Ok: 500 TB in one day leaves 9 days to copy. You'd have to factor in the price of tape drives, reliability, etc. and factor those against the monthly bill of a 600 MB/s line... I be tapes would win. But realistically, aren't they storing this data on tapes anyway?
Come on. The actual fiber is dirt cheap. So what if there's miles and miles of it underground, you still need to hook your little section into the larger network, buy a whole bunch of hardware, AND "hire more techies for maintainance." If it were economically feasible and lucrative, they'd be at it right now. But they're not, seeing as the demand for ultra-high bandwith pipes lie with (a) pirates who don't want to pay for stuff anyway, and (b) CERN. And wuddya know, CERN already has their own ultra-high bandwidth network.
If I may be so bold, anything that ties the study of pure math to geometry probably has implications for quantum mechanics. These objects may lie embedded in higher dimensions, and probably settle into stable configurations from near infinite possibilities. But they still have to satisfy some allowable mathematical model. This is just the type of thing that may allow us to better predict what those allowable states could be.
Geometers might be a bit upset if you don't call geometry "pure math." Nowadays with computers and all, number theory is more applied than geometry. And how exactly does this all tie in with quantum theory? Quantum theory is the study of discrete infinitessimals (and the big problem is to make it converge to the continuum), but what exactly does this have to do with "embedding in higher dimensions" and "settling into stable configurations"? "near infinite possibilities"? You've got to be kidding me. Mods: this guy is either a karma whore (and by looking at his weblog, this seems to be the case), a troll, or an armchair mathematician/physicist who's just succeeded in punking you by stringing together a bunch of fancy sounding words with NO common thread. Please.
Considering our common ancestor was so far back, what's more likely: parallel and independent development of speech in more recent years, or a singular development WAY back in the day? If the case is the latter, we should expect to find this evolutionary trait in quite a few species out there.
Some of the music from the original Myst was amazing. Anybody know if it was original to the game? If so, kudos to the composer (and if not, kudos too I guess...)
Ahhh, but you see there IS a logic to my (ignorant) madness: with 10 different hashes, you're bound to use a "best" one in there somewhere! But yeah, I hadn't thought of that... nevertheless I don't believe for a second that they could find a collision in a hash that involved, oh, I don't know... euler's phi-function, taking the GCD of the two, and some other stuff.
Or even better, use more than one. If file_x is hashed 10 different ways, using 10 different algorithms, there's no way the file generated by this firm will behave the same way for ALL of them, perhaps not even for two.
Don't feel too bad: I made the same mistake (pi/180) but then when I checked it for the 3rd time, and after recalling the occasional shadow of a passing jet liner, I figured the number had to be bigger. But about the advertising: it could be worse. imagine a big banner unfurled from the bottom, spanning thousands of feet. An episode of "The Simpsons" comes to mind...
You didn't do the math right. You incorrectly converted from radians into degrees. For high noon, with the thing directly overhead, the correct formula is (180/pi)*tan^-1(245/65000) which works out to about 0.22 degrees. That's about half the width of the sun, so this thing will never cause a complete shadow, just a 1/4 dimming over an area with length about 250 feet and tapering off to 0 at an area with length 500 feet.
Right... ever hear of a large format camera? Try 1 gigapixel, and the limiting factor there isn't the film, it's the lense, and scanning methods. Film will ALWAYS have a higher resolution per unit area, and you can increase that area a lot easier than you can with a CCD or other digital device. That said, resolution is just about the last thing you should care about. The cost per shot of digital (~$0), the sheer number of photos you can store on a memory chip (vs 30 or so on a roll of film), and the ease with which you can edit a digital photograh are all reasons to go with digital. If you REALLY do need resolution though, film will always be better than digital.
The developing world doesn't need fast web browsing. It needs less corrupt leaders, and excused world bank debts. Sure, infrastructure is pretty high on the need list, but drinking water, sewers and power come WAY before faster internet. That said, I'm sure porn would go a long way to stem the AIDS epidemic...
Yes, just a big desert, chock full of raw materials we need our war against Iran, and with only 1/6 the popularity and no insurgents, it's easy to get those materials into the market.
"Skipping" Iraq is just wack (pardon the pun). Once established, the Iraq war will pay for itself countless times over.
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Survey says: highschoolers across the country think NEWSPAPERS should be censored. I'd be astounded, frankly, if these same people a few years later decided to support freedom of speech on all mediums.
With billions invested in chip fabrication, they're not going to be abandoning that business anytime soon. With their name recognition in other hardware sectors, they're not going to abandon those markets anytime soon. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but when someone says "software," is IBM one of the first things you think of? I could imagine EXPANDING into software and services alongside hardware, but then we're back in the 90s selling "solutions".
Seriously. They have no reason to be storing drivers licence numbers and Social Security numbers in their databases. They're selling an online service, and just like any online store, all they need is your billing name and address, credit card # and expiration date. Throw in a username and password so the user can easily return... are they using SSNs and drivers licence numbers as a way of authentication? If so... why?
You too make a good point. But I think the grandparent was saying this: instead of watching that hour of advertising, you work for an hour and make anywhere between $5 and $50 dollars. Beyond that, fuck you. You send that money to the TV networks, and they give you not just 5 hours as they would had you sat in front of the TV watching ads but something more like 50 hours for the same amount of time.
Language requires very specific parts of the brain to work correctly. This has been seen in brain damaged people and children with certain birth defects. It may be very difficult if not impossible for them to learn a language, understand or speak it. This indicates that we have language-specific hardware built in. The abilities of the chimps is no surprise here - in fact, it supports the idea that we are evolved to use language, considering chimps are our closest genetic relatives. Other animals can learn human language to some degree too, and do in fact communicate amongst themselves. But really, it's a huge advantage for a group to be able to communicate within its ranks. From the altruistic warning cry to, oh I don't know, mating songs, language has had very good reasons to evolve.
I think this is a good idea, perhaps better than wikipedia's current setup. For starting out an article, it's less than desireable but at some point an article has to be "finished" for most purposes. In the same way articles at wikipedia are nominated for "featured article" status, perhaps articles should also be nominated for "finished" status at which point they should become harder to edit. Also, then you could get an independent authority to stamp it as "accurate," something with which wikipedia will always have trouble if they don't change.
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Ok: 500 TB in one day leaves 9 days to copy. You'd have to factor in the price of tape drives, reliability, etc. and factor those against the monthly bill of a 600 MB/s line... I be tapes would win. But realistically, aren't they storing this data on tapes anyway?
Come on. The actual fiber is dirt cheap. So what if there's miles and miles of it underground, you still need to hook your little section into the larger network, buy a whole bunch of hardware, AND "hire more techies for maintainance." If it were economically feasible and lucrative, they'd be at it right now. But they're not, seeing as the demand for ultra-high bandwith pipes lie with (a) pirates who don't want to pay for stuff anyway, and (b) CERN. And wuddya know, CERN already has their own ultra-high bandwidth network.
Geometers might be a bit upset if you don't call geometry "pure math." Nowadays with computers and all, number theory is more applied than geometry. And how exactly does this all tie in with quantum theory? Quantum theory is the study of discrete infinitessimals (and the big problem is to make it converge to the continuum), but what exactly does this have to do with "embedding in higher dimensions" and "settling into stable configurations"? "near infinite possibilities"? You've got to be kidding me. Mods: this guy is either a karma whore (and by looking at his weblog, this seems to be the case), a troll, or an armchair mathematician/physicist who's just succeeded in punking you by stringing together a bunch of fancy sounding words with NO common thread. Please.
Considering our common ancestor was so far back, what's more likely: parallel and independent development of speech in more recent years, or a singular development WAY back in the day? If the case is the latter, we should expect to find this evolutionary trait in quite a few species out there.
Transferring lab data in STYLE, that's what!
Some of the music from the original Myst was amazing. Anybody know if it was original to the game? If so, kudos to the composer (and if not, kudos too I guess...)
Ahhh, but you see there IS a logic to my (ignorant) madness: with 10 different hashes, you're bound to use a "best" one in there somewhere! But yeah, I hadn't thought of that... nevertheless I don't believe for a second that they could find a collision in a hash that involved, oh, I don't know... euler's phi-function, taking the GCD of the two, and some other stuff.
Or even better, use more than one. If file_x is hashed 10 different ways, using 10 different algorithms, there's no way the file generated by this firm will behave the same way for ALL of them, perhaps not even for two.
Don't feel too bad: I made the same mistake (pi/180) but then when I checked it for the 3rd time, and after recalling the occasional shadow of a passing jet liner, I figured the number had to be bigger. But about the advertising: it could be worse. imagine a big banner unfurled from the bottom, spanning thousands of feet. An episode of "The Simpsons" comes to mind...
You didn't do the math right. You incorrectly converted from radians into degrees. For high noon, with the thing directly overhead, the correct formula is (180/pi)*tan^-1(245/65000) which works out to about 0.22 degrees. That's about half the width of the sun, so this thing will never cause a complete shadow, just a 1/4 dimming over an area with length about 250 feet and tapering off to 0 at an area with length 500 feet.
Right... ever hear of a large format camera? Try 1 gigapixel, and the limiting factor there isn't the film, it's the lense, and scanning methods. Film will ALWAYS have a higher resolution per unit area, and you can increase that area a lot easier than you can with a CCD or other digital device. That said, resolution is just about the last thing you should care about. The cost per shot of digital (~$0), the sheer number of photos you can store on a memory chip (vs 30 or so on a roll of film), and the ease with which you can edit a digital photograh are all reasons to go with digital. If you REALLY do need resolution though, film will always be better than digital.
The developing world doesn't need fast web browsing. It needs less corrupt leaders, and excused world bank debts. Sure, infrastructure is pretty high on the need list, but drinking water, sewers and power come WAY before faster internet. That said, I'm sure porn would go a long way to stem the AIDS epidemic...
Cripes. These iPods are like Rabbits in Australia!
Yes, just a big desert, chock full of raw materials we need our war against Iran, and with only 1/6 the popularity and no insurgents, it's easy to get those materials into the market. "Skipping" Iraq is just wack (pardon the pun). Once established, the Iraq war will pay for itself countless times over. --
Survey says: highschoolers across the country think NEWSPAPERS should be censored. I'd be astounded, frankly, if these same people a few years later decided to support freedom of speech on all mediums.
Nah. They'd probably just rip your eyeballs out.
With billions invested in chip fabrication, they're not going to be abandoning that business anytime soon. With their name recognition in other hardware sectors, they're not going to abandon those markets anytime soon. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but when someone says "software," is IBM one of the first things you think of? I could imagine EXPANDING into software and services alongside hardware, but then we're back in the 90s selling "solutions".
Seriously. They have no reason to be storing drivers licence numbers and Social Security numbers in their databases. They're selling an online service, and just like any online store, all they need is your billing name and address, credit card # and expiration date. Throw in a username and password so the user can easily return... are they using SSNs and drivers licence numbers as a way of authentication? If so... why?
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You too make a good point. But I think the grandparent was saying this: instead of watching that hour of advertising, you work for an hour and make anywhere between $5 and $50 dollars. Beyond that, fuck you. You send that money to the TV networks, and they give you not just 5 hours as they would had you sat in front of the TV watching ads but something more like 50 hours for the same amount of time.
I, for one, would be most willing to help her with that.
Berkeley has a 4xOC48 line last I heard. NYU will go down before Berkeley does...
Obsessive compulsive disorder for one. And masturbation! And anti-social disorder. And nerdiness!
Language requires very specific parts of the brain to work correctly. This has been seen in brain damaged people and children with certain birth defects. It may be very difficult if not impossible for them to learn a language, understand or speak it. This indicates that we have language-specific hardware built in. The abilities of the chimps is no surprise here - in fact, it supports the idea that we are evolved to use language, considering chimps are our closest genetic relatives. Other animals can learn human language to some degree too, and do in fact communicate amongst themselves. But really, it's a huge advantage for a group to be able to communicate within its ranks. From the altruistic warning cry to, oh I don't know, mating songs, language has had very good reasons to evolve.
I think this is a good idea, perhaps better than wikipedia's current setup. For starting out an article, it's less than desireable but at some point an article has to be "finished" for most purposes. In the same way articles at wikipedia are nominated for "featured article" status, perhaps articles should also be nominated for "finished" status at which point they should become harder to edit. Also, then you could get an independent authority to stamp it as "accurate," something with which wikipedia will always have trouble if they don't change.