I would point out that, outside of Alaska, the US has 6 times as much land in national forests as national parks. The national forests (and BLM land) are more like what the grandparent post imagines - you generally don't pay to enter, dispersed camping at random places is allowed, and they are not closed during a shutdown. National Parks are something else - they are singular and irreplaceable natural treasures, which at the same time draw much more visitation (and thus damage). As such it makes sense to more actively protect them.
If I bought one it would be in the hopes that whatever configuration it came with would be better supported (by either valve or the game developers) than a random collection of hardware.
Today I upgraded Ubuntu to the latest stable version and just wasted my whole evening trying to get it to recognize my *keyboard* of all things (which worked on the previous version). It still isn't recognized after trying 3 different kernels. Of course the upgrade installed the wrong video drivers (which segfaulted) too, and didn't automatically load the module for my sound card so it wasn't working either. (I also assumed it would break VMWare Workstation, and it did).
And that is why you choose a vendor-supported configuration. I'm getting too old for this.
Had I been there, my reaction, after the initial shock and horror, would have been, "No, if we fail, it will be because you demanded we demo a product before it was ready."
I don't know whether to dismiss that as a fantasy, or point out maybe it's part of why you weren't there.
The apartments will go for market rates, and a handful will be set aside for low income residents. All but 15 of the units will be open to non-Facebook employees.
So, it's a new 394-unit development in Menlo Park, which is near Facebook (and lots of other things).
SATA is fast enough to keep up with the SSD cache. Your argument makes more sense for RAM cache. Except not entirely since some of the logic that the drive may use in deciding what to cache depends on information that never traverses the interface. The motherboard and OS don't really know what block is where. Anyways the amount of RAM cache that anybody would build into an HDD is now virtually free, like 8 to 64 MB. In other words, on the order of 1/1000 of system RAM.
What configuration are you referring to? I would think the normal strategy for a dual drive setup is to have an SSD for the OS and applications, and an HDD for big bulk data like video, and backup of the SSD. (Add another HDD if you want to be able to back up more of your bulk data than the SSD can hold). Seems simple and effective enough.
It's a different kind of movie than Apollo 13 - the visuals of Gravity are far more spectacular, but not necessarily unrealistic. The buzz in this respect is quite positive:
The team behind Gravity, an upcoming sci-fi flick starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, seem particularly dedicated to accurately portraying science, however... According to "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait, JPL scientist Kevin Grazier served as the science adviser for the film. Although scientists increasingly provide guidance to filmmakers, sometimes drama overrides accuracy. At first glance, however, Gravity appears to err on the side of realism.
Personally I am looking forward to it. Although Ron Howard has his racing movie in theaters which also looks good!
Sounds to me like they know what they are getting into pretty well:
The migration started in 2004, when the Gendarmerie was faced with providing all its users with access to its internal network. In order to save money, the agency switched from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. Then the agency rolled out Firefox and Thunderbird in 2006. Finally, in 2008, it switched the first batch of 5,000 users to a Linux OS based on the Ubuntu distribution.
Ahh, it's so nostalgic to have this discussion on slashdot again!
Canada seems like a fairly close case for comparison. Australia or New Zealand too I guess.
One thing to think about is that slavery was ended throughout the British empire 30 years before the civil war. Does that mean US independence delayed freedom for American slaves? Of course there is no knowing.
Well, all his best-sellers were earlier in his career, so I'm sure you weren't the only one. Military techno-fetishism was a lot more relevant when conflict with a technological peer seemed close at hand. When that ended, hawks kept being hawks, but with less righteous justification.
I am going to give the benefit of the doubt that there are smart people who set this up and even they could not anticipate the initial load factor.
It would have been wasteful to implement the system to gracefully handle the exceptional load on opening day, which will never occur again. Since we're using Apple analogies, it would be like if they operated thousands of Apple stores, standing empty almost all the time, to prevent lines from forming every other year when they release a new model.
Define "forward thinking." Microsoft has been paranoid against following the inevitable trajectory of all tech companies since day 1, and has invested heavily in all the right areas to prevent it from happening. But it still happened anyways. Maybe one day it will wither and die, but be lucky enough to be re-born as a different company that strikes gold in some new area, like Apple was (and countless other defunct tech companies attempting a similar strategy were not). But for now Microsoft is still making tons of money at being Microsoft.
That's the problem with this kind of award, it turns it into a contest which seems rather gauche. "Oh yeah, well this person got shot in the head, beat that!"
Isn't that as it should be, after working and saving all your life?
You ignored: "This wealth gap is now more than double what it was in 2005 and nearly five times the 10-to-1 disparity a quarter-century ago" even after you quoted it! Some disparity is desirable (since people bulk up savings for retirement) but why has it grown so fast and so large?
I can tell you this, my dad worked at a company extremely similar to where I work, and he is enjoying a retirement I will never have, at least without extreme sacrifice now which he did not do. He got a full pension and pre-medicare healthcare benefits - both things that my employer has cut since after I hired on here. I tell him about it and he's kind of surprised. I can't blame him personally. But in general old people are just cruising along assuming nothing has really changed and "what's the matter with kids these days" that they're racking up college debt and not settling down, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they're sucking up everything in sight just by honoring the promises they made to each other back when, while failing to set enough aside to pay for them.
Good info. 26 Mbps up would really open some options such as watching DVR content from home while on the road, or sending links to self-hosted video to family instead of youtube where they will get blocked for copyright infringement. I made my dad a video for his birthday and he never saw it because I put a beatles song behind it.
I was consulting this article that says 4k content will shift to H.265. (Although it also claims H.264 4k video would be fine at 45 Mbit/s, so who knows).
Anyway, 100 Mbit is still less than 300 Mbit, and Internet streaming is surely able to be upgraded to new encodings more easily than cable or satellite broadcasts, for example even if only a few people have new sets that support the encoding.
Why would content be produced when there is no way to deliver it to most people? I think it's pretty obvious that Internet streaming will lead the way in 4k video distribution. Heck, I'm not a huge fan but I would really love to watch a football game on a 60", 60 fps 4K OLED display. People will pay good money for that.
I'm even hopeful that something like OnLive (i.e. playing games rendered remotely) might become finally feasible.
If you had fiber to the curb and that 300 Mbit coax was shared between just a small handful of homes, it would still be very nice. If Comcast did that for $40/month in response to full fiber-to-the-home for $65/mo, for example, I would probably go cheap.
I am really curious what gigabit Internet means, in practice. At worst it could be like living on a 6-lane freeway that extends only the length of your driveway to a dirt road.
Moreover the TOS restrictions against using it to run a "server" (whatever that means) really suck. My son would love to run a minecraft server. Actually I am anti Internet-consolidation in general, and would love to see super-simple solutions for people to host their own Facebook replacement, and youtube replacement, and self-hosted email and calendaring, and so forth. These huge centralized commercial databases just hold too many cards. Fiber to the home seems to open the possibility of decentralizing the Internet again.
AT&T's plan is millions of people paying $100/mo wireless plans for their iPhones. I say the party now most threatened by high-speed fixed infrastructure is Comcast, not AT&T.
You just used one of the oldest misdirections in the book - pivoting from "what people should do" to "what people should be allowed to do." Start watching for this and you see it all the time.
Plus, if these cars were mostly used for regular commutes & shopping trips along the same routes, it would probably remember where it usually stops for red lights, where it usually spots a lot of pedestrians, where the driver swerved to avoid that cat that one time, and so on.
I suppose the car will learn not only from its own experience, but that of, eventually, thousands and then millions of other cars on the road as well. Maybe a few zany-looking cars of the type google uses to create street view will map out all the roads with bulky lidar and high-definition cameras, perform an insane amount of off-line processing, and then humans will hand-verify the location of everything that isn't clear. Cars will download all this as they drive along a new road so they are familiar with the road before they get there. And if a few of the cars licensing their technology go through an intersection on a given day and fail to see things in the expected place, some update will be triggered. And the car will say to the driver, "I'm getting nervous, please take over for me." I would imagine google and others are whiteboarding all this stuff and filing patents at a torrid pace.
Secondly, the Googleâ Street View vehicles capture data which most people are not familiar with. This data is known as LIDAR (LI ght D etection A nd R anging).
So there you go, google already knows the location of every curb and every speed bump, as of whenever one of their cars last went by.
Get ready to be annoyed for about 30 years, because "automated" commonly means "more automated than before," not "automated in every conceivable way."
Your example about how this might cause a crash is incorrect, since the car doesn't just follow rules (such as red lights) in the hopes everybody else will also follow them perfectly. They do what you do - they also watch for and avoid other cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles (regardless of why the other car is doing whatever it's doing).
Still I do worry about how they will accurately see stoplights and stop for the intersection even if no other cars are in view. There are bad lighting conditions where it's extremely difficult to do. (I guess as a backup it could know the GPS location of stoplights and stop if it doesn't see the light and confirm that it is green). But I am sure we will end up with some level of instrumentation on the road such as stoplights that emit at a frequency not obfuscated by sunlight, snow, etc, like visible light is.
I currently have a Linux PC and a XBox 360 connected to my TV. Is Steam more of a console replacement, or a distribution method for PC-style games? (I.e. keyboard/mouse input and few co-op games). Does installing games on Linux under Steam actually work, or is it a nightmare of package dependencies that require an up-to-date install of a specific distro? Is there a good selection of split-screen games that are gamepad-friendly? I am getting a little tired of the XBox 360 low resolution, and it is feeling more and more limited without paying a subscription fee, which I won't do.
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I would point out that, outside of Alaska, the US has 6 times as much land in national forests as national parks. The national forests (and BLM land) are more like what the grandparent post imagines - you generally don't pay to enter, dispersed camping at random places is allowed, and they are not closed during a shutdown. National Parks are something else - they are singular and irreplaceable natural treasures, which at the same time draw much more visitation (and thus damage). As such it makes sense to more actively protect them.
Today I upgraded Ubuntu to the latest stable version and just wasted my whole evening trying to get it to recognize my *keyboard* of all things (which worked on the previous version). It still isn't recognized after trying 3 different kernels. Of course the upgrade installed the wrong video drivers (which segfaulted) too, and didn't automatically load the module for my sound card so it wasn't working either. (I also assumed it would break VMWare Workstation, and it did).
And that is why you choose a vendor-supported configuration. I'm getting too old for this.
I don't know whether to dismiss that as a fantasy, or point out maybe it's part of why you weren't there.
So, it's a new 394-unit development in Menlo Park, which is near Facebook (and lots of other things).
SATA is fast enough to keep up with the SSD cache. Your argument makes more sense for RAM cache. Except not entirely since some of the logic that the drive may use in deciding what to cache depends on information that never traverses the interface. The motherboard and OS don't really know what block is where. Anyways the amount of RAM cache that anybody would build into an HDD is now virtually free, like 8 to 64 MB. In other words, on the order of 1/1000 of system RAM.
What configuration are you referring to? I would think the normal strategy for a dual drive setup is to have an SSD for the OS and applications, and an HDD for big bulk data like video, and backup of the SSD. (Add another HDD if you want to be able to back up more of your bulk data than the SSD can hold). Seems simple and effective enough.
Personally I am looking forward to it. Although Ron Howard has his racing movie in theaters which also looks good!
Ahh, it's so nostalgic to have this discussion on slashdot again!
One thing to think about is that slavery was ended throughout the British empire 30 years before the civil war. Does that mean US independence delayed freedom for American slaves? Of course there is no knowing.
Well, all his best-sellers were earlier in his career, so I'm sure you weren't the only one. Military techno-fetishism was a lot more relevant when conflict with a technological peer seemed close at hand. When that ended, hawks kept being hawks, but with less righteous justification.
It would have been wasteful to implement the system to gracefully handle the exceptional load on opening day, which will never occur again. Since we're using Apple analogies, it would be like if they operated thousands of Apple stores, standing empty almost all the time, to prevent lines from forming every other year when they release a new model.
Define "forward thinking." Microsoft has been paranoid against following the inevitable trajectory of all tech companies since day 1, and has invested heavily in all the right areas to prevent it from happening. But it still happened anyways. Maybe one day it will wither and die, but be lucky enough to be re-born as a different company that strikes gold in some new area, like Apple was (and countless other defunct tech companies attempting a similar strategy were not). But for now Microsoft is still making tons of money at being Microsoft.
That's the problem with this kind of award, it turns it into a contest which seems rather gauche. "Oh yeah, well this person got shot in the head, beat that!"
You ignored: "This wealth gap is now more than double what it was in 2005 and nearly five times the 10-to-1 disparity a quarter-century ago" even after you quoted it! Some disparity is desirable (since people bulk up savings for retirement) but why has it grown so fast and so large?
I can tell you this, my dad worked at a company extremely similar to where I work, and he is enjoying a retirement I will never have, at least without extreme sacrifice now which he did not do. He got a full pension and pre-medicare healthcare benefits - both things that my employer has cut since after I hired on here. I tell him about it and he's kind of surprised. I can't blame him personally. But in general old people are just cruising along assuming nothing has really changed and "what's the matter with kids these days" that they're racking up college debt and not settling down, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they're sucking up everything in sight just by honoring the promises they made to each other back when, while failing to set enough aside to pay for them.
Good info. 26 Mbps up would really open some options such as watching DVR content from home while on the road, or sending links to self-hosted video to family instead of youtube where they will get blocked for copyright infringement. I made my dad a video for his birthday and he never saw it because I put a beatles song behind it.
Anyway, 100 Mbit is still less than 300 Mbit, and Internet streaming is surely able to be upgraded to new encodings more easily than cable or satellite broadcasts, for example even if only a few people have new sets that support the encoding.
I'm even hopeful that something like OnLive (i.e. playing games rendered remotely) might become finally feasible.
I am really curious what gigabit Internet means, in practice. At worst it could be like living on a 6-lane freeway that extends only the length of your driveway to a dirt road. Moreover the TOS restrictions against using it to run a "server" (whatever that means) really suck. My son would love to run a minecraft server. Actually I am anti Internet-consolidation in general, and would love to see super-simple solutions for people to host their own Facebook replacement, and youtube replacement, and self-hosted email and calendaring, and so forth. These huge centralized commercial databases just hold too many cards. Fiber to the home seems to open the possibility of decentralizing the Internet again.
AT&T's plan is millions of people paying $100/mo wireless plans for their iPhones. I say the party now most threatened by high-speed fixed infrastructure is Comcast, not AT&T.
300 Mbps isn't dogmeat! You "only" need 20-45 Mbps to stream 4k video.
You just used one of the oldest misdirections in the book - pivoting from "what people should do" to "what people should be allowed to do." Start watching for this and you see it all the time.
I suppose the car will learn not only from its own experience, but that of, eventually, thousands and then millions of other cars on the road as well. Maybe a few zany-looking cars of the type google uses to create street view will map out all the roads with bulky lidar and high-definition cameras, perform an insane amount of off-line processing, and then humans will hand-verify the location of everything that isn't clear. Cars will download all this as they drive along a new road so they are familiar with the road before they get there. And if a few of the cars licensing their technology go through an intersection on a given day and fail to see things in the expected place, some update will be triggered. And the car will say to the driver, "I'm getting nervous, please take over for me." I would imagine google and others are whiteboarding all this stuff and filing patents at a torrid pace.
Oh, what do you know, google street view cars already collect lidar:
So there you go, google already knows the location of every curb and every speed bump, as of whenever one of their cars last went by.
Your example about how this might cause a crash is incorrect, since the car doesn't just follow rules (such as red lights) in the hopes everybody else will also follow them perfectly. They do what you do - they also watch for and avoid other cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles (regardless of why the other car is doing whatever it's doing).
Still I do worry about how they will accurately see stoplights and stop for the intersection even if no other cars are in view. There are bad lighting conditions where it's extremely difficult to do. (I guess as a backup it could know the GPS location of stoplights and stop if it doesn't see the light and confirm that it is green). But I am sure we will end up with some level of instrumentation on the road such as stoplights that emit at a frequency not obfuscated by sunlight, snow, etc, like visible light is.
It won't get your pregnant or give you an STD or get you killed if you struggle. My vote is for preserving the word for its actual meaning.
I currently have a Linux PC and a XBox 360 connected to my TV. Is Steam more of a console replacement, or a distribution method for PC-style games? (I.e. keyboard/mouse input and few co-op games). Does installing games on Linux under Steam actually work, or is it a nightmare of package dependencies that require an up-to-date install of a specific distro? Is there a good selection of split-screen games that are gamepad-friendly? I am getting a little tired of the XBox 360 low resolution, and it is feeling more and more limited without paying a subscription fee, which I won't do.