Most politicians are lawyers and their suit makes perfect sense. The Internet domain system was created by DARPA and some/most of the root domain system is still under US (through military, universities and NASA) control and property of the US. The question is obviously whether or not the "virtual" system itself can be meaningfully separated from the physical to where the US is not giving away the system.
All-in-all, whether or not you want the US to control the system, I also have to wonder as to the reason Obama didn't just send the proposal to congress, there is a reason we have the separation of authority, so the president can't just do as he wish without oversight.
At some point, someone may create a "general purpose" quantum computer. There is currently no such thing but there are programming languages for it which you can run in a simulation. Obviously you'll have a number of new operators to understand for it to be any useful to you.
This chip is supposed to do annealing but the lack of scientific support and the lack of results points more towards a big scam. At $14M you'd expect at least some results but there is no speed up measurable from classical computing. All in all, this D-wave chip (even if it worked) would only be part of a true quantum computer/processor. They have a single piece, like an MMX coprocessor on a classical chip, it only does one thing, you need much, much more for any Turing completeness. And even though we have most of it described in mathematical format, the requirements for even holding a single qubit stable are near impossible to maintain on Earth.
I've seen the commercial offerings that claim you need to tune the antennas. They seem to have gone a step further and have a dedicated tech for "detecting interference". At best it is a hotspot management tool, usually it's expensive snake oil. Especially on a small area like this, a good set of APs should be able to handle the "load" and have enough power to handle other APs, especially the weak phone ones.
Yes. Whether it is for a food source, survival, power, leisure, sport or science we do all kinds of odd things. There wouldn't be tourism or exploration if we didn't.
The last few workstations I purchased come with 10GbE (mostly SuperMicro) but I understand some desktop motherboards have it as well. It's not that expensive to buy a NIC either, most 'homes' only have 1Gbps and are mostly relying on wireless.
10GbE is priced for small business, you can get 24 port switches for ~$2-5k (even from overpriced shops like Cisco) and 10GbE NIC's for $200 or less. 40GbE is being priced for your largish office building and 40/100GbE is considered 'standard' in new data center designs. Development of 400GbE has been going on since 2013 and 800GbE and beyond is expected around 2020.
As a programmer, I like videos to autoplay when I instruct the program to do so. HTML is a programming language and does what the programmer wants, as it is intended to do. If you don't like it or certain programmers annoy you, you should avoid said programs/programmers (eg. CNN). Back in the day, browsers had a setting to override ANY CSS stylesheet with your own, immensely useful when everything on the web was Geocities and MySpace pages, I think those setting disappeared later on, perhaps there is an extension that will allow you to insert your own JavaScript or CSS on every page.
The audit revealed more that the pencil pushers didn't even look at the applications before approving them, those products didn't exist yet got Energy Star approved. They set up a set of fake companies and sent Energy Star a set of devices they purported to make that were 20% more efficient than any competitor, they eventually worked up to a gas powered alarm clock. The other thing they found is that once they got an Energy Star certification, they could plaster it on any product they wished even if it hadn't been approved yet.
ICANN doesn't lose control, if anything they gain more control. Currently the majority of DNS and ICANN is under US control (yes it has international stakeholders but legally speaking, it's still US-controlled). In the future, ICANN will be standing on it's own with a variety of stakeholders. The question is: will it become a toothless, powerless organization that doesn't have the guts to change anything like the UN or will it become a truly stateless corporation under supervision of the Googles and Facebooks of this world or perhaps control will be seized by Russia or China.
This decision was basically saying that the federal government can't just meddle in state business. That's a good thing. The problem is that the corrupt state leaders have decided that in their state providing certain services is illegal. The town should go to it's courts and have them decide whether or not their state can make such laws or whether it's valid. In many states, it's illegal for the government to compete with a business (for good reason) except for utilities. They could probably legally sell the system for a dollar to a true business or a non profit using the same tricks the big telcos use elsewhere (100 year exclusivity; using language that excludes all other bidders etc)
You console users, really got to get with the time. I find 60fps 'acceptable' for anything that doesn't offer too much interaction, but for fighters and anything that has skill shots and the like, 120 without drops is at least necessary or an unlocked fps so that you can still incur some drops without noticing. I don't care about 4k all that much, most game devs will simply put in larger textures or scale and be done with it.
Those numbers are well over-inflated and are only true for filling the DDR RAM cache. Once you have 'filled' the drive and caches, the 950Pro has a write speed of ~200MB/s (4k streaming) - 1GB/s (128k streaming) and ~2000 random IOPS.
I don't think Google would have a problem if the contractors were truly independent and regulated by the City, you can just give them a contract, they'll hire and train a bunch of people and get the job done. Right now, that's not the way it is nor is it what Comcast or AT&T are proposing. Many business people have proposed similar things all over the world (instead of breaking open the street 3 times, how about you let a third party do it once, you all do your work and we'll close it down again) but the incumbents don't want that, they want to be able to point at the newcomers and blame them for 'unnecessary construction work'.
The DDR2 memory running at 800MHz would be an indication that it's quite obsolete. Regardless, you CAN install macOS Sierra on a MacPro 3,1. It requires you to copy some files from El Capitan into your installer but it's not impossible.
The backstory reads as such: Google wants to roll out fiber, AT&T and Comcast have received several orders in order to move "their" cables, however most have been outstanding for more than 100 days, AT&T and Comcast are causing nuisances by moving each cable individually and requiring (unnecessary) permits/inspections from the city and/or the electrical service for each move. So basically for every pole you have 5-6 trucks passing by (Comcast, NES, AT&T, NES, Google).
Google proposed that 1 contractor can do all that in one visit. However, Comcast/AT&T purchased two city council members who brought up legislation that would just maintain the status quo and charge Google for their 'pre-approved contractors' to do the work, the reasons being claimed that AT&T contractors have full rights to any work on a pole due to 'union contracts' and Comcast thinks it would be fair that they stay in charge of 'maintenance' (charge money for losing customers).
This is the real reason though: "using Preapproved Contractors and at the Attacher's expense". I can understand the expense being the attacher's but 'pre-approved contractors' sounds like "AT&T/Comcast contractors only"
Most of Sun's tech they purchased is still free but has been very much neglected by Oracle. There are some minor improvements to VBox over time but in comparison to KVM/QEMU, it's very minor.
For one, this is a proposal to the Apache foundation to take it onto. There is no indication that Oracle has any say in it.
For second "CDDL + GPL v2 with Classpath Exception. Upon entering Apache, the NetBeans license will be migrated to the current Apache License." Not sure how it is possible to 'migrate' GPLv2 code to Apache since the license is incompatible.
Not everybody has the screen real estate (using 10% of your vertical space on a 80x24 character box) or interface for fancy things like multi-keystroke commands or command cues/hints. That's why I personally prefer vi(m) - it can be ran across a serial terminal without any needs for screen refreshes or even a visible command line. There are plenty of systems that do not understand ctrl + something or support transferring the alt-gr key (think embedded devices, poorly implemented IPMI, actual 1200bps serial interfaces etc).
As far as emacs specifically, there are way better editors although they're not necessarily 'open and free'. I sure don't mind using emacs in a pinch but I don't do enough text editing to make it worth my while.
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Most politicians are lawyers and their suit makes perfect sense. The Internet domain system was created by DARPA and some/most of the root domain system is still under US (through military, universities and NASA) control and property of the US. The question is obviously whether or not the "virtual" system itself can be meaningfully separated from the physical to where the US is not giving away the system.
All-in-all, whether or not you want the US to control the system, I also have to wonder as to the reason Obama didn't just send the proposal to congress, there is a reason we have the separation of authority, so the president can't just do as he wish without oversight.
At some point, someone may create a "general purpose" quantum computer. There is currently no such thing but there are programming languages for it which you can run in a simulation. Obviously you'll have a number of new operators to understand for it to be any useful to you.
This chip is supposed to do annealing but the lack of scientific support and the lack of results points more towards a big scam. At $14M you'd expect at least some results but there is no speed up measurable from classical computing. All in all, this D-wave chip (even if it worked) would only be part of a true quantum computer/processor. They have a single piece, like an MMX coprocessor on a classical chip, it only does one thing, you need much, much more for any Turing completeness. And even though we have most of it described in mathematical format, the requirements for even holding a single qubit stable are near impossible to maintain on Earth.
I've seen the commercial offerings that claim you need to tune the antennas. They seem to have gone a step further and have a dedicated tech for "detecting interference". At best it is a hotspot management tool, usually it's expensive snake oil. Especially on a small area like this, a good set of APs should be able to handle the "load" and have enough power to handle other APs, especially the weak phone ones.
There are plenty of gigabit switches with 2-4 10GbE uplinks sub-500 and there are even some full 8 or 12 port 10GbE switches sub-1000.
Yes. Whether it is for a food source, survival, power, leisure, sport or science we do all kinds of odd things. There wouldn't be tourism or exploration if we didn't.
I can only get gigabit for $1200/month and $10k installation cost even though the fiber is right in front of my house. I'm still on TWC 15/1Mbps.
The last few workstations I purchased come with 10GbE (mostly SuperMicro) but I understand some desktop motherboards have it as well. It's not that expensive to buy a NIC either, most 'homes' only have 1Gbps and are mostly relying on wireless.
10GbE is priced for small business, you can get 24 port switches for ~$2-5k (even from overpriced shops like Cisco) and 10GbE NIC's for $200 or less. 40GbE is being priced for your largish office building and 40/100GbE is considered 'standard' in new data center designs. Development of 400GbE has been going on since 2013 and 800GbE and beyond is expected around 2020.
As a programmer, I like videos to autoplay when I instruct the program to do so. HTML is a programming language and does what the programmer wants, as it is intended to do. If you don't like it or certain programmers annoy you, you should avoid said programs/programmers (eg. CNN). Back in the day, browsers had a setting to override ANY CSS stylesheet with your own, immensely useful when everything on the web was Geocities and MySpace pages, I think those setting disappeared later on, perhaps there is an extension that will allow you to insert your own JavaScript or CSS on every page.
The audit revealed more that the pencil pushers didn't even look at the applications before approving them, those products didn't exist yet got Energy Star approved. They set up a set of fake companies and sent Energy Star a set of devices they purported to make that were 20% more efficient than any competitor, they eventually worked up to a gas powered alarm clock. The other thing they found is that once they got an Energy Star certification, they could plaster it on any product they wished even if it hadn't been approved yet.
ICANN doesn't lose control, if anything they gain more control. Currently the majority of DNS and ICANN is under US control (yes it has international stakeholders but legally speaking, it's still US-controlled). In the future, ICANN will be standing on it's own with a variety of stakeholders. The question is: will it become a toothless, powerless organization that doesn't have the guts to change anything like the UN or will it become a truly stateless corporation under supervision of the Googles and Facebooks of this world or perhaps control will be seized by Russia or China.
Probably formaldehyde, ammonia, arsenic and DDT
This decision was basically saying that the federal government can't just meddle in state business. That's a good thing. The problem is that the corrupt state leaders have decided that in their state providing certain services is illegal. The town should go to it's courts and have them decide whether or not their state can make such laws or whether it's valid. In many states, it's illegal for the government to compete with a business (for good reason) except for utilities. They could probably legally sell the system for a dollar to a true business or a non profit using the same tricks the big telcos use elsewhere (100 year exclusivity; using language that excludes all other bidders etc)
You console users, really got to get with the time. I find 60fps 'acceptable' for anything that doesn't offer too much interaction, but for fighters and anything that has skill shots and the like, 120 without drops is at least necessary or an unlocked fps so that you can still incur some drops without noticing. I don't care about 4k all that much, most game devs will simply put in larger textures or scale and be done with it.
Works in the US as well, the problem is that most people don't know about the consumer protections and they assume that a 'store policy' is valid.
Those numbers are well over-inflated and are only true for filling the DDR RAM cache. Once you have 'filled' the drive and caches, the 950Pro has a write speed of ~200MB/s (4k streaming) - 1GB/s (128k streaming) and ~2000 random IOPS.
I don't think Google would have a problem if the contractors were truly independent and regulated by the City, you can just give them a contract, they'll hire and train a bunch of people and get the job done. Right now, that's not the way it is nor is it what Comcast or AT&T are proposing. Many business people have proposed similar things all over the world (instead of breaking open the street 3 times, how about you let a third party do it once, you all do your work and we'll close it down again) but the incumbents don't want that, they want to be able to point at the newcomers and blame them for 'unnecessary construction work'.
The DDR2 memory running at 800MHz would be an indication that it's quite obsolete. Regardless, you CAN install macOS Sierra on a MacPro 3,1. It requires you to copy some files from El Capitan into your installer but it's not impossible.
How does the kid buy $500 of in-game crap, you need the AppleID password for making purchases and each purchase gets a notification.
The backstory reads as such:
Google wants to roll out fiber, AT&T and Comcast have received several orders in order to move "their" cables, however most have been outstanding for more than 100 days, AT&T and Comcast are causing nuisances by moving each cable individually and requiring (unnecessary) permits/inspections from the city and/or the electrical service for each move. So basically for every pole you have 5-6 trucks passing by (Comcast, NES, AT&T, NES, Google).
Google proposed that 1 contractor can do all that in one visit. However, Comcast/AT&T purchased two city council members who brought up legislation that would just maintain the status quo and charge Google for their 'pre-approved contractors' to do the work, the reasons being claimed that AT&T contractors have full rights to any work on a pole due to 'union contracts' and Comcast thinks it would be fair that they stay in charge of 'maintenance' (charge money for losing customers).
This is the real reason though: "using Preapproved Contractors and at the Attacher's expense". I can understand the expense being the attacher's but 'pre-approved contractors' sounds like "AT&T/Comcast contractors only"
Most of Sun's tech they purchased is still free but has been very much neglected by Oracle. There are some minor improvements to VBox over time but in comparison to KVM/QEMU, it's very minor.
For one, this is a proposal to the Apache foundation to take it onto. There is no indication that Oracle has any say in it.
For second "CDDL + GPL v2 with Classpath Exception. Upon entering Apache, the NetBeans license will be migrated to the current Apache License." Not sure how it is possible to 'migrate' GPLv2 code to Apache since the license is incompatible.
Not everybody has the screen real estate (using 10% of your vertical space on a 80x24 character box) or interface for fancy things like multi-keystroke commands or command cues/hints. That's why I personally prefer vi(m) - it can be ran across a serial terminal without any needs for screen refreshes or even a visible command line. There are plenty of systems that do not understand ctrl + something or support transferring the alt-gr key (think embedded devices, poorly implemented IPMI, actual 1200bps serial interfaces etc).
As far as emacs specifically, there are way better editors although they're not necessarily 'open and free'. I sure don't mind using emacs in a pinch but I don't do enough text editing to make it worth my while.
I gave up on CD/DVD's a decade ago though. I think for your purposes, a USB stick may be viable, you can get them for less than 50c in bulk.