Well then, I guess I won't be going to europe for a while... Banning cookies... how can people enjoy chocolate chip or macadamia nut now??... Worst. Joke. Ever. Sorry Folks:)
At any time a car can experience a throttle failure, blowout, rotor lock-up, etc. Without a clear head, focused on the task at hand... DRIVING; someone is likely to get killed.
I read the NTSB report on the crash, and I doubt their findings. Too many ways for that mat to get under the accelerator during the incident. Why the report states that they did not examine the data recorder output (the vehicle has one) makes no sense to me.
Interesting. I honestly thought there would be no legal problem with doing that...
Though it raises the question of how many levels of indirection are required before it becomes legal. What if I have no idea where to buy drugs, but I just point you to someone who knows where to go?
What if I just point you to the general area?
I think it would depend on how hungry the DA is to make a case for being tough on crime.
If you get saddled with a Public Pretender... you might even get convicted for very indirect aid to the dealer.
Even if they don't get a conviction they still will have fucked up your life...
Go ahead and try it. A lot of cases already have ducting that funnels air directly from outside the case to the CPU. A few more pieces of cardboard, a hole and chimney in the top of your case, and you should be ready to remove the fan and see what convection can do for you. Sneak preview: unless you've specifically picked components that can run off passive cooling, you'll be in the market for a new one. Especially if you live in a hot place and turn off your AC for this experiment.
I wanted a REALLY quiet, and powerful server in a small case: I built a water-cooled Q6600 (Over clocked to 3.65GHz - system dissipates ~550W) into a 2U case, using an external 1KW radiator. I found that using convection tricks did not create enough air flow until the coolant temp was about 40C but then the die-temps on the mobo were too high... The system reached equilibrium (ambient air at 10C -- December with windows open) AT IDLE of about 85C on the dice. That was not workable.
Convection just doesn't cut it, and even if you increase the radiator surface area dramatically, you still have a serious issue: It takes too long for the convection cooling system to respond to changes in thermal load... The dice and coolant will reach an unacceptably high temp long before the convection flow finds a new equilibrium.
My solution was to add two 120mm fans to the radiator. The fans spool based on CPU socket temp. The system holds temp: The die-temp is 32C at idle with an ambient of 25C. Under a 4 thread MPrime load, die-temps hold at 48C.
If I stand on a street corner downtown handing out maps of where to buy drugs, can I be arrested even if I have no connection to the people actually selling drugs?
In some states you will be arrested if you direct an undercover cop to a drug dealer.
"Yeah that guy over there....*points to guy on corner* he'll hook you up..."
That is called aiding and abetting.... and in some states they treat it as i the one giving directions were selling the drugs.
I know someone who got busted for that. Had no connection to the drug dealer.. He just new that guy on the corner sold drugs... because others had told him the guy on the corner sold drugs... Someone asked him where he could find drugs... he pointed to the guy on the corner. The person asking just happened to be an undercover cop.
I'm sure with memory running at twice the bus clock... the external chipset had a lot of freedom.. The 68K seldom generated back to back bus cycles. I imagine that even if the chipset was stealing cycles the 68K hardly noticed.
I may not know much about the nitty gritty of the Amiga's custom chips, but the clunky old 68K CISC is a familiar friend.
One key reason the Amiga appeared to be so responsive is that it had DMA, and a rudimentary graphics accelerator, slinging pixels around on a 512x384x8 bit display at a time when PCs and Macs were slinging pixels around on a 800x600x32 and 1024x768X32 bit displays in SOFTWARE... The Audio was also hardware accelerated at a time when Apple and low-end PC systems were still bit banging a tiny hardware buffer for 8-bit audio, the Amiga was streaming 16 bit stereo via DMA. Heck the Apple//gs had better built-in audio than the Mac for years!
Another key feature of the Amiga was that the graphics accelerator could be used to perform tasks that had nothing to do with graphics. OpenCL it wasn't but, the Copper and Blitter could easily be pushed into service for lots of different tasks that would easily bring a 68K to it's knees.
The custom hardware surrounding that 68K-L8 was WAY ahead of its time.
It is indeed ironic that when NeXT surfaced a couple of years after SJ's ouster Tee-Shirts were printed and distributed within the Apple Macintosh Teams that had printed on them the NeXT logo modified to read "NeVR"
Ironic then that a little more than 10 years later SJ saves the company that had forsaken him, with the very operating system and SDK that was so hated by the Rank & File engineers at Apple.
AFAIK, JS was justifiably shown the door... He had become the tail that wags the dog. Sure he started the company with Woz, but he was functionally, little more than a very powerful product manager by the time the Macintosh was introduced.
His influence diminished rapidly as his bad-boy attitude and Apple's fortunes grew. When Apple broke $10M net in the 80's Apple was pushed aside by Real Executives with bona fide MBA credentials. While I personally feel that SJ was not ready to head Apple back then, (I was there when it all went down... still learning where the breakrooms and restrooms were) I don't think his "betters" were any more competent.... they just had better looking CVs.
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Earlier comments about shipping products.... That is the key. Apple gets that right more often than not. Apple had their own still-born Vista well before SJ rode in on a white horse with NeXT Step in his hip pocket. There was this PoS OS that had been designed, to once and for all fix the deficiencies of OS 6 and it's predecessors.
If Big Media goes out of businesses where do you think all of that top shelf journalistic talent is going to go? Do you think they will just stop writing? I think the blogsphere might actually grow to fill the gap rather quickly, with the surplus of talent that would come from a collapse of RM's empire.
This is a much bigger problem than just taking a careful look at cloud resources and their implementation. When a company as big as Microsoft 'accidentally' kills off 1 million users like this.... what does it really tell us about the viability of cloud computing?
It tells me that if I put my business data... my family jews... in a nut cracker.... I can expect someone, someday to give me a none too gentle squeeze. Trusting a third party to manage external computing resources like this is just asking to get fuxed. As the Microsoft/Danger example shows, the real danger is not from a small well meaning company, like Danger. The real risk is from the large corporate shark that snaps said company up and turns the cloud resource you were counting on into a 'TOOL.'
The folks using Google, or Amazon, or what have you, may not have to worry today. But what about 5 years from now, or 10? I have already seen a lot of disasters related to the Cloud Computing v0.9x era... There are a lot of small businesses out there than like the notion of SaaS, but this Microsoft/Danger snafu shows just how risky it is....
1. Microsoft buys Danger as they complete the Sidekick LX2009... Sidekick is based on a BSD variant. 2. Microsoft tries to kill off the Sidekick Project shortly after getting control of Danger. T-Mobile makes it clear that they will hold MS/Danger to the agreements for the LX 2009. http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/microsoft-lays-off-danger-employees
3. After the LX2009 is released to manufacturing, The Sidekick team is laid off. 4. Further resource trimming and outsourcing results in a dangerous lapse in system management... 5. Danger's SAN service collapses during surgery by Hitachi Technicians.... Danger's platform fails. For some unknown reason there were no backups of the SAN... http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what-caused-the-sidekick-fail
conclusion: If I were a betting man I'd say that Microsoft was well into the 'extinguish' portion of their 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.' business cycle with the Danger acquisition when this happened. I have no doubt that this was not the way that MS intended to apply the final deathblow.... but hey... mission accomplished. Sidekick is dead. Danger is all but dead. T-Mobile is in a world of hurt....
In this case, although this creation was specific for that silicon the creation was still theoretically more simple than should be possible.
Seem reasonable to me. Until the LM741 was put into production transistor op-amps were voodoo. Each assembly would have to be manually tuned for the desired function. Even with the LM741 (and other integrated op-amps) some tweaking is still required. I am sure that many common digital functions in IC applications have to be 'tuned' during final assembly to make them work as designed. What we get in the part-tray/anti-static tube is a tuned circuit trimmed to spec.
Apple has made it pretty clear in the TOS for developers that embedding scripting languages into an app is going to get a rejection. If you want to play in their sandbox, you don't get to port general purpose script languages to the platform.
The real problem here is that PHP was designed to be embedded in a static web page as an 'escaped sequence.' to create dynamic html. It has evolved from that into a horrendous mess that some seem to think is a viable, general purpose scripting language.
Tying it back to a real(?) world analogy: Flat bladed screwdrivers make nice pry-bars, scrapers, and even phillips-head drivers in a pinch... but this is generally considered a bad idea: You are more likely to damage yourself, the work piece or the screwdriver if you do this.
I feel the same way about PHP. Yes you can do things with it that it was not designed to do. However using PHP this way is not really a good idea. In the long run it all ends in tears.
If I got laid off and you wanted to hire me back in, I think me "WTF you got to be kidding me" rate would be even higher than that...
This happened to me once. I got laid off in the middle of a project, due to budget cuts. Management decided they really didn't want to lose the project. I was contacted and invited back as a contractor for the duration of that project. I demanded, and got, twice my original salaried rate for the duration of the contract. I am also quite sure that I got blacklisted by that company, and it's affiliates.
WTF is wrong with you people!?!? Are you so blinded that you cannot see what a significant change this is? Thit alone is worth the Nobel prize!!! A BLACK MAN has become PRESIDENT of one of the most racist counties there has ever been! The FIRST BLACK MAN to become ruler in ANY G8 country! Mr. Obama could screw up the politics for the next 8 years and that would still be a significant change in the world!
You raise a good point Sony's BetaMax system drown in a haze of pathetic VHS Consortium clones... By any reasonable measure it was a superior platform.... save one very important measure.... ubiquity...
The more interesting thing is that from my read of the indictment they had all of their communications tapped. It's clear they got pwnd. Good work FBI!!!
Every fuel we have developed is stored stellar energy. Period. It all comes from stellar fusion. Period. Even our current fusion experiments (D,T, and He variants) and reactor designs are not likely to ever produce useful H + H fusion, let alone higher order fusion of heaver elements. In short, we aren't going to be emulating stellar fusion processes for hundreds of years, if ever.
Understanding anti-matter reactions might be useful. Using it as an energy storage medium is not likely to be useful here on earth, and it is far more dangerous than fission. However if safely creating, storing and 'burning' few 100 KWH ever becomes competitive with chemical batteries it might be worthwhile. We have a long way to go on that front.
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Well then, I guess I won't be going to europe for a while... Banning cookies... how can people enjoy chocolate chip or macadamia nut now?? ... Worst. Joke. Ever. Sorry Folks :)
Don't quit your day job.
+=10 Insightful.
At any time a car can experience a throttle failure, blowout, rotor lock-up, etc. Without a clear head, focused on the task at hand... DRIVING; someone is likely to get killed.
I read the NTSB report on the crash, and I doubt their findings. Too many ways for that mat to get under the accelerator during the incident. Why the report states that they did not examine the data recorder output (the vehicle has one) makes no sense to me.
First rule of self publishing game software:
DO NOT QUIT YOUR DAY JOB!
Interesting. I honestly thought there would be no legal problem with doing that...
Though it raises the question of how many levels of indirection are required before it becomes legal. What if I have no idea where to buy drugs, but I just point you to someone who knows where to go?
What if I just point you to the general area?
I think it would depend on how hungry the DA is to make a case for being tough on crime.
If you get saddled with a Public Pretender... you might even get convicted for very indirect aid to the dealer.
Even if they don't get a conviction they still will have fucked up your life...
No, the Sex Pistols said, **Content Removed Due To Copyright Assertion** !!@!^&%^& NO CARRIER
0F is the freezing point of salty water (ocean water) this is the reference point.
Not clear from what I have found what the step reference is...
Go ahead and try it. A lot of cases already have ducting that funnels air directly from outside the case to the CPU. A few more pieces of cardboard, a hole and chimney in the top of your case, and you should be ready to remove the fan and see what convection can do for you. Sneak preview: unless you've specifically picked components that can run off passive cooling, you'll be in the market for a new one. Especially if you live in a hot place and turn off your AC for this experiment.
I wanted a REALLY quiet, and powerful server in a small case:
I built a water-cooled Q6600 (Over clocked to 3.65GHz - system dissipates ~550W) into a 2U case, using an external 1KW radiator. I found that using convection tricks did not create enough air flow until the coolant temp was about 40C but then the die-temps on the mobo were too high... The system reached equilibrium (ambient air at 10C -- December with windows open) AT IDLE of about 85C on the dice. That was not workable.
Convection just doesn't cut it, and even if you increase the radiator surface area dramatically, you still have a serious issue: It takes too long for the convection cooling system to respond to changes in thermal load... The dice and coolant will reach an unacceptably high temp long before the convection flow finds a new equilibrium.
My solution was to add two 120mm fans to the radiator. The fans spool based on CPU socket temp. The system holds temp: The die-temp is 32C at idle with an ambient of 25C. Under a 4 thread MPrime load, die-temps hold at 48C.
YMMV
If I stand on a street corner downtown handing out maps of where to buy drugs, can I be arrested even if I have no connection to the people actually selling drugs?
In some states you will be arrested if you direct an undercover cop to a drug dealer.
"Yeah that guy over there....*points to guy on corner* he'll hook you up..."
That is called aiding and abetting.... and in some states they treat it as i the one giving directions were selling the drugs.
I know someone who got busted for that. Had no connection to the drug dealer.. He just new that guy on the corner sold drugs... because others had told him the guy on the corner sold drugs... Someone asked him where he could find drugs... he pointed to the guy on the corner. The person asking just happened to be an undercover cop.
Compared to a glorified phone cord? They were thick, annoying and expensive!
I'm sure with memory running at twice the bus clock... the external chipset had a lot of freedom.. The 68K seldom generated back to back bus cycles. I imagine that even if the chipset was stealing cycles the 68K hardly noticed.
I may not know much about the nitty gritty of the Amiga's custom chips, but the clunky old 68K CISC is a familiar friend.
One key reason the Amiga appeared to be so responsive is that it had DMA, and a rudimentary graphics accelerator, slinging pixels around on a 512x384x8 bit display at a time when PCs and Macs were slinging pixels around on a 800x600x32 and 1024x768X32 bit displays in SOFTWARE... The Audio was also hardware accelerated at a time when Apple and low-end PC systems were still bit banging a tiny hardware buffer for 8-bit audio, the Amiga was streaming 16 bit stereo via DMA. Heck the Apple //gs had better built-in audio than the Mac for years!
Another key feature of the Amiga was that the graphics accelerator could be used to perform tasks that had nothing to do with graphics. OpenCL it wasn't but, the Copper and Blitter could easily be pushed into service for lots of different tasks that would easily bring a 68K to it's knees.
The custom hardware surrounding that 68K-L8 was WAY ahead of its time.
It is indeed ironic that when NeXT surfaced a couple of years after SJ's ouster Tee-Shirts were printed and distributed within the Apple Macintosh Teams that had printed on them the NeXT logo modified to read "NeVR"
Ironic then that a little more than 10 years later SJ saves the company that had forsaken him, with the very operating system and SDK that was so hated by the Rank & File engineers at Apple.
AFAIK, JS was justifiably shown the door... He had become the tail that wags the dog. Sure he started the company with Woz, but he was functionally, little more than a very powerful product manager by the time the Macintosh was introduced.
His influence diminished rapidly as his bad-boy attitude and Apple's fortunes grew. When Apple broke $10M net in the 80's Apple was pushed aside by Real Executives with bona fide MBA credentials. While I personally feel that SJ was not ready to head Apple back then, (I was there when it all went down... still learning where the breakrooms and restrooms were) I don't think his "betters" were any more competent.... they just had better looking CVs.
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Earlier comments about shipping products.... That is the key. Apple gets that right more often than not.
Apple had their own still-born Vista well before SJ rode in on a white horse with NeXT Step in his hip pocket. There was this PoS OS that had been designed, to once and for all fix the deficiencies of OS 6 and it's predecessors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
It died a slow horrible death, and almost took Apple down with it.
I was ROFLMAO when I recently heard that Microsoft had named their Danger/SideKick inspired, iPhone-killer, project "Pink."
but, you don't get the ballmer signed edition...
Does that get signed with his public key or his private key?
And does Ballmer throw in a chair with it?
If Big Media goes out of businesses where do you think all of that top shelf journalistic talent is going to go? Do you think they will just stop writing? I think the blogsphere might actually grow to fill the gap rather quickly, with the surplus of talent that would come from a collapse of RM's empire.
This is a much bigger problem than just taking a careful look at cloud resources and their implementation.
When a company as big as Microsoft 'accidentally' kills off 1 million users like this.... what does it really tell us about the viability of
cloud computing?
It tells me that if I put my business data... my family jews... in a nut cracker.... I can expect someone, someday to give me a none too gentle squeeze. Trusting a third party to manage external computing resources like this is just asking to get fuxed. As the Microsoft/Danger example shows, the real danger is not from a small well meaning company, like Danger. The real risk is from the large corporate shark that snaps said company up and turns the cloud resource you were counting on into a 'TOOL.'
The folks using Google, or Amazon, or what have you, may not have to worry today. But what about 5 years from now, or 10? I have already seen a lot of disasters related to the Cloud Computing v0.9x era... There are a lot of small businesses out there than like the notion of SaaS, but this Microsoft/Danger snafu shows just how risky it is....
Ok,
What is known?
Here's a quick summary.
1. Microsoft buys Danger as they complete the Sidekick LX2009... Sidekick is based on a BSD variant.
2. Microsoft tries to kill off the Sidekick Project shortly after getting control of Danger. T-Mobile makes it clear that they will hold MS/Danger to the agreements for the LX 2009. http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/microsoft-lays-off-danger-employees
3. After the LX2009 is released to manufacturing, The Sidekick team is laid off.
4. Further resource trimming and outsourcing results in a dangerous lapse in system management...
5. Danger's SAN service collapses during surgery by Hitachi Technicians.... Danger's platform fails. For some unknown reason there were no backups of the SAN... http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what-caused-the-sidekick-fail
conclusion:
If I were a betting man I'd say that Microsoft was well into the 'extinguish' portion of their 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.' business cycle with the Danger acquisition when this happened. I have no doubt that this was not the way that MS intended to apply the final deathblow.... but hey... mission accomplished. Sidekick is dead. Danger is all but dead. T-Mobile is in a world of hurt....
In this case, although this creation was specific for that silicon the creation was still theoretically more simple than should be possible.
Seem reasonable to me. Until the LM741 was put into production transistor op-amps were voodoo. Each assembly would have to be manually tuned for the desired function. Even with the LM741 (and other integrated op-amps) some tweaking is still required. I am sure that many common digital functions in IC applications have to be 'tuned' during final assembly to make them work as designed. What we get in the part-tray/anti-static tube is a tuned circuit trimmed to spec.
Apple has made it pretty clear in the TOS for developers that embedding scripting languages into an app is going to get a rejection. If you want to play in their sandbox, you don't get to port general purpose script languages to the platform.
The real problem here is that PHP was designed to be embedded in a static web page as an 'escaped sequence.' to create dynamic html. It has evolved from that into a horrendous mess that some seem to think is a viable, general purpose scripting language.
Tying it back to a real(?) world analogy: Flat bladed screwdrivers make nice pry-bars, scrapers, and even phillips-head drivers in a pinch... but this is generally considered a bad idea: You are more likely to damage yourself, the work piece or the screwdriver if you do this.
I feel the same way about PHP. Yes you can do things with it that it was not designed to do. However using PHP this way is not really a good idea. In the long run it all ends in tears.
If I got laid off and you wanted to hire me back in, I think me "WTF you got to be kidding me" rate would be even higher than that...
This happened to me once. I got laid off in the middle of a project, due to budget cuts. Management decided they really didn't want to lose the project. I was contacted and invited back as a contractor for the duration of that project. I demanded, and got, twice my original salaried rate for the duration of the contract. I am also quite sure that I got blacklisted by that company, and it's affiliates.
Converting from one large mainframe to a bunch of small servers has an unexpected hidden cost:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100809-google-dram-error-rates-vastly.html
Unless this problem is addressed, the switch to a cluster trades one source of costs for another.
WTF is wrong with you people!?!? Are you so blinded that you cannot see what a significant change this is? Thit alone is worth the Nobel prize!!! A BLACK MAN has become PRESIDENT of one of the most racist counties there has ever been! The FIRST BLACK MAN to become ruler in ANY G8 country! Mr. Obama could screw up the politics for the next 8 years and that would still be a significant change in the world!
Wake up people! It's later than you think!
Peace out!
You raise a good point Sony's BetaMax system drown in a haze of pathetic VHS Consortium clones... By any reasonable measure it was a superior platform.... save one very important measure.... ubiquity...
YMMV
The more interesting thing is that from my read of the indictment they had all of their communications tapped.
It's clear they got pwnd. Good work FBI!!!
Every fuel we have developed is stored stellar energy. Period. It all comes from stellar fusion. Period.
Even our current fusion experiments (D,T, and He variants) and reactor designs are not likely to ever produce useful H + H fusion, let alone higher order fusion of heaver elements. In short, we aren't going to be emulating stellar fusion processes for hundreds of years, if ever.
Understanding anti-matter reactions might be useful. Using it as an energy storage medium is not likely to be useful here on earth, and it is far more dangerous than fission. However if safely creating, storing and 'burning' few 100 KWH ever becomes competitive with chemical batteries it might be worthwhile. We have a long way to go on that front.