How complicated are you making these menus? Is it more than Entree Name, Description, and Price? Seems like exactly the sort of thing that you could whip up in 10 minutes with a little HTML generation and a style sheet. You can add some graphics and play with the fonts to pretty it up, but ultimately a menu is just a tabulated list--something HTML was designed from the start to display.
Depending on your definition, you could do that on Earth. In fact it is probably easier on Earth because you don't have 200kph winds gusting up to 400kph.
Have you ever tried to use WiFi in a crowded apartment building? Do you want the same experience with cellphones? It works for WiFi and Bluetooth only because their ranges are so short that you usually don't get much interference. That solution obviously won't work for cell phones. Nobody wants to have to find the nearest cell tower and drive over to it to use their phone.
There is a famine going on right now in North Korea.
I read a claim that there has not been a famine in 400 years that was not politically created. This sound crazy when you first hear it, but when you start diving into the specifics it is scary.
One could argue that the Government didn't create the monopolies here, physics did. There's only so much spectrum and it doesn't work if multiple people are trying to use the same frequencies at the same time in the same area.
Unless you can find the political will to separate highly regulated tower operators and the phone carriers (so airtime would be a utility and there would be competition with the carriers), then it's always going to be like this. It could be worse, at least there is some competition in the wireless space. It's not wireline broadband.
This was on Windows with Firefox and the Adobe plugin. I don't have the built-in plugin because I like popping out PDFs and because the built-in viewer is slow as balls on nontrivial PDFs.
The spares should be warm spares. Not spinning until the RAID controller detects a failure and replaces the failed drive. So they won't take any appreciable amount of power. The concern I have is space. That many idle drives eating up rack space is going to be expensive.
They only had availability data for 4 years of drive life. This is largely a math study. I'm not familiar with any implementations of their 2D parity system, although it is outside of my area of expertise. Their assumption that the service calls would always be more expensive seemed a little suspect to me. Rack space isn't free and when you have basically 100% redundancy or more in spare drives you're going to eat up a lot of space. Putting 54 spare drives in a rack that already has 11 parity disks and only 55 primary disks just doesn't seem efficient. Is all of that space really cheaper than a single service call during the life of the machine to replace 20 failed drives all at once (when the rack drops below say 6 spares of the original 26--saving you half of the space the spares would have taken up).
I have also seen enough buggy RAID controllers in my day to make me very wary of that 2D raid arrangement in the paper.
All in all this smells like a mathematicians solution to the problem, largely unbounded by real life concerns.
So I tried to view the PDF, and it says "can't use the plugin, it causes problems on our server". So I figured I'd just download the file with wget instead. Nope, 403 forbidden.
Looks like fetch works though. If anybody else has trouble getting the file, try my local mirror.
My favorite part is where the updater tells you that a new update is ready, but it won't install it automatically because Adobe needs another ad impression or something and you have to download and install it yourself. This is why I don't have Flash or Java installed anymore. I especially like when they try to sideload some crapware toolbar with their security update too. I can kind of understand this sort of behavior from a sketchy freeware app being hosted by J. Random Guy, but Oracle and Adobe are multimillion dollar corporations. Do they really care so little about their brand?
Won't the option be to either let the GPU use the extra 1/7 speed memory, or force the data back out to system memory over the PCIe bus at a much lower speed? Outside of benchmarks, I don't think many applications are going to be demanding that extra memory anyway.
At least the old Unix names were at least somewhat relevant to their purpose, even if severely shortened to save keystrokes:
grep: Global Regular Expression Print -- Ok, still pretty bizarre sounding if you're not a bearded unixguy
man: Short for MANual. Straightforward.
awk: Beats me. I think it's named after the author's initials or something
sed: Stream EDitor: does what it says, edits streams of characters
FiOS is expensive, but then so is cable and at least you get what you pay for with FiOS. If Google fiber or Muni Fiber came to my area I would almost certainly switch, but as it is I feel lucky to at least get good service if I'm going to be paying out the ass.
That is in fact exactly what the article says. While the profit margin on FiOS is apparently 4.4%, the wireless side had a 23.5% profit margin. While those numbers are heavily encrusted with bullshit, they do show the relative value of the technologies to Verizon.
It's also possible they don't have some of the features you would need to make them any better than the Hubble. They may be set up to track things on the surface of the Earth and not have hardware necessary for long tracking shots of deep space objects. They may also be malfunctioning in some way and not useful unless they get serviced, which isn't going to happen now that the Shuttle program is over.
Surface RT was always a bastard child of the lineup. They sold pretty poorly too, so it's not a surprise that Microsoft is wiping their hands of the whole product.
ISA Plug and Play was a horrendous hack. It was always a roll of the dice. It's really no surprise that people were so willing to jump on PCI as soon as it came out.
How about we get politics out of science and rely on the scientific method to determine if "Global Warming" is real or not.
It's fundamentally impossible to remove the politics from the science if your solution to the problem is political. It's hard to imagine any solutions to a global problem like Global Warming that aren't political short of some miracle technology coming out of nowhere that magically solves the problem.
A few things come to mind.
The first is the price tag. $1500 is a laughable sum for a consumer electronics toy that doesn't have a clear niche.
Another is artificially restricting what it can do. One of the killer features for Glass could be facial recognition that floats someone's name over them. No more awkwardly trying to remember someone's name that you met earlier at the party.
The battery life was also apparently quite bad, as was the performance of the device. Not a surprise given the form factor, but this needs to be addressed.
I want it to be powerful enough that it can do everything locally and not have to phone lots of info back to Google to get work done. People would be a lot less freaked out about the camera if the data couldn't be exported from the device.
Google glass was ahead of its time IMHO. The technology wasn't there to make it work properly, and everybody fixated on the camera so much that it was hard to see anything else about it. However, the Camera is necessary for the device to be more than a smartwatch that looks even more dumb. Augmented reality is the killer feature for glass and you can't do that without a camera.
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How complicated are you making these menus? Is it more than Entree Name, Description, and Price? Seems like exactly the sort of thing that you could whip up in 10 minutes with a little HTML generation and a style sheet. You can add some graphics and play with the fonts to pretty it up, but ultimately a menu is just a tabulated list--something HTML was designed from the start to display.
It's outside the FBI's jurisdiction. piratebay.se They did have a lot of their previous domains seized however.
Depending on your definition, you could do that on Earth. In fact it is probably easier on Earth because you don't have 200kph winds gusting up to 400kph.
This sounds like a great way to make a Mercury type planet, but I'm not so sure it will be so great at making a place you would want to live.
Have you ever tried to use WiFi in a crowded apartment building? Do you want the same experience with cellphones? It works for WiFi and Bluetooth only because their ranges are so short that you usually don't get much interference. That solution obviously won't work for cell phones. Nobody wants to have to find the nearest cell tower and drive over to it to use their phone.
There is a famine going on right now in North Korea.
I read a claim that there has not been a famine in 400 years that was not politically created. This sound crazy when you first hear it, but when you start diving into the specifics it is scary.
One could argue that the Government didn't create the monopolies here, physics did. There's only so much spectrum and it doesn't work if multiple people are trying to use the same frequencies at the same time in the same area.
Unless you can find the political will to separate highly regulated tower operators and the phone carriers (so airtime would be a utility and there would be competition with the carriers), then it's always going to be like this. It could be worse, at least there is some competition in the wireless space. It's not wireline broadband.
This was on Windows with Firefox and the Adobe plugin. I don't have the built-in plugin because I like popping out PDFs and because the built-in viewer is slow as balls on nontrivial PDFs.
100,000 hours is 4,167 days which is ~11.4 years. That sounds pretty reasonable to me, since I've run plenty of disks for over a decade.
The spares should be warm spares. Not spinning until the RAID controller detects a failure and replaces the failed drive. So they won't take any appreciable amount of power. The concern I have is space. That many idle drives eating up rack space is going to be expensive.
They only had availability data for 4 years of drive life. This is largely a math study. I'm not familiar with any implementations of their 2D parity system, although it is outside of my area of expertise. Their assumption that the service calls would always be more expensive seemed a little suspect to me. Rack space isn't free and when you have basically 100% redundancy or more in spare drives you're going to eat up a lot of space. Putting 54 spare drives in a rack that already has 11 parity disks and only 55 primary disks just doesn't seem efficient. Is all of that space really cheaper than a single service call during the life of the machine to replace 20 failed drives all at once (when the rack drops below say 6 spares of the original 26--saving you half of the space the spares would have taken up).
I have also seen enough buggy RAID controllers in my day to make me very wary of that 2D raid arrangement in the paper.
All in all this smells like a mathematicians solution to the problem, largely unbounded by real life concerns.
So I tried to view the PDF, and it says "can't use the plugin, it causes problems on our server". So I figured I'd just download the file with wget instead. Nope, 403 forbidden.
Looks like fetch works though. If anybody else has trouble getting the file, try my local mirror.
My favorite part is where the updater tells you that a new update is ready, but it won't install it automatically because Adobe needs another ad impression or something and you have to download and install it yourself. This is why I don't have Flash or Java installed anymore. I especially like when they try to sideload some crapware toolbar with their security update too. I can kind of understand this sort of behavior from a sketchy freeware app being hosted by J. Random Guy, but Oracle and Adobe are multimillion dollar corporations. Do they really care so little about their brand?
I guess we'll be well prepared for nuclear war then. Lets get right on that. Or maybe not.
Won't the option be to either let the GPU use the extra 1/7 speed memory, or force the data back out to system memory over the PCIe bus at a much lower speed? Outside of benchmarks, I don't think many applications are going to be demanding that extra memory anyway.
At least the old Unix names were at least somewhat relevant to their purpose, even if severely shortened to save keystrokes:
grep: Global Regular Expression Print -- Ok, still pretty bizarre sounding if you're not a bearded unixguy
man: Short for MANual. Straightforward.
awk: Beats me. I think it's named after the author's initials or something
sed: Stream EDitor: does what it says, edits streams of characters
Just because open source projects can choose terrible names doesn't mean they have a monopoly on it.
FiOS is expensive, but then so is cable and at least you get what you pay for with FiOS. If Google fiber or Muni Fiber came to my area I would almost certainly switch, but as it is I feel lucky to at least get good service if I'm going to be paying out the ass.
That is in fact exactly what the article says. While the profit margin on FiOS is apparently 4.4%, the wireless side had a 23.5% profit margin. While those numbers are heavily encrusted with bullshit, they do show the relative value of the technologies to Verizon.
It's also possible they don't have some of the features you would need to make them any better than the Hubble. They may be set up to track things on the surface of the Earth and not have hardware necessary for long tracking shots of deep space objects. They may also be malfunctioning in some way and not useful unless they get serviced, which isn't going to happen now that the Shuttle program is over.
Surface RT was always a bastard child of the lineup. They sold pretty poorly too, so it's not a surprise that Microsoft is wiping their hands of the whole product.
I think this is for tower to tower type communication. I do have to wonder about rain fade on a 95Ghz signal though.
ISA Plug and Play was a horrendous hack. It was always a roll of the dice. It's really no surprise that people were so willing to jump on PCI as soon as it came out.
It's fundamentally impossible to remove the politics from the science if your solution to the problem is political. It's hard to imagine any solutions to a global problem like Global Warming that aren't political short of some miracle technology coming out of nowhere that magically solves the problem.
A few things come to mind.
The first is the price tag. $1500 is a laughable sum for a consumer electronics toy that doesn't have a clear niche.
Another is artificially restricting what it can do. One of the killer features for Glass could be facial recognition that floats someone's name over them. No more awkwardly trying to remember someone's name that you met earlier at the party.
The battery life was also apparently quite bad, as was the performance of the device. Not a surprise given the form factor, but this needs to be addressed.
I want it to be powerful enough that it can do everything locally and not have to phone lots of info back to Google to get work done. People would be a lot less freaked out about the camera if the data couldn't be exported from the device.
Google glass was ahead of its time IMHO. The technology wasn't there to make it work properly, and everybody fixated on the camera so much that it was hard to see anything else about it. However, the Camera is necessary for the device to be more than a smartwatch that looks even more dumb. Augmented reality is the killer feature for glass and you can't do that without a camera.