Regardless of the reseller you get the "broadband" service from, they still have to lease telephone lines from BT OpenReach and a commercial fibre-optic internet link from a national service provider. The first problem is that the telephone lines can't be changed and the signal/noise ratio limits the maximum bandwidth. Then there is the number of customers sharing that trunk line.
But by law, your ISP is required to maintain a log of all Internet meta-data going back three years as part of the strategy against cybercrime. In turn these companies outsource this work to centralised providers.
There are variations like Waterfox. The problem is that there are a thousand different options. What someone considers tight security such as blocking the use of Javascript, or the automatic installation of plugins and scripts, someone else considers a restrictive feature that stops them from using ad-blockers or other security utilities.
The microfilm readers that my university had in the library weren't too different from a gaming monitor today. There was a little tray at the bottom under the middle of the screen. You put the microfilm sheet in there, then moved around a lever that slid that tray around so that the selected page was projected up into the screen.
Security software companies have always done this. Like Cisco that tried to change the web UI of their home routers from local PC based to "through a cloud account".
There is nothing worse that having customised the security settings of a DSL wifi-router to the highest possible, only to find "We performed a factory reset to upgrade the firmware. All your security settings have been reverted to the default settings".
It's interesting to note that CCleaner gets annoyed that it can't reset and clear the log files of other security applications.
I've also noticed that some firewall software would log various events like failed login attempts, but after an upgrade, they would no longer log these events.
They had this problem in medieval Europe. That was solved by an plague outbreaks. Then the shortage of workers gave the peasants the upper hand in demanding better working conditions. If they weren't treated with respect they would simply leave the landowner and go elsewhere.
Building campuses, offices and business parks brings in tax revenue. Building family homes costs tax revenue for schools, community hospitals and police departments. Thus the existing residents don't want further growth especially when they have a fixed income and property tax.
Absolutely. We should get rid of all legislation governing housing density and apartment size. Then we can get the population living in converted drain pipe "coffin homes" like Singapore:
Because there are more people that there are properties. Those who have a home cannot trade up to something bigger because that would involve a longer commute, paying more in property taxes (set at 1% of purchase price - $500,000 home = $5000/year). So they upgrade and extend their homes. That pushes up the prices further. Then there are property speculators from China who want an "investment". If anyone sells up, they move out of state and push prices up elsewhere. Some areas are too dangerous too live in, so they are off the property market. Other areas are too expensive. So there is nowhere left.
They did that in Canada (Mississauga). Condo apartment blocks have communal concrete underground car parks - mainly to protect cars from the cold. In the downtown city, other Condo units are built on top of Metro stations and shopping malls. Metro stations link together so you don't need a car or to even go outside.
In Trondheim, Norway, there is a place called Solsiden which does what you suggest. There are supermarkets on the ground levels, a shopping mall with hairdressers and shops. You don't need a car.
The dirty air is concentrated around motorways, gas stations and main roads, and it isn't poor people. I worked in one of these areas. Inside the air-conditioned/filtered office I could walk around normally, but the moment I went outside, the NO2 would hit me.. walking down to the bus stop was like being anaesthetized by dental gas at the same time - the smell was noticable. Most other employees would drive so that wasn't a problem for them. Anyone who walked would notice. You'd feel a tightness on the centre of your chest where the muscles to control lung inhalation are.
I'd leave the office with plans for the evening. By the time I got home, I felt so heavy, I'd crash out for a few hours until I got the NO2 out of my system. With terraced streets, these are basically trenches that fill up with NO2 and CO2, with nowhere else for it to go.
They are trying to improve things. They want to increase the value of neighbourhoods and drive out everything that attracts the homeless. First thing incomers do is Google up on the neighbourhood reviews and take a stroll through StreetView. If the area looks post-apocalyptic they'll go elsewhere. So they rebrand the neighbourhood with new names so no-one knows any better - Tenderloin becomes SunnyValley.
There wasn't enough computing power back in the late 1980's. For a desktop PC with an 66MHz x86, graphics boards with i860's, TMS34020's and some TMS320x0's were the most performance you could get. Even then, those boards were around $1200, and you were lucky to get a C compiler let alone Fortran or C++. Even then rendering a single frame of the Mandelbrot set would still take minutes.
Today, you can buy a PC or server with custom DNN hardware, able to process Terabytes of image data.
Analytics is the biggest market for big data processing. All those juicy camera photographs sent to Facebook - Identifying people, places, associations, parties, events, whatever...
They opposed high-rise blocks of apartments because they didn't want to live in the permanent sun-shadow zone of a high-rise block. Nor did they want the Market-Value-Assessment board (MVA) deciding that since there was a 400-unit condo right next door with an aggregate property tax of $5million/year, that their home should have a similar value and force them to sell up. If that were to happen, then SF would still be unaffordable and become like Singapore with the non-millionaire population having to commute from Marin County and Oakland each day
Not forgetting company scrip, which was a corporate currency which was used to pay wages and could be used to buy items from the company store, pay for accommodation at the company hotel and meals at the company bar.
"Welcome to the Restaurant Extragavanza. Do you have any reservations?" "Well, since you asked, the wine list looks a bit pricy and the wallpaper looks a bit tacky."
There was the assumption that while there was natural churn from people not having time to visit Facebook and provide updates, there would always be a new generation of computer owners willing to sign up, especially when user accounts are automatically created even if they don't use them.
Once the population realized that all these trend-setters and comment makers were sock-puppet accounts deliberately design to manipulate groups of people and even individuals, the game is over.
That's what we joke about in the UK. In prison, by law, all cells must be heated to a comfortable temperature, and the food provided must accommodate religious beliefs. In the rea lworld, pensioners have to choose between heating their homes and getting proper nutrition.
There are the AVX, AVX-256 and AVX-512 extensions to the x64 instruction set. 128-bit width gives four floating point, 512-bit width registers gives sixteen floating point values or eight double precision values.
Anything computationally intensive that could be parallelized'; numerical simulations, ray-tracing, 3D games, even a HTML get request. The ideas of hyper-threading was that if one thread got blocked with a pending IO operation (like fetching data due to a cache miss), the other thread could continue working. But they both shared the same cache memory and that led to all sorts of problems when you tried to write multi-threaded code accessing the same memory space. All data had to be cache-line aligned and every thread given it's own unique block of the memory space.
Slashdot Mirror
Then they will supply it pre-installed with Firefox downloads. Then to improve speed and performance, it becomes built into the browser.
Regardless of the reseller you get the "broadband" service from, they still have to lease telephone lines from BT OpenReach and a commercial fibre-optic internet link from a national service provider. The first problem is that the telephone lines can't be changed and the signal/noise ratio limits the maximum bandwidth. Then there is the number of customers sharing that trunk line.
But by law, your ISP is required to maintain a log of all Internet meta-data going back three years as part of the strategy against cybercrime. In turn these companies outsource this work to centralised providers.
There are variations like Waterfox. The problem is that there are a thousand different options. What someone considers tight security such as blocking the use of Javascript, or the automatic installation of plugins and scripts, someone else considers a restrictive feature that stops them from using ad-blockers or other security utilities.
The microfilm readers that my university had in the library weren't too different from a gaming monitor today. There was a little tray at the bottom under the middle of the screen. You put the microfilm sheet in there, then moved around a lever that slid that tray around so that the selected page was projected up into the screen.
Security software companies have always done this. Like Cisco that tried to change the web UI of their home routers from local PC based to "through a cloud account".
There is nothing worse that having customised the security settings of a DSL wifi-router to the highest possible, only to find "We performed a factory reset to upgrade the firmware. All your security settings have been reverted to the default settings".
It's interesting to note that CCleaner gets annoyed that it can't reset and clear the log files of other security applications.
I've also noticed that some firewall software would log various events like failed login attempts, but after an upgrade, they would no longer log these events.
They had this problem in medieval Europe. That was solved by an plague outbreaks. Then the shortage of workers gave the peasants the upper hand in demanding better working conditions. If they weren't treated with respect they would simply leave the landowner and go elsewhere.
Building campuses, offices and business parks brings in tax revenue. Building family homes costs tax revenue for schools, community hospitals and police departments. Thus the existing residents don't want further growth especially when they have a fixed income and property tax.
Absolutely. We should get rid of all legislation governing housing density and apartment size. Then we can get the population living in converted drain pipe "coffin homes" like Singapore:
https://www.theguardian.com/ci...
Because there are more people that there are properties. Those who have a home cannot trade up to something bigger because that would involve a longer commute, paying more in property taxes (set at 1% of purchase price - $500,000 home = $5000/year). So they upgrade and extend their homes. That pushes up the prices further. Then there are property speculators from China who want an "investment". If anyone sells up, they move out of state and push prices up elsewhere.
Some areas are too dangerous too live in, so they are off the property market. Other areas are too expensive. So there is nowhere left.
They did that in Canada (Mississauga). Condo apartment blocks have communal concrete underground car parks - mainly to protect cars from the cold. In the downtown city, other Condo units are built on top of Metro stations and shopping malls. Metro stations link together so you don't need a car or to even go outside.
In Trondheim, Norway, there is a place called Solsiden which does what you suggest. There are supermarkets on the ground levels, a shopping mall with hairdressers and shops. You don't need a car.
Gary the Cylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The dirty air is concentrated around motorways, gas stations and main roads, and it isn't poor people. I worked in one of these areas. Inside the air-conditioned/filtered office I could walk around normally, but the moment I went outside, the NO2 would hit me .. walking down to the bus stop was like being anaesthetized by dental gas at the same time - the smell was noticable. Most other employees would drive so that wasn't a problem for them. Anyone who walked would notice. You'd feel a tightness on the centre of your chest where the muscles to control lung inhalation are.
I'd leave the office with plans for the evening. By the time I got home, I felt so heavy, I'd crash out for a few hours until I got the NO2 out of my system. With terraced streets, these are basically trenches that fill up with NO2 and CO2, with nowhere else for it to go.
Massospara Heights
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
They are trying to improve things. They want to increase the value of neighbourhoods and drive out everything that attracts the homeless.
First thing incomers do is Google up on the neighbourhood reviews and take a stroll through StreetView. If the area looks post-apocalyptic they'll go elsewhere. So they rebrand the neighbourhood with new names so no-one knows any better - Tenderloin becomes SunnyValley.
There wasn't enough computing power back in the late 1980's. For a desktop PC with an 66MHz x86, graphics boards with i860's, TMS34020's and some TMS320x0's were the most performance you could get. Even then, those boards were around $1200, and you were lucky to get a C compiler let alone Fortran or C++. Even then rendering a single frame of the Mandelbrot set would still take minutes.
Today, you can buy a PC or server with custom DNN hardware, able to process Terabytes of image data.
Analytics is the biggest market for big data processing. All those juicy camera photographs sent to Facebook - Identifying people, places, associations, parties, events, whatever...
They opposed high-rise blocks of apartments because they didn't want to live in the permanent sun-shadow zone of a high-rise block. Nor did they want the Market-Value-Assessment board (MVA) deciding that since there was a 400-unit condo right next door with an aggregate property tax of $5million/year, that their home should have a similar value and force them to sell up. If that were to happen, then SF would still be unaffordable and become like Singapore with the non-millionaire population having to commute from Marin County and Oakland each day
Not forgetting company scrip, which was a corporate currency which was used to pay wages and could be used to buy items from the company store, pay for accommodation at the company hotel and meals at the company bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Welcome to the Restaurant Extragavanza. Do you have any reservations?"
"Well, since you asked, the wine list looks a bit pricy and the wallpaper looks a bit tacky."
There was the assumption that while there was natural churn from people not having time to visit Facebook and provide updates, there would always be a new generation of computer owners willing to sign up, especially when user accounts are automatically created even if they don't use them.
Once the population realized that all these trend-setters and comment makers were sock-puppet accounts deliberately design to manipulate groups of people and even individuals, the game is over.
That's what we joke about in the UK. In prison, by law, all cells must be heated to a comfortable temperature, and the food provided must accommodate religious beliefs. In the rea lworld, pensioners have to choose between heating their homes and getting proper nutrition.
There are the AVX, AVX-256 and AVX-512 extensions to the x64 instruction set. 128-bit width gives four floating point, 512-bit width registers gives sixteen floating point values or eight double precision values.
Anything computationally intensive that could be parallelized'; numerical simulations, ray-tracing, 3D games, even a HTML get request. The ideas of hyper-threading was that if one thread got blocked with a pending IO operation (like fetching data due to a cache miss), the other thread could continue working. But they both shared the same cache memory and that led to all sorts of problems when you tried to write multi-threaded code accessing the same memory space. All data had to be cache-line aligned and every thread given it's own unique block of the memory space.
I guess they have knowledge of military procedures, standards, procurement processes and how the bureaucracy works (or doesn't).