While the difference between ASM, Java bytecode or JavaScript bytecode isn't very big in energy consumption, it will give a noticeable increase in "snappiness" in the UI if you get everything in asm. JIT runtimes are amazing at what they can do with the efficiency of the bytecode, but compiling it takes time so users will experience UI lag every time a compile kicks in. The compile itself will take extra energy so yes, there is some impact on battery life as well.
Regardless, users will think an app is "slower" because the time it takes before it does what they tell it to do is longer in some circumstances. They don't care about efficiency of bytecode interpreters and on the fly optimizations.
They may just invest that money into something else that will give a better return. You'll have to wait some years before you can make such a statement in retrospect. If you can already predicting that they will fail to find a better investment, you should be working for an investment company and not posting here on SlashDot.
Here in the Netherlands every case that could become jurisprudential or has been in the public will get published automatically on a government web site. While I understand that some states or federal government may choose not to do so because of costs, there should indeed be no publisher trying to get copyrights for publishing the same material. In fact, there should be a law that puts extreme fines on attempts to do this and make people behind companies that do this personally liable for damages. Who's going to write their congress representatives about this and make this law really happen?
You come up with valid rent/lease constructions that by themselves don't feel a whole lot different from sales constructions. However, all the examples you give, come from markets where you have multiple options to buy the exact same product and also have an established market for lease/rent constructions.
While there are text book rental constructions, these do feel, present and act very differently compared to a sales construction. Not only that, you can get the same books "for keep" if you buy them, usually. This is a novelty construction for a book that just isn't for sale and the pricing isn't in the usual range for book rentals. That's what's makes it news.
They will respect the way that DRM has used the law to relieve them from their money. Since they want to make money, they will have learned how creative use of DRM can do that, so they will try and find ways to work for DRM companies.
This is intriguing. Can the web resources at least claim fair compensation, or do they get nothing in return? What if the web resource is "protected" and the educational resource has to break additional laws (hacking) to get to the content? I'm no big advocate for the current model of copyright law, but exempting educational use completely from it breaks the rest of the model and a lot of the rest of the legal system as well if you're not very careful with that. Please elaborate how this is being done.
Sure, lots of channels will cease to exist. But the makers of the content are already using different outlets like youtube to get their content out there. Once they get enough following there, they might strike a deal with netflix or a similar company. Just because "24/7 content you can't choose" goes away doesn't mean that you can't replace it with "content you choose whenever you want it".
TV has been the industrial age of amusement and news. In a lot of "industrial" products, we are now producing custom ordered items, keeping the price low because of automation. If you don't buy your car off the lot, you can have any colour, engine and accessory package you want. It will be produced especially for you and it won't cost you a dollar more than the same car would cost you off the lot. I don't fit in confection sizes (too tall) and I have a lot of my clothing made. Compared to name brands, my clothing is cheaper and often higher in quality. This is because they now have computer controlled cutting machines that calculate the correct fabric cuts and the fabric gets cut by a robot. This is how modern TV is going to work as well.
People now have a choice what content to watch and when to watch it. It may be bad for TV channel owners, but in the end, this will provide improved quality and diversity of content at a price that people are willing to pay for it. Advertising models will adapt to this. In show product placement, more ads on the cheaper subscription compared to the premium one and so on. Don't be fussy about people moving your cheese but adapt and reap the benefits.
By the time YouTube is done compressing the video, you no longer have much difference in dynamic range and per frame image quality left. This on top of the lens quality and control/ergonomics of the individual settings that won't show in the end product, but will make some video extremely hard to shoot with one of these devices.
With any raid 4/5/6 system, parity and thus read errors aren't tested on normal read access. That means that unless you specifically tell the software/controller to do so, all raid does is *write* parity bits. It never checks the validity. A good practice and usually implemented in enterprise SAN/NAS systems, is to use background scrubbing to do just that. Background scrubbing uses "unused" IO capacity to read all disks, check parity and figure out which disk has errors. If the disk can reallocate sectors it will tell it to do that, optionally log this and if the disk can't, it will fail the disk and go on in degraded mode.
If you think raid errors and failures are "normal", you should look at how your raid system is set up. If no background scrubbing is implemented, you should seriously consider either setting it up (after making sure your backups work) or getting proper storage that has it built in. Also, consider going for raid 1 or raid 10, since disks aren't that expensive any more and the write IO capacity of 1 and 10 is much higher than that of raid 4/5/6.
Often, this is the case for hosts that the intruders want to keep around longer than a few days. Once they've taken good hold of a host, they tend to close off holes that they know about, so others can't get in the same way they did. You often find not just root kits, but also patches rolled out and workarounds to mitigate problems the hackers can't fix without alerting the admin of the box. This doesn't always happen, but most forensics reports I've read and cases I've witnessed myself, hackers tried to close gaps in security of the machines they controlled.
We've had the mail privatized in the Netherlands. We now pay over four times as much for a crappy service, closing of almost all post offices and almost all mail delivery people fired and minimum wage hourly paid people doing their job. It may sound communist, but sometimes doing stuff as a people is actually better than having it dealt with by individuals with more "freedom". Sometimes you need to rely on something so much that you're better off letting government take control than to let free market decide what is going to happen. This is one of those things. We in the Netherlands may scoff on your health care system and your futile attempts to improve it, but we messed up our mail and we're paying for it.
You must be cheap labour, Bangladesh rates? A typical restoration costs way more in time and material than an equivalent new vehicle would cost. Not only that, you'd be left with an inefficient design that wouldn't benefit from 30-40 years of improvements in efficiency and safety. This applies both to cars and nuclear power plants. What you *could* do however is use the same location (providing it's a safe location according to current standards) and share spent fuel facilities and such. That way you would save money by building your new plant right next to the old one and only have a few decommissioned buildings on the site and re-use what is smart/cheaper to reuse.
This is about the funds reserved for decommissioning out of the profits made from the plant while in operation. The idea is that you create a fund where you put in money for every KWh sold. Then, by the end of the lifetime of the plant, you use those funds to adequately deal with what needs to be done to keep the radiation and poison out of the environment. If those funds aren't sufficient because of miscalculations or bad fund management (sub prime mortgages anyone?) Houston won't help you with your problem and Washington will have to step in.
As far as I know this hasn't resulted in any nuclear facility being abandoned and the rods exposed to the elements, but it's something we need to look at in order to avoid state and federal tax money having to be spent. We all know that the guys cutting the corners in budget estimates will grant themselves big bonuses for saving so much money and they'll be long gone when the radiation hits the fan. In the end citizens will pay for those bonuses and keeping the situation safe, so getting the calculations redone and adjusting the funds percentages is in order.
That's what they spent in nine months and what they got back out of it. They may get more money back on apps later on, but they have to spend money on those as well. For all we know their app market and own development may not be efficient enough to turn a profit but mostly, all the money they spent manufacturing and stocking up warehouses full of tablets and developing is suddenly not important any more? They have already written that off 100%? I'm betting they are in the red a lot more than this calculation suggests.
Plants are an important part of a healthy diet, but they tend to lack in the protein and fat intake we need. Yes, we need fat to live. You can live without carbs for many months, but if you don't eat any fat, you're dead within three months. Even vitamins usually can be abstained from for longer periods of time without you dying. Carbs mess up our blood sugar and are proven to be one of the main contributors to the amount of diabetes type 2 we have today, as well as the enormous amount of obese people ( http://ds9a.nl/new-consensus/ ) . Carbs are addictive (they have bacteria in our guts produce "happy hormones") so even if you can afford to buy food that doesn't have carbs, you most likely don't want to, but you should seriously consider drastically reducing your intake in carbs. You can get your energy from fat and protein, no need for grain products at all.
New mantra: "Don't eat carbs, mainly fat, protein and plants". If you do it that way, the "not too much" will be easy.
I don't want colleagues or (future) employers to know what music I listen to, what my political preference is, where I go for entertainment, what kind of kinky fetishes I might have and such. I don't like targeted ads, since they tend to target me in any situation, private or not, with ads that are also based on my *personal* preferences.
Even if all I do is legal *now*, it may be illegal in the future and frowned upon when people watch logs.
Keep in mind that every person commits two felonies and dozens of misdemeanour's every day. If everything you do is tracked, you will get penalized for all af them, putting *everyone* in prison. Laws are there so that if somebody really crosses a boundary that society won't accept, there is a fair reason to put them trough court. If we start to automatically punish everyone for every crime they commit, because we give up privacy, our world stops functioning. We need privacy to remain the default in order to function as individuals *and* as a society.
Yes, privacy isn't the same as anonymity but in order to remain private in the current society you almost always need anonymity if you're doing it online, so in practice they are synonymous.
Why sabotage a plant if you can steal nuclear material and make a dirty bomb. It's been proven that stealing material is relatively easy. Making a conventional bomb that will contaminate a large area with the nuclear material strapped to it is also known to be easy. The only reason nuclear is part of this is because it's so incredibly poisonous and relatively easy to transport and use in a dirty bomb. There are few, if any materials that will make a DIY explosive so effective as this.
This is not about fear for nuclear energy, but about fear for human actions. Most if not all nuclear incidents we have had so far are because humans made mistakes or intentionally did things to create the incidents. Whether nuclear energy is safe or not is something you can debate about, but having humans in control over design and operation has sufficiently been proven to be a big risk factor.
I wouldn't want to be the one to give an estimate on how much bytes are required to adequately store the analogue data on the tapes. It could very well be ten times as much or even more. Depending on the quality of the recording, it could very well be that you'd need 32 bits per pixel and the sample rate you could achieve might mean there could be billions of pixels per image in useful data in the recordings. All of a sudden you could be dealing with multiple gigabytes per image in raw data. Derivatives with processed image data might raise that number substantially again.
It may be stronger, it could very well be faster, it's almost certainly cheaper, but it's not harder. Sapphire is the 2nd hardest (translucent?) material known to man, next to diamond. Hardened glass, like gorilla glass can be scratched a whole lot easier than sapphire.
In the Netherlands we have a division of power. One company that provides the basic utilities to get the power connection to your home going and a choice of dozens that are allowed to deliver that power to you. The first one is regulated strictly, the second one is regulated only in such a way that there is free market and healthy competition going on.
90% Ethanol fuel will eat just as much at your fuel system as 10% Ethanol will. The big problem is that older cars (we're talking over 10 years old at least) may have materials in their fuel system that aren't able to deal with ethanol. Old rubber hoses will perish, fuel pumps with rubber seals will go the same way. 90% Ethanol would be hard to start in cold winter region, which is why E85 is usually the highest concentration used in vehicles
From what I understood earlier, this will be a fork of the official OpenSSL release, or will all these patches be incorporated in "generic" OpenSSL and not just the OpenBSD implementation?
Driving is not a mundane task. As long as people treat it like that, they will be donating organs and keeping the car body repair industry blooming. Even if we're not using a phone, having a conversation is so distracting that the intense task of keeping a lump of metal hurling along at speeds our brain never was meant to comprehend is severely compromised and chances of an error potentially resulting in a crash are increased close to the same amount as when we're on the phone. Holding the device isn't going to matter much, we're just as screwed if we're concentrating on a passenger or trying to comprehend the squeaking of a hands free kit.
Perceived danger is key here. We tend to think there is no danger in doing this, because none of our senses alert us of anything (possibly) going wrong. Make the seat belts pop loose, let a spike appear from the steering wheel and make the car rumble if drivers appear distracted. That will make them aware they are crossing a line that quickly leads to a situation they can in no way react to in time, if they notice it at all before they have an accident. Their sense of danger will be triggered and they will avoid getting to that point in the future, or or ignore it and become another statistic.
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While the difference between ASM, Java bytecode or JavaScript bytecode isn't very big in energy consumption, it will give a noticeable increase in "snappiness" in the UI if you get everything in asm. JIT runtimes are amazing at what they can do with the efficiency of the bytecode, but compiling it takes time so users will experience UI lag every time a compile kicks in. The compile itself will take extra energy so yes, there is some impact on battery life as well.
Regardless, users will think an app is "slower" because the time it takes before it does what they tell it to do is longer in some circumstances. They don't care about efficiency of bytecode interpreters and on the fly optimizations.
They may just invest that money into something else that will give a better return. You'll have to wait some years before you can make such a statement in retrospect. If you can already predicting that they will fail to find a better investment, you should be working for an investment company and not posting here on SlashDot.
Here in the Netherlands every case that could become jurisprudential or has been in the public will get published automatically on a government web site. While I understand that some states or federal government may choose not to do so because of costs, there should indeed be no publisher trying to get copyrights for publishing the same material. In fact, there should be a law that puts extreme fines on attempts to do this and make people behind companies that do this personally liable for damages. Who's going to write their congress representatives about this and make this law really happen?
You come up with valid rent/lease constructions that by themselves don't feel a whole lot different from sales constructions. However, all the examples you give, come from markets where you have multiple options to buy the exact same product and also have an established market for lease/rent constructions.
While there are text book rental constructions, these do feel, present and act very differently compared to a sales construction. Not only that, you can get the same books "for keep" if you buy them, usually. This is a novelty construction for a book that just isn't for sale and the pricing isn't in the usual range for book rentals. That's what's makes it news.
They will respect the way that DRM has used the law to relieve them from their money. Since they want to make money, they will have learned how creative use of DRM can do that, so they will try and find ways to work for DRM companies.
This is intriguing. Can the web resources at least claim fair compensation, or do they get nothing in return? What if the web resource is "protected" and the educational resource has to break additional laws (hacking) to get to the content? I'm no big advocate for the current model of copyright law, but exempting educational use completely from it breaks the rest of the model and a lot of the rest of the legal system as well if you're not very careful with that. Please elaborate how this is being done.
Sure, lots of channels will cease to exist. But the makers of the content are already using different outlets like youtube to get their content out there. Once they get enough following there, they might strike a deal with netflix or a similar company. Just because "24/7 content you can't choose" goes away doesn't mean that you can't replace it with "content you choose whenever you want it".
TV has been the industrial age of amusement and news. In a lot of "industrial" products, we are now producing custom ordered items, keeping the price low because of automation. If you don't buy your car off the lot, you can have any colour, engine and accessory package you want. It will be produced especially for you and it won't cost you a dollar more than the same car would cost you off the lot. I don't fit in confection sizes (too tall) and I have a lot of my clothing made. Compared to name brands, my clothing is cheaper and often higher in quality. This is because they now have computer controlled cutting machines that calculate the correct fabric cuts and the fabric gets cut by a robot. This is how modern TV is going to work as well.
People now have a choice what content to watch and when to watch it. It may be bad for TV channel owners, but in the end, this will provide improved quality and diversity of content at a price that people are willing to pay for it. Advertising models will adapt to this. In show product placement, more ads on the cheaper subscription compared to the premium one and so on. Don't be fussy about people moving your cheese but adapt and reap the benefits.
A good mechanic/lock smith could have assembled a new ignition lock with the correct tumblers, so your old key would fit.
CYBER CYBER CYBER. 15 years ago it meant something totally different than the politicians are talking about.
By the time YouTube is done compressing the video, you no longer have much difference in dynamic range and per frame image quality left. This on top of the lens quality and control/ergonomics of the individual settings that won't show in the end product, but will make some video extremely hard to shoot with one of these devices.
With any raid 4/5/6 system, parity and thus read errors aren't tested on normal read access. That means that unless you specifically tell the software/controller to do so, all raid does is *write* parity bits. It never checks the validity. A good practice and usually implemented in enterprise SAN/NAS systems, is to use background scrubbing to do just that. Background scrubbing uses "unused" IO capacity to read all disks, check parity and figure out which disk has errors. If the disk can reallocate sectors it will tell it to do that, optionally log this and if the disk can't, it will fail the disk and go on in degraded mode.
If you think raid errors and failures are "normal", you should look at how your raid system is set up. If no background scrubbing is implemented, you should seriously consider either setting it up (after making sure your backups work) or getting proper storage that has it built in. Also, consider going for raid 1 or raid 10, since disks aren't that expensive any more and the write IO capacity of 1 and 10 is much higher than that of raid 4/5/6.
Often, this is the case for hosts that the intruders want to keep around longer than a few days. Once they've taken good hold of a host, they tend to close off holes that they know about, so others can't get in the same way they did. You often find not just root kits, but also patches rolled out and workarounds to mitigate problems the hackers can't fix without alerting the admin of the box. This doesn't always happen, but most forensics reports I've read and cases I've witnessed myself, hackers tried to close gaps in security of the machines they controlled.
We've had the mail privatized in the Netherlands. We now pay over four times as much for a crappy service, closing of almost all post offices and almost all mail delivery people fired and minimum wage hourly paid people doing their job. It may sound communist, but sometimes doing stuff as a people is actually better than having it dealt with by individuals with more "freedom". Sometimes you need to rely on something so much that you're better off letting government take control than to let free market decide what is going to happen. This is one of those things. We in the Netherlands may scoff on your health care system and your futile attempts to improve it, but we messed up our mail and we're paying for it.
You must be cheap labour, Bangladesh rates? A typical restoration costs way more in time and material than an equivalent new vehicle would cost. Not only that, you'd be left with an inefficient design that wouldn't benefit from 30-40 years of improvements in efficiency and safety. This applies both to cars and nuclear power plants. What you *could* do however is use the same location (providing it's a safe location according to current standards) and share spent fuel facilities and such. That way you would save money by building your new plant right next to the old one and only have a few decommissioned buildings on the site and re-use what is smart/cheaper to reuse.
This is about the funds reserved for decommissioning out of the profits made from the plant while in operation. The idea is that you create a fund where you put in money for every KWh sold. Then, by the end of the lifetime of the plant, you use those funds to adequately deal with what needs to be done to keep the radiation and poison out of the environment. If those funds aren't sufficient because of miscalculations or bad fund management (sub prime mortgages anyone?) Houston won't help you with your problem and Washington will have to step in.
As far as I know this hasn't resulted in any nuclear facility being abandoned and the rods exposed to the elements, but it's something we need to look at in order to avoid state and federal tax money having to be spent. We all know that the guys cutting the corners in budget estimates will grant themselves big bonuses for saving so much money and they'll be long gone when the radiation hits the fan. In the end citizens will pay for those bonuses and keeping the situation safe, so getting the calculations redone and adjusting the funds percentages is in order.
That's what they spent in nine months and what they got back out of it. They may get more money back on apps later on, but they have to spend money on those as well. For all we know their app market and own development may not be efficient enough to turn a profit but mostly, all the money they spent manufacturing and stocking up warehouses full of tablets and developing is suddenly not important any more? They have already written that off 100%? I'm betting they are in the red a lot more than this calculation suggests.
Plants are an important part of a healthy diet, but they tend to lack in the protein and fat intake we need. Yes, we need fat to live. You can live without carbs for many months, but if you don't eat any fat, you're dead within three months. Even vitamins usually can be abstained from for longer periods of time without you dying. Carbs mess up our blood sugar and are proven to be one of the main contributors to the amount of diabetes type 2 we have today, as well as the enormous amount of obese people ( http://ds9a.nl/new-consensus/ ) . Carbs are addictive (they have bacteria in our guts produce "happy hormones") so even if you can afford to buy food that doesn't have carbs, you most likely don't want to, but you should seriously consider drastically reducing your intake in carbs. You can get your energy from fat and protein, no need for grain products at all.
New mantra: "Don't eat carbs, mainly fat, protein and plants". If you do it that way, the "not too much" will be easy.
I don't want colleagues or (future) employers to know what music I listen to, what my political preference is, where I go for entertainment, what kind of kinky fetishes I might have and such. I don't like targeted ads, since they tend to target me in any situation, private or not, with ads that are also based on my *personal* preferences.
Even if all I do is legal *now*, it may be illegal in the future and frowned upon when people watch logs.
Keep in mind that every person commits two felonies and dozens of misdemeanour's every day. If everything you do is tracked, you will get penalized for all af them, putting *everyone* in prison. Laws are there so that if somebody really crosses a boundary that society won't accept, there is a fair reason to put them trough court. If we start to automatically punish everyone for every crime they commit, because we give up privacy, our world stops functioning. We need privacy to remain the default in order to function as individuals *and* as a society.
Yes, privacy isn't the same as anonymity but in order to remain private in the current society you almost always need anonymity if you're doing it online, so in practice they are synonymous.
Why sabotage a plant if you can steal nuclear material and make a dirty bomb. It's been proven that stealing material is relatively easy. Making a conventional bomb that will contaminate a large area with the nuclear material strapped to it is also known to be easy. The only reason nuclear is part of this is because it's so incredibly poisonous and relatively easy to transport and use in a dirty bomb. There are few, if any materials that will make a DIY explosive so effective as this.
This is not about fear for nuclear energy, but about fear for human actions. Most if not all nuclear incidents we have had so far are because humans made mistakes or intentionally did things to create the incidents. Whether nuclear energy is safe or not is something you can debate about, but having humans in control over design and operation has sufficiently been proven to be a big risk factor.
I wouldn't want to be the one to give an estimate on how much bytes are required to adequately store the analogue data on the tapes. It could very well be ten times as much or even more. Depending on the quality of the recording, it could very well be that you'd need 32 bits per pixel and the sample rate you could achieve might mean there could be billions of pixels per image in useful data in the recordings. All of a sudden you could be dealing with multiple gigabytes per image in raw data. Derivatives with processed image data might raise that number substantially again.
It may be stronger, it could very well be faster, it's almost certainly cheaper, but it's not harder. Sapphire is the 2nd hardest (translucent?) material known to man, next to diamond. Hardened glass, like gorilla glass can be scratched a whole lot easier than sapphire.
In the Netherlands we have a division of power. One company that provides the basic utilities to get the power connection to your home going and a choice of dozens that are allowed to deliver that power to you. The first one is regulated strictly, the second one is regulated only in such a way that there is free market and healthy competition going on.
90% Ethanol fuel will eat just as much at your fuel system as 10% Ethanol will. The big problem is that older cars (we're talking over 10 years old at least) may have materials in their fuel system that aren't able to deal with ethanol. Old rubber hoses will perish, fuel pumps with rubber seals will go the same way. 90% Ethanol would be hard to start in cold winter region, which is why E85 is usually the highest concentration used in vehicles
From what I understood earlier, this will be a fork of the official OpenSSL release, or will all these patches be incorporated in "generic" OpenSSL and not just the OpenBSD implementation?
Driving is not a mundane task. As long as people treat it like that, they will be donating organs and keeping the car body repair industry blooming. Even if we're not using a phone, having a conversation is so distracting that the intense task of keeping a lump of metal hurling along at speeds our brain never was meant to comprehend is severely compromised and chances of an error potentially resulting in a crash are increased close to the same amount as when we're on the phone. Holding the device isn't going to matter much, we're just as screwed if we're concentrating on a passenger or trying to comprehend the squeaking of a hands free kit.
Perceived danger is key here. We tend to think there is no danger in doing this, because none of our senses alert us of anything (possibly) going wrong. Make the seat belts pop loose, let a spike appear from the steering wheel and make the car rumble if drivers appear distracted. That will make them aware they are crossing a line that quickly leads to a situation they can in no way react to in time, if they notice it at all before they have an accident. Their sense of danger will be triggered and they will avoid getting to that point in the future, or or ignore it and become another statistic.