Ack, I never was good at maths - that does seem a lot more reasonable. I probably shouldn't be allowed to buy one of these things, otherwise I'll end up wiring it up wrongly to a hairdryer.
40 years x 365 days x 24 hours x 200kW x $0.05 = $3.5bn
Ok, so I guess it wouldn't run at full capacity all of the time, but even if you half it, or quarter it, it's still a big number.
Slightly more silly: if you were to use the MIT students from the previous article and you assumed they worked 24 hours a day to produce 200kW, and you paid them $10 an hour you'd need 1600 of them and it would cost $5.8bn over the same time period.
Space exploration is often cited as providing a country a tangible goal. Something to aim for, boost national pride, focus industry, provide technological spinoffs (whether product - Teflon etc.) or industrial capacity, and provide a sneaky way of subsidy through government contract. You can well imagine that India, looking to the US (and even some extent the USSR's program) would want in on that.
Of course, this leaves out the fact that any country that wants to launch satellites into orbit - whether for commercial, military or espionage reasons is at the mercy of the few nations with launch capability, both in terms of cost and possible political veto.
I, for one, can well understand why any nation might want a space program. (See the recent muttering about the UK's fairly timid approach to this.
I'll grant you that yes, prices have come down recently but surely every geek wants our scientific research budgets spent on a much worthier use for nanotubes.
I'm all for preventing child access to porn. But if google hands over (voluntarily or otherwise) even a portion of their logs for a specific purpose it makes it just that little bit easier for Bush (or whoever) to get their grubby mitts on log data the next time round. Where does it end?
Also, how would this play from an international viewpoint? Would the data (potentially) handed over include google.co.uk or google.de logs?
The EU is busy being lobbied (can you be busy being lobbied?) about communications data retention (e.g. pi report). Without serious safeguards in place and with all those logs sloshing around it's only a matter of time before log subpoenas become routine.
Anybody reckon they can tell the difference between a human brain and a mouse brain?
Check out the Mouse Brain Library and the Human Brain Library.
There are a couple of obvious difference in shape, but the individual structures are remarkably similar.
If an Opteron produces say, on average, 50W heat output (I know this isn't accurate, but just as an example), 5000 Opterons would produce 250kW of heat. That would require an air conditioning unit larger than the building used to house the container.
I'd like to know how they deal with updates - new versions, patches. The big OSS projects all have their fair share of vulnerabilities and need constant patching.
For the less technically oriented end-user, to whom I assume these boxes are pitched, some form of automatic download + patch would be a must.
Can't find anything on lulu.com that talks about this - without it, the product is going to be dangerous (unpatched vulns galore)...
I'd love to know exactly how well this Linux phone is locked-down to prevent tampering and "copyright abuses", or another way, how easy it will be to write cool hacks for it myself.
Will they release a tool-chain? Will every piece of software have to be certified before use (as most network operators seem to like). Will it be hackable like the Linksys Wireless routers
Am I being naive and engaging in wishful thinking?
This does have a semblance of truth about it. The Blue Peacock nuclear landmines are certainly genuine - they were declassified last year.
The business with the chickens is most likely the same as every other crazy idea - mentioned as a one line "why don't we try..." in some discussion document. It's certainly no stranger than a lot of other cold-war ideas: Operation Mongoose, using psychics or bugging cats.
As has been amply demonstrated above, anyone who shouts at one of these things will get bumped to the front of the queue. Thus everyone will shout at them and everyone will get bumped to the front of the queue and so on ad infinitum.
All that is except for the quiet little old lady waiting patiently on the end of the phone because the nice recorded voice told her that her call was 'very important to us'.
Bizarrely, the search term "Hutton Report" brings up an adword link to http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/
Pretty sure it wasn't doing this first thing this morning.
Own up, who's taking the piss...
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Ack, I never was good at maths - that does seem a lot more reasonable. I probably shouldn't be allowed to buy one of these things, otherwise I'll end up wiring it up wrongly to a hairdryer.
40 years x 365 days x 24 hours x 200kW x $0.05 = $3.5bn
Ok, so I guess it wouldn't run at full capacity all of the time, but even if you half it, or quarter it, it's still a big number.
Slightly more silly: if you were to use the MIT students from the previous article and you assumed they worked 24 hours a day to produce 200kW, and you paid them $10 an hour you'd need 1600 of them and it would cost $5.8bn over the same time period.
I guess that's why we have nuclear power.
I won't argue with your knowledge of sorting nomenclature. But I think that's what I said ;)
You are quite right, it would have to be a 7 digit number. Teach me not to read the question properly. This perhaps is why I do not work for Google.
I've been asked all of these questions at (fairly) recent interviews. They're definite favourites at City (of London) type institutions.
The first question can actually end up using a little calculus - you need to advance by square-root of the number of floors IIRC.
Two I can't remember my answer for, but think there were a couple of variations.
Three requires you to realise that the numbers are unique, within a finite range, and you have sufficient *bits* for a radix sort.
Space exploration is often cited as providing a country a tangible goal. Something to aim for, boost national pride, focus industry, provide technological spinoffs (whether product - Teflon etc.) or industrial capacity, and provide a sneaky way of subsidy through government contract. You can well imagine that India, looking to the US (and even some extent the USSR's program) would want in on that.
Of course, this leaves out the fact that any country that wants to launch satellites into orbit - whether for commercial, military or espionage reasons is at the mercy of the few nations with launch capability, both in terms of cost and possible political veto.
I, for one, can well understand why any nation might want a space program. (See the recent muttering about the UK's fairly timid approach to this.
What's interesting about this story is how easy it might be for *others* to recover your data after you think you've wiped it.
This is nothing new at all
I'll grant you that yes, prices have come down recently but surely every geek wants our scientific research budgets spent on a much worthier use for nanotubes.
I'm all for preventing child access to porn. But if google hands over (voluntarily or otherwise) even a portion of their logs for a specific purpose it makes it just that little bit easier for Bush (or whoever) to get their grubby mitts on log data the next time round. Where does it end?
Also, how would this play from an international viewpoint? Would the data (potentially) handed over include google.co.uk or google.de logs?
The EU is busy being lobbied (can you be busy being lobbied?) about communications data retention (e.g. pi report). Without serious safeguards in place and with all those logs sloshing around it's only a matter of time before log subpoenas become routine.
Anybody reckon they can tell the difference between a human brain and a mouse brain? Check out the Mouse Brain Library and the Human Brain Library. There are a couple of obvious difference in shape, but the individual structures are remarkably similar.
If an Opteron produces say, on average, 50W heat output (I know this isn't accurate, but just as an example), 5000 Opterons would produce 250kW of heat. That would require an air conditioning unit larger than the building used to house the container.
I'd like to know how they deal with updates - new versions, patches. The big OSS projects all have their fair share of vulnerabilities and need constant patching.
For the less technically oriented end-user, to whom I assume these boxes are pitched, some form of automatic download + patch would be a must.
Can't find anything on lulu.com that talks about this - without it, the product is going to be dangerous (unpatched vulns galore)...
I'd love to know exactly how well this Linux phone is locked-down to prevent tampering and "copyright abuses", or another way, how easy it will be to write cool hacks for it myself.
Will they release a tool-chain? Will every piece of software have to be certified before use (as most network operators seem to like). Will it be hackable like the Linksys Wireless routers
Am I being naive and engaging in wishful thinking?Google's cache of the frontpage - nothing special to look at
This does have a semblance of truth about it. The Blue Peacock nuclear landmines are certainly genuine - they were declassified last year.
The business with the chickens is most likely the same as every other crazy idea - mentioned as a one line "why don't we try ..." in some discussion document. It's certainly no stranger than a lot of other cold-war ideas: Operation Mongoose, using psychics or bugging cats.
As has been amply demonstrated above, anyone who shouts at one of these things will get bumped to the front of the queue. Thus everyone will shout at them and everyone will get bumped to the front of the queue and so on ad infinitum. All that is except for the quiet little old lady waiting patiently on the end of the phone because the nice recorded voice told her that her call was 'very important to us'.
Not just Dilbert - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/35334.html
IP over sewage.
Bizarrely, the search term "Hutton Report" brings up an adword link to http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Pretty sure it wasn't doing this first thing this morning. Own up, who's taking the piss ...