And whoever made up the summary hit the loaded language mark too - you see "spew" in a lot of pollution stories to let you know which conclusion you should draw before reading the rest.
Better, when will the big operations start dumping cards by the thousands onto Ebay? A plentiful secondhand market + crypto not buying new cards should deepen the effect.
I'm fine with used stuff, but do wonder how much life a GPU that has run flat-out 24/7 for a year or two has left.
I saw an "agreement" that stated that if the company did something illegal, and you blew the whistle, and the company broke the whistleblower laws to retaliate, then you agreed not to sue. I'm pretty sure that would go over like a lead balloon with any judge. The companies might as well try putting clauses like in there, because there's no downside for them. Severability lets them put in various unenforceable clauses and let the court system figure it out. In the meantime it discourages the more timid employees from pursuing a case.
It will be interesting to see how much of the ~$7.5 billion is allowed in the rate base. Southern presumably eats the rest. Mississippi power only has about 186,000 customers, so there are not many to spread out the costs. By switching it to a conventional gas plant, it will work, but it will be the most expensive one ever.
I found it nice for playing on SPARC32. The Linux distros have dropped sparc32, with Debian Etch being the last one I know of - if there's another I'd love to know about it. The linux kernel still supports sparc32, if you can find a distro to run it in.
The NetBSD way of doing things took some adjusting, but its worth it to run modern software on some really old systems - like Sun2/3!
I vaguely remember discussion of some technical issue that was a big deal around the time of Win 3.0, that Alan Cooper solved in the Tripod prototypet.. Something like the "CX/DX register problem" (problem with calling conventions, DLL/OLE stuff maybe?). Might be interesting (ok, to a very, very small number of people) to see it. Maybe somebody else remembers the issue and can describe it better than me.
Knowledge is much more widespread now, though, so whatever this was, its probably well known now if there's any value to it.
It's a little early to get worried about it, but when we finally get a hydrogen economy going, I wonder how much water we'll lose due to leaking hydrogen. Billions of devices leaking a little bit over many years would add up. Maybe technology will move on the next step before it's a serious problem.
Here's my experience with MUMPS. About twelve years ago, I interviewed with a shop that used it. One of the interviewers told me, a little smugly, that MUMPs was so powerful, that nobody can be productive in it for at least a year. Then I got a one paragraph description of it and was asked to write some basic programs, using pen and paper, with someone watching. My recollection was it was a bastard child of assembly and LISP. There were lots of parentheses, but only register variables to work with. (That doesn't seem to match the wikipedia description, but it's the description I got at the time.)
The place probably didn't have a choice about using it, but they seemed convinced it was the best thing ever. I'm not too broken up over not getting that job.
For the heck of it, I'm posting this from a 386 with 32 megs of RAM. Pretty sure it could run on half that without serious mods to Debian 2.2 Potato - and probably far less, with the loss of usefulness as a general purpose Linux box at some point.
Critically, all computers must beep and chirp constantly during all interaction. BEEP BEEP. CHIRP.. BEEP BEEP. Imagine using such a system all day long. Glorious.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 of the Constitution:
"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
I'm sure sufficient hand-waving will get the govt whatever it wants, but this one does seem fairly clear.
For the cost of a properly designed light, that ought to cost slightly if any more than a bad one, more of the light could be directed at the street, and less at the sky. Illuminating the sky isn't helping anybody.
Its a missing tear out page at the back of the Voynich Manuscript that says:
"For more great titles from this publisher, send a self addressed stamped envelope to..."
I'm fascinated by the idea that asteroids and maybe even planets from previous generations of stars might be floating around, perhaps passing through our solar system occasionally. It seems plausible, but they'd be rare and hard to spot. For free-floating planets, there could even be traces of civilizations from billions of years ago.
Still, if you reflect only 90% of incoming energy, then the opponent has to multiply their output by 10X to assure a kill (if X power would fry a normal target, now you need 10X to fry a reflective target). So now, you have to build all your zappers 10X bigger, just in case.
Sometime in the early 90s a company sent me a neural network demo that did typist identification. Users trained it by typing a paragraph, and you could enter several typists into the system. Then an unknown user typed some new text, and the system tried to identify the user.
Once trained, it was extremely hard to fool the thing, even by deliberately and extremely altering your typing habits. Of course, this was a multiple choice test and that's easier than the authentication situation, but it shows that the method can be more robust than would first appear.
Its quite a shift for Georgia Tech's CS intro; 10 years ago when I was there the Intro to CS class was entirely taught in a pseudo language somewhere between Pascal and Java, the rationale being that denying the feedback of a compiler would force students to understand their logic better. You'd implement programs, algorithms, classes, etc in multi-hundred line pseudocode programs.
While the CS majors would usually figure it out well enough to get through, the non-CS people who had to take this class were usually quite lost. They went through the entire class having never seen the product of this mystery code they were writing, often entirely missing the point of what a computer program is and not gaining the broad overview of what computer science is about because everything they did was obscured by a contrived language.
I can see some logic for the psuedo language approach, but I think the biggest reason they went with it is because it made the class hard and produced the desired high dropout rate.
If and when there are three billion people in "America", there will probably be high rates of starvation, disease, and suffering there, too. I'd like to see populations at reasonable levels so we can be fat and bloated, and it won't matter too much. Meanwhile, I suppose living and working conditions like these may be the best society can offer when there are too many people and too few resources to go around.
"The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound."
We're almost there. Sometimes 1984 seems closer to prophecy than satire.
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And whoever made up the summary hit the loaded language mark too - you see "spew" in a lot of pollution stories to let you know which conclusion you should draw before reading the rest.
Better, when will the big operations start dumping cards by the thousands onto Ebay? A plentiful secondhand market + crypto not buying new cards should deepen the effect. I'm fine with used stuff, but do wonder how much life a GPU that has run flat-out 24/7 for a year or two has left.
I saw an "agreement" that stated that if the company did something illegal, and you blew the whistle, and the company broke the whistleblower laws to retaliate, then you agreed not to sue. I'm pretty sure that would go over like a lead balloon with any judge. The companies might as well try putting clauses like in there, because there's no downside for them. Severability lets them put in various unenforceable clauses and let the court system figure it out. In the meantime it discourages the more timid employees from pursuing a case.
It will be interesting to see how much of the ~$7.5 billion is allowed in the rate base. Southern presumably eats the rest. Mississippi power only has about 186,000 customers, so there are not many to spread out the costs. By switching it to a conventional gas plant, it will work, but it will be the most expensive one ever.
If it captures 240 metric tons of CO2 a year, they better have it on a strong foundation. That is going to get really heavy.
Backwards here.. we use the cell phone to call in repair requests for the land line (and give them a required callback number.. ahem).
I found it nice for playing on SPARC32. The Linux distros have dropped sparc32, with Debian Etch being the last one I know of - if there's another I'd love to know about it. The linux kernel still supports sparc32, if you can find a distro to run it in. The NetBSD way of doing things took some adjusting, but its worth it to run modern software on some really old systems - like Sun2/3!
I vaguely remember discussion of some technical issue that was a big deal around the time of Win 3.0, that Alan Cooper solved in the Tripod prototypet.. Something like the "CX/DX register problem" (problem with calling conventions, DLL/OLE stuff maybe?). Might be interesting (ok, to a very, very small number of people) to see it. Maybe somebody else remembers the issue and can describe it better than me. Knowledge is much more widespread now, though, so whatever this was, its probably well known now if there's any value to it.
It's a little early to get worried about it, but when we finally get a hydrogen economy going, I wonder how much water we'll lose due to leaking hydrogen. Billions of devices leaking a little bit over many years would add up. Maybe technology will move on the next step before it's a serious problem.
Here's my experience with MUMPS. About twelve years ago, I interviewed with a shop that used it. One of the interviewers told me, a little smugly, that MUMPs was so powerful, that nobody can be productive in it for at least a year. Then I got a one paragraph description of it and was asked to write some basic programs, using pen and paper, with someone watching. My recollection was it was a bastard child of assembly and LISP. There were lots of parentheses, but only register variables to work with. (That doesn't seem to match the wikipedia description, but it's the description I got at the time.) The place probably didn't have a choice about using it, but they seemed convinced it was the best thing ever. I'm not too broken up over not getting that job.
For the heck of it, I'm posting this from a 386 with 32 megs of RAM. Pretty sure it could run on half that without serious mods to Debian 2.2 Potato - and probably far less, with the loss of usefulness as a general purpose Linux box at some point.
Critically, all computers must beep and chirp constantly during all interaction. BEEP BEEP. CHIRP.. BEEP BEEP. Imagine using such a system all day long. Glorious.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 of the Constitution: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." I'm sure sufficient hand-waving will get the govt whatever it wants, but this one does seem fairly clear.
For the cost of a properly designed light, that ought to cost slightly if any more than a bad one, more of the light could be directed at the street, and less at the sky. Illuminating the sky isn't helping anybody.
Its a missing tear out page at the back of the Voynich Manuscript that says: "For more great titles from this publisher, send a self addressed stamped envelope to..."
I'm fascinated by the idea that asteroids and maybe even planets from previous generations of stars might be floating around, perhaps passing through our solar system occasionally. It seems plausible, but they'd be rare and hard to spot. For free-floating planets, there could even be traces of civilizations from billions of years ago.
Still, if you reflect only 90% of incoming energy, then the opponent has to multiply their output by 10X to assure a kill (if X power would fry a normal target, now you need 10X to fry a reflective target). So now, you have to build all your zappers 10X bigger, just in case.
As I learned from watching the Sci-Fi channel, the solution will invariably involve detonating a nuclear weapon.
Sometime in the early 90s a company sent me a neural network demo that did typist identification. Users trained it by typing a paragraph, and you could enter several typists into the system. Then an unknown user typed some new text, and the system tried to identify the user.
Once trained, it was extremely hard to fool the thing, even by deliberately and extremely altering your typing habits. Of course, this was a multiple choice test and that's easier than the authentication situation, but it shows that the method can be more robust than would first appear.
Arrrghh! Smells like booty!
If we try to put 10 billion of so people on the planet, we should expect some casualties.
Its quite a shift for Georgia Tech's CS intro; 10 years ago when I was there the Intro to CS class was entirely taught in a pseudo language somewhere between Pascal and Java, the rationale being that denying the feedback of a compiler would force students to understand their logic better. You'd implement programs, algorithms, classes, etc in multi-hundred line pseudocode programs.
While the CS majors would usually figure it out well enough to get through, the non-CS people who had to take this class were usually quite lost. They went through the entire class having never seen the product of this mystery code they were writing, often entirely missing the point of what a computer program is and not gaining the broad overview of what computer science is about because everything they did was obscured by a contrived language.
I can see some logic for the psuedo language approach, but I think the biggest reason they went with it is because it made the class hard and produced the desired high dropout rate.
You can have it both ways - permanent markers will work great for annotating on your monitor. Keep some correction fluid around though...
If and when there are three billion people in "America", there will probably be high rates of starvation, disease, and suffering there, too. I'd like to see populations at reasonable levels so we can be fat and bloated, and it won't matter too much. Meanwhile, I suppose living and working conditions like these may be the best society can offer when there are too many people and too few resources to go around.
Remember this from Orwell's 1984?
(text from http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-12.html)
"The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound."
We're almost there. Sometimes 1984 seems closer to prophecy than satire.