MLC just needs to be shitcanned and the focus be on getting SLC technology better/faster/cheaper.
Keep in mind that no matter how good SLC gets, MLC will cost about half or a third (for the 3 bits/cell version that I hear is in the works) as much (or less really, due to higher volumes).
and the companies ( Hello, Samsung!) should be ashamed. It wasn't until a few years ago that MLC was commercially viable but it only increases
by a factor of TWO. That's one of the lowest, most pointless tradeoffs ever in recent computing.
So, I get merely TWICE the storage for a TEN TIMES reduction in average component life, a 40% reduction in write speed, without fancy controller
redesign, and we get to enjoy all the ludicrous "benefits" of MLC for the price that SLC would have been anyway, through market forces and silicon die shrink
Right then, that just means that everyone will buy SLC drives and the MLC ones will be a complete flop. Right?
Or maybe, just maybe, $$/GB actually matters to people, nobody cares about expected lifespans of more than 7 years because they'll have a new computer with a 10x bigger drive by then, and even with the slower writes they're still fast enough to generally put things back to being CPU/memory bound.
If you look here it seems temperatures have been alternately going up and staying flat (or even cooling slightly) for 30 years or so, and we're about at the end of 30 years of "going up". Maybe the warming is on hold until around 2040?
Hey, that could mean that 2038 really is the end of the world -- the 2012 people have the right idea, they've just been working from the wrong calendar.
actually, the stall would be BEFORE big ice melts as heat capacity of ice is much higher, to say nothing of the huge amount of energy it takes to make the phase change to liquid water. so the stall should have been much earlier, not now!
ANot surprising: higher temperature -> oceans heat up -> less dissolved CO2.
Next time you go to the kitchen, do a little experiment with the sugar: does it dissolve more easily in hot water, or in cold water?
I think you'll find it's the same with CO2.
Better find another explanation.
Much as projections of the height of horse manure in New York said that you'd all be up to your waists in it by the year 2,000? There's so much more to a projection than simply extrapolating a curve.
I'm not saying the prediction is any good or not, just that that particular complaint probably isn't valit.
As far as I can tell, the developing world is completely exempt from any decision on climate change, and various other efforts to get world leaders to acknowledge and act on climate change have garnered meager changes in policy at best. Face it: if the world is in danger and we're looking to our leaders to save the day, we're screwed. The best bet on climate change is to alter the individual consumer's behavior.
I'd say the best bet is to alter the individual inventor's behavior, such that coal and oil become generally obsolete as energy sources.
Unlike Hadley, RSS uses satellite data, is consistent, and is open. They DO report a current trend of.15K per decade. This is far lower than the forecast.
I got the impression that the forecast is assuming that economic growth will lead to higher greenhouse emissions in later years, and accelerating temperature increases. So current trends not matching a simple linear path to their endpoint doesn't really mean much.
Of course, I can guarantee this system would limit travel speed to the legal speed limit, so this wouldn't catch on with the majority of commuters. Most cities, if traffic isn't moving 15mph, it's going 15mph faster than the speed limit.
Or maybe the lack of speeding would remove the revenue incentives for having stupid speed limits, and the limits would get raised to something sane.
I'm fairly sure that by accepting money for someone else's property, you are stealing money from that person, whether you deprived that person of the property or not.
The actual code isn't anyone's property, only the copyright on the code is.
Seriously, whoever decided that we just get one dropdown and no 'confirm' button needs to be taken out back and shot. And I'd just used my other points on some actual trolls upthread, too.:(
The exemption should totally ignore the idea of what is considered best practices, and just ask: can the information be used? If it can, then notification should be required. If the information is safe, then don't worry too much.
It sounds like they're trying to codify a reasonable approximation of "is there anything to worry about", and maybe got it slightly wrong. Or maybe not, depending on what "effective" here means... although I don't think there are any access controls other than encryption that are effective against someone yanking the drive and reading it with a different system.
PRESUMPTIONS.—There shall be a pre 22
sumption that no significant risk of harm to the in 23
dividual whose sensitive personally identifiable infor 24
mation was subject to a security breach if such in 25
formation—
1 (A) was encrypted; or
2 (B) was rendered indecipherable through
3 the use of best practices or methods, such as
4 redaction, access controls, or other such mecha 5
nisms, that are widely accepted as an effective
6 industry practice, or an effective industry
7 standard.
The copyright lawyers are laughing at this guy's defense, but these are the same lawyers who think that file sharing is immoral and that record companies should have the right to sue people into poverty because of a few kilobytes of uploads.
I wouldn't put too much weight on what they think.
What is legal or not, and what is right or not are often completely different. These lawyers may have some rather screwy ideas about the latter, but it's their job to have a very good understanding of the former. So when the former is what's under discussion, what they think probably should carry a bit of weight.
I don't think copyright infringement is typically a criminal offense.
It can be fairly easily, at least here in the US. $1000 retail value within 6mo (so for example a "so-and-so discography" or "best of <genre>" torrent would probably qualify), or if you're trying to make money, or if it's pre-release.
And before anyone starts, I am not suggesting Microsoft change their rules on supporting pirated copies of Windows.
It's theirs to choose how to support how they want.
But shouldn't they also be liable somehow for the collateral damage they're causing, when they give traction to the spammers and botnets?
Chemically, that "equation" just doesn't balance without an input of energy. It doesn't matter what kind of "ion bridges" they put into place between the brine and salt water reservoirs, or what the concentration of salt exists in the brine or salt water, it will require some energy to offset the entropy increase.
This is exactly backwards; energy input is required in order to decrease entropy of (part of) a system. Entropy increases come for free. Consider if you fill one half of a fish tank with fresh water and the other half with brine, do you get a fish tank full of somewhat salty water or do the fresh and salt water separate out?
what if they collected the fresh water vapour that is evaporating off the salt water as well?
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
If it's on Earth, then it is a colder climate. Colder than 100 degrees centigrade. Or as you probably call it, 212 degrees-F.
Very funny, please go read up on "vapor pressure".
All that's needed to get some condensation is a surface that's colder than the pool, and in the same enclosed area. The trouble is, the rate of condensation and evaporation depends on the temperature differential between the condenser and the pool. So if your ambient temperature is 90 F and your pool is heated to 100 F you won't see very much evaporation compared to if you just exhaust your waste humidity into the (presumably comparatively dry) environment.
what if they collected the fresh water vapour that is evaporating off the salt water as well?
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
TFA is a bit light on details: why do Na+ ions go to one stream and CL- to the other? Have they got membranes that are impervious to CL- and NA+?
Yes. From TFA:
Each of the four streams of water is connected to two neighbours by what are known as ion bridges. These are pathways made of polystyrene that has been treated so it will allow the passage of only one sort of ion—either sodium or chloride.
I think there are only about 4 kinds of controllers: Intel (used by themselves and a couple models from Kingston and one other... Corsair I think?); Indilinx (used by the rest of the decent drives, like the OCZ Vertex line); Samsung (supposedly what you typically get if you buy a computer with an SSD already installed, not particularly good); and JMicron (the really crappy early drives). I get the impression that only the Intel and Indilinx controllers are actually any good, because the others bog down under lots of small writes (slow wear leveling algorithms?).
in summary, while you have marshaled an interesting array of wikipedia articles, the original article in question remains a piece of hype-mongering.
it has in no way connected itself to any of what you have stated.
instead, it has merely used (or possibly abused) the terms of biology to describe what might otherwise be a rather boring high school science fair experiment.
Oh, I see. You're not complaining about this specific article, you're trying to claim that that entire field is a crock.
it sounds like you are now accepting that the article is misleading.
You're agreeing that the terms are not what a normal reader would construe them to mean.
The terms are a (very good) metaphor, and the article is not at all misleading. I would have thought this would be obvious.
if the experiment wants to show anything, the methodology has to be more transparent so that we can know whether to consider its "genome" as really a genome or are something more banal.
The entire point of this sort of research is that the "genome" in the bots is analogous to, but far simpler than, a biological genome, and the means of selecting which "genomes" to generate the next "generation" from is analogous to how genomes are selected in biology (either "natural selection" like you find in nature or "artificial selection" like you get with farmed crops or dog breeding).
In what way is it not transparent?
if the semi-random is really just someone going through and changing parameters in a config file (or using a script to do it), then it's not really random at all.
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MLC just needs to be shitcanned and the focus be on getting SLC technology better/faster/cheaper.
Keep in mind that no matter how good SLC gets, MLC will cost about half or a third (for the 3 bits/cell version that I hear is in the works) as much (or less really, due to higher volumes).
and the companies ( Hello, Samsung!) should be ashamed. It wasn't until a few years ago that MLC was commercially viable but it only increases by a factor of TWO. That's one of the lowest, most pointless tradeoffs ever in recent computing.
So, I get merely TWICE the storage for a TEN TIMES reduction in average component life, a 40% reduction in write speed, without fancy controller redesign, and we get to enjoy all the ludicrous "benefits" of MLC for the price that SLC would have been anyway, through market forces and silicon die shrink
Right then, that just means that everyone will buy SLC drives and the MLC ones will be a complete flop. Right?
Or maybe, just maybe, $$/GB actually matters to people, nobody cares about expected lifespans of more than 7 years because they'll have a new computer with a 10x bigger drive by then, and even with the slower writes they're still fast enough to generally put things back to being CPU/memory bound.
I submitted article with the real truth, wonder if slashdot will post it?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html
If you look here it seems temperatures have been alternately going up and staying flat (or even cooling slightly) for 30 years or so, and we're about at the end of 30 years of "going up". Maybe the warming is on hold until around 2040?
Hey, that could mean that 2038 really is the end of the world -- the 2012 people have the right idea, they've just been working from the wrong calendar.
actually, the stall would be BEFORE big ice melts as heat capacity of ice is much higher, to say nothing of the huge amount of energy it takes to make the phase change to liquid water. so the stall should have been much earlier, not now!
The heat capacity of water is about 2x that of ice, and melting ice takes ~80x the energy of heating water 1C. So any stall should happen while the ice is melting, which is apparently now.
ANot surprising: higher temperature -> oceans heat up -> less dissolved CO2.
Next time you go to the kitchen, do a little experiment with the sugar: does it dissolve more easily in hot water, or in cold water? I think you'll find it's the same with CO2. Better find another explanation.
CO2 becomes less soluble in water at higher temperatures.
Much as projections of the height of horse manure in New York said that you'd all be up to your waists in it by the year 2,000? There's so much more to a projection than simply extrapolating a curve.
I'm not saying the prediction is any good or not, just that that particular complaint probably isn't valit.
As far as I can tell, the developing world is completely exempt from any decision on climate change, and various other efforts to get world leaders to acknowledge and act on climate change have garnered meager changes in policy at best. Face it: if the world is in danger and we're looking to our leaders to save the day, we're screwed. The best bet on climate change is to alter the individual consumer's behavior.
I'd say the best bet is to alter the individual inventor's behavior, such that coal and oil become generally obsolete as energy sources.
Unlike Hadley, RSS uses satellite data, is consistent, and is open. They DO report a current trend of .15K per decade. This is far lower than the forecast.
I got the impression that the forecast is assuming that economic growth will lead to higher greenhouse emissions in later years, and accelerating temperature increases. So current trends not matching a simple linear path to their endpoint doesn't really mean much.
Of course, I can guarantee this system would limit travel speed to the legal speed limit, so this wouldn't catch on with the majority of commuters. Most cities, if traffic isn't moving 15mph, it's going 15mph faster than the speed limit.
Or maybe the lack of speeding would remove the revenue incentives for having stupid speed limits, and the limits would get raised to something sane.
I'm fairly sure that by accepting money for someone else's property, you are stealing money from that person, whether you deprived that person of the property or not.
The actual code isn't anyone's property, only the copyright on the code is.
GPL code requires linked code modules to be GPL as well, [...] (for use by anyone for any purpose on any operating system for no charge)
"for any purpose" no longer applies since everyone overreacted to Tivo.
It's .NET code. It's already "Open Source" by virtue of tools like Reflector existing.
I do not think that that is what "Open Source" is generally taken to mean.
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Seriously, whoever decided that we just get one dropdown and no 'confirm' button needs to be taken out back and shot. And I'd just used my other points on some actual trolls upthread, too. :(
The exemption should totally ignore the idea of what is considered best practices, and just ask: can the information be used? If it can, then notification should be required. If the information is safe, then don't worry too much.
It sounds like they're trying to codify a reasonable approximation of "is there anything to worry about", and maybe got it slightly wrong. Or maybe not, depending on what "effective" here means... although I don't think there are any access controls other than encryption that are effective against someone yanking the drive and reading it with a different system.
WTF, why does this kind of fatalistic crap get modded up? It adds nothing to the discussion.
The copyright lawyers are laughing at this guy's defense, but these are the same lawyers who think that file sharing is immoral and that record companies should have the right to sue people into poverty because of a few kilobytes of uploads.
I wouldn't put too much weight on what they think.
What is legal or not, and what is right or not are often completely different. These lawyers may have some rather screwy ideas about the latter, but it's their job to have a very good understanding of the former. So when the former is what's under discussion, what they think probably should carry a bit of weight.
I don't think copyright infringement is typically a criminal offense.
It can be fairly easily, at least here in the US. $1000 retail value within 6mo (so for example a "so-and-so discography" or "best of <genre>" torrent would probably qualify), or if you're trying to make money, or if it's pre-release.
And before anyone starts, I am not suggesting Microsoft change their rules on supporting pirated copies of Windows. It's theirs to choose how to support how they want.
But shouldn't they also be liable somehow for the collateral damage they're causing, when they give traction to the spammers and botnets?
[Salt water]<----(+)----[Brine]----(-)----->[Salt water]
Chemically, that "equation" just doesn't balance without an input of energy. It doesn't matter what kind of "ion bridges" they put into place between the brine and salt water reservoirs, or what the concentration of salt exists in the brine or salt water, it will require some energy to offset the entropy increase.
This is exactly backwards; energy input is required in order to decrease entropy of (part of) a system. Entropy increases come for free. Consider if you fill one half of a fish tank with fresh water and the other half with brine, do you get a fish tank full of somewhat salty water or do the fresh and salt water separate out?
If it's on Earth, then it is a colder climate. Colder than 100 degrees centigrade. Or as you probably call it, 212 degrees-F.
Very funny, please go read up on "vapor pressure".
All that's needed to get some condensation is a surface that's colder than the pool, and in the same enclosed area. The trouble is, the rate of condensation and evaporation depends on the temperature differential between the condenser and the pool. So if your ambient temperature is 90 F and your pool is heated to 100 F you won't see very much evaporation compared to if you just exhaust your waste humidity into the (presumably comparatively dry) environment.
what if they collected the fresh water vapour that is evaporating off the salt water as well?
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
TFA is a bit light on details: why do Na+ ions go to one stream and CL- to the other? Have they got membranes that are impervious to CL- and NA+?
Yes. From TFA:
I think there are only about 4 kinds of controllers: Intel (used by themselves and a couple models from Kingston and one other... Corsair I think?); Indilinx (used by the rest of the decent drives, like the OCZ Vertex line); Samsung (supposedly what you typically get if you buy a computer with an SSD already installed, not particularly good); and JMicron (the really crappy early drives). I get the impression that only the Intel and Indilinx controllers are actually any good, because the others bog down under lots of small writes (slow wear leveling algorithms?).
in summary, while you have marshaled an interesting array of wikipedia articles, the original article in question remains a piece of hype-mongering.
it has in no way connected itself to any of what you have stated.
instead, it has merely used (or possibly abused) the terms of biology to describe what might otherwise be a rather boring high school science fair experiment.
Oh, I see. You're not complaining about this specific article, you're trying to claim that that entire field is a crock.
Have a nice day.
the robots do not deceive; they do not see food. the article is a misconstrual of what is happening.
Only in the same sense that you are a figment of your own imagination, and any discussion of there being a "you" or "me" is also a misconstrual.
it sounds like you are now accepting that the article is misleading.
You're agreeing that the terms are not what a normal reader would construe them to mean.
The terms are a (very good) metaphor, and the article is not at all misleading. I would have thought this would be obvious.
if the experiment wants to show anything, the methodology has to be more transparent so that we can know whether to consider its "genome" as really a genome or are something more banal.
The entire point of this sort of research is that the "genome" in the bots is analogous to, but far simpler than, a biological genome, and the means of selecting which "genomes" to generate the next "generation" from is analogous to how genomes are selected in biology (either "natural selection" like you find in nature or "artificial selection" like you get with farmed crops or dog breeding).
In what way is it not transparent?
if the semi-random is really just someone going through and changing parameters in a config file (or using a script to do it), then it's not really random at all.
Believe it or not, computers actually can generate effectively random numbers.