My estimate included no redundancy at all. So admittedly I significantly under-estimated. In practice, you'd want to have at least the equivalent of raidz2 or raid6 arrays, if not full backups.
I'll ignore all the political aspects of this discussion and simply point out that this is a rather expensive proposition. I don't see a recent size estimate, but we know that the site increased from 10PB to 15PB between 2012 and 2014, so it's reasonable to estimate that it's around 23PB today.
How expensive is 23PB of storage, including the serves themselves? If we use BackBlaze's cost estimates (they build custom high-density chassis) of $0.036/GB, we get a figure of roughly $868k USD spread across 49x4U servers. Of course, that's just the hardware. The colocation space (including power and connectivity) would be at least $10,000 CAD per month.
Sanders didn't run for the GOP (Republican Party) and lost the popular vote by a large margin. Roughly three million votes. The super delegates wouldn't have given him the win if they had been divided by popular vote.
The Razer Blade series is generally considered to be the closest direct replacement for the Mac Pro, being unibody aluminum laptops with a similar form factor and build quality. There are three options: The Razer Blade Stealth, which is a 12.5" ultrabook that is kind of like a retina macbook air, the Razer Blade, which is sort of like a 14" retina Macbook pro, and the Razer Blade Pro, which is sort of like a 17" retina Macbook Pro.
At this point, all three have thunderbolt three and support an external GPU, although the latter two feature pretty damned beefy discrete GPUs (the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 respectively), so external GPUs are probably mostly of interest to the "stealth" model.
Those satellites, assuming they're not serving ships and small islands, will also be routing data for the rest of the constellation. They're not just bouncing data back down on the same satellite, the data goes up from the client and travels from satellite to satellite until it hits a peering point.
$5,000 is the price of a business class seat on the routes they're talking about (not even first class), and it's a quarter the price of the Concorde. It just might be cheap enough to get a self-sustaining amount of traffic, which will provide an ongoing incentive to develop cheaper and cheaper planes. It's getting past that initial wall that's the problem, which the Concorde never did.
Sonic booms are resolved two ways. First, the same way that the Concorde did: use it on trans-continental flights. North America to Europe and Asia are the two obvious examples. Second, modern technology and computer simulation enables a reduction in the intensity of the sonic boom. What's available today is a decent reduction from the Concorde, although it's still nowhere near sufficient to enable supersonic flight over populated areas. But with a large fleet of supersonic aircraft flying, you get a powerful incentive to push that research forward.
Except they're not. LG's mobile division posted a $389.4M loss last quarter (and another loss the quarter before), HTC has posted a loss every quarter for years ($64M last quarter), OnePlus hasn't published any financial info since 2014 and so I would suspect is taking a loss, Xiaomi's sales are in freefall causing the company to drop 92% in value, and Motorola Mobility is now owned by Lenovo after bouncing around from owner to owner and is still losing money.
Of all the companies you mentioned, only Huawei is doing OK, and from a quick look through their latest annual report, they don't appear to break down their revenue to the level that you could say how much money their phones are making, and they don't break their expenses down by division at all.
With Samsung taking a massive hit, I'd suggest that Huawei may be the only company other than Apple making profit from smartphone manufacture. Most of the other companies have seen their market shares drop to insignificant numbers,
Samsung was the only Android handheld manufacturer making any actual profit (not a loss or breaking even), and the billions upon billions of dollars of costs for the Note 7 issues have wiped out years worth of profit for the things. That means that at this point, Apple is the only company actually making any significant profit in the industry.
So, is it really so bad to only have 12% of the market when you're the only ones making any money?
> We know the rockets are capable of operating on non-supercooled fuel because SpaceX only started using supercooled fuel about a year ago.
We don't know that, since the use of sub-cooled propellants only started with a new version of the rocket that is substantially different from the one that used regular temperatures. It's not even the same size as the previous vehicle, and we don't know what changes may have been made to the engines to enable them to hit their higher thrust with the sub-cooled fuel.
That said, they could still potentially go back to making the previous version of the rocket, or do a variant of the new rocket that isn't reliant on sub-cooled fuel, or it could turn out that the new rocket is still capable of operating with regular temperatures.
It's not just about how much boils off. The current revision of Falcon 9 uses sub-cooled liquid oxygen and fuel, which gives them additional performance (denser fuel, more thrust, more payload). If the fuel sits in the rocket for too long, it heats up and goes outside of the acceptable range. It's a relatively narrow window, so they only finish fueling ten minutes before the launch, and are forced to scrub the launch if there is any delay. That's not something that a procedural change would allow, it would require substantial changes to the hardware, much like substantial changes were required to switch to sub-cooled propellant in the first place. Even when they weren't using sub-cooled propellant, how much boiled off was irrelevant because they kept it topped off up until launch.
The risk mitigation is the abort system, which gets the capsule away from the rocket fast enough to survive the sort of failure that recently occurred.
Costs awarded in Canada are normally just a fraction of the actual costs, and in some major jurisdictions are required to be reasonable, including taking into account the amount sought.
I'm not aware of a single notice resulting in an actual lawsuit against an individual defendant since the notice-and-notice system went into effect, other than one bizarre attempt a reverse class action lawsuit that seems unlikely to go anywhere.
Canipre is a known copyright troll. They have no interest in suing anyone, it's much more profitable to trick people into paying unnecessary settlements.
A giant leap to Mars will not happen without a giant leap in NASA's budget. As it stands now, NASA will never make it to Mars by themselves, although they may be able to do something in partnership with private industry or international partners.
Being able to beat a human isn't a big deal. Being able to do so while using the exact same inputs (key presses) and outputs (a picture of the screen) as a human is a big deal. Doom is definitely a simplified problem set (a given sprite only ever varies in scale and X/Y position), but it's still an impressive feat of machine vision and machine learning.
They're saying that the cost of a 256GB SSD will cross the price of a 1TB HDD by 2017. Well, OK, so what? 1TB are nowhere near the most cost effective HDDs today, at that's not going to change in the future, and that really means that the 256GB SSD is now only four times the price per gig of the 1TB HDD.
There are two mitigating factors: USB-C allows analog audio output if the host devices supports it (as in, a passive adapter can be used without an additional DAC), and USB-C is a general standard and not proprietary.
As such, if I was given the choice between a Macbook with one USB-C port and one headphone jack, or a Macbook with two USB-C ports... I would take the one with two USB-C ports. It'd be annoying to lose the headphone jack, but overall it'd be a net gain in utility, since it'd enable things like charge-and-display-at-the-same-time without hubs.
The word is that Star Trek: Discovery may attempt to use Majel Barrett's voice for the computer, due to her having recorded a complete phonetic sample before she passed. If this really does outperform the best available TTS engines, then perhaps DeepMind would be a good fit to generate that for the show: since it's supposed to be a computer, it's not the end of the world if it doesn't sound completely human...
I'm ultimately repeating what has been said over and over again here, but perhaps this will add a tiny bit more emphasis:
RAID IS NOT BACKUP.
Get BackBlaze for off-site backups. Or CrashPlan. Whatever. Just get something that is off-site that isn't going to lose your data when your RAID dies because of a controller failure, or a fire, or a flood, or an earthquake, or because a virus or hacker nuked your disks.
The Pi Zero costs the same and has a much faster CPU, 8x the RAM, support for external storage, HDMI video output, nearly three times as many GPIO pins, and its USB/HDMI/Power/Camera ports/sockets are already populated with connectors. How exactly does the Pi "look like daylight robbery"? The only advantage that the Omega2 seems to have is built-in networking support.
I'll be the first to admit that these devices are serving very different purposes (the Omega2 seems to want to be a network-enabled arduino), but it hardly makes the Zero seem like a poor value considering the Zero is so much more powerful/capable.
Apple is to ARM as AMD is to Intel: they license the instruction set rather than the chip designs. Apple then designs their own chips from scratch that implement the ARM instruction set.
Tesla cars don't support hands-free operation. You're supposed to keep your hands on the steering wheel while using autopilot, and the car will disable auto pilot after a while if you take your hands off the wheel.
Perhaps they should reduce that timeout to discourage people from taking their hands off the wheel entirely.
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My estimate included no redundancy at all. So admittedly I significantly under-estimated. In practice, you'd want to have at least the equivalent of raidz2 or raid6 arrays, if not full backups.
I'll ignore all the political aspects of this discussion and simply point out that this is a rather expensive proposition. I don't see a recent size estimate, but we know that the site increased from 10PB to 15PB between 2012 and 2014, so it's reasonable to estimate that it's around 23PB today.
How expensive is 23PB of storage, including the serves themselves? If we use BackBlaze's cost estimates (they build custom high-density chassis) of $0.036/GB, we get a figure of roughly $868k USD spread across 49x4U servers. Of course, that's just the hardware. The colocation space (including power and connectivity) would be at least $10,000 CAD per month.
Sanders didn't run for the GOP (Republican Party) and lost the popular vote by a large margin. Roughly three million votes. The super delegates wouldn't have given him the win if they had been divided by popular vote.
The Razer Blade series is generally considered to be the closest direct replacement for the Mac Pro, being unibody aluminum laptops with a similar form factor and build quality. There are three options: The Razer Blade Stealth, which is a 12.5" ultrabook that is kind of like a retina macbook air, the Razer Blade, which is sort of like a 14" retina Macbook pro, and the Razer Blade Pro, which is sort of like a 17" retina Macbook Pro.
At this point, all three have thunderbolt three and support an external GPU, although the latter two feature pretty damned beefy discrete GPUs (the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 respectively), so external GPUs are probably mostly of interest to the "stealth" model.
Mr. Musk didn't vote.
It's certainly a strong market position, but says nothing about the profitability and sustainability of the company.
Those satellites, assuming they're not serving ships and small islands, will also be routing data for the rest of the constellation. They're not just bouncing data back down on the same satellite, the data goes up from the client and travels from satellite to satellite until it hits a peering point.
$5,000 is the price of a business class seat on the routes they're talking about (not even first class), and it's a quarter the price of the Concorde. It just might be cheap enough to get a self-sustaining amount of traffic, which will provide an ongoing incentive to develop cheaper and cheaper planes. It's getting past that initial wall that's the problem, which the Concorde never did.
Sonic booms are resolved two ways. First, the same way that the Concorde did: use it on trans-continental flights. North America to Europe and Asia are the two obvious examples. Second, modern technology and computer simulation enables a reduction in the intensity of the sonic boom. What's available today is a decent reduction from the Concorde, although it's still nowhere near sufficient to enable supersonic flight over populated areas. But with a large fleet of supersonic aircraft flying, you get a powerful incentive to push that research forward.
Except they're not. LG's mobile division posted a $389.4M loss last quarter (and another loss the quarter before), HTC has posted a loss every quarter for years ($64M last quarter), OnePlus hasn't published any financial info since 2014 and so I would suspect is taking a loss, Xiaomi's sales are in freefall causing the company to drop 92% in value, and Motorola Mobility is now owned by Lenovo after bouncing around from owner to owner and is still losing money.
Of all the companies you mentioned, only Huawei is doing OK, and from a quick look through their latest annual report, they don't appear to break down their revenue to the level that you could say how much money their phones are making, and they don't break their expenses down by division at all.
With Samsung taking a massive hit, I'd suggest that Huawei may be the only company other than Apple making profit from smartphone manufacture. Most of the other companies have seen their market shares drop to insignificant numbers,
Samsung was the only Android handheld manufacturer making any actual profit (not a loss or breaking even), and the billions upon billions of dollars of costs for the Note 7 issues have wiped out years worth of profit for the things. That means that at this point, Apple is the only company actually making any significant profit in the industry.
So, is it really so bad to only have 12% of the market when you're the only ones making any money?
> We know the rockets are capable of operating on non-supercooled fuel because SpaceX only started using supercooled fuel about a year ago.
We don't know that, since the use of sub-cooled propellants only started with a new version of the rocket that is substantially different from the one that used regular temperatures. It's not even the same size as the previous vehicle, and we don't know what changes may have been made to the engines to enable them to hit their higher thrust with the sub-cooled fuel.
That said, they could still potentially go back to making the previous version of the rocket, or do a variant of the new rocket that isn't reliant on sub-cooled fuel, or it could turn out that the new rocket is still capable of operating with regular temperatures.
It's not just about how much boils off. The current revision of Falcon 9 uses sub-cooled liquid oxygen and fuel, which gives them additional performance (denser fuel, more thrust, more payload). If the fuel sits in the rocket for too long, it heats up and goes outside of the acceptable range. It's a relatively narrow window, so they only finish fueling ten minutes before the launch, and are forced to scrub the launch if there is any delay. That's not something that a procedural change would allow, it would require substantial changes to the hardware, much like substantial changes were required to switch to sub-cooled propellant in the first place. Even when they weren't using sub-cooled propellant, how much boiled off was irrelevant because they kept it topped off up until launch.
The risk mitigation is the abort system, which gets the capsule away from the rocket fast enough to survive the sort of failure that recently occurred.
Costs awarded in Canada are normally just a fraction of the actual costs, and in some major jurisdictions are required to be reasonable, including taking into account the amount sought.
I'm not aware of a single notice resulting in an actual lawsuit against an individual defendant since the notice-and-notice system went into effect, other than one bizarre attempt a reverse class action lawsuit that seems unlikely to go anywhere.
Canipre is a known copyright troll. They have no interest in suing anyone, it's much more profitable to trick people into paying unnecessary settlements.
Not all linux distributions are free?
A giant leap to Mars will not happen without a giant leap in NASA's budget. As it stands now, NASA will never make it to Mars by themselves, although they may be able to do something in partnership with private industry or international partners.
In what way? The entire point of this project is that it relies on the screen buffer, hence the name "VizDoom".
Being able to beat a human isn't a big deal. Being able to do so while using the exact same inputs (key presses) and outputs (a picture of the screen) as a human is a big deal. Doom is definitely a simplified problem set (a given sprite only ever varies in scale and X/Y position), but it's still an impressive feat of machine vision and machine learning.
They're saying that the cost of a 256GB SSD will cross the price of a 1TB HDD by 2017. Well, OK, so what? 1TB are nowhere near the most cost effective HDDs today, at that's not going to change in the future, and that really means that the 256GB SSD is now only four times the price per gig of the 1TB HDD.
There are two mitigating factors: USB-C allows analog audio output if the host devices supports it (as in, a passive adapter can be used without an additional DAC), and USB-C is a general standard and not proprietary.
As such, if I was given the choice between a Macbook with one USB-C port and one headphone jack, or a Macbook with two USB-C ports... I would take the one with two USB-C ports. It'd be annoying to lose the headphone jack, but overall it'd be a net gain in utility, since it'd enable things like charge-and-display-at-the-same-time without hubs.
The word is that Star Trek: Discovery may attempt to use Majel Barrett's voice for the computer, due to her having recorded a complete phonetic sample before she passed. If this really does outperform the best available TTS engines, then perhaps DeepMind would be a good fit to generate that for the show: since it's supposed to be a computer, it's not the end of the world if it doesn't sound completely human...
I'm ultimately repeating what has been said over and over again here, but perhaps this will add a tiny bit more emphasis:
RAID IS NOT BACKUP.
Get BackBlaze for off-site backups. Or CrashPlan. Whatever. Just get something that is off-site that isn't going to lose your data when your RAID dies because of a controller failure, or a fire, or a flood, or an earthquake, or because a virus or hacker nuked your disks.
You're not looking very hard, then. Lots of places have them in stock:
http://whereismypizero.com/
The Pi Zero costs the same and has a much faster CPU, 8x the RAM, support for external storage, HDMI video output, nearly three times as many GPIO pins, and its USB/HDMI/Power/Camera ports/sockets are already populated with connectors. How exactly does the Pi "look like daylight robbery"? The only advantage that the Omega2 seems to have is built-in networking support.
I'll be the first to admit that these devices are serving very different purposes (the Omega2 seems to want to be a network-enabled arduino), but it hardly makes the Zero seem like a poor value considering the Zero is so much more powerful/capable.
Apple is to ARM as AMD is to Intel: they license the instruction set rather than the chip designs. Apple then designs their own chips from scratch that implement the ARM instruction set.
Tesla cars don't support hands-free operation. You're supposed to keep your hands on the steering wheel while using autopilot, and the car will disable auto pilot after a while if you take your hands off the wheel.
Perhaps they should reduce that timeout to discourage people from taking their hands off the wheel entirely.