Depends on what you want to do. If you have an IoT product to develop, this could be exactly what you want at its heart. If you're looking for the smallest cheapest silent but-still-powerful Linux machine to play around with, this one is probably not for you.
I can request a non-RFID card. I haven't, I'm thinking of using an RFID shield, but my RFID payments are limited to 20€ anyway.
More worrying is someone reading my card number (snooping camera during a transaction) and using it to buy things on the Internet. Even though there is an SMS verification, it's not always, and my card might get stolen with my phone (which shows text of incoming SMS without having to be unlocked). Theft of card is otherwise not a major problem since you need the PIN. A poor man's solution is to erase the CCV on the back. A better solution is provided by my bank: my card doesn't work on the Internet. Any request made without the card physically present is refused. This could probably be negated by a corrupted payment processor, but it's good enough. For Internet use I use one-time cards provided by my bank website.
I was interested in the maximum possible speed, distance between the two points divided by 1.1 ms. Of course speed can be much less; if gravity wave propagation is orthogonal to the line between the two points then the wave should have been detected at the same instant. You might take into account the speed of the Earth and its rotation, but that should be insignificant and it gets complicated. That is why I asked if someone had a more exact (read: better) value:)
In the David Weber's "Honor Harrington" universe he uses gravity waves. His gravity waves are faster than light (cue interesting plot details, of course), but the real ones detected by LIGO seem to propagate at something more on the order of 0.01 c. Does someone have a more exact value?
Who cares about webscale, we're talking big-data-scale. COBOL is not the problem. COBOL, DB2 for transactions, CICS to connect from web-land, nightly dump changes to Hadoop to run queries faster and cheaper. Been there, done that, saved millions (in USD). But nobody is even thinking of converting the 40000-and-some COBOL programs off the mainframe, not cost-effective at all.
In a surprising coincidence, I had just finished reading this article when my son burst in saying "Hey Dad something's strange with the gaming PC, it's shutting down saying it's configuring itself for the Windows 10 upgrade, but I never accept that!"
Of course they don't want another Tay, but the fun thing is that apparently is *does* recognize Hitler and then refuses to say anything at all about the picture. Otherwise the bot would just say "a portrait photo of a man", or "a man with a toothbrush mustache". Compare with the last example in TFA when the bot takes a very cluttered image and somewhat correctly identifies it as not exceedingly happy people sitting at tables.
It's not continuous, but on all the models I've seen, when the engine is running the key is checked quite often. If you have the engine running and then walk out with the key, the dashboard display immediately displays a warning that the key is no longer in the vehicle. Usually if this condition persists for about 5 minutes, the engine will shut off.
TFA says that "usually" thieves drive away, even refueling while leaving the engine running, to get out of the country and be able to circumvent protections at leisure.
In my office we have kept a box of punch cards. The program code names are written on the deck edge (which as a bonus served to check that the cards were in order -- I'll spare you the story about the off-site backup having a traffic accident). The people retiring nowadays tell us that they used punch cards when starting out, but it didn't last long, so in a few years no one in the office will have worked with punch cards . . . but programs with the very same code names still run on our mainframe. I haven't checked if they are identical to the punch card versions, but the code to work out things like the amount to pay every month on a thirty-year mortgage probably hasn't changed!
Came here to say this. I like the FMD diet, it's all about reestablishing correct metabolical function in order to lose weight. I can only like a "diet" that tells you to eat five times a day or more, and that to lose more weight, you need to increase portion size.
Thank OzPeter below for the real link. Body heat causes the material to revert to original shape, apparently exerting considerable force to do so. I'm sure there are lots of surgical applications.
Yes, would like examples of medical uses. It seems like it would be more useful to have things become malleable at lower temperatures (there are already lots that become malleable at higher ones). Gonna have to RTFA I suppose.
Pair sysadminning is something I have actually done, and that has its uses. The guy who knows most has the keyboard, and the other guy has one finger tracing the manual's instructions, as well as a notebook where he writes down what happens and why, especially including things that won't be in the terminal session script like "I'll correct that later" or "This value should work, let's check".
But nowadays with Infrastructure as Code and Network as Code and what have you, you check your sysadminning code into git and you do reviews on it!
Using Sosh (a sub-brand of French Orange, whose client I have been since 1997, even though the monthly price is substantially higher than that of competitor Free), I got two different SMSs when arriving in the US. The voice price was substantially different between the two, but the data price was over USD 13 per megabyte. My fellow travelers use Free, the newest big French mobile phone company. They got an SMS saying that all their voice and data were counted like at home: unlimited with no surcharge, restricted bandwidth after 50 MB in 4G and 3GB in 3G, max 35 days/year/destination/person. For less that 2 MB using the Sosh price, I could have bought a month with Free just to visit the US. I'm wondering why my carrier still has clients.
Maybe you have enough gun laws where you live, and I'll not even contradict you if you say there are too many, I don't know in which state you live and I actually somewhat like the armed citizen concept.
On the other hand, there are lots of people on the so-called No-Fly list, who are not informed that they are on it and who cannot learn why they were put on it and have the greatest difficulties in getting off it.
These people are deprived of their constitutional right to travel from one state to another, they are supposedly too dangerous to board a plane after being X-Rayed and frisked, but they keep their constitutional right to buy machine pistols specially designed to be hidden under a coat or in a purse. Don't you see a contradiction there?
They create a site for testing the speed of your Internet connection... and then they ask you to make a screenshot of the test results, go to another site, fill out a form by hand-copying the test results, and submit the form along with the screenshot? Is this some kind of joke?
The news has reported that many of the attackers, prior to recent radicalization were shiftless layabouts with no particular interest in their religion and violated most of the popular tenets of it. They drank. They had sex. They did drugs. They obviously weren't praying on a schedule.
One of them actually owned and operated a bar (which was closed three months ago for drug-related activities).
My students regularly copy-paste from an otherwise excellent source in which plain vertical double quotes have been auto-replaced with pretty slanted quotes. GCC complains about the illegal character on line XXX, I usually have to explain, and that's it. No hair-pulling involved, only git pulling.
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Well, it's certainly not defying Moore's Law, it would seem that Moore's Law is alive and well!
Depends on what you want to do. If you have an IoT product to develop, this could be exactly what you want at its heart. If you're looking for the smallest cheapest silent but-still-powerful Linux machine to play around with, this one is probably not for you.
I can request a non-RFID card. I haven't, I'm thinking of using an RFID shield, but my RFID payments are limited to 20€ anyway.
More worrying is someone reading my card number (snooping camera during a transaction) and using it to buy things on the Internet. Even though there is an SMS verification, it's not always, and my card might get stolen with my phone (which shows text of incoming SMS without having to be unlocked). Theft of card is otherwise not a major problem since you need the PIN. A poor man's solution is to erase the CCV on the back. A better solution is provided by my bank: my card doesn't work on the Internet. Any request made without the card physically present is refused. This could probably be negated by a corrupted payment processor, but it's good enough. For Internet use I use one-time cards provided by my bank website.
I was interested in the maximum possible speed, distance between the two points divided by 1.1 ms. Of course speed can be much less; if gravity wave propagation is orthogonal to the line between the two points then the wave should have been detected at the same instant. You might take into account the speed of the Earth and its rotation, but that should be insignificant and it gets complicated. That is why I asked if someone had a more exact (read: better) value :)
In the David Weber's "Honor Harrington" universe he uses gravity waves. His gravity waves are faster than light (cue interesting plot details, of course), but the real ones detected by LIGO seem to propagate at something more on the order of 0.01 c. Does someone have a more exact value?
Who cares about webscale, we're talking big-data-scale. COBOL is not the problem. COBOL, DB2 for transactions, CICS to connect from web-land, nightly dump changes to Hadoop to run queries faster and cheaper. Been there, done that, saved millions (in USD). But nobody is even thinking of converting the 40000-and-some COBOL programs off the mainframe, not cost-effective at all.
In a surprising coincidence, I had just finished reading this article when my son burst in saying "Hey Dad something's strange with the gaming PC, it's shutting down saying it's configuring itself for the Windows 10 upgrade, but I never accept that!"
I have a backup . . .
Of course they don't want another Tay, but the fun thing is that apparently is *does* recognize Hitler and then refuses to say anything at all about the picture. Otherwise the bot would just say "a portrait photo of a man", or "a man with a toothbrush mustache". Compare with the last example in TFA when the bot takes a very cluttered image and somewhat correctly identifies it as not exceedingly happy people sitting at tables.
It's not continuous, but on all the models I've seen, when the engine is running the key is checked quite often. If you have the engine running and then walk out with the key, the dashboard display immediately displays a warning that the key is no longer in the vehicle. Usually if this condition persists for about 5 minutes, the engine will shut off.
TFA says that "usually" thieves drive away, even refueling while leaving the engine running, to get out of the country and be able to circumvent protections at leisure.
it has been replaced in consumer equipment by the (very small) WiFi connector
In my office we have kept a box of punch cards. The program code names are written on the deck edge (which as a bonus served to check that the cards were in order -- I'll spare you the story about the off-site backup having a traffic accident). The people retiring nowadays tell us that they used punch cards when starting out, but it didn't last long, so in a few years no one in the office will have worked with punch cards . . . but programs with the very same code names still run on our mainframe. I haven't checked if they are identical to the punch card versions, but the code to work out things like the amount to pay every month on a thirty-year mortgage probably hasn't changed!
Came here to say this. I like the FMD diet, it's all about reestablishing correct metabolical function in order to lose weight. I can only like a "diet" that tells you to eat five times a day or more, and that to lose more weight, you need to increase portion size.
Thank OzPeter below for the real link. Body heat causes the material to revert to original shape, apparently exerting considerable force to do so. I'm sure there are lots of surgical applications.
Yes, would like examples of medical uses. It seems like it would be more useful to have things become malleable at lower temperatures (there are already lots that become malleable at higher ones). Gonna have to RTFA I suppose.
I read this as meaning design based on the People's Liberation Army (of the People's Republic of China)
Pair sysadminning is something I have actually done, and that has its uses. The guy who knows most has the keyboard, and the other guy has one finger tracing the manual's instructions, as well as a notebook where he writes down what happens and why, especially including things that won't be in the terminal session script like "I'll correct that later" or "This value should work, let's check".
But nowadays with Infrastructure as Code and Network as Code and what have you, you check your sysadminning code into git and you do reviews on it!
All I see is a bunch of fucking Japanese characters
Oh, pipe down. You can see the squid just fine.
What, is there a US Navy talking head in there too?
Yes over 2 dollars per megabyte. I shit you not.
Using Sosh (a sub-brand of French Orange, whose client I have been since 1997, even though the monthly price is substantially higher than that of competitor Free), I got two different SMSs when arriving in the US. The voice price was substantially different between the two, but the data price was over USD 13 per megabyte. My fellow travelers use Free, the newest big French mobile phone company. They got an SMS saying that all their voice and data were counted like at home: unlimited with no surcharge, restricted bandwidth after 50 MB in 4G and 3GB in 3G, max 35 days/year/destination/person. For less that 2 MB using the Sosh price, I could have bought a month with Free just to visit the US. I'm wondering why my carrier still has clients.
Maybe you have enough gun laws where you live, and I'll not even contradict you if you say there are too many, I don't know in which state you live and I actually somewhat like the armed citizen concept.
On the other hand, there are lots of people on the so-called No-Fly list, who are not informed that they are on it and who cannot learn why they were put on it and have the greatest difficulties in getting off it.
These people are deprived of their constitutional right to travel from one state to another, they are supposedly too dangerous to board a plane after being X-Rayed and frisked, but they keep their constitutional right to buy machine pistols specially designed to be hidden under a coat or in a purse. Don't you see a contradiction there?
I had my own server, now a VM. $45 bucks a year. Does everything I want, and if I'm not happy with the provider I move it.
They create a site for testing the speed of your Internet connection... and then they ask you to make a screenshot of the test results, go to another site, fill out a form by hand-copying the test results, and submit the form along with the screenshot? Is this some kind of joke?
The news has reported that many of the attackers, prior to recent radicalization were shiftless layabouts with no particular interest in their religion and violated most of the popular tenets of it. They drank. They had sex. They did drugs. They obviously weren't praying on a schedule.
One of them actually owned and operated a bar (which was closed three months ago for drug-related activities).
Here is a guy who puts his family first
Hmmm . . . you may be right, of course, but actually I cannot see anything the GP post that indicates the author's gender!
Can't believe nobody's asked that yet!
My students regularly copy-paste from an otherwise excellent source in which plain vertical double quotes have been auto-replaced with pretty slanted quotes. GCC complains about the illegal character on line XXX, I usually have to explain, and that's it. No hair-pulling involved, only git pulling.