It could have just been the awareness level, but Repetitive Stress Injuries seemed to have arisen with increased obesity in america, which seems to correspond with a lack of activity.
But then again, the typewriter has been around longer than the computer, and there used to be warehouses full of typists that did the jobs that computers automate these days. But RSI only seemed to rise in the computer age, which seems to correspond with the american obesity age.
What does it matter if what we view and perceive is "reality" or a simulation? You can't detect the difference, you were born into this "reality", simulated or not, and I'd bet that you'll die in it too.
There isn't any evidence of artifacts of some simulation, beyond the existence of the laws of physics. And there certainly isn't any way to break it. If there is a higher power/controlling computer, they don't seem to care about us that much.
In terms of what we mathematically define as computation (given the observed rules of the simulation we know as life), it would be pretty hard to simulate what scientists view, measure, and track with our computational technology. The geometric rate on our computational engineering will probably slow drastically in the next century (to be liberal), so we can't count on a trillion times more space and speed.
This is just terrible, inexcusable design. If a lowly cell phone can send airplane instrumentation into a tailspin, literally, what does a terrorist need with a SAM? Just project a concentrated beam of interference at a plane. Apparently a small amount of radiation will completely disable a plane.
The article provided zero basis or clarification of the problems it described, especially given the serious nature of the effects. Wandering planes on a runway? Caused by a cell phone? Does it use The Force or something?
The tone of the article was more of a "shut up and listen stupid humanity....that is all". No explanation, no grey areas, etc.
Since 1996, pilots have reported 35 mobile phone-related safety incidents, including false warnings in the cockpit, distractions causing aircraft to stray accidentally onto runways or fly at the wrong altitude, interrupted radio communications and multiple safety systems malfunctions.
False Warnings in the cockpit: Pilot got a txt msg from a "friend" in his destination.
Distractions causing aircraft to stray onto runway: Flying while Yakking
Interrupted Radio Comm: "Hold on, I got a call"
Multiple Safety Systems Malfunctions: The Pilot is too busy talking on his cellphone
Citation on common tribe (not the best source, granted):
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/st ories/2000_09_17/story_236.asp
This article references multiple studies which seem to indicate natural athletic advantages of blacks (blacks in these studies, while not noted, appear to be from West African slaves):
http://www.science.smith.edu/exer_sci/ESS200/Raceh/Raceh.htm
I'm sure there's more and better, but your reply relies on an absolutist position to fundamentally attack my argument: you want IRONCLAD statistics. Well, there aren't, and probably won't ever be.
But the existence of what evidence I've seen, how much predisposition has been shown to be important in practically every study on genetic predisposition (usually around 50%, give or take 25%, and that's a whole whole lot), the fact I can point to a predominance of talent in an identifiable demographic at an elite level over 50 years, with no obvious economic barriers, well, I'm sold.
I can't point to specific genes, but it's been shown that most of the Kenyan distance runners are from a common area of kenya that is elevated.
Furthermore, any argument of nature vs. nurture is basically undermined by the existence of an athletic development program in Kenya as or more aggressive than the distance running program: soccer. Soccer athletes are identified and pushed as much or more than distance running candidates, yet the Western African nations (and their similarly correlated fast-twitch genetic advantages) crush them every time.
If you doubt West African genetic predispositions, just look at the 100m and 200m dash lists. American and Jamaican slave descendents and West Africans absolutely dominate the list, and not for lack of trying by other human demographics.
It is interesting to note that middle distance records have been dominated by north koreans (said aouita, el gerrouj, and morceli) and long distance records are dominated by an ethiopian (gebreselassie), but anyone who follows track and field does not doubt the army of Kenyans just beneath them in all middle and long distances.
Non-equipment events in track and field (100m, mile, marathon) are as or more universally competed in by the world as soccer. And the resulting performances are as close to absolute metrics as you're going to get (so a kid runs a 10.4 on a dirt track and a 10.2 100m on a modern track - his time still shows he's fast as hell). Thus they are as good a basis for drawing athletic predispositions as anything.
I've heard about MS questions for almost 10 years now. In that time, I cannot recall them releasing a new, innovative product. 99% of their products were already built by another company they bought out (SQL Server, IE, Windows, DOS, the office programs...). Even if the programs were buggy when purchased, how does it reflect on MS employees with their limitless backing that these things haven't ever been worked out? How is it that Apple, with less than 1/10 the resources, releases far bigger in scope OS changes, AND does Hardware design to boot?
These questions are good consulting questions, but obviously haven't produced a worker culture of efficiency, innovation, thoroughness, insight, or talent.
I always wondered if this would be a good idea once economies of scale kicked in and design knowhow was put toward it
Basically, you have your normal 120 GB disk for your files. But the swap file exists on a different GB hard drive thats only 1% the size of the usual hard drive, specifically manufactured for high speed and a lot of cache. This hard drive holds the swap file, which probably accounts for the majority of hard drive accesses. It wouldn't cost $5000 like an SSD would, but maybe 30-50 bucks once a few hardware generations went by.
Maybe it could be an integrated RAID of four small drives (I always forget which RAID configs optimize for speed).
With business development. 54,000 servers is necessary because of their ridiculous traffic. The search engine could start out with a much smaller size of servers (say...1,000) to handle the initial launch and scale if/as traffic and popularity grow.
Thus I think the writeup's assertion that the server farm size is a barrier to search engine starup isn't true. I think you'd need at most a couple million for 1,000 servers and a few years of management, not the implied 50,000,000 it would take to purchase and manage 50,000 servers from the get-go. And in the funding world, there is a huge difference between 2 mil and 50 mil, especially these days
Most of the people i know who purchased an XBOX were PC gamers anyway. The XBOX lacks most of the japanese console games that characterize your traditional console since the NES days (Square RPGs, platformers, arcade racers, etc). XBOX really just has console-ized versions of PC games. Halo was the "killer app" of the XBOX, and it's a ripped-from-the-PC FPS. The RPGs all seemed very PC-ish too. What console-like games it has generally seem to be ports from other consoles.
So is Doom III on the XBOX going to sell XBOXes? I doubt it. In terms of a market share win, it would be significant for Sony, but not for Microsoft.
Try the environmental threats that six billion people pose to our long-term welfare. From ozone depletion, freshwater pollution, global warming, species depletion, unchecked development, these are far more tangible than out-of-control grey goo.
Bill Joy gets to look smart and visionary talking about science fiction fantasies that we read and play, but the real dangers to humanity are the good ol ones that people have been harping about for years.
Uhhhh, so what happens when my hard drive crashes, how do I configure a new hard drive on the mobo, if the EFI user interface was on the old hard drive?
gee, use the BIOS
boot with a floppy
Good overall entertainment, but...
The movie lacked the key elements of the show that separate it from the other sci-fi animes.
The best regular shows revealed a part of each character's past, motivations, and/or personality that you didn't know before.
The villian was the most vanilla of any I've seen, and considering how much depth the twenty-minute shows given their enemies, it's a big failing. It was a two hour plus movie!
The personalities of the characters weren't consistent with the show, Spike was more morose and mopey than the standoff-sarcasm he is portrayed with the best. Jet was a prognosticating, worrying parent rather than the steely, unflinching, speak with few but important words.
I could probably go on. It was fun, but not really a crowning touch to the series.
If it emulates the SNES, I think the performance specs of the GBA is about as powerful as a SNES, and with a similar architecture, which is why the emulators came out so fast for it, and so many SNES games are being ported to it
But, I could find no hard specs or architecture to back this up, so it is admittedly conjecture
Honestly People! Speaking as someone who used XML right and left on several projects...
When you have people arguing that XML is a godlike power because people decide to sit down, exchange text files, which happen to be in XML.
That isn't really saying anything. What's the difference in this case between a CSV and XML? They're both just text file formats! Except...
1. XML is much much slower in raw performance due to parsing overhead.
2. XML is very hardware resource intensive. If you want to do extensive reading or manipulation of an XML file, the entire DOM tree has to be in memory, and the DOM tree is not very compact...
3. XML is not easily learned. Showing a beginning programmer with a grasp on any language how to read a CSV file is easy. Try doing the same with XML tools, you have to teach someone about trees, leafs, nodes, and if they're using XSL, a functional recursive programming language.
4. CDATA. Now COME ON people. If you want binary data or formatting-preserved data, base 64 encode it. XML people saying readable data is a primary goal of XML are completely undercut by these worthless structures
OUCH
Nine times out of ten you don't need XML when its being used today.
CSVs or.INIs other text file formats could have equivalent infrastructure for validation, and they'd be faster and more effective. Same with internationalization, and many many other features XML claims is theirs and only possible with the David Copperfield magic of XML.
Finally, I'd like to point out that when I had to write a fast-performing and more compact "XML" parser on a resource-limited PDA, two things helped out enormously:
1) the line break actually means something
2) Use a generic ending tag. Saves space
And online life mirrors real life yet again...
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Gee, what a surprise.
If a sufficient percentage of people cheat, the entire system falls apart.
That never happens in real life. Unfortunately, I can't switch servers with my wet body. Or can I? Maybe if I moved to Australia...
Once again, (glass half empty) the online world shows humanity to be tragically and irreparably flawed. No good deed goes unpunished in this world.
Ignorant (intentionally so...) from the corporate types.
OSS may not pass everything the first time, but telling it what it doesn't pass just hastens its compliance, and it will inexorably march toward it.
OSS development is like the gentle ocean and the sandcastle: it takes a while, but the sandcastle will fall, and once the tide turns, it doesn't matter how many people are rebuilding the castle.
You had better be an AI guru, otherwise, this sounds suspiciously like a request from every IT-ignorant boss I've ever had: Can you write something that will read my mind?
I completely agree about the contention that Mozilla is swapped out a soon as possible. Leave it for a few minutes, and you click on it and a swap storm ensues, despite the fact that a hundred megs of memory is free.
It wouldn't be hard to do, given that they give the option to register as the default browser, and browser apps may require other unknown OS resources that MS could use to ID foreign browsers.
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It could have just been the awareness level, but Repetitive Stress Injuries seemed to have arisen with increased obesity in america, which seems to correspond with a lack of activity.
But then again, the typewriter has been around longer than the computer, and there used to be warehouses full of typists that did the jobs that computers automate these days. But RSI only seemed to rise in the computer age, which seems to correspond with the american obesity age.
What does it matter if what we view and perceive is "reality" or a simulation? You can't detect the difference, you were born into this "reality", simulated or not, and I'd bet that you'll die in it too.
There isn't any evidence of artifacts of some simulation, beyond the existence of the laws of physics. And there certainly isn't any way to break it. If there is a higher power/controlling computer, they don't seem to care about us that much.
In terms of what we mathematically define as computation (given the observed rules of the simulation we know as life), it would be pretty hard to simulate what scientists view, measure, and track with our computational technology. The geometric rate on our computational engineering will probably slow drastically in the next century (to be liberal), so we can't count on a trillion times more space and speed.
This is just terrible, inexcusable design. If a lowly cell phone can send airplane instrumentation into a tailspin, literally, what does a terrorist need with a SAM? Just project a concentrated beam of interference at a plane. Apparently a small amount of radiation will completely disable a plane.
The article provided zero basis or clarification of the problems it described, especially given the serious nature of the effects. Wandering planes on a runway? Caused by a cell phone? Does it use The Force or something?
The tone of the article was more of a "shut up and listen stupid humanity....that is all". No explanation, no grey areas, etc.
Since 1996, pilots have reported 35 mobile phone-related safety incidents, including false warnings in the cockpit, distractions causing aircraft to stray accidentally onto runways or fly at the wrong altitude, interrupted radio communications and multiple safety systems malfunctions.
False Warnings in the cockpit: Pilot got a txt msg from a "friend" in his destination.
Distractions causing aircraft to stray onto runway: Flying while Yakking
Interrupted Radio Comm: "Hold on, I got a call"
Multiple Safety Systems Malfunctions: The Pilot is too busy talking on his cellphone
What a bunch of bullshit.
Did I do that wrong? average acceleration of 83Gs? It's been forever since I did those old equations.
Citation on common tribe (not the best source, granted):t ories/2000_09_17/story_236.asph /Raceh.htm
I'm sure there's more and better, but your reply relies on an absolutist position to fundamentally attack my argument: you want IRONCLAD statistics. Well, there aren't, and probably won't ever be.
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/s
This article references multiple studies which seem to indicate natural athletic advantages of blacks (blacks in these studies, while not noted, appear to be from West African slaves): http://www.science.smith.edu/exer_sci/ESS200/Race
But the existence of what evidence I've seen, how much predisposition has been shown to be important in practically every study on genetic predisposition (usually around 50%, give or take 25%, and that's a whole whole lot), the fact I can point to a predominance of talent in an identifiable demographic at an elite level over 50 years, with no obvious economic barriers, well, I'm sold.
I can't point to specific genes, but it's been shown that most of the Kenyan distance runners are from a common area of kenya that is elevated.
Furthermore, any argument of nature vs. nurture is basically undermined by the existence of an athletic development program in Kenya as or more aggressive than the distance running program: soccer. Soccer athletes are identified and pushed as much or more than distance running candidates, yet the Western African nations (and their similarly correlated fast-twitch genetic advantages) crush them every time.
If you doubt West African genetic predispositions, just look at the 100m and 200m dash lists. American and Jamaican slave descendents and West Africans absolutely dominate the list, and not for lack of trying by other human demographics.
It is interesting to note that middle distance records have been dominated by north koreans (said aouita, el gerrouj, and morceli) and long distance records are dominated by an ethiopian (gebreselassie), but anyone who follows track and field does not doubt the army of Kenyans just beneath them in all middle and long distances.
Non-equipment events in track and field (100m, mile, marathon) are as or more universally competed in by the world as soccer. And the resulting performances are as close to absolute metrics as you're going to get (so a kid runs a 10.4 on a dirt track and a 10.2 100m on a modern track - his time still shows he's fast as hell). Thus they are as good a basis for drawing athletic predispositions as anything.
I've heard about MS questions for almost 10 years now. In that time, I cannot recall them releasing a new, innovative product. 99% of their products were already built by another company they bought out (SQL Server, IE, Windows, DOS, the office programs...). Even if the programs were buggy when purchased, how does it reflect on MS employees with their limitless backing that these things haven't ever been worked out? How is it that Apple, with less than 1/10 the resources, releases far bigger in scope OS changes, AND does Hardware design to boot?
These questions are good consulting questions, but obviously haven't produced a worker culture of efficiency, innovation, thoroughness, insight, or talent.
Well, how expensive is a gig of ram?
How expensive is a high-speed 100 GB hard drive?
I always wondered if this would be a good idea once economies of scale kicked in and design knowhow was put toward it
Basically, you have your normal 120 GB disk for your files. But the swap file exists on a different GB hard drive thats only 1% the size of the usual hard drive, specifically manufactured for high speed and a lot of cache. This hard drive holds the swap file, which probably accounts for the majority of hard drive accesses. It wouldn't cost $5000 like an SSD would, but maybe 30-50 bucks once a few hardware generations went by.
Maybe it could be an integrated RAID of four small drives (I always forget which RAID configs optimize for speed).
With business development. 54,000 servers is necessary because of their ridiculous traffic. The search engine could start out with a much smaller size of servers (say...1,000) to handle the initial launch and scale if/as traffic and popularity grow.
Thus I think the writeup's assertion that the server farm size is a barrier to search engine starup isn't true. I think you'd need at most a couple million for 1,000 servers and a few years of management, not the implied 50,000,000 it would take to purchase and manage 50,000 servers from the get-go. And in the funding world, there is a huge difference between 2 mil and 50 mil, especially these days
Disclaimer: all subjective opinion
Most of the people i know who purchased an XBOX were PC gamers anyway. The XBOX lacks most of the japanese console games that characterize your traditional console since the NES days (Square RPGs, platformers, arcade racers, etc). XBOX really just has console-ized versions of PC games. Halo was the "killer app" of the XBOX, and it's a ripped-from-the-PC FPS. The RPGs all seemed very PC-ish too. What console-like games it has generally seem to be ports from other consoles.
So is Doom III on the XBOX going to sell XBOXes? I doubt it. In terms of a market share win, it would be significant for Sony, but not for Microsoft.
Try the environmental threats that six billion people pose to our long-term welfare. From ozone depletion, freshwater pollution, global warming, species depletion, unchecked development, these are far more tangible than out-of-control grey goo.
Bill Joy gets to look smart and visionary talking about science fiction fantasies that we read and play, but the real dangers to humanity are the good ol ones that people have been harping about for years.
Go ahead, try to figure out who did it! Which country it came from!
What will women buy to get their men to waste 1,000 - 1,000,000 bucks now?
How will women be able to foment rebellion, misery, rape, murder, war, and chopping off of hands in Africa?
Uhhhh, so what happens when my hard drive crashes, how do I configure a new hard drive on the mobo, if the EFI user interface was on the old hard drive? gee, use the BIOS boot with a floppy
Good overall entertainment, but... The movie lacked the key elements of the show that separate it from the other sci-fi animes. The best regular shows revealed a part of each character's past, motivations, and/or personality that you didn't know before. The villian was the most vanilla of any I've seen, and considering how much depth the twenty-minute shows given their enemies, it's a big failing. It was a two hour plus movie! The personalities of the characters weren't consistent with the show, Spike was more morose and mopey than the standoff-sarcasm he is portrayed with the best. Jet was a prognosticating, worrying parent rather than the steely, unflinching, speak with few but important words. I could probably go on. It was fun, but not really a crowning touch to the series.
If it emulates the SNES, I think the performance specs of the GBA is about as powerful as a SNES, and with a similar architecture, which is why the emulators came out so fast for it, and so many SNES games are being ported to it
But, I could find no hard specs or architecture to back this up, so it is admittedly conjecture
Seriously, Bill Clinton made a deal with the devil for a gold fiddle. I mean, LOOK AT THAT.
You can substitute this same strategy for IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, Coopers, Ernst, KPMG, and who knows what else.
Those deals weren't as lucrative as the usual consulting gigs, but looked great on the bottom line and secured a partner his partner points.
For new bogus-physics product companies to get coverage from wired.com and get 10 million in funding
I think that the problem with these devices isn't the laws of physics per se, I think its just that they were never properly marketed.
Honestly People! Speaking as someone who used XML right and left on several projects...
.INIs other text file formats could have equivalent infrastructure for validation, and they'd be faster and more effective. Same with internationalization, and many many other features XML claims is theirs and only possible with the David Copperfield magic of XML.
When you have people arguing that XML is a godlike power because people decide to sit down, exchange text files, which happen to be in XML.
That isn't really saying anything. What's the difference in this case between a CSV and XML? They're both just text file formats! Except...
1. XML is much much slower in raw performance due to parsing overhead.
2. XML is very hardware resource intensive. If you want to do extensive reading or manipulation of an XML file, the entire DOM tree has to be in memory, and the DOM tree is not very compact...
3. XML is not easily learned. Showing a beginning programmer with a grasp on any language how to read a CSV file is easy. Try doing the same with XML tools, you have to teach someone about trees, leafs, nodes, and if they're using XSL, a functional recursive programming language.
4. CDATA. Now COME ON people. If you want binary data or formatting-preserved data, base 64 encode it. XML people saying readable data is a primary goal of XML are completely undercut by these worthless structures
OUCH
Nine times out of ten you don't need XML when its being used today.
CSVs or
Finally, I'd like to point out that when I had to write a fast-performing and more compact "XML" parser on a resource-limited PDA, two things helped out enormously:
1) the line break actually means something
2) Use a generic ending tag. Saves space
Gee, what a surprise.
If a sufficient percentage of people cheat, the entire system falls apart.
That never happens in real life. Unfortunately, I can't switch servers with my wet body. Or can I? Maybe if I moved to Australia...
Once again, (glass half empty) the online world shows humanity to be tragically and irreparably flawed. No good deed goes unpunished in this world.
Ignorant (intentionally so...) from the corporate types.
OSS may not pass everything the first time, but telling it what it doesn't pass just hastens its compliance, and it will inexorably march toward it.
OSS development is like the gentle ocean and the sandcastle: it takes a while, but the sandcastle will fall, and once the tide turns, it doesn't matter how many people are rebuilding the castle.
You had better be an AI guru, otherwise, this sounds suspiciously like a request from every IT-ignorant boss I've ever had: Can you write something that will read my mind?
I completely agree about the contention that Mozilla is swapped out a soon as possible. Leave it for a few minutes, and you click on it and a swap storm ensues, despite the fact that a hundred megs of memory is free.
It wouldn't be hard to do, given that they give the option to register as the default browser, and browser apps may require other unknown OS resources that MS could use to ID foreign browsers.