> About the only thing you could criticize in the current line up of Raspberry Pi single board computers is the fact that you have to add a WiFi or Bluetooth dongle
I don't give a rats ass about WiFi.
I just want quadcore cpu + 4 GB RAM onboard < $50. I've seen devices north of $125 but nothing for a cheap "cluster" with 4GB RAM.
What's the point of having a quadcore when you only have 1 GB RAM -- which is split amongst each core. That is only 255 MB / core; not useful for my applications.
/sarcasm Because if some book doesn't confirm the existence of computers, electricity, or DNA "clearly" they don't exist. Oh wait, they do, and their existence has NOTHING to do with the BIble.
Changing the underlying principles behind the definition of the SI base units is not without precedent. The 11th CGPM (1960) defined the SI metre in terms of the wavelength of krypton-86 radiation, replacing the pre-SI metre bar. The 13th CGPM (1967) replaced the original definition of the second (which was based on a back-calculation of the Earth's rotation in the year 1900) with a definition based on the frequency of the radiation emitted between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom. And the 17th CGPM (1983) replaced the 1960 definition of the metre with one based on the second, by giving an exact definition of the speed of light in units of metres per second. [14]
Over the years, drifts of up to 2x10â'8 kilograms per annum in the national prototype kilograms relative to the international prototype kilogram have been detected. There was no way of determining whether the national prototypes were gaining mass or whether the IPK was losing mass. [15] At the 21st meeting of the CGPM (1999), national laboratories were urged to investigate ways of breaking the link between the kilogram and a specific artefact. Newcastle University metrologist Peter Cumpson has since identified mercury vapour absorption or carbonaceous contamination as possible causes of this drift. [16][17]
Independently of this drift having been identified, the Avogadro project and development of the Watt balance promised methods of indirectly measuring mass with a very high precision. These projects provided tools that would enable alternative means of redefining the kilogram. [18]
A report published in 2007 by the Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT) to the CIPM noted that their current definition of temperature has proved to be unsatisfactory for temperatures below 20 kelvins and for temperatures above 1300 kelvins. The committee was of the view that the Boltzmann constant provided a better basis for temperature measurement than did the triple point of water, as it overcame these difficulties.[19]
At its 23rd meeting (2007), the GCPM mandated the CIPM to investigate the use of natural constants as the basis for all units of measure rather than the artefacts that were then in use. The following year this was endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).[20] At a meeting of the CCU held in Reading, United Kingdom, in September 2010, a resolution [21] and draft changes to the SI brochure that were to be presented to the next meeting of the CIPM in October 2010 were agreed to in principle. [22] The CIPM meeting of October 2010 found that "the conditions set by the General Conference at its 23rd meeting have not yet been fully met.[Note 2] For this reason the CIPM does not propose a revision of the SI at the present time"; [24] however, the CIPM presented a resolution for consideration at the 24th CGPM (17â"21 October 2011) to agree the new definitions in principle, but not to implement them until the details have been finalised. [25] This resolution was accepted by the conference, [26] and in addition the CGPM moved the date of the 25th meeting forward from 2015 to 2014.[27][28] At the 25th meeting (18â"20 November 2014), it was found that "despite [the progress in the necessary requirements] the data do not yet appear to be sufficiently robust for the CGPM to adopt the revised SI at its 25th meeting", [29] thus postponing the revision to the next meeting in 2018.
Just because a government has become a (corrupt) oligarchy currently doesn't mean it has to _stay_ that way.
The point is, the government "gets away" with corporacy due to apathy of the people. In other words, the people get exactly what they deserve.
If people want things to change they need to start holding their elected officials accountable. When politicians actually have gasp, integrity, and spend more time on fixing the problem instead of bad-mouthing the competition things will change.
> Why the planck constant then? Why not e, or (pi), or any other constant, for that matter?
Because:
a) the universe is quantized / discrete / digital, b) Plank Length and Planck Time are thought to be the smallest possible divisions of space and time respectively, (if there are any smaller divisions we're unable to measure them) c)
The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant.
Natural units began in 1881, when George Johnstone Stoney derived units of length, time, and mass, now named Stoney units in his honor, by normalizing G, c, and the electron charge e to 1. (Stoney was also the first to hypothesize that electric charge is quantized and hence to see the fundamental character of e.) Max Planck first set out the base units (qP excepted) later named in his honor, in a paper presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in May 1899.[9][10] That paper also includes the first appearance of a constant named b, and later called h and named after him. The paper gave numerical values for the base units, in terms of the metric system of his day, that were remarkably close to those in Table 2. We are not sure just how Planck came to discover these units because his paper gave no algebraic details.
Cleaning up the "sloppy" definition of kg for something extremely precise is LONG overdue.
However, the bigger problem with the SI system is that the 7 fundamental (sic.) units are NOT independent from one another; that is, the definitions for Candela, Mole, Amp and Kelvin, are *dependent* upon the definition of the kg !? Worse, the mole and candela are completely _redundant_. So much for being "fundamental units."
Exactly. Open Format = Investing in our Future for Everyone. Closed Format == Short Term Greed.
One of the reasons books have survived so long is because you don't need yet-another-stupid-obsolete-device to find them useful. Public Accessibility is the WHOLE point of a library.
Now if this was a "Tech History Museum" they might have a point... but it's not.
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> built around one of the worst programming languages around (JavaScript),
./sarcasm But it such as bastion of good design. *snicker* You mean it being written in 10 days wasn't long enough?:-)
"JavaScript: Designing a Language in 10 Days" aka Javascript: 10 days for the designer, 10 years of frustrations about fucked up design for devs * http://www.computer.org/csdl/m...
"Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers. They lack the training and discipline to write good programs. JavaScript has so much expressive power that they are able to do useful things in it, anyway. This has given JavaScript a reputation of being strictly for the amateurs, that it is not suitable for professional programming. This is simply not the case."
But let's keep relying on stupid shit such as this hack to turn on type safety:
You do realize AAA is a bullshit marketing term, right? Let's actually look the data of Best selling PC games
Because I see Minecraft and Terraria at spots #1 (22 million), and #3 (12 million) respectively. So what makes a game AAA because it sure isn't sales. Pretty graphics?
> Linux display drivers suck donkey dicks. I don't want to play half-life 2 on two R9 290's in crossfire...
That's your problem right there. I don't have any problems with my nVidia GTX Titan on Linux. If you're running into issues complain to AMD to fix their Linux driver support.
"We have audio we either download or install from the disc, then we uncompress it. We probably could have had audio decompress off disc but we were a little worried about min spec and the fact that a two-core machine would dedicate a huge chunk of one core to just decompressing audio."
"So... it's almost all audio... On a higher PC it wouldn't be an issue. On a medium or moderate PC, it wouldn't be an issue, it's that on a two-core [machine] with where our min spec is, we couldn't dedicate those resources to audio."
I guess the dev's were too lazy to guarantee there there was a thread available and decompress it at run-time. Classic case of size vs speed. So it's not (entirely) incompetence.
I completely agree! Benchmarks only test performance and (usually) completely ignore correctness.
"It doesn't matter HOW fast you read/writeif the data is WRONG" (The whole point of a FS (File System) is to guaranteed the data is valid!)
Benchmarks are not one-dimensional. We need to graph multiple axes:
* Correctness * Throughput * Latency * IOPS etc.
Where is the benchmark that demonstrates how well the FS handles "reboot -t now" right in the middle of writing a huge block of data?? Where is the benchmark that demonstrates how long it takes to fsck _that_ scenario?
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> but you pay for that with some pretty significant RAM requirements for a file system driver. > If I remember correctly, you need about 8GB of RAM to really make use of ZFS.
Yeah ZFS could be considered "bloated" but you get so many SWEET benefits.
Personally, I'd recommend having at least 8 GB of RAM solely just for ZFS RAIDZ1/RAIDZ2, leaving the other 8+ GB for apps.
Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and JÃrg Schilling released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license. The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL. The FSF itself says that this is the case as do people who helped draft the CDDL. One current and one former Sun employee visited the annual Debian conference in Mexico in 2006. Danese Cooper clearly stated there that the CDDL was intentionally modelled on the MPL in order to make it GPL- incompatible. For everyone who wants to hear this first-hand, we have video from that talk available at [2].
You can read the FSF position about the CDDL at [3]. The thread behind [4] contains statements on the issue made by Debian people; for more context also see the other mails in that thread. In short - the CDDL has extra restrictions, which the GPL does not allow. JÃrg has a different opinion about this and has repeatedly stated that the CDDL is not incompatible, interpreting a facial expression in the above-mentioned video, calling us liars and generally appearing unwilling to consider our concerns (he never replied to the parts where we explained why it is incompatible). As he has basically ignored what we have said, we have no choice but to fork. While the CDDL *may* be a free license, we never questioned if it is free or not, as it is not our place to decide this as the Debian cdrtools maintainers. However, having been approved by OSI doesn't mean it's ok for any usage, as JÃrg unfortunately seems to assume. There are several OSI-approved licenses that are GPL-incompatible and CDDL is one of them. That is and always was our point.
Really? You're going to criticize the parent because they value freedom over pragmatism ??
Hint: He's using _Linux_ for _precisely_ that reason. The parent has _their_ reasons. Just because it doesn't agree with your ideology doesn't make it wrong _for them_, only you.
Theists still have zero knowledge about The Source -- all they have is Belief. Big Fucking Deal -- EVERYONE has Faith. In this, Theists are just as ignorant as Atheists. Same coin, different side. Note, I'm NOT talking about intellectual knowledge, aka, Philosophy, aka, intellectual masterbation.
Belief, or Lack of Belief, is completely useless, if you never do anything with it.
If Theists had actual experiential knowledge then they would become gnostic which is the WHOLE point of Religion: i.e. Know Thyself. Relying on other people to tell you what to belief, think, act, and do is spiritual immaturity and stupidity -- and on _that_ point I wholeheartedly 100% agree with the Atheists. At some point one has to grow up.
The problem is most Jews, Christians, and Muslims turn off their brain and believe in the literal stupidity of the Bible treating it as a history book ignoring the blatant contradictions instead of reading it an Allegorical and Spiritual perspective. Only someone stupid enough to try to claim "There are no contradictions" has obliviously never studied it in detail. As Peter said:
I beg and beseech you not to communicate to any one of the Gentiles the books of my preachings which I sent to you, nor to any one of our own tribe before trial; but if any one has been proved and found worthy, then to commit them to him, after the manner in which Moses delivered his books to the Seventy who succeeded to his chair. Wherefore also the fruit of that caution appears even till now. For his countrymen keep the same rule of monarchy and polity everywhere, being unable in any way to think otherwise, or to be led out of the way of the much-indicating Scriptures. For, according to the rule delivered to them, they endeavour to correct the discordances of the Scriptures, if any one, haply not knowing the traditions, is confounded at the various utterances of the prophets. Wherefore they charge no one to teach, unless he has first learned how the Scriptures must be used.
Or do you still not understand the difference between Belief and Knowledge?
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> About the only thing you could criticize in the current line up of Raspberry Pi single board computers is the fact that you have to add a WiFi or Bluetooth dongle
I don't give a rats ass about WiFi.
I just want quadcore cpu + 4 GB RAM onboard < $50. I've seen devices north of $125 but nothing for a cheap "cluster" with 4GB RAM.
What's the point of having a quadcore when you only have 1 GB RAM -- which is split amongst each core. That is only 255 MB / core; not useful for my applications.
* https://www.raspberrypi.org/he...
Did you miss a sarcasm tag?
> Why exactly is this a problem?
"Proposed_redefinition_of_SI_base_units#Impact_on_base_unit_definitions"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> You don't have to advertise that
Just because a government has become a (corrupt) oligarchy currently doesn't mean it has to _stay_ that way.
The point is, the government "gets away" with corporacy due to apathy of the people. In other words, the people get exactly what they deserve.
If people want things to change they need to start holding their elected officials accountable. When politicians actually have gasp, integrity, and spend more time on fixing the problem instead of bad-mouthing the competition things will change.
To simply give up is childlike naivety.
You're missing one small detail:
Citizens comprise the government.
If citizens demand that the government has no jurisdiction of digital currency eventually the government must bends it will to the masses.
The problem isn't the government; it's all the spineless people who allow the government to dictate and micro-manage the citizen's live.
> Why the planck constant then? Why not e, or (pi), or any other constant, for that matter?
Because:
a) the universe is quantized / discrete / digital,
b) Plank Length and Planck Time are thought to be the smallest possible divisions of space and time respectively, (if there are any smaller divisions we're unable to measure them)
c)
Planck units also has this interesting tidbit:
Cleaning up the "sloppy" definition of kg for something extremely precise is LONG overdue.
However, the bigger problem with the SI system is that the 7 fundamental (sic.) units are NOT independent from one another; that is, the definitions for Candela, Mole, Amp and Kelvin, are *dependent* upon the definition of the kg !? Worse, the mole and candela are completely _redundant_. So much for being "fundamental units."
See this pic:
http://www.blazelabs.com/pics/...
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When are Scientists going to discover the 6 fundamental forces?
Exactly. Open Format = Investing in our Future for Everyone. Closed Format == Short Term Greed.
One of the reasons books have survived so long is because you don't need yet-another-stupid-obsolete-device to find them useful. Public Accessibility is the WHOLE point of a library.
Now if this was a "Tech History Museum" they might have a point ... but it's not.
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+1 for BEER-WARE license :-)
Next story:
TV manufacturers whine about "mute button" and "off button".
Hence: bullshit marketing term
. /sarcasm Because a creator spending twice as much on making a game/movie means I'll enjoy it _twice_ as much, right? :-) Yeah, uh, no.
> built around one of the worst programming languages around (JavaScript),
. /sarcasm But it such as bastion of good design. *snicker* You mean it being written in 10 days wasn't long enough? :-)
"JavaScript: Designing a Language in 10 Days" aka Javascript: 10 days for the designer, 10 years of frustrations about fucked up design for devs
* http://www.computer.org/csdl/m...
As Douglas Crockford, inventor of JSON, said about Automatic Semi-Colon Insertion
And about amateurs
But let's keep relying on stupid shit such as this hack to turn on type safety:
*facepalm*
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> Six channel mp4 audio vbr and coud have avoided that.
Partially. You still need code / library / middleware to implement if the hardware doesn't.
> Why do you want lossless audio in a game of all things?
Loss, not Loose. :-)
Because it simplifies the audio mixing code.
> Yes, several of AAA games from 5 years ago.
You do realize AAA is a bullshit marketing term, right? Let's actually look the data of Best selling PC games
Because I see Minecraft and Terraria at spots #1 (22 million), and #3 (12 million) respectively. So what makes a game AAA because it sure isn't sales. Pretty graphics?
> Linux display drivers suck donkey dicks. I don't want to play half-life 2 on two R9 290's in crossfire ...
That's your problem right there. I don't have any problems with my nVidia GTX Titan on Linux. If you're running into issues complain to AMD to fix their Linux driver support.
> What do you mean I can't load all 48GB of Titanfall on my 16GB phone?
Most of that was uncompressed audio data. Before you go "that's dumb" they tried to justify it with this excuse:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.co...
I guess the dev's were too lazy to guarantee there there was a thread available and decompress it at run-time. Classic case of size vs speed. So it's not (entirely) incompetence.
Agreed.
But if one is forced I've always liked Black Vipers Window's Service Configuration Guides
i.e.
* Windows 10
* Windows 7 SP1
etc.
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Ditto.
I'll go else where to read _real_ Astronomy news, not some ShillWithABang.
The problem is while you are technically correct good luck fighting a corrupt entity that effectively has infinite money.
There are more important battles to fight.
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I completely agree! Benchmarks only test performance and (usually) completely ignore correctness.
"It doesn't matter HOW fast you read/write if the data is WRONG" (The whole point of a FS (File System) is to guaranteed the data is valid!)
Benchmarks are not one-dimensional. We need to graph multiple axes:
* Correctness
* Throughput
* Latency
* IOPS
etc.
Where is the benchmark that demonstrates how well the FS handles "reboot -t now" right in the middle of writing a huge block of data??
Where is the benchmark that demonstrates how long it takes to fsck _that_ scenario?
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> ZFS is seriously cool in many ways,
Indeed. Does anyone have an updated version of this ZFS vs BTRFS table cheat/sheat?
http://www.seedsofgenius.net/s...
> but you pay for that with some pretty significant RAM requirements for a file system driver.
> If I remember correctly, you need about 8GB of RAM to really make use of ZFS.
Yeah ZFS could be considered "bloated" but you get so many SWEET benefits.
Personally, I'd recommend having at least 8 GB of RAM solely just for ZFS RAIDZ1/RAIDZ2, leaving the other 8+ GB for apps.
The parent is probably referring to the fact that CDDL is NOT compatible with the GPL.
https://lists.debian.org/debia...
> I would be interested in knowing which is fastest at read/writes.
Ignoring the fact that this is a HIGHLY ambiguous question, i.e. you don't specify _which_ RAID setting, here are some benchmarks:
= 2010 =
http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/0...
= 2013 =
ZFS On Linux 3.8 Kernel, ZOL 0.6.1
https://openbenchmarking.org/r...
= 2015 =
A PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF ZFS AND BTRFS ON LINUX
* https://www.diva-portal.org/sm...
Really? You're going to criticize the parent because they value freedom over pragmatism ??
Hint: He's using _Linux_ for _precisely_ that reason. The parent has _their_ reasons. Just because it doesn't agree with your ideology doesn't make it wrong _for them_, only you.
Theists still have zero knowledge about The Source -- all they have is Belief. Big Fucking Deal -- EVERYONE has Faith. In this, Theists are just as ignorant as Atheists. Same coin, different side. Note, I'm NOT talking about intellectual knowledge, aka, Philosophy, aka, intellectual masterbation.
Belief, or Lack of Belief, is completely useless, if you never do anything with it.
If Theists had actual experiential knowledge then they would become gnostic which is the WHOLE point of Religion: i.e. Know Thyself. Relying on other people to tell you what to belief, think, act, and do is spiritual immaturity and stupidity -- and on _that_ point I wholeheartedly 100% agree with the Atheists. At some point one has to grow up.
The problem is most Jews, Christians, and Muslims turn off their brain and believe in the literal stupidity of the Bible treating it as a history book ignoring the blatant contradictions instead of reading it an Allegorical and Spiritual perspective. Only someone stupid enough to try to claim "There are no contradictions" has obliviously never studied it in detail. As Peter said:
Or do you still not understand the difference between Belief and Knowledge?
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Religion: One man telling another what he should do to understand God based on what works for others.
Spirituality: One man telling another what he could do to Understand God based on what works for him.
> Question 1: Are you physically fit?
Whelp, that rules out 99% of /. :-/
. /me ducks :)
You're _completely_ missing the point. How do you have _knowledge_ about something when you have zero belief in something??
Answer: You _don't_.