremely important. Self-clocking would be too expensive with current hardware. Depending on the HPC cluster setup (and even things like BIOS versions matching on different nodes) the simulation clocks can drift and ruin the simulation. It's very exacting work in the current state of the art, and very easy to get wrong.
Of course, now the weatherman can blame the sysadmin...
Far better to have a map that fits the purpose. If you want to navigate at the surface level, buy a proper map.
Fortunately one can buy a nicely made flat map that has both the geography and clear subway navigation on it. I got my last one, for Boston, at a bookstore a few years ago (remember those?) I think it was about $7, thinly laminated, and folded cleverly upon itself, for pocket storage.
You won't find it for free from the bureaucrats who only care about their fiefdom, but there was a need so it was filled. That was a few years ago - those cartographers might even have a smartphone app by now.
I was surprised to find the map this article is about to be easier to model than the one they print in the stations in NYC but it's still not useful for me to find my way around, just to find my way around the subway system. Last time I was in the city I used Google Maps and it worked perfectly for both - I didn't even look at the subway system's map.
It sure is a good thing that England controls the entire Internet
Not just the Internet - this action is curious because of jurisdiction. USENIX is in Washington, DC in a few weeks. Volkswagen is German. One of the authors is in the UK, but the other two are in the Netherlands.
So, the action must be specifically targeting this one author. Weird - it's an accepted paper and the other two authors were obviously planning to present. I guess they won't be going through Heathrow.
At that point, though, you are probably talking a production process more difficult, possibly even more expensive, than the one used to produce normal metal barrels.
One could imagine a polymer mixture that would contain chemicals that would cross-link randomly (or even preferentially), and at certain ratios form long chains, which would act as reinforcing fibers.
The orientation would be random unless possibly cured in a magnetic field with the right chemical components, but even randomly oriented reinforcement might be useful in many situations (we do it with concrete all the time).
Oh, and prior art, future bitches.
since the people of the district voted for a bond measure the funds are already paid for by the people who live in the district so you statement makes no sense.
This assumes that the bonds will be repaid and the issuers won't default on them and ask for a bailout from more frugal taxpayers.
I'm not in a position to judge which way this particular bond will go, but that situation is happening in other jurisdictions.
I was a Netflix subscriber when they switched over to the current, thin mailers. The story at the time was that the new mailers could be handled by the automated sorting machines at the USPS facilities and that the difference in cost between postage and breakage was strongly on the side of postage - Netflix was willing to absorb the additional breakage, which they expected but at a low level, based on statistical sampling and tests they'd conducted.
One discontinuity is that, I think, the game discs are several multiples more expensive than the DVD's, so GameFly can't absorb as much breakage. That's probably why they've still got the thick mailers and why their subscription prices are 50% higher than Netflix.
It sounds to me like they have a more expensive business model and are asking the USPS to subsidize it.
It has to be managed by a outside entity, and the employer is never allowed to touch the money once it goes in.
I'm confused - how does that help me make promises to an employee that I never intend to keep, while relying on taxpayers to cover my compensation costs?
You can also 3D print metal, it's a slightly different process, but nevertheless, there are metal 3D printers out there.
And if you look at the pains that the gun foundries go through to get _exactly_ the right metal properties for their gun barrels, you'd be leery of ever firing a 3D-printed gun (in 2013).
But, as I understand it, nobody actually wants a 3D printed gun - they're just trying to bait the gun-grabbers into attempting to restrain free trade and stifle free speech for their agenda, to make the gun-grabbers look even worse.
Sweet, it's like Stack Exchange, but with ad hominem attacks.
Many of the status items on the ReplicantStatus page. So, it's hard to be too critical of Shuttleworth at this juncture.
What makes this better than any of the countless similarly priced Android-based media players out there?
There's a small chance the Google-branded device will get updates some day.
Dude, it's a defense contractors.
OP: tell your boss I'll do it for $4.5M/yr.
yeah, I was thinking of the ZFS equivalent, but either should work for just what the OP is asking for.