Trying to lay labels like conservative and liberal on RAH is a lost cause. You only need to read his work to understand that he felt both the liberal and conservative points of view each led to a negative Utopia.
Heinlein was a master of science fiction because like Roddenberry he knew that the widgets of tech and culture in the story were just props to disassociate the reader from his JOB, to let him focus on the morality play. His stories were not really about future science or culture - that was just the setting. The stories were about people, the conflicts that arise between them and how they were resolved. If he worked some social commentary into the props that was just his masterful art.
He tried it the other way unsuccessfully, and frankly a 2-page footnote just loses the whole thing. That was a total loss, a commercial failure.
People care about the interplay between people. Only.
He was more open about exploring how familial relationships impact a culture. What he got out of that was hippies camped on his lawn.
BTW: One night over bridge (they did this regularly, with generous libations) L. Ron Hubbard and RAH made a $1 bet over who could create the better sci-fi religion. LRH gave us Battleship Earth and Scientology. RAH gave us Stranger In a Strange Land and the Universal Life Church. Eventually RAH wrote: "Here's your buck. Get these hippies off my lawn." LRH fell into the adoration of his self-created church, and RAH escaped capture from his.
I wish I could enumerate the various ways the screenwriters took liberties with The Dean's work, but/. does not allow posts of that length. Suffice to say that the film was as much an adaptation of the book of the same name as it was of another book, Cornflowers by the Roadside. Or the Iliad.
Starship Troopers (the book) was not RAH's masterpiece by any means - it was intended and sold as pulp sci-fi to grab a teen market and make a quick buck, as many of his works were. He was unapologetically a literary prostitute in this era, but managed to work into that a hint of flavor of what he was really about.
There was no reason I can tell to associate his name with this movie other than to sell movie tickets and DVDs to his fans. It named some of the characters in the book (sometimes changing their gender). It had some of the words. It had Bugs Vs Humans. That's about it. It was a famous author's name exploitation CGI schockfest. And yes, I bought the movie tickets and the videos anyway, to keep my collection complete. So it worked.
I think RAH would have enjoyed the movie. He would not have recognized it, but I think he would have enjoyed it.
RAH books tend to make poor movies for some reason. "The Puppet Masters" didn't do that well either, and it struck closer to the book. A better superspy intro, like in the book, would have built a better back story for the agents. Let us hope they never attempt a cinematic version of Podkayne of Mars, and that Uwe Boll never gets hold of rights.
Compared to what SANs cost you might consider buying up some KC residential real estate. BTW: you're already late to this game so expect to pay a premium.
Build a couple Backblaze boxes and work out a deal with some KC residents. That gets you 180TB offsite stuff with whatever sw leverage you want to lay on top of that.
If you want to feel small go out in your back yard in the summer (not near the 4th of July) and look up at the sky. Turn off the porch light, and if you have to - ask the neighbors to turn off theirs. This is the Milky Way.
You'll see a cloud that goes beyond what you can see, each point in it another sun with worlds like our own. We fight over square miles, and here are whole worlds beyond number, so common that your eye cannot put one from the other.
We really need to get to the root of how antropogenic climate change is causing solar eclipses. If this keeps happening eventually the moon will come between the Earth and the sun permanently, leading to an eternal night cursed with ever increasing temperatures. Crops will simultaneously wilt and catch fire. With the right global publicity board report we should be able to get a bunch of powerless scientists to achieve a high degree of consensus about the subject, and then do nothing.
Apparently the US DOJ regulates industries that aren't even in the US, like file hosting services in New Zealand. They also can selectively prosecute targets of big content industry ire, like Aaron Swartz.
Regulatory capture occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government failure, as it can act as an encouragement for firms to produce negative externalities. The agencies are called "captured agencies".
Federal Communications Commission
Legal scholars have pointed to the possibility that federal agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had been captured by media conglomerates. Peter Schuck of Yale Law School has argued that the FCC is subject to capture by the media industries' leaders and therefore reinforce the operation of corporate cartels in a form of "corporate socialism" that serves to "regressively tax consumers, impoverish small firms, inhibit new entry, stifle innovation, and diminish consumer choice". The FCC selectively granted communications licenses to some radio and television stations in a process that excludes other citizens and little stations from having access to the public.
Michael K. Powell, who served on the FCC for eight years and was chairman for four, was appointed president and chief executive officer of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, a lobby group. As of April 25, 2011, he will be the chief lobbyist and the industry's liaison with Congress, the White House, the FCC and other federal agencies.
Meredith Attwell Baker was one of the FCC commissioners who approved a controversial merger between NBC Universal and Comcast. Four months later, she announced her resignation from the FCC to join Comcast's Washington, D.C. lobbying office. Legally, she is prevented from lobbying anyone at the FCC for two years and an agreement made by Comcast with the FCC as a condition of approving the merger will ban her from lobbying any executive branch agency for life. Nonetheless, Craig Aaron, of Free Press, who opposed the merger, complained that "the complete capture of government by industry barely raises any eyebrows" and said public policy would continue to suffer from the "continuously revolving door at the FCC".
Averages average. Also, today you can buy add-in cards that do a million IOPS, workstations that support over 1TB of RAM and 32TB of disk. The nodes that made up that supercomputer wouldn't even make a decent phone.
The difference between double and single precision flops is only about 2x on these things. I was going to mention that though, so thanks for bringing it up. I don't know if these GPU figures are for double or single precision. On this scale though that still leaves one $550 add-in card outperforming a top-500 supercomputer the size of a small house from 7 years ago - and you can put three of them in one PC. If this trend continues then real-time raytracing at 4K on your desktop is about 4 years away.
This stuff is just amazing to me. The bottom end R7 260x card clocks 1.97 TFLOPS for $139. For that $550 you get up to 5.6 TFLOPS. It wasn't so long ago you would expect to pay $2,000 for a desktop PC. In fact, you still can.
In June 1997 ASCI Red at Sandia Labs was the first supercomputer in the TOP500 to breach the 1TFLOPS barrier. It had 7,264 cores in 104 cabinets or system racks consuming a total of 1600 square feet of datacenter space. It required 850 KW of power, not including cooling. With upgrades it remained at the #1 spot on the supercomputer charts until 2000, and wasn't decomissioned until early 2006 when it remained in the TOP500 list as #276 with only 2.4 TFLOPS.
Apparentle the muni broadband providers don't subscribe to this "ever more profit" model. They just want to give their customers good service at a reasonable price.
Maybe you should look at the whole upstream connection thing. Apparently I have 300x more bandwidth than your average user on my home broadband, which would serve 20,000 of your users in aggregate. The problem might not be your users, but you.
The activity of municipal entities is regulated by law. Law is made by legislators who are elected, and desire to be re-elected. And here is the flaw in your plan.
Maintaining a monopoly on broadband Internet and Cable TV in a municipal area is profitable so far and above the cost of being elected to legislative office that the incumbent monopolies have managed to influence all the elected folks to protect them from competition from municipal entities in the interest of "capitalism and fair play."
Some are grandfathered in. You can get gigabit in the grand Ephrata, WA metroplex (POP 7664) through the local power muni some 15 years now. Or in Aberdeen, WA (POP 16,265) through the local power muni for a decade or so. In Tacoma, WA, the Click network can sell you 100Mbps through the power utility, but even though they serve the greater metropolitan area with power (including me) you have to be within the city limits (not me) to get that Internet deal because: protective legislation protecting incumbent ISPs like Comcast.
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Trying to lay labels like conservative and liberal on RAH is a lost cause. You only need to read his work to understand that he felt both the liberal and conservative points of view each led to a negative Utopia.
Heinlein was a master of science fiction because like Roddenberry he knew that the widgets of tech and culture in the story were just props to disassociate the reader from his JOB, to let him focus on the morality play. His stories were not really about future science or culture - that was just the setting. The stories were about people, the conflicts that arise between them and how they were resolved. If he worked some social commentary into the props that was just his masterful art.
He tried it the other way unsuccessfully, and frankly a 2-page footnote just loses the whole thing. That was a total loss, a commercial failure.
People care about the interplay between people. Only.
He was more open about exploring how familial relationships impact a culture. What he got out of that was hippies camped on his lawn.
BTW: One night over bridge (they did this regularly, with generous libations) L. Ron Hubbard and RAH made a $1 bet over who could create the better sci-fi religion. LRH gave us Battleship Earth and Scientology. RAH gave us Stranger In a Strange Land and the Universal Life Church. Eventually RAH wrote: "Here's your buck. Get these hippies off my lawn." LRH fell into the adoration of his self-created church, and RAH escaped capture from his.
I wish I could enumerate the various ways the screenwriters took liberties with The Dean's work, but /. does not allow posts of that length. Suffice to say that the film was as much an adaptation of the book of the same name as it was of another book, Cornflowers by the Roadside. Or the Iliad.
Starship Troopers (the book) was not RAH's masterpiece by any means - it was intended and sold as pulp sci-fi to grab a teen market and make a quick buck, as many of his works were. He was unapologetically a literary prostitute in this era, but managed to work into that a hint of flavor of what he was really about.
There was no reason I can tell to associate his name with this movie other than to sell movie tickets and DVDs to his fans. It named some of the characters in the book (sometimes changing their gender). It had some of the words. It had Bugs Vs Humans. That's about it. It was a famous author's name exploitation CGI schockfest. And yes, I bought the movie tickets and the videos anyway, to keep my collection complete. So it worked.
I think RAH would have enjoyed the movie. He would not have recognized it, but I think he would have enjoyed it.
RAH books tend to make poor movies for some reason. "The Puppet Masters" didn't do that well either, and it struck closer to the book. A better superspy intro, like in the book, would have built a better back story for the agents. Let us hope they never attempt a cinematic version of Podkayne of Mars, and that Uwe Boll never gets hold of rights.
Compared to what SANs cost you might consider buying up some KC residential real estate. BTW: you're already late to this game so expect to pay a premium.
Build a couple Backblaze boxes and work out a deal with some KC residents. That gets you 180TB offsite stuff with whatever sw leverage you want to lay on top of that.
If you want to feel small go out in your back yard in the summer (not near the 4th of July) and look up at the sky. Turn off the porch light, and if you have to - ask the neighbors to turn off theirs. This is the Milky Way. You'll see a cloud that goes beyond what you can see, each point in it another sun with worlds like our own. We fight over square miles, and here are whole worlds beyond number, so common that your eye cannot put one from the other.
We really need to get to the root of how antropogenic climate change is causing solar eclipses. If this keeps happening eventually the moon will come between the Earth and the sun permanently, leading to an eternal night cursed with ever increasing temperatures. Crops will simultaneously wilt and catch fire. With the right global publicity board report we should be able to get a bunch of powerless scientists to achieve a high degree of consensus about the subject, and then do nothing.
Just checked out OpenMeetings. It is really neat stuff. Will probably install it.
Samsung alone accounts for 1 million of those, leaving 1.3 million per day for others. Here are the per-company numbers.
It will be interesting to see if LG can deliver enough of the Nexus 5 to bump their numbers over the holidays.
15 years ago, nobody thought the internet was much more than an academic curiousity.
Um, no.
Apparently the US DOJ regulates industries that aren't even in the US, like file hosting services in New Zealand. They also can selectively prosecute targets of big content industry ire, like Aaron Swartz.
So you haven't heard about the DOJ yet then?
Wikipedia:
Regulatory capture occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government failure, as it can act as an encouragement for firms to produce negative externalities. The agencies are called "captured agencies".
Federal Communications Commission
Legal scholars have pointed to the possibility that federal agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had been captured by media conglomerates. Peter Schuck of Yale Law School has argued that the FCC is subject to capture by the media industries' leaders and therefore reinforce the operation of corporate cartels in a form of "corporate socialism" that serves to "regressively tax consumers, impoverish small firms, inhibit new entry, stifle innovation, and diminish consumer choice". The FCC selectively granted communications licenses to some radio and television stations in a process that excludes other citizens and little stations from having access to the public.
Michael K. Powell, who served on the FCC for eight years and was chairman for four, was appointed president and chief executive officer of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, a lobby group. As of April 25, 2011, he will be the chief lobbyist and the industry's liaison with Congress, the White House, the FCC and other federal agencies. Meredith Attwell Baker was one of the FCC commissioners who approved a controversial merger between NBC Universal and Comcast. Four months later, she announced her resignation from the FCC to join Comcast's Washington, D.C. lobbying office. Legally, she is prevented from lobbying anyone at the FCC for two years and an agreement made by Comcast with the FCC as a condition of approving the merger will ban her from lobbying any executive branch agency for life. Nonetheless, Craig Aaron, of Free Press, who opposed the merger, complained that "the complete capture of government by industry barely raises any eyebrows" and said public policy would continue to suffer from the "continuously revolving door at the FCC".
Apparently the ACs have achieve consensus.
Averages average. Also, today you can buy add-in cards that do a million IOPS, workstations that support over 1TB of RAM and 32TB of disk. The nodes that made up that supercomputer wouldn't even make a decent phone.
The difference between double and single precision flops is only about 2x on these things. I was going to mention that though, so thanks for bringing it up. I don't know if these GPU figures are for double or single precision. On this scale though that still leaves one $550 add-in card outperforming a top-500 supercomputer the size of a small house from 7 years ago - and you can put three of them in one PC. If this trend continues then real-time raytracing at 4K on your desktop is about 4 years away.
This stuff is just amazing to me. The bottom end R7 260x card clocks 1.97 TFLOPS for $139. For that $550 you get up to 5.6 TFLOPS. It wasn't so long ago you would expect to pay $2,000 for a desktop PC. In fact, you still can.
In June 1997 ASCI Red at Sandia Labs was the first supercomputer in the TOP500 to breach the 1TFLOPS barrier. It had 7,264 cores in 104 cabinets or system racks consuming a total of 1600 square feet of datacenter space. It required 850 KW of power, not including cooling. With upgrades it remained at the #1 spot on the supercomputer charts until 2000, and wasn't decomissioned until early 2006 when it remained in the TOP500 list as #276 with only 2.4 TFLOPS.
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I didn't know Antigua was in the US Supreme Court's jurisdiction. What a small world.
Apparentle the muni broadband providers don't subscribe to this "ever more profit" model. They just want to give their customers good service at a reasonable price.
Maybe you should look at the whole upstream connection thing. Apparently I have 300x more bandwidth than your average user on my home broadband, which would serve 20,000 of your users in aggregate. The problem might not be your users, but you.
The incumbent providers have held back progress for so long that the benefits are obvious.
The activity of municipal entities is regulated by law. Law is made by legislators who are elected, and desire to be re-elected. And here is the flaw in your plan.
Maintaining a monopoly on broadband Internet and Cable TV in a municipal area is profitable so far and above the cost of being elected to legislative office that the incumbent monopolies have managed to influence all the elected folks to protect them from competition from municipal entities in the interest of "capitalism and fair play."
Some are grandfathered in. You can get gigabit in the grand Ephrata, WA metroplex (POP 7664) through the local power muni some 15 years now. Or in Aberdeen, WA (POP 16,265) through the local power muni for a decade or so. In Tacoma, WA, the Click network can sell you 100Mbps through the power utility, but even though they serve the greater metropolitan area with power (including me) you have to be within the city limits (not me) to get that Internet deal because: protective legislation protecting incumbent ISPs like Comcast.
So: Help us Google Fiber. You're our only hope.