I hear UBS is going to go to 100% bitcoin. A spokesman said, "basically there aren't enough computers on the planet to handle a billion bitcoin transactions per hour, so it will be days before the money is actually transferred. This gives us time to roll back anything, plus we can get interest on the float while we wait for the transaction to close."
Bitcoin, is there any problem it can't make better?
First all python IDEs I've used stink. Now I have not used them all so I'd be happy to hear suggests but please keep reading. So MS entry is welcome
Second, unless this IDE is cross platform it will HURT not help python programming. Even if you plan just to eat your own dogfood, you mere use of it means that it MS only features wil creep into your lexicon and those of your colleagues. Don't do that. use cross platform tools.
Hmm...well, now I have a reason to never update to Win 8....geez, I don't know ANYONE that likes the fscking ribbon interface.
I'm guessing they won't have a 'classic' look and feel option?
It's astonishing how bad the new microsoft office is. By bad I mean not only hard to use even in simple ways but hard to figure out how to use. It is utterly baffling to long time users. It's not intuitive to new ones.
I'm not talking about it requiring a little re-learning. I've tried. I put effort into it. I can't figure the fucking thing out. My pasted graphics get wrapped in these shit sandwich wrappers that defy manipulation.
I've just punted and bought a copy of Apple's Page.app. Now I just export and import into that. if there's a functionality I lack I'd rather not have it than be forced to use the Ribbon of doom.
That said, given a choice, I'd use MS word for compatibility reasons if it just had the old interface. I'd pay extra to have the old interface back.
Isis is said to listen to the prayers of the wealthy power brokers, while acting like a friend to the working people and poor. Sounds like a very apropos name.
I have another texting plan called "party line". This is texting group that is open to everyone to join. each text you post costs 1$. the person that posts the very last text (15 second closeout window) get $1000 cash!
Under the my new plan for texting, each text costs only 1 penny and you don't have to pay that till your conversation with a friend is finished. moreover only the person that sends the second to last text has to pay. As long as you are the last person to send a text withing 15 seconds of the previous one you don't pay!
Texting prices are a total rip off. it costs at&t almost zip to do this, so I figure why not make it as big a scam as humanly possible?
moreover if you have a data plan texting ought to be free.
If you check that image, his tree model was able to pack an increase of 80% cells in 50% of the surface area he placed in the normal flat panel model. The tree model has the advantage that it doesn't have to rotate in order to achieve direct sunlight during the day/year. So it's inventive in his being able to achieve cell density that other people haven't seemly taken advantage of as of yet.
Actually the idea of 3D solar arrays has been around for a while. The measure of their performance can be total conversion per flat area consumed or the uniformity of their output. The former statistic is only useful when you have a stand-alone case (e.g. one on top of a roof) because they end up shading each other. The other statistic is more useful. If you can use more solar cells but gain more constant energy without moving parts it may be a win because you are collecting more energy per area over a day.
Now to answer your question. I recently installed Apple's Lion which has a resume feature. when you boot it puts you right back to where you were when you turned it off. this means no more having to quit applications when you shut down!
The reason you leave your computer on now is in part because it was a chore to turn it off and it interrupted your work flow. this is no longer the case. There is very little reasons not to turn your work computer off when you leave now.
sigh... windows security was highly compromised by a few very simple things. It encouraged users to be Admins by making simple tasks require admin, its registry required modifying system resource handles by untrusted apps, and it had no way to tag files as tainted after a download to warn users when they opened them.
Then the access controls that were implemented swung the pendulum too far too early. Unix permissions on a mac are useful while not being terribly difficult to maintain. The OS will take care of keeping all the critical ones set for you.
Macs also of course have a sophisticated ACL, but prior to LION no one seriously used it. It remains to be seen how it will get used.
The big new hopes are the No-Execute, randomized addressing, and sandboxing.
Sandboxing has been in macs since 10.4 but it is only coming into regular use in 10.7. For example Safari uses it to separate parsing from display. It's built into the OS, as it should be, so you are not relying on app makers to implement their own. It works really really well. but it's poorly documented.
I dont' see why anyone would think that Apple is a follower of MS. Well I guess we can credit MS for showing how bad designs can trap you in ways you can't shake off later without breaking everything.
Do not think about going inside The Sphere. No just try not to think about that. It's so dangerous the people from the future tried to hide it in the past at the bottom of the ocean.
Ah the year of the linux desktop...been hearing that for a while.
Free software is mainly useful when you are implementing large quatities of things (e.g. server farms or point of sale terminals or generic desktops for interchangable worker bees. Also it's fantastic for sharing things to other people whoo can't be bothered to buy, say Matlab, to run your stupid script. that's why it gets so much play in acadamia.
but everyone else values their time and does not have the skill to deal with all the flexibility and variety Linux has. Google, apple and microsoft spend a lot making it easy to use and assuring compatibility (well not google yet). Linux by it's nature is untamed. it's a lynx not a kitten. Nothing wrong with being a lynx, but they are never going to be housebroken.
shooting to be a desktop environment for the masses is trying to be the wrong thing.
I think we should hang a trillion rootable XP virtual machines on the web. The virus will be so busy infecting all these decoys that it won't be able to find the real machines. We can constantly reset these virtual machines back to clean so they won't be propagating the infection, just chewing up the time of the computers sending out the viruses.
I always like the Numerical recipes quote: Scientists solve next years problem on last years computer. Computer programmers solve last years problem on next years computer.
I've lived on both sides of this divide but mainly on the scientific side. I become apoplectic with software engineers who just don't vest themselves in the science. The perpetually want a set of requirements. And they get upset if a new requirement is added later. I see software as a way to explore a space. Model it. Determine what more modeling is needed. You are constantly trying to do something that usually is beyond what is computationally possible so you have to figure out what approximation is going to work. What has to be done at full scale and what can be done at lower resolution. Mock up stuff.
The engineers who don't see it as a process just are impediments. Scientists want lots of simple things fast then see what is working and add new simple extensions. They don't want to wait 4 months for some delivered code based on specs it took 2 months to write.
And the problem with it in most cases is that servers shrink over time. Every new generation is both smaller and more power-effiecent, or they just plain get moved.
Which means that in 15~20 years you are barely supplying enough heat to overcome heat losses in the system. And the homes and offices have no heating.
Sigh... Let's think about this shall we. The reason we currently discard our serveres every 3 years is that the operating costs per compute cycle savings exceed the capital costs of new servers. But these servers have negative operating costs. They will never go obsolete in terms of operating costs per computer cycle. They will only go obsolete when the wall clock time for a calculation becomes undesirably long. For certain kinds of servers (such as ones that are bandwidth starved) the machine will fail from old age first. This very long life cycle means it will be worth the extra cost of putting in very high reliability components.
The reason the paper is important is that it works through the less obvious but more important details. For example, there will be pluses and minuses to distribution. Residential electricity costs more than COmmerical electricity. Bandwidths will need to be upgraded. One of the big costs is the data center itself and that includes air circulation, facility maintanence, floorspace for egress not just cooling power. Don't forget about bathrooms, lights, floor cleaning and 403Bs for all the people who maintain the facility.
Dpends on your field, I think. I still have my old computer programming textbooks from university, but that's more due to nostalgia than anything else. Especially for things like languages that significantly over time (such as java), keeping old books is pointless.
So true. And it made me wonder. Is a science something in which the text books change slowly not annually? Computer science versus computer enginieering versus computer vocational training? How can it be science or even engineering if the textbooks go obsolete so fast?
The problem with audio stream encryption is that it will be before the compression codec. When you feed uncompressed but encrypted audio into the skype codec expecting voice it either wont' be able to compress it enough to send, or very bad things will happen to the signal and it probably can't be decrypted. If you try compressing it first, then you are still screwed when you try to decrypt it.
In the 80's when CB radio took off people tried building encryptors for that but it pissed the feds off and they got shut down.
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I hear UBS is going to go to 100% bitcoin. A spokesman said, "basically there aren't enough computers on the planet to handle a billion bitcoin transactions per hour, so it will be days before the money is actually transferred. This gives us time to roll back anything, plus we can get interest on the float while we wait for the transaction to close."
Bitcoin, is there any problem it can't make better?
That Made me laugh out loud.
Everyone talks about the weather. But no one does anything about it
First all python IDEs I've used stink. Now I have not used them all so I'd be happy to hear suggests but please keep reading. So MS entry is welcome
Second, unless this IDE is cross platform it will HURT not help python programming. Even if you plan just to eat your own dogfood, you mere use of it means that it MS only features wil creep into your lexicon and those of your colleagues. Don't do that. use cross platform tools.
Hmm...well, now I have a reason to never update to Win 8....geez, I don't know ANYONE that likes the fscking ribbon interface.
I'm guessing they won't have a 'classic' look and feel option?
It's astonishing how bad the new microsoft office is. By bad I mean not only hard to use even in simple ways but hard to figure out how to use. It is utterly baffling to long time users. It's not intuitive to new ones.
I'm not talking about it requiring a little re-learning. I've tried. I put effort into it. I can't figure the fucking thing out. My pasted graphics get wrapped in these shit sandwich wrappers that defy manipulation.
I've just punted and bought a copy of Apple's Page.app. Now I just export and import into that. if there's a functionality I lack I'd rather not have it than be forced to use the Ribbon of doom.
That said, given a choice, I'd use MS word for compatibility reasons if it just had the old interface. I'd pay extra to have the old interface back.
Oh Bitcoin Kenobi, you are my only hope.
Isis is said to listen to the prayers of the wealthy power brokers, while acting like a friend to the working people and poor. Sounds like a very apropos name.
picture has been alerted
I don't know what it is for but I know the name of the drive is "C:"
I have another texting plan called "party line". This is texting group that is open to everyone to join. each text you post costs 1$. the person that posts the very last text (15 second closeout window) get $1000 cash!
Under the my new plan for texting, each text costs only 1 penny and you don't have to pay that till your conversation with a friend is finished. moreover only the person that sends the second to last text has to pay. As long as you are the last person to send a text withing 15 seconds of the previous one you don't pay!
Texting prices are a total rip off. it costs at&t almost zip to do this, so I figure why not make it as big a scam as humanly possible?
moreover if you have a data plan texting ought to be free.
If you check that image, his tree model was able to pack an increase of 80% cells in 50% of the surface area he placed in the normal flat panel model. The tree model has the advantage that it doesn't have to rotate in order to achieve direct sunlight during the day/year. So it's inventive in his being able to achieve cell density that other people haven't seemly taken advantage of as of yet.
Actually the idea of 3D solar arrays has been around for a while. The measure of their performance can be total conversion per flat area consumed or the uniformity of their output. The former statistic is only useful when you have a stand-alone case (e.g. one on top of a roof) because they end up shading each other. The other statistic is more useful. If you can use more solar cells but gain more constant energy without moving parts it may be a win because you are collecting more energy per area over a day.
I'm not kidding. Apple is being sued by a company that claims to have patented fast booting:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390639,00.asp
Now to answer your question. I recently installed Apple's Lion which has a resume feature. when you boot it puts you right back to where you were when you turned it off. this means no more having to quit applications when you shut down!
The reason you leave your computer on now is in part because it was a chore to turn it off and it interrupted your work flow. this is no longer the case. There is very little reasons not to turn your work computer off when you leave now.
sigh... windows security was highly compromised by a few very simple things. It encouraged users to be Admins by making simple tasks require admin, its registry required modifying system resource handles by untrusted apps, and it had no way to tag files as tainted after a download to warn users when they opened them.
Then the access controls that were implemented swung the pendulum too far too early. Unix permissions on a mac are useful while not being terribly difficult to maintain. The OS will take care of keeping all the critical ones set for you.
Macs also of course have a sophisticated ACL, but prior to LION no one seriously used it. It remains to be seen how it will get used.
The big new hopes are the No-Execute, randomized addressing, and sandboxing.
Sandboxing has been in macs since 10.4 but it is only coming into regular use in 10.7. For example Safari uses it to separate parsing from display. It's built into the OS, as it should be, so you are not relying on app makers to implement their own. It works really really well. but it's poorly documented.
I dont' see why anyone would think that Apple is a follower of MS. Well I guess we can credit MS for showing how bad designs can trap you in ways you can't shake off later without breaking everything.
Do not think about going inside The Sphere. No just try not to think about that. It's so dangerous the people from the future tried to hide it in the past at the bottom of the ocean.
Ah the year of the linux desktop...been hearing that for a while.
Free software is mainly useful when you are implementing large quatities of things (e.g. server farms or point of sale terminals or generic desktops for interchangable worker bees. Also it's fantastic for sharing things to other people whoo can't be bothered to buy, say Matlab, to run your stupid script. that's why it gets so much play in acadamia.
but everyone else values their time and does not have the skill to deal with all the flexibility and variety Linux has. Google, apple and microsoft spend a lot making it easy to use and assuring compatibility (well not google yet). Linux by it's nature is untamed. it's a lynx not a kitten. Nothing wrong with being a lynx, but they are never going to be housebroken.
shooting to be a desktop environment for the masses is trying to be the wrong thing.
I think we should hang a trillion rootable XP virtual machines on the web. The virus will be so busy infecting all these decoys that it won't be able to find the real machines. We can constantly reset these virtual machines back to clean so they won't be propagating the infection, just chewing up the time of the computers sending out the viruses.
problem solved :-)
Jobs per megawatt? What the hell kind of measure of efficiency is that?!
Jobs = work/week
Watt = work/second
Jobs/MegaWatt = 0.144 E-12
I always like the Numerical recipes quote: Scientists solve next years problem on last years computer. Computer programmers solve last years problem on next years computer.
I've lived on both sides of this divide but mainly on the scientific side. I become apoplectic with software engineers who just don't vest themselves in the science. The perpetually want a set of requirements. And they get upset if a new requirement is added later. I see software as a way to explore a space. Model it. Determine what more modeling is needed. You are constantly trying to do something that usually is beyond what is computationally possible so you have to figure out what approximation is going to work. What has to be done at full scale and what can be done at lower resolution. Mock up stuff.
The engineers who don't see it as a process just are impediments. Scientists want lots of simple things fast then see what is working and add new simple extensions. They don't want to wait 4 months for some delivered code based on specs it took 2 months to write.
Hence scientist tend to write their own code.
And the problem with it in most cases is that servers shrink over time. Every new generation is both smaller and more power-effiecent, or they just plain get moved.
Which means that in 15~20 years you are barely supplying enough heat to overcome heat losses in the system. And the homes and offices have no heating.
Sigh... Let's think about this shall we. The reason we currently discard our serveres every 3 years is that the operating costs per compute cycle savings exceed the capital costs of new servers. But these servers have negative operating costs. They will never go obsolete in terms of operating costs per computer cycle. They will only go obsolete when the wall clock time for a calculation becomes undesirably long. For certain kinds of servers (such as ones that are bandwidth starved) the machine will fail from old age first. This very long life cycle means it will be worth the extra cost of putting in very high reliability components.
The reason the paper is important is that it works through the less obvious but more important details. For example, there will be pluses and minuses to distribution. Residential electricity costs more than COmmerical electricity. Bandwidths will need to be upgraded. One of the big costs is the data center itself and that includes air circulation, facility maintanence, floorspace for egress not just cooling power. Don't forget about bathrooms, lights, floor cleaning and 403Bs for all the people who maintain the facility.
Commander Adama would love the mish mash of non-interoperable systems-- it prevents cylon viruses.
Dpends on your field, I think. I still have my old computer programming textbooks from university, but that's more due to nostalgia than anything else. Especially for things like languages that significantly over time (such as java), keeping old books is pointless.
So true. And it made me wonder. Is a science something in which the text books change slowly not annually? Computer science versus computer enginieering versus computer vocational training? How can it be science or even engineering if the textbooks go obsolete so fast?
I told the guy in the store I wanted the one with the Gee Bees,
does no one recall the Microsoft iLoo disaster in the UK?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILoo
The problem with audio stream encryption is that it will be before the compression codec. When you feed uncompressed but encrypted audio into the skype codec expecting voice it either wont' be able to compress it enough to send, or very bad things will happen to the signal and it probably can't be decrypted. If you try compressing it first, then you are still screwed when you try to decrypt it.
In the 80's when CB radio took off people tried building encryptors for that but it pissed the feds off and they got shut down.