The test simulates credit card transactions coming in at a controlled rate. So this test would let someone get an idea of their operating costs.
No, for just reason the parent stated - it doesn't tell you how many computers of each type you'd need to handle each particular transaction load.
The biggest news I see, though, is the massive lead AMD holds in Idle power consumption - 44% lower! This is a very important special case (unless you somehow have a steady workload 24/7, which I think would be highly atypical).
but I'm sure that there will be a few hundred alleged iPhone killers released in the next few years.
Only if Apple can convince everybody that their own late entry into the smartphone market is now somehow the standard for comparison.
And while I'm being grumpy, please don't everybody complain because it's not just a barebones phone. I'd like to go on a business trip without a laptop someday, OK?
Or maybe they hired 3000 great people, but just wish they didn't have to pay so darn much because investors want them to spend less money. See? No contradiction.
Review is almost always done anonymously, and by reviewers who aren't assigned until the paper is received. How would you know who to suck up to?
One thing you're assuming is that the author chooses whom to cite. In practice, the reviewers - who are in a position of power - often "ask" the author to add citations to specific papers. This is perfectly valid on one level, but I think you can see the conflict of interest as well.
There's a lot of truth in that joke. I recently attended a conference in Atlanta where not one of the presenters was a native English speaker. I couldn't understand them and they couldn't understand each other, but it made me think about how much harder it will be for us Americans if we lose the "home team" advantage of having so many important conferences relatively nearby and the most prestigious conferences and journals in English. It's amazing how well non-native English speakers do despite the additional challenge of a language barrier. Could we do the same? I find getting published hard enough, what if I had to write in Chinese? Success is a self-reinforcing thing (I guess that's why we have words like "hegemony" and "monopoly") and this implies there is a tipping point - the leader won't fall behind until they're truly inferior, but then the fall will be quick. I hope we're not that close to the brink but this is no time to rest on our laurels.
Do you think a suspected drunk driver gets a trial before his car is seized? No. How about someone whith what appears to the officer to be cocaine on the front seat? No.
Using "war on drugs" laws to justify "war on terror" laws should be the dictionary definition of a slippery slope. Wake up, the war on drugs has been used to search people for no reason and confiscate property from people not proven guilty of anything for decades now. Yes, it is unconstitutional, and no, the Supreme Court does not currently agree with me:)
if you are Joe consumer and you buy a hammer at a hardware store, or any other retail outlet, the contractual chain ends with the retailer who sells it to you.
Everything you said is wrong if the lawsuits in question are successful. That's the whole point. If the makeup manufacturer can successfully sue somebody who has not entered into any agreement with them, it's a whole new ballgame. I think it would end the gray market.
I'm not sure how practical that is.....34,000 square kilometers is 13,000 square miles which is half the size of lake Superior. Where are you going to make an algae lake like that?
In its Global 2000 report, the White House Council on Environmental Quality noted that "improvident grazing . . . has been the most potent desertification force, in terms of total acreage (351,562 square miles) within the United States."
That's not the number of acres used by grazing, it's the number of acres already ruined, as of 6 years ago.
Anyways, I think there will need to be greenhouses or tanks of some sort to get efficient production. Otherwise you'll have temperature variations, invasion by other plant species, etc, not to mention water waste through evaporation.
I'm not saying it's a good idea. But the intruders do need some way to access the machine at will. If they leave a port listening, the OS knows and can tell the user (netstat) or firewall it unless the OS is also compromised. If the OS is compromised, it still wouldn't be long until somebody figures it out and massive blocking on that port could occur by ISPs (as is being suggested). The bot could poll some website to update itself, such as triggering a switch listening on a new port, but that would be obvious and the update site easily blocked.
I'm not savvy enough to know how attackers solve this problem in general.
Then please explain why combat deaths have gone down since WWII?
I dunno, maybe because nobody has invaded Europe and Russia again? Not one of the wars you mentioned directly involved a significant industrial power on both sides.
Slow response time would be fine for websurfing, photo albums, PIMs, etc.
Not really. It results in disappearance of the mouse cursor, and interferes with scrolling.
That said, general purpose reflective displays (rather than today's emissive displays) would be a revolution in most electronics applications. No longer would dim lighting be necessary. The story mentions billboards, which is overlooking the obvious - home TV sets and home theater. Since movies were invented they've been associated with sitting in the dark, but that's just a technological limitation that reflective displays would solve. Powerpoint presentations would no longer have to be given in dim lighting, which robs attention from the presenter and makes people go to sleep. The screen of your GPS would be much more clear in the constantly changing lighting conditions of driving. You wouldn't have to get a window seat on the airplane to control the lighting so you could use your laptop. You could - gasp - work outdoors on a laptop.
The dedicaed telephone network is still best, but I find VOIP quality better than cell any day. I suppose it all depends on what the broadband to your particular home is like.
Speaking of which, do you think people would be allowed to drive cars or own guns if they were invented today? I don't.
Anyways, the good news is that libraries do exist, and aren't going away. If the electronic library is to exist, it should be pursued as an extension of existing libraries. In other words, we must ensure that electronic access to text grows out of the familiar library setting, not Napster. There are lots of ways to do this.
For instance, current library filing systems are really just electronic card catalogues, which is quite primitive - what if whoever catalogued the book didn't think up the same keywords you did? Only by digitizing the books will we be able to use all the information retrieval algorithms that make searching the WWW so effective. This would be very useful even if users couldn't "click through" the search results to the content of the book.
Another good argument for digitization is preservation. It just seems reckless not to have an easily duplicated archive of all published works.
After that, I hope we could consider exemptions to copyright that allow electronic access from anywhere, for a fee. Call it "compulsory licensing" if you like, but it really just means "we won't prohibit people from accessing the information, but we will make them pay and give you the money," which sounds better and happens to be true.
It seems to me that if this thing is mechanically applying 16 PSI in vacuum then it must apply 32 PSI when inside the capsule. That's going to raise your blood pressure. Not by enough to be harmful, (after all scuba divers have the same).
This gets at my question, which is why pressurization is needed at all. Diving from 1 to 2 atmospheres is no big deal. Why is going from 1 to 0 such a problem?
Right, the problems kick in when our emotions are irrational - not aligned with reality.
Clearly what's needed here is an AI module that accurately computes risk/reward probabilities (which people suck at), and automatically injects emotional stimulants from a chemical reservoir:
About to give a big presentation? Replace the "fight or flight" response with a moderate boost in confidence.
Considering a third slice of pie? Inject a dollup of satiation and a pinch of nausea.
Little Johnny really enjoys his homework now.
Suddenly I feel the urge to splurge - not on a 50" LCD but on my 401k!
he sensitivity of these triggers seems to differ from person to person, which is one reason some people can eat anything they want without gaining weight, while others can count calories and still become obese.
But that only explains (at most) the variation between different people, which has always existed. What it does not explain is the overall epidemic of obesity and diabetes in modern times, especially in America. It's not our biology that has changed over the last few generations.
IMHO, it's the inevitable result of technology, which boils down to the pursuit of ease and plenty. However, I think technology will also provide the answer, in the same way that birth control ended population explosion in rich civilizations despite the basic biological drive to procreate. The direct analog of birth control would be pills allowing us to stuff our faces with rich foods whenever we want and not gain weight (which sounds ugly, but that's exactly what most of our forebearers would think of today's sexual practices). I can imagine widespread use of stomach stapling or appetite suppression instead, but you sure don't see many people attemping birth control by the elimination of sex drive.
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The biggest news I see, though, is the massive lead AMD holds in Idle power consumption - 44% lower! This is a very important special case (unless you somehow have a steady workload 24/7, which I think would be highly atypical).
And while I'm being grumpy, please don't everybody complain because it's not just a barebones phone. I'd like to go on a business trip without a laptop someday, OK?
Or maybe they hired 3000 great people, but just wish they didn't have to pay so darn much because investors want them to spend less money. See? No contradiction.
There's a lot of truth in that joke. I recently attended a conference in Atlanta where not one of the presenters was a native English speaker. I couldn't understand them and they couldn't understand each other, but it made me think about how much harder it will be for us Americans if we lose the "home team" advantage of having so many important conferences relatively nearby and the most prestigious conferences and journals in English. It's amazing how well non-native English speakers do despite the additional challenge of a language barrier. Could we do the same? I find getting published hard enough, what if I had to write in Chinese? Success is a self-reinforcing thing (I guess that's why we have words like "hegemony" and "monopoly") and this implies there is a tipping point - the leader won't fall behind until they're truly inferior, but then the fall will be quick. I hope we're not that close to the brink but this is no time to rest on our laurels.
What would be really elegant is painting roads to collect solar power for cars. There is a whole lot of road out there!
Agreed 100% - mere data corruption cause hard drives to start clicking or taking 4 seconds for every seek, does it?
Maybe making suicide illegal somehow helps survivors such as insurance companies and creditors.
Anyways, I think there will need to be greenhouses or tanks of some sort to get efficient production. Otherwise you'll have temperature variations, invasion by other plant species, etc, not to mention water waste through evaporation.
he must be doing something right if Microsoft is shunning it.
I'm not saying it's a good idea. But the intruders do need some way to access the machine at will. If they leave a port listening, the OS knows and can tell the user (netstat) or firewall it unless the OS is also compromised. If the OS is compromised, it still wouldn't be long until somebody figures it out and massive blocking on that port could occur by ISPs (as is being suggested). The bot could poll some website to update itself, such as triggering a switch listening on a new port, but that would be obvious and the update site easily blocked. I'm not savvy enough to know how attackers solve this problem in general.
I just don't think Mosix ever really caught on.
That said, general purpose reflective displays (rather than today's emissive displays) would be a revolution in most electronics applications. No longer would dim lighting be necessary. The story mentions billboards, which is overlooking the obvious - home TV sets and home theater. Since movies were invented they've been associated with sitting in the dark, but that's just a technological limitation that reflective displays would solve. Powerpoint presentations would no longer have to be given in dim lighting, which robs attention from the presenter and makes people go to sleep. The screen of your GPS would be much more clear in the constantly changing lighting conditions of driving. You wouldn't have to get a window seat on the airplane to control the lighting so you could use your laptop. You could - gasp - work outdoors on a laptop.
The dedicaed telephone network is still best, but I find VOIP quality better than cell any day. I suppose it all depends on what the broadband to your particular home is like.
Anyways, the good news is that libraries do exist, and aren't going away. If the electronic library is to exist, it should be pursued as an extension of existing libraries. In other words, we must ensure that electronic access to text grows out of the familiar library setting, not Napster. There are lots of ways to do this.
For instance, current library filing systems are really just electronic card catalogues, which is quite primitive - what if whoever catalogued the book didn't think up the same keywords you did? Only by digitizing the books will we be able to use all the information retrieval algorithms that make searching the WWW so effective. This would be very useful even if users couldn't "click through" the search results to the content of the book.
Another good argument for digitization is preservation. It just seems reckless not to have an easily duplicated archive of all published works.
After that, I hope we could consider exemptions to copyright that allow electronic access from anywhere, for a fee. Call it "compulsory licensing" if you like, but it really just means "we won't prohibit people from accessing the information, but we will make them pay and give you the money," which sounds better and happens to be true.
Clearly what's needed here is an AI module that accurately computes risk/reward probabilities (which people suck at), and automatically injects emotional stimulants from a chemical reservoir:
...where fending off Microsoft and IBM is a piece of cake.
IMHO, it's the inevitable result of technology, which boils down to the pursuit of ease and plenty. However, I think technology will also provide the answer, in the same way that birth control ended population explosion in rich civilizations despite the basic biological drive to procreate. The direct analog of birth control would be pills allowing us to stuff our faces with rich foods whenever we want and not gain weight (which sounds ugly, but that's exactly what most of our forebearers would think of today's sexual practices). I can imagine widespread use of stomach stapling or appetite suppression instead, but you sure don't see many people attemping birth control by the elimination of sex drive.
Ohhh, "her" flight manual... you're good.