POWER support is dead on all enterprise Linux distributions, Red Hat dropped support with EL5. Furthermore OpenPower boxes are contractually prohibited from running AIX.
You've got a box of hardware with nothing to run on it and it can only deliver half the performance of comparatively priced Intel equipment. If you outsource support to IBM, their support specialists in the delivery centers will accidentally nuke your whole frame during routine maintenance, and you could be down for days. If you can manage to find an engineers and administrators capable of maintaining the systems, they don't want anything to do with it because their smart enough to know the platform is walking dead.
The only thing that is a disaster is having 7.1 billion human mouths to feed. Earth has a finite maximum capacity load, and it sounds like we have reached it. We apparently have around 24 million square miles of habitable land, if you divide that out per person it comes to 18 sq. ft per person. 18...
I remember in the early days of computer graphics, it was believed that 24-bit color (8-bit each Red, Green and Blue pixels) was the pinnacle. But once 24-bit color became widely available, we discovered it wasn't enough. When edited in Photoshop, often a 24-bit image would show banding in the sky, due to rounding errors in the math involved. Adobe added 48-bit color (16-bits per RGB channel) the rounding errors became much less visible. Today cameras capture 8, 12,14 or 16 bits per RGB channel, and using HDR software we get 96-bit color.
You mean for input devices, such as scanners. For all intents and purposes, everything I've read says the human eye can't tell a difference between 24-bits (16,777,216 colors), 30 bits (1.073 billion colors), 36 bits (68.71 billion colors), or 48 bits (281.5 trillion colors). A few years back manufactures were selling 18-bit displays (262,144 color combinations), this was the upper threshold that my eyes could tell a difference. I recall getting along just fine with 16-bit color for years, which was a mere 65,536 color combinations.
Your remarks about dpi / ppi are spot on and will be the deciding factor. I just don't see R & D purposefully dedicating resources to anything beyond 600 ppi, due to the natural limitations of our optic system.
Breaking the "race to the bottom" to make sure you won't starve to death and have access to things like basic medical care when you are a productive member of society (fulfilling your end of the "social contract") is arguably a useful thing for government to do.
This is it precisely. We have finite resources, and as more and more people populate the earth the less and less we have to go around per person. As much as I hate the idea, at the end of the day we're going to have to implement population controls on a grand scale.
When did ~$24k gross a year become middle class? Did I miss a memo or have I been living in fantasy land? (11.50 per hour * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks)
No you did not, my annual Social Security disability benefits are about that much, and I of course have full Medicare benefits. It's not a lot for even a single person.
Next time you wonder why your cable bill keeps going up blame ESPN. They charge an arm and a leg to the cable companies because they know they are indispensable to the customers.
And yet only way to get the Science channel is to buy ten ESPN channels that i'll never watch. If they're not willing to do a la carte, they should at least create packages for each demographic.
The claim that a years worth of phone calls is around 272 petabytes is dead on, it matches up perfectly with some back of the napkin calculations I did a while back based on a published report from the FCC[1]. Depending on the encoding bitrate, the range I had was 107 PB for 8 Kbps audio to 430 PB for 32 Kbps audio. 272 PB is about 20 Kbps, exactly in the middle...
1. The CIA has taken everything but the clothes on his back at the airport. Too many eyes are looking for extraordinary rendition, but that doesn't mean they haven't take all of his luggage in the middle of the night. 2. The government has locked all of his assets.
He has no secrets to sell Russia, the USA wouldn't let him sit in an airport for a month if he, still, had anything of value. Do you see him on youtube? He doesn't have a computer, he doesn't have anything but the clothes on his back. I doubt he's still in the airport, but if he is I want the Daily Show or Colbert to go interview him.
I've oftened wondered how the price of a drug is decided, does it follow free market economics? You would assume that most of the money is profit, yet we don't see sellers undercutting sellers to reach a natural economic equilibrium. Is this exactly what gang turf wars are about? It would seem the gang leaders have a firm grasp on capitalism and business management. Maybe in prison we should offer an MBA program, on second thought... we have enough criminals at the top already.
I use a potassium / sodium / iodine blend, like Morton Lite Salt, in everything I cook or bake, and one of those sea salt grinders at the table. This keeps everyone at the table happy, and heathly.
Do we have a digital archival container format? I.e. a tar archive with built-in error correction to identify missing bits, lets say with a SHA hash, and a method to recompute the lost bits, lets say with an XOR operation? Do we have anything like that?
If you have a good checksum hash and known file size, but the data is corrupted, you could semi-randomly replace bits in a brute force fashion until you produced anther file with the same hash. The possiblity of reconstructing the bits in an alternate fashion that would produce a hash collision with the original and yield useable data is zero for all intents and purposes. If you segmented the file and computed hashes for each segment, you could do distributed parity XOR / Reed-Solomon calculations to recompute any bad segments.
I'd like to see a container format like this, given enough CPU cycles you should be able to recover just about anything, much like an infinite number of monkeys can produce the works of Shakespeare.
Easy fix... put the shoes away. It's all about operant conditioning with dogs. I suggest an e-collar, an alternative him to chew on, and positive reinforcement when he does something you want. I hear imitation also works, you could fetch some of his toys to chew...;-)
The other neat thing that dogs can do is figure out what you mean when you point at something, apes just can't seem to grasp this. NOVA did a documentary that attempted to qualify ape intelligence by showing the diffrences between human children and other animals. It was eye opening, particularly the use of tools and the crafting of weapons to kill prey by chimps. I think animals are a lot smarter then we give them credit for, anyhow here is a link: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/1200128615/
Last year, after a Utah man's home was raided for having 16 small marijuana plants, nearly 300 bullets in total were fired (most of them by the police) in the ensuing gunfight, the homeowner believing he was a victim of a home invasion by criminals.
I don't think either of those would have saved this man.
Had the man not died, law enforcement would have taken the computers and used anything sufficient for probable cause to charge him with additional crimes. Prosecutors uses this tactic as a way to strengthen their position during plea bargaining. So yes, encrypting his computer could have saved him a few extra years in prison.
You have a right to remain silent, and so should your computer.
You forget that they're buying their way into the tablet market... this is the same strategy they took for Xbox. We can't let them do it again, with the PC market stagnating we'll be able to get rid of them one and for all if we can keep them out of new markets. Thankfully karma is kicking their ass, they seem to be their own worst enemy.
I don't do vendor lock-in, some say Apple's walled garden is the same, but at least I can walk out of the garden if i wanted to... open standards, open formats.
I don't think anyone is saying that we don't care about why it works, only that its practical application is important enough that we forge ahead in spite of not having a complete understanding of it yet.
They want a market to sell their overpriced software to. Their effectively locked out of the Android, Apple, and Linux markets. I honestly can't recall someone I know buying a new PC in the last 5 years, but I know tons who have bought tablets, netbooks, and apple gear.
PCs are an edge case for most consumers now, and their old PC running XP and Office 2003 suits them just fine. Everyone said Microsoft needed to be worried about Linux, however their biggest competitors are their former products. With previous software being good enough for most, the user base that is willing to buy something new is continually srinking. They entered the tablet market out of desperation to find a new audience to buy their software. They don't care if they have to subsidize the why into this market, it's the Xbox all over again.
I wonder how far that strategy will work with a speeding ticket, lets just call it entrapment that they designed a car that knowning violates the law when a simple technical solution could be implemented to make the car never exceed the posted limit.
In all seriousness though, I'd pay $2k to $3k extra for a button in a car that you could push to make it cruise exactly at the posted limit, as well as never exceed the limit going down hills, and it logs sensor data that can be used in court. It won't happen however, these fine only violations are what law enforcement calls their bread and butter.
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POWER support is dead on all enterprise Linux distributions, Red Hat dropped support with EL5. Furthermore OpenPower boxes are contractually prohibited from running AIX.
You've got a box of hardware with nothing to run on it and it can only deliver half the performance of comparatively priced Intel equipment. If you outsource support to IBM, their support specialists in the delivery centers will accidentally nuke your whole frame during routine maintenance, and you could be down for days. If you can manage to find an engineers and administrators capable of maintaining the systems, they don't want anything to do with it because their smart enough to know the platform is walking dead.
The only thing that is a disaster is having 7.1 billion human mouths to feed. Earth has a finite maximum capacity load, and it sounds like we have reached it. We apparently have around 24 million square miles of habitable land, if you divide that out per person it comes to 18 sq. ft per person. 18...
now get off my lawn!
I remember in the early days of computer graphics, it was believed that 24-bit color (8-bit each Red, Green and Blue pixels) was the pinnacle. But once 24-bit color became widely available, we discovered it wasn't enough. When edited in Photoshop, often a 24-bit image would show banding in the sky, due to rounding errors in the math involved. Adobe added 48-bit color (16-bits per RGB channel) the rounding errors became much less visible. Today cameras capture 8, 12,14 or 16 bits per RGB channel, and using HDR software we get 96-bit color.
You mean for input devices, such as scanners. For all intents and purposes, everything I've read says the human eye can't tell a difference between 24-bits (16,777,216 colors), 30 bits (1.073 billion colors), 36 bits (68.71 billion colors), or 48 bits (281.5 trillion colors). A few years back manufactures were selling 18-bit displays (262,144 color combinations), this was the upper threshold that my eyes could tell a difference. I recall getting along just fine with 16-bit color for years, which was a mere 65,536 color combinations.
Your remarks about dpi / ppi are spot on and will be the deciding factor. I just don't see R & D purposefully dedicating resources to anything beyond 600 ppi, due to the natural limitations of our optic system.
Breaking the "race to the bottom" to make sure you won't starve to death and have access to things like basic medical care when you are a productive member of society (fulfilling your end of the "social contract") is arguably a useful thing for government to do.
This is it precisely. We have finite resources, and as more and more people populate the earth the less and less we have to go around per person. As much as I hate the idea, at the end of the day we're going to have to implement population controls on a grand scale.
When did ~$24k gross a year become middle class? Did I miss a memo or have I been living in fantasy land? (11.50 per hour * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks)
No you did not, my annual Social Security disability benefits are about that much, and I of course have full Medicare benefits. It's not a lot for even a single person.
Also, there's lots of small businesses that are hanging at the 49 employee number to avoid the Obamacare mandates.
Wait... so that's all we needed to do to combat big business?
Would You Let a Robot Stick You With a Needle?
Is BDSM Involved?
Next time you wonder why your cable bill keeps going up blame ESPN. They charge an arm and a leg to the cable companies because they know they are indispensable to the customers.
And yet only way to get the Science channel is to buy ten ESPN channels that i'll never watch. If they're not willing to do a la carte, they should at least create packages for each demographic.
still, one has to consider what a broadcast entity dependent upon advertising revenues will do if those ads no longer generate cash.
Wasn't the whole point of paying for cable a way to get out of advertisements? Seriously where does my $70 a month go?
It is also irrelevant. If the iPhone allows high current to pass through from the charging port to the user, the iPhone has a defective design.
In that case, the NSA obviously implemented this as a feature... ;-)
Apple: think deadly.
Shhh, that's phase 3 of the NSA's plans...
The claim that a years worth of phone calls is around 272 petabytes is dead on, it matches up perfectly with some back of the napkin calculations I did a while back based on a published report from the FCC[1]. Depending on the encoding bitrate, the range I had was 107 PB for 8 Kbps audio to 430 PB for 32 Kbps audio. 272 PB is about 20 Kbps, exactly in the middle...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3871487&cid=44027425
[1]: http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/trend605.pdf
The report only documents up to year 2000, but I presumed POTS service had leveled out with the emergence of VOIP and SMS messaging.
1. The CIA has taken everything but the clothes on his back at the airport. Too many eyes are looking for extraordinary rendition, but that doesn't mean they haven't take all of his luggage in the middle of the night.
2. The government has locked all of his assets.
He has no secrets to sell Russia, the USA wouldn't let him sit in an airport for a month if he, still, had anything of value. Do you see him on youtube? He doesn't have a computer, he doesn't have anything but the clothes on his back. I doubt he's still in the airport, but if he is I want the Daily Show or Colbert to go interview him.
I've oftened wondered how the price of a drug is decided, does it follow free market economics? You would assume that most of the money is profit, yet we don't see sellers undercutting sellers to reach a natural economic equilibrium. Is this exactly what gang turf wars are about? It would seem the gang leaders have a firm grasp on capitalism and business management. Maybe in prison we should offer an MBA program, on second thought... we have enough criminals at the top already.
I use a potassium / sodium / iodine blend, like Morton Lite Salt, in everything I cook or bake, and one of those sea salt grinders at the table. This keeps everyone at the table happy, and heathly.
Do we have a digital archival container format? I.e. a tar archive with built-in error correction to identify missing bits, lets say with a SHA hash, and a method to recompute the lost bits, lets say with an XOR operation? Do we have anything like that?
If you have a good checksum hash and known file size, but the data is corrupted, you could semi-randomly replace bits in a brute force fashion until you produced anther file with the same hash. The possiblity of reconstructing the bits in an alternate fashion that would produce a hash collision with the original and yield useable data is zero for all intents and purposes. If you segmented the file and computed hashes for each segment, you could do distributed parity XOR / Reed-Solomon calculations to recompute any bad segments.
I'd like to see a container format like this, given enough CPU cycles you should be able to recover just about anything, much like an infinite number of monkeys can produce the works of Shakespeare.
Easy fix... put the shoes away. It's all about operant conditioning with dogs. I suggest an e-collar, an alternative him to chew on, and positive reinforcement when he does something you want. I hear imitation also works, you could fetch some of his toys to chew... ;-)
The other neat thing that dogs can do is figure out what you mean when you point at something, apes just can't seem to grasp this. NOVA did a documentary that attempted to qualify ape intelligence by showing the diffrences between human children and other animals. It was eye opening, particularly the use of tools and the crafting of weapons to kill prey by chimps. I think animals are a lot smarter then we give them credit for, anyhow here is a link: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/1200128615/
Full disk encryption. & Call my attorney.
Do not talk to police without an attorney.
Last year, after a Utah man's home was raided for having 16 small marijuana plants, nearly 300 bullets in total were fired (most of them by the police) in the ensuing gunfight, the homeowner believing he was a victim of a home invasion by criminals.
I don't think either of those would have saved this man.
Had the man not died, law enforcement would have taken the computers and used anything sufficient for probable cause to charge him with additional crimes. Prosecutors uses this tactic as a way to strengthen their position during plea bargaining. So yes, encrypting his computer could have saved him a few extra years in prison.
You have a right to remain silent, and so should your computer.
Full disk encryption. & Call my attorney.
Do not talk to police without an attorney.
You forget that they're buying their way into the tablet market... this is the same strategy they took for Xbox. We can't let them do it again, with the PC market stagnating we'll be able to get rid of them one and for all if we can keep them out of new markets. Thankfully karma is kicking their ass, they seem to be their own worst enemy.
I don't do vendor lock-in, some say Apple's walled garden is the same, but at least I can walk out of the garden if i wanted to... open standards, open formats.
I don't think anyone is saying that we don't care about why it works, only that its practical application is important enough that we forge ahead in spite of not having a complete understanding of it yet.
Yeah, the last thing we want is the NSA peering through these windows too.
They want a market to sell their overpriced software to. Their effectively locked out of the Android, Apple, and Linux markets. I honestly can't recall someone I know buying a new PC in the last 5 years, but I know tons who have bought tablets, netbooks, and apple gear.
PCs are an edge case for most consumers now, and their old PC running XP and Office 2003 suits them just fine. Everyone said Microsoft needed to be worried about Linux, however their biggest competitors are their former products. With previous software being good enough for most, the user base that is willing to buy something new is continually srinking. They entered the tablet market out of desperation to find a new audience to buy their software. They don't care if they have to subsidize the why into this market, it's the Xbox all over again.
Linus, It's just business. If you find yourself getting that aggravated, take a break, get back to life and do something that makes you happy...
I wonder how far that strategy will work with a speeding ticket, lets just call it entrapment that they designed a car that knowning violates the law when a simple technical solution could be implemented to make the car never exceed the posted limit.
In all seriousness though, I'd pay $2k to $3k extra for a button in a car that you could push to make it cruise exactly at the posted limit, as well as never exceed the limit going down hills, and it logs sensor data that can be used in court. It won't happen however, these fine only violations are what law enforcement calls their bread and butter.