It might also be more efficient to use chilled water in pipes to cool the servers directly rather than chilling air and blowing that around a big building.
Especially when it's free. I used to work at a medical center with a big data center. Cold city water was run first to the data center, heat-pumped to a cold-air Liebert, and then the slightly-warmer water was piped on to all the places where cold water is used. A degree or two warmer is quite fine at the tap.
Smart downtown-City data centers would work a deal with the city to do the same thing and stop paying for coal-generated electricity. Maybe the next crop of data centers should be build next to the water treatment plants.
Sure, violence and killing people is all okay, but when it's about natural human function like sex it's all bad and must be hidden
Showing the death of a person on TV by him getting his head fucking blown off is judged acceptable, but showing the creation of a person, which may involve some getting off, getting head, or most certainly some fucking is judged too horrific.
If that's not a symptom of a patriarchical war-tribe, I don't know what is. Part of fixing society is going to require the disassembly of the patriarchy. This has _very_ deep roots. Going all the way to matriarchy isn't required, but balance is.
Prosecutors aren't obliged to prosecute, and juries aren't obliged to convict. That they ignore this discretion and convict anyway is a reflect of the authoritarian streak in American culture.
I had to sit through a jury-duty session last year or face being caged like a wild animal by the State of NH. We had to watch a video which explicitly says that the jury has to follow all directions of the judge. I was dismissed from each case because I told the judge that I would not follow his orders if they were in conflict with the NH Bill of Rights. I offered a handful of US Supreme Court decisions lauding jury nullification as my rationale.
Except in OrwellWorld(TM), "obey or be prosecuted" is not "voluntary".
The US Government claims that filing taxes is voluntary under the same argument. You don't have to file taxes, you can chose to go to jail or have your babies shot instead.
If this is being implemented properly, everything is rigorously documented, stored centrally, backed up and moved to several other countries every night.
If China or any other government does a hulksmash, then they lose that facility. They start another one elsewhere. Meanwhile, the cost savings are immense due to far lower taxation and regulation. Take that delta from doing the research on 128 and build a contingency fund or simply find an insurance policy to cover the eventuality. The business decision becomes if they can afford the time to re-build the lab or not. If yes, then it's simply a cost issue.
Government shopping is an inevitable consequence of globalization. If fortune's smiling, that will force governments to compete on costs by decreasing taxation and regulation. Corporate subsidies necessarily increase the cost of doing business through passed-on taxation, though the time-delay component may allow smart corporations to surf the 'most-favorable' wave around the globe in front of it.
For the most part, if you want to legitimately download/stream a popular bit of mass culture from/through the Internet, you pretty much can.
What other purchases are required?
I can use Hulu and I have Netflix via Roku, and lots of current releases aren't available. I have to use the mail service for them which has nasty latency.
Curing a cancer would be pretty easy: throw enough researchers and resources at one patient's specific tumour and we'll come up with a damn fine treatment. But curing all cancers -- different tumours arising from different tissues in different patients -- is seriously hard. We'll see fantastic advances in treating specific cancer types, but I seriously doubt that "a cure for cancer" is possible within our lifetimes. Although, heh, if you prove me wrong I won't be too upset:).
Yeah, an oncologist once told me that 'cancer' is about 300 different diseases all lumped into one speciality. A Slashdot regular has posted before about his company's technology which can addresses some of these on demand.
It seems at this point to be a highly methodical process - eliminating one at a time until we have them all. Your scenario actually seems like the prudent thing to do.
I had a friend tell me once that oil/gas pipelines are beneficial to tundra wildlife because they get a warm place to cozy up to. Seriously. No thought whatsoever about how climate change will affect their habitats, or about how wildlife could starve to death as a result. I suppose it was all good in his head because moose get a free campfire out of the deal before they die.
You'll want to research the story of the reindeer and the Alaskan oil pipeline.
Not a fan of fossil fuels, but the government prevents anything else.
No, the above won't cover every situation, but it's a pretty good start.
You say those as if Microsoft isn't aware of the problems with their design decisions. They by-and-large don't bear the costs of their poor security but would bear additional costs if people had to learn new ways of interacting with files (support costs, engineering, etc.).
So far they're right - their market position hasn't been adversely affected by the malware crapfest they've foisted onto their users. A cookie for he who figures out how to internalize what are currently their externalities.
Punting the problem to an "external verifier" is pretty neat. I wish I could do that with my next hard problem.
It may be worth doing right. Look for malware from a hypervisor (memory, disk, network, etc.). Running this all inside the insecure machine is just asking for trouble, though, but is the best currently available. But even today there are cpu's shipping without virt support, so this can't be done for every machine yet or for a while. Still, I think many would spend the extra $50 if it worked well.
I wonder if it was for the half-track nonsense some of the duplication houses used. If you can read two tracks into memory, any half-track interference can be calculated and then you have three tracks in memory (15K-ish) and can write out the two real tracks that a normal 1541 will be reading.
It sounds like we're on at least immediately adjacent pages.
The kind of human space flight we're capable of now is the kind that can and should be handled by private industry.
I hadn't seen any indication that even the heaviest private-lift vehicles will have the capability to achieve lunar orbit, nor that there was a commercial market for it, but perhaps I'm just missing information. We are going to need to get lots of earth-manufactured stuff there to bootstrap the process.
We certainly don't need Apollo missions now, but when it comes time to deliver two hundred loads of material to the Moon it sure seems like having humans onsite to deal with the unexpected would be a worthwhile fallback plan. I guess I'm not confident the robotics can handle all the unforeseen circumstances effectively.
Then again, given enough time and trial-and-error testing it may very well be possible. Here I'm commenting rather uselessly on a project by knowing the schedule or budget. If we have thirty years this is all much different than if we have fifteen.
Designing such a thing costs a lot, and they're not selling in numbers as huge as netbook hardware, because, well, everyone wants a netbook, but most people sure as hell don't need or want a hearing aid if they still hear just fine.
How many units per year would be required to see the price curve deflect downward?
I thought the sales numbers were in the millions per year.
First, it's a medical device, not a commodity consumer item like a netbook, so its manufacturer must prove both its safety and effectiveness, with independent tests, before it can be licensed for sale by the FDA in the U.S., or the corresponding medical regulatory authority in other countries. That process is time consuming, and expensive. Those costs must be paid for, and are reflected in the price.
That's all precisely true, but another factor to consider is that this increases the barrier to entry for competitors and favors large entrenched vendors. By the government breaking competition vendors are permitted to charge a premium over what a free market would charge.
This isn't surprising - regulation always favors the incumbents and thus they support it.
With independent lab testing available, this kind of regulation isn't really necessary in this class device.
It's a just revenge on the fucking idiots with thumpy car stereos, I tell you.
Those actually aren't that loud in the car. The bass waves are too long to get to peak inside the short length of the car so they have to be proportionally louder to sound the right level inside the car.
Of course, on the outside you're hearing the wave past several fully realized peaks, so you hear it at full volume (inverse square falloff applying, of course).
The limit on how things sound is based on how densely they can pack the electrodes on the implant. Each electrode corresponds to a frequency, so the world sounds a bit like it's on autotune.
Nice, two things I wondered about these summed up in two consecutive sentences, thanks!
I would have thought the electrode problem solved by now with silicon processes - any idea why things like this (first one I found on a google search) wouldn't work for a large frequency range?
If you want true freedom of code, you need to accept using code in a way you don't accept with. Otherwise it's not really freedom, is it?
There's an interplay between economics and various freedoms here. In the BSD case, individual freedom is maximized. The developer can take the code, make proprietary incompatible changes to, say, a network protocol, and then put the product on the market.
The community will then likely need to reverse-engineer that change, and make special case enhancements to the code, get them wrong, test them, etc., especially if the developer is a big software development house and interoperability is expected. This happens - it's a practical reality, because in theory they could just refuse to work with BigVendorSoft's changes.
If the software were instead GPL'ed then all that time spent reversing would be available for actual improvements. So, this is an opportunity cost problem, and restricts the freedoms of the community to advance.
GPL tends to maximize for community freedom, BSD tends to maximize for individual freedom. Both are appropriate.
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It might also be more efficient to use chilled water in pipes to cool the servers directly rather than chilling air and blowing that around a big building.
Especially when it's free. I used to work at a medical center with a big data center. Cold city water was run first to the data center, heat-pumped to a cold-air Liebert, and then the slightly-warmer water was piped on to all the places where cold water is used. A degree or two warmer is quite fine at the tap.
Smart downtown-City data centers would work a deal with the city to do the same thing and stop paying for coal-generated electricity. Maybe the next crop of data centers should be build next to the water treatment plants.
This kind of "green" will be of the "backs" kind.
Sure, violence and killing people is all okay, but when it's about natural human function like sex it's all bad and must be hidden
Showing the death of a person on TV by him getting his head fucking blown off is judged acceptable, but showing the creation of a person, which may involve some getting off, getting head, or most certainly some fucking is judged too horrific.
If that's not a symptom of a patriarchical war-tribe, I don't know what is. Part of fixing society is going to require the disassembly of the patriarchy. This has _very_ deep roots. Going all the way to matriarchy isn't required, but balance is.
Prosecutors aren't obliged to prosecute, and juries aren't obliged to convict. That they ignore this discretion and convict anyway is a reflect of the authoritarian streak in American culture.
I had to sit through a jury-duty session last year or face being caged like a wild animal by the State of NH. We had to watch a video which explicitly says that the jury has to follow all directions of the judge. I was dismissed from each case because I told the judge that I would not follow his orders if they were in conflict with the NH Bill of Rights. I offered a handful of US Supreme Court decisions lauding jury nullification as my rationale.
Potential jurors will want to visit the Fully Informed Jury Association website before their conscription.
Except in OrwellWorld(TM), "obey or be prosecuted" is not "voluntary".
The US Government claims that filing taxes is voluntary under the same argument. You don't have to file taxes, you can chose to go to jail or have your babies shot instead.
Which size it appears to be would be be random with some probability.
So, say you put a video sensor and a heat-isolated light source inside the chamber - what does it record?
their research & assets seized by the government
If this is being implemented properly, everything is rigorously documented, stored centrally, backed up and moved to several other countries every night.
If China or any other government does a hulksmash, then they lose that facility. They start another one elsewhere. Meanwhile, the cost savings are immense due to far lower taxation and regulation. Take that delta from doing the research on 128 and build a contingency fund or simply find an insurance policy to cover the eventuality. The business decision becomes if they can afford the time to re-build the lab or not. If yes, then it's simply a cost issue.
Government shopping is an inevitable consequence of globalization. If fortune's smiling, that will force governments to compete on costs by decreasing taxation and regulation. Corporate subsidies necessarily increase the cost of doing business through passed-on taxation, though the time-delay component may allow smart corporations to surf the 'most-favorable' wave around the globe in front of it.
Thanks but no thanks.
Wait, aren't we supposed to be complaining that Hollywood is always remaking stuff, and that they should be coming up with original stories instead?
Then again, I saw Jackson's District 9. If it was supposed to be a bad spoof movie, I guess it succeeded.
For the most part, if you want to legitimately download/stream a popular bit of mass culture from/through the Internet, you pretty much can.
What other purchases are required?
I can use Hulu and I have Netflix via Roku, and lots of current releases aren't available. I have to use the mail service for them which has nasty latency.
I guarantee you that if someone did some digging they'd find serious collusion with Blockbuster and the MPAA over Redbox
It's OK, Blockbuster is on the verge of bankruptcy.
So, in effect, there is a monopoly artificially maintaining high prices.
In this case that seems to be good. They were in R&D burning untold VC rounds for what, a decade before they had a commercial product on the market?
I can't see how we'd be having this conversation if the technology went straight to commoditization, though I'd be happy to know of better models.
That is where Adobe went wrong, they should have used double-ROT13.
Heh, Sklyarov could have claimed that he was merely encrypting the files a second time. :)
Curing a cancer would be pretty easy: throw enough researchers and resources at one patient's specific tumour and we'll come up with a damn fine treatment. But curing all cancers -- different tumours arising from different tissues in different patients -- is seriously hard. We'll see fantastic advances in treating specific cancer types, but I seriously doubt that "a cure for cancer" is possible within our lifetimes. Although, heh, if you prove me wrong I won't be too upset :).
Yeah, an oncologist once told me that 'cancer' is about 300 different diseases all lumped into one speciality.
A Slashdot regular has posted before about his company's technology which can addresses some of these on demand.
It seems at this point to be a highly methodical process - eliminating one at a time until we have them all. Your scenario actually seems like the prudent thing to do.
china makes shit
Hundreds of millions of Wal-Mart shoppers can't be wrong.
Depends if you put the accent on the second or third word.
I had a friend tell me once that oil/gas pipelines are beneficial to tundra wildlife because they get a warm place to cozy up to. Seriously. No thought whatsoever about how climate change will affect their habitats, or about how wildlife could starve to death as a result. I suppose it was all good in his head because moose get a free campfire out of the deal before they die.
You'll want to research the story of the reindeer and the Alaskan oil pipeline.
Not a fan of fossil fuels, but the government prevents anything else.
No, the above won't cover every situation, but it's a pretty good start.
You say those as if Microsoft isn't aware of the problems with their design decisions. They by-and-large don't bear the costs of their poor security but would bear additional costs if people had to learn new ways of interacting with files (support costs, engineering, etc.).
So far they're right - their market position hasn't been adversely affected by the malware crapfest they've foisted onto their users. A cookie for he who figures out how to internalize what are currently their externalities.
Punting the problem to an "external verifier" is pretty neat. I wish I could do that with my next hard problem.
It may be worth doing right. Look for malware from a hypervisor (memory, disk, network, etc.). Running this all inside the insecure machine is just asking for trouble, though, but is the best currently available. But even today there are cpu's shipping without virt support, so this can't be done for every machine yet or for a while. Still, I think many would spend the extra $50 if it worked well.
I wonder if it was for the half-track nonsense some of the duplication houses used. If you can read two tracks into memory, any half-track interference can be calculated and then you have three tracks in memory (15K-ish) and can write out the two real tracks that a normal 1541 will be reading.
Maybe. Mike J. Henry would know. :)
by the Fast Hack'em guys
Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time, a long time.
and a 16K RAM chip soldered into the drive would do it.
Ah, OK, so they needed to buffer for some reason, at least two, maybe 3 tracks' worth of data. That's a clue, anyway.
It sounds like we're on at least immediately adjacent pages.
The kind of human space flight we're capable of now is the kind that can and should be handled by private industry.
I hadn't seen any indication that even the heaviest private-lift vehicles will have the capability to achieve lunar orbit, nor that there was a commercial market for it, but perhaps I'm just missing information. We are going to need to get lots of earth-manufactured stuff there to bootstrap the process.
We certainly don't need Apollo missions now, but when it comes time to deliver two hundred loads of material to the Moon it sure seems like having humans onsite to deal with the unexpected would be a worthwhile fallback plan. I guess I'm not confident the robotics can handle all the unforeseen circumstances effectively.
Then again, given enough time and trial-and-error testing it may very well be possible. Here I'm commenting rather uselessly on a project by knowing the schedule or budget. If we have thirty years this is all much different than if we have fifteen.
Designing such a thing costs a lot, and they're not selling in numbers as huge as netbook hardware, because, well, everyone wants a netbook, but most people sure as hell don't need or want a hearing aid if they still hear just fine.
How many units per year would be required to see the price curve deflect downward?
I thought the sales numbers were in the millions per year.
First, it's a medical device, not a commodity consumer item like a netbook, so its manufacturer must prove both its safety and effectiveness, with independent tests, before it can be licensed for sale by the FDA in the U.S., or the corresponding medical regulatory authority in other countries. That process is time consuming, and expensive. Those costs must be paid for, and are reflected in the price.
That's all precisely true, but another factor to consider is that this increases the barrier to entry for competitors and favors large entrenched vendors. By the government breaking competition vendors are permitted to charge a premium over what a free market would charge.
This isn't surprising - regulation always favors the incumbents and thus they support it.
With independent lab testing available, this kind of regulation isn't really necessary in this class device.
It's a just revenge on the fucking idiots with thumpy car stereos, I tell you.
Those actually aren't that loud in the car. The bass waves are too long to get to peak inside the short length of the car so they have to be proportionally louder to sound the right level inside the car.
Of course, on the outside you're hearing the wave past several fully realized peaks, so you hear it at full volume (inverse square falloff applying, of course).
What was the cost to the insurance company?
The limit on how things sound is based on how densely they can pack the electrodes on the implant. Each electrode corresponds to a frequency, so the world sounds a bit like it's on autotune.
Nice, two things I wondered about these summed up in two consecutive sentences, thanks!
I would have thought the electrode problem solved by now with silicon processes - any idea why things like this (first one I found on a google search) wouldn't work for a large frequency range?
If you want true freedom of code, you need to accept using code in a way you don't accept with. Otherwise it's not really freedom, is it?
There's an interplay between economics and various freedoms here. In the BSD case, individual freedom is maximized. The developer can take the code, make proprietary incompatible changes to, say, a network protocol, and then put the product on the market.
The community will then likely need to reverse-engineer that change, and make special case enhancements to the code, get them wrong, test them, etc., especially if the developer is a big software development house and interoperability is expected. This happens - it's a practical reality, because in theory they could just refuse to work with BigVendorSoft's changes.
If the software were instead GPL'ed then all that time spent reversing would be available for actual improvements. So, this is an opportunity cost problem, and restricts the freedoms of the community to advance.
GPL tends to maximize for community freedom, BSD tends to maximize for individual freedom. Both are appropriate.