"The general processor model is that there is a memory in some part of the chip, and there is a processor in another part of the chip, and you move the data back and forth between them when you do these computations"
Registers and L1 cache? Wow, that's new!
Nice sarcasm. Maybe if you had been paying attention you would have been able to discern that "the general processor model" is a description of the status quo, not the new approach.
In the coming years, the company hopes to launch 4,425 interlinked broadband-internet satellites into orbit some 700 to 800 miles above Earth, plus another 7,500 spacecraft into lower orbits.
Higher local property taxes means the state doesn't have to fund as many local projects, so state taxes are lower than they would be otherwise.
Local property tax revenues in the state of California are up 1000% since the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, and 50% over the past decade (source). Meanwhile, the state's population grew by roughly 39% since the passage of Prop 13, and by 10% in the last decade (source: source). Despite property tax revenue far outpacing population increases, California enjoys some of the nation's highest sales tax and personal income tax rates.
before 2091, as being space junk and a hazard to interplanetary spacecraft.
That's if Elon's dream of cheap spaceflight and interplanetary travels becomes reality.
2091 is 73 years away. 73 years ago we were just wrapping up World War II and competing with the USSR in grabbing up some German scientists to seed the US space program.
Good thing the car will burn up on re-entry, though. A lot of commenters seem to think that "6% over a million years" means "6% AFTER a million years", when it really means "there's a 1 in 16 chance of this thing crossing paths with the Earth sometime in the next million years." All we know with reasonable certainty is that it won't happen in 2091, because until then the orbit is predictable. After that, I'm sure astronomers will be watching it with interest every 73 years. "The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets" is an interesting read, if you don't mind a PDF.
Property tax in California is not a source of much revenue to speak of for the state, and hasn't been for over 80 years. Since 1933, the only property tax directly levied, collected, and retained by the state has been the tax on privately owned railroad cars (source).
I find your perception of what autocomplete does as an overall system to be lacking.
Oh, no. I suppose I could ask for illumination; however, I find that your opinion of my perception doesn't mean very much to me.
If I'm typing a query into the Google search box, I don't get an autocomplete "suggestion" in the search box. I see a short list of suggestions below the search box, where I can click on one of them if I wish. My experience has been that (1) it is extremely rare for one of the suggestions to match what I'm after; and (2) typing my query is faster than scanning the list of suggestions. There just isn't any compelling reason to look at the suggestions. Of course, this is just my use case. You're welcome to your own.
So, Google has no obligation to prevent its services from being leveraged by those who understand how it works from exploiting search suggestions as a means of disseminating their personal views. Is that what you're saying?
I didn't notice that the AC said anything at all regarding Google's obligations. Help me out here. Is there some force at work that I'm not aware of, that compels people to accept Google's search suggestions?
Personally, when I search for something on Google, I type what I'm searching for into the box, take a quick look to make sure the box contains what I think I typed, and hit the Enter key. What other people have searched for isn't of interest.
Spoken like someone who's never had the cruel and unusual punishment that is using Verizon's website, or the humanitarian crisis that is attempting to talk to their customer abuse people.
Service.
I meant customer service people. But that's an easy mistake to make.
I've been a Verizon customer since switching when ATT acquired Cingular in 2006. Over that 11-year span, I've been over-billed once; that was about 4 years ago, and my recollection is that Verizon's customer service wasn't a problem. It certainly didn't bear any resemblance to a humanitarian crisis, but then that was hyperbole, wasn't it? The Verizonwireless website isn't a masterpiece, but it isn't particularly difficult to navigate. Of course, I've never used the website to do anything more complex than setting up an international data plan.
I was pressured into creating an account when it was first new. I used fake DOB. When my fake birthday rolled around, all the facebook idiots wished me a happy birthday. They had no idea when the real one was.
Let's see here...
-- You were "pressured" into creating an account.
-- You Friended a bunch of people who don't know the actual date of your birthday.
-- Those people you Friended wished you a happy birthday on the date you posted as your date of birth
But it's those people you Friended that are the idiots.
Everyone reads the headline, and maybe part of TFS, and proceeds to jump to the worst possible conclusion.
From TFA: For consumers, there's little immediate impact because the phone gets unlocked immediately through a software update.
Also from TFA: Even after the change, Verizon will continue to unlock the phone [upon customer request] regardless of whether it's paid off or not. The company will also still accept unlocked phones from other carriers.
But don't let any of that get in the way of your impotent ramps, guys. You can always switch to that other provider that doesn't lock phones to their service. Let's see, who is that, again? From TFA one more time: AT&T requires you to pay off your phone and be active on your service for at least 60 days. Even then, there's a 14-day wait after you make your request. Sprint also requires that you have paid off your phone and wait 50 days, although the phone is automatically unlocked. T-Mobile has the same paid device requirement and a 40-day wait period, but will offer to temporarily unlock the device sooner for travel.
Pistachio icecream, really? Not Praline, or Pudding, or another P word that's a dessert by itself? You could tack 'icecream' onto any letter. Also, there was already a Froyo and an Ice Cream Sandwich.
No need to get worked up. From TFA: Internally, Google is calling the latest one Pistachio Ice Cream, but the company typically uses different official names, the people ["people familiar with the situation"] also said. Anyway, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet", right?
If the mantra is "redundancy is always good" then SpaceX should probably start launching rockets with 2,000 engines, and I should add 13 more power supplies to my desktop computer.
Yeah, that isn't how it works, of course. This is how it works:
How many engines do I need to be working at the end of the mission? How many engines with a failure rate of (n failures)/(unit of time) do I need to ensure with a probability of (minimum acceptable probability of success) that I have enough engines working at the end of the mission?
So if redundancy is good, why doesn't the upper stage have more than one engine?
Probably because the reliability analysis says it isn't needed.
Getting back to the first stage: redundancy is an interesting problem for this application, compared to, say, an aircraft autopilot.
When an autopilot fails, the redundant backup takes over fairly seamlessly, and it doesn't have to work any harder than the failed unit it's replacing. Its failure rate is no higher that it was before the first unit failed. When an engine fails, the redundant units have to work harder to take up the load of the failed unit. As a result, the failure rate of the remaining operating engines goes up, meaning that the probability of another failure increases. The short mission duration mitigates the effects, I suppose.
Usually, but not always. With redundancy comes increased complexity, weight, and cost. Also, if you're mitigating low reliability with redundancy, you're adding additional failure points. This isn't a great concern with computers that operate in a controlled, benign environment. It's a much larger concern in a violent environment where the operating equipment has to make up for the thrust or operate longer to compensate for the failed units.
It is not being literally drained of its CPU power. CPU power is not a liquid which can run out of a drain. Asshole.
metaphor (noun): a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”.
Or maybe your problem is not drained, but the use of literally.
literally (adverb): in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually, as in "I literally died when she walked out on stage in that costume."
As I said, Uber worked fine most of the time. On previous visits to London, we used public transport and walking, and that worked fine most of the time as well. None of the less than optimal experiences detracted from the visits -- London is a marvellous city to visit, no matter your mode of transportation.
I was in London last year, and used Uber extensively. Most of the time it worked out fine, but there were a few spectacular failures. In particular, a ride to Kensington Palace dropped us off at a point that was more than a half hour's walk from the Palace. As we walked, we passed an intersection that was only a few hundred yards from the Palace entrance. I'm pretty sure a real cab driver would have dropped us at the closest point.
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Intent to commit murder is not a crime.
I agreed with you when I read this. Then I thought to myself, "Wait, do you really know for sure?"
No. I really didn't know for sure.
"The general processor model is that there is a memory in some part of the chip, and there is a processor in another part of the chip, and you move the data back and forth between them when you do these computations" Registers and L1 cache? Wow, that's new!
Nice sarcasm. Maybe if you had been paying attention you would have been able to discern that "the general processor model" is a description of the status quo, not the new approach.
Heck, I'm old enough to remember when warnings about Russia were met with "the 80's called...they want their cold war back!"
Yeah, I guess Russia was our buddy when Obama pooh-poohed Romney's citing of Russia as a major threat to the US six years ago.
Noticed something similar about the Huawei phone story - lots of suspect posts with poor grammar towing the same line.
More of a conceptual misunderstanding than a grammatical error, but still.
In the coming years, the company hopes to launch 4,425 interlinked broadband-internet satellites into orbit some 700 to 800 miles above Earth, plus another 7,500 spacecraft into lower orbits.
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Yeah, that was a bad mistake. Not as bad as assuming 1000% inflation in the last 40 years or 100% in the last 10, but still pretty bad.
Higher local property taxes means the state doesn't have to fund as many local projects, so state taxes are lower than they would be otherwise.
Local property tax revenues in the state of California are up 1000% since the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, and 50% over the past decade (source). Meanwhile, the state's population grew by roughly 39% since the passage of Prop 13, and by 10% in the last decade (source: source). Despite property tax revenue far outpacing population increases, California enjoys some of the nation's highest sales tax and personal income tax rates.
before 2091, as being space junk and a hazard to interplanetary spacecraft.
That's if Elon's dream of cheap spaceflight and interplanetary travels becomes reality.
2091 is 73 years away. 73 years ago we were just wrapping up World War II and competing with the USSR in grabbing up some German scientists to seed the US space program.
Good thing the car will burn up on re-entry, though. A lot of commenters seem to think that "6% over a million years" means "6% AFTER a million years", when it really means "there's a 1 in 16 chance of this thing crossing paths with the Earth sometime in the next million years." All we know with reasonable certainty is that it won't happen in 2091, because until then the orbit is predictable. After that, I'm sure astronomers will be watching it with interest every 73 years. "The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets" is an interesting read, if you don't mind a PDF.
Property tax in California is not a source of much revenue to speak of for the state, and hasn't been for over 80 years. Since 1933, the only property tax directly levied, collected, and retained by the state has been the tax on privately owned railroad cars (source).
You say my opinion doesn't mean much to you, but then you describe your use case.
Actually, I described my use case before you mischaracterized my perception.
So, I'm going to assume you do want an opinion after all.
Bad assumption.
accidentally typed passwords or other secrets that may wind up in a search box are not a concern for you
As I said before, what other people type into a search box is not something that matters to me at all.
Please feel free to have the last word. In fact, why don't you just type it into a search box?
Founders are only relevant if they're still running the companies. Look at the current crop of CEOs:
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year, but Harvard has given him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree last year.
Google: Sundar Pichai earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Microsoft: Satya Nadella earned an MBA from University of Chicago.
Apple: Tim Cook earned an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
I find your perception of what autocomplete does as an overall system to be lacking.
Oh, no. I suppose I could ask for illumination; however, I find that your opinion of my perception doesn't mean very much to me.
If I'm typing a query into the Google search box, I don't get an autocomplete "suggestion" in the search box. I see a short list of suggestions below the search box, where I can click on one of them if I wish. My experience has been that (1) it is extremely rare for one of the suggestions to match what I'm after; and (2) typing my query is faster than scanning the list of suggestions. There just isn't any compelling reason to look at the suggestions. Of course, this is just my use case. You're welcome to your own.
You don't need to teach ethics to CS majors. You need to teach ethics to Business majors.
So, Google has no obligation to prevent its services from being leveraged by those who understand how it works from exploiting search suggestions as a means of disseminating their personal views. Is that what you're saying?
I didn't notice that the AC said anything at all regarding Google's obligations. Help me out here. Is there some force at work that I'm not aware of, that compels people to accept Google's search suggestions?
Personally, when I search for something on Google, I type what I'm searching for into the box, take a quick look to make sure the box contains what I think I typed, and hit the Enter key. What other people have searched for isn't of interest.
Spoken like someone who's never had the cruel and unusual punishment that is using Verizon's website, or the humanitarian crisis that is attempting to talk to their customer abuse people.
Service.
I meant customer service people. But that's an easy mistake to make.
I've been a Verizon customer since switching when ATT acquired Cingular in 2006. Over that 11-year span, I've been over-billed once; that was about 4 years ago, and my recollection is that Verizon's customer service wasn't a problem. It certainly didn't bear any resemblance to a humanitarian crisis, but then that was hyperbole, wasn't it? The Verizonwireless website isn't a masterpiece, but it isn't particularly difficult to navigate. Of course, I've never used the website to do anything more complex than setting up an international data plan.
As I said, par for the ./ course.
I was pressured into creating an account when it was first new. I used fake DOB. When my fake birthday rolled around, all the facebook idiots wished me a happy birthday. They had no idea when the real one was.
Let's see here...
-- You were "pressured" into creating an account.
-- You Friended a bunch of people who don't know the actual date of your birthday.
-- Those people you Friended wished you a happy birthday on the date you posted as your date of birth
But it's those people you Friended that are the idiots.
Right.
Everyone reads the headline, and maybe part of TFS, and proceeds to jump to the worst possible conclusion.
From TFA: For consumers, there's little immediate impact because the phone gets unlocked immediately through a software update.
Also from TFA: Even after the change, Verizon will continue to unlock the phone [upon customer request] regardless of whether it's paid off or not. The company will also still accept unlocked phones from other carriers.
But don't let any of that get in the way of your impotent ramps, guys. You can always switch to that other provider that doesn't lock phones to their service. Let's see, who is that, again? From TFA one more time: AT&T requires you to pay off your phone and be active on your service for at least 60 days. Even then, there's a 14-day wait after you make your request. Sprint also requires that you have paid off your phone and wait 50 days, although the phone is automatically unlocked. T-Mobile has the same paid device requirement and a 40-day wait period, but will offer to temporarily unlock the device sooner for travel.
Pistachio icecream, really? Not Praline, or Pudding, or another P word that's a dessert by itself? You could tack 'icecream' onto any letter. Also, there was already a Froyo and an Ice Cream Sandwich.
No need to get worked up. From TFA: Internally, Google is calling the latest one Pistachio Ice Cream, but the company typically uses different official names, the people ["people familiar with the situation"] also said. Anyway, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet", right?
If the mantra is "redundancy is always good" then SpaceX should probably start launching rockets with 2,000 engines, and I should add 13 more power supplies to my desktop computer.
Yeah, that isn't how it works, of course. This is how it works:
How many engines do I need to be working at the end of the mission? How many engines with a failure rate of (n failures)/(unit of time) do I need to ensure with a probability of (minimum acceptable probability of success) that I have enough engines working at the end of the mission?
So if redundancy is good, why doesn't the upper stage have more than one engine?
Probably because the reliability analysis says it isn't needed.
Getting back to the first stage: redundancy is an interesting problem for this application, compared to, say, an aircraft autopilot.
When an autopilot fails, the redundant backup takes over fairly seamlessly, and it doesn't have to work any harder than the failed unit it's replacing. Its failure rate is no higher that it was before the first unit failed. When an engine fails, the redundant units have to work harder to take up the load of the failed unit. As a result, the failure rate of the remaining operating engines goes up, meaning that the probability of another failure increases. The short mission duration mitigates the effects, I suppose.
Indeed. Redundancy is always good.
Usually, but not always. With redundancy comes increased complexity, weight, and cost. Also, if you're mitigating low reliability with redundancy, you're adding additional failure points. This isn't a great concern with computers that operate in a controlled, benign environment. It's a much larger concern in a violent environment where the operating equipment has to make up for the thrust or operate longer to compensate for the failed units.
This "news" is "dog bites man" please come back when it is "man bites dog".
Well, OK then.
It is not being literally drained of its CPU power. CPU power is not a liquid which can run out of a drain. Asshole.
metaphor (noun): a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”.
Or maybe your problem is not drained, but the use of literally.
literally (adverb): in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually, as in "I literally died when she walked out on stage in that costume."
As I said, Uber worked fine most of the time. On previous visits to London, we used public transport and walking, and that worked fine most of the time as well. None of the less than optimal experiences detracted from the visits -- London is a marvellous city to visit, no matter your mode of transportation.
I was in London last year, and used Uber extensively. Most of the time it worked out fine, but there were a few spectacular failures. In particular, a ride to Kensington Palace dropped us off at a point that was more than a half hour's walk from the Palace. As we walked, we passed an intersection that was only a few hundred yards from the Palace entrance. I'm pretty sure a real cab driver would have dropped us at the closest point.