I used to be a preacher. I have studied various religions as part of my training to be a preacher. I changed my mind about my parental religion at great personal cost. I investigated other religious tenets (Christian and non-Christian) as various friends suggested they may be a 'better fit'.
If you're so wise, please tell me how religions are not trying to safeguard they're own individual collection of fables and myths?
Why does your life or anything at all have to have meaning? In the grand scheme of things, your 1-in-a-billion life form on a speck of dust in the middle of an average galaxy is insignificant. Absence of proof does not mean we can just instantiate a random object to explain things (Bertrand Russell's teapot).
You can devise a scientific test for love if you define what love is. Enjoyment is also relatively easy to explain in regards brain chemistry. You are free to believe what you want but what is the meaning of believing something you can never know for sure?
If you add them up together, they're total sum is 0, they don't come from anywhere and go nowhere. It's basic quantum mechanics. The entire summation of all energy within our Universe is 0.
Not really, the why is not philosophical at all, it is testable and provable that the universe is big enough that random stuff, however remote the possibilities, happens all the time. The why and the how are identical from a scientific viewpoint, that's how science works. Scientists ask the why question and give a how answer.
Time began with the Big Bang. There was no 'before' the Big Bang because time (as we know it) was not there (yet). Because the majority of people fails to understand the reasoning/math behind it doesn't make the theory invalid. We can measure this "mythical nothing", it's the same space between an atoms' nucleus and electron. There is a shit-ton of nothing, the majority of the Universe and everything that exists is "nothing". It may not make immediate sense to you but the Universe is not obligated to make something easier to comprehend, as long as the equations work out.
No, the reason we don't accept "my/your god did it" is because if we did, we would still be in the stone age. If your god is just a variable to make a balance sheet work out, then there is no reason to keep looking for the cause of that variable. If we said today: God + evolution = life then we have no reason to look at the chemical processes behind abiogenesis because "god" did it and it fits the equation.
The god of the gaps is just that, as soon as we are able to fill the gaps, your god will be gone, heck your god has already gone from encompassing the entire universe, planets, stars etc to only being an entity to explain abiogenesis (we solved the origin of the universe a while ago if you didn't catch it yet). In the mean time you are an ignorant fool because "god did it" is easier for you to accept than "we don't know yet".
If you were truly honest, you would explain your god and how he is able to fill these gaps. If you can't explain god, if it is not falsifiable and testable, then it is invalid.
How is the process, why is the statistics. Why does our Universe exist? Because two particles chanced to meet. Why are we here? Because our species survived long enough for you to ask that question. And that is a better answer than a being that you cannot explain and is in itself contradictory. The Universe doesn't owe you an explanation and if there is no explanation, if it's just statistics, the why is just a pointless question. Fabricating a god because you are not satisfied that 'shit just happened to turn out well enough for you that you survived to ask the question' is disingenuous.
Why can't science touch it? Lawrence Krauss has a pretty good explanation on how something came from nothing. It is falsifiable and testable, if it is wrong, he will gladly accept that.
If you have blind faith that your god exists, then you have no reason to look any further for any of the answers. Gods stop all invention, curiosity and reason because if "god" did it (which one btw?) then that is all the reason you need. Even if we don't know right now, nature through science has a much better answer for us and that answer will be much more beautiful and reasonable than "god".
So why does the universe exist? Science tells us why (read an astrophysics text book) and it has very good reasoning and experimentation to back it up. Religions tell us 1000's of other answers which do not resemble either the scientific reason nor each other... so which one am I supposed to trust?
Even if all we had was a computer model that told us perhaps this is "why" the universe exists at all today, it's better than any religious answer I've ever heard. Religion is a business trying to safeguard a collection of fables and myths in order to sell you something that doesn't exist and won't help you in the slightest.
In the 90's we (the tech-geeky people that had been on the Internet since the 80's) were telling everyone including the FCC that within a decade we would be streaming live and on-demand high-definition video over the Internet. At that point we were already doing it with audio (Net2Phone, SIP, MP3, Napster, Icecast,...) We even formulated protocols for it and reserved space in the IPv4 range for things like broadcast and multicast (and multicast works incredibly well for distribution).
The problem is that neither the FCC, Congress nor anyone that was able to put pressure on the ISP's made sure that the ISP's kept up with the advances in technology. I moved to where I live now almost a decade ago and I still have the same amount of bandwidth than I did back then. TWC/Comcast, AT&T and others haven't upgraded their base broadband speeds since the early 2000's. DSL in most of the US is stuck at ~2Mbps, Cable at 10Mbps. In the mean time the world has moved on to 100Mbps and 1Gbps being 'normal' for respectively DSL and Cable. Heck, these days I can get satellite at the same speeds and cost (longer delays though) than Cable and DSL.
The government must have reasonable cause or even be able to prove that incriminating evidence is indeed on said device or in said location. They can't just say "we want to see whether or not there is evidence there".
30 years ago we did 10Mbps on coax. Cable TV is pushing out 100's of channels on copper, several digital for a bandwidth of several 100Mbps. Heck, twisted pair has that much bandwidth.
They'd rather jack up your utility bill. The utilities cranking up your AC would require them to invest in the network to support said cranking. They'll give you a 'smart' meter that counts kWh's with a fork.
Given Windows 8 just clear-texts your login over WiFi/Ethernet (WPA2 Enterprise or 802.1x systems that do not behave like an Active Directory), I think Windows 9 may simply publish all your logins on an open port 80.
SpaceX wins more in the public relations/perception. Even if it breaks even, it can always point back to the numbers and say we're 50% the cost of the incumbents.
Indians have a great standard of living... if you belong to the right caste. The problem with India's poverty is not wealth or politics, it's religious. Regardless, India has a better health care system than the US and better Internet connections.
Going to space brings about jobs and wealth. Going to war costs jobs and wealth. At least they've got their priorities straight.
a) File systems are not OS agnostic, in servers it doesn't matter much b) You're talking about internal RAID controllers, in a HA situation, you need external RAID controllers c) Even with those internal RAID controllers, I've tested the LSI MegaRAID and ~1000IOPS is all I get out of it on regular spindles. The latest and greatest from LSI still gets stuck at ~200k IOPS with SSD's (~400k IOPS if you use some proprietary software) while individual SSD's get ~50k IOPS.
The CPU and RAM overhead is relatively minimal. You can get away with very few resources, even after enabling compression.
I have a ZFS server ~5 years old right now, serving over 100 NFS and a handful of Samba/Netatalk connections simultaneously (home directories mounted on NFS, SMB and AFP for other mounts). There is a fairly steady 1000-2000 IOPS with spikes up to 100k IOPS, the machine has an uptime over 300 days, the CPU load (8 2.4GHz Xeon CPU's) hovers around 5-10% (100TB of data in 8 RAIDZ2 stripes of 8 disks (2 and 4TB), 800GB in SSD read cache, 120GB in mirrored SSD write cache, directly attached with SAS).
It will off course eat as much RAM as you will give it but for the amount you spend on a halfway decent SAS RAID controller, you can easily buy 100GB of RAM and a set of SSD's. You don't WANT a RAID controller. Regular SAS controllers with ZFS are so much faster; RAID controllers are limited by their on-board chips which are typically sub-GHz RISC (ARM, Intel, MIPS) processors - an external SAS RAID controller will cost you about $2-5000 extra and have a throughput of a few 100MBps and a few 100's of IOPS. In contrast, my setup (36 disks, 4 6G SAS channels) can give a whopping 20Gbps and 1M IOPS.
I also think it was a feed routing issue with the CDN. First I get a Chinese feed, the feed halts, reloading sometimes it started over from the beginning, sometimes it didn't. Then later on the feed keeps getting interrupted and I get a test card with an Australian TV schedule.
That's the whole point of ApplePay from what I gather. You scan the card once and then there is a challenge-response system that authenticates NFC payments. The numbers actually never enter or leave the device beyond the initial authentication.
What you are asking for is basically what they've done. The device-merchant connection gets a one-time code, your phone gets a public key to sign things with and the private stuff remains with the bank.
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I used to be a preacher. I have studied various religions as part of my training to be a preacher. I changed my mind about my parental religion at great personal cost. I investigated other religious tenets (Christian and non-Christian) as various friends suggested they may be a 'better fit'.
If you're so wise, please tell me how religions are not trying to safeguard they're own individual collection of fables and myths?
Why does your life or anything at all have to have meaning? In the grand scheme of things, your 1-in-a-billion life form on a speck of dust in the middle of an average galaxy is insignificant. Absence of proof does not mean we can just instantiate a random object to explain things (Bertrand Russell's teapot).
You can devise a scientific test for love if you define what love is. Enjoyment is also relatively easy to explain in regards brain chemistry. You are free to believe what you want but what is the meaning of believing something you can never know for sure?
If you add them up together, they're total sum is 0, they don't come from anywhere and go nowhere. It's basic quantum mechanics. The entire summation of all energy within our Universe is 0.
Not really, the why is not philosophical at all, it is testable and provable that the universe is big enough that random stuff, however remote the possibilities, happens all the time. The why and the how are identical from a scientific viewpoint, that's how science works. Scientists ask the why question and give a how answer.
Time began with the Big Bang. There was no 'before' the Big Bang because time (as we know it) was not there (yet). Because the majority of people fails to understand the reasoning/math behind it doesn't make the theory invalid. We can measure this "mythical nothing", it's the same space between an atoms' nucleus and electron. There is a shit-ton of nothing, the majority of the Universe and everything that exists is "nothing". It may not make immediate sense to you but the Universe is not obligated to make something easier to comprehend, as long as the equations work out.
No, the reason we don't accept "my/your god did it" is because if we did, we would still be in the stone age. If your god is just a variable to make a balance sheet work out, then there is no reason to keep looking for the cause of that variable. If we said today: God + evolution = life then we have no reason to look at the chemical processes behind abiogenesis because "god" did it and it fits the equation.
The god of the gaps is just that, as soon as we are able to fill the gaps, your god will be gone, heck your god has already gone from encompassing the entire universe, planets, stars etc to only being an entity to explain abiogenesis (we solved the origin of the universe a while ago if you didn't catch it yet). In the mean time you are an ignorant fool because "god did it" is easier for you to accept than "we don't know yet".
If you were truly honest, you would explain your god and how he is able to fill these gaps. If you can't explain god, if it is not falsifiable and testable, then it is invalid.
How is the process, why is the statistics. Why does our Universe exist? Because two particles chanced to meet. Why are we here? Because our species survived long enough for you to ask that question. And that is a better answer than a being that you cannot explain and is in itself contradictory. The Universe doesn't owe you an explanation and if there is no explanation, if it's just statistics, the why is just a pointless question. Fabricating a god because you are not satisfied that 'shit just happened to turn out well enough for you that you survived to ask the question' is disingenuous.
Why can't science touch it? Lawrence Krauss has a pretty good explanation on how something came from nothing. It is falsifiable and testable, if it is wrong, he will gladly accept that.
If you have blind faith that your god exists, then you have no reason to look any further for any of the answers. Gods stop all invention, curiosity and reason because if "god" did it (which one btw?) then that is all the reason you need. Even if we don't know right now, nature through science has a much better answer for us and that answer will be much more beautiful and reasonable than "god".
So why does the universe exist? Science tells us why (read an astrophysics text book) and it has very good reasoning and experimentation to back it up. Religions tell us 1000's of other answers which do not resemble either the scientific reason nor each other... so which one am I supposed to trust?
Even if all we had was a computer model that told us perhaps this is "why" the universe exists at all today, it's better than any religious answer I've ever heard. Religion is a business trying to safeguard a collection of fables and myths in order to sell you something that doesn't exist and won't help you in the slightest.
In the 90's we (the tech-geeky people that had been on the Internet since the 80's) were telling everyone including the FCC that within a decade we would be streaming live and on-demand high-definition video over the Internet. At that point we were already doing it with audio (Net2Phone, SIP, MP3, Napster, Icecast, ...) We even formulated protocols for it and reserved space in the IPv4 range for things like broadcast and multicast (and multicast works incredibly well for distribution).
The problem is that neither the FCC, Congress nor anyone that was able to put pressure on the ISP's made sure that the ISP's kept up with the advances in technology. I moved to where I live now almost a decade ago and I still have the same amount of bandwidth than I did back then. TWC/Comcast, AT&T and others haven't upgraded their base broadband speeds since the early 2000's. DSL in most of the US is stuck at ~2Mbps, Cable at 10Mbps. In the mean time the world has moved on to 100Mbps and 1Gbps being 'normal' for respectively DSL and Cable. Heck, these days I can get satellite at the same speeds and cost (longer delays though) than Cable and DSL.
This year alone they have hired 2985 H1B's
The government must have reasonable cause or even be able to prove that incriminating evidence is indeed on said device or in said location. They can't just say "we want to see whether or not there is evidence there".
30 years ago we did 10Mbps on coax. Cable TV is pushing out 100's of channels on copper, several digital for a bandwidth of several 100Mbps. Heck, twisted pair has that much bandwidth.
It probably does but it's released under GPL so it doesn't matter. This is why we should release everything under GPL/CC-type licenses.
This is what happens when you let the religious right run a country. Doesn't matter whether they're Islamic, Christian or something else.
They'd rather jack up your utility bill. The utilities cranking up your AC would require them to invest in the network to support said cranking. They'll give you a 'smart' meter that counts kWh's with a fork.
Given Windows 8 just clear-texts your login over WiFi/Ethernet (WPA2 Enterprise or 802.1x systems that do not behave like an Active Directory), I think Windows 9 may simply publish all your logins on an open port 80.
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SpaceX wins more in the public relations/perception. Even if it breaks even, it can always point back to the numbers and say we're 50% the cost of the incumbents.
Indians have a great standard of living... if you belong to the right caste. The problem with India's poverty is not wealth or politics, it's religious. Regardless, India has a better health care system than the US and better Internet connections.
Going to space brings about jobs and wealth. Going to war costs jobs and wealth. At least they've got their priorities straight.
Yes they do, they make money on the apps and the music and all the other side businesses in the ecosystem.
a) File systems are not OS agnostic, in servers it doesn't matter much
b) You're talking about internal RAID controllers, in a HA situation, you need external RAID controllers
c) Even with those internal RAID controllers, I've tested the LSI MegaRAID and ~1000IOPS is all I get out of it on regular spindles. The latest and greatest from LSI still gets stuck at ~200k IOPS with SSD's (~400k IOPS if you use some proprietary software) while individual SSD's get ~50k IOPS.
The CPU and RAM overhead is relatively minimal. You can get away with very few resources, even after enabling compression.
I have a ZFS server ~5 years old right now, serving over 100 NFS and a handful of Samba/Netatalk connections simultaneously (home directories mounted on NFS, SMB and AFP for other mounts). There is a fairly steady 1000-2000 IOPS with spikes up to 100k IOPS, the machine has an uptime over 300 days, the CPU load (8 2.4GHz Xeon CPU's) hovers around 5-10% (100TB of data in 8 RAIDZ2 stripes of 8 disks (2 and 4TB), 800GB in SSD read cache, 120GB in mirrored SSD write cache, directly attached with SAS).
It will off course eat as much RAM as you will give it but for the amount you spend on a halfway decent SAS RAID controller, you can easily buy 100GB of RAM and a set of SSD's. You don't WANT a RAID controller. Regular SAS controllers with ZFS are so much faster; RAID controllers are limited by their on-board chips which are typically sub-GHz RISC (ARM, Intel, MIPS) processors - an external SAS RAID controller will cost you about $2-5000 extra and have a throughput of a few 100MBps and a few 100's of IOPS. In contrast, my setup (36 disks, 4 6G SAS channels) can give a whopping 20Gbps and 1M IOPS.
I also think it was a feed routing issue with the CDN. First I get a Chinese feed, the feed halts, reloading sometimes it started over from the beginning, sometimes it didn't. Then later on the feed keeps getting interrupted and I get a test card with an Australian TV schedule.
That's the whole point of ApplePay from what I gather. You scan the card once and then there is a challenge-response system that authenticates NFC payments. The numbers actually never enter or leave the device beyond the initial authentication.
What you are asking for is basically what they've done. The device-merchant connection gets a one-time code, your phone gets a public key to sign things with and the private stuff remains with the bank.