I don't use a Model M because they make that infernal racket, the actuation force is too high, and the key travel is too long.
If that's what you like, fine, but I hope I don't have to sit nearby.
Back in my university days, there was one bank of terminals (yes kids, multiple students shared one computer!) that were always in use because they had great Hall-effect keyboards--sadly I don't remember the make or model.
For years, industry watchers have debated which would come first: Intel lowering power consumption enough to create viable mobile chips, or ARM increasing performance enough to create viable desktop and server chips.
IF Intel wins, why do you think "the entire mobile market moves to x86"? If anything, the legacy software shoe is on the other foot.
Qualcomm and Microsoft were proclaiming they'd be competitive prior to the recent Windows on Arm which turned out to be a dumpster fire. Despite claims by the gadget press that you have a "super computer" in your pocket no one has yet to show they are remotely close to anything available today from Intel or AMD.
When they say "supercomputer in your pocket" they are comparing a modern cell phone to a supercomputer from 20 years ago.
This chip doesn't need to keep up with the latest powerhouse desktop chips from Intel and AMD. If it runs a web browser as well as a 10 year old desktop chip, but with 12W TDP, it'll be fine for the target market.
We could have gotten to the exact same point where we are now without any of Trump's puerile rhetoric.
Coming to the table, one-on-one, appearing on the world stage as an equal, was exactly what Dear Leader wanted. The Great Negotiator gave him that in exchange for basically nothing.
So how about electrical utilities and powerline? They all already go where the customers are. Most utilities already have fiber for their smart-grids. And none of that regulatory crap that holds back everyone else.
In many places, there is indeed "regulatory crap" the holds back electric utilities from providing Internet service.
I think saving money on cooling is the primary motivation behind the project, with security an additional consideration. From the Microsoft page that you linked:
In fact, Naval Group adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines to the underwater datacenter. The system pipes seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12 server racks and back out into the ocean. Findings from phase 1 of Project Natick indicate water from the datacenter rapidly mixes and dissipates in the surrounding currents.
When Sean James, who works on data-center technology for Microsoft, suggested that the company put server farms entirely underwater, his colleagues were a bit dubious. But for James, who had earlier served on board a submarine for the U.S. Navy, submerging whole data centers beneath the waves made perfect sense.
This tactic, he argued, would not only limit the cost of cooling the machines—an enormous expense for many data-center operators—but it could also reduce construction costs, make it easier to power these facilities with renewable energy, and even improve their performance.
How about security? Is your data safe from cyber or physical theft if it’s underwater? Absolutely. A Natick site would provide the same encryption and other security guarantees of a land-based Microsoft data center. While no people would be physically present, sensors would give a Natick pod an excellent awareness of its surroundings, including the presence of any unexpected visitors.
Replacing a failed HDD is going to be a real bitch? Though not nearly as bad as one sunk several fathoms deep.
Anyone up for a dive?
The economics might well work out such that failed hardware wouldn't be replaced, just taken offline. The combined wind turbine and data center would produce slightly more power and slightly less computation.
It's admirable how you've responded to so many comments about the misdeeds of Sourceforge's previous owners.
But, like a guy named Hitler running for chancellor of Germany, you might want to consider changing the name. Now seems like an opportune time.
Some percentage of Github users are definitely going to leave, because they will never trust Microsoft. I'm certainly curious as to how big of a percentage A certain percentage of those will never trust Sourceforge, no matter how much you assure them that things are different now.
Don't know about the task priority but the Amiga UI was definitely amazingly responsive, and that was with a 7.16 MHz CPU (I had a RAM expansion that pushed the total to a whopping 1.5 MB). Sure, the Amiga 1000 didn't have virtual memory, or networking, but my current machine has 4 cores, each running over 300 times the clock speed, 20,000 (!) times the RAM, and software that still sometimes forgets that the person is the most important part of personal computing.
Traffic flow analysis Is still a big part of supermarket layouts. From vegetables are at the front with the bakery (feel good smells and looks fresh) and then milk and bread is at the back of the store so you have to walk past everything else to get what you want.
My nearest grocery recently remodeled, which included putting a small refrigerated endcap near the checkouts, for people who just want to grab some milk. The main dairy case is still in the far back corner of the store.
It's really sad that since there isn't any real innovation happening with phones and the best we can come up with is a debate over whether we want some near unusable screen space on either side on the top of our phones.
Truth.
"Notch" is really the wrong way to think about it. It's really a pair of small, rectangular, nearly-useless "ear" displays, stuck to the top of the usable display. What are developers supposed to do with them, when many devices won't have them?
All this sturm and drang about notches really seems to be missing the point. It's an answer to a problem nobody has. What I want them to do is make a phone with a better battery life. They could double the thickness of all but the biggest phones and I would not care. A thicker phone would also enable them to put a better camera into the phone which has value to me.
I'm with you. Thicker, bigger battery, better camera.
The rest of my wish list:
Enough bezel to prevent accidental touches.
Grippy sides.
Replaceable battery.
Headphone jack.
128 GB or more of onboard storage without gouging on price, so I can forego the memory card slot.
Tangent: The Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, but not an ideal mix. Had it been the latter half the town would've needed new glass. Instead the ablaze carcass just floated to the ground and most of the people got off alive. That's a better survival rate than most airplane crashes. Most of the dead, in fact, died from jumping, not burning. Go figure.
I figure likely death from a long fall is better than certain death from burning.
Should I ever find myself on a burning airship, I'll wait as long as I can and then jump.
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And what about the homeless?
Build them shelters out of decommissioned wind turbine blades?
I don't use a Model M because they make that infernal racket, the actuation force is too high, and the key travel is too long.
If that's what you like, fine, but I hope I don't have to sit nearby.
Back in my university days, there was one bank of terminals (yes kids, multiple students shared one computer!) that were always in use because they had great Hall-effect keyboards--sadly I don't remember the make or model.
For years, industry watchers have debated which would come first: Intel lowering power consumption enough to create viable mobile chips, or ARM increasing performance enough to create viable desktop and server chips.
IF Intel wins, why do you think "the entire mobile market moves to x86"? If anything, the legacy software shoe is on the other foot.
I would take NHL rules over NBA any day. NBA is boring, the same 2 teams make it to the finals every year.
I really want basketball to switch from free-throw shooting to a hockey-style penalty box.
The only CGI in the first film was the graphics in the Death Star briefing before the rebels' attack.
What is it today that people refer to any old visual special effects as 'CGI'?
He wrote that he wasn't around when the first movie came out. Probably not aware that the spaceships were physical models shot with (computer-controlled) physical cameras.
Qualcomm and Microsoft were proclaiming they'd be competitive prior to the recent Windows on Arm which turned out to be a dumpster fire. Despite claims by the gadget press that you have a "super computer" in your pocket no one has yet to show they are remotely close to anything available today from Intel or AMD.
When they say "supercomputer in your pocket" they are comparing a modern cell phone to a supercomputer from 20 years ago.
This chip doesn't need to keep up with the latest powerhouse desktop chips from Intel and AMD. If it runs a web browser as well as a 10 year old desktop chip, but with 12W TDP, it'll be fine for the target market.
He's activity did lead to the formal ending of the Korean War.
A peace treaty is being discussed. The formal ending comes when the treaty is signed.
Trump has directly met with the North Korean leader, something no other president could or would do.
No President was stupid enough to give the North Korean leader what he wanted and get nothing of substance in return.
Now what I've stated is simply fact [...] Simply, arguing with you people over it is not worth my time.
I bet you were brilliant on the high school debate team. We shall see whether you can resist the temptation to post more farcical inanities.
We could have gotten to the exact same point where we are now without any of Trump's puerile rhetoric.
Coming to the table, one-on-one, appearing on the world stage as an equal, was exactly what Dear Leader wanted. The Great Negotiator gave him that in exchange for basically nothing.
Boring, indeed. That's why the video is 1 1/2 minutes of suspense rather than actually showing the fonts.
actually showing the fonts
So how about electrical utilities and powerline? They all already go where the customers are. Most utilities already have fiber for their smart-grids. And none of that regulatory crap that holds back everyone else.
In many places, there is indeed "regulatory crap" the holds back electric utilities from providing Internet service.
So, in other words, NN is gone and none of the bad things people were predicting have come to pass yet.
Wake me up when this isn't all much ado about nothing.
It's only been a few days. Give them some time to figure out the best way to squeeze the most money out of their captives...er...customers.
I think saving money on cooling is the primary motivation behind the project, with security an additional consideration. From the Microsoft page that you linked:
In fact, Naval Group adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines to the underwater datacenter. The system pipes seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12 server racks and back out into the ocean. Findings from phase 1 of Project Natick indicate water from the datacenter rapidly mixes and dissipates in the surrounding currents.
From the IEEE Spectrum article about Project Natick that Microsoft links to:
When Sean James, who works on data-center technology for Microsoft, suggested that the company put server farms entirely underwater, his colleagues were a bit dubious. But for James, who had earlier served on board a submarine for the U.S. Navy, submerging whole data centers beneath the waves made perfect sense.
This tactic, he argued, would not only limit the cost of cooling the machines—an enormous expense for many data-center operators—but it could also reduce construction costs, make it easier to power these facilities with renewable energy, and even improve their performance.
How about security? Is your data safe from cyber or physical theft if it’s underwater? Absolutely. A Natick site would provide the same encryption and other security guarantees of a land-based Microsoft data center. While no people would be physically present, sensors would give a Natick pod an excellent awareness of its surroundings, including the presence of any unexpected visitors.
Replacing a failed HDD is going to be a real bitch? Though not nearly as bad as one sunk several fathoms deep.
Anyone up for a dive?
The economics might well work out such that failed hardware wouldn't be replaced, just taken offline. The combined wind turbine and data center would produce slightly more power and slightly less computation.
It's admirable how you've responded to so many comments about the misdeeds of Sourceforge's previous owners.
But, like a guy named Hitler running for chancellor of Germany, you might want to consider changing the name. Now seems like an opportune time.
Some percentage of Github users are definitely going to leave, because they will never trust Microsoft. I'm certainly curious as to how big of a percentage A certain percentage of those will never trust Sourceforge, no matter how much you assure them that things are different now.
That was my first thought--it shouldn't be very difficult to deliberately introduce flaws into manufactured diamonds, for that "natural diamond" look.
Over 12,000 species of ants, over 350,000 (!) species of beetles, and many yet to be discovered.
A few hundred planets is nothing.
we had one certain thing about a human language, - that the words are separated with a space, with one space.
Not all human languages separate words with spaces. For example, Thai.
Don't know about the task priority but the Amiga UI was definitely amazingly responsive, and that was with a 7.16 MHz CPU (I had a RAM expansion that pushed the total to a whopping 1.5 MB). Sure, the Amiga 1000 didn't have virtual memory, or networking, but my current machine has 4 cores, each running over 300 times the clock speed, 20,000 (!) times the RAM, and software that still sometimes forgets that the person is the most important part of personal computing.
Traffic flow analysis Is still a big part of supermarket layouts. From vegetables are at the front with the bakery (feel good smells and looks fresh) and then milk and bread is at the back of the store so you have to walk past everything else to get what you want.
My nearest grocery recently remodeled, which included putting a small refrigerated endcap near the checkouts, for people who just want to grab some milk. The main dairy case is still in the far back corner of the store.
It's really sad that since there isn't any real innovation happening with phones and the best we can come up with is a debate over whether we want some near unusable screen space on either side on the top of our phones.
Truth.
"Notch" is really the wrong way to think about it. It's really a pair of small, rectangular, nearly-useless "ear" displays, stuck to the top of the usable display. What are developers supposed to do with them, when many devices won't have them?
All this sturm and drang about notches really seems to be missing the point. It's an answer to a problem nobody has. What I want them to do is make a phone with a better battery life. They could double the thickness of all but the biggest phones and I would not care. A thicker phone would also enable them to put a better camera into the phone which has value to me.
I'm with you. Thicker, bigger battery, better camera.
The rest of my wish list:
If it's going to detect mischief, the neural network is going to have to learn how to detect when it's "quiet...too quiet".
We're down to just distilled water, and pure grain alcohol.
Tangent: The Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, but not an ideal mix. Had it been the latter half the town would've needed new glass. Instead the ablaze carcass just floated to the ground and most of the people got off alive. That's a better survival rate than most airplane crashes. Most of the dead, in fact, died from jumping, not burning. Go figure.
I figure likely death from a long fall is better than certain death from burning.
Should I ever find myself on a burning airship, I'll wait as long as I can and then jump.
No bonus because you didn't meet the targets that we didn't define for you.
Doesn't seem like it could possibly be true.
If it is, it seems like a great way to get most of their best talent to leave.