Nokia never did well in smartphones? Really? They sold half a billion Symbian smartphones - more than either Apple or Android has so far. They had 40 percent market share.
Nokia's Symbian still sold more smartphones last quarter than all of Windows Phone and Windows Mobile combined. Probably the last time that happens though.
A human who is caught cheating a vote count faces 20 years in federal prison. If a machine was faced with similar penalty, will it care? What if we make it a capital offense?
We should allow machines to count votes someday. And that day is the day we have found machines responsible enough to become full citizens and themselves vote. But even then it must not be an exclusive privilege reserved to the machines, or they will quickly become our overlords.
It's a difficult problem in the US. Although marijuana is illegal here it is by far the number one cash crop in the US - ahead of wheat, barley, corn, soybeans and everything else. It is also one of our largest imports and a significant portion of our balance of international trade. Somehow we have not learned the lessons of prohibition.
I don't care for the product myself but man, this is crazy.
The dogs are trained to give the alert signal on a visual cue from their handler. This is not reasonable evidence that a crime has been committed. It is delegating the grave responsibility of violating a citizen's right to be protected from unwarranted search and seizure from a trained and responsible judge acting on sworn statements of an officer of the court to a dog trained to respond on cue. We may as well shred the fourth amendment.
I adore my TF101. It was killer gear when I bought it last summer and it still is. It gets used by somebody in the house every single day without fail, usually for hours. My grandson (4) takes pictures and videos with it when he's done playing Minecraft and I watch some of them when I have time. My youngest (6) uses it to video chat me up on oovoo. I take it on trips to watch mpeg4's on the plane and Netflix in the hotel. I use it for documentation on the fly, training materials and reference works. I've used it to elevator pitch and present 1080p slideshows in conference rooms. With it and Citrix, various remote desktop apps and the like I can use it to do anything a PC or server can do.
I'm in the biz so I have a house full of IT gear. 4 tablets, 6 servers, a dozen PCs, and more "smart" devices than anybody needs. These outnumber the humans at least 5 to one. The only tech thing that sees more use in my house than this ASUS tablet is the Comcast router that delivers the Internet to all the rest.
The only problem I have with this device is fighting for control of it. Money well spent.
At $200 for the 16GB Nexus 7 tablet from ASUS, there is a good chance there will be more than one of these under my tree on Christmas morning.
Don't call me an Apple hater. My review of the iPads I received on launch day is right there in my/. journal and none could call it anything but "effusive". But Apple's cathedral isn't for me when I can get stuff like this and the Nexus 10 instead.
We shall have to see this holiday season if their legendary supply chain can keep up with the legendary bottomless demand. Apple makes good margins against apparently unlimited demand, so the only question is their production capacity.
Losing Samsung as a component supplier may crimp their style. Samsung doesn't have that problem because not only do they make their own stuff, they invent it too. And now Samsung makes the Nexus 10.
Not in the "doomed" sense, but in the code complete sense. A guy driven to innovate that isn't going to be happy maintaining it. You need a whole other KIND of guy for that. If you can't give that guy a new mountain to climb he will wander off in search of it himself.
For IT shops with fewer than 24 typical servers, what AMD might do in 2014 is not relevant. You would not be interested in trying this thing until it was field proven for three years. Even if it arrived on time (not AMD's strong suit) and it was nerdvana, that's 2017 before you're racking it. More likely the first version is quirky and your pilot starts two years later. But let's say 2017, for giggles. A typical 2 socket rack server can now be configured with 32 2.7GHz cores, 768 GB RAM, and terabytes of SSD million-IOPs storage and it comes with dual 10Gbps FCoE.
By 2017 even with outstanding business growth your server needs will be met by at most three geographically separated VM hosts, or cloud hosts. You are quite literally done at that point, as server performance will outpace your business need faster than the server warranties expire. Most small businesses are already there. If the extreme growth in mobile performance continues the logarithmic path of the last few years, by 2017 you might be able to replace all those servers with a mobile device. In 2017 100 Gbit dual port CEE onboard NICs will be standard, and we'll be laughing about magnetic media's long reign. "Our 128GB drives were as big as a deck of cards and could do 140 I/Os per second on a good day - and we liked it."
I've been a nerd for a long time - since the late 70's. The pace of these changes is stunning and unprecedented. For most people the capacity of one server is already far beyond their need. The second and third are just for redundancy. And they don't cost much, in constant dollars, compared to the servers of yesteryear. The software licensing can still be a burden if you're into paying for permission to use software rather than (or worse in addition to) paying for software support, but that is a different issue. Frankly I never did understand that strange turn that software took for a while.
Original poster. If an adult human of average or better intelligence chooses to enhance his ability to absorb, assimilate and integrate information inputs by augmenting his perceptive faculties through chemical means, I would consider that no more unusual than a carpenter trying out a new hammer. It's his choice, and as a species we utterly rely on some of us making this choice. As a progress consumer I'm happy many gifted people make this choice.
It turns out that most gifted people blunt their perceptions through chemical means to be able to relate well to the normal people they must interact with to subsist. Some do better than others. Thus is most of our human potential wasted on the altar of conformance.
If he wants to suck-start a Colt 45 to not have to deal with you idiots any more instead, I support that solution too. His choice. I don't benefit from this choice, but I can accept it. An unfortunate percentage of the gifted choose something related to this path. But it's their body and they're entitled to operate it as they see fit even unto the end of it.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. And yet laws have grown so numerous that no one could know them all, let alone understand them. This has given rise to a clergy of legalists to moderate a citizen's interaction with law: lawyers. And the lawyers invaded government to induce ever more use for their services by creating more complex and inscrutable law. And the lawyers coopted the system of justice such that one almost must be a lawyer to be a judge and interpret the law. And then they coopted the practice of making law so much that almost all legislators are lawyers also. Now even the president is a lawyer.
If you can afford the best quality of lawyer you can do what you will, and your lawyer will find a way to make it legal. The less able you are to support this system, the more you are a victim of it.
For a lawyer it's best if law is a fractal that bends back upon itself to permit anything and deny everything, based on the skill of the lawyer to bend the client's use into the "permitted" zone. That allows the lawyer to become the permitter and denier of strategies - the one with the power. The enabler of progress. And that's what our system of law has become.
Ultimately verbose and ineffable laws lead to citizen simplifications.
If you're not a lawyer and not bent on pushing the edge of law to your advantage, less law is better.
We've been doing this for over 5,000 years and derived through experience the least possible and most optimal law: the one law that by itself supplants all the many shelf-feet of the United States Code. This is the base primitive law that defines what law should be in eight words: "If it harm none, do what you will." Those eight words should be the whole of the law.
...change the number of photons impinging on the asteroid, or increase their effect?
A photon has energy. When a mass absorbs a photon's energy it has two effects: the mass increases in temperature equal to the energy of the photon, and the mass is accelerated in the direction of the photon's path equal to the energy of the photon. This seems like we're using the photon's energy twice, but it isn't so because thermal energy of a mass is kinetic energy shifted into the time domain. All objects in the solar system suffer this "solar wind" effect. The closer they are to the sun the more its radiated photons push them away. Obviously, the sun is emitting a LOT of photons.
When the mass radiates the photon again it cools and is thrust again in the direction opposite the direction of the escaping photon. Depending on the rotation of the mass and the average time a photon is held before being emitted again (albedo), this can impact the course of the object. By changing the time factor you can cool the object and impact its trajectory. This is called the Yarkovsky effect. Dark or fast-spinning objects hold the photon's energy for so long that they are radiated in directions that are relatively random and have zero impact on course but they are hotter. Bright objects have more measurable impacts on course because the energy is released in a predictable direction that is relative to the input a vector related to the object's direction of spin but they are cooler. Believe it or not, you can use colors of paint to impact the period between absorption and emission, and use that to align the thrust opposite to the objects orbit around the sun, or in synergy with it. Our understanding of this effect has grown so great that we can tell an asteroid's mass, density, axis and rate of spin based only on its temperature and changes in its course.
Derivatives of this feature are helpful in explaining the normal expansion of the universe (not inflation), as photons push masses on each end away. When we observe some galaxy 12 billion light years away, we're absorbing its photons and it's pushing on us ever so slightly.
The difference can be illuminating. Radio Shack and others used to sell a heliotrope device that was a fan with reflectors on one side of the fins and black on the other. The relative difference in albedo would cause the fan to spin in any normal light.
Dawn mission could have landed on Vesta, and would have but Ceres wanted a visit too. Dawn will likely land on Ceres. These are among the most massive asteroids, and most difficult to land on. Even a theoretical stony asteroid that has so much spin imparted by impacts that its surface gravity at the equator is negative has spin poles to land on. It is really not so hard to land on an asteroid, especially if you reserve a chemical rocket for the deorbit burn. It really doesn't need much.
To me a 27 million year periodic cataclysm is suggestive of an extra solar interaction with the galactic plane. The Solar system's orbit of the galactic center is slightly tilted off the galactic plane. With an orbital period of ~50my we pass through that plane about every 25my. The vast majority of our galaxy's mass orbits in a paper thin region on this plane, but not us. Milky way is a barred spiral, so sometimes we cross this dangerous region in a matter-rich bar like we are in now, and sometimes in a gap between which is less dense. It would seem that almost every time Sol passes through this plane in a bar, Earth experiences an extinction event. I would like to see more modelling of this.
Our ability to gauge these isn't perfect, but Extinction asteroids do come about every 100 million years, and the next one is either due now or late. The distribution isn't random. It's cyclic.
Obvious incompetence is not malice. They have plenty of both, but let us not confuse one for the other. They lack the skill to hide this many backdoors so well. Occam's razor demands we attribute these to simple innocence of security best practice established in the 1970's, or inability to understand and implement these principles.
Microsoft would know about scumbags writing standards. They ruined the ISO's credibility that way by railroading through their OOXML standard using means disreputable and despicable.
By making it the default they can claim they are trying to protect users and have their sockpuppets bash Google and Yahoo for ignoring it, all the while secretly ignoring it themselves. In 'Softy land that's a win/win/win: Strategic perfection, except that nobody believes them any more.
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Nokia never did well in smartphones? Really? They sold half a billion Symbian smartphones - more than either Apple or Android has so far. They had 40 percent market share.
Nokia's Symbian still sold more smartphones last quarter than all of Windows Phone and Windows Mobile combined. Probably the last time that happens though.
They don't want to miss ARM servers like they missed mobile.
Do you know how I know you're not a computer programmer, systems analyst or software engineer?
A human who is caught cheating a vote count faces 20 years in federal prison. If a machine was faced with similar penalty, will it care? What if we make it a capital offense?
We should allow machines to count votes someday. And that day is the day we have found machines responsible enough to become full citizens and themselves vote. But even then it must not be an exclusive privilege reserved to the machines, or they will quickly become our overlords.
Now negotiations can begin. The negotiations will be short.
It's a difficult problem in the US. Although marijuana is illegal here it is by far the number one cash crop in the US - ahead of wheat, barley, corn, soybeans and everything else. It is also one of our largest imports and a significant portion of our balance of international trade. Somehow we have not learned the lessons of prohibition.
I don't care for the product myself but man, this is crazy.
The dogs are trained to give the alert signal on a visual cue from their handler. This is not reasonable evidence that a crime has been committed. It is delegating the grave responsibility of violating a citizen's right to be protected from unwarranted search and seizure from a trained and responsible judge acting on sworn statements of an officer of the court to a dog trained to respond on cue. We may as well shred the fourth amendment.
I adore my TF101. It was killer gear when I bought it last summer and it still is. It gets used by somebody in the house every single day without fail, usually for hours. My grandson (4) takes pictures and videos with it when he's done playing Minecraft and I watch some of them when I have time. My youngest (6) uses it to video chat me up on oovoo. I take it on trips to watch mpeg4's on the plane and Netflix in the hotel. I use it for documentation on the fly, training materials and reference works. I've used it to elevator pitch and present 1080p slideshows in conference rooms. With it and Citrix, various remote desktop apps and the like I can use it to do anything a PC or server can do.
I'm in the biz so I have a house full of IT gear. 4 tablets, 6 servers, a dozen PCs, and more "smart" devices than anybody needs. These outnumber the humans at least 5 to one. The only tech thing that sees more use in my house than this ASUS tablet is the Comcast router that delivers the Internet to all the rest.
The only problem I have with this device is fighting for control of it. Money well spent.
At $200 for the 16GB Nexus 7 tablet from ASUS, there is a good chance there will be more than one of these under my tree on Christmas morning.
Don't call me an Apple hater. My review of the iPads I received on launch day is right there in my /. journal and none could call it anything but "effusive". But Apple's cathedral isn't for me when I can get stuff like this and the Nexus 10 instead.
Recommended.
We shall have to see this holiday season if their legendary supply chain can keep up with the legendary bottomless demand. Apple makes good margins against apparently unlimited demand, so the only question is their production capacity.
Losing Samsung as a component supplier may crimp their style. Samsung doesn't have that problem because not only do they make their own stuff, they invent it too. And now Samsung makes the Nexus 10.
Not in the "doomed" sense, but in the code complete sense. A guy driven to innovate that isn't going to be happy maintaining it. You need a whole other KIND of guy for that. If you can't give that guy a new mountain to climb he will wander off in search of it himself.
For IT shops with fewer than 24 typical servers, what AMD might do in 2014 is not relevant. You would not be interested in trying this thing until it was field proven for three years. Even if it arrived on time (not AMD's strong suit) and it was nerdvana, that's 2017 before you're racking it. More likely the first version is quirky and your pilot starts two years later. But let's say 2017, for giggles. A typical 2 socket rack server can now be configured with 32 2.7GHz cores, 768 GB RAM, and terabytes of SSD million-IOPs storage and it comes with dual 10Gbps FCoE.
By 2017 even with outstanding business growth your server needs will be met by at most three geographically separated VM hosts, or cloud hosts. You are quite literally done at that point, as server performance will outpace your business need faster than the server warranties expire. Most small businesses are already there. If the extreme growth in mobile performance continues the logarithmic path of the last few years, by 2017 you might be able to replace all those servers with a mobile device. In 2017 100 Gbit dual port CEE onboard NICs will be standard, and we'll be laughing about magnetic media's long reign. "Our 128GB drives were as big as a deck of cards and could do 140 I/Os per second on a good day - and we liked it."
I've been a nerd for a long time - since the late 70's. The pace of these changes is stunning and unprecedented. For most people the capacity of one server is already far beyond their need. The second and third are just for redundancy. And they don't cost much, in constant dollars, compared to the servers of yesteryear. The software licensing can still be a burden if you're into paying for permission to use software rather than (or worse in addition to) paying for software support, but that is a different issue. Frankly I never did understand that strange turn that software took for a while.
Bingo.
The luckiest dorm room assignment in all of recorded history.
Change is not made by people who tread the well-worn path.
Original poster. If an adult human of average or better intelligence chooses to enhance his ability to absorb, assimilate and integrate information inputs by augmenting his perceptive faculties through chemical means, I would consider that no more unusual than a carpenter trying out a new hammer. It's his choice, and as a species we utterly rely on some of us making this choice. As a progress consumer I'm happy many gifted people make this choice.
It turns out that most gifted people blunt their perceptions through chemical means to be able to relate well to the normal people they must interact with to subsist. Some do better than others. Thus is most of our human potential wasted on the altar of conformance.
If he wants to suck-start a Colt 45 to not have to deal with you idiots any more instead, I support that solution too. His choice. I don't benefit from this choice, but I can accept it. An unfortunate percentage of the gifted choose something related to this path. But it's their body and they're entitled to operate it as they see fit even unto the end of it.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. And yet laws have grown so numerous that no one could know them all, let alone understand them. This has given rise to a clergy of legalists to moderate a citizen's interaction with law: lawyers. And the lawyers invaded government to induce ever more use for their services by creating more complex and inscrutable law. And the lawyers coopted the system of justice such that one almost must be a lawyer to be a judge and interpret the law. And then they coopted the practice of making law so much that almost all legislators are lawyers also. Now even the president is a lawyer.
If you can afford the best quality of lawyer you can do what you will, and your lawyer will find a way to make it legal. The less able you are to support this system, the more you are a victim of it.
For a lawyer it's best if law is a fractal that bends back upon itself to permit anything and deny everything, based on the skill of the lawyer to bend the client's use into the "permitted" zone. That allows the lawyer to become the permitter and denier of strategies - the one with the power. The enabler of progress. And that's what our system of law has become.
Ultimately verbose and ineffable laws lead to citizen simplifications.
If you're not a lawyer and not bent on pushing the edge of law to your advantage, less law is better.
We've been doing this for over 5,000 years and derived through experience the least possible and most optimal law: the one law that by itself supplants all the many shelf-feet of the United States Code. This is the base primitive law that defines what law should be in eight words: "If it harm none, do what you will." Those eight words should be the whole of the law.
...change the number of photons impinging on the asteroid, or increase their effect?
A photon has energy. When a mass absorbs a photon's energy it has two effects: the mass increases in temperature equal to the energy of the photon, and the mass is accelerated in the direction of the photon's path equal to the energy of the photon. This seems like we're using the photon's energy twice, but it isn't so because thermal energy of a mass is kinetic energy shifted into the time domain. All objects in the solar system suffer this "solar wind" effect. The closer they are to the sun the more its radiated photons push them away. Obviously, the sun is emitting a LOT of photons.
When the mass radiates the photon again it cools and is thrust again in the direction opposite the direction of the escaping photon. Depending on the rotation of the mass and the average time a photon is held before being emitted again (albedo), this can impact the course of the object. By changing the time factor you can cool the object and impact its trajectory. This is called the Yarkovsky effect. Dark or fast-spinning objects hold the photon's energy for so long that they are radiated in directions that are relatively random and have zero impact on course but they are hotter. Bright objects have more measurable impacts on course because the energy is released in a predictable direction that is relative to the input a vector related to the object's direction of spin but they are cooler. Believe it or not, you can use colors of paint to impact the period between absorption and emission, and use that to align the thrust opposite to the objects orbit around the sun, or in synergy with it. Our understanding of this effect has grown so great that we can tell an asteroid's mass, density, axis and rate of spin based only on its temperature and changes in its course.
Derivatives of this feature are helpful in explaining the normal expansion of the universe (not inflation), as photons push masses on each end away. When we observe some galaxy 12 billion light years away, we're absorbing its photons and it's pushing on us ever so slightly.
The difference can be illuminating. Radio Shack and others used to sell a heliotrope device that was a fan with reflectors on one side of the fins and black on the other. The relative difference in albedo would cause the fan to spin in any normal light.
Dawn mission could have landed on Vesta, and would have but Ceres wanted a visit too. Dawn will likely land on Ceres. These are among the most massive asteroids, and most difficult to land on. Even a theoretical stony asteroid that has so much spin imparted by impacts that its surface gravity at the equator is negative has spin poles to land on. It is really not so hard to land on an asteroid, especially if you reserve a chemical rocket for the deorbit burn. It really doesn't need much.
To me a 27 million year periodic cataclysm is suggestive of an extra solar interaction with the galactic plane. The Solar system's orbit of the galactic center is slightly tilted off the galactic plane. With an orbital period of ~50my we pass through that plane about every 25my. The vast majority of our galaxy's mass orbits in a paper thin region on this plane, but not us. Milky way is a barred spiral, so sometimes we cross this dangerous region in a matter-rich bar like we are in now, and sometimes in a gap between which is less dense. It would seem that almost every time Sol passes through this plane in a bar, Earth experiences an extinction event. I would like to see more modelling of this.
Our ability to gauge these isn't perfect, but Extinction asteroids do come about every 100 million years, and the next one is either due now or late. The distribution isn't random. It's cyclic.
Obvious incompetence is not malice. They have plenty of both, but let us not confuse one for the other. They lack the skill to hide this many backdoors so well. Occam's razor demands we attribute these to simple innocence of security best practice established in the 1970's, or inability to understand and implement these principles.
Microsoft would know about scumbags writing standards. They ruined the ISO's credibility that way by railroading through their OOXML standard using means disreputable and despicable.
By making it the default they can claim they are trying to protect users and have their sockpuppets bash Google and Yahoo for ignoring it, all the while secretly ignoring it themselves. In 'Softy land that's a win/win/win: Strategic perfection, except that nobody believes them any more.