I use all of 16 gb of ram as an advanced home user doing video editing (by no means am I a pro). That said, I use spinning disks for the video work because I amd rewriting blocks all the time with scratch and render files and while an SSD is faster, it's not enough to make up for the killing of the drive in short order (which I've already done once). -nB
Upping the LTCG affects the mega rich, true. It also affects the majority of the upper middle class. If you increase LTCG my stock portfolio (which is nothing great) becomes much less valuable to me, the effect being that I will take my gains in another way rather than my company stock plan (where I currently hold bundles of stock for at least 2.5 years before selling it to buy a new car or roof for the house). My average hold is about 6 years, upon which I have enough to buy a cheap new car or a nice used car. There are lots more people like me than there are mega rich. Increasing LTCG cuts my class off at the knees too. -nB
They can on some phones. Not sure about all, or newer ones. In the former USSR this was commonplace. I have some Bell rotary phones (setup a basic three phone partyline as an intercom with them) that relied on this ability to work properly. (Kids love the partyline BTW). -nB
Alternate explanation (and only slightly fantastical). What if spacetime warped in the vicinity of the LHC? That would bring the two points closer together, thus the neutrinos actually were only going light speed (or overwhelming fraction thereof). -nB
I have one static/unshared IP at my ISP for this reason. I can serve content from it no matter what. They have a TOS, and they enforce it. I will play by those rules (no CP, no spam, that kind of stuff). But no one will take that server off-line. of course I don't really get all that much unsolicited traffic (which is fine by me), and I think Google severely demotes pagerank if you have no DNS entry.
Really, you just need to give them the key on a slip of paper (ala COA) with the computer. Most users will just lose the key anyway, thus protecting themselves. -nB
I would do something like that just for giggles. Kinda like Jury Duty. Best way to be excused is to want to be on a jury (you can watch the defense attorney's brain crumple when they hear that).
I was told that I "had to connect my receiver to the phone or internet for correct operation". I said I have kids, I will not honor any PPV purchases. They dropped the issue.
It's sad, but since I run my own mailserver every login, every website, every promo, get their own e-mail address. [website|promo|domain].[salt]@myhost.com If I don't like their e-mail I blackhole their address. If I like (or need for a while) their e-mail I FWD that to my real e-mail address. -nB
Yes,
But he has a point. As is often noted here, everyone is a criminal if only for the sheer number of laws and a basic inability to track all of them. I forget where, but it is illegal to chew gum on Sundays (some township in Georga, IIRC). Cameras everywhere is open to being used as a dragnet, which while not strictly violating the 4th amendment, certainly violates the spirit as written by the founding fathers. The fastest recording media for images was a hand drawn sketch, which took minutes, while a nice color painting would take days. They likely couldn't even fathom a still camera, let alone a full motion video camera.
I understand that people tune out, but really, the idea of cameras covering all sorts of public places is repugnant to me. At risk of falling down the slope (due to liberal greasing, making it slippery), private property cameras are ok. poorly patrolled moving objects (trains, busses) I sort of understand. Government buildings, while technically public property... maybe ok. beyond that I really start to have a hard time accepting it. Speed cameras, license plate tracking, red light cameras, street corner cameras, special event cameras on portable trailers.. not so much with the ok bit.
No, I was trying to point out the GPs post about equality being not all that logical. I am one of the lower middle class. I likely will always be one of the lower middle class. I'm simply fed up with all the entitlement programs, it's a positive feedback loop, and in engineering circles that is usually a very bad thing.
Like I said in the follow up post, I'm not surprised by the downmod, just curious what part was the cause (the calling for the end of entitlement spending, or the critique of congress and POTUS) -nB
no, they should control *no* wealth if they pay *no* tax for it to be fair...
So, Pot, Kettle, Black and all that jazz. People are fucking hogs, we all know this to be true. I pay too much taxes, but they don't pay enough is a common war cry for almost all the middle class. I think the GP has it right, everyone pays taxes, even if it is a nominal amount, I'd settle for 0.5%, just for respect's sake. Also, welfare has to go as a handout. A person should have to work for that money, again I understand there are issues, there will be medical reasons some can't work, and abuse by others that can but would rather spend more effort not working than if they just did work for the money.
I want nicer parks. I think people getting handouts can make those parks nicer.
Also, our current deficit is massive ($1.3+ trillion per year) and this reduces it by $0.2 trillion.
Hey congress and POTUS:
NOT FUCKING ENOUGH YOU JACKWAGON DIMWIT ASSHATS
It is time to get rid of every single one of them. by any means possible.
Honestly, I am not sure if this will get through to anyone as it was from a big blast e-mail, but here it goes anyway...
Are you guys daft? I am a massive user of both streaming and mailed service. The tight integration of the two from a user front end is your single biggest selling point for users like me.
I put up with the rate hike, largely because I hoped a bigger war chest would help you in trying to re-sign Starz (and hopefully HBO and others). If you really do separate the two user interfaces as I understand is planned, and start charging with two bills as I expect, you will lose at least one more customer (but based on the chatter at slashdot.org I am not the only one). I will *not* maintain two queues. I will *not* maintain two bills for entertainment. I _might_ keep one of the two services, but will not keep both, not if I have to maintain two accounts at two websites with two queues and two rating prediction algorithms and two bills and two logins and two... Those customers that walked on the rate hike, they are not coming back. Now you are driving away more customers with this shenanigans.
This at a time when my (and many many others') ISP (ATT) has implemented BW caps of 150 gig... I have not been under that cap yet, so my bill has effectively gone up $20/month based on overage charges. The bulk of my consumed BW, incidentally, is Netflix and Flickr. Only about 20% or so is torrents of BBC shows I can't get here in the states (or can only get mangled with inserted adds at the expense of content that was cut for running length). -nB
And to this end, the compute task is CPU bound. Is it actually memory and thread bound or is it core CPU tick bound? If it is memory bound, not thread heavy, and not a lot of floating point math I would suggest a cluster of Atom dual core ITX boards. 2 gig of ram per node, boot off a USB key and share all the data over GbE. That is likely to be the most active cores for the buck, but if there is a lot of floatin point math or thread/context switches... ouch.
Another option is to go with a lot of slightly older used 1u Xeon/Opteron boxes. Likely can be had fairly cheap from a surplus dealer. This is used kit so no warranty, which may be an issue with the grant, but again will get more processing for the buck.
Final option: Call up IBM/Dell/HP/Cray/SGI and ask if they would like to help by "selling" a small cluster for £4K. They might just do it, knowing that you are very likely to expand later by buying from the same vendor that you started with (less integration problems).
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I use all of 16 gb of ram as an advanced home user doing video editing (by no means am I a pro).
That said, I use spinning disks for the video work because I amd rewriting blocks all the time with scratch and render files and while an SSD is faster, it's not enough to make up for the killing of the drive in short order (which I've already done once).
-nB
Upping the LTCG affects the mega rich, true.
It also affects the majority of the upper middle class.
If you increase LTCG my stock portfolio (which is nothing great) becomes much less valuable to me, the effect being that I will take my gains in another way rather than my company stock plan (where I currently hold bundles of stock for at least 2.5 years before selling it to buy a new car or roof for the house).
My average hold is about 6 years, upon which I have enough to buy a cheap new car or a nice used car. There are lots more people like me than there are mega rich. Increasing LTCG cuts my class off at the knees too.
-nB
Everyone else is covering that angle.
I wanted to explore something cooler.
They can on some phones.
Not sure about all, or newer ones. In the former USSR this was commonplace. I have some Bell rotary phones (setup a basic three phone partyline as an intercom with them) that relied on this ability to work properly.
(Kids love the partyline BTW).
-nB
Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy as it relates to what towers your phone connects to (and if it will connect to a spoofed tower?).
I.e. Postcard vs. Letter.
Is connecting to the cell tower analogous to sending a postcard? The voice call equivalent to a letter in an envelope?
-nB
Alternate explanation (and only slightly fantastical).
What if spacetime warped in the vicinity of the LHC? That would bring the two points closer together, thus the neutrinos actually were only going light speed (or overwhelming fraction thereof).
-nB
I have one static/unshared IP at my ISP for this reason. I can serve content from it no matter what. They have a TOS, and they enforce it. I will play by those rules (no CP, no spam, that kind of stuff). But no one will take that server off-line. of course I don't really get all that much unsolicited traffic (which is fine by me), and I think Google severely demotes pagerank if you have no DNS entry.
Really, you just need to give them the key on a slip of paper (ala COA) with the computer. Most users will just lose the key anyway, thus protecting themselves.
-nB
"Sir, we are concerned. You appear to have 4000 TV sets all tuned to Fox News. Are you OK?"
somewhere you made a data analyst cry. Bravo.
I would do something like that just for giggles. Kinda like Jury Duty. Best way to be excused is to want to be on a jury (you can watch the defense attorney's brain crumple when they hear that).
I was told that I "had to connect my receiver to the phone or internet for correct operation". I said I have kids, I will not honor any PPV purchases. They dropped the issue.
The fridge in my lab uses peltier devices, specifically so we do not have a fridge compressor.
-nB
It's sad, but since I run my own mailserver every login, every website, every promo, get their own e-mail address.
[website|promo|domain].[salt]@myhost.com
If I don't like their e-mail I blackhole their address. If I like (or need for a while) their e-mail I FWD that to my real e-mail address.
-nB
Yes,
But he has a point. As is often noted here, everyone is a criminal if only for the sheer number of laws and a basic inability to track all of them. I forget where, but it is illegal to chew gum on Sundays (some township in Georga, IIRC). Cameras everywhere is open to being used as a dragnet, which while not strictly violating the 4th amendment, certainly violates the spirit as written by the founding fathers. The fastest recording media for images was a hand drawn sketch, which took minutes, while a nice color painting would take days. They likely couldn't even fathom a still camera, let alone a full motion video camera.
I understand that people tune out, but really, the idea of cameras covering all sorts of public places is repugnant to me.
At risk of falling down the slope (due to liberal greasing, making it slippery), private property cameras are ok. poorly patrolled moving objects (trains, busses) I sort of understand. Government buildings, while technically public property... maybe ok.
beyond that I really start to have a hard time accepting it.
Speed cameras, license plate tracking, red light cameras, street corner cameras, special event cameras on portable trailers.. not so much with the ok bit.
I now have an overwhelming desire to create such a website and note in the footers/meta data/etc.:
Inspired by PETA.
If I do it all CG will I still be beaned (kind of like CP in Aus)?
No, I was trying to point out the GPs post about equality being not all that logical.
I am one of the lower middle class. I likely will always be one of the lower middle class.
I'm simply fed up with all the entitlement programs, it's a positive feedback loop, and in engineering circles that is usually a very bad thing.
Like I said in the follow up post, I'm not surprised by the downmod, just curious what part was the cause (the calling for the end of entitlement spending, or the critique of congress and POTUS)
-nB
Wow...
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by the downmod....
How do you get /. to show you if it is troll or flamebait mod these days?
I only see the total mod value, not the components of the mod.
Worked fine for the CIA and oil pipeline specs "stolen" by the KGB...
no, they should control *no* wealth if they pay *no* tax for it to be fair...
So, Pot, Kettle, Black and all that jazz. People are fucking hogs, we all know this to be true.
I pay too much taxes, but they don't pay enough is a common war cry for almost all the middle class.
I think the GP has it right, everyone pays taxes, even if it is a nominal amount, I'd settle for 0.5%, just for respect's sake.
Also, welfare has to go as a handout. A person should have to work for that money, again I understand there are issues, there will be medical reasons some can't work, and abuse by others that can but would rather spend more effort not working than if they just did work for the money.
I want nicer parks.
I think people getting handouts can make those parks nicer.
Also, our current deficit is massive ($1.3+ trillion per year) and this reduces it by $0.2 trillion.
Hey congress and POTUS:
NOT FUCKING ENOUGH YOU JACKWAGON DIMWIT ASSHATS
It is time to get rid of every single one of them. by any means possible.
My response:
Honestly, I am not sure if this will get through to anyone as it was from a big blast e-mail, but here it goes anyway...
Are you guys daft?
I am a massive user of both streaming and mailed service.
The tight integration of the two from a user front end is your single biggest selling point for users like me.
I put up with the rate hike, largely because I hoped a bigger war chest would help you in trying to re-sign Starz (and hopefully HBO and others). If you really do separate the two user interfaces as I understand is planned, and start charging with two bills as I expect, you will lose at least one more customer (but based on the chatter at slashdot.org I am not the only one). I will *not* maintain two queues. I will *not* maintain two bills for entertainment. I _might_ keep one of the two services, but will not keep both, not if I have to maintain two accounts at two websites with two queues and two rating prediction algorithms and two bills and two logins and two...
Those customers that walked on the rate hike, they are not coming back. Now you are driving away more customers with this shenanigans.
so that would be my two cents.
respectfully,
This at a time when my (and many many others') ISP (ATT) has implemented BW caps of 150 gig...
I have not been under that cap yet, so my bill has effectively gone up $20/month based on overage charges.
The bulk of my consumed BW, incidentally, is Netflix and Flickr. Only about 20% or so is torrents of BBC shows I can't get here in the states (or can only get mangled with inserted adds at the expense of content that was cut for running length).
-nB
I will be cancelling my sub just as soon as my queue is empty.
Burning through it as fast as I can, only ~150 more disks to go.
-nB
I am soooo jealous.
I assume you are truthful in all your statements.
And to this end, the compute task is CPU bound. Is it actually memory and thread bound or is it core CPU tick bound?
If it is memory bound, not thread heavy, and not a lot of floating point math I would suggest a cluster of Atom dual core ITX boards. 2 gig of ram per node, boot off a USB key and share all the data over GbE. That is likely to be the most active cores for the buck, but if there is a lot of floatin point math or thread/context switches... ouch.
Another option is to go with a lot of slightly older used 1u Xeon/Opteron boxes. Likely can be had fairly cheap from a surplus dealer. This is used kit so no warranty, which may be an issue with the grant, but again will get more processing for the buck.
Final option:
Call up IBM/Dell/HP/Cray/SGI and ask if they would like to help by "selling" a small cluster for £4K. They might just do it, knowing that you are very likely to expand later by buying from the same vendor that you started with (less integration problems).
no, DMI training (AFAIK that is not part of ACPI)