A brand new study found a significant correlation between the above than average consumption of cucumbers by nuns and their low incidence of senility. All attempts at isolating the active substance in the vegetable have failed so far.
From wikipedia Flash_memory : "Its endurance is 10,000 to 1,000,000 erase cycles".
This is much more than I need for an overwhelming majority of files written on my disk.
Sectors that are accessed regularly and written seldomly get eventually written to flash. If this ever changes with time, these sectors are moved back to the magnetic medium. MTBF will most likely be due to the mechanical part of the drive.
Solid state storage will give a second life to lots of computer that would be discarded otherwise. The one thing that slows down my computer at the moment is my hard drive reading files.
First you build an outstanding track record of very good patches so that people have almost a blind confidence in your code. Then you craft an evil bug in several steps. You make sure each of these patches you submit to create the bug also contain pretty good contributions. You get even better results if you spread the true might of the bug between two pieces of software that interface with each others but that are maintained by two different team of developpers.
Not easy at all but possible.
Maybe... maybe Linus is just in the first phase of this evil plan.
For each article, there are usually several people watching the edits by others and this is just increasing with time. Acts of vandalism even the subtle ones usually gets corrected quite fast. Vandals have no big motivation, they give up quickly. Watchers on the other hand are dogged.
Well, establishing permanent colonies elsewhere in the solar system and beyond is obviously not a choice we have, we humans are compulsive explorers and there is nothing to stop us. Although, I think there is no hurry. If resilience of intelligent life is the goal, deep down Earth's crust is a pretty safe and cheap place to colonize if we consider all eventual dangers we can think of. I think that communication satellites were pretty much all of what space could offer us for now. So to meet the aforementioned goal, I suggest we go down instead of going up.
Come on people! Just like no single person can be trusted for counting votes, a single machine no matter how much it is verified cannot be trusted either. There is a zillion places where you can put backdoors in a machine. Don't just think software you herds of code monkeys:), think hardware! Chips can be easily substituted or even tampered with at the synthesis, place and route or when produced at the foundry and detecting this tampering is in most cases totally out of reach of any human being. The worth of winning an election for political parties and some mammoth companies is so ridiculously high that virtually nothing is impossible for them.
What we need is as many machines as possible designed by as many people as possible with opposite interests and that have to come to a consensus on each vote cast. These "machines" already exist folks. There are human beings.
And a paper trail "in case a recount is needed" is no panacea. You can still steal an election with a paper trail if it is not systematically recounted.
You are right for the abbreviation of kilometer but "per" must not be abbreviated as "p".
Right: km/h or kmh-1 or "kilometers per hour"
Wrong: kph or kmph
Maybe it's in part because I am currently studying these molecules but the movie is cool. It's got a nice cello background music and the resolution is well above average. I never thought watching a molecular simulation would make me feel that way.
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No....media like in nasty little recorded sounds infecting one's brain through the auditory channel.
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chlamedia?
When you can't stop humming that darn 30-second clip she let you listen to.
The long list of impairments you give are so 2003...:) If my beloved two-year-old nephew gets to 80, I bet what you wrote down will sound to the very least quite weird to him. As time goes by, the future is increasingly difficult to guess. My ancestors from 300 years ago had almost the same kind of life as their parents and children. This is just no longer the case.
Definitely the way to go but it could be improved a bit. How about doing this in a wiki format like Wikipedia? Any student or even any reader on the net could submit improvements and corrections. The professor in charge of the course could review changes and accept/reject those. I have rarely found notes or textbooks that were totally clear, up-to-date and error-free. We need to close the loop so that we converge toward excellence. Top researchers are not always excellent teachers. I think that even sloppy and boring teachers could end up with top-notch documentation thanks to the frustration a few good students. I think there is no reason why such a system cannot create on-line content with a quality approaching the best textbooks. Well, maybe even better. Textbooks are usually reviewed only by a handful of people and are rather slow to evolve. This allows also contributions from alumni with a few years of real-world experience who can give some extremely good feedback to professors who are unfortunately all too often a few years behind the industry.
Wiki is hypertext. Personally, I am increasingly addicted to hypertext to keep my train of thought rolling. In that respect, paper sucks a lot. In a few years, I hope electronic paper with the same readability as cellulose-based paper will be ubiquitous.
Also, recorded lectures that you can replay at will are also very useful for those of us who have a tendency to dyslexia and who rely heavily on speech to learn.
Legalization of all controlled sustances ? How about an implantable drug-of-your-choice generator? It feeds on your glycogen and releases fixes on demand. No selling, no buying not even possession involved...
Hopefully, 100 years from now people will recognize that this is as ridiculous as phrenology (i.e. measuring bumps on your head to determine personality traits) is recognized to be today.
Well, if the bumps are caused by an overactive brain desperately trying to escape too small a skull, maybe phrenology makes some sense after all.:)
If you are a rookie, beware of small companies. They are black holes in disguise. If possible, make sure there are a few seasoned veterans for both the technological and business aspects. Otherwise, you may learn much slower and be part of a big ugly blunder generator, which is extremely frustrating.
Although this looks like a social event, it is actually just a pretty individualistic form of entertainment. Other people are just props in the event. I think it is more related to masturbation than it is to mass protests.
"Psychohistory dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again."
Obviously, any kind of censorship for a given piece of new information is just adding a delay to its publication.
Protecting all humans from possible threats is a nice goal but is impossible. Protecting humanity or more generally life on Earth from annihilation should be a continuous endeavor.
Here are some principles to make humanity/life more robust to catastrophe:
add/encourage redundancy in the system
add/encourage heterogeneity in the system
add/encourage distributed decision making
colonize all places that can be reached, i.e. all continents, the oceans, the underground, other habitable planets and satellites, other stellar systems.
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A brand new study found a significant correlation between the above than average consumption of cucumbers by nuns and their low incidence of senility. All attempts at isolating the active substance in the vegetable have failed so far.
This is much more than I need for an overwhelming majority of files written on my disk.
Sectors that are accessed regularly and written seldomly get eventually written to flash. If this ever changes with time, these sectors are moved back to the magnetic medium. MTBF will most likely be due to the mechanical part of the drive.
Running hdparm -tT on my system:
Timing cached reads: 1156 MB in 2.00 seconds = 578.09 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.17 seconds = 18.95 MB/sec
That's 30.5 times faster.
I want my hybrid disk. Do you?
Solid state storage will give a second life to lots of computer that would be discarded otherwise. The one thing that slows down my computer at the moment is my hard drive reading files.
First you build an outstanding track record of very good patches so that people have almost a blind confidence in your code. Then you craft an evil bug in several steps. You make sure each of these patches you submit to create the bug also contain pretty good contributions. You get even better results if you spread the true might of the bug between two pieces of software that interface with each others but that are maintained by two different team of developpers. Not easy at all but possible. Maybe... maybe Linus is just in the first phase of this evil plan.
For each article, there are usually several people watching the edits by others and this is just increasing with time. Acts of vandalism even the subtle ones usually gets corrected quite fast. Vandals have no big motivation, they give up quickly. Watchers on the other hand are dogged.
This is one of the hidden beauty of Wikipedia.
I already have a greenish complexion according to people. I now have a dream. I want to be a deep green quasi-autotroph nudist.
... one final click and I can open the trap in the floor that goes right to the dugeon.
Try the vacuum first and when your design works flawlessly, move on to the lawnmower.
Well, establishing permanent colonies elsewhere in the solar system and beyond is obviously not a choice we have, we humans are compulsive explorers and there is nothing to stop us. Although, I think there is no hurry. If resilience of intelligent life is the goal, deep down Earth's crust is a pretty safe and cheap place to colonize if we consider all eventual dangers we can think of. I think that communication satellites were pretty much all of what space could offer us for now. So to meet the aforementioned goal, I suggest we go down instead of going up.
I think what you want is as many gigs as possible on a medium that can be quickly retrieved/searched by lots of people.
Come on people! Just like no single person can be trusted for counting votes, a single machine no matter how much it is verified cannot be trusted either. There is a zillion places where you can put backdoors in a machine. Don't just think software you herds of code monkeys :), think hardware! Chips can be easily substituted or even tampered with at the synthesis, place and route or when produced at the foundry and detecting this tampering is in most cases totally out of reach of any human being. The worth of winning an election for political parties and some mammoth companies is so ridiculously high that virtually nothing is impossible for them.
What we need is as many machines as possible designed by as many people as possible with opposite interests and that have to come to a consensus on each vote cast. These "machines" already exist folks. There are human beings.
And a paper trail "in case a recount is needed" is no panacea. You can still steal an election with a paper trail if it is not systematically recounted.
You are right for the abbreviation of kilometer but "per" must not be abbreviated as "p". Right: km/h or kmh-1 or "kilometers per hour" Wrong: kph or kmph
Maybe it's in part because I am currently studying these molecules but the movie is cool. It's got a nice cello background music and the resolution is well above average. I never thought watching a molecular simulation would make me feel that way.
No. ...media like in nasty little recorded sounds infecting one's brain through the auditory channel.
chlamedia? When you can't stop humming that darn 30-second clip she let you listen to.
The long list of impairments you give are so 2003... :) If my beloved two-year-old nephew gets to 80, I bet what you wrote down will sound to the very least quite weird to him. As time goes by, the future is increasingly difficult to guess. My ancestors from 300 years ago had almost the same kind of life as their parents and children. This is just no longer the case.
Wiki is hypertext. Personally, I am increasingly addicted to hypertext to keep my train of thought rolling. In that respect, paper sucks a lot. In a few years, I hope electronic paper with the same readability as cellulose-based paper will be ubiquitous.
Also, recorded lectures that you can replay at will are also very useful for those of us who have a tendency to dyslexia and who rely heavily on speech to learn.
Legalization of all controlled sustances ? How about an implantable drug-of-your-choice generator? It feeds on your glycogen and releases fixes on demand. No selling, no buying not even possession involved...
Hopefully, 100 years from now people will recognize that this is as ridiculous as phrenology (i.e. measuring bumps on your head to determine personality traits) is recognized to be today.
:)
Well, if the bumps are caused by an overactive brain desperately trying to escape too small a skull, maybe phrenology makes some sense after all.
If you are a rookie, beware of small companies. They are black holes in disguise. If possible, make sure there are a few seasoned veterans for both the technological and business aspects. Otherwise, you may learn much slower and be part of a big ugly blunder generator, which is extremely frustrating.
How people in the FX business can design such an ugly homepage? It looks like a cheesy game interface.
Although this looks like a social event, it is actually just a pretty individualistic form of entertainment. Other people are just props in the event. I think it is more related to masturbation than it is to mass protests.
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Yep. Here's what the master said:
"Psychohistory dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again."
Obviously, any kind of censorship for a given piece of new information is just adding a delay to its publication. Protecting all humans from possible threats is a nice goal but is impossible. Protecting humanity or more generally life on Earth from annihilation should be a continuous endeavor. Here are some principles to make humanity/life more robust to catastrophe: add/encourage redundancy in the system add/encourage heterogeneity in the system add/encourage distributed decision making colonize all places that can be reached, i.e. all continents, the oceans, the underground, other habitable planets and satellites, other stellar systems.