Why do you think the NSA snoops on Non-US traffic more than it snoops on US traffic?
Really?
Frankly, if you are sending e-mail in the clear (and, unless YOU encrypt it - you are) - it is like mailing post cards from your holiday trips and expecting no one to look at the back of them.
Don't know why ANYONE would vote for TweedleDee or TweedleDum. I mean really - different sides of the same coin. Frankly - if you are in office now - YOU are the problem and should be voted out. I have voted against every incumbent for the last 10 years and intend to continue to do the same thing until the radicals on BOTH sides realize there is a huge benefit for working together in the middle and get rid of these one party votes. Frankly - the fact that the republicans had to get enough votes in their own party to pass anything earlier this month because nancy pelosi wouldn't let any democrats vote was a waste. Means the republicans have to go more conservative instead of more liberal to attract democrat votes that they won't get. The senate is a wreck - and frankly, I won't negotiate doesn't cut it as a president. If he can't deliver democrat votes in the house - he isn't worth it.
Frankly, the number of full electric cars is almost non-existent (and frankly - what driver of an electric car would volunteer for this program?). That is a non-starter, don't even care about this corner case. Want to generate more tax revenues from full electric cars, simply stop subsidizing vehicles for the 1% and you have generated more money for the government than any tax increase ever could.
Very similarly - I worked for a company that had a very strong commitment to being in the office by 8AM. During a particularly bad crunch time, engineering was working until 2-3AM, then getting critical e-mails sent to them (and their managers) about showing up "late" at 8:15 in the morning. Engineering solved the problem by watching the clock and leaving at 5. Management lost out on the additional 10 hours of work a day, and quickly removed the late list.
There is no excuse for management not tracking what their employees are doing and rewarding them for the work they are doing rather than the chair they sit in or hours they spend on Slashdot.
You want "Someone Else" to manage your data that is classified under ITAR? Uhmmm... Why don't you build your backup solution - put links in to remote data centers and handle the problem correctly and professionally. The last thing we need is some external entity getting a hold of this stuff because you don't want to have the budget to do things right instead of at a consumer level.
Gah - I can't believe this is even a question
You're a fool swept up in Republican lies and propaganda. That video was made while training in the use of their new video facilities and cost them next to nothing.
Yes,
Seems like a pretty big ROI to me. Spend 500,000 dollars on a project to fund the full value of the companies revenues. Lack of revenue/profits is what sinks so many projects. Lets do a thought experiment. Lets all go refactor our code for 3 years to make it perfect. Chance of being done - almost 0, value to the company - still there at almost 0.
Ok - So I raise your pay from 50K to 100K. Now I ask you not to come in one Friday per 2 weeks, paying you 90K.
Is that a pay cut or a reduction in the rate of increase?
3. "You should spend additional money to pay for more efficient machines rather than the computer you already have which are paid for, because money grows on trees, I place no value on your learning exercise, and I assume the electricity comes right out of your departmental budget exactly the same way purchase hardware would."
I always love that - I work for someone, the goal is to get the largest value out of the money spent... regardless of who's budget it is. This is how we end up with a bureaucracy that does very stupid things like deploying old hardware that will cost more in 6 months in power than an updated environment will cost including new systems, its electricity and its cooling. The money for power does not come out of trees, it is a real cost to the whole organization
What I am saying is the cost of running these 14 nodes will quickly cost more than the cost of running a 4 node cluster that will provide better performance. Server systems (especially OLD server systems) are real power hogs. When you are drawing close to 500W/node that is 7KWatt running 24/7. All of that power adds up. On top of that the stated goal was space saving. He is taking a whole rack to provide the compute power of ~4U. The new server approach provides a 10x savings in space, a 10x savings in power cost - and another 10x savings in cooling cost (the other big cost to running a cluster).
It is nice to put old hardware to use occasionally - it is almost never cost effective to put old hardware to use, people don't realize that the main cost of a cluster is not acquisition cost, but cooling and power.
Actually - by slow latency you mean high latency. High latency is bad like slow bandwidth is bad. You want the lowest latency numbers that you can afford. I know of people that count the speed of light going down a cable in their latency calculations because it matters to them (~ 5uSec/m)
There is a reason that old hardware should be gotten rid of. Depending on the exact config of the 14 servers (processor/whatever) you could probably replace them with 1, maybe 2 servers. The current generation of Jefferson Pass servers hold 4 servers in a 2U sled - so you could replace this whole thing with a 2U solution that isn't exposed the elements like you are proposing. It would be new, under warranty and faster than all get out.
Your solution will take 14 servers, connect them with ancient 1GbE interconnect and hope for the best. The interconnect for clusters REALLY matters, many problems are network bound - and not only network bound but latency bound as well. Look at the list of fastest supercomputers and you will barely see Ethernet anymore (especially at the high end) and definitely not 1GbE. Your new boxes will probably come with 10GbE that will definitely help... Especially since there will be fewer nodes to have to talk to (only 2, maybe 4)
The other problem that you will run into is your system will take about 20x the power and 20x the air conditioning bill (yeah - that is a LOT of power there), the modern new system will pay for itself in 9-12 months (and that doesn't include the tax deduction for donating the old systems and making them Someone Else's Problem)
Recycling old hardware always seems like fun. At the end of a piece of hardware's life cycle look at what it will actually cost to keep it in service - Just the electricity bill will bite you hard, then you have the maintenance, and fun reliability problems.
Actually - They didn't teach me either. There is this invention that we used to use for math - called your head. You can do very complicated math "In your head".
Funny story. Worked with a brilliant engineer years ago. He was born a decade and a day after I was. I had to use pencil and paper for the SAT - you learned to do simple math very accurately and very quickly "In your head". He was of the age that you got to take in an approved calculator into the SAT test. They no longer required to do Math "In your head". When we played darts - he couldn't add up the scores because he never had to.
You are learning to type - that is finger placement and styles. Keyboard layouts are all basically the same (Except for the Microsoft keyboard that puts the 6 key in the wrong place) and it is just a matter of slight adjustments. There is not a difference in the layout between a modern keyboard and an old manual typewriter... There are differences in travel, sound, and other things - but those aren't needed to deal with muscle memory and having your fingers know how to type.
No - the point is to learn typing. Once you learn to type you can efficiently learn the technology of the limited computers. Frankly - the only class that has any value to me from high school was my freshman year typing class taught on an old IBM Selectric typewriter. Heck - the description in the summary is begging for a typewriter.
Technology for technology sake is never the answer - old school devices still rule, there is usually never a need for fancy modern devices, they just make thinks easier and more convenient if you happen to have money (and in this case electricity)
on an airline.
As a country we aren't willing to pay extra for good service on an airline - it is all about who has the lowest fair on expedia/priceline/... not which brand has good customer service. As a country we are not willing to pay for extras like good customer service, quality, or good business practices. Anyone old enough when the big selling point of walmart was "Made in America"? It was great - walmart was great - jobs were great... Then it was time to lower prices - either by breaking the labor force in the USA or shipping manufacturing somewhere "cheaper". Now walmart requires suppliers to have a plan to manage their manufacturing in China... No more Made in the USA there.
It is a shame isn't it.
So a bright light is expected to travel down the ear canal - cross the several membranes between the ear and the brain and have a measurable effect on your brain (even assuming that the photoreceptors ARE there). I'm buying it just as much as the Browser IQ article from earlier.
I want to see some peer review first
I am assuming that they use stored electricity... But not all that power will be provided by the catapult. There are engines on the plane that produce thrust as well running at full throttle. I would assume that they can provide some of that 153 MW of work during the launch.
How about the individual mandate? In a free society such as ours, it is a violation of liberty for the government to require an individual to purchase something from a private company as a cost of living.
I don't understand people arguing this point. Aren't we already required to own car/motorcycle insurance? And given that public transportation is laughable or nonexistent outside of cities, couldn't owning a vehicle be considered a cost of living?
You are not required to own automobile insurance in any state that I am aware of. People are capable of walking, biking, taking a bus, hiring a taxi for that matter, my young daughter has no need for car insurance for another 4-5 years. If you decide it is more convenient to buy a car, pay for insurance and gas - that is great, your free choice.
Very true. Hard to know what not to love in a 1500 page bill that is a bunch of densely written diffs to the current laws. I would much prefer to read the thousands of pages of what the law actually says with the diffs applied.
Now on to answer your questions:
What not to love, The requirement to give 1099 forms to any business a company does 600 dollars worth of business with in a year. Imagine you are an independent truck owner - you drive around the country delivering goods. You fill up on diesel at various stops along the way buying 2-300 dollars worth of diesel at a stop. You are responsible for figuring out which companies (realize the gas stations are usually private small companies owned by local franchises) you bought 600 dollars worth of gas from, what their business location is (No - it isn't cheveron, and probably isn't on the receipt) and delivering the documents to them annually. How much will this paperwork cost you, what happens when you make a mistake (really, did you know that some guy owns a gas station in florida and north dakota for some unknown reason?) - what does this have to do with the delivery of health care anyway?
What not to love, The requirement to pay for a product merely for being alive in the country. As an older American, insurance is a great deal - I will spend more than 10-15K in healthcare costs a year. As a young single male, well - lets just say if I see a doctor this year, it is unusual, I am wasting all of my premium. I am forced to pay for this just for being alive in the country now
What not to love, All of the mandates on what coverage has to include. Let me guess, you add required services to a bid, you expect the price to go up. Seems normal to me
What not to love, All of the wheeling and dealing that went into getting all 60 democrats in the senate to vote yes, if you want "good" insurance that covers a lot of things, so it costs 10K a year - you have to pay extra (unless you are in a union). If you happen to live in a few states with smart senators that hold out, your state gets a break by not having to implement things that are required of the rest of the country (so we are all paying for Nebraska now - wish I lived there, or better wish my senator wasn't such a tow the party line guy that they didn't have to pay him off to get a yes vote out of him)
I could go on for a while... next time someone wants to vote on a 1500 page bill, lets give people enough time to read 1500 pages (3-4 days? I mean it would be your full time job) so we can actually know what is in the bill before it is voted on.
Ok - time for a few corrections
1) First Intel (after initially responding poorly to the bug) fully recalled the product without question. If you had a processor in question, you could ask for and recieve a replacement. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
2) The flaw was caused by a bad division lookup table, not the mathematical nuance of binary logic gates. What I think you are trying to describe is the fact that floating point numbers are not percise, and you never compare them directly, only compare if they are within a small delta of each other.
40 Million payout. 1/100th of that payout is 400K.
Frankly, I have about 1/2 of that in accounts now at 40. I plan on having about 1/20th of that by the time I retire in 25 years. That said - the guy was fired for cause - why are you paying him off with a golden parachute. If I wrote a fraudulent expense report for a few hundred dollars, I expect I would be fired and the police knocking on my door asking some questions about my behavior.
Ah lack of understanding of the constitutions amendments strikes again...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Where in that text do you see something that says AT&T can not tell you to stop being a jerk to their CEO. Where in there does it say that Slashdot is required to keep your post showing, where does it say that you are allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater.
All it says is that CONGRESS can not pass laws that abridge your right to speech. If you are talking poorly in my house - I have every right to ask you to leave.
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Why do you think the NSA snoops on Non-US traffic more than it snoops on US traffic?
Really?
Frankly, if you are sending e-mail in the clear (and, unless YOU encrypt it - you are) - it is like mailing post cards from your holiday trips and expecting no one to look at the back of them.
Don't know why ANYONE would vote for TweedleDee or TweedleDum. I mean really - different sides of the same coin. Frankly - if you are in office now - YOU are the problem and should be voted out. I have voted against every incumbent for the last 10 years and intend to continue to do the same thing until the radicals on BOTH sides realize there is a huge benefit for working together in the middle and get rid of these one party votes. Frankly - the fact that the republicans had to get enough votes in their own party to pass anything earlier this month because nancy pelosi wouldn't let any democrats vote was a waste. Means the republicans have to go more conservative instead of more liberal to attract democrat votes that they won't get.
The senate is a wreck - and frankly, I won't negotiate doesn't cut it as a president. If he can't deliver democrat votes in the house - he isn't worth it.
Frankly, the number of full electric cars is almost non-existent (and frankly - what driver of an electric car would volunteer for this program?). That is a non-starter, don't even care about this corner case. Want to generate more tax revenues from full electric cars, simply stop subsidizing vehicles for the 1% and you have generated more money for the government than any tax increase ever could.
There is no excuse for management not tracking what their employees are doing and rewarding them for the work they are doing rather than the chair they sit in or hours they spend on Slashdot.
You want "Someone Else" to manage your data that is classified under ITAR? Uhmmm... Why don't you build your backup solution - put links in to remote data centers and handle the problem correctly and professionally. The last thing we need is some external entity getting a hold of this stuff because you don't want to have the budget to do things right instead of at a consumer level.
Gah - I can't believe this is even a question
You're a fool swept up in Republican lies and propaganda. That video was made while training in the use of their new video facilities and cost them next to nothing.
60,000 != Next to Nothing
Hey, I know my BILL has increased 30% (from $100/mo to $125).
Thanks, Comcast!
Hey my math skills have decreased by 3.8% from 130 to 125.
I would be Ok with a rounding error (say 28.6 -> 30), but this is ridiculous.
Yes,
Seems like a pretty big ROI to me. Spend 500,000 dollars on a project to fund the full value of the companies revenues. Lack of revenue/profits is what sinks so many projects. Lets do a thought experiment. Lets all go refactor our code for 3 years to make it perfect. Chance of being done - almost 0, value to the company - still there at almost 0.
Ok - So I raise your pay from 50K to 100K. Now I ask you not to come in one Friday per 2 weeks, paying you 90K.
Is that a pay cut or a reduction in the rate of increase?
3. "You should spend additional money to pay for more efficient machines rather than the computer you already have which are paid for, because money grows on trees, I place no value on your learning exercise, and I assume the electricity comes right out of your departmental budget exactly the same way purchase hardware would."
I always love that - I work for someone, the goal is to get the largest value out of the money spent... regardless of who's budget it is. This is how we end up with a bureaucracy that does very stupid things like deploying old hardware that will cost more in 6 months in power than an updated environment will cost including new systems, its electricity and its cooling. The money for power does not come out of trees, it is a real cost to the whole organization
It is nice to put old hardware to use occasionally - it is almost never cost effective to put old hardware to use, people don't realize that the main cost of a cluster is not acquisition cost, but cooling and power.
Actually - by slow latency you mean high latency. High latency is bad like slow bandwidth is bad. You want the lowest latency numbers that you can afford. I know of people that count the speed of light going down a cable in their latency calculations because it matters to them (~ 5uSec/m)
Your solution will take 14 servers, connect them with ancient 1GbE interconnect and hope for the best. The interconnect for clusters REALLY matters, many problems are network bound - and not only network bound but latency bound as well. Look at the list of fastest supercomputers and you will barely see Ethernet anymore (especially at the high end) and definitely not 1GbE. Your new boxes will probably come with 10GbE that will definitely help... Especially since there will be fewer nodes to have to talk to (only 2, maybe 4)
The other problem that you will run into is your system will take about 20x the power and 20x the air conditioning bill (yeah - that is a LOT of power there), the modern new system will pay for itself in 9-12 months (and that doesn't include the tax deduction for donating the old systems and making them Someone Else's Problem)
Recycling old hardware always seems like fun. At the end of a piece of hardware's life cycle look at what it will actually cost to keep it in service - Just the electricity bill will bite you hard, then you have the maintenance, and fun reliability problems.
Funny story. Worked with a brilliant engineer years ago. He was born a decade and a day after I was. I had to use pencil and paper for the SAT - you learned to do simple math very accurately and very quickly "In your head". He was of the age that you got to take in an approved calculator into the SAT test. They no longer required to do Math "In your head". When we played darts - he couldn't add up the scores because he never had to.
You are learning to type - that is finger placement and styles. Keyboard layouts are all basically the same (Except for the Microsoft keyboard that puts the 6 key in the wrong place) and it is just a matter of slight adjustments. There is not a difference in the layout between a modern keyboard and an old manual typewriter... There are differences in travel, sound, and other things - but those aren't needed to deal with muscle memory and having your fingers know how to type.
Technology for technology sake is never the answer - old school devices still rule, there is usually never a need for fancy modern devices, they just make thinks easier and more convenient if you happen to have money (and in this case electricity)
Or is it slashdotted already. You would think Stanford would have better infrastructure
on an airline.
As a country we aren't willing to pay extra for good service on an airline - it is all about who has the lowest fair on expedia/priceline/... not which brand has good customer service. As a country we are not willing to pay for extras like good customer service, quality, or good business practices. Anyone old enough when the big selling point of walmart was "Made in America"? It was great - walmart was great - jobs were great... Then it was time to lower prices - either by breaking the labor force in the USA or shipping manufacturing somewhere "cheaper". Now walmart requires suppliers to have a plan to manage their manufacturing in China... No more Made in the USA there.
It is a shame isn't it.
So a bright light is expected to travel down the ear canal - cross the several membranes between the ear and the brain and have a measurable effect on your brain (even assuming that the photoreceptors ARE there). I'm buying it just as much as the Browser IQ article from earlier.
I want to see some peer review first
Your Karma just ran over my Dogma
I am assuming that they use stored electricity... But not all that power will be provided by the catapult. There are engines on the plane that produce thrust as well running at full throttle. I would assume that they can provide some of that 153 MW of work during the launch.
How about the individual mandate? In a free society such as ours, it is a violation of liberty for the government to require an individual to purchase something from a private company as a cost of living.
I don't understand people arguing this point. Aren't we already required to own car/motorcycle insurance? And given that public transportation is laughable or nonexistent outside of cities, couldn't owning a vehicle be considered a cost of living?
You are not required to own automobile insurance in any state that I am aware of. People are capable of walking, biking, taking a bus, hiring a taxi for that matter, my young daughter has no need for car insurance for another 4-5 years. If you decide it is more convenient to buy a car, pay for insurance and gas - that is great, your free choice.
Now on to answer your questions:
What not to love, The requirement to give 1099 forms to any business a company does 600 dollars worth of business with in a year. Imagine you are an independent truck owner - you drive around the country delivering goods. You fill up on diesel at various stops along the way buying 2-300 dollars worth of diesel at a stop. You are responsible for figuring out which companies (realize the gas stations are usually private small companies owned by local franchises) you bought 600 dollars worth of gas from, what their business location is (No - it isn't cheveron, and probably isn't on the receipt) and delivering the documents to them annually. How much will this paperwork cost you, what happens when you make a mistake (really, did you know that some guy owns a gas station in florida and north dakota for some unknown reason?) - what does this have to do with the delivery of health care anyway?
What not to love, The requirement to pay for a product merely for being alive in the country. As an older American, insurance is a great deal - I will spend more than 10-15K in healthcare costs a year. As a young single male, well - lets just say if I see a doctor this year, it is unusual, I am wasting all of my premium. I am forced to pay for this just for being alive in the country now
What not to love, All of the mandates on what coverage has to include. Let me guess, you add required services to a bid, you expect the price to go up. Seems normal to me
What not to love, All of the wheeling and dealing that went into getting all 60 democrats in the senate to vote yes, if you want "good" insurance that covers a lot of things, so it costs 10K a year - you have to pay extra (unless you are in a union). If you happen to live in a few states with smart senators that hold out, your state gets a break by not having to implement things that are required of the rest of the country (so we are all paying for Nebraska now - wish I lived there, or better wish my senator wasn't such a tow the party line guy that they didn't have to pay him off to get a yes vote out of him)
I could go on for a while... next time someone wants to vote on a 1500 page bill, lets give people enough time to read 1500 pages (3-4 days? I mean it would be your full time job) so we can actually know what is in the bill before it is voted on.
Ok - time for a few corrections
1) First Intel (after initially responding poorly to the bug) fully recalled the product without question. If you had a processor in question, you could ask for and recieve a replacement. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
2) The flaw was caused by a bad division lookup table, not the mathematical nuance of binary logic gates. What I think you are trying to describe is the fact that floating point numbers are not percise, and you never compare them directly, only compare if they are within a small delta of each other.
Frankly, I have about 1/2 of that in accounts now at 40. I plan on having about 1/20th of that by the time I retire in 25 years. That said - the guy was fired for cause - why are you paying him off with a golden parachute. If I wrote a fraudulent expense report for a few hundred dollars, I expect I would be fired and the police knocking on my door asking some questions about my behavior.
Where in that text do you see something that says AT&T can not tell you to stop being a jerk to their CEO. Where in there does it say that Slashdot is required to keep your post showing, where does it say that you are allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater.
All it says is that CONGRESS can not pass laws that abridge your right to speech. If you are talking poorly in my house - I have every right to ask you to leave.
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