Are you looking at the article linked from this story? "Cellulosic ethanol made in the U.S. from switchgrass, a fuel that has been singled out by President Bush as a way to reduce the country's dependence on oil, produces 50 percent more emissions than gasoline does, the study said... Searchinger said the only possible exception he could see for now was sugar cane grown in Brazil, which takes relatively little energy to grow and is readily refined into fuel."
So, no, they're not just talking about corn, and the papers' authors (not a journalist) do make a sweeping statement about other biofuels, not just corn. Searchinger is the co-author of the paper at Princeton, not an overhyping journalist.
WRT the FSB, you would expect memory contention to be an issue with all 8 cores banging away, but that wouldn't explain why the 8 core chip is slower than a 2 or 4 core chip if there are only, say, 2 active threads.
But even if a program isn't massively threaded, it shouldn't run slower than on a system with fewer cores! And that's where I see the most damning problem here: "If a program only uses four of the eight processor cores, then the Skulltrail system is noticeably slower than a single-socket quad-core computer." It's one thing to have unutilized cores, but quite another for them to be a hindrance!
I say, think twice about the DVD burner. Instead, take a pocketPC and foldable keyboard. Light, no hard drive (fragile and bad at high altitude) and cheaper than a laptop. They're quite rugged, from my experience of carrying a few different models unprotected in my pocket for the last 10 years. Instead of burning DVDs, buy a few 4 GB SD cards for $20 each. That's 1000 photos per card at 4 MB each (which is a very generous estimate unless you insist on RAW images - in which case it's still only 10 cents per 20 MB image). I find a pocketPC screen OK for writing text, though admittedly inferior for web browsing.
The economy is an act of collective faith, all based on promises. Those pieces of green paper in your pocket? They have value only if people believe they have value. If they stop agreeing it all disappears. Can this lead to recession? Sure, but that's a "glass half empty" kind of statement, since boom times are based on the same principle.
"That removes the last excuse people have for not encrypting everything"
The biggest "excuse" is data loss. Companies don't want employees having sole control over company data. This is something I worry about when I encrypt my personal backups, too; how can I be sure I'll still remember the password in 5 years? Does that risk worry me more or less than the risk of the backup being stolen and abused?
Well, it's 64K * 4 billion. The 4 billion does help some.
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Yup, from reading the story, it appears all that Eli-Lilly lost was the opportunity to manage the announcement of the penalty. BFD. At least, not a $1 BN mistake by any means.
So move to a country that's run that way. (Good luck finding one that's not a getto hellhole ruled by a monarch, because that's what you're unknowingly wishing for).
Would Washington rather MS move their operations to Nevada and lose the tax base of all the employees?
I'd like to see you pull that one at a restaurant... "I'll have the filet mignon, but go ahead and just charge me for a tuna, OK?" "I'm sorry sir, the filet is $40." "Oh yeah?! You don't think I'll up and order the tuna? Cause I'll do it, man... don't test me!!"
Maybe, but then look at TiVo and other PVRs. Their uptake doesn't seem to be slowed by spying on you. And in that case, the spying doesn't even give the consumer anything in return.
Within a few years I don't think we'll just be using statistics of past data, but rather real-time traffic data from cars that link into a real-time network. All it will take is a certain density of smartphones with GPS.
So why do you think he committed fraud and stole? The only thing odd about the story is that a relatively lowly employee managed to commit what you might call a CEO-sized mistake. The Merrill Lynch writedown was more than twice as big - $14 BN - but isn't made out to have caused a worldwide meltdown. Plus, the Merrill Lynch CEO got paid hundreds of millions of dollars to do it!
Imagine if all the people in your apartment had cellphones... Oh, of course they do. And they've all had wireless home phones for 15 years before that. Transponder density doesn't have to be a problem for wireless, it just means you need smarter transponders, and you get to use less power.
Whatever the limitations of 802.11 may or may not currently be, that doesn't mean much about the long-term prospects of wireless. 10 years ago I would have thought reclaiming the analog TV spectrum would be impossible, now it's happening before our eyes. Outside of a post-nuclear attack scenario, I can't think of any reason to say wireless is inherently unreliable.
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So, no, they're not just talking about corn, and the papers' authors (not a journalist) do make a sweeping statement about other biofuels, not just corn. Searchinger is the co-author of the paper at Princeton, not an overhyping journalist.
WRT the FSB, you would expect memory contention to be an issue with all 8 cores banging away, but that wouldn't explain why the 8 core chip is slower than a 2 or 4 core chip if there are only, say, 2 active threads.
But even if a program isn't massively threaded, it shouldn't run slower than on a system with fewer cores! And that's where I see the most damning problem here: "If a program only uses four of the eight processor cores, then the Skulltrail system is noticeably slower than a single-socket quad-core computer." It's one thing to have unutilized cores, but quite another for them to be a hindrance!
With no linked article and no information in the summary, I'm curious if the writers got their Internet distribution royalties after all?
I say, think twice about the DVD burner. Instead, take a pocketPC and foldable keyboard. Light, no hard drive (fragile and bad at high altitude) and cheaper than a laptop. They're quite rugged, from my experience of carrying a few different models unprotected in my pocket for the last 10 years. Instead of burning DVDs, buy a few 4 GB SD cards for $20 each. That's 1000 photos per card at 4 MB each (which is a very generous estimate unless you insist on RAW images - in which case it's still only 10 cents per 20 MB image). I find a pocketPC screen OK for writing text, though admittedly inferior for web browsing.
The economy is an act of collective faith, all based on promises. Those pieces of green paper in your pocket? They have value only if people believe they have value. If they stop agreeing it all disappears. Can this lead to recession? Sure, but that's a "glass half empty" kind of statement, since boom times are based on the same principle.
Well, it's 64K * 4 billion. The 4 billion does help some.
Yup, from reading the story, it appears all that Eli-Lilly lost was the opportunity to manage the announcement of the penalty. BFD. At least, not a $1 BN mistake by any means.
That's what NAT already does; the secondary metric is the port number.
So what are you advocating for, revolution? Or do you not know who writes the rules of the game?
So move to a country that's run that way. (Good luck finding one that's not a getto hellhole ruled by a monarch, because that's what you're unknowingly wishing for).
Maybe, but then look at TiVo and other PVRs. Their uptake doesn't seem to be slowed by spying on you. And in that case, the spying doesn't even give the consumer anything in return.
Within a few years I don't think we'll just be using statistics of past data, but rather real-time traffic data from cars that link into a real-time network. All it will take is a certain density of smartphones with GPS.
Plus, every single news outlet in America just has to have a Superbowl tie-in story today.
Being mostly ads, the Super Bowl is an instruction manual for the "economic stimulus" handout we're all running up our credit cards in expectation of.
Yeah, but for solid state hard drives this is quite a leap. I'm starting to think winchester drives are going to be extinct within 5 years.
I'd say the fair thing to do is put it to a vote.
My suggestion is quit making me throw out my drink, and allow everybody else the same freedom. It's a risk I'm prepared to take.
In a way, 911 actually validated existing airport security. The hijackers were unarmed! No bombs, no machine guns. (And no, I don't count boxcutters).
So why do you think he committed fraud and stole? The only thing odd about the story is that a relatively lowly employee managed to commit what you might call a CEO-sized mistake. The Merrill Lynch writedown was more than twice as big - $14 BN - but isn't made out to have caused a worldwide meltdown. Plus, the Merrill Lynch CEO got paid hundreds of millions of dollars to do it!
Satellites are indeed a big deal. But beyond our own orbit, space has turned out rather... empty.
Whatever the limitations of 802.11 may or may not currently be, that doesn't mean much about the long-term prospects of wireless. 10 years ago I would have thought reclaiming the analog TV spectrum would be impossible, now it's happening before our eyes. Outside of a post-nuclear attack scenario, I can't think of any reason to say wireless is inherently unreliable.