What the hell are you talking about? 99.9% of the viruses affect Windows and only Windows, which, correct me if I'm wrong, last time I checked was LESS open than OS X. And if you want a totally safe, totally open OS, go with Linux. Your post contains lots of words but about 0 actual content.
They keep on changing that, I was in Ibaraki prefecture when the quake happened and they first announced(but ended up not implementing) the blackouts they were from I think 6 am to 10 pm(keep in mind Japan doesn't do daylight savings time at all, so it gets dark relatively early).
However east and west Japan were still relatively independent even in the 1890s. It wasn't really until after the Russo-Japanese war that the country really started to become just that, a unified country. Humans have this odd way of thinking about countries, namely that the government/political structures and geographical boundaries of countries today are the same as they were over 100 years ago, they are often much different. Japan was very much like Germany, essentially a very loosely affiliated set of states bound by geographical, linguistic, and cultural ties but often separated by bitter political and military rivalries. I doubt that even if someone had the foresight to force both sides to use the same standards they would have had the political capital to make it a reality. That sort of political capital didn't really exist until after the Russo-Japanese war towards the end of the Meiji era.
Depends on the region, the rolling blackouts are in fact just that, rolling. The government divided up the entire Kantou region into 5 different sections and each section has different blackout hours.
The network architecture isn't the only reason why we are still able to *mostly* communicate(I live about 60 km north of Tokyo, still no water though they haven't implemented the rolling blackouts....yet...), the advances in distributed systems also have made a huge impact. Simply put the amount of information to is essentially automatically mirrored(it's not really mirrored, but its easier to think of it like that) in Japan has really cut down on the amount of bandwidth necessary to communicate with the outside world.
I have noticed that for things that almost certainly aren't mirrored and require a direct connection to the US the bandwidth is probably 1/10 of what it usually is. While some of that may be due to increased traffic, I cannot help but think given the location of the quake that some of the cables between the US and Japan have been damaged. However services like Facebook and Google are as fast as they ever were. The reason for this is simple, both Google and Facebook have data centers in Japan that are designed to be eventually consistent. Instead of each individual request being routed to the states and back almost all the requests are routed to local data centers with only the updates coming from elsewhere being pushed through the cables. This obviously saves tons of bandwidth and allows for much better communication with the outside world. Now if you'll excuse me I gotta throw out most of my stuff and get the hell out of here. Tata!
1- There may be a good reason why the help offered (which is what ?) does not help with the issue at hand (which is what ?). Any help from any one does not help with any and all problems.
Losing mod points, but yes, this. There is a HUGE logistical challenge in managing searches like this, and adding in people that don't know the language or the area at all just needlessly complicates managing the search. The Japanese are accepting help where help makes sense, but the mythical man month applies just as much to search and rescue as it does to software engineering.
It also allows you greater flexibility in chip design. The Japanese are still convinced that vector processors are still the way to go. The earth simulator had a lot of Japanese-designed vector CPUs and the K computer is no different, it has 2x as many SIMD units per core as the Intel/AMD CPUs. There are lots of benefits to using the vector CPUs in parallel computing, but the problem is that there is very little demand in the personal/corporate world for them(outside of a few specific applications). By designing your own chips you can incorporate the vector CPUs into your chip, but at a cost, both money and an opportunity cost. The money is quite obvious, designing and fabbing your own chips is not only expensive, it takes a long time. Often times by the time you have designed, verified, and fabbed your chips advances in commodity CPUs often obviate the gains made by using your own chips.
That being said, low-power supercomputing is going to be the way forward as often times the cost of operating the computer dwarfs the initial design and manufacturing costs, especially if you are able to sell your cpus on a large enough scales. By including the vector processor on the CPU(instead of say in the GPU), you have the potential to save massive amounts of power.
One thing about the Japanese safety standards is that workers are almost never question their superiors even when they see blatant safety violations. Half the reactors in Tokyo had to be shut down 8 years ago because of unreported safety violations.
Also that they employ people in blue districts. Don't think for a second that Republican cutbacks are anything more than punishing their political enemies. If they obviously cared about the deficit then Boehner would have argued against the F-35 engine program. But he didn't because it provided jobs in HIS district and made his political supporters rich. He doesn't care about the deficit any more than Bush or Reagan did, he is just out to silence those who dare oppose him.
The yen ROSE almost 2% today. I couldn't figure out why and then it hit me, a massive amount of foreign aid is going to start coming into Japan driving up demand for the yen. Wall Street is taking advantage of this fact and lighter trading due to the Japanese markets being closed to ensure that wall street gets a cut of the aid action. Disgusting.
It looks like Apple is starting to walk down the same road that Microsoft has gone down years before, namely where the left hand either doesn't know what the right one is doing or if it does is actively opposed to it. From what little info we do have it seemed Steve kept a pretty tight ship, the various groups in Apple were relatively lock step. However with the increase in the number of products they develop and probably his failing health, he started to lose control and now you are starting to see the results of internal grudges manifesting themselves in the end product. I doubt that the technical limitations of making Safari run in a sandbox are insurmountable, but it could very well be that the Safari group doesn't want to have to submit to the security groups "demands". The various managers are starting to see real empire-building opportunity and are going to do anything they can to cash in on the power vacuum. It remains to be seen if Tim Cook can run the company the same way Steve did.
As long as they are not in their own district. Mr. "so be it" Boehner had 0 qualms turning around almost immediately to argue against cutting the F-35 engine program because it would result in job losses*(In his district). More of the same old "All government spending that doesn't benefit me is waste" bullshit from our orange overlord.
I have a centrifuge and tried the recipe, but unfortunately since the centrifuge is controlled by a Windows machine my centrifuge was prone to viruses and I ended up with Stuxnetmeal, about as appetizing as a Microsoft GUI.
Smell that, thats the smell of burning karma. Delish!
I sort of went along this line, I actually stopped using Windows altogether after a bug in Billy G's software caused it to think that my legitimately purchased copy of Windows was pirated and Billy G made me jump through hoops to use what I paid for. Since I haven't used Windows in years I actually don't know all that much about that POS and tell people so. They eventually stop asking me after I repeatedly volunteer to install Linux on their machines. I tell them that if they had a real OS then I could help them, but since they have a toy I cannot.
Actually where I think SSDs will have the biggest impact is on the "prosumer" disks(such as the raptor or 7200 RPM hard disks). There is just no reason to spring for those disks anymore, they don't have the size of their slower brethren or the speed of the SSDs. There is still however tons of room in the portable storage and enterprise markets.
Public health insurance is proven, deal with it. EVERY, and I mean EVERY single rich country in the world has public health insurance and as a result spend less than half what the US does as a percentage of GDP on healthcare. If thats not "proven", I don't know what is.
You also forgot that the rich can find more loopholes and tax breaks than the poor. Oh and between $100k and $200k the tax rate does not increase AT ALL! Thanks to the upper income limit on payroll taxes and the pathetic rate on the upper tax brackets someone who makes $200k is paying the exact same rate as someone who makes $100k, and if you consider all the benefits and tax breaks, I wouldn't be surprised if the person making $200k is actually paying less as a percentage of their income than the person making $100k.
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God forbid what happens to the poor guys who try to run programs remotely. They go to a whole new level of Hell.
Yeah, because Windows runs ssh right out of the box....oh wait....
What the hell are you talking about? 99.9% of the viruses affect Windows and only Windows, which, correct me if I'm wrong, last time I checked was LESS open than OS X. And if you want a totally safe, totally open OS, go with Linux. Your post contains lots of words but about 0 actual content.
They keep on changing that, I was in Ibaraki prefecture when the quake happened and they first announced(but ended up not implementing) the blackouts they were from I think 6 am to 10 pm(keep in mind Japan doesn't do daylight savings time at all, so it gets dark relatively early).
However east and west Japan were still relatively independent even in the 1890s. It wasn't really until after the Russo-Japanese war that the country really started to become just that, a unified country. Humans have this odd way of thinking about countries, namely that the government/political structures and geographical boundaries of countries today are the same as they were over 100 years ago, they are often much different. Japan was very much like Germany, essentially a very loosely affiliated set of states bound by geographical, linguistic, and cultural ties but often separated by bitter political and military rivalries. I doubt that even if someone had the foresight to force both sides to use the same standards they would have had the political capital to make it a reality. That sort of political capital didn't really exist until after the Russo-Japanese war towards the end of the Meiji era.
But not transformers. They're magic.
Optimus Prime is, he rose from the dead.
Depends on the region, the rolling blackouts are in fact just that, rolling. The government divided up the entire Kantou region into 5 different sections and each section has different blackout hours.
This is a god who made a claim about a researcher.
Can you even sue Zeus? Under whose jurisdiction does he fall?
The network architecture isn't the only reason why we are still able to *mostly* communicate(I live about 60 km north of Tokyo, still no water though they haven't implemented the rolling blackouts....yet...), the advances in distributed systems also have made a huge impact. Simply put the amount of information to is essentially automatically mirrored(it's not really mirrored, but its easier to think of it like that) in Japan has really cut down on the amount of bandwidth necessary to communicate with the outside world.
I have noticed that for things that almost certainly aren't mirrored and require a direct connection to the US the bandwidth is probably 1/10 of what it usually is. While some of that may be due to increased traffic, I cannot help but think given the location of the quake that some of the cables between the US and Japan have been damaged. However services like Facebook and Google are as fast as they ever were. The reason for this is simple, both Google and Facebook have data centers in Japan that are designed to be eventually consistent. Instead of each individual request being routed to the states and back almost all the requests are routed to local data centers with only the updates coming from elsewhere being pushed through the cables. This obviously saves tons of bandwidth and allows for much better communication with the outside world. Now if you'll excuse me I gotta throw out most of my stuff and get the hell out of here. Tata!
1- There may be a good reason why the help offered (which is what ?) does not help with the issue at hand (which is what ?). Any help from any one does not help with any and all problems.
Losing mod points, but yes, this. There is a HUGE logistical challenge in managing searches like this, and adding in people that don't know the language or the area at all just needlessly complicates managing the search. The Japanese are accepting help where help makes sense, but the mythical man month applies just as much to search and rescue as it does to software engineering.
Just to be pedantic, the reactor is in Fukushima prefecture, Miyagi is the one that was affected by tsunami the most.
It also allows you greater flexibility in chip design. The Japanese are still convinced that vector processors are still the way to go. The earth simulator had a lot of Japanese-designed vector CPUs and the K computer is no different, it has 2x as many SIMD units per core as the Intel/AMD CPUs. There are lots of benefits to using the vector CPUs in parallel computing, but the problem is that there is very little demand in the personal/corporate world for them(outside of a few specific applications). By designing your own chips you can incorporate the vector CPUs into your chip, but at a cost, both money and an opportunity cost. The money is quite obvious, designing and fabbing your own chips is not only expensive, it takes a long time. Often times by the time you have designed, verified, and fabbed your chips advances in commodity CPUs often obviate the gains made by using your own chips.
That being said, low-power supercomputing is going to be the way forward as often times the cost of operating the computer dwarfs the initial design and manufacturing costs, especially if you are able to sell your cpus on a large enough scales. By including the vector processor on the CPU(instead of say in the GPU), you have the potential to save massive amounts of power.
One thing about the Japanese safety standards is that workers are almost never question their superiors even when they see blatant safety violations. Half the reactors in Tokyo had to be shut down 8 years ago because of unreported safety violations.
Also that they employ people in blue districts. Don't think for a second that Republican cutbacks are anything more than punishing their political enemies. If they obviously cared about the deficit then Boehner would have argued against the F-35 engine program. But he didn't because it provided jobs in HIS district and made his political supporters rich. He doesn't care about the deficit any more than Bush or Reagan did, he is just out to silence those who dare oppose him.
The yen ROSE almost 2% today. I couldn't figure out why and then it hit me, a massive amount of foreign aid is going to start coming into Japan driving up demand for the yen. Wall Street is taking advantage of this fact and lighter trading due to the Japanese markets being closed to ensure that wall street gets a cut of the aid action. Disgusting.
It looks like Apple is starting to walk down the same road that Microsoft has gone down years before, namely where the left hand either doesn't know what the right one is doing or if it does is actively opposed to it. From what little info we do have it seemed Steve kept a pretty tight ship, the various groups in Apple were relatively lock step. However with the increase in the number of products they develop and probably his failing health, he started to lose control and now you are starting to see the results of internal grudges manifesting themselves in the end product. I doubt that the technical limitations of making Safari run in a sandbox are insurmountable, but it could very well be that the Safari group doesn't want to have to submit to the security groups "demands". The various managers are starting to see real empire-building opportunity and are going to do anything they can to cash in on the power vacuum. It remains to be seen if Tim Cook can run the company the same way Steve did.
As long as they are not in their own district. Mr. "so be it" Boehner had 0 qualms turning around almost immediately to argue against cutting the F-35 engine program because it would result in job losses*(In his district). More of the same old "All government spending that doesn't benefit me is waste" bullshit from our orange overlord.
I have a centrifuge and tried the recipe, but unfortunately since the centrifuge is controlled by a Windows machine my centrifuge was prone to viruses and I ended up with Stuxnetmeal, about as appetizing as a Microsoft GUI.
Smell that, thats the smell of burning karma. Delish!
Good ol' rock, nothing beats it.
I sort of went along this line, I actually stopped using Windows altogether after a bug in Billy G's software caused it to think that my legitimately purchased copy of Windows was pirated and Billy G made me jump through hoops to use what I paid for. Since I haven't used Windows in years I actually don't know all that much about that POS and tell people so. They eventually stop asking me after I repeatedly volunteer to install Linux on their machines. I tell them that if they had a real OS then I could help them, but since they have a toy I cannot.
I actually mean laptop 7200 rpm disks, I just didn't say it :P but yeah.
Actually where I think SSDs will have the biggest impact is on the "prosumer" disks(such as the raptor or 7200 RPM hard disks). There is just no reason to spring for those disks anymore, they don't have the size of their slower brethren or the speed of the SSDs. There is still however tons of room in the portable storage and enterprise markets.
Public health insurance is proven, deal with it. EVERY, and I mean EVERY single rich country in the world has public health insurance and as a result spend less than half what the US does as a percentage of GDP on healthcare. If thats not "proven", I don't know what is.
You also forgot that the rich can find more loopholes and tax breaks than the poor. Oh and between $100k and $200k the tax rate does not increase AT ALL! Thanks to the upper income limit on payroll taxes and the pathetic rate on the upper tax brackets someone who makes $200k is paying the exact same rate as someone who makes $100k, and if you consider all the benefits and tax breaks, I wouldn't be surprised if the person making $200k is actually paying less as a percentage of their income than the person making $100k.
Analogy police, arrest that man. He is abusing analogies like no other human in history!
Like the man child's war to avenge daddy. We all know that the man child was perfect at paying for....oh wait.....