Secondly, gov't moves slooooooowly. They should have predicted they'd be in for the long haul if they expected this to work for them. Instead, they're quick buck artists, expecting buzz words to do all the hard work. I'm not a bit surprised they're now running away screaming "lalalalala."
Thirdly? a lot of these type of deals are "we will dump $200M into this and some greater fool will come along and buy the works from us for $250M next year insta-profit!" Whoops no one showed up. Oh well, dump it.
And you want me to sign something that says you're not responsible if something happens?!
That's the key to how cloud was mismanaged by the cloud providers:
Cloud = no responsibility at all and you're in a long term contractual relationship you cannot escape from and due to downsizing you don't have the technical skills to dig yourself out of the hole without $200/hr consultants.
Inhouse = 100% total instant personal responsibility or you get fired and replaced next week by another H1B or another recent grad noob who CAN do it.
Cloud wanted the long term cell phone contract business model. Business wanted the customer of commodity gas station model. Cloud got flushed. Oh well.
Another way to put it is businesses don't like employees who moonlight simply because they can't be stressed out as much as employees who only get one paycheck... and cloud is an outsourced employee with thousands of paychecks who simply doesn't care if you fire him. Thats not conducive to the kind of abusive relationship management desires...
Data out of our custody is data out of our control.
Oldest story in the endless repetition of the IT world. Reliability. Lets say you're a midlevel manager in charge of providing email service to the biz.
1) Hire a low level sysadmin to run a server in the basement, he knows he's fired if the server isn't up 100% of the time, if he doesn't respond to your slightest whim at 2am every morning, or instantly correctly answer the dumbest question. Paying a server jockey $60K/yr just to run email, makes sense if reliable email brings in $3M/yr of revenue in your biz and unreliable email brings in $0M/yr. This option gets you a promotion because you did so well.
2) Or cloud it for $50/month, and the boss selected the provider for you on the basis of how good the season tickets were and/or how hot the saleswoman is. The provider knows they have a bullet proof legal contract that makes them responsible for pretty much nothing, and if you leave the provider doesn't care because each customer is only about 0.01% of their total revenue anyway. If its not working as you prefer, you have no leverage over the provider unless you are one of their top 10 customers (if you have to ask, you're not), what are you going to do, make your boss look bad for selecting the wrong provider for you, or cancel a multi-year contract resulting in days to weeks of downtime and involving legal. This option simply gets you fired.
Last cycle of the eternal IT wheel I was a very small cog in a very large machine at a provider fitting option 2 and I know some customers got fired for buying email service from my ex employer, always awkward to call a customer about an old trouble ticket and be told they got fired because of your service (whoops). Clouding your web server today is no different than clouding your email IMAP and POP server a decade ago. Dumb career ending move for management unless you're in such a ridiculous special case that they may as well write a book just about you.
Why I'll be... a brand new 104 key type M... that means a windoze key to drive "awesome" window manager with. I may have to retire my old PS/2 type M...
They're not expensive, they're only a hundred bucks. If they're as good as a real type M, your grandkids will be using them, which works out to "about a can of soda per month". Expensive is something like an all plastic "gamers keyboard" for $30 that only lives for 6 months before keys start sticking (true anecdotal story).
There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
I miss the days when IBM actually made PC's they were always rock solid. You could beat someone to death with one of there laptops and after wiping the blood off it it would still work...
Model M keyboard with the steel backplate and buckling springs. Still use mine with a PS/2 to usb converter thing (not an adapter, a more expensive converter). Lack of a windows key didn't bother me until I switched to the "awesome" windowmanager which likes to use that key as a control key. Bummer.
Here's a nice analogy for quantum computing... its a magic old fashioned analog computer with serious reliability and I/O issues. Imagine at the dawn of the computer era you wanted to simulate the statics of a large railroad bridge. In 8 bits it would take a very long time, 16 bits much longer... And to prevent rounding error propagation you have issues. So why not simulate it with a thundering herd of analog opamps which will "instantly" solve the bridges static loads? OK cool, other than all the opamps must work perfectly the entire time you take a measurement which with vacuum tubes is questionable and qubits maybe impossible. The other problem is if you want 32 bit accuracy now your proto-computer engineer needs to build a 32 bit A/D converter to connect to your analog computer... good luck... This is not a perfect quantum computing analogy, but pretty close in many regards.
There is a bad trend in computer science to assume "all computers and algorithm programming problems are about the same" which they historically have been, but are not in the real world. So given two roughly identical algorithms and problems on two roughly identical computers, the smaller big-O notation wins every time, more or less. That is a huge mistake to try that thinking across widely different architectures... OK so factoring computation is exponential on classical computers and everyone ignores I/O because thats constant with a normal bus design or at worst linear. OK so factoring computation is poly on quantum computers hooray for us... whoops looks like I/O might go exponential and constant factor might be years/decades to get the thing working.
The way to keep secure with a classical computer is to pick an algorithm that big O scales such that it can't be broken in this universe. The way to keep secure with a quantum adversary is to pick a key size that seems to make it an engineering impossibility to build a quantum computer, even if by some miracle a quantum computer could solve it in poly time if only it could somehow be built.
Any suggestions for a good replacement tech news website?
You'll have to clarify your definition. If you want "tech news" as in news about "hard science" tech there are places like arxiv.org or PLOS for bio stuff. My best guess for IT type primary sources is maybe the debian-announce mailing list or the daily SANS ISC diary? There are no primary source places that I'm aware of with social media type features, not/. certainly not on G+ or whatever.
If by "tech news" you mean news about other tech news sites, if you prefer a weekly format thats "this week in tech" and some other twit and rev3 shows and/or at least some/. articles. One important filter consideration is I don't want to go to a site exclusively populated with "txt speak" and/or total noobs. "Hay guys I just heard of this unix port 4 my pc its called linux has any1 else hear herd of it????!?". Sorry I don't want to see that. I haven't been a noob to this computer thing since 1981 or to the internet since the (very) late 80s.
First of all, the derivative of e to the x ("exponential function") is e to the x. Yeah thats true the D is the same as the function itself. Welcome to 1st semester calculus, kids. Not a constant, not even sure what "constantly increasing" means mathematically, although if AC meant its linear thats a bucket of fail too.
The next fubar is quantum computing doesn't provide a magic exponential speedup. There is a page length summary on the wikipedia but it should come as No Surprise Whatsoever to anyone in CS that different algorithm designs inherently have different big O notation and magically sprinkling quantum pixie dust doesn't change that, some algos are linear, some poly, some constant, some exponential, all quantum computing does is swap about where some belong. Solve for X where X+1=2 is not gonna change much, factoring into primes is going to change quite a bit. Some of the most interesting problems are polynomial time not exponential in quantum computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Potential
It seems to be a meaningless cultural bias to define "cheat, steal, and even disobey traffic laws" as a weird mixture of morality and honor.
Also if you read the article the cheat/steal testing was done based not on "rich/poor" but social class. Higher class students vs lower class not necessarily rich..
I thought the funniest one was the folks who would take more candy if they were convinced they were more wealthy. Well, duh, the more money I have the more likely I'll buy/take/use something more expensive. Oldest marketing scam in the book, convince the victim they're richer than they are "you qualify for a $750K loan!" etc.
Traffic law violation is another "duh" moment. Who's more likely to afford a lawyer, insurance? Who's more likely to be illegally carrying a weapon, drugs, be intoxicated, have a warrant? It also assumes traffic laws are based on "morality" and "honor" when they're based mostly on enhancing revenue.
I want a larger Kindle Fire: One with a 25" screen, detachable CPU tower, Keyboard, mouse, etc. Oh and it must run Windows so I can code on it. If it helps save money they can do away with the touchscreen aspect- I don't need that.
If they can manage all that then yes- I want a Kindle Fire.
If you're willing to also do without a battery, since 25 inches is pretty big for a pocket carried device (unless its some kind of compensation issue) it sounds like you'd really like:
with the exception of wanting to use Windows to code on it. Using windows to code sounds like a really warped fetish unless you're just using putty to ssh to a real computer. Well, some folks just enjoy pain and thats just how it is, have fun with it. Seriously though a decent vnc and/or rdesktop client on the tablet should take care of that little requirement.
No one knows what destroyed Kodak. Maybe never will, because there are so many reasons and every little group wants to take sole credit for figuring it out, for their little group having the power to destroy a big company.
The techies think its digital cameras. After all, they destroyed all other former film giants; Oh wait, the didn't.
The photog-groupies think they failed technically or failed in marketing film beginning the slide (sorry for the pun) decades ago and they never really recovered from Fuji. Maybe if Fuji never existed then Kodak would have had the dough needed to transition to stay alive. This seems to be... slightly overexaggerated.
The financial types think its because they were addicted hopelessly to high margin film and couldn't financially handle converting to a design, branding, and Chinese importing house. Based on previous bond and other financing structure, etc, better to continue 25% on declining sales, than lower percentage on increasing sales. This makes little sense, it hardly stopped HP from converting from "we make the worlds best electronic test instruments" to "we import junk from China and slap a nameplate and some marketing on it".
Journalists who convince people to read their customers marketing, according to the article, think the marketing failed and they didn't spend enough money on print ads convincing people Kodak = digital instead of film. As if people still read newspapers. I have a funny newspaper anecdote, my son was asking what Grandma's newspaper was; I thought about it for a few seconds and told him it's like yesterdays internet news, but printed out for people without the internet. Oh, OK.
Personally I think its a lot like the decline and fall of the roman empire No single simple answer other than the mental state of the entire world swung around to "I'm better off without these guys, than with these guys, so bye bye" Individually not interesting, multiplied across basically the entire population, that becomes interesting. Other than a bunch of now unemployed people, who really NEEDs Kodak? Why without them we won't have... um...
Maybe that's a feature not a bug for the false flag operation to fan the (profitable) flames of war... Someone from Lebanon blew up the other guy's political party convention by taking over onw of our own remotely piloted bombers? Well, we gotta go invade Iran now. Oh you want the details of how they did it? Sorry thats classified citizen, now you're either with us or you're against us...
The internet is great for ordering things that are mass produced identical boxes (like books, cameras or games
.. bottle caps, hydrometer, fermentation locks (more for wine brewing than beer), corks-with-a-hole
I've bought dried wine yeasts over the net with good results. Dried yeast is tough. I forget the term but I think it was blooming it where you pre-grow the dried yeast in a drinking glass sized container before dumping it in the carboy, which is no big deal. Never mail ordered one of those refrigerated liquid snap pack things of course, although I suppose if you can buy steaks over the internet and physical mail, I suppose you could get yeast mailed to you somehow..
As a homebrewer, I have NEVER just put my equipment into the kitchen sink - and neither has any of my other buddies that brew beer. We all use special cleaners to clean every single item that comes in contact with the beer/wort.
Where do you dump the used solution out, the floor? I am semi seriously curious. I have a floor drain in my 60 year old basement which I could use, but then I'll be standing in water and its gonna be a huge mess. Also I used plain tap water to initially clean on the assumption I want sanitizer to sanitize the surfaces not the dust that may have settled. Get it as clean as you can with tapwater, then sanitize... I certainly don't bother brewing or sanitizing outside (aside from weather issues, its filthy out there)
I'm curious how much cleaning is encouraged by cleaner manufacturers. I have no interest in filth being in my wine and beer, and see no point in not trying my best. That said, on my worst days, I still work to standards that would be heroic and unachievable 200 years ago. I've toured some "professional" filthy wineries with open primary fermenters. I think there's more than a little FUD going on.
Everyone should have a least 1 sport they like to do...
I don't. Physical activities do not appeal to me at all. I exercise, but only so that I do not get completely out of shape (at no point do I find it entertaining).
First of all find something fun to look at while exercising, then exercise is fun. I used to get teased for attending girly aerobics classes, until I dragged a weightlifter friend of mine along to see the ladies I was raving about. He now also attends yoga class, apparently solely because of the invention of womens spandex clothing (he's looking at it, not wearing it). Whatever floats your boat, you should watch, but try not to be too creepy. You can also enjoy the sights by taking up two of my "sports" that being bicycle trail riding (usually routed thru amazing scenery) and geocaching (nobody puts the cache next to the mcdonalds grease trap, its always somewhere visually amazing like the top of a hill/mountain).
Secondly try what/.ers would call grinding. I still remember the first time I bench pressed 200 pounds for a full set. The feeling of achievement was cool, exactly like leveling up a video game. If you like those "quest RPGs" where you have to find 10 bear pelts in skyrim or whatever, you'll love trying to work up to benching 300 or whatever your goal is. I'm told the feeling from completing your first marathon, or under 10 minutes for 2 miles run, etc etc is very similar. So grind something for the sake of grinding, you may like it. Make a graph or chart, it helps.
Thirdly try non-sport house/yard work, which is pretty much a sport anyway. Gardening, done right, is a heck of a lot of physical activity. Also home remodeling type stuff. Someone who claims yard work is not a sport should try building a 15 by 20 foot paver patio by hand and then get back to me on that, there's a lot of rules, luck, skill, practice, and plain old sweat involved. If golf is a sport, then yardwork is a sport 10 times over. If you've got no house, volunteer for habitat for humanity, etc.
Fourth there are some hobbies that are inherently physical activity/sports-like. For example, fine carpentry, like making furniture. How about installing elaborate ham radio antennas, if you're not sweating buckets you're probably not doing it right. Some car mechanic work is nearly white glove work, but suspension/brake work and replacing big heavy parts like engines is a brutal workout. I remember the first time I did a complete front disk brake job, every part of me was tired and sore. Not knowing what you're doing helps get a nice workout. Now, work like that would be no sweat.
Most rice doesn't have guten, and gluten most certainly is the devil if you happen to have Celiac disease. But in that case you're making your meals from ingredients anyway since the selection of truly gluten-free (no cross-contamination) foods is pathetic.
After my son was diagnosed the first shopping trip was more than a little weird. So, we're eating bottled water and frito corn chips this week? After awhile, we figured out how to cook, we eat like kings now, and we're apparently doing something right because he made a full recovery...
Our meals seemed to end up in common cause with the "low carb" people. Steaks and roasts and stuff. My red meat consumption tripled and my cholesterol blood tests and blood pressure both improved quite a bit, which supposedly is normal with the low carb people. Carbs seem to be the cause of many health problems... Also we eat a lot of "asian style" stuff, a pan full of frying veggies and a little meat/seafood and some sauce. Quotes on "asian style" because most asian sauces like soy sauce are made with wheat (strange but true, look it up) so we have to improvise...
You're going to need to back that up. Throughout most human history... people lived on basically just that.
My religious (lack of ) beliefs implies, No They Didn't. Its a fundamental creationist vs evolutionist argument, applied to food history.
If the world was created recently in 4000 BC by god and you define "people" as exclusively european/middle eastern Jews/Christians and ignore the rest of the world, then yes, you are technically correct within that hyper restricted viewpoint. That's a pretty big if, but if your church says so, then you're stuck believing it.
On the other hand, if you agree with pretty much any of the research of archeologists then absolutely not, our species has only spent a microscopic fraction of its existence eating junk food like that.
The human digestive system is pretty tough and can tolerate quite a bit of abuse. Doesn't mean pushing its limits is a wise lifestyle choice.
Yeah. All for the opportunity cost of one of those parents being at home to cook three square meals a day.
Learn to cook. That is just so wrong.
Here's what I do. Make about 10 good meals at once on a weekend or whenever the cooking bug bites me. Shove in freezer. Thru the work week, remove from freezer and place in fridge in the morning, dump contents in frying pan, microwave, or whatever appropriate. Apply a bottled sauce from the fridge, or appropriate spices from spice rack, and eat in about 5 to 10 minutes. I can make healthy tasty prepared sorta gourmet frozen "real food" faster than I can heat up an icky expensive TV dinner.
So, I seared the surface of small chunks of beef sirloin on a smoking hot stainless steel pan for flavor, enough to make 3 batches of stew, then deglazed with cheap whiskey, then rebagged about half a bag of freshly chopped cheap vegetables with about a third of the meat, freeze in bags or tupperware. Stock 3 little cans/boxes of soup stock (veg or beef) in the pantry. In the morning next week, whip out ye olde slow cooker, dump in one bag, pour soup stock over the top, plug in slow cooker and come home to fantastic stew.
Take everything you need for a decent stir fry, bag and freeze. Next work night dump contents of bag into pan with a decent real oil, saute, dump from teriyaki sauce from a bottle in the fridge into the pan, and eat.
I also take great joy in cooking about 10 pound of lasagna and freezing a zillion servings. I made this one with grilled strips of zucchini instead of pasta and it was unbelievable.
Take plastic bag. Insert raw chicken parts. Parts is parts, right? Well chose whatever you like the most. Pour in a little marinade, some spices. Freeze for "awhile" maybe weeks. Come home from work, light gas grill on low, toss chicken parts on grill, flip occasionally while reading mail, surfing/. on the ipad, whatever. Serve with a spicy sauce from the fridge. You know what tastes good on chicken? Taco sauce. Weird but true. I never use barbeque sauce anymore since I discovered the miracle of taco sauce.
I like to make this homemade breakfast hash outta all kinds of vegetables, fresh mushrooms, some breakfast sausages, some nuts, and a bit of diced potatoe, I can saute that and drop some maple syrup on it and eat it, and its the breakfast of the gods, and it takes me about 10 minutes from think about it to all done eating, actually quicker than driving to mcdonalds and waiting in line.
You'd be amazed what you can do with frozen mystery meat philly cheesesteak product, breakfast sausages, the entire freaking produce aisle, etc.
Take a nice slab of cod, drizzle some lime juice on it (not too much) some pepper, some spices, I like it hot, whatever floats your boat. Freeze it. Don't make one batch, make 4 batches so you can eat it once a week for a month without any prep time. During the week, you toss that stuff in the steamer appliance (like $25 at walmart) set the timer for about a half hour and go do laundry or take a dump or whatever else you do after work other than eat and sleep. Amazing steamed fish for like 5 minutes work during the week. Uses medium salsa out of a jar as a dressing instead of boring tartar sauce, because face it, fish is boring without a little heat and spice.
Homemade kabobs freeze nicely and grill quickly. I like shrimp kabobs and dip them in salsa instead of that weird cocktail sauce. I have a "thing" for beef tenderloin kabobs with shitake mushrooms and bell pepper disks. To each their own, I guess.
I also like mix ins. You know whats boring as heck? Pasta and sauce. You know whats yummy? Pasta and sauce, and sliced grilled hot italian sausages with a bunch of sliced (sliced and frozen by me) vegetables mixed into the sauce and some extra spices sprinkled on the top, at least parsley but a little oregano helps. And maybe some freshly grated cheese (much cheaper if you grate it yourself) This goes double for
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Secondly, gov't moves slooooooowly. They should have predicted they'd be in for the long haul if they expected this to work for them. Instead, they're quick buck artists, expecting buzz words to do all the hard work. I'm not a bit surprised they're now running away screaming "lalalalala."
Thirdly? a lot of these type of deals are "we will dump $200M into this and some greater fool will come along and buy the works from us for $250M next year insta-profit!" Whoops no one showed up. Oh well, dump it.
And you want me to sign something that says you're not responsible if something happens?!
That's the key to how cloud was mismanaged by the cloud providers:
Cloud = no responsibility at all and you're in a long term contractual relationship you cannot escape from and due to downsizing you don't have the technical skills to dig yourself out of the hole without $200/hr consultants.
Inhouse = 100% total instant personal responsibility or you get fired and replaced next week by another H1B or another recent grad noob who CAN do it.
Cloud wanted the long term cell phone contract business model. Business wanted the customer of commodity gas station model. Cloud got flushed. Oh well.
Another way to put it is businesses don't like employees who moonlight simply because they can't be stressed out as much as employees who only get one paycheck... and cloud is an outsourced employee with thousands of paychecks who simply doesn't care if you fire him. Thats not conducive to the kind of abusive relationship management desires...
Data out of our custody is data out of our control.
Oldest story in the endless repetition of the IT world. Reliability. Lets say you're a midlevel manager in charge of providing email service to the biz.
1) Hire a low level sysadmin to run a server in the basement, he knows he's fired if the server isn't up 100% of the time, if he doesn't respond to your slightest whim at 2am every morning, or instantly correctly answer the dumbest question. Paying a server jockey $60K/yr just to run email, makes sense if reliable email brings in $3M/yr of revenue in your biz and unreliable email brings in $0M/yr. This option gets you a promotion because you did so well.
2) Or cloud it for $50/month, and the boss selected the provider for you on the basis of how good the season tickets were and/or how hot the saleswoman is. The provider knows they have a bullet proof legal contract that makes them responsible for pretty much nothing, and if you leave the provider doesn't care because each customer is only about 0.01% of their total revenue anyway. If its not working as you prefer, you have no leverage over the provider unless you are one of their top 10 customers (if you have to ask, you're not), what are you going to do, make your boss look bad for selecting the wrong provider for you, or cancel a multi-year contract resulting in days to weeks of downtime and involving legal. This option simply gets you fired.
Last cycle of the eternal IT wheel I was a very small cog in a very large machine at a provider fitting option 2 and I know some customers got fired for buying email service from my ex employer, always awkward to call a customer about an old trouble ticket and be told they got fired because of your service (whoops). Clouding your web server today is no different than clouding your email IMAP and POP server a decade ago. Dumb career ending move for management unless you're in such a ridiculous special case that they may as well write a book just about you.
Now there's a button that would actually be useful on facebook...
Why I'll be... a brand new 104 key type M... that means a windoze key to drive "awesome" window manager with. I may have to retire my old PS/2 type M...
They're not expensive, they're only a hundred bucks. If they're as good as a real type M, your grandkids will be using them, which works out to "about a can of soda per month". Expensive is something like an all plastic "gamers keyboard" for $30 that only lives for 6 months before keys start sticking (true anecdotal story).
There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Dang its early in the morning here. Of course they have access, or we wouldn't have seen their uploaded picture...
It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
I miss the days when IBM actually made PC's they were always rock solid. You could beat someone to death with one of there laptops and after wiping the blood off it it would still work...
Model M keyboard with the steel backplate and buckling springs. Still use mine with a PS/2 to usb converter thing (not an adapter, a more expensive converter). Lack of a windows key didn't bother me until I switched to the "awesome" windowmanager which likes to use that key as a control key. Bummer.
Theres a nice wiki page with pages and pages of detailed explanation of what this post is talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
Here's a nice analogy for quantum computing... its a magic old fashioned analog computer with serious reliability and I/O issues. Imagine at the dawn of the computer era you wanted to simulate the statics of a large railroad bridge. In 8 bits it would take a very long time, 16 bits much longer... And to prevent rounding error propagation you have issues. So why not simulate it with a thundering herd of analog opamps which will "instantly" solve the bridges static loads? OK cool, other than all the opamps must work perfectly the entire time you take a measurement which with vacuum tubes is questionable and qubits maybe impossible. The other problem is if you want 32 bit accuracy now your proto-computer engineer needs to build a 32 bit A/D converter to connect to your analog computer... good luck... This is not a perfect quantum computing analogy, but pretty close in many regards.
There is a bad trend in computer science to assume "all computers and algorithm programming problems are about the same" which they historically have been, but are not in the real world. So given two roughly identical algorithms and problems on two roughly identical computers, the smaller big-O notation wins every time, more or less. That is a huge mistake to try that thinking across widely different architectures... OK so factoring computation is exponential on classical computers and everyone ignores I/O because thats constant with a normal bus design or at worst linear. OK so factoring computation is poly on quantum computers hooray for us... whoops looks like I/O might go exponential and constant factor might be years/decades to get the thing working.
The way to keep secure with a classical computer is to pick an algorithm that big O scales such that it can't be broken in this universe. The way to keep secure with a quantum adversary is to pick a key size that seems to make it an engineering impossibility to build a quantum computer, even if by some miracle a quantum computer could solve it in poly time if only it could somehow be built.
Any suggestions for a good replacement tech news website?
You'll have to clarify your definition. If you want "tech news" as in news about "hard science" tech there are places like arxiv.org or PLOS for bio stuff. My best guess for IT type primary sources is maybe the debian-announce mailing list or the daily SANS ISC diary? There are no primary source places that I'm aware of with social media type features, not /. certainly not on G+ or whatever.
If by "tech news" you mean news about other tech news sites, if you prefer a weekly format thats "this week in tech" and some other twit and rev3 shows and/or at least some /. articles. One important filter consideration is I don't want to go to a site exclusively populated with "txt speak" and/or total noobs. "Hay guys I just heard of this unix port 4 my pc its called linux has any1 else hear herd of it????!?". Sorry I don't want to see that. I haven't been a noob to this computer thing since 1981 or to the internet since the (very) late 80s.
The whole discussion is fubar
First of all, the derivative of e to the x ("exponential function") is e to the x. Yeah thats true the D is the same as the function itself. Welcome to 1st semester calculus, kids. Not a constant, not even sure what "constantly increasing" means mathematically, although if AC meant its linear thats a bucket of fail too.
The next fubar is quantum computing doesn't provide a magic exponential speedup. There is a page length summary on the wikipedia but it should come as No Surprise Whatsoever to anyone in CS that different algorithm designs inherently have different big O notation and magically sprinkling quantum pixie dust doesn't change that, some algos are linear, some poly, some constant, some exponential, all quantum computing does is swap about where some belong. Solve for X where X+1=2 is not gonna change much, factoring into primes is going to change quite a bit. Some of the most interesting problems are polynomial time not exponential in quantum computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Potential
Lets try to file a bug report using New Orleans as an example in haiku format in honor of this being rolled out first in Japan...
Hurricane passes overhead
District Nine clicks Safe
Levees collapse; all drown; Whoops;
haiku formatted bug reports are superior to free text, although I'm guessing I shouldn't quit my day job and become a professional poet...
That character is now being used as a shill for the CX-5, a small SUV that’s being billed as fuel-efficient and eco-friendly.
I'm more concerned about lightning mcqueen from cars and cars2 being used to sell my kid a lunch box and thermos (true story!)
Come on... slow news day?
It seems to be a meaningless cultural bias to define "cheat, steal, and even disobey traffic laws" as a weird mixture of morality and honor.
Also if you read the article the cheat/steal testing was done based not on "rich/poor" but social class. Higher class students vs lower class not necessarily rich..
I thought the funniest one was the folks who would take more candy if they were convinced they were more wealthy. Well, duh, the more money I have the more likely I'll buy/take/use something more expensive. Oldest marketing scam in the book, convince the victim they're richer than they are "you qualify for a $750K loan!" etc.
Traffic law violation is another "duh" moment. Who's more likely to afford a lawyer, insurance? Who's more likely to be illegally carrying a weapon, drugs, be intoxicated, have a warrant? It also assumes traffic laws are based on "morality" and "honor" when they're based mostly on enhancing revenue.
I want a larger Kindle Fire:
One with a 25" screen, detachable CPU tower, Keyboard, mouse, etc. Oh and it must run Windows so I can code on it.
If it helps save money they can do away with the touchscreen aspect- I don't need that.
If they can manage all that then yes- I want a Kindle Fire.
If you're willing to also do without a battery, since 25 inches is pretty big for a pocket carried device (unless its some kind of compensation issue) it sounds like you'd really like:
http://www.android-x86.org/
with the exception of wanting to use Windows to code on it. Using windows to code sounds like a really warped fetish unless you're just using putty to ssh to a real computer. Well, some folks just enjoy pain and thats just how it is, have fun with it. Seriously though a decent vnc and/or rdesktop client on the tablet should take care of that little requirement.
But the author argues that its real purpose may have been as a test run to gather important real-world data for their ultimate war with the iPad
Correction, ultimate war with the ipad 2. Their new ipad 2 killer will be shipping right about the time the ipad 3 is shipping. Whoops!
That's the problem with trying to become the new leader by being a really good follower.
No one knows what destroyed Kodak. Maybe never will, because there are so many reasons and every little group wants to take sole credit for figuring it out, for their little group having the power to destroy a big company.
The techies think its digital cameras. After all, they destroyed all other former film giants; Oh wait, the didn't.
The photog-groupies think they failed technically or failed in marketing film beginning the slide (sorry for the pun) decades ago and they never really recovered from Fuji. Maybe if Fuji never existed then Kodak would have had the dough needed to transition to stay alive. This seems to be ... slightly overexaggerated.
The financial types think its because they were addicted hopelessly to high margin film and couldn't financially handle converting to a design, branding, and Chinese importing house. Based on previous bond and other financing structure, etc, better to continue 25% on declining sales, than lower percentage on increasing sales. This makes little sense, it hardly stopped HP from converting from "we make the worlds best electronic test instruments" to "we import junk from China and slap a nameplate and some marketing on it".
Journalists who convince people to read their customers marketing, according to the article, think the marketing failed and they didn't spend enough money on print ads convincing people Kodak = digital instead of film. As if people still read newspapers. I have a funny newspaper anecdote, my son was asking what Grandma's newspaper was; I thought about it for a few seconds and told him it's like yesterdays internet news, but printed out for people without the internet. Oh, OK.
Personally I think its a lot like the decline and fall of the roman empire No single simple answer other than the mental state of the entire world swung around to "I'm better off without these guys, than with these guys, so bye bye" Individually not interesting, multiplied across basically the entire population, that becomes interesting. Other than a bunch of now unemployed people, who really NEEDs Kodak? Why without them we won't have ... um...
Maybe that's a feature not a bug for the false flag operation to fan the (profitable) flames of war... Someone from Lebanon blew up the other guy's political party convention by taking over onw of our own remotely piloted bombers? Well, we gotta go invade Iran now. Oh you want the details of how they did it? Sorry thats classified citizen, now you're either with us or you're against us...
The internet is great for ordering things that are mass produced identical boxes (like books, cameras or games
.. bottle caps, hydrometer, fermentation locks (more for wine brewing than beer), corks-with-a-hole
I've bought dried wine yeasts over the net with good results. Dried yeast is tough. I forget the term but I think it was blooming it where you pre-grow the dried yeast in a drinking glass sized container before dumping it in the carboy, which is no big deal. Never mail ordered one of those refrigerated liquid snap pack things of course, although I suppose if you can buy steaks over the internet and physical mail, I suppose you could get yeast mailed to you somehow..
As a homebrewer, I have NEVER just put my equipment into the kitchen sink - and neither has any of my other buddies that brew beer. We all use special cleaners to clean every single item that comes in contact with the beer/wort.
Where do you dump the used solution out, the floor? I am semi seriously curious. I have a floor drain in my 60 year old basement which I could use, but then I'll be standing in water and its gonna be a huge mess. Also I used plain tap water to initially clean on the assumption I want sanitizer to sanitize the surfaces not the dust that may have settled. Get it as clean as you can with tapwater, then sanitize... I certainly don't bother brewing or sanitizing outside (aside from weather issues, its filthy out there)
I'm curious how much cleaning is encouraged by cleaner manufacturers. I have no interest in filth being in my wine and beer, and see no point in not trying my best. That said, on my worst days, I still work to standards that would be heroic and unachievable 200 years ago. I've toured some "professional" filthy wineries with open primary fermenters. I think there's more than a little FUD going on.
Everyone should have a least 1 sport they like to do...
I don't. Physical activities do not appeal to me at all. I exercise, but only so that I do not get completely out of shape (at no point do I find it entertaining).
First of all find something fun to look at while exercising, then exercise is fun. I used to get teased for attending girly aerobics classes, until I dragged a weightlifter friend of mine along to see the ladies I was raving about. He now also attends yoga class, apparently solely because of the invention of womens spandex clothing (he's looking at it, not wearing it). Whatever floats your boat, you should watch, but try not to be too creepy. You can also enjoy the sights by taking up two of my "sports" that being bicycle trail riding (usually routed thru amazing scenery) and geocaching (nobody puts the cache next to the mcdonalds grease trap, its always somewhere visually amazing like the top of a hill/mountain).
Secondly try what /.ers would call grinding. I still remember the first time I bench pressed 200 pounds for a full set. The feeling of achievement was cool, exactly like leveling up a video game. If you like those "quest RPGs" where you have to find 10 bear pelts in skyrim or whatever, you'll love trying to work up to benching 300 or whatever your goal is. I'm told the feeling from completing your first marathon, or under 10 minutes for 2 miles run, etc etc is very similar. So grind something for the sake of grinding, you may like it. Make a graph or chart, it helps.
Thirdly try non-sport house/yard work, which is pretty much a sport anyway. Gardening, done right, is a heck of a lot of physical activity. Also home remodeling type stuff. Someone who claims yard work is not a sport should try building a 15 by 20 foot paver patio by hand and then get back to me on that, there's a lot of rules, luck, skill, practice, and plain old sweat involved. If golf is a sport, then yardwork is a sport 10 times over. If you've got no house, volunteer for habitat for humanity, etc.
Fourth there are some hobbies that are inherently physical activity/sports-like. For example, fine carpentry, like making furniture. How about installing elaborate ham radio antennas, if you're not sweating buckets you're probably not doing it right. Some car mechanic work is nearly white glove work, but suspension/brake work and replacing big heavy parts like engines is a brutal workout. I remember the first time I did a complete front disk brake job, every part of me was tired and sore. Not knowing what you're doing helps get a nice workout. Now, work like that would be no sweat.
Most rice doesn't have guten, and gluten most certainly is the devil if you happen to have Celiac disease. But in that case you're making your meals from ingredients anyway since the selection of truly gluten-free (no cross-contamination) foods is pathetic.
After my son was diagnosed the first shopping trip was more than a little weird. So, we're eating bottled water and frito corn chips this week? After awhile, we figured out how to cook, we eat like kings now, and we're apparently doing something right because he made a full recovery...
Our meals seemed to end up in common cause with the "low carb" people. Steaks and roasts and stuff. My red meat consumption tripled and my cholesterol blood tests and blood pressure both improved quite a bit, which supposedly is normal with the low carb people. Carbs seem to be the cause of many health problems... Also we eat a lot of "asian style" stuff, a pan full of frying veggies and a little meat/seafood and some sauce. Quotes on "asian style" because most asian sauces like soy sauce are made with wheat (strange but true, look it up) so we have to improvise...
You're going to need to back that up. Throughout most human history ... people lived on basically just that.
My religious (lack of ) beliefs implies, No They Didn't. Its a fundamental creationist vs evolutionist argument, applied to food history.
If the world was created recently in 4000 BC by god and you define "people" as exclusively european/middle eastern Jews/Christians and ignore the rest of the world, then yes, you are technically correct within that hyper restricted viewpoint. That's a pretty big if, but if your church says so, then you're stuck believing it.
On the other hand, if you agree with pretty much any of the research of archeologists then absolutely not, our species has only spent a microscopic fraction of its existence eating junk food like that.
The human digestive system is pretty tough and can tolerate quite a bit of abuse. Doesn't mean pushing its limits is a wise lifestyle choice.
Yeah. All for the opportunity cost of one of those parents being at home to cook three square meals a day.
Learn to cook. That is just so wrong.
Here's what I do. Make about 10 good meals at once on a weekend or whenever the cooking bug bites me. Shove in freezer. Thru the work week, remove from freezer and place in fridge in the morning, dump contents in frying pan, microwave, or whatever appropriate. Apply a bottled sauce from the fridge, or appropriate spices from spice rack, and eat in about 5 to 10 minutes. I can make healthy tasty prepared sorta gourmet frozen "real food" faster than I can heat up an icky expensive TV dinner.
So, I seared the surface of small chunks of beef sirloin on a smoking hot stainless steel pan for flavor, enough to make 3 batches of stew, then deglazed with cheap whiskey, then rebagged about half a bag of freshly chopped cheap vegetables with about a third of the meat, freeze in bags or tupperware. Stock 3 little cans/boxes of soup stock (veg or beef) in the pantry. In the morning next week, whip out ye olde slow cooker, dump in one bag, pour soup stock over the top, plug in slow cooker and come home to fantastic stew.
Take everything you need for a decent stir fry, bag and freeze. Next work night dump contents of bag into pan with a decent real oil, saute, dump from teriyaki sauce from a bottle in the fridge into the pan, and eat.
I also take great joy in cooking about 10 pound of lasagna and freezing a zillion servings. I made this one with grilled strips of zucchini instead of pasta and it was unbelievable.
Take plastic bag. Insert raw chicken parts. Parts is parts, right? Well chose whatever you like the most. Pour in a little marinade, some spices. Freeze for "awhile" maybe weeks. Come home from work, light gas grill on low, toss chicken parts on grill, flip occasionally while reading mail, surfing /. on the ipad, whatever. Serve with a spicy sauce from the fridge. You know what tastes good on chicken? Taco sauce. Weird but true. I never use barbeque sauce anymore since I discovered the miracle of taco sauce.
I like to make this homemade breakfast hash outta all kinds of vegetables, fresh mushrooms, some breakfast sausages, some nuts, and a bit of diced potatoe, I can saute that and drop some maple syrup on it and eat it, and its the breakfast of the gods, and it takes me about 10 minutes from think about it to all done eating, actually quicker than driving to mcdonalds and waiting in line.
You'd be amazed what you can do with frozen mystery meat philly cheesesteak product, breakfast sausages, the entire freaking produce aisle, etc.
Take a nice slab of cod, drizzle some lime juice on it (not too much) some pepper, some spices, I like it hot, whatever floats your boat. Freeze it. Don't make one batch, make 4 batches so you can eat it once a week for a month without any prep time. During the week, you toss that stuff in the steamer appliance (like $25 at walmart) set the timer for about a half hour and go do laundry or take a dump or whatever else you do after work other than eat and sleep. Amazing steamed fish for like 5 minutes work during the week. Uses medium salsa out of a jar as a dressing instead of boring tartar sauce, because face it, fish is boring without a little heat and spice.
Homemade kabobs freeze nicely and grill quickly. I like shrimp kabobs and dip them in salsa instead of that weird cocktail sauce. I have a "thing" for beef tenderloin kabobs with shitake mushrooms and bell pepper disks. To each their own, I guess.
I also like mix ins. You know whats boring as heck? Pasta and sauce. You know whats yummy? Pasta and sauce, and sliced grilled hot italian sausages with a bunch of sliced (sliced and frozen by me) vegetables mixed into the sauce and some extra spices sprinkled on the top, at least parsley but a little oregano helps. And maybe some freshly grated cheese (much cheaper if you grate it yourself) This goes double for