Ironically, nobody. At least not at the personal level. Hedge funds need'em in order to buy/sell ETFs in relation to the underlying---and hopefully do it quicker than anyone else (ie: making the market `efficient'---by making a profit!)
At consumer level... if you care for ``real time quotes'', you're not investing, you're gambling.
Wasn't it the whole point behind these things---to make kids more technical/geeky. It would've been a complete waste if everyone just used it for email and word processing.
Now if only actual kids in 3rd world countries did cool things with these laptops---like coding/hacking/whatever.
Aliens don't have to be like us. For all we know, they may not have a concept of time as we know it---one of our spacial dimensions may be their time dimension, etc.
One crazy scheme for hydrogen power would involve a HUGE (10 miles square?) loosely connected mesh of floating solar panels (maybe half a foot thick; weighted such that they auto-correct themselves if submerged or flipped), via electrolysis get hydrogen (and oxygen), run an electric motor driving a hydraulic compressor, use the large heat-sink (mesh of wires) sunk a few meters deep to dissipate the heat involved. Have someone pickup produced hydrogen/oxygen every month and switch out empty containers (and do routine maintenance), otherwise have it float out in the ocean.
With a few of these hydrogen farms, hydrogen just may become a cheap alternative---assuming such a setup is feasible cost wise (solar panels are expensive; the rest of the setup seems reasonably cheap).
Saying ``no'' for business reasons is great; saying ``no'' because there's no good way to handle it technically is a -bad- reason.
From my experience, sysadmins who overuse the `no' response are a buncha pricks who can't do anything (you know something is wrong when seemingly simple requests meet a ``no'' response or take days to complete [something that would take you a minute with command line access to the server]---big corps are full of such folks).
As for one possible solution: with read only access, they can't mess things up; most seasoned db admins can ensure that Oracle handles things gracefully---even from stupid read-only users.
Another solution may be to setup a mirror box, and let'em have at it. Mirror the data every day or so. If they screw it up -somehow-, everything will be reset in 24 hours anyway.
Neat! I love this. Anyone who doesn't want to be photographed shouldn't be emitting or reflecting light---and at the same time not obscure any objects behind them. If they do, it implies consent to be photographed:-)
Unless they mean 250Gigabits, in which case it falls into the `reasonable' territory (ie: something they'd likely offer as a limit, vs something we'd want as a limit).
Maybe they're talking 'bits' instead of 'bytes'. ie: 250Gigabits seems to be approaching the upper limit of what they'd likely consider reasonable usage.
Likely some manager said ``the upper limit should be 50% more than what a 56kbps modem would do in a month'' or something nebulous like that... which actually comes out to ~250-ish Gigabits.
...I run a Perl script in a command window that prints the text of random files on the filesystem until I stop it. It makes me look like I'm waiting for a compile to finish,
Why not just do: while true; do make clean; make; done:-)
...this means you have deprived me of my rightful compensation.
Haha! There's no such thing! How about: the market (invisible hand) has properly determined the fair value of your creation (.mp3 file) to be so close to worthless that everyone is giving it away for free---and is properly compensating you with something equally worthless---such as name recognition and popularity (which you may apply to make money in other ways, such as sell tickets to live concerts, endorse products, etc.).
I'd imagine the data would contain recipes on how to make steel, concrete, semiconductors, CPUs, power plants, basic definition of how we think the universe works (quantum mechanics, relativity, etc.).
And if you think humanity will never "unlearn" how to make such things, you're forgetting the roman empire (concrete was reinvented some 1500 years after the romans used it---we're talking about basic construction material here that people just managed to `lose' to history!).
Wouldn't it be nice to find an ancient tablet telling us how to make a warp engine or a food replicator? Why shouldn't we leave something behind for our descendants to make their crawl out of their dark age a bit less painful.
I think you misunderstood what I said. If it's random chaos, you cannot predict it. Ever. By definition. Except for discordians (Hail Eris!)
Central limit theorem deals with randomness (short term unpredictable, long term, turns into normal distribution). Nothing chaotic.
As for chaos, one can make rough guesses (ie: predictable shor term), as "it will likely rain tomorrow", or "it will likely we warm in two years in the summer". But take questions such as ``will it rain in 5 months?'' or ``will it be warm in the summer in 10000 years?'' and the chaos emerges: unpredictable long term.
Sure there are strange attractors, but the state of the system is never -exactly- the same---and the wild swings make the whole picture unpredictable long term.
The only real negative effect for internet businesses is that they've been evading sales tax for years,...
That assumes sales tax should be there to begin with.
There's already income tax. Both stateside and federal. Why the heck should we put up with a salestax---additionally convoluted with paying taxes on...where the buyer is (not where the company is).
Another major downside is the keyboard. I own an Eee, and while I used to carry it around with me for occasional typing, I hardly ever use it since I got a thinkpad x61---the bit of extra space between keys makes a _HUGE_ usability difference.
I was -really- hoping Eee would become 1" wider along with a bigger screen (and ram/memory, etc.), to make typing a joy instead of a major pain in the..err..hands.
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Eh, but with that idea, any IM program is "p2p".
Ironically, nobody. At least not at the personal level. Hedge funds need'em in order to buy/sell ETFs in relation to the underlying---and hopefully do it quicker than anyone else (ie: making the market `efficient'---by making a profit!)
At consumer level... if you care for ``real time quotes'', you're not investing, you're gambling.
Wasn't it the whole point behind these things---to make kids more technical/geeky. It would've been a complete waste if everyone just used it for email and word processing.
Now if only actual kids in 3rd world countries did cool things with these laptops---like coding/hacking/whatever.
Aliens don't have to be like us. For all we know, they may not have a concept of time as we know it---one of our spacial dimensions may be their time dimension, etc.
Indeed. Not to mention if this dust turns out to be non-uniform... how do we know the universe is expanding anyway?
One crazy scheme for hydrogen power would involve a HUGE (10 miles square?) loosely connected mesh of floating solar panels (maybe half a foot thick; weighted such that they auto-correct themselves if submerged or flipped), via electrolysis get hydrogen (and oxygen), run an electric motor driving a hydraulic compressor, use the large heat-sink (mesh of wires) sunk a few meters deep to dissipate the heat involved. Have someone pickup produced hydrogen/oxygen every month and switch out empty containers (and do routine maintenance), otherwise have it float out in the ocean.
With a few of these hydrogen farms, hydrogen just may become a cheap alternative---assuming such a setup is feasible cost wise (solar panels are expensive; the rest of the setup seems reasonably cheap).
Saying ``no'' for business reasons is great; saying ``no'' because there's no good way to handle it technically is a -bad- reason.
From my experience, sysadmins who overuse the `no' response are a buncha pricks who can't do anything (you know something is wrong when seemingly simple requests meet a ``no'' response or take days to complete [something that would take you a minute with command line access to the server]---big corps are full of such folks).
As for one possible solution: with read only access, they can't mess things up; most seasoned db admins can ensure that Oracle handles things gracefully---even from stupid read-only users.
Another solution may be to setup a mirror box, and let'em have at it. Mirror the data every day or so. If they screw it up -somehow-, everything will be reset in 24 hours anyway.
Yes, and 84.3221% of population agree that adding precision makes statistics sound credible.
Eh. ``...and coming up on your right... Nothing.'' ---the simpsons movie.
Which is why I'd like every country to paint a border around itself to be visible from space; bright fluorescent yellow lines---a mile wide or so.
Maybe they're routing the packets through Hubble?
Neat! I love this. Anyone who doesn't want to be photographed shouldn't be emitting or reflecting light---and at the same time not obscure any objects behind them. If they do, it implies consent to be photographed :-)
Unless they mean 250Gigabits, in which case it falls into the `reasonable' territory (ie: something they'd likely offer as a limit, vs something we'd want as a limit).
Indeed. 250GB seems on a high end for them.
Maybe they're talking 'bits' instead of 'bytes'. ie: 250Gigabits seems to be approaching the upper limit of what they'd likely consider reasonable usage.
Likely some manager said ``the upper limit should be 50% more than what a 56kbps modem would do in a month'' or something nebulous like that... which actually comes out to ~250-ish Gigabits.
Why not just do: while true; do make clean; make; done :-)
Haha! There's no such thing! How about: the market (invisible hand) has properly determined the fair value of your creation (.mp3 file) to be so close to worthless that everyone is giving it away for free---and is properly compensating you with something equally worthless---such as name recognition and popularity (which you may apply to make money in other ways, such as sell tickets to live concerts, endorse products, etc.).
They should just make the paper itself edible. So by buying the morning paper you're at the same time buying breakfast.
I think at one point Dilbert cartoon suggested edible paper (to be consumed right after reading---for secrecy!)
Solve printing, waste, AND world hunger all in one product!
I'd imagine the data would contain recipes on how to make steel, concrete, semiconductors, CPUs, power plants, basic definition of how we think the universe works (quantum mechanics, relativity, etc.).
And if you think humanity will never "unlearn" how to make such things, you're forgetting the roman empire (concrete was reinvented some 1500 years after the romans used it---we're talking about basic construction material here that people just managed to `lose' to history!).
Wouldn't it be nice to find an ancient tablet telling us how to make a warp engine or a food replicator? Why shouldn't we leave something behind for our descendants to make their crawl out of their dark age a bit less painful.
Central limit theorem deals with randomness (short term unpredictable, long term, turns into normal distribution). Nothing chaotic.
As for chaos, one can make rough guesses (ie: predictable shor term), as "it will likely rain tomorrow", or "it will likely we warm in two years in the summer". But take questions such as ``will it rain in 5 months?'' or ``will it be warm in the summer in 10000 years?'' and the chaos emerges: unpredictable long term.
Sure there are strange attractors, but the state of the system is never -exactly- the same---and the wild swings make the whole picture unpredictable long term.
random is: short term unpredictable, long term predictable.
Nobody studies random chaos, as there's nothing to predict.
The only real negative effect for internet businesses is that they've been evading sales tax for years,... That assumes sales tax should be there to begin with. There's already income tax. Both stateside and federal. Why the heck should we put up with a salestax---additionally convoluted with paying taxes on...where the buyer is (not where the company is).
Another major downside is the keyboard. I own an Eee, and while I used to carry it around with me for occasional typing, I hardly ever use it since I got a thinkpad x61---the bit of extra space between keys makes a _HUGE_ usability difference. I was -really- hoping Eee would become 1" wider along with a bigger screen (and ram/memory, etc.), to make typing a joy instead of a major pain in the..err..hands.
indeed. servers that ``fix themselves'' with magic pixie dust... haven't we heard this 10 years ago from IBM?