I don't think we'll have fusion by 2020, but if the US actually did put hard cash on the table to the tune of $10 billion extra per project, we might well be in line for large-scale conversion to fusion by 2025.
Which is dangerous to the oil interests, so it cannot be allowed to happen by the US Governmnet.
I built a desktop system for myself last June with an AMD 'APU' in it. At the time people were talking August for ATI's open source reveal, so I put my old nVidia card in it. It's still there, obviously.
Assuming these parts went to fab before I could buy them, this puts ATI's lead time on open source drivers for new chips at about a year. That's probably 1/3 the useful life of the part. Hopefully for the last 2/3rds I'll be able to take advantage of that power savings.
Serious question: how do they test these chips? Are they really using Windows drivers in the development lab? That seems unnecessarily hard.
The only real choices we have are in each individual decision we make every day, to do the right thing or the wrong thing. Everything else is speculation and guesswork.
Committing a carrier suicide for NO impact whatsoever
.I only ever launched one 3 stage D engine rocket. Never saw the top stage light. Only found a fin. Barely found the second stage.
Oh, I forgot to write that this was my problem. They all had multiple D engines in them. If I had stuck with the smaller ones (or perhaps lived on the Great Plains) it would have been much more rewarding!
A lot of it probably came from her father, who I sincerely believe thought that I was literally unemployed.
There's one of those old-time postcards going around Facebook that says, "No woman will ever be truly happy because there's no such thing as a chocolate penis that ejaculates money."
But if your voluntary compliance rate were high enough then the costs of making it compulsory would simply be a net-loss.
It's compulsory because the voluntary compliance rate isn't high enough, so a compulsory system is evidence itself that not enough people value the system to make it work.
Forgot to mention, I did in fact decide to send it to a different journal because of Elsevier. If the other publisher rejects it, it will have to go to Elsevier.
You don't have to. You may chose to because you want certain benefits that will come from doing so, but don't pretend that it's not your choice.
Boycots are usually inconvenient and often require personal sacrifice.
There IS no way out for me at the moment. I have to play the sick game of the publishers.
Sure there is - you could chose to do what you know to be the right thing. But the rewards would be less for doing so, so you tell youself it's not an option.
I do my work from home some days with a VNC connection to work. It runs about 1.2Mbps when I'm busy (6-meg DSL).
I see almost no reason why a home user should want to have a local hard drive, except perhaps to cache media files until the upload is done (in the background, and seamless working through the cache until the upload is done, of course).
Give it a couple years and Google will offer free computers with free Internet connections in exchange for usage tracking. 70% of the population will take them up on that deal. Unless Amazon gets there first.
All that said, there's going to be a huge need for storage on the backend.
worker friendly means something entirely different in the US versus China
And then, what if the factory worker is a former subsistence farmer who is really glad to have that factory job and never wants to go back to farming? I know, we're not allowed to talk about farming being a grueling high-death-rate job (among both farmers and their children) because we like to eat...
Some people think we can legislate a world where everybody has a top-flight job. It'll come, but not in our lifetimes. The worst thing we can do is stop this progress becasuse it's 'merely progress' and not the final state.
I'm pretty sure some of the 3 stage Estes rockets can go supersonic on 2 Ds and a C. They lose their fins when they do though. I never did find anything but one of the fins.
I got bored with model rocketry after my first three rockets were one-shot flights, never to be found again. I wonder if this explains why. How soon do they go supersonic? I was able to at least see that mine went straight up until my eye couldn't resolve them anymore. If they went supersonic, they'd start to tumble, right?
I never saw a parachute, but didn't hear any explosions either.
Don't try dropping a new kernel source tar-ball onto RH Enterprise Server, Fedora, or even Ubunto -- it will break your system, and your $$$$ support agreement.
Are you aware of why people buy Redhat support agreements? If so, do you think Redhat could offer such agreements for the same kind of money if they supported every possible software version combination? Do you think buying into Redhat's system in involuntary?
As far as Fedora, the 3.3 packages are already built for 17 and 18; 16 should be along in a day or two. But if you're impatient odds are very good that you can rebuild the 17 package on 16 with a simple 'rpmbuild --rebuild' command, and install it with 'rpm -i kernel-foo....'. Fedora folks care about engineering, so if something doesn't work as it should, they want to know about it - you won't hear them using "it's not supported" as an excuse.
But, hey, I used to run Slackware too - it was my favorite distro on the InfoMagic set.
ZFS has no support for resizing or restriping it's RAID pools, or shrinking the storage units.
Not entirely true - if you replace all of the devices in a pool with larger ones (one or two at a time depending on your pool) when all of the devices are of a larger size, ZFS will automatically expand the pool.
So, if you have a pool of 7 1TB drives, say with 4.5 TB of usable storage and you replace them with 7 2TB drives, when the last one is done rebuilding you'll have 9TB of usable storage without doing anything more as an admin.
Remember also that ZFS dynamically allocates filesystem storage out of a pool, so the need to shrink filesystems is much less relevant than with LVM and ext*/xfs. I'm sure there are cases where it could be handy, but I've personally never run into one in the 4 years I've been running ZFS systems.
Just a note on running the cerowrt distribution (where the bufferbloat research is implemented) - you need to run a wndr-3700v2 (I've been consistently successful getting v2 refurbished units) but now that the wndr-3700v3 is out, that doesn't work with cerowrt - you'll need the wndr-3800 if you're buying new (I haven't seen 3800's available as refurb yet).
It closely parallels the WRT-54G and then WRT-54GL situation (without Netgear having learned from the headaches Linksys caused us with that one). The wndr-3[7,8]00 does appear to be the heir apparent to the 54G series, though. I'm happy I bought mine.
Engineers have been considering approaches like this for ages. It's good to see it being put into practice.
Except it's being done sorta backwards here. I used to work at a hospital that took street water (about 45 degrees, IIRC) and ran it through the data center, then sent it out to the hospital to use for tap water at about 48 degrees. After all, it's just a long pipe as far as the water is concerned.
A city water supply would be a tremendous heat sink. If we assume that a fair amount of it is going to be heated anway, it's a net energy savings for the community too.
There's no such thing as uninsured here. AND, my small business pays less per employee on the extra taxes than on the premiums we might pay in the USA.
Canada's unique ratio of oil revenues to population makes the books balance nicely.
But, I don't need my government to work out an arrangement for me - I need them to stop unconstitutionally interfering in the right of private contract and I'll be all set.
then I as a customer have the right not to choose their service, simple as that.
And that's exactly the correct response if you don't like these terms. Personally, I like that the courts are excluded from my agreement with Netflix - there's a complication I can't fathom ever being worthwhile.
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I don't think we'll have fusion by 2020, but if the US actually did put hard cash on the table to the tune of $10 billion extra per project, we might well be in line for large-scale conversion to fusion by 2025.
Which is dangerous to the oil interests, so it cannot be allowed to happen by the US Governmnet.
And that's why those other series you mentioned all had crap endings. If you consider B5 to end with Season 4 (I do) it wraps up nicely.
That said, B5 is unusual because networks don't offer 5-year contracts. B5 was always a fight, jumping between networks, etc.
YouTube could concievably offer a 5-year contract (perhaps with a ratings requirement) because they're not a traditional network.
So, this should get better over time. Meanwhile I can't imagine going back to being a TV watcher, but I did love me some B5.
I built a desktop system for myself last June with an AMD 'APU' in it. At the time people were talking August for ATI's open source reveal, so I put my old nVidia card in it. It's still there, obviously.
Assuming these parts went to fab before I could buy them, this puts ATI's lead time on open source drivers for new chips at about a year. That's probably 1/3 the useful life of the part. Hopefully for the last 2/3rds I'll be able to take advantage of that power savings.
Serious question: how do they test these chips? Are they really using Windows drivers in the development lab? That seems unnecessarily hard.
I pay for it, not because I can't get around the paywall, but because they provide a product I think is worth the money.
Hey, man, you're ruining this thread's neocommunist vibe.
I see the cognitive dissonance is high.
The only real choices we have are in each individual decision we make every day, to do the right thing or the wrong thing. Everything else is speculation and guesswork.
Committing a carrier suicide for NO impact whatsoever
Or you may be seen as a brave leader.
.I only ever launched one 3 stage D engine rocket. Never saw the top stage light. Only found a fin. Barely found the second stage.
Oh, I forgot to write that this was my problem. They all had multiple D engines in them. If I had stuck with the smaller ones (or perhaps lived on the Great Plains) it would have been much more rewarding!
A lot of it probably came from her father, who I sincerely believe thought that I was literally unemployed.
There's one of those old-time postcards going around Facebook that says, "No woman will ever be truly happy because there's no such thing as a chocolate penis that ejaculates money."
Unmarried men can't understand it.
Well, if you're not refereeing anymore, you're not breaching any etiquette...
And also that the rules of that system have lead to the present day. Revolutions are messy.
But if your voluntary compliance rate were high enough then the costs of making it compulsory would simply be a net-loss.
It's compulsory because the voluntary compliance rate isn't high enough, so a compulsory system is evidence itself that not enough people value the system to make it work.
Unfortunately there are some Elsevier journals that are hard to replace/do without.
And these tiny research communities don't have online focus points?
Forgot to mention, I did in fact decide to send it to a different journal because of Elsevier. If the other publisher rejects it, it will have to go to Elsevier.
You don't have to. You may chose to because you want certain benefits that will come from doing so, but don't pretend that it's not your choice.
Boycots are usually inconvenient and often require personal sacrifice.
There IS no way out for me at the moment. I have to play the sick game of the publishers.
Sure there is - you could chose to do what you know to be the right thing. But the rewards would be less for doing so, so you tell youself it's not an option.
If they recognize it as necessary then it doesn't need to be compulsory. If it's not compulsory, it's not government, it's a business.
I do my work from home some days with a VNC connection to work. It runs about 1.2Mbps when I'm busy (6-meg DSL).
I see almost no reason why a home user should want to have a local hard drive, except perhaps to cache media files until the upload is done (in the background, and seamless working through the cache until the upload is done, of course).
Give it a couple years and Google will offer free computers with free Internet connections in exchange for usage tracking. 70% of the population will take them up on that deal. Unless Amazon gets there first.
All that said, there's going to be a huge need for storage on the backend.
worker friendly means something entirely different in the US versus China
And then, what if the factory worker is a former subsistence farmer who is really glad to have that factory job and never wants to go back to farming? I know, we're not allowed to talk about farming being a grueling high-death-rate job (among both farmers and their children) because we like to eat...
Some people think we can legislate a world where everybody has a top-flight job. It'll come, but not in our lifetimes. The worst thing we can do is stop this progress becasuse it's 'merely progress' and not the final state.
I'm pretty sure some of the 3 stage Estes rockets can go supersonic on 2 Ds and a C. They lose their fins when they do though. I never did find anything but one of the fins.
I got bored with model rocketry after my first three rockets were one-shot flights, never to be found again. I wonder if this explains why. How soon do they go supersonic? I was able to at least see that mine went straight up until my eye couldn't resolve them anymore. If they went supersonic, they'd start to tumble, right?
I never saw a parachute, but didn't hear any explosions either.
We're stuck at Mach-0.85 until another government decides to underwrite the development costs
Go tell DARPA it would make a super-stealthy spy plane. Come back in 2030 for your NY to New Delhi 6-hour flight.
Don't try dropping a new kernel source tar-ball onto RH Enterprise Server, Fedora, or even Ubunto -- it will break your system, and your $$$$ support agreement.
Are you aware of why people buy Redhat support agreements? If so, do you think Redhat could offer such agreements for the same kind of money if they supported every possible software version combination? Do you think buying into Redhat's system in involuntary?
As far as Fedora, the 3.3 packages are already built for 17 and 18; 16 should be along in a day or two. But if you're impatient odds are very good that you can rebuild the 17 package on 16 with a simple 'rpmbuild --rebuild' command, and install it with 'rpm -i kernel-foo....'. Fedora folks care about engineering, so if something doesn't work as it should, they want to know about it - you won't hear them using "it's not supported" as an excuse.
But, hey, I used to run Slackware too - it was my favorite distro on the InfoMagic set.
ZFS has no support for resizing or restriping it's RAID pools, or shrinking the storage units.
Not entirely true - if you replace all of the devices in a pool with larger ones (one or two at a time depending on your pool) when all of the devices are of a larger size, ZFS will automatically expand the pool.
So, if you have a pool of 7 1TB drives, say with 4.5 TB of usable storage and you replace them with 7 2TB drives, when the last one is done rebuilding you'll have 9TB of usable storage without doing anything more as an admin.
Remember also that ZFS dynamically allocates filesystem storage out of a pool, so the need to shrink filesystems is much less relevant than with LVM and ext*/xfs. I'm sure there are cases where it could be handy, but I've personally never run into one in the 4 years I've been running ZFS systems.
Just a note on running the cerowrt distribution (where the bufferbloat research is implemented) - you need to run a wndr-3700v2 (I've been consistently successful getting v2 refurbished units) but now that the wndr-3700v3 is out, that doesn't work with cerowrt - you'll need the wndr-3800 if you're buying new (I haven't seen 3800's available as refurb yet).
It closely parallels the WRT-54G and then WRT-54GL situation (without Netgear having learned from the headaches Linksys caused us with that one). The wndr-3[7,8]00 does appear to be the heir apparent to the 54G series, though. I'm happy I bought mine.
Engineers have been considering approaches like this for ages. It's good to see it being put into practice.
Except it's being done sorta backwards here. I used to work at a hospital that took street water (about 45 degrees, IIRC) and ran it through the data center, then sent it out to the hospital to use for tap water at about 48 degrees. After all, it's just a long pipe as far as the water is concerned.
A city water supply would be a tremendous heat sink. If we assume that a fair amount of it is going to be heated anway, it's a net energy savings for the community too.
This idea stinks.
Not if you're the incumbent the startup is about to compete against. Cui bono.
There's no such thing as uninsured here. AND, my small business pays less per employee on the extra taxes than on the premiums we might pay in the USA.
Canada's unique ratio of oil revenues to population makes the books balance nicely.
But, I don't need my government to work out an arrangement for me - I need them to stop unconstitutionally interfering in the right of private contract and I'll be all set.
Seeing what statistically significant humans think is highlight-worthy is incredibly depressing
Sample bias.
The only thing we know for sure is that child-murder-curious readers tend to highlight things on Kindles.
then I as a customer have the right not to choose their service, simple as that.
And that's exactly the correct response if you don't like these terms. Personally, I like that the courts are excluded from my agreement with Netflix - there's a complication I can't fathom ever being worthwhile.