First they have to find the.xpi, then they have to know to open it with 7zip or notepad, then they have to know what to change. Doing so exceeds the technical skills of the vast majority of users. Remember that we are talking about the same users who use "12345" for a password and cannot configure a pre shared key on a wireless network so they turn on WEP or leave it unsecured.
If the mean time between failure of a hard drive is around two hundred thousand hours, and this disk garden has two hundred thousand drives won't the technicians be replacing a drive every hour or so? Don't believe the MTBF figures from the drive manufacturers. Those appear to be butt numbers.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/129558/study_hard_drive_failure_rates_much_higher_than_makers_estimate.html....
Two hundred thousand water cooled hard drives? How much does this fucking thing weigh? Allowing for half a pint of coolant in the pipes for each hard drive the figure comes out to over one hundred thousand pounds. That doesn't count the plumbing and coolant distribution system and heat exchanger.....
Two hundred thousand drives with plumbing for water cooling will take up a healthy sized volume. The drives alone require on the order of four million cubic inches. I have to wonder if this is a proof of concept storage array for DARPA on behalf of an alphabet agency that needs a place to park all their spy photos and sigint.
More than half of the tickets in LA were sent to people who were legally turning right on red. In may cases this was obvious in the photograph but they still had to squander most of a day waiting for their turn in Traffic court. There's no right on red in NYC. Cuts down on gridlock and makes the crosswalks safer for pedestrians and makes brainless traffic cameras more accurate.
It is possible that some nameless faceless bureaucrat who doesn't approve of this government sponsored hacking spliced that clip into the video knowing that his variant of pointy hair managers wouldn't get it.
Even in California this case started in 2007 and has wound its way through the courts to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. What is next? An en banc hearing before the same court?
A link to a story of the first federal court decision.
http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-05-07/news/james-corbett/
Want me to believe in ID, creationism or whatever it's called this year. Show me fossilized housecats from the Cambrian.
There's a lot of people using the word "leak" probably without understanding the contextual meaning. I've never denied that Firefox uses a lot of memory but even back when I was running nightly builds during the v3 development cycle I didn't see the kind of memory consumption often claimed here at/. or Mozillazine. Your post made me realize that my test was tainted. Sometime in the recent past I began using Noscript to keep those pesky scripts from shoveling malware onto my system. Noscript can be an annoyance but it is better than the alternatives such. Now; dol we blame Firefox for memory problems caused by Java Script or do we blame Larry?
I just ran leak test of my own on Firefox 6.0.0.4240 (as reported by Process Explorer). Here's a link to the image I mentioned above. The file is nearly nine meg in size and renders as 16,000 by 16,000 pixels. http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2003-11-a-full_jpg.jpg. Irfanview reports its rendered size as 732.42 MB (768,000,040 Bytes). I opened the image in Firefox, opened fifteen tabs on/. which drove Firefox to a peak working set of 2,404,128K. After closing all but this tab the working set went down to 234,000K. (System, HP G72 Intel I3 processor with 4GB ram, Win7 HPE 64bit.)
I'm probably pissing in the wind responding to an AC but here goes anyway. I've used Firefox since it was Phoenix 0.6. I've run Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox on Windows 2000 Pro, Red Hat/Gnome, on Pentium III and Pentium 4 systems. Firefox has always had an appetite for memory but I've never observed the kind of consumption you describe. I've loaded the high res HST image of the Helix Nebula with the intent of breaking Firefox and it didn't break. It just used seven hundred meg and wow, none of the memory leaked, it was all released when I closed the tab. I've opened two dozen posts on/. in separate tabs. I've opened a dozen tabs on a dozen windows and every time I closed them most all of the memory was released. So prove it. Download Sysinternals Process Explorer or something comparable for your OS and show us a screen shot that documents this claim.
There was a brief analysis of this problem in an old issue of Scientific American. I don't have a cite. At the turn of the twentieth century the daily population in a large city could exceed one hundred thousand horses. Every day each horse produces approximately ten kilograms of manure and several liters of urine. Does anyone want to go back in time and experience New York City on a hot muggy summer day in 1901? There's a reason our grandparents had the expression "Smelled bad enough to knock a buzzard off a shitwagon."
Technological civilizations will only broadcast high power radio signals for a limited period of time, probably less than two centuries. The total number of alien signals that we might detect can be approximated by the following: The number of civilizations predicted by the Drake Equation minus the sum of the following: Fraction extinct or no longer broadcasting due to natural causes (i.e. Extinction level event such as a GRB, supernova, impact etc.), Fraction extinct or no longer broadcasting due to exchange of WMD, and the fraction that ceased high power broadcasts when they migrated to low power digital broadcasting. Given the large numbers predicted by the Drake Equation we should have heard from ET by now. Having not heard from ET we should reevaluate the premise on which SETI is based. Is the Drake Equation overly optimistic? It took two billion years for life on earth to evolve beyond primitive cells into more complex organisms. Life may not be as common as the Drake Equation suggests. Are analogue EM broadcasts detectible at the distances involved? We should have some baseline data on signal strength from the Pioneer and Voyager probes. What happens when we extrapolate that signal strength and SN ratio from a few AU to a few light years?
Not sure it was a waste but I think the assumptions need to be revisited before throwing more money at it. If ET were broadcasting in the EM spectrum SETI should have detected a signal by now. Either we are looking at the wrong frequencies, or the signals are beneath the SN ratio, or ET isn't broadcasting in the EM spectrum.
Your thoughts are along the lines of my original comment. I don't know all the bits of the technology, only that someone who does know will eventually hack the equivalent of root access to the technology. This access could be used for theft or just to annoy owners by reprogramming the radio presets or temperature controls to bricking the electronics by corrupting the firmware.
Hacking these features to steal cars is one possibility. How long before some vindictive prat uses this tech to brick the cars on the lot at a dealership.
My go to site for science news summaries is http://www.sciencedaily.com/index.htm. The stories usually have a link to the source and a journal article.
Throwing money at a system run by the same politicians and bureaucrats who created the problem is not going to fix anything. It just allows pointy haired bureaucrats to continue business as usual adopting one lame education fad after another. The problem isn't new and isn't something that will be fixed by pouring money into the same broken system. That system will remain entrenched until external forces such as parental demands (e.g. Hispanic parents boycotting the schools in California over bilingual education) or competition from voucher funded private schools force the broken system to change. Here's some further reading: Richard Feynman's adventure into reviewing school textbooks in the early sixties. http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm and the Wikipedia entry on New Math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
I'll concede that this is a possibility but I doubt a judge who wanted to make such a point would have ruled against Google in the first place. I think it's more likely that as someone else suggested that the judge ruled against Google and rubber stamped the plaintiff's demand which Google followed to the letter.
I was an early adopter of CFL's starting with the Phillips Earth Light back around 1990. Back then they lasted a couple of years. Today CFL's frequently burn out in a month making any energy savings imaginary. Given the issues with mercury and the high failure rate I have switched to quartz halogen capsule bulbs and LED bulbs where I don't need a lot of light. The quartz halogen bulbs are more efficient than regular incandescent bulbs.
Reporting of news was informally outsourced to the wire services such as Associated Press, Reuters etc. I began noticing this while reading the paper on the train over twenty years ago. There is still some local reporting but it tends to be thin and you have to check a local news site because it isn't on any of the wire services.
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First they have to find the .xpi, then they have to know to open it with 7zip or notepad, then they have to know what to change. Doing so exceeds the technical skills of the vast majority of users. Remember that we are talking about the same users who use "12345" for a password and cannot configure a pre shared key on a wireless network so they turn on WEP or leave it unsecured.
If the mean time between failure of a hard drive is around two hundred thousand hours, and this disk garden has two hundred thousand drives won't the technicians be replacing a drive every hour or so? Don't believe the MTBF figures from the drive manufacturers. Those appear to be butt numbers. http://www.pcworld.com/article/129558/study_hard_drive_failure_rates_much_higher_than_makers_estimate.html ....
Two hundred thousand water cooled hard drives? How much does this fucking thing weigh? Allowing for half a pint of coolant in the pipes for each hard drive the figure comes out to over one hundred thousand pounds. That doesn't count the plumbing and coolant distribution system and heat exchanger. ....
Two hundred thousand drives with plumbing for water cooling will take up a healthy sized volume. The drives alone require on the order of four million cubic inches. I have to wonder if this is a proof of concept storage array for DARPA on behalf of an alphabet agency that needs a place to park all their spy photos and sigint.
More than half of the tickets in LA were sent to people who were legally turning right on red. In may cases this was obvious in the photograph but they still had to squander most of a day waiting for their turn in Traffic court. There's no right on red in NYC. Cuts down on gridlock and makes the crosswalks safer for pedestrians and makes brainless traffic cameras more accurate.
It is possible that some nameless faceless bureaucrat who doesn't approve of this government sponsored hacking spliced that clip into the video knowing that his variant of pointy hair managers wouldn't get it.
Even in California this case started in 2007 and has wound its way through the courts to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. What is next? An en banc hearing before the same court? A link to a story of the first federal court decision. http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-05-07/news/james-corbett/ Want me to believe in ID, creationism or whatever it's called this year. Show me fossilized housecats from the Cambrian.
The only way they can get their misanthropic crap published is to couch it as a "study."
There's a lot of people using the word "leak" probably without understanding the contextual meaning. I've never denied that Firefox uses a lot of memory but even back when I was running nightly builds during the v3 development cycle I didn't see the kind of memory consumption often claimed here at /. or Mozillazine. Your post made me realize that my test was tainted. Sometime in the recent past I began using Noscript to keep those pesky scripts from shoveling malware onto my system. Noscript can be an annoyance but it is better than the alternatives such. Now; dol we blame Firefox for memory problems caused by Java Script or do we blame Larry?
I just ran leak test of my own on Firefox 6.0.0.4240 (as reported by Process Explorer). Here's a link to the image I mentioned above. The file is nearly nine meg in size and renders as 16,000 by 16,000 pixels. http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2003-11-a-full_jpg.jpg. Irfanview reports its rendered size as 732.42 MB (768,000,040 Bytes). I opened the image in Firefox, opened fifteen tabs on /. which drove Firefox to a peak working set of 2,404,128K. After closing all but this tab the working set went down to 234,000K. (System, HP G72 Intel I3 processor with 4GB ram, Win7 HPE 64bit.)
I'm probably pissing in the wind responding to an AC but here goes anyway. I've used Firefox since it was Phoenix 0.6. I've run Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox on Windows 2000 Pro, Red Hat/Gnome, on Pentium III and Pentium 4 systems. Firefox has always had an appetite for memory but I've never observed the kind of consumption you describe. I've loaded the high res HST image of the Helix Nebula with the intent of breaking Firefox and it didn't break. It just used seven hundred meg and wow, none of the memory leaked, it was all released when I closed the tab. I've opened two dozen posts on /. in separate tabs. I've opened a dozen tabs on a dozen windows and every time I closed them most all of the memory was released. So prove it. Download Sysinternals Process Explorer or something comparable for your OS and show us a screen shot that documents this claim.
There was a brief analysis of this problem in an old issue of Scientific American. I don't have a cite. At the turn of the twentieth century the daily population in a large city could exceed one hundred thousand horses. Every day each horse produces approximately ten kilograms of manure and several liters of urine. Does anyone want to go back in time and experience New York City on a hot muggy summer day in 1901? There's a reason our grandparents had the expression "Smelled bad enough to knock a buzzard off a shitwagon."
Give a few of these to Labrador Retrievers and check back the next day to see if they are as durable as claimed.
Technological civilizations will only broadcast high power radio signals for a limited period of time, probably less than two centuries. The total number of alien signals that we might detect can be approximated by the following: The number of civilizations predicted by the Drake Equation minus the sum of the following: Fraction extinct or no longer broadcasting due to natural causes (i.e. Extinction level event such as a GRB, supernova, impact etc.), Fraction extinct or no longer broadcasting due to exchange of WMD, and the fraction that ceased high power broadcasts when they migrated to low power digital broadcasting. Given the large numbers predicted by the Drake Equation we should have heard from ET by now. Having not heard from ET we should reevaluate the premise on which SETI is based. Is the Drake Equation overly optimistic? It took two billion years for life on earth to evolve beyond primitive cells into more complex organisms. Life may not be as common as the Drake Equation suggests. Are analogue EM broadcasts detectible at the distances involved? We should have some baseline data on signal strength from the Pioneer and Voyager probes. What happens when we extrapolate that signal strength and SN ratio from a few AU to a few light years?
Not sure it was a waste but I think the assumptions need to be revisited before throwing more money at it. If ET were broadcasting in the EM spectrum SETI should have detected a signal by now. Either we are looking at the wrong frequencies, or the signals are beneath the SN ratio, or ET isn't broadcasting in the EM spectrum.
Your thoughts are along the lines of my original comment. I don't know all the bits of the technology, only that someone who does know will eventually hack the equivalent of root access to the technology. This access could be used for theft or just to annoy owners by reprogramming the radio presets or temperature controls to bricking the electronics by corrupting the firmware.
Hacking these features to steal cars is one possibility. How long before some vindictive prat uses this tech to brick the cars on the lot at a dealership.
My go to site for science news summaries is http://www.sciencedaily.com/index.htm. The stories usually have a link to the source and a journal article.
I want to see how it does on reviews of the Steering Wheel Desk http://www.amazon.com/Wheelmate-Laptop-Steering-Wheel-Desk/dp/B000IZGIA8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311732433&sr=8-1
Throwing money at a system run by the same politicians and bureaucrats who created the problem is not going to fix anything. It just allows pointy haired bureaucrats to continue business as usual adopting one lame education fad after another. The problem isn't new and isn't something that will be fixed by pouring money into the same broken system. That system will remain entrenched until external forces such as parental demands (e.g. Hispanic parents boycotting the schools in California over bilingual education) or competition from voucher funded private schools force the broken system to change. Here's some further reading: Richard Feynman's adventure into reviewing school textbooks in the early sixties. http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm and the Wikipedia entry on New Math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
The author deserves this. I reported a small problem on Amazon and he had a release candidate ready for testing about six hours later.
I'll concede that this is a possibility but I doubt a judge who wanted to make such a point would have ruled against Google in the first place. I think it's more likely that as someone else suggested that the judge ruled against Google and rubber stamped the plaintiff's demand which Google followed to the letter.
...from all their sites (Google News and "cache" Google or any other name) ...
Heh. Be careful what you ask for. You might get it. Also sounds like the Judge is wearing his ass for a hat but that's so common it isn't newsworthy.
Couldn't find this until now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy#Lighting_efficiency
I was an early adopter of CFL's starting with the Phillips Earth Light back around 1990. Back then they lasted a couple of years. Today CFL's frequently burn out in a month making any energy savings imaginary. Given the issues with mercury and the high failure rate I have switched to quartz halogen capsule bulbs and LED bulbs where I don't need a lot of light. The quartz halogen bulbs are more efficient than regular incandescent bulbs.
... and also all links in the thread (which were partly broken before, but now they're completely broken).
Double right click gives me a context menu in Firefox 5. Right click and middle click work normally in MSIE 9.
Reporting of news was informally outsourced to the wire services such as Associated Press, Reuters etc. I began noticing this while reading the paper on the train over twenty years ago. There is still some local reporting but it tends to be thin and you have to check a local news site because it isn't on any of the wire services.