This sort of disinformation is a huge part of why it failed. People read this and think "gee, Myria sounds like a smart person. This RT thing is Windows so I'll buy it and put on my Quicken and pirated Photoshop." Then they get it home, find it will not run that, and return it promptly back - then warning off all their friends in person and online.
Nice work! Please do keep on doin' what you're doin'.
The Surface RT is identical hardware to the Asus Transformer Prime. It's speculated that WinRT was developed on the Prime. When Surface RT released the Transformer Infinity was already out six months and had a 1920 x 1200 display. Not quite the iPad level, but you also don't need to be a hardware enthusiast to notice that difference either.
Asteroids which come near Earth are Planetary Resources' focus. They hope to capture one and exploit its minerals. That is an easy mission: catch what comes to you. Some of these Near Earth Asteroids still contain some captured water content, but an asteroid that has frequented Earth's orbit for a long time will not have them in great pure degree because those boil off - so a great deal of energy and technology must be spent to convert fractions of rock to water. Far more than would be spent to just go out to Ceres and get the water that lays on the ground in the measure of 200 quadrillion metric tons. The crust of Ceres will of course have the remains of all the platinum group metals that Near Earth Asteroids will since it is the queen of the Asteroid belt and has gathered a coating of asteroids for the last few billion years. On the surface of Ceres iron is more common even than silicon, and uranium is abundant.
In a few months NASA Dawn mission will image Ceres, and the commercial space race will begin in earnest. Ceres is a really, really big deal that changes everything we thought we knew about resources in space. Also: I wouldn't put long money in gold, silver, platinum and other such metals now. Those have been my faves, but not now.
If we are talking about 1 million Linux virtual hosts with 1GB RAM at classic 2% average loads then that would be about 3,000 BL460 Gen 8 with max RDIMM ram (384GB and 16 cores/32 threads each can support an average of up to 10% load for 1,000 virtual hosts), or 52 racks. If the virtual hosts need 512MB then, 27 racks. If you want to go to the edge and not overprovision 5x like a responsible person would and use LRDIMM, 6 racks. That's not a global network of datacenters. It's a data closet.
I think they're talking about physical, not virtual servers. And they're dealing with legacy tech.
Of course with a 2,000 to 1 ratio of physical servers to virtual servers the question becomes: why does Microsoft need more than one virtual server for every human who has Internet access? We don't even use Bing. I'm guessing the answer has something to do with backend processing and the NSA.
They paid SCO the license fees in advance to support a bogus lawsuit against UNIX - some $50M and now have a permanent fully paid up irrevocable worldwide license to all of SCO's (now TSOG's) fictional intellectual property. This was a decade ago. Try to keep up.
They even convinced some of their finance partners they would "backstop" SCO investments including Baystar and RBOC, and then reneged. Of course they made it up in other ways off the books since.
People use Bing. Just not willingly. EX: Windows is Binged. Verizon used to Bing their Android phones. IE is Binged. Siri is Binged. Now Windows 8.1 is Binged too, so it should ZOOM to the top of the charts right?
Bing is a verb that means "forcing an unwanted and inadequate search engine". Binged is the past tense of this word as well as the verb "consumed too many intoxicants".
So Binged may mean to have been forced to consumed too many intoxicants and search for things. It is the frat party of search engines - you use it, but don't know what you did or why you did during the Scavenger Hunt. If you're lucky you don't wake up in the quad in your underpants. This may explain its video search focus on porn. Or maybe the Bing admins just really, really like porn - the most obscure bizarre fetish porn available online apparently, not some mainstream softcore porn.
I'm not a prude: "the Internet is for porn" and the rest of it is en-passant. But the stuff you get from Bing video search is fringe erotica catering to a distinct class of extreme fetish I'm not so enamored with. If that's your thing, fine, but I think I'll let my kids Google with SafeSearch instead.
No, that's about right. In addition to the wattage figures that others have put there is storage, networking, power conversion, power battery backup, a cooling multiplier of about 2x, and waste.
If you think this is inefficient you should see what it costs to deliver a banana to Flagstaff, AZ or Fairbanks, AK.
I was not stupid enough to buy a house in south Florida, nor in New Orleans. People have bought swampland for all of the history of real estate, and suffered for it as they ought. If your house is at sea level or below: learn to swim.
I did not assert that all will be fine. Why do you put that on me when I did not say it? Are you seeking some consensus with me?
I would assert that a return to ice age conditions is not desirable. On this I hope we can agree. In this we can set the outer bound of acceptable conditions on the colder end to -0.8c below 20th century norms because any lower than that and glacial forcings push the average temp down to -8c rather abruptly. That evolution is suboptimal for agriculture and animal husbandry, and my heating bill.
Between 0C and 8C above historical norms I don't have a position either way. I just don't know whether the net result is good or bad. Certainly at +6C vast swaths of terrain in Russia and Canada are opened for agriculture, but is that good? I don't know.
Like tlambert said, I'm pretty sure that 500km of water is an adequate radiation shield. I wasn't even discussing human habitation anyway - we can get the water off without ever setting foot there but of course eventually we will when we can get there quick enough to not kill the passengers.
As for my civilization, I've high hopes and like you, low bets.
I think I'll leave the rest of your psychosis alone. I'm sure it makes sense to you. Maybe you should share it with an interested professional. I could refer you to one...
You're trying to paint me as a denier when I'm here in the trenches fighting the good fight - but doing it the right way with science and reason, not rhetoric and emotion, engaging the audience with mutual honest respect. Yes, maybe I'm giving lessons. Do you want to save the planet? It doesn't require being a stupid ass. At least not here. If you want to post context-free propaganda take that shit to CNET where they like it.
The assumption here is that the current state is a "problem" and that getting warmer than this is "worse". These are two assertions I would dispute. Have you some evidence to support these two claims?
At the current rate of sea level rise if you can't walk to safety you should ask somebody to carry you. If you can get two extra meters of elevation you should be good for a human lifespan.
First, when we passed 400 PPM you were not the guy that submitted the news to/. That was me. Where were you then, that you could not be bothered?
It's a really big thing, but it isn't the thing you're making it to be. You are trying to twist it to your own purpose. When big things happen charlatans appear on the periphery to reap profits from fear and uncertainty. Is that you? What's your angle?
If the operator is ethnically biased, yes. The operation of the gear is more a measure of the operator than the operational goals. That is exactly the problem.
Surface RT doesn't allow other browsers. It's all IE, all the time, and it's integrated with Bing. This is like browsing the Internet with training wheels on rails that take you where they want you to go.
If sea level increased 100 meters, or 1000 meters I still wouldn't have oceanfront property. All of Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and every glacier could melt, and the shore would still not lap at my door. Apparently I'm confused about where I should build my home. I should pay premium prices for the waterfront properties soon to be eaten by the sea and then demand that the inevitable not happen.
I think these are well documented properly referenced well known facts. If you think there is some flight of imaginary fancy posed here then please be specific and point to it so I can educate you about the specific scientific ways that you are wrong. You're using the emotional appeal, but you're WAY too deep in a/. thread for anybody to see it but you and me.
First: you might have logged in for this post and given it your cred, even if it was your first post.
Children asphyxiating at 400 ppm CO2 is completely unrealistic. It is hyperbole. It is absurd. At 40,000 ppm it might become credible, but 40K ppm is not plausible if we cooked off every potential fossil fuel including methane clathrates, every bit of limestone and every bit of granite on the surface of the Earth two miles down. It's not going to happen unless the kid is asthmatic, and then pollen or mold is more likely his issue. Bringing children into it at all is "think of the children" emotional escalation.
If you're going to fight the good fight, bring a real problem. If you don't have a real problem to bring you might reexamine the basis of your religion. Ah, who am I kidding? You will find a way to rationalize your position. You're already excusing people who would describe 400 PPM of CO2 as "asphyxiating children". You'll probably find a way to compare me to Hitler.
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This sort of disinformation is a huge part of why it failed. People read this and think "gee, Myria sounds like a smart person. This RT thing is Windows so I'll buy it and put on my Quicken and pirated Photoshop." Then they get it home, find it will not run that, and return it promptly back - then warning off all their friends in person and online.
Nice work! Please do keep on doin' what you're doin'.
The Surface RT is identical hardware to the Asus Transformer Prime. It's speculated that WinRT was developed on the Prime. When Surface RT released the Transformer Infinity was already out six months and had a 1920 x 1200 display. Not quite the iPad level, but you also don't need to be a hardware enthusiast to notice that difference either.
The sun is trapped in its orbit too. It makes a lap around Sag A* about once every 250 million years.
Am I the only one who is bored beyond tears with these Mars revelations?
No. But there are enough people who are not bored to keep the exploration going. Don't be insulted, but the world need ditch diggers too.
Asteroids which come near Earth are Planetary Resources' focus. They hope to capture one and exploit its minerals. That is an easy mission: catch what comes to you. Some of these Near Earth Asteroids still contain some captured water content, but an asteroid that has frequented Earth's orbit for a long time will not have them in great pure degree because those boil off - so a great deal of energy and technology must be spent to convert fractions of rock to water. Far more than would be spent to just go out to Ceres and get the water that lays on the ground in the measure of 200 quadrillion metric tons. The crust of Ceres will of course have the remains of all the platinum group metals that Near Earth Asteroids will since it is the queen of the Asteroid belt and has gathered a coating of asteroids for the last few billion years. On the surface of Ceres iron is more common even than silicon, and uranium is abundant.
In a few months NASA Dawn mission will image Ceres, and the commercial space race will begin in earnest. Ceres is a really, really big deal that changes everything we thought we knew about resources in space. Also: I wouldn't put long money in gold, silver, platinum and other such metals now. Those have been my faves, but not now.
If we are talking about 1 million Linux virtual hosts with 1GB RAM at classic 2% average loads then that would be about 3,000 BL460 Gen 8 with max RDIMM ram (384GB and 16 cores/32 threads each can support an average of up to 10% load for 1,000 virtual hosts), or 52 racks. If the virtual hosts need 512MB then, 27 racks. If you want to go to the edge and not overprovision 5x like a responsible person would and use LRDIMM, 6 racks. That's not a global network of datacenters. It's a data closet.
I think they're talking about physical, not virtual servers. And they're dealing with legacy tech.
Of course with a 2,000 to 1 ratio of physical servers to virtual servers the question becomes: why does Microsoft need more than one virtual server for every human who has Internet access? We don't even use Bing. I'm guessing the answer has something to do with backend processing and the NSA.
They paid SCO the license fees in advance to support a bogus lawsuit against UNIX - some $50M and now have a permanent fully paid up irrevocable worldwide license to all of SCO's (now TSOG's) fictional intellectual property. This was a decade ago. Try to keep up.
They even convinced some of their finance partners they would "backstop" SCO investments including Baystar and RBOC, and then reneged. Of course they made it up in other ways off the books since.
Their competitors pay them to support the license fees for some unknowable reason.
One. And BTW, that's not a big load for a modern laptop.
People use Bing. Just not willingly. EX: Windows is Binged. Verizon used to Bing their Android phones. IE is Binged. Siri is Binged. Now Windows 8.1 is Binged too, so it should ZOOM to the top of the charts right?
Bing is a verb that means "forcing an unwanted and inadequate search engine". Binged is the past tense of this word as well as the verb "consumed too many intoxicants".
So Binged may mean to have been forced to consumed too many intoxicants and search for things. It is the frat party of search engines - you use it, but don't know what you did or why you did during the Scavenger Hunt. If you're lucky you don't wake up in the quad in your underpants. This may explain its video search focus on porn. Or maybe the Bing admins just really, really like porn - the most obscure bizarre fetish porn available online apparently, not some mainstream softcore porn.
I'm not a prude: "the Internet is for porn" and the rest of it is en-passant. But the stuff you get from Bing video search is fringe erotica catering to a distinct class of extreme fetish I'm not so enamored with. If that's your thing, fine, but I think I'll let my kids Google with SafeSearch instead.
No, that's about right. In addition to the wattage figures that others have put there is storage, networking, power conversion, power battery backup, a cooling multiplier of about 2x, and waste.
If you think this is inefficient you should see what it costs to deliver a banana to Flagstaff, AZ or Fairbanks, AK.
I was not stupid enough to buy a house in south Florida, nor in New Orleans. People have bought swampland for all of the history of real estate, and suffered for it as they ought. If your house is at sea level or below: learn to swim.
I did not assert that all will be fine. Why do you put that on me when I did not say it? Are you seeking some consensus with me?
I would assert that a return to ice age conditions is not desirable. On this I hope we can agree. In this we can set the outer bound of acceptable conditions on the colder end to -0.8c below 20th century norms because any lower than that and glacial forcings push the average temp down to -8c rather abruptly. That evolution is suboptimal for agriculture and animal husbandry, and my heating bill.
Between 0C and 8C above historical norms I don't have a position either way. I just don't know whether the net result is good or bad. Certainly at +6C vast swaths of terrain in Russia and Canada are opened for agriculture, but is that good? I don't know.
Like tlambert said, I'm pretty sure that 500km of water is an adequate radiation shield. I wasn't even discussing human habitation anyway - we can get the water off without ever setting foot there but of course eventually we will when we can get there quick enough to not kill the passengers.
As for my civilization, I've high hopes and like you, low bets.
I think I'll leave the rest of your psychosis alone. I'm sure it makes sense to you. Maybe you should share it with an interested professional. I could refer you to one...
You're trying to paint me as a denier when I'm here in the trenches fighting the good fight - but doing it the right way with science and reason, not rhetoric and emotion, engaging the audience with mutual honest respect. Yes, maybe I'm giving lessons. Do you want to save the planet? It doesn't require being a stupid ass. At least not here. If you want to post context-free propaganda take that shit to CNET where they like it.
This problem will get worse not better.
The assumption here is that the current state is a "problem" and that getting warmer than this is "worse". These are two assertions I would dispute. Have you some evidence to support these two claims?
At the current rate of sea level rise if you can't walk to safety you should ask somebody to carry you. If you can get two extra meters of elevation you should be good for a human lifespan.
Let me get this straight. Are you denying that Earth's climate was warmer than now 12,000 years ago? Do you have some proof?
First, when we passed 400 PPM you were not the guy that submitted the news to /. That was me. Where were you then, that you could not be bothered?
It's a really big thing, but it isn't the thing you're making it to be. You are trying to twist it to your own purpose. When big things happen charlatans appear on the periphery to reap profits from fear and uncertainty. Is that you? What's your angle?
It arrived. I'm glad I got to have the experience before it died. One of many lost technology experiences.
If the operator is ethnically biased, yes. The operation of the gear is more a measure of the operator than the operational goals. That is exactly the problem.
Surface RT doesn't allow other browsers. It's all IE, all the time, and it's integrated with Bing. This is like browsing the Internet with training wheels on rails that take you where they want you to go.
If sea level increased 100 meters, or 1000 meters I still wouldn't have oceanfront property. All of Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and every glacier could melt, and the shore would still not lap at my door. Apparently I'm confused about where I should build my home. I should pay premium prices for the waterfront properties soon to be eaten by the sea and then demand that the inevitable not happen.
I think these are well documented properly referenced well known facts. If you think there is some flight of imaginary fancy posed here then please be specific and point to it so I can educate you about the specific scientific ways that you are wrong. You're using the emotional appeal, but you're WAY too deep in a /. thread for anybody to see it but you and me.
First: you might have logged in for this post and given it your cred, even if it was your first post.
Children asphyxiating at 400 ppm CO2 is completely unrealistic. It is hyperbole. It is absurd. At 40,000 ppm it might become credible, but 40K ppm is not plausible if we cooked off every potential fossil fuel including methane clathrates, every bit of limestone and every bit of granite on the surface of the Earth two miles down. It's not going to happen unless the kid is asthmatic, and then pollen or mold is more likely his issue. Bringing children into it at all is "think of the children" emotional escalation.
If you're going to fight the good fight, bring a real problem. If you don't have a real problem to bring you might reexamine the basis of your religion. Ah, who am I kidding? You will find a way to rationalize your position. You're already excusing people who would describe 400 PPM of CO2 as "asphyxiating children". You'll probably find a way to compare me to Hitler.