Actually, Testla's "sweet spot" in terms of efficiency is 18 mph (see this Tesla blog), so the original poster wasn't that far off. According to their own charts, a Testla roadster will ideally go 400 miles to a charge going 13 to 22 mph, but only 240 miles to a charge at 55 mph.
My own recent conversations with other major ISPs suggest that the average broadband user only pulls down 2-6GB of data per month as it is. One the one hand, this suggests that caps don't really bother most people; on the other, it indicates that low cap levels aren't needed to keep traffic "reasonable" since it's actually quite low to begin with.
That doesn't follow at all. Low level caps are needed so that the very few don't abuse the network. Data that the average broadband user doesn't abuse the system means that the very few are spoiling it for the rest of us. Cue the Bit Torrent whiners.
Again, our religion isn't (and never will be if we have anything to say about it) funded by taxpayer dollars.
Bullshit. Churches enjoy healthy tax exemptions. According to this, it is estimated that the average family is taxed $1000 per year to make up for lost revenue from religious institutions.
Where could you buy tickets to Boston's live show?
Boston's album Boston, arguably their best and certainly their best selling was created mostly by Tom Scholz in his basement. He wrote the songs, he was the engineer, and he played guitar, bass, and organ on most of the tracks. Oh, and Brad Delp did all the vocals, including all the harmonies.
The stage version that emerged just filled in for what he did in his basement.
The big issue with the implementation is that it will only "know" what you tell it
That is not what Wolfram is aiming for. It appears that he has created a system that appears to reason and synthesize to "compute" answers. Just like cellular automata can generate complex patters given simple rules and starting data, so apparently can Alpha generate complex answers given logic and a foundation of simple knowledge.
True, its not going to be able to answer a question where it has no foundation of knowledge, unlike lots of bad interview candidates. But it also probably will come up with answers its designers never dreamed of it giving.
I think it is also a shame that it is "closed source". So far, only Wolfram and his team are able to input knowledge into Alpha.
I would suggest checking out PicoCricket. It is more geared towards artistic expression rather than building robots, but has light sensors, sound sensors, touch sensors, displays, etc.
Big deal. This isn't for video clips available from ESPN.com, it is for their former premium product ESPN 360, which doesn't even show ESPN TV (due, I'm sure, to cable contracts), but various minor live sporting events (minor college football and basketball, MLS, NASCAR Nationwide series). The only difference between this and other products that have been selling versions to ISPs for years is that there is no pay version, you must get this through your ISP.
Several years ago when my home team was in the Superbowl, my comcast cable went out for several hours during the game. Their response was tough luck. They weren't willing to give me any credit. So it is pretty ironic that people "exposed" to 30 seconds of porn are getting $10 back. The moral of the story is that corporations are only responsible when the news media shames them.
First, the summary is misleading here. McAllistar is talking about enterprise application development, not all web applications.
But lets talk about some of the advantages of web apps as well.
People building enterprise applications are generally, you know, doing something for an enterprise. That means communication over a network, and probably central data storage. So throw security concerns of web apps out the window. Having a custom client on users desktops communicating to a server is no different than a web browser talking to a server. Both have security risks.
Installed applications are difficult to update. Sure, you can pay install shield a bundle, or roll your own updating code, but the web makes it simple to update an application.
Installed applications typically only work on a single operating system. Screw the art department who uses Macs, or the engineers using Linux. Installed apps generally only support Windows, without a great deal of extra effort. AIR and Java both try to address this, but you are still locked in to platforms that AIR and Java support. And, with Java at least, you have to debug on every platform you want to support.
Web applications are easier to use in remote environments, when employees are off site or access needs to be given to others outside the enterprise. Sure, there's VPN, but sometimes it isn't practical.
Computing power doesn't matter for a large percentage of enterprise applications, most of which are data intensive, not compute intensive.
Using web technologies means your application has a much better chance of working on tomorrow's devices such as cell phones, appliances, game consoles, etc. Cell phone browsers get better every day. Installed applications have to be ported to every new device, at great cost.
Over many years at a big company, the amount of installed applications has dropped, while web applications have proliferated. Sure, web applications are not the best idea for every application. But for most enterprise applications, I think they are the right choice.
In this email, Bill blames IBM for the 640K limit, instead of the 800k limit they could have had. He clearly says "...IBM laid it out so those other things started at 640K and used all the memory space up to 1M. If they had been a bit more careful we could have had 800K instead of 640K available." So he is blaiming IBM for laying out memory poorly.
In this interview, he brags that he personally laid out the memory for the original IBM PC.
Microsoft was playing a much broader role[laughs] than just doing software for this machine. I mean whether it is the keyboard, the character set, the graphics adapter, or even the memory layouts. I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit.
As far as I can tell, he didn't say 640k would be enough for anyone, and that problem was due to the processor only having 20 bit addresses. But Gates definitely is contradicting himself. It's like he wants to take credit for the memory layout until people hammer him on it, then says IBM did it.
And Gates also tells conflicting stories. In the article you mention, he says IBM laid out the memory to have a 640k limit. In a 1993 Smithsonian Institution interview, he says that he did it. Boastful, forgetful, a fucking liar? Who knows.
The kernel should deal with that. If you request some memory address, paging assigns a virtual address for the physical memory so that you can access -any- 4 Gb of data in some order.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. A 32 bit windows machine can't use a 4 gb graphics card at all, because video memory is mapped before other memory and eats into the 4 gb address space for each process. Windows used to allow the use of PAE to allow the 4 gb to be virtualized, but this was disabled due to driver issues. See this for more detail.
Why not a swimsuit? People are already paying $550 US for a high tech swimsuit. Plus, making world record setting sports technology is a good way to market your product, even to other applications.
Also, swimsuits aren't life or death equipment meaning they won't require as much testing, adding this material doesn't require a redesign of the whole suit, the amount of material needed is very small, they don't require environmental impact studies (as boat coatings would), etc.
...because booting takes (realistically - c'mon, now) more than ten or twenty seconds
Where I work, the systems administrators run management software on our machines which do software audits, run virus and spyware protection, etc. Booting and logging in can easily take 15 or 20 minutes. I timed it recently on my fast development machine and it took over 9 mintues from cold boot to usable computer.
She should change her number because her current number is no longer safe. Now that it has been used to commit a crime, and posted to the net in association with crime, all sorts of bad things might happen to her.
Your question is like "Why shouldn't someone change their locks when they get their house broken into?" Sure, the criminal who broke into the house is guilty, but the homeowner who has inadequate locks needs to change them as well. Or should a person insist on using a compromised credit card number that they have had for years, or get a new one?
Plus, she doesn't own the number anyway. If she has had it for 50 years, it could have changed several times due to area code changes and rules for local dialing. As much as we like to think we own our numbers, the local telcos actually own them, and we lease them for a time. The local telco can decide for any reason to change our numbers.
I've done some research into this, and it seems that primary justification given by Microsoft to commingle IE and the OS is increased functionality.
Microsoft did tout the benefits of integrating IE into the operating system including reduced memory usage and increased functionality (for the OS as well as third parties). See this artcile for a summary of testimony and cross examination of Glenn Weadock.
For users of IE, Mr. Pepperman successfully showed that integration does provide some technical benefits. The sharing of code between IE and Windows 98 will result the saving of memory for those who wish to use IE. Furthermore, over 100 ISVs depend on IE-related code to function. (Even a competing browser requires IE DLLs to operate.)
Microsoft proffers no justification for two of the three challenged actions that it took in integrating IE into Windows -- excluding IE from the Add/Remove Programs utility and commingling browser and operating system code. Although Microsoft does make some general claims regarding the benefits of integrating the browser and the operating system, it neither specifies nor substantiates those claims.
Care to site any sources? I'm searching around, and can't find the technical docs or API's online. I did find posts on BD-J, and that xlets have to be signed to access the network. Given the fact that they were able to modify the download process without issuing new disks, it makes me think that they wrote the download code themselves. This seems to imply downloads are coded by developers.
So I'm trying to decide if this was evil or just total incompetence.
On the evil side, we have:
Release a disk with mandatory downloads. They would have to know this will end up bricking the movie for fans. Perhaps they are thinking they can sell "upgraded" disks to the same fans again years later without the stupid download.
Since no one could be so stupid as to not plan for heavy traffic and use a CDN for content (which they now are), perhaps they planned this failure to get some press about the release of their disk.
Tell people that it shouldn't happen again, but you have provided a menu to skip the download as if that should make people happy. The fact that they could change the menu means it had to load the menu from their web site. So it still can have timeout issues.
And on the incompetence side.
Stupidly release a movie which not only downloads mandatory content, but doesn't time out if the download fails. Internet 101 here. 10 minutes trying to connect to a server. Please.
Don't scale your servers to anticipate traffic. Using a CDN to serve this content is absolutely a no brainer.
Hard to tell. Both are unbelieveable, yet this happened. Thankfully, there is a solution. Don't connect your Blue Ray player to the internet. That will work for now, until they start tying DRM into BD-Live. Idiots.
Darwin's Black Box anybody. Whether or not you agree w/ his conclusions or not he does not make a stupid argument.
Darwin's Black Box was shown to be wrong in the Dover trial. Behe's central premise that things are irreducibly complex was proven wrong both with hard scientific data (about the flagella being irreduceably complex, but the bacterial Type III secretory system has a subset of the parts, though they serve a different function) and logically (Behe says a mousetrap is irreducibly complex, but it is useful as a tie clip if you remove two key parts).
We therefore find that Professor Behe's claim for irreducible complexity has been refuted in peer-reviewed research papers and has been rejected by the scientific community at large.
Most people don't understand there can be a middle ground between an awesome MPG motorcycle and a tank of an SUV? Personally I'd take something 100x safer than a motorcycle that got me 50 MPG even if it was only slightly less safe than an SUV.
I've had a Civic Hybrid since 2002. While it is technically true that the larger battery can die and you can still operate the car, it is also true that the normal 12 volt battery in the car can die, and the car won't start. I had my 12 volt battery die this past February and it was annoying that the larger battery wouldn't start the car.
It is probably a lot more likely that the normal 12 volt battery will die anyway.
You can't take a bottom of the line Honda Civic and compare it to the top of the line Civic Hybrid.
The hybrid has these features that aren't included in the bottom of the line price:
Air conditioning
Power door locks
Automatic transmission
Alloy wheels
Vehicle Stability Assist
Brake Assist
Security system with remote trunk release
Cruise control
Variable Intermittent Windshield Wipers
Radio (yes, apparently, the DX doesn't come with a radio)
Steering Wheel-Mounted Audio Controls
USB Audio Interface
Some of these features may not be important to you, but many are to most people. The safety features alone probably would save considerable money on insurance.
A comparable Civic is the EX (which has a moonroof the hybrid doesn't, but which doesn't have the vehicle stability assist or break assist, which are important for lowering insurance), which costs $19,205, $20,005 with automatic transmission. So the hybrid is $3,545 more.
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Actually, Testla's "sweet spot" in terms of efficiency is 18 mph (see this Tesla blog), so the original poster wasn't that far off. According to their own charts, a Testla roadster will ideally go 400 miles to a charge going 13 to 22 mph, but only 240 miles to a charge at 55 mph.
That doesn't follow at all. Low level caps are needed so that the very few don't abuse the network. Data that the average broadband user doesn't abuse the system means that the very few are spoiling it for the rest of us. Cue the Bit Torrent whiners.
Bullshit. Churches enjoy healthy tax exemptions. According to this, it is estimated that the average family is taxed $1000 per year to make up for lost revenue from religious institutions.
As we have seen with Internet Explorer, the technology that gets bundled with the monopoly operating systems wins, even if it is not better.
Where could you buy tickets to Boston's live show?
Boston's album Boston, arguably their best and certainly their best selling was created mostly by Tom Scholz in his basement. He wrote the songs, he was the engineer, and he played guitar, bass, and organ on most of the tracks. Oh, and Brad Delp did all the vocals, including all the harmonies.
The stage version that emerged just filled in for what he did in his basement.
That is not what Wolfram is aiming for. It appears that he has created a system that appears to reason and synthesize to "compute" answers. Just like cellular automata can generate complex patters given simple rules and starting data, so apparently can Alpha generate complex answers given logic and a foundation of simple knowledge.
True, its not going to be able to answer a question where it has no foundation of knowledge, unlike lots of bad interview candidates. But it also probably will come up with answers its designers never dreamed of it giving.
I think it is also a shame that it is "closed source". So far, only Wolfram and his team are able to input knowledge into Alpha.
I would suggest checking out PicoCricket. It is more geared towards artistic expression rather than building robots, but has light sensors, sound sensors, touch sensors, displays, etc.
Big deal. This isn't for video clips available from ESPN.com, it is for their former premium product ESPN 360, which doesn't even show ESPN TV (due, I'm sure, to cable contracts), but various minor live sporting events (minor college football and basketball, MLS, NASCAR Nationwide series). The only difference between this and other products that have been selling versions to ISPs for years is that there is no pay version, you must get this through your ISP.
Several years ago when my home team was in the Superbowl, my comcast cable went out for several hours during the game. Their response was tough luck. They weren't willing to give me any credit. So it is pretty ironic that people "exposed" to 30 seconds of porn are getting $10 back. The moral of the story is that corporations are only responsible when the news media shames them.
But lets talk about some of the advantages of web apps as well.
Over many years at a big company, the amount of installed applications has dropped, while web applications have proliferated. Sure, web applications are not the best idea for every application. But for most enterprise applications, I think they are the right choice.
In this interview, he brags that he personally laid out the memory for the original IBM PC.
As far as I can tell, he didn't say 640k would be enough for anyone, and that problem was due to the processor only having 20 bit addresses. But Gates definitely is contradicting himself. It's like he wants to take credit for the memory layout until people hammer him on it, then says IBM did it.
And Gates also tells conflicting stories. In the article you mention, he says IBM laid out the memory to have a 640k limit. In a 1993 Smithsonian Institution interview, he says that he did it. Boastful, forgetful, a fucking liar? Who knows.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. A 32 bit windows machine can't use a 4 gb graphics card at all, because video memory is mapped before other memory and eats into the 4 gb address space for each process. Windows used to allow the use of PAE to allow the 4 gb to be virtualized, but this was disabled due to driver issues. See this for more detail.
Huh? Quicksort is pretty easy to parallelize, due to its divide and conquer nature: it splits its list into sublists and recurses on those sublists.
Why not a swimsuit? People are already paying $550 US for a high tech swimsuit. Plus, making world record setting sports technology is a good way to market your product, even to other applications.
Also, swimsuits aren't life or death equipment meaning they won't require as much testing, adding this material doesn't require a redesign of the whole suit, the amount of material needed is very small, they don't require environmental impact studies (as boat coatings would), etc.
Where I work, the systems administrators run management software on our machines which do software audits, run virus and spyware protection, etc. Booting and logging in can easily take 15 or 20 minutes. I timed it recently on my fast development machine and it took over 9 mintues from cold boot to usable computer.
She should change her number because her current number is no longer safe. Now that it has been used to commit a crime, and posted to the net in association with crime, all sorts of bad things might happen to her.
Your question is like "Why shouldn't someone change their locks when they get their house broken into?" Sure, the criminal who broke into the house is guilty, but the homeowner who has inadequate locks needs to change them as well. Or should a person insist on using a compromised credit card number that they have had for years, or get a new one?
Plus, she doesn't own the number anyway. If she has had it for 50 years, it could have changed several times due to area code changes and rules for local dialing. As much as we like to think we own our numbers, the local telcos actually own them, and we lease them for a time. The local telco can decide for any reason to change our numbers.
Microsoft did tout the benefits of integrating IE into the operating system including reduced memory usage and increased functionality (for the OS as well as third parties). See this artcile for a summary of testimony and cross examination of Glenn Weadock.
The appeals court said:
Care to site any sources? I'm searching around, and can't find the technical docs or API's online. I did find posts on BD-J, and that xlets have to be signed to access the network. Given the fact that they were able to modify the download process without issuing new disks, it makes me think that they wrote the download code themselves. This seems to imply downloads are coded by developers.
So I'm trying to decide if this was evil or just total incompetence.
On the evil side, we have:
And on the incompetence side.
Hard to tell. Both are unbelieveable, yet this happened. Thankfully, there is a solution. Don't connect your Blue Ray player to the internet. That will work for now, until they start tying DRM into BD-Live. Idiots.
Darwin's Black Box was shown to be wrong in the Dover trial. Behe's central premise that things are irreducibly complex was proven wrong both with hard scientific data (about the flagella being irreduceably complex, but the bacterial Type III secretory system has a subset of the parts, though they serve a different function) and logically (Behe says a mousetrap is irreducibly complex, but it is useful as a tie clip if you remove two key parts).
The judge in the Dover trial summed it up by saying:
Or the illusion of SUV safety.
I've had a Civic Hybrid since 2002. While it is technically true that the larger battery can die and you can still operate the car, it is also true that the normal 12 volt battery in the car can die, and the car won't start. I had my 12 volt battery die this past February and it was annoying that the larger battery wouldn't start the car.
It is probably a lot more likely that the normal 12 volt battery will die anyway.
You can't take a bottom of the line Honda Civic and compare it to the top of the line Civic Hybrid.
The hybrid has these features that aren't included in the bottom of the line price:
Air conditioning
Power door locks
Automatic transmission
Alloy wheels
Vehicle Stability Assist
Brake Assist
Security system with remote trunk release
Cruise control
Variable Intermittent Windshield Wipers
Radio (yes, apparently, the DX doesn't come with a radio)
Steering Wheel-Mounted Audio Controls
USB Audio Interface
Some of these features may not be important to you, but many are to most people. The safety features alone probably would save considerable money on insurance.
A comparable Civic is the EX (which has a moonroof the hybrid doesn't, but which doesn't have the vehicle stability assist or break assist, which are important for lowering insurance), which costs $19,205, $20,005 with automatic transmission. So the hybrid is $3,545 more.
The PWS in this case is Panther Express, which is a CDN. See this DomainTools page for information.
It is inconceivable that Obama's web site is running on Windows 95 or 98. And Microsoft's PWS's last version number was 4.