Because Governments and Corporations have demonstrated themselves to incompetent in the management of private and / or sensitive data. Moreover they have shown a callous disregard towards the negative consequences borne by consumers & citizens in events of identity fraud that the security breaches enable..
Additionally surprising methods have been demonstrated which tease identities out of what was thought to be anonymous data.
Also just because be some ass hasn't figured out something annoying or illegal to do with such data now, doesn't mean that when faced with a flood of it they won't ( does this qualify as slippery slope? Perhaps it does...)
Moving on to the slippery slope: Both governments & corporations have demonstrated a complete inability to not seek other uses for data once they have it... even if those uses are unethical, illegal, or unconstitutional. They simply can't resist the temptations of Assholerly.
And for what it's worth. This idea was on the cover of Scientific American at least 15 years ago.
I own tens of thousands of books. I love books... everything about books. Having said all of that, I also find myself pining for the next version of iRex Iliad (the current version being oh so close to compelling) and I find myself listening to more and more spoken word audio content. I have completely replaced broadcast radio with serialized Podcast presentations from NPR, BBC, APM, and variety of other producers. I have found the internet awash with audio presentations of older books, scholarly lectures, current technical news, and political science, news & opinion.
I still subscribe to a few paper magazines (Nature, Science & Analog) and I still buy paper books. But I am not so interested in buying new books about computers, technology, or those awfully expensive books from the likes of CRC which are in my scientific discipline.
Professionally my main product is paper. I write designs of experiment, investigation reports, details of design, summary of design, lists of essential requirements, test results, service & users manuals... all of which wind up both as a digital copy and as a paper copy. My office is dominated by bookshelves and binders. Using my laptop to bring a digital copy of these documents to meetings has proven to be unsatisfactory. Bringing the paper copy is pain in the ass. The idea of having a wirelessly capable eBook which allows me to markup local copies of archival documents is really, really interesting.
So I'll disagree with your assertions but I'll keep all my books.
There's much to like about the Intel Atom, writes Williston in EETimes. Yet, he suggests, the media and its readers may have been overwhelmed by the hype machine. Williston offers the following responses to typical arguments from the atomic power lobbyists, at times quoting analysts such as Forward Concepts's Will Strauss to back him up: Atom will beat ARM because it can run Vista. -- No it can't, says Williston. Atom can run Windows CE and Linux, but ARM can do the same.
Only Atom offers a "real" Internet experience with Flash video, YouTube, etc. -- "Wrong," writes Williston, pointing to ARM Flash players from BSquare, and an ARM-based YouTube decoder from On2. He might also have noted that Nokia's ARM- and Linux-based Internet tablets use a Mozilla-based browser, with plugins for Flash, Windows Media files, and even Microsoft's Flash-like Silverlight technology.
Intel dominates every market it enters. Here, the writer refers the reader to the history books, especially two years ago when Intel sold its PXA line of embedded processors to Marvell after failing to dominate the market for ARM-based SoCs.
Atom will win because ARM is proprietary technology. Nope, he writes. ARM chips are available from a number of semiconductor vendors.
Intel will win on cost. Not likely, he writes. Using a 65nm process, the Cortex-A8 occupies less than 3mm x 3mm, he notes, while the Atom core probably takes up about 9mm x 9mm of Atom's 25mm x 25mm die size, despite its smaller 45nm process. "With such a huge area disadvantage, it's hard to see how Intel will win on cost," he writes.
Intel will win on power. Once again, not likely, he argues. Intel quotes a thermal design power (TDP) of 0.6W to 2W for Atom, he writes, but doesn't specify clock speeds. ARM offers only "typical" power measurements, making comparison difficult. But at best, he suggests, Intel matches ARM on power usage, while "in most scenarios, Atom burns more power."
Intel will win because it has the most advanced fabs. Perhaps, he writes, but who cares? "Consumers focus on cost, power and speed," he writes.
OK I confess I don't really pay attention to Flash and I thought that Silverlight was a competitor to Flash. But now there seams to be a legion of competing software development platforms that do things I didn't think people did with Flash. So if Flash is for making things like that "Badger, Badger, Badger, Snake!" Animation (the last thing I remember seeing in Flash). Is Silverlight another animation application? And how are all of these things related to Adobe's Flex and Air?
From reading the PDF I have the impression it applies to both multi-cores and multi-processors. I don't know how it applies to hyper-threading (or whatever they're calling it these days) though... which I suppose will become interesting again in a few months when Intel releases the CPUs that support 2 threads per core. Or, are those out now?? There are so many different Intel CPUs out now I can't keep up with them.
I'm been slightly interested in mesh add hock wireless networking for a while now. I'd like to see some combination of wireless access point in Wifi & WiMax with some sort of Bittorrent management / bridging function. If you could put this in a box like what OpenWRT runs on and sell it for less that 100 it would be great. Living in a college town I'm convinced those kids are sharing petabytes of Porn, Pop & House music, and cheesy serial television shows from Hollywood. Having all that sharing pushed off the wired net I pay my ISP for on to a wireless grey market mesh network would free the wired network up... for my *legitimate* traffic of Blues & Classical music, and David Attenborough documentaries... then perhaps I could finish seeding my fair share of "Life in Cold Blood".
My sole interest in Windows is a virtual installation I occasionally use on my Mac. Currently I'm using a very small XP Lite with all the updates slipstreamed in which I got off the pirate bay. Yes I do have an old license for XP but I have no idea where the disk is. Anyway this tiny XP is great version and I think works very well as a 'guest' OS.
I have those as well. However, when I was 8 computers were gigantic things hidden away in big businesses or government facilities. My treatment recollections include odd stereograms, tactile & balance exercises, and being spun *a lot*. To this day I remember the odor of the hammock machination thing and the room they used to spin me in. Being exposed to anything similar makes me ill. Really, Really ill.
The highest efficiency mains to the various DC voltages needed for a PC power supply I could find is from a company called N2Power. These power supplies do not come with a wiring harness of any sort. However they do have a something like a 94% efficiency rating. I find this more compelling than 80 Plus standard you see in ATX power supplies on the market today. As I said, I'm not so enthused to make my own wiring harness. However, after reading the poor reviews of many companies' power supplies, I'm probably wind up doing just that. I already have two supplies I'm using for other projects and I'm really happy with them.
Good point. Also makes wonder if there isn't some Website for a company that will build a custom wiring harness for a PC to order.
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My family runs a foundation which I work for part time. As part of that work I have helped construct and outfit some clinics in a few mining towns. Two that stick out in my mind are in Peru and in Namibia. Without being there, seeing it, and treating the people who live in the surrounding areas I don't think most westerners can even imagine the extent of damage mining really does.
I'm interested in buying energy efficient products and ecologically sound products and I am just getting to the point where I am wanting to update the server in my studio.
After doing a bit a research I have concluded that I will hold off until the summer. I am not a big fan of VIA and I'm sure that their processors aren't capable enough for my particular needs. The new CPUs from Intel have better performance per watt (or what ever metric you chose to use) than the older ones but they haven't released the Low Voltage Dual Core UP Xeon I'm interested in yet (Xeon L5250). The new Intel Socket 775 / 3200 chipset motherboards consume less power than the older ones, however the upcoming Intel chipsets are supposed to be much better in this regard. System memory is still problematic though, I understand FB-DIMMs consume a lot of power. I had fingered the Samsung Spinpoint F1 as a good choice for an energy efficient hard drive.
I am completely under-whelmed by 80+ ATX power supplies and I'd like to find a power supply which reached better than 90%. I did find a company N2Power that does make such things but they do not have an offering which includes a wiring harness. Making a wiring harness does not really fill me with wild enthusiasm though...
If the past is any indication of the capability of Operating Systems to rapidly take advantage of new power saving techniques available in hardware, these new ones will be an abysmal failure. However, my studio isn't a 24 hour a day operation so being able to power down the main RAID and under-clock the system bus & CPU is a very important thing to me. I'm not completely sure how to overcome this little annoyance.
I know none of these ideas touch on buying ecological sustainable products or ethically traded products. Frankly it's hard enough trying to come up with power efficient parts... I fear that the only truly ecological sustainable & ethically traded product would be an abacus and I have my doubts about that.
These studies only apply to 1st & 2nd generation biofuel efforts. No one outside the United States is seriously pursuing them now. In fact the Germans have a pilot algae CO2 capture facility attached to a coal burning power plant that could safely be called 5th generation. No cutting down rainforests for the land and it's capturing nearly 80% of CO2 coming out of the plant during the day. Growth rates are hugely increased and they have an output of both BioDiesel, Ethanol.
The EU has has already moved away from oil sources from former rain-forested lands and begun a series of next generation BioDiesel & SynGas plants which look very promising I'm not sure why the US is so stuck on Ethanol from corn sugars.
Would you call yourself technically adept? Would you say you are socially liberal or socially conservative? Is there a political ideology which resonates with you or your priorities? If you've found one which is it? Do you adhere to a religion? If so which one?
Have you studied many different perspectives in order to acquire these ideologies or are these those you grew up with? (Those of your parents and community)
I've maintained 2 driver's licenses for years because of troubles using passports as an ID and using my non-US driver's license in the US. One policeman in Tennessee detained me for using a "fake license" in 2001.
As a side benefit my personal data in databases within the US is extremely inconsistent. As I'll use any convenient address or data when I fill out whatever form I'm using. I do the same thing with the bank accounts I maintain within the US.
Having said all of that in my opinion the majority of US government is grossly incompetent and they have no business having access to my personal data. Just because I haven't figured out some cataclysmically stupid and devastating thing to do with my own personal data does not mean that some ass in government can't come with something (which would invariably be worse).
If they spent all this time & money understanding what about American society creates many addicts we'd be done already. Limiting purchases of cold medicine is just drug war theater
I hasten to add that Pescadero does not mean Phoenix or Firebird or Firefox in any language that I am aware of. I'm pretty sure Pescadero means 'fisherman' in Spanish or Portuguese. However the link, from the 0.1 build, is permanently forged in my brain and thus pops up when I think Phoenix... which is what I was thinking when I was thinking Linux Distros for a SCO UNIX replacement.
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Because Governments and Corporations have demonstrated themselves to incompetent in the management of private and / or sensitive data. Moreover they have shown a callous disregard towards the negative consequences borne by consumers & citizens in events of identity fraud that the security breaches enable..
Additionally surprising methods have been demonstrated which tease identities out of what was thought to be anonymous data.
Also just because be some ass hasn't figured out something annoying or illegal to do with such data now, doesn't mean that when faced with a flood of it they won't ( does this qualify as slippery slope? Perhaps it does...)
Moving on to the slippery slope: Both governments & corporations have demonstrated a complete inability to not seek other uses for data once they have it... even if those uses are unethical, illegal, or unconstitutional. They simply can't resist the temptations of Assholerly.
And for what it's worth. This idea was on the cover of Scientific American at least 15 years ago.
I own tens of thousands of books. I love books... everything about books. Having said all of that, I also find myself pining for the next version of iRex Iliad (the current version being oh so close to compelling) and I find myself listening to more and more spoken word audio content. I have completely replaced broadcast radio with serialized Podcast presentations from NPR, BBC, APM, and variety of other producers. I have found the internet awash with audio presentations of older books, scholarly lectures, current technical news, and political science, news & opinion.
I still subscribe to a few paper magazines (Nature, Science & Analog) and I still buy paper books. But I am not so interested in buying new books about computers, technology, or those awfully expensive books from the likes of CRC which are in my scientific discipline.
Professionally my main product is paper. I write designs of experiment, investigation reports, details of design, summary of design, lists of essential requirements, test results, service & users manuals... all of which wind up both as a digital copy and as a paper copy. My office is dominated by bookshelves and binders. Using my laptop to bring a digital copy of these documents to meetings has proven to be unsatisfactory. Bringing the paper copy is pain in the ass. The idea of having a wirelessly capable eBook which allows me to markup local copies of archival documents is really, really interesting.
So I'll disagree with your assertions but I'll keep all my books.
No. It's being suckered by Assholerly and Cynicism
Isn't that chips with X86 instruction sets? Wonder why they never ventured into some of the alternates... SPARC, Power, PowerPC, or ARM...
From Linux Devices: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5492118276.html
ARM vs. Atom
There's much to like about the Intel Atom, writes Williston in EETimes. Yet, he suggests, the media and its readers may have been overwhelmed by the hype machine. Williston offers the following responses to typical arguments from the atomic power lobbyists, at times quoting analysts such as Forward Concepts's Will Strauss to back him up:
Atom will beat ARM because it can run Vista. -- No it can't, says Williston. Atom can run Windows CE and Linux, but ARM can do the same.
Only Atom offers a "real" Internet experience with Flash video, YouTube, etc. -- "Wrong," writes Williston, pointing to ARM Flash players from BSquare, and an ARM-based YouTube decoder from On2. He might also have noted that Nokia's ARM- and Linux-based Internet tablets use a Mozilla-based browser, with plugins for Flash, Windows Media files, and even Microsoft's Flash-like Silverlight technology.
Intel dominates every market it enters. Here, the writer refers the reader to the history books, especially two years ago when Intel sold its PXA line of embedded processors to Marvell after failing to dominate the market for ARM-based SoCs.
Atom will win because ARM is proprietary technology. Nope, he writes. ARM chips are available from a number of semiconductor vendors.
Intel will win on cost. Not likely, he writes. Using a 65nm process, the Cortex-A8 occupies less than 3mm x 3mm, he notes, while the Atom core probably takes up about 9mm x 9mm of Atom's 25mm x 25mm die size, despite its smaller 45nm process. "With such a huge area disadvantage, it's hard to see how Intel will win on cost," he writes.
Intel will win on power. Once again, not likely, he argues. Intel quotes a thermal design power (TDP) of 0.6W to 2W for Atom, he writes, but doesn't specify clock speeds. ARM offers only "typical" power measurements, making comparison difficult. But at best, he suggests, Intel matches ARM on power usage, while "in most scenarios, Atom burns more power."
Intel will win because it has the most advanced fabs. Perhaps, he writes, but who cares? "Consumers focus on cost, power and speed," he writes.
OK I confess I don't really pay attention to Flash and I thought that Silverlight was a competitor to Flash. But now there seams to be a legion of competing software development platforms that do things I didn't think people did with Flash. So if Flash is for making things like that "Badger, Badger, Badger, Snake!" Animation (the last thing I remember seeing in Flash). Is Silverlight another animation application? And how are all of these things related to Adobe's Flex and Air?
From reading the PDF I have the impression it applies to both multi-cores and multi-processors. I don't know how it applies to hyper-threading (or whatever they're calling it these days) though... which I suppose will become interesting again in a few months when Intel releases the CPUs that support 2 threads per core. Or, are those out now?? There are so many different Intel CPUs out now I can't keep up with them.
I'm been slightly interested in mesh add hock wireless networking for a while now. I'd like to see some combination of wireless access point in Wifi & WiMax with some sort of Bittorrent management / bridging function. If you could put this in a box like what OpenWRT runs on and sell it for less that 100 it would be great. Living in a college town I'm convinced those kids are sharing petabytes of Porn, Pop & House music, and cheesy serial television shows from Hollywood. Having all that sharing pushed off the wired net I pay my ISP for on to a wireless grey market mesh network would free the wired network up... for my *legitimate* traffic of Blues & Classical music, and David Attenborough documentaries... then perhaps I could finish seeding my fair share of "Life in Cold Blood".
My sole interest in Windows is a virtual installation I occasionally use on my Mac. Currently I'm using a very small XP Lite with all the updates slipstreamed in which I got off the pirate bay. Yes I do have an old license for XP but I have no idea where the disk is. Anyway this tiny XP is great version and I think works very well as a 'guest' OS.
I have those as well. However, when I was 8 computers were gigantic things hidden away in big businesses or government facilities. My treatment recollections include odd stereograms, tactile & balance exercises, and being spun *a lot*. To this day I remember the odor of the hammock machination thing and the room they used to spin me in. Being exposed to anything similar makes me ill. Really, Really ill.
for #1 yes, for #2 NO.
Have a nice day.
The highest efficiency mains to the various DC voltages needed for a PC power supply I could find is from a company called N2Power. These power supplies do not come with a wiring harness of any sort. However they do have a something like a 94% efficiency rating. I find this more compelling than 80 Plus standard you see in ATX power supplies on the market today. As I said, I'm not so enthused to make my own wiring harness. However, after reading the poor reviews of many companies' power supplies, I'm probably wind up doing just that. I already have two supplies I'm using for other projects and I'm really happy with them.
Good point. Also makes wonder if there isn't some Website for a company that will build a custom wiring harness for a PC to order.
My family runs a foundation which I work for part time. As part of that work I have helped construct and outfit some clinics in a few mining towns. Two that stick out in my mind are in Peru and in Namibia. Without being there, seeing it, and treating the people who live in the surrounding areas I don't think most westerners can even imagine the extent of damage mining really does.
I'm interested in buying energy efficient products and ecologically sound products and I am just getting to the point where I am wanting to update the server in my studio.
After doing a bit a research I have concluded that I will hold off until the summer. I am not a big fan of VIA and I'm sure that their processors aren't capable enough for my particular needs. The new CPUs from Intel have better performance per watt (or what ever metric you chose to use) than the older ones but they haven't released the Low Voltage Dual Core UP Xeon I'm interested in yet (Xeon L5250). The new Intel Socket 775 / 3200 chipset motherboards consume less power than the older ones, however the upcoming Intel chipsets are supposed to be much better in this regard. System memory is still problematic though, I understand FB-DIMMs consume a lot of power. I had fingered the Samsung Spinpoint F1 as a good choice for an energy efficient hard drive.
I am completely under-whelmed by 80+ ATX power supplies and I'd like to find a power supply which reached better than 90%. I did find a company N2Power that does make such things but they do not have an offering which includes a wiring harness. Making a wiring harness does not really fill me with wild enthusiasm though...
If the past is any indication of the capability of Operating Systems to rapidly take advantage of new power saving techniques available in hardware, these new ones will be an abysmal failure. However, my studio isn't a 24 hour a day operation so being able to power down the main RAID and under-clock the system bus & CPU is a very important thing to me. I'm not completely sure how to overcome this little annoyance.
I know none of these ideas touch on buying ecological sustainable products or ethically traded products. Frankly it's hard enough trying to come up with power efficient parts... I fear that the only truly ecological sustainable & ethically traded product would be an abacus and I have my doubts about that.
I think you have confused the concepts of ethical and green. That and disable and disassemble.
Not that I wholly disagree with your sentiments.
and *that* is saying something.
No I fear the near leathal combination of a My Mini City movie with Rick Astley singing in the background.
Even if I have 'friended' you, there's no way I'm clicking on some link to a youtube video.
If I was planning to frame my ex?
Not only yes. But HELL YES.
These studies only apply to 1st & 2nd generation biofuel efforts. No one outside the United States is seriously pursuing them now. In fact the Germans have a pilot algae CO2 capture facility attached to a coal burning power plant that could safely be called 5th generation. No cutting down rainforests for the land and it's capturing nearly 80% of CO2 coming out of the plant during the day. Growth rates are hugely increased and they have an output of both BioDiesel, Ethanol.
The EU has has already moved away from oil sources from former rain-forested lands and begun a series of next generation BioDiesel & SynGas plants which look very promising I'm not sure why the US is so stuck on Ethanol from corn sugars.
Just out of curiosity:
Would you call yourself technically adept?
Would you say you are socially liberal or socially conservative?
Is there a political ideology which resonates with you or your priorities? If you've found one which is it?
Do you adhere to a religion? If so which one?
Have you studied many different perspectives in order to acquire these ideologies or are these those you grew up with? (Those of your parents and community)
No.
And not being a USian or a Comcast customer does not make you immune from having your internet traffic manipulated.
I've maintained 2 driver's licenses for years because of troubles using passports as an ID and using my non-US driver's license in the US. One policeman in Tennessee detained me for using a "fake license" in 2001.
As a side benefit my personal data in databases within the US is extremely inconsistent. As I'll use any convenient address or data when I fill out whatever form I'm using. I do the same thing with the bank accounts I maintain within the US.
Having said all of that in my opinion the majority of US government is grossly incompetent and they have no business having access to my personal data. Just because I haven't figured out some cataclysmically stupid and devastating thing to do with my own personal data does not mean that some ass in government can't come with something (which would invariably be worse).
If they spent all this time & money understanding what about American society creates many addicts we'd be done already. Limiting purchases of cold medicine is just drug war theater
Natch
I hasten to add that Pescadero does not mean Phoenix or Firebird or Firefox in any language that I am aware of. I'm pretty sure Pescadero means 'fisherman' in Spanish or Portuguese. However the link, from the 0.1 build, is permanently forged in my brain and thus pops up when I think Phoenix... which is what I was thinking when I was thinking Linux Distros for a SCO UNIX replacement.