machines will become cheaper than employees - for many of the other reasons he lists: no holidays, no overtime, no lawsuits from workplace injuries, etc.
You're trying to making it much more complicated than it is. The fundamental reason why machines are cheaper is because machines DON'T HAVE TO BE PAID continually, over and over again. Both in salary, and in "benefits". You buy them once and they last a long, long time with minimal expense for upkeep and repairs.
Yeah, and too bad a superbike weighs more than a scooter, too. And an M2 50 cal machine gun weighs quite a bit more than a 32 snubnose. Sheesh. BTW, the smaller NUCs aren't going away.
The box is too much for non-graphics-intensive game genres and too little for graphics-intensive game genres. That narrows its niche down to zilch.
Bleh. Oh, go back into your basement and shut the hatch. As if low-performance gaming and high-performance gaming is all there is to do. This may come as a shock to you, but there is software development, remote administration, self study and self education on the web, and a myriad of other things that non-couch-potatoes do.
The simple fact is that this is perfect for just about everything EXCEPT heavy-duty gaming and massive 3D work, and allows replacing massive ATX cases with a box the size of a paperback book in a tiny corner of the desk.
You can even do pretty heavy-duty gaming and 3D with an external graphics unit connected to the Thunderbolt, and the whole assembly is only a tiny fraction the size and weight of a bloated ATX box.
Time to get a 1970s Mercedes diesel, 1980 VW diesel, or 1982 Audi diesel. You know, the kind with zero electronics of any kind in it, outside of the radio.
Once my 1983 Audi 5000TD was started, the only reason it needed an alternator or battery at all to keep running as long as the fuel held out was to keep the fuel cutoff solenoid energized and open. You could have done that function with a single jumper and some D cells. EMP? Ha! In a nuclear war it would have remained in perfect running condition when only cockroaches were left alive.
I cried after a guy in a Ford hit me from behind at 40 mph while I was stationary with my brake lights blazing, and blinking for a left turn. Everything behind the rear seat ceased to exist in an instant. The car was 16 years old, the leather interior still looked and smelled like brand new, and all the original paper stickers were still in perfect shape in the engine compartment, on the drive shafts, etc.
How is swapping out wifi with no add-on board (PI 3) for a wired interface an improvement?? For $5 extra?
The Odroid is GIGABIT ethernet, sparky. The Pi isn't even really a fully capable 100 Mb. It is hanging off the same terrible chip that implements the USBs. At least that's the promise of the Odroid. The Odroid hardware QC is so shaky, however, I've avoided trying it so far.
Trying to pin down THE "inventor" of almost all of those devices is futile. A case in point is who "invented" the airplane - your first hurdle is simply defining "airplane" - and, does it have to be powered? - and piloted? A Greek by the name of Archytas was reputed to have flown a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of steam for some 200 metres, around 400 BC. Manned gliders were experimented with as early as the 9th century AD. Sir George Cayley was flying glider models that were essentially the full embodiment of the modern conception of airplanes (sans power plants) - in 1803 or 1804. He built a manned glider that flew successfully in 1853. Cayley may have performed powered flight in 1901, though definitive documentation is lacking.
Eyewitness accounts say the New Zealander Richard Pearse took off in his engine-powered monoplane in 1902 or 1903 and flew 300 metres - something (take off under their own power) which the Wrights did NOT accomplish in their first flight at the very end of 1903.
Contemporary reports exist that Gustave Whitehead flew over 2 km in 1901. His craft was not just an airplane, but a flying car. It had two engines driving two propellers, plus a third engine for terrestrial driving. On March 8, 2013, "Jane's All the World's Aircraft" formally recognized this achievement, after years of discrediting.
I did look up the Australian "pacemaker". It was a 1926 machine that had to be plugged into a wall socket. It had one skin pad plus one needle which had to be plunged through the chest wall into the heart. But it did work, and was capable of resuscitating patients from cardiac arrest, after which its use could be terminated. A Canadian produced a fully transcutaneous pacemaker in 1950. It was heavy, plugged into a wall socket, and rather uncomfortable, because of the heavy shocking action, like today's external defibrillators. In 1958 a USAian, Bakken, produced the first wearable external pacemaker, using transcutaneous leads embedded in the heart. Proper implantable pacemakers followed.
I am satisfied to consider that brilliant people of many nations and cultures have all participated in developing and perfecting many useful things.
A minute a year is PISS POOR compared to WWVB sync, or GPS sync, or NTP sync. Utterly unacceptable. Plus it doesn't do SHIT about auto-daylight-saving switchover, which was the whole point of this article.
A TCXO is useful for bridging a power outage. That's about it.
That goddam thing sucks down 6 mA. That will run down your AA battery in about 3 weeks.
It's pretty amazing that the big wall clocks with the physical motor, gear train, and the ticking second hand can run well over a year on a single AA. That's in the microamps average current!
And we sure won't find out from that piss poor product page. How accurate is it? Does it have WWVB sync? Does it have (gag) preprogrammed time zone switching - guaranteed obsolescence? Do you have to change the time zone manually? They don't breathe a word about specs. The C battery is a BIG turnoff, because you can't get a 1.5v C lithium the way you can the 1.5v lithium L91 for the AA - and alkalines are all LEAKERS. That's a pretty brutal investment that's going to be axed WHEN (not if) your C battery croaks and leaks.
It should be noted that 600 Rem in a short period is the point where you have a significant chance of dying
I would advise against betting your life on that as a cutoff point. The human LD50 for acute whole-body radiation exposure without medical intervention is about 350 rad. There will be cases of death for "only" 200-300 rad. A level of 600 rad is essentially LD100.
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission pegs the LD50 at 400-450 without specifying whether or not medical intervention is made. If you want to be a little more daring, use that.
None of these figures even count deaths which take longer than 30 days following exposure to occur.
My own favorite quote is from The Peacemaker. It's something to the effect of "Do you know what worries me all to hell? Someone who only wants to steal ONE nuclear weapon". Because it's pretty obvious what that guy has generally in mind.
It's been a long, long time since snorkels were any kind of novelty. They are definitely the norm for recharging the batteries, certainly in conflict or training for conflict; and surfacing like in the WW II movies is the rarity. Of course you are limited to periscope depth while snorkeling - the conning tower being barely below the surface. And of course it is noisy, DOES have a non-zero radar cross-section, and releases exhaust that can be sniffed.
There is such a thing as air independent propulsion now, also. Basically the sub carries oxidizer for its power plant. If the power plant is a diesel engine, then it's still noisy, but if it's a fuel cell, you're shit out of luck trying to hear it.
Nuclear power is _comparatively_ noisy. You have a steam plant with circulating pumps, that can NEVER be shut off, for heaven's sake. An outstandingly quieted US nuke is a lot quieter than a 2-bit amateur job - the newer British and probably French are very good also - the Russians are getting a lot better since the breakup. But ANY of them is noisier than a WW II antique on battery power creeping at low speed.
The government is the LAST goddam entity I want to have this capability. I am not in the least bit surprised that Obama is a total fucking tool, and anybody who didn't know that seven years ago is an idiot.
Sorry. Most model airplane engines run on methanol with which is mixed a proportion of nitromethane - when I was flying, 5% was par, 15% was hot stuff, and 30% was crazy hot. But there are also model airplane engines that run on gasoline, and on diesel fuel. Just about all of them, regardless of fuel used, also require a goodly portion of castor or other oil premixed in the fuel. Not 50:1, like chain saws and old outboard motors - would you believe 5:1. Also, model airplane engines are incredibly noisy, have short life and high maintenance. It is indeed a TERRIBLE idea.
Perfluorooctanoic acid is not teflon, jackass. The process of MANUFACTURING teflon involves the process use of a toxic substance. So do a lot of substances. Chrome electroplating involves immersion a shockingly toxic bath. But finished chrome-plated items are not the least bit toxic, and neither are teflon-finished items, unless heated above 260 C, whereupon pyrolytic breakdown evolves toxic substances.
Since frying typically reaches up to 230 C, I don't regard the safety margin as adequate, and personally I would never fry in a teflon-coated pan. But no, teflon as a substance under ordinary conditions is NOT in the least toxic.
Caveat - if the finished teflon is allowed to be contaminated by traces of perfluorooctanoic acid, then there is trace toxicity present in the finished teflon. But the acid is NOT an integral constituent of teflon, does not HAVE to be used at all, and is being phased out. Overall, teflon cookware is considered an insignificant exposure pathway to perfluorooctanoic acid.
Gah, never mind:( The article i linked lists a practical attack on SHA-1 (aka SHA160), not SHA-2. Still, it is basically the same algorithm with a larger key so it is a matter of time until someone breaks it too.
You have to specify the subtype of SHA-2.
SHA-1 has only 80 bits of effective security when its weakness is exploited. That's still up to 1.2 trillion trillion computational combinations. SHA-256 raises that to 128 bits, which is 281 trillion times more computational work. the SHA-512 subtype of SHA-2 raises that to 256 bits, which is 96 thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion times more computational work than SHA-1.
You could put all the energy in the universe to work on "breaking" SHA-2 SHA-512 and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get it done before the heat death of the universe. Sure, it's "only" a matter of degree, but the degree is so staggeringly large as to defy the imagination. We're not looking at either just a few years of tech advance, or just a few years of supercomputer time per crack here.
P.S. - it is criminally, brain-dead stupid to use anything less than SHA-2 SHA-512 for anything new. It's not only trillions of trillions of times more secure than SHA-2 SHA-256, but it's actually FASTER to calculate, and only takes about twice as much time to calculate as the completely obsolete, broken MD5. It just makes me cry to see people still using MD5 and SHA-1 for file checksums when there is just no excuse for doing so.
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You're trying to making it much more complicated than it is. The fundamental reason why machines are cheaper is because machines DON'T HAVE TO BE PAID continually, over and over again. Both in salary, and in "benefits". You buy them once and they last a long, long time with minimal expense for upkeep and repairs.
COMPLEMENT. Unless you mean institutions that ingratiatingly tell people what a good job they doing living without a job.
Yeah, and too bad a superbike weighs more than a scooter, too. And an M2 50 cal machine gun weighs quite a bit more than a 32 snubnose. Sheesh. BTW, the smaller NUCs aren't going away.
Bleh. Oh, go back into your basement and shut the hatch. As if low-performance gaming and high-performance gaming is all there is to do. This may come as a shock to you, but there is software development, remote administration, self study and self education on the web, and a myriad of other things that non-couch-potatoes do.
The simple fact is that this is perfect for just about everything EXCEPT heavy-duty gaming and massive 3D work, and allows replacing massive ATX cases with a box the size of a paperback book in a tiny corner of the desk.
You can even do pretty heavy-duty gaming and 3D with an external graphics unit connected to the Thunderbolt, and the whole assembly is only a tiny fraction the size and weight of a bloated ATX box.
Time to get a 1970s Mercedes diesel, 1980 VW diesel, or 1982 Audi diesel. You know, the kind with zero electronics of any kind in it, outside of the radio.
Once my 1983 Audi 5000TD was started, the only reason it needed an alternator or battery at all to keep running as long as the fuel held out was to keep the fuel cutoff solenoid energized and open. You could have done that function with a single jumper and some D cells. EMP? Ha! In a nuclear war it would have remained in perfect running condition when only cockroaches were left alive.
I cried after a guy in a Ford hit me from behind at 40 mph while I was stationary with my brake lights blazing, and blinking for a left turn. Everything behind the rear seat ceased to exist in an instant. The car was 16 years old, the leather interior still looked and smelled like brand new, and all the original paper stickers were still in perfect shape in the engine compartment, on the drive shafts, etc.
The Odroid is GIGABIT ethernet, sparky. The Pi isn't even really a fully capable 100 Mb. It is hanging off the same terrible chip that implements the USBs. At least that's the promise of the Odroid. The Odroid hardware QC is so shaky, however, I've avoided trying it so far.
Trying to pin down THE "inventor" of almost all of those devices is futile. A case in point is who "invented" the airplane - your first hurdle is simply defining "airplane" - and, does it have to be powered? - and piloted? A Greek by the name of Archytas was reputed to have flown a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of steam for some 200 metres, around 400 BC. Manned gliders were experimented with as early as the 9th century AD. Sir George Cayley was flying glider models that were essentially the full embodiment of the modern conception of airplanes (sans power plants) - in 1803 or 1804. He built a manned glider that flew successfully in 1853. Cayley may have performed powered flight in 1901, though definitive documentation is lacking.
Eyewitness accounts say the New Zealander Richard Pearse took off in his engine-powered monoplane in 1902 or 1903 and flew 300 metres - something (take off under their own power) which the Wrights did NOT accomplish in their first flight at the very end of 1903.
Contemporary reports exist that Gustave Whitehead flew over 2 km in 1901. His craft was not just an airplane, but a flying car. It had two engines driving two propellers, plus a third engine for terrestrial driving. On March 8, 2013, "Jane's All the World's Aircraft" formally recognized this achievement, after years of discrediting.
I did look up the Australian "pacemaker". It was a 1926 machine that had to be plugged into a wall socket. It had one skin pad plus one needle which had to be plunged through the chest wall into the heart. But it did work, and was capable of resuscitating patients from cardiac arrest, after which its use could be terminated. A Canadian produced a fully transcutaneous pacemaker in 1950. It was heavy, plugged into a wall socket, and rather uncomfortable, because of the heavy shocking action, like today's external defibrillators. In 1958 a USAian, Bakken, produced the first wearable external pacemaker, using transcutaneous leads embedded in the heart. Proper implantable pacemakers followed.
I am satisfied to consider that brilliant people of many nations and cultures have all participated in developing and perfecting many useful things.
That's not going to come anywhere near to running over a year on a single AA, which is what the WWVB wall clocks do.
A minute a year is PISS POOR compared to WWVB sync, or GPS sync, or NTP sync. Utterly unacceptable. Plus it doesn't do SHIT about auto-daylight-saving switchover, which was the whole point of this article.
A TCXO is useful for bridging a power outage. That's about it.
That goddam thing sucks down 6 mA. That will run down your AA battery in about 3 weeks.
It's pretty amazing that the big wall clocks with the physical motor, gear train, and the ticking second hand can run well over a year on a single AA. That's in the microamps average current!
And we sure won't find out from that piss poor product page. How accurate is it? Does it have WWVB sync? Does it have (gag) preprogrammed time zone switching - guaranteed obsolescence? Do you have to change the time zone manually? They don't breathe a word about specs. The C battery is a BIG turnoff, because you can't get a 1.5v C lithium the way you can the 1.5v lithium L91 for the AA - and alkalines are all LEAKERS. That's a pretty brutal investment that's going to be axed WHEN (not if) your C battery croaks and leaks.
I would advise against betting your life on that as a cutoff point. The human LD50 for acute whole-body radiation exposure without medical intervention is about 350 rad. There will be cases of death for "only" 200-300 rad. A level of 600 rad is essentially LD100.
That's certainly what the Washington State Department of Health, Division of Environmental Health, Office of Radiation Protection believes, anyway. I would be inclined to believe they know what they are talking about. Hanford Nuclear Reservation is in Washington.
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission pegs the LD50 at 400-450 without specifying whether or not medical intervention is made. If you want to be a little more daring, use that.
None of these figures even count deaths which take longer than 30 days following exposure to occur.
Irrelevant lightweight alert.
My own favorite quote is from The Peacemaker. It's something to the effect of "Do you know what worries me all to hell? Someone who only wants to steal ONE nuclear weapon". Because it's pretty obvious what that guy has generally in mind.
It's been a long, long time since snorkels were any kind of novelty. They are definitely the norm for recharging the batteries, certainly in conflict or training for conflict; and surfacing like in the WW II movies is the rarity. Of course you are limited to periscope depth while snorkeling - the conning tower being barely below the surface. And of course it is noisy, DOES have a non-zero radar cross-section, and releases exhaust that can be sniffed.
There is such a thing as air independent propulsion now, also. Basically the sub carries oxidizer for its power plant. If the power plant is a diesel engine, then it's still noisy, but if it's a fuel cell, you're shit out of luck trying to hear it.
Nuclear power is _comparatively_ noisy. You have a steam plant with circulating pumps, that can NEVER be shut off, for heaven's sake. An outstandingly quieted US nuke is a lot quieter than a 2-bit amateur job - the newer British and probably French are very good also - the Russians are getting a lot better since the breakup. But ANY of them is noisier than a WW II antique on battery power creeping at low speed.
Bullshit. He is an extreme statist. An overwhelming majority of our politicians are.
And before that it was nazis and Japanese. Go back further and it was anarchists, and before that secessionists.
The government is the LAST goddam entity I want to have this capability. I am not in the least bit surprised that Obama is a total fucking tool, and anybody who didn't know that seven years ago is an idiot.
I stopped reading right there.
I'll accept and agree with that, and add a few:
Truman.
Kennedy.
Reagan.
Sorry. Most model airplane engines run on methanol with which is mixed a proportion of nitromethane - when I was flying, 5% was par, 15% was hot stuff, and 30% was crazy hot. But there are also model airplane engines that run on gasoline, and on diesel fuel. Just about all of them, regardless of fuel used, also require a goodly portion of castor or other oil premixed in the fuel. Not 50:1, like chain saws and old outboard motors - would you believe 5:1. Also, model airplane engines are incredibly noisy, have short life and high maintenance. It is indeed a TERRIBLE idea.
+1, insightful and informative
WHAT air conditioning? Try again, loser.
Perfluorooctanoic acid is not teflon, jackass. The process of MANUFACTURING teflon involves the process use of a toxic substance. So do a lot of substances. Chrome electroplating involves immersion a shockingly toxic bath. But finished chrome-plated items are not the least bit toxic, and neither are teflon-finished items, unless heated above 260 C, whereupon pyrolytic breakdown evolves toxic substances.
Since frying typically reaches up to 230 C, I don't regard the safety margin as adequate, and personally I would never fry in a teflon-coated pan. But no, teflon as a substance under ordinary conditions is NOT in the least toxic.
Caveat - if the finished teflon is allowed to be contaminated by traces of perfluorooctanoic acid, then there is trace toxicity present in the finished teflon. But the acid is NOT an integral constituent of teflon, does not HAVE to be used at all, and is being phased out. Overall, teflon cookware is considered an insignificant exposure pathway to perfluorooctanoic acid.
You have to specify the subtype of SHA-2.
SHA-1 has only 80 bits of effective security when its weakness is exploited. That's still up to 1.2 trillion trillion computational combinations.
SHA-256 raises that to 128 bits, which is 281 trillion times more computational work.
the SHA-512 subtype of SHA-2 raises that to 256 bits, which is 96 thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion times more computational work than SHA-1.
You could put all the energy in the universe to work on "breaking" SHA-2 SHA-512 and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get it done before the heat death of the universe. Sure, it's "only" a matter of degree, but the degree is so staggeringly large as to defy the imagination. We're not looking at either just a few years of tech advance, or just a few years of supercomputer time per crack here.
P.S. - it is criminally, brain-dead stupid to use anything less than SHA-2 SHA-512 for anything new. It's not only trillions of trillions of times more secure than SHA-2 SHA-256, but it's actually FASTER to calculate, and only takes about twice as much time to calculate as the completely obsolete, broken MD5. It just makes me cry to see people still using MD5 and SHA-1 for file checksums when there is just no excuse for doing so.