But this is NOT about how to avoid capture if you are Bin Laden. The issue here is data collection on ordinary people at a mass scale for no particular reason, thus the barrier for avoiding it is very low. What enables this mass data collection is that people are lining up in neat rows; millions use the same phone company, the same social networking site, the same webmail provider. All of this uniformity is driven by extremely small incentives, such as the convenience of facebook over email, or the cost savings of centralized webmail providers over the original decentralized nature of email, irc, etc. On the whole, I'm afraid Americans are very, very far from doing anything to stop the creation of these mass centralized databases such as facebook and gmail, and once they exist they will be exploited, absolutely, if not in public than in private.
It is the power of the stars, thousands of times more dense than any other energy source. Nuclear alone CAN stop the lights from going out as fossil fuels run out or become untenable due to the huge world population.
If that doesn't happen, it will be because solar undercut the price of nuclear without the waste or security problems... in that case, even better!
Even with an SSD I still find suspending and resuming VMs to be slow enough that I avoid it until necessary. I am delighted by these improvements; for decades, hard drives were an increasingly narrow bottleneck in computer performance relative to other components, and it seemed it would always stay that way. But I guess I won't be totally satisfied until the L1 cache on my CPU is big enough to store my media collection and we can do away with the entire memory hierarchy.
Clearly the project should be migrated over to the pdf team at Adobe, they know how to put a little excitement back into software that had been just quietly doing its job.
Well, I guess they know what they're getting into:
In June 2008, CNET named Webvan the largest dot-com flop in history, placing it above Pets.com and eight other sites on its list.[1] It is now owned and operated by Amazon.com.
(quoting Wikipedia)
Remember WebVan?
How is this anything other than Amazon moving into a business that Walmart could have done at any time but evidently passed on?
I predict Amazon will end up delivering groceries mainly places where other companies already do (i.e. where there is a market for it) but it won't spread much further.
Nor will they be able to join in World War II to see what that was like. However there is more recorded footage of WoW than WWII for future historians to study.
It is not a matter of individual choice because of competition among options. When one option becomes dominant it eliminates the other options that would otherwise have been available. I wish people still used email for social correspondence, but they don't; they use facebook. I liked the Internet more back when it was more one-way (like a telescope), but that's not the Internet that exists today. Everything is tracked, creating databases that are bought and sold freely among companies and governments, and it is by no means just google.
what exactly is wrong with just voting normally that voting online solves.
How soon we forget. Remember when we waited for the result for months, and then got a Supreme Court coin-toss, because marking and counting paper ballots is error-prone - some can be interpreted either way.
To this add long wait times at the polls, which effectively requires some people to pay a high price (waiting for hours) to vote, skewing the outcome.
Granted, it has not been demonstrated that computerized voting can solve these problems without creating bigger ones. But the status quo is certainly not ideal.
The AnandTech review I was referring to is the HD 5200 integrated graphics in the mobile chip. The Techspot one you are referring to is for desktops where Intel has not included HD 5200, it is the HD 4600, so the AMD won by 7% - 24% for integrated graphics performance. I guess the HD 5200 is not coming in desktop CPUs for a few more months, but it is about 50% faster than HD 4600 (both are on the AnandTech charts) so I hope AMD has something big up its sleeve.
As to the price difference, CPU performance has to count for something too. On media encoding the Intel is more than twice the speed of that particular AMD. And with a discrete graphics card the Intel beat every AMD in the test. And at idle the Intel takes less than half the power of an AMD FX system.
That has nothing to do with this story at all. He entered different lower-level competitions with the same entry in order to maximize his odds of making it to the next level. The problem with allowing this would be that to even the odds, everybody would have to enter every competition, where the same set of projects would be re-evaluated over and over.
You must have said that before looking at the benchmarks? Looks to me like AMD is toast. Intel's integrated graphics beat AMD's on every game in the AnandTech test.
The new Intel even beats the discrete mobile GPU (Geforce GT 650M) on a couple tests. On most the Intel is somewhat slower but using around half the power.
I just wish the cars with batteries would let you unload the extra batteries when you don't need / want them. Unloading 4-500 lbs from a Volt for a road trip (just leaving one or two for its basic energy management needs) would greatly improve mpg and free up lots of space too.
Same with the Tesla. Going 300 miles without a recharge is useful occasionally, but how light and quick would the same car be with just enough to easily get me to work and back, some 20 miles.
"normal"? So failing to live the same way most people live is wrong?
Oh please. People with severe autism are highly dependent on others for day-to-day care throughout their entires lives. (Of course the person above confused the whole issue by saying "Asperger's / Autism" as if we were just talking about being a bit geeky.) Here is what it is, not feel-good stories about mild cases.
Here is a pretty neat article on how the Chevy Volt uses its battery to modulate energy production from its internal combustion engine, allowing it to run nearer its optimal range more of the time. Note it is right in its sweet spot at 72 mph. (That said the car gets 'only' 40 mpg on the highway on gas, even though it can bypass the electrical drivetrain on the highway. It does weigh 700 lb more than a Prius so maybe the problem is the weight of the batteries which aren't very useful on long trips, but could allow you to drive up to 40 miles per day in the city without ever buying gas again.)
Wasting electricity is what ties bitcoin back to a scarce natural resource to prevent its devaluation.
I wonder if China has considering purchasing oil rather than US Treasury securities. They could either stockpile it domestically (surely crude oil has a long shelf life, it is quite old already), or leave it in the ground of an oil producing nation they either trust or can invade if necessary to redeem their oil securities.
Where pixels of a certain colour arranged in a certain way on a screen and even the bits used to represent them are illegal.
And you are nothing but some atoms in a certain configuration. Separate the elements, and together they're worth less than $1. Or, who would have guessed 200 years ago that the world economy would revolve around manipulating the magnetic charge of cobalt atoms on little glass platters? We devote our lives to flipping those bits, about 20 of them if you're doing really well. Information does matter.
But environment has a huge influence over biology. Think of a goldfish floating around in a bowl on your kitchen countertop. Now look at these babies. I think that is a good analogy for the stimulating effect of environment on the modern mind. Think of how hard it was for the first europeans in the west to recognize the natives as fully human. I realize the conventional wisdom is that these europeans were practically deranged by prejudice. But it is also true that, due to circumstances, the natives had an extremely impoverished range of experiences and knowledge, relatively speaking. It is hard to understand how the same brain that considered throwing a spear to be inventive could later travel to the moon, with little biological change in between, but that shows how enormous is the effect of environment (to include culture, literacy, trade, etc).
Sure, any organization has internal conflicts of interest when somebody is tasked to train their own replacement etc. That half billion in savings is mainly going to be salaries after all.
It's awful that universities have to do a "remedial year" to fix shortcomings in K-12
"Awful" is a strong word. In the past these students would have become blue-collar workers and never learned the material at all. Now that path is largely gone, so we're trying to help more people reach higher. (This is not just a glass-half-empty philosophical distinction; the percentage of students who enter college has gone way up in the last century including the last 20 years.)
I'm curious if this approach has any inherent advantages over implantable insulin pumps (which have been around for a few decades), and why they haven't take off wildly (for all the benefits you mention).
FTTH is between $1,500 and $3,000 in suburban markets which is recouped by annual customer commitments.
The only way these costs are made affordable is through government subsidies.
Pfft, those prices are right in line with the total price for a two year contract on an iPhone, which I don't have but lots of people do. I've had Comcast cable Internet (@home initially) for 14 years now, which is somewhat over $15,000 in total. Customers are laying out enough money is being laid out to justify some re-investment now and then.
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Which is why our government should be open in its actions, correct?
But this is NOT about how to avoid capture if you are Bin Laden. The issue here is data collection on ordinary people at a mass scale for no particular reason, thus the barrier for avoiding it is very low. What enables this mass data collection is that people are lining up in neat rows; millions use the same phone company, the same social networking site, the same webmail provider. All of this uniformity is driven by extremely small incentives, such as the convenience of facebook over email, or the cost savings of centralized webmail providers over the original decentralized nature of email, irc, etc. On the whole, I'm afraid Americans are very, very far from doing anything to stop the creation of these mass centralized databases such as facebook and gmail, and once they exist they will be exploited, absolutely, if not in public than in private.
Your customer list is public knowledge? That's the type of information ex-employees tend to steal on their way out the door because it is valuable.
If that doesn't happen, it will be because solar undercut the price of nuclear without the waste or security problems... in that case, even better!
Even with an SSD I still find suspending and resuming VMs to be slow enough that I avoid it until necessary. I am delighted by these improvements; for decades, hard drives were an increasingly narrow bottleneck in computer performance relative to other components, and it seemed it would always stay that way. But I guess I won't be totally satisfied until the L1 cache on my CPU is big enough to store my media collection and we can do away with the entire memory hierarchy.
Clearly the project should be migrated over to the pdf team at Adobe, they know how to put a little excitement back into software that had been just quietly doing its job.
(quoting Wikipedia)
Remember WebVan?
How is this anything other than Amazon moving into a business that Walmart could have done at any time but evidently passed on?
I predict Amazon will end up delivering groceries mainly places where other companies already do (i.e. where there is a market for it) but it won't spread much further.
Nor will they be able to join in World War II to see what that was like. However there is more recorded footage of WoW than WWII for future historians to study.
It is not a matter of individual choice because of competition among options. When one option becomes dominant it eliminates the other options that would otherwise have been available. I wish people still used email for social correspondence, but they don't; they use facebook. I liked the Internet more back when it was more one-way (like a telescope), but that's not the Internet that exists today. Everything is tracked, creating databases that are bought and sold freely among companies and governments, and it is by no means just google.
How soon we forget. Remember when we waited for the result for months, and then got a Supreme Court coin-toss, because marking and counting paper ballots is error-prone - some can be interpreted either way.
To this add long wait times at the polls, which effectively requires some people to pay a high price (waiting for hours) to vote, skewing the outcome.
Granted, it has not been demonstrated that computerized voting can solve these problems without creating bigger ones. But the status quo is certainly not ideal.
As to the price difference, CPU performance has to count for something too. On media encoding the Intel is more than twice the speed of that particular AMD. And with a discrete graphics card the Intel beat every AMD in the test. And at idle the Intel takes less than half the power of an AMD FX system.
That has nothing to do with this story at all. He entered different lower-level competitions with the same entry in order to maximize his odds of making it to the next level. The problem with allowing this would be that to even the odds, everybody would have to enter every competition, where the same set of projects would be re-evaluated over and over.
The new Intel even beats the discrete mobile GPU (Geforce GT 650M) on a couple tests. On most the Intel is somewhat slower but using around half the power.
Same with the Tesla. Going 300 miles without a recharge is useful occasionally, but how light and quick would the same car be with just enough to easily get me to work and back, some 20 miles.
Oh please. People with severe autism are highly dependent on others for day-to-day care throughout their entires lives. (Of course the person above confused the whole issue by saying "Asperger's / Autism" as if we were just talking about being a bit geeky.) Here is what it is, not feel-good stories about mild cases.
Here is a pretty neat article on how the Chevy Volt uses its battery to modulate energy production from its internal combustion engine, allowing it to run nearer its optimal range more of the time. Note it is right in its sweet spot at 72 mph. (That said the car gets 'only' 40 mpg on the highway on gas, even though it can bypass the electrical drivetrain on the highway. It does weigh 700 lb more than a Prius so maybe the problem is the weight of the batteries which aren't very useful on long trips, but could allow you to drive up to 40 miles per day in the city without ever buying gas again.)
I wonder if China has considering purchasing oil rather than US Treasury securities. They could either stockpile it domestically (surely crude oil has a long shelf life, it is quite old already), or leave it in the ground of an oil producing nation they either trust or can invade if necessary to redeem their oil securities.
And you are nothing but some atoms in a certain configuration. Separate the elements, and together they're worth less than $1. Or, who would have guessed 200 years ago that the world economy would revolve around manipulating the magnetic charge of cobalt atoms on little glass platters? We devote our lives to flipping those bits, about 20 of them if you're doing really well. Information does matter.
But environment has a huge influence over biology. Think of a goldfish floating around in a bowl on your kitchen countertop. Now look at these babies. I think that is a good analogy for the stimulating effect of environment on the modern mind. Think of how hard it was for the first europeans in the west to recognize the natives as fully human. I realize the conventional wisdom is that these europeans were practically deranged by prejudice. But it is also true that, due to circumstances, the natives had an extremely impoverished range of experiences and knowledge, relatively speaking. It is hard to understand how the same brain that considered throwing a spear to be inventive could later travel to the moon, with little biological change in between, but that shows how enormous is the effect of environment (to include culture, literacy, trade, etc).
Sure, any organization has internal conflicts of interest when somebody is tasked to train their own replacement etc. That half billion in savings is mainly going to be salaries after all.
"Awful" is a strong word. In the past these students would have become blue-collar workers and never learned the material at all. Now that path is largely gone, so we're trying to help more people reach higher. (This is not just a glass-half-empty philosophical distinction; the percentage of students who enter college has gone way up in the last century including the last 20 years.)
I'm curious if this approach has any inherent advantages over implantable insulin pumps (which have been around for a few decades), and why they haven't take off wildly (for all the benefits you mention).
I quote: "Once the prototype of the product is ready..."
Excuse me for being unimaginative, but if nothing else it will enable 4k television. 20-40 mbits per stream will use up plenty of bandwidth.
Pfft, those prices are right in line with the total price for a two year contract on an iPhone, which I don't have but lots of people do. I've had Comcast cable Internet (@home initially) for 14 years now, which is somewhat over $15,000 in total. Customers are laying out enough money is being laid out to justify some re-investment now and then.